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Biographical Record 



OF THE COUNTIES OF 



Harrison and Carroll., Ohio, 



CONTAINING 



Biographical ^ete^es of promii^er^t at)d F(e presto tatiui? 
Qitiz^s, apd of fflapy of tl^ £arly 
S^ttl^d pamilies. 



ILLUSTRATED. 



CHICAGO: 

J. H. BEERS & CO. 
1891. 



I Preface. 



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THE importance of placing in book form biographical history of representative citizens 
both for its immediate worth and for its value to coming generations — is admitted by 
all thinking people; and within the past decade there has been a growing interest in 
this commendable means of perpetuating biography and family genealogy. 

That the public is entitled to the privileges afforded by a work of this nature needs no 
assertion at our hands ; for one of our greatest Americans has said that the history of any 
country resolves itself into the biographies of its stout, earnest and representative citizens. 
This medium, then, serves more than a single purpose: while it perpetuates biography and 
family genealogy, it records history, much of which woidd be preserved in no other way. 

Many of the prominent families of Harrison and Carroll were settlers in this region long 
before these counties were formed. Ohio was included in the "Northwest Territory" until 
May 7, 1800, when it was erected into a separate Territory, and by act of Congress passed 
April 80, 1802, it became a State. From the counties of Washington and Jefferson, Harrison 
and Carroll claim their descent. Washington, which was the parent county — having been estab- 
lished by proclamation of Gov. St, Clair July 27, 1788 — included all Eastern Ohio, its western 
boundary being the Scioto River, on the south, and the Cuyahoga River, on the north. Jefferson 
County, taken from Washington, was established by proclamation July 29, 1797. 

Harrison County, named after Gen. William H. Harrison, was formed February 1, 1813, from 
Jefferson and Tuscarawas, the latter having been erected March 15, 1808, from Muskingum, 
which was established March 1, 1804, from Washington and Fairfield. Carroll County, named 
in honor of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Md., the last surviving signer of the Declaration of 
Independence, was formed January 1, 1833, from Columbiana, (erected May 1, 1803, from Jef- 
ferson and Washington), Stark (which became a separate county January 1, 1809), Tuscarawas, 
Harrison and Jefferson. 

In presenting the Commemorative Biographical Record to its patrons, the publishers have 
to acknowledge, with gratitude, the encouragement and support their enterprise has received, 
and the willing assistance rendered in enabling them to surmount the many unforeseen obstacles 
to be met with in the production of a work of this character. In nearly every instance the 
material composing the sketches was gathered from those immediately interested, and then sub- 
mitted in typewritten form for correction and revision. The volume, which is one of generous 
amplitude, is placed in the hands of the public with the belief that it will be found to be a 
valuable acquisition to the library. 

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ON. JOHN A. BINGHAM 
is a native of Mercer, Pa. , 
and was born January 21, 
1815. After studying at 

J'JAW^&M^t^M*, V an acat l em . v ne spent two 
^j^P^^^lv' y eai ' 8 in a P riutiu g office ' 
^Sb^_ and then entered Franklin 

College, Ohio, but poor health pre- 
vented him from advancing to grad- 
uation. He entered upon the study 
of law in 1838, at Mercer, Penn., 
under Hon. J. J. Pearson and Hon. 
William Stewart, and at the end of 
two years he was admitted by the 
courts of Mercer County, Penn., to 
the bar, in March, 1S40, and in 1841 
In tlic liar of the several courts of Ohio. He dili- 
gently and successfully practiced the profession. 
In 1 854 he was elected as a Republican represent- 
ative to the XXXIVth Congress, from the Twen- 
ty-first Ohio District, and was a member of every 
subsequent Congress, from the Twenty-first 
and the Sixteenth Obio Districts, except the 
XXXVIIIth Congress, until March 4, 1873. 

In politics he was originally a Whig, and took 
part in the campaign that led to the election of 
the log-cabin and hard-cider candidate, William 
Henry Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe, and 
grandfather of the present chief executive of the 
United States, Gen. Benjamin Harrison. Later 
he became a delegate to the National Whig 
Convention in Philadelphia in 1848, and there- 



in declared that we should have " in the United 
States no more slave Territories; no concpiest 
of foreign territory, and would demand the 
maintenance of freedom, and the protection of 
American industry." In 1864 Mr. Bingham 
was appointed a judge advocate in the army, 
serving six months in that capacity, which he 
resigned by reason of his appointment by Presi- 
dent Lincoln to be solicitor for the United States 
Court of Claims, which latter office he resigned 
March 4, 1865, when he became a member of 
the XXXIXth Congress from the Sixteenth 
Ohio District. Mr. Bingham served as special 
judge-advocate in the great trial of the con- 
spirators who were tried for the assassination of 
Abraham Lincoln, etc. Immense labor devolved 
upon him during this difficult and protracted 
trial, and for eight weeks his arduous duties 
allowed him but brief intervals of rest. He 
occupied nine hours in the delivery of the clos- 
ing arguments, in which he ably elucidated the 
law and the testimony in the case, and con- 
clusively proved the guilt of the conspirators. 
Mr. Bingham's success in this great trial at- 
tracted general attention, and awakened a wide- 
spread curiosity to know his history. Soon 
after the close of the trial, a correspondent of 
the Philadelphia Press, having expressed the 
deep interest he had felt in arriving at a well- 
founded conclusion as to " the guilt of the pris- 
oners and the constitutionality of the court," 
proceeded as follows: 



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HABRISON COUNTY. 



" Grant me space in your columns to give 
expression to my most unqualified admiration of 
the great arguments, on these two main points, 
presented to the court by the special judge ad- 
vocate, Gen. John A. Bingham. In the entire 
range of my reading, I have known of no pro- 
ductions that have so literally led me captive. 
For careful analysis, logical argumentation, pro- 
found and most extensive research; for over- 
whelming unravelment of complications that 
would have involved an ordinary mind only with 
inextricable bewilderment, and for a literal rend- 
ing to tatters of all the metaphysical subtleties 
of the array of legal talent engaged on the other 
side. I know of no two productions in the Eng- 
lish language superior to these. They are liter- 
ally as the spear of Ithuriel, dissolving the 
hardest substances at their touch; as the thread 
of Dsedalus, leading out of labyrinths of error, 
no matter how thick and mazy. Not Locke or 
Bacon were more profound; not Daniel Webster 
was clearer and more penetrating; not Chilling- 
worth was more logical. I feel sure that the 
author of these two unrivaled papers must pos- 
sess a legal mind unrivaled in America, and 
must be. too, one of our rising statesmen. But 
who is John A. Bingham, who, by his industry 
and learning displayed on this wonderful trial, 
has placed the country under such a heavy debt 
of obligation? He may be well known to others 
moving in a public sphere like yourself, but to 
me, so absorbed in a different line of duty, he 
has appeared so suddenly, and yet with such viv- 
idness, that I long to know some, at least, of 
his antecedents." 

Upon which the editor remarked: "The 
question of our esteemed correspondent is nat- 
ural to one who has not, probably, watched the 
individual actors on the great stage of public 
affairs w T ith the interest of the historical and 
political student. We are not surprised that 
the arguments of Mr. Bingham before the mili- 
tary commission should have filled him with de- 
light. It was worthy of the great subject con- 
fided to that accomplished statesman by the 
Government, and of his own fame. When the 



assassins of Mr. Lincoln were sent for trial be- 
fore the military court by President Johnson, 
the Government wisely left the whole manage- 
ment to Judge Holt and his eloquent associate, 
Mr. Bingham, and to the latter was committed 
the stupendous labor of sifting the mass of evi- 
dence, of replying to the corps of lawyers for 
the defense, of setting forth the guilt of the ac- 
cused and of vindicating the policy and the duty 
of the executive in an exigency so novel and so 
full of tragic solemnity. The crime was so enor- 
mous, and the trial of those who committed it 
so important in all its issues, immediate, contin- 
gent and remote, as to waken an excitement that 
embraced all nations. The murder itself was 
almost forgotten by those who wished to screen 
the murderers, and the most wicked theories 
were broached and sown broadcast by men, who, 
under cloak of reverence for what they called 
the law, toiled with herculean energy to weaken 
the arm of tho Government, extended in time of 
war to save the servants of the people from be 
ing slaughtered by assassins in public places, 
and tracked even to their firesides by the agents 
and friends of slavery. These poisons of plausi- 
bility, blunting the sharpest horrors of any age. 
and sanctifying the most hellish offenses, re- 
quired an antidote as swift to cure. Mr. Bing- 
ham's two great arguments, alluded to by our 
correspondent, have supplied the remedy. They 
are monuments of reflection, research and argu- 
mentation: and they are presented in the lan- 
guage of a scholar and with the fervor of an 
orator. In the great volume of proof and coun- 
ter-proof, rhetoric and controversy that forever 
preserves the record of this great trial, the ef- 
forts of Mr. Bingham will ever remain to be first 
studied with an eager and admiring interest. 
That they came, after all that has and can be 

said against the Government, is rather an in- 
I . 

ducement to their more satisfactory and critical 

consideration. For from that study the Ameri- 
can student and citizen must, more than ever, 
realize how irresistible is Truth when in con- 
flict with Falsehood, and how poor and puerile 
i are all the professional tricks of the lawyer 



HARBISON COUNTY. 



11 



when opposed to the moral power of the pat- 
riot." 

In Congress Mr. Bingham has had a distin- 
guished career, marked by important services 
to the country. In the XXXVIIth Congress 
he was earnest and successful in advocating 
many important measures to promote the vigor- 
ous prosecution of the war, which had just be- 
gun. Returning to Congress in 1865, after an 
absence of two years, he at once took a promi- 
nent position. Upon the formation of the joint 
committee on Reconstruction, December 14, 
18G5, he was appointed one of the nine mem- 
bers on the part of the House. He was active 
in advocating the great measures of Reconstruc- 
tion, which were proposed and passed in the 
XXXIXth and XLth Congresses. The House of 
Representatives having resolved that Andrew 
Johnson should be impeached for "high crimes 
and misdemeanors," Mr. Bingham was appointed 
on the committee to which was entrusted the im- 
portant duty of drawing up the Articles of Im- 
peachment. This work having been done to the 
satisfaction of the House, Mr. Bingham was 
elected chairman of the managers to conduct 
the impeachment of the President before the 
Senate. On him devolved the duty of making 
the closing argument. His speech on this occa- 
sion ranks among the greatest forensic efforts of 
any age. He began the delivery of his argu- 
ment on Monday, May 4, and occupied the at- 
tention of the Senate and a vast auditory on the 
floor and in the galleries during three successive 
days. At the close of his argument, the im- 
mense audience in the galleries, wrought up to 
the highest pitch of enthusiasm, gave vent to 
such an unanimous and continued outburst of 
applause as had never before been heard in the 
capitol. Ladies and gentlemen, who could not 
have been induced deliberately to trespass on 
the decorum of the Senate, by whose courtesy 
they were admitted to the galleries, overcome 
by their feelings, joined in the utterance of ap- 
plause, knowing that for so doing the sergeant- 
at-arms would be required to expel them from 
the galleries. The history of the country re- 



cords no similar tribute to the oratorical efforts 
of the ablest advocates or statesmen. From so 
long and well-sustained an argument it is im- 
possible to select particular passages which 
would give an adequate idea of the whole. The 
following historical argument for the supremacy 
of the law will always be read with interest, 
whether as an extract or in its original setting: 
"Is it not in vain, I ask you, Senators, that 
the people have thus vindicated by battle the 
supremacy of their own constitution and laws, 
if, after all, their president is permitted to sus- 
pend their laws and dispense with the execution 
thereof at pleasure and defy the power of the 
people to bring him to trial and judgment be- 
fore the only tribunal authorized by the Consti- 
tution to try him? That is the issue that is 
presented before the Senate for decision by these 
Articles of Impeachment. By such acts of usur- 
pation on the part of the ruler of a people, I 
need not say to the Senate, the peace of nations 
is broken, as it is only by obedience to law that 
the peace of nations is maintained and their 
existence perpetuated. Law is the voice of God 
and the harmony of the world. 

It doth preserve the stars from v/rong, 

Through it the eternal heavens are fresh and strong. 

" All history is but philosophy teaching by 
example. God is in history, and through it 
teaches to men and nations the profoundest les- 
sons which they learn. It does not surprise me, 
Senators, that the learned counsel for the accused 
asked the Senate, in the consideration of this 
question, to close that volume of instruction, not 
to look into the past, not to listen to its voices. 
Senators, from that day when the inscription was 
written upon the graves of the heroes of Thermo- 
pylfe: ' Stranger, go tell the Lacedemonians that 
we lie here in obedience to their laws,' to this 
hour no profounder lesson has come down to us 
than this: that through obedience to law comes 
the strength of nations and the safety of men. 
No more fatal provision ever found its way into 
the constitutions of States than that contended 
for in this defense, which recognizes the right 
of a single despot or of the many to discriminate 



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HARRISOX COUSTY. 



in the administration of justice between the 
ruler and the citizen, between the strong and 
the weak. It was by this unjust discrimination 
that Aristides was banished, because he was 
just. It was by this unjust discrimination that 
Socrates, the wonder of the Pagan world, was 
doomed to drink the hemlock because of his 
transcendent virtues. It was in honorable pro- 
test against this unjust discrimination that the 
great Roman Senator, father of his country, de- 
clared that the force of law consists in its being 
made for the whole community. 

" Senators, it is the pride and boast of that 
great people from whom we are descended, as 
it is the pride and boast of every American, that 
the law is the supreme power of the State, and 
is for the protection of each by the combined 
power of all. By the constitution of England 
the hereditary monarch is no more above the 
law than the humblest subject, and by the Con- 
stitution of the United States the President is 
no more above the law than the poorest and 
most friendless beggar in your streets. Tbe 
usurpations of Charles I. inflicted untold injuries 
upon the people of England, and finally cost 
the usurper his life. The subsequent usurpa- 
tion of James II. — and I only refer to it because 
there is between his official conduct and that of 
this accused President the most remarkable 
parallel that I have ever read in history — filled 
the brain and heart of England with the convic- 
tion that new securities must be taken to restrain 
the prerogatives asserted by the crown, if they 
would maintain their ancient constitution and 
perpetuate their liberties. It is well said 
by Hallam, that the usurpations of James swept 
away the solemn ordinances of the legislature. 
Out of those usurpations came the great revolu- 
tion of 1688, which resulted in the dethronement 
and banishment of James, in the elevation of 
William and Mary, in the immortal declaration 
of right. 

" I ask the Senate to notice that these 
charges against James are substantially the 
charges presented against this accused Presi- 
dent and confessed here of record, that he has 



suspended the laws and dispensed with the exe- 
cution of the laws, and in order to do this has 
usurped authority as the executive of the na- 
tion, declaring himself entitled, under the Con- 
stitution, to suspend the laws and dispense with 
their execution. He has further, like James, 
issued a commission contrary to law. He has 
further, like James, attempted to control the 
appropriated money of the people contrary to 
law. And he has further, like James, although 
it is not alleged against him in the Articles of 
Impeachment, it is confessed in his answer, at- 
tempted to cause the question of his responsi- 
bility to the people to be tried, not in the King's 
Bench, but in the Supreme Court, when that 
question is alone cognizable in the Senate of 
the United States. Surely, Senators, if these 
usurpations, if these endeavors on the part of 
James thus to subvert the liberties of the people 
of England, cost him his crown and kingdom, 
the like offenses committed by Andrew Johnson 
ought to cost him his office, and subject him to 
that perpetual disability pronounced by the 
people through the constitution upon him for 
high crimes and misdemeanors. * * * I 
ask you, Senators, how long men would deliber- 
ate upon the question whether a private citizen, 
arraigned at the bar of one of your tribunals of 
justice for a criminal violation of the law, should 
be permitted to inter j>ose a plea in justification 
of his criminal act that his only purpose was to 
interpret the Constitution and laws for himself, 
that he violated the law in the exercise of his 
prerogative to test its validity thereafter at such 
day as might suit his own convenience in the 
courts of justice. Surely it is as competent for the 
private citizen to interpose such justification in 
answer to crime in one of your tribunals of justice 
as it is for the President of the United States to 
interpose it, and for the simple reason that the 
Constitution is no respecter of persons, and vests 
neither in the President nor in the private citizen 
judicial power. Can it be that by your decree 
you are at last to make this discrimination be- 
tween the ruler of the people and the private 
citizen, and allow him to interpose his assumed 



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right to interpret judicially your Constitution 
ami laws? Are you solemnly to proclaim by 
your decree: 

Plate sin with gold. 
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; 
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it? 

" I put away the possibility that the Senate 
of the United States, equal in dignity to any 
tribunal in the world, is capable of recording 
any such decision, even upon the petition and 
prayer of this accused and guilty President. 
Can it be that by reason of his great office the 
President is to be protected in his high crimes 
and misdemeanors, violative alike of his oath, of 
the Constitution, and of the express letter of 
your written law enacted by the legislative de- 
partment of the Government? I ask you, Sena- 
tors, to consider that I speak before you this 
day in behalf of the violated law of a free people 
who commission me; I ask you to remember 
that I speak this day under the obligations of my 
oath ; I ask you to consider that I am not insen- 
sible to the significance of the words of which 
mention was made by the learned council from 
New York; justice, duty, law, oath. I ask you 
to remember that the great principles of consti- 
tutional liberty for which I this day speak have 
been taught to men and nations by all the trials 
and triumphs, by all the agonies and martyrdoms 
of the past; that they are the instruction of the 
centuries, uttered by the elect of the human race. 

" I ask you to consider that we stand this day 
pleading for the violated majesty of the law, by 
the graves of a half million of martyred hero- 
patriots who sacrificed themselves for their 
country, the Constitution and the laws, and who, 
by their sublime example, have taught us that 
all must obey the law; that none are above the 
law; that no man lives for himself alone, but 
each for all; that some must die that the State 
may live; that the citizen is, at best, but for to- 
day, while the commonwealth is for all time; and 
that position, however high, patronage, however 
powerful, can not be permitted to shelter crime 
to the peril of the Republic." [Copied verba- 



tim from ''Tin- Fortieth Congress of the United 
States" by William H. Barnes.] 

In 1861 Mr. Bingham declined to accept an 
appointment by President Lincoln to be United 
States judge for the Southern District of Florida. 
In May, 1873, Mr. Bingham was appointed, by 
President Grant, envoy extraordinary and min- 
ister plenipotentiary to Japan, which responsi- 
ble position he held for twelve years, and the 
result of his beneficial mission is well known to 
the public. 




ELFORD J: BROWN, president of the 
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank, 
Cadiz, is a native of the town of 
Brownsville, Penn., born January 16, 
1832, of English extraction, his grandfather, 
Basil Brown, having come from England to 
Pennsylvania. 

Basil Brown, father of Melford J. , was also 
a native of Brownsville, where he grew to man- 
hood and married Nancy r Johnson, a member of 
an old Pennsylvania family, and by her had 
seven children, all of whom, save one, are liv- 
ing. In 1844 the family moved to Cambridge, 
Ohio, where the father carried on a hotel until 

1851, in which year he was killed by an acci- 
dent at the age of fifty years. His widow, after 
his death, continued the hotel business up to the 
time of her decease, which occurred in 1888, 
when she was aged seventy-nine years. 

Melford J. Brown, the subject of these lines, 
is the only one of his father's family living in 
Harrison County. His boyhood and early youth 
were spent under the parental roof, his educa- 
tion being obtained at the common schools. At 
the age of eighteen he moved to Zanesville, 
Ohio, where he learned the silversmith's trade, 
and for three years followed the same. This 
occupation, however, not agreeing with his 
health, he, in 1851, entered a dry-goods store at 
Moorefield, Ohio, and there remained until 

1852, when he proceeded to Washington, same 
State, where he followed the same business 
until 1853, in which year he came to Cadiz, 



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HARRISOX COUNTY. 



entering the dry-goods house of William Hogg. 
In 1855 Mr. Brown accepted a position in the 
Harrison branch of the State Bank of Ohio as 
teller and book-keeper, gradually rising to the 
position of cashier, and at the organization of the 
Harrison National Bank was appointed its cash- 
ier. Here he remained sixteen years, at the end 
of which time he established the Farmers & 
Mechanics Savings & Loan Association, which 
was afterward, in 1880, organized into the 
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank, of which 
he is the worthy president. In 1865, while an 
officer of the Harrison National Bank, that in- 
stitution was robbed, he and his wife and four 
children being gagged, and the keys of the 
vault, etc., obtained. 

In 1855 Mr. Brown was united in marriage 
with Martha, daughter of John Robinson, of 
Harrison County, her parents having come here 
at an early day from Pennsylvania. To this 
union four children were born, all sons, viz. : 
Charles O. F., cashier of the Farmers & Me- 
chanics National Bank; C. D. , a medical prac- 
titioner in Arkansas City, Kas. ; C. E., proprie- 
tor of a gents' furnishing store in Cadiz; and 
M. R., at home. Mr. Brown is at present presi- 
dent of the Berea Grit Oil & Gas Company of 
Cadiz, and of the Peoples Building & Loan 
Association; he is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, and has for twenty-five years been 
treasurer of same; is also a member of the 
K. of P. at Cadiz, and he is a Republican. 



J (AMES MOORE, mayor of Cadiz, was born 
in County Tyrone, Ireland, February 17, 
/ 1843, a son of John and Ellen (Campbell) 
Moore, both descendants of Scotch an- 
cestry, who moved to the north of Ireland at an 
early day. The father, who was a farmer and 
land owner, sold his place and came to America, 
in 1848, with his wife and three children, viz. : 
James, Mary W. (now the wife of Abram How- 
ell, residing in the west part of Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County), and Jane Moore 
(who died in Buffalo while the family were en 



route to their new home). The father died at 
Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, while they were 
on their way to Harrison County. After his 
death the rest of the family in their affliction 
proceeded onward to Harrison County, and here 
commenced to make a home for themselves in 
Nottingham Township. The widowed mother, 
now seventy- five years of age, resides with her 
son, who with true filial piety has never left her. 
The subject of our sketch grew to manhood 
on the farm, attending the common schools, and 
in August, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, 
Ninety-eighth O. V. I., under Capt. John A. 
Norris, serving till Jane 10, 1865, He partici- 
pated in the engagements at Perryville, Chick- 
amauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 
was in the Atlanta campaign, and at the battle 
of Kenesaw Mountain, after which he was laid 
up sick at Vining Station, Ga. , in army hos- 
pital, this being his only absence during his 
term of service. He was also in the battles of 
Resaca and Jonesboro (near Atlanta), besides 
many other minor engagements; was present in 
the " march to the sea," and was through the 
Carolinas. In his first battle Mr. Moore had his 
gun shot out of his hands by a minie-ball going 
through the butt. During his entire term of serv- 
ice (except while sick, as mentioned) he did not 
have his clothes once off a single night. Receiv- 
ing an honorable discharge, he returned to Cadiz, 
June 10, 1865, and, being desirous of improving 
his education, he entered the college at Hope- 
dale in September, same year, and subsequently 
he taught school. In 1 869 he entered the arena 
of politics, and being nominated for sheriff on 
the Democratic ticket, he was elected by a ma- 
jority of 166. In this office he served with 
honor for two years, then began reading law 
under Judge Pierce, and September 12, 1876, 
he was admitted to the bar, since when he has 
been recognized as one of the leading lawyers 
of Cadiz. In 1885 he was nominated on the 
Democratic ticket for representative of the 
State. He was justice of the peace three years; 
is one of the soldiers' relief commissioners for 
Harrison County, appointed by the court. In 



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18S5 he changed his side of politics, becoming 
a Republican on the pension question. In 1888 
he was elected mayor of the city, and is still in 
office, proving one of the most popular mayors 
Cadiz has ever had. 




H. ARNOLD, editor and proprietor of 
the Cadiz Sentinel, is a descendant of 
one of the pioneer families of Harrison 
County, Ohio. In 1810 Comfort 
Arnold, a widow with two sons and four daugh- 
ters, came from Pennsylvania and settled north 
of Cadiz in the woods, but died in Archer Town- 
ship in 1856, at the age of ninety-eight, the 
mother of the following named children: Will- 
iam, born in 1798; Comfort, wife of Jonathan 
West; Aneka, wife of James Mehollen; Frances, 

married to Charles Conaway; wife of 

Ross, of Richland. William Arnold, father of 
our subject, was about twelve years of age when 
brought from Pennsylvania by his mother, and 
when fourteen years old engaged in the manu- 
facture of gunpowder for the soldiers in the War 
of 1812, making 500 to 600 pounds each winter, 
which he conveyed by night to Steubenville. 
He cared for the farm while his brother and 
brothers-in-law were in the army, he being too 
young to serve. He received his education in 
the log school-house of his day, but was an apt 
scholar and for thirty-six years after reaching 
maturity served as justice of the peace; he also 
became colonel of the State militia, as well as 
quartermaster-general, and was very popular in 
his section. In 1833 or 1831 he chose for his 
wife Miss Jane C. Hoyt, a daughter of Jesse and 
Sarah Hoyt, and a native of New York. The 
Hoyts trace their ancestry to Simon Hoyt, who 
came from England to Massachusetts in 1638. 
The death of William Arnold took place in 1874, 
in Cadiz, at the age of seventy-six years, he hav- 
ing been preceded by his faithful wife in 1872, 
at the age of sixty-six years. To this couple have 
been born seven children, viz. : John Hoyt, who 
died in Kansas in 1855, while in the employ of 
the Government as a surveyor; Mary A., wife of 



John W. Simmons; Sarah, who married James 
Knox, of Cadiz, and died in 1869, in Washing- 
ton, Guernsey County; Jesse, employed in the 
second auditor's office at Washington, D. C. ; 
William H., the subject of this sketch; George, 
at Columbus, and Jennie, a public school teacher 
in Portland, Oregon. 

The following sketch is from the pen of Maj. 
H. B. Lacey, a prominent citizen of the county: 

" William Arnold. The subject of this paper 
was born in Fayette County, Penn., in 1798. 
Early in the present century his father died, and 
the widowed mother, in 1810, removed with her 
children to Ohio, and settled about one mile 
north of Cadiz. When war with England began 
in 1812, the elder sons of Mrs. Arnold entered 
the army, leaving William, now fourteen years 
of age, her main dependence. While the war 
lasted he was busied with farm work during the 
season suitable for the same, but in the winter 
engaged in making powder which he disposed 
of to the Government. A few years later his 
brother, Rezin Arnold, was elected sheriff of 
Harrison County, and William became his 
deputy; he served also in the same capacity 
with some of Rezin' s successors. With his 
deputyship, under his brother Rezin, began his 
residence in Cadiz, which continued to the date 
of his death. He died in 1874. 

" It was while thus acting as deputy sheriff he 
acquired his extensive and exact topographical 
knowledge of this county, and laid the founda- 
tion of that knowledge of the law in the admin- 
istering of which he afterward gained honor- 
able distinction. He was elected justice of the 
peace for Cadiz Township, and continuously re- 
elected till he had served thirty-three consecu- 
tive years. 

" His genial and courteous demeanor seemed 
especially attractive to those seeking union 
through the marriage ceremony, and it is proba- 
ble he united in wedlock a greater number of 
persons than were so united by any other person 
resident of the county. 

" He owed his chief distinction to his numer- 
ous legal decisions. So well was his legal acu- 



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men known and favorably recognized, that it 
was but seldom an action was commenced in the 
Common Pleas Court, when the cause of action 
came within his jurisdiction. Thomas L. Jew- 
i'tt, known in his time as one of the ablest law- 
yers of Eastern Ohio, declared that the legal 
decisions of Justice Arnold, so far as they per 
tained to his office, could not be bettered by one 
of the highest attainments in the law. This 
high position he attained by cool, unbiased judg- 
ment and conscientious recognition of the de- 
mands of law and justice. His decisions were 
rendered without fear or favor. Official re- 
straints removed, however, he became the benev- 
olent, obliging, public-spirited citizen. 

" No measure proposed for the benefit of Har- 
rison County or the town of his residence was 
too insignificant to gain from him a respectful 
hearing, and having examined and approved 
it, thenceforth it had his active and valuable 
support. 

"No man ever came to him for advice, and 
they were many who came, who did not get the 
benefit of his best judgment. The legal opinions 
he rendered officially for the statutory fees were 
not a tithe of the equally valuable ones he 
freely gave without reward. He was not a cap- 
italist, but capital, whether in real or personal 
estate, was always indebted to his wise counsel 
and publio spirit." 

William H. Arnold was born in Cadiz, Ohio, 
and was educated in the common school. 
While yet a boy he entered the office of the 
Sentinel, then owned by Charles N. Allen, and 
served an apprenticeship at, the printing busi- 
ness. At the age of twenty- two he became as- 
sociate editor of the paper, and three years 
later, in 18(35, bought the Journal, of which he 
has since been the main owner and editor, hav- 
ing largely increased its' circulation and in- 
fluence. 

In 1800 Mr. Arnold married Lydia, daugh- 
ter of Hon. Joseph R. Hunter, of Cadiz. The 
Hunters came to Cadiz about 1830, and here 
they died. Mrs. Lydia Arnold passed away 
February 28, 1880, leaving four children, viz. : 



Hunter,, a student at the National University, 
Washington. D. C. : Mary, a student at the 
University of Pennsylvania; Grace, who died at 
the age of four months, and Louise, attending 
school in Cadiz. In 18SS Mr. Arnold took, for 
his second wife, Caroline, daughter of James 
Thompson, and to this union has been born one 
child, Edwin. 



If CEAIG MOORE, cashier of the First Na- 
tional Bank of Cadiz, was born two miles 
\ east of that city July 24, 1854, and comes 
of an early settled family of Harrison Coun- 
ty, his grandfather, a farmer, having come here 
as early as 1800. William Moore married Sa- 
rah Cory, and died in 1848. His son, John, 
the father of our subject, was born in this coun- 
ty, was reared a farmer, and in 1830 married 
Elizabeth McCullough, daughter of Joseph and 
Elizabeth (Lyons) McCullough, who shared his 
life trials and life pleasures until 1850, when 
she departed this life at the early age of thirty- 
six years, the mother of nine children, as fol- 
lows: Sarah; David O., M. D., in Bloomington, 
111. ; W T illiam A., boot and shoe merchant; Beat- 
ty, a druggist; Mary, wife of Thomson Craig; 
Alice, now Mrs. R. W. Barricklow; Nannie, 
now Mrs. A. N. Hammond; Joseph, M. D., in 
Omaha, and I. C, our subject. The father died 
February 2, 1883, at the age of sixty-nine and 
one-half years; after the death of his first 
wife he had been twice married, his second wife 
being a sister of his first, and named Sarah J. ; 
she died June 14, 1S74. The third wife, Phebe 
(Gray), still survives. Mr. Moore was for sev- 
eral years township trustee, and for forty- three 
years was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, of 
which church the mother of our subject was 
also a devout member. Beatty Moore was a 
soldier in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 
O. V. I. , was in many battles, but came out at 
the close of the war uninjured. 

I. C. Moore, the subject proper of this sketch, 
came to Cadiz with his father in 1808, and here 
was educated at the high school, graduating there 



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with first honors in 1871, then he entered Frank- 
lin College, in which he remained until three 
months of graduation, when he went into busi- 
ness in 1873. In 1874 he entered the private 
bank of Rezin Welch & Co., which, in 1884, 
was consolidated with the First National, of 
which Mr. Moore became cashier. He is also 
treasurer of the Building & Loan Association 
of Cadiz, and vice-president of the Library 
Association. On November 14, 1878, Mr. Moore 
married Miss Anna E., daughter of D. B. and 
Martha C. Welch, and one son has come to 
brighten their fireside, Barclay Welch Moore. 
Politically Mr. Moore is a Republican, and in 
religion he is a Presbyterian. Socially he stands 
in the front rank of the community in which he 
lives, and as a business man is unexcelled in 
Harrison County. 



q-EORGE A. 'CREW, auditor of Harrison 
County, was born in Belmont County, 
Ohio, April 5, 1838. His father, Ferris 
,i Crew, was a native of Virginia, born of 
French extraction, his ancestors having come to 
America at an early date. Ferris Crew followed 
the vocation of farming, and in Caroline Coun- 
ty, Ya. , married Miss Eliza A. Terrell, daughter 
of Samuel Terrell, a descendant of one of the 
oldest settled families in the State. Soon after 
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Crew came 
to Ohio, first locating in Jefferson County 
whence they moved to Belmont County, and 
finally came to Harrison County, in March, 
1839. A short time after arriving here Ferris 
Crew died at the early age of thirty-five years. 
His widow remained on the homestead until 
1 8 18, when she was married to Ezekial Hanna, 
of Harrison County. On February 17, 1S82, 
when aged seventy -four years, she died in Hope- 
dale, Harrison County, at the home of her son, 
George A. She was the mother of five chil- 
dren by her first marriage, of whom two only 
survive: George A. (our subject) and Mary 
Ann (wife of Z. Z. Courtright, of Freeport 



Township, Harrison County). No children came 
to bless her second marriage. 

George A. Crew received his preliminary 
education in the district schools, but at the age 
of twenty-one years sold his interest in the 
homestead and entered Hopedale College, Har- 
rison County, where he studied some two years, 
and then began teaching. After a short time, 
however, he relinquished this profession and en- 
tered mercantile business as a clerk, but in a 
short time, resolving to do business on his own 
account, he bought out his employer: he then 
carried on a general store for about five years 
at Hopedale, and about eight years at Cadiz 
Junction, at which latter place he was appointed 
postmaster. In 1877 he returned to Hopedale, 
where were better facilities for the education of 
his children, of whom mention will be made 
further on. At Hopedale Mr. Crew continued 
in the general merchandise business until 1884, 
when he was elected auditor of Harrison Coun- 
ty; he then removed to Cadiz, the county seat, 
with his family. While serving his first term 
as auditor, a change in the law extended his 
term almost one year, and in 1887 Mr. Crew 
was re-elected, and is still holding the position. 
He has always been a Republican, and in addi- 
tion to the office of auditor has been honored 
by his party with several minor positions. This 
statement completes the history of Mr. Crew's 
political career, and it now becomes necessary 
to briefly give his military record. In 1804, at 
the last call for troops to aid in the suppression 
of the Rebellion, Mr. Crew closed his store and 
entered the one-hundred-days' service, in Com- 
pany H, One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., 
and was appointed orderly sergeant. The regi- 
ment was stationed for a time at Washington 
City, then was sent to Harper's Ferry, and then 
to the Shenandoah Valley. In September, 
1804, Mr. Crew was mustered out and returned 
to Hopedale and resumed business. The mar- 
riage of Mr. Crew took place June 5, 1802, at 
Hopedale, with Miss Sarah J. Hanna, daughter 
of JohnM. and Louisa (Perry) Hanna, and born 
near Beech Spring, Harrison County. Her 



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parents were life-long residents of the county, 
the father having been born in the same house 
in which his daughter Sarah first saw the light, 
and his grandparents having been among the 
pioneers. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Crew 
was blessed with four children, viz.: Ferris T., 
of Cadiz; Ada Louise, now Mrs. Dr. P. M. 
Sharp, of Cadiz; Anna Virginia; John A., who 
died in 1880, in his thirteenth year. Mr. 
Crew stands to-day one of the best known citi- 
zens of the county, and most highly respected 
in Cadiz. He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity and of the G. A. E., and with his 
wife, of the Presbyterian Church. He is a 
self-made man, as far as financial success is con- 
cerned, and his course through life is worthy of 
the emulation of the rising generation. 




J. McCOY, clerk of the courts of Har- 
rison County, was born in Athens 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, Novem- 
ber 25, 1850. His father, John McCoy, 
was also a native of that county, but his grand- 
father, Thomas McCoy, was a Virginian, who 
immigrated to Ohio while it was yet in a com- 
paratively wild state, and in Athens Township, 
Harrison County, both he and his wife passed 
from earth. John McCoy, was born on the 
farm where he now resides. In 181(5 he mar- 
ried Miss Eliza Walker, daughter of John and 
Eliza Walker, and a native of Harrison County, 
Ohio. She bore him twelve children, of whom 
nine still survive, all living in Harrison County, 
except one, Vincent W., who is engaged in the 
practice of medicine in Morgan County, Ohio. 

M. J. McCoy remained at home until twenty 
years of age, and received his education at 
Franklin College, spending his vacations and 
leisure time on the farm. At twenty years of 
age he began teaching, and continued in that 
profession for several years, two of them being 
spent in Belmont County, Ohio. Politically 
Mr, McCoy is a Republican, and in the fall of 
L887 he was elected clerk of the courts of Har- 
rison County, entering upon the duties of said 



office in February, 18S8, his term expiring in 
February, 1891; was re-elected to the office 
November 4, 1890, term expiring February, 
1894 In 1878, in Smithfield, Jefferson Coun- 
ty, he was united in marriage with Isabella De 
Armond, daughter of David and Isabella Ar- 
mond, formerly of said county, now deceased, 
and to this union five children have been born, 
viz. : Launa B. , Iva May, Lela, Hortzell Ray- 
mond and Harold J. Mr. McCoy is now a resi- 
dent of the town of Cadiz, Harrison County. 
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. 



f( D. WORTMAN, M. D., a popular physi- 
^ I cian of Cadiz, was born in Muskingum 
%JI County, Ohio, in 1824, a son of Lot and 
Margaret (Metzlar) Wortrnan, the former 
of whom was a native of New Jersey, and by 
occupation a farmer; the latter a native of West- 
moreland County, Penn., born of German ances- 
try. In 1808 the parents came to Muskingum 
County, where they made a home in the forest. 
Here they lived till 1839, when the father joined 
the "silent majority," at the age of sixty years, 
the mother following him in 1860, having ever 
since her husband's death remained on the 
home place. They were the parents of twelve 
children, only three of whom are living: J. D., 
in Harrison County; J. W., a dentist in Zanes- 
ville, Ohio, and John, a farmer in Kansas. 

J. D. Wortman remained at home until fif- 
teen years of age, attending the academy and 
other educational institutions, and then became 
a teacher, which profession he followed for some 
time in Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama and Missouri. 
While thus employed he took up the study of 
medicine, which he zealously prosecuted, finally 
taking a course at the Starling Medical College, 
Columbus, Ohio, where in the class of 1852, 
he graduated. For six years he practiced in 
Washington County, Penn., and in 1858 he came 
to Cadiz, where he has since been successfully 
engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. 
The Doctor made a trip to the gold fields of 
California in 1850, crossing the Isthmus of Pan- 



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ama on foot, both going and returning, for after 
mining in the "New Eldorado" for, a short 
time, failing health compelled him to retrace his 
steps homeward. While coming up the Missis- 
sippi, the boat on which he was a passenger 
struck a snag one night, causing her to split 
and sink, whereby 140 people were drowned. 
The Doctor clung to the wreck, and two or 
three hours later he was rescued. In 1885, his 
health having become impaired, he made another 
trip to California (Southern), returning the fol- 
lowing year much benefited by the change. Dur- 
ing the War of the Rebellion he joined as assist- 
ant surgeon, August 21, 1862, the Seventy- 
eighth Regiment, O. V. I., serving until Feb- 
ruary, 1803, when he resigned on account of 
disability, and returned home. 

In 1860, at Cadiz, Dr. Wortman was mar- 
ried to Miss J. P. Jamison, a native of Harri- 
son County, a daughter of Barkley and Marga- 
ret Jamison, who came to the county in early 
days. By this union three children were born: 
George B. , Mary and Emma R., all at home. 




: \ILLIAM T. SHARP, M. D., of Cadiz, 
Harrison County. Every profession 
has its prominent men; some made 
such by long membership, and others 
by their proficiency in their calling. The sub- 
ject of this sketch is made conspicuous among 
Harrison County's physicians, both by the 
length of time devoted to the calling and by the 
eminent success he has made of it. Many a 
man mistakes his life's work, yet by earnest ap- 
plication makes a partial success; but it is only 
when natural tact is coupled with an ambition 
to succeed that anything like eminence is 
reached in any vocation. 

Dr. W. T. Sharp is one of those men who 
may be said to have chosen well. Possessed of 
a kind and sympathetic nature, a keen sense of 
discrimination, a natural taste for the various 
branches of the medical profession, he has by 
years of study and practice risen to the honored 
rank he now holds. Such men are a credit to 



any community, and it is a pleasure to pen the 
following brief sketch of himself and family: 

The Sharp family are of English extraction, ^ 
the grandfather of our subject. William Sharp, 
by occupation a farmer, coming to America at 
an early date — probably as far back as the 
Revolutionary times. Of his children, John 
Sharp, was the father of our subject, and he, 
too, followed agricultural pursuits. He was 
among the pioneers who came came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, where he married Miss Catherine, 
daughter of David Thompson, of Cadiz Town- 
ship. In 1834 John Sharp and his wife re- 
moved to Holmes County, Ohio, where, at the 
advanced ages of eighty-two and seventy-nine, 
respectively, they now reside. They are par- 
ents of nine children, as follows: William T. , 
our subject; David, now a farmer of Holmes 
County, Ohio; John, in Millersburg, Ohio; 
James, a minister of the United Presbyterian, 
faith, located at Sidney, Ohio; George, an at- 
torney at law, at Millersburg, Ohio; Samuel, 
M. D., of Oregon; Martha (Mrs. John T. Max- 
well, of Millersburg, Ohio; Mary, Margaret 
and Joseph, on the old home place in Holmes 
County. 

Dr. W. T. Sharp spent his early years on a 
farm, and like many of the young men of that 
age had his first schooling in one of the old log 
cabins then so common, being the excuse for a 
school-house. When seventeen years of age he 
entered Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, 
and later graduated at a college in Guernsey 
County. He then began the study of medicine 
under the guidance of Dr. John McBeau, of 
Cadiz, and after some time spent in preliminary 
reading, he entered Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia, from which he graduated 
in March, 1859. He at once returned to Cadiz, 
where he formed a partnership with his old 
preceptor, which continued until December, 
1864, when Dr. Sharp began for himself, open- 
ing a drug store in connection with his practice. 
Prior to the dissolution of his partnership with 
Dr. McBean, in 1862, as assistant surgeon of 
the Ninety-eighth Regiment, O. V. I., he went 



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to the South, where he spent thirteen months 
in the field service in Kentucky and Tennessee, 
and then returned to his home, where he has 
since devoted his entire time to his profession, 
being the longest practitioner in the city of 
Cadiz. On October 12, 1859, he was married 
to Miss Elizabeth Carnahan, of Harrison 
County, and to this union six children have 
been born, viz.: John Clarence, M. D., in New 
York City; William Lee, a farmer in Harrison 
County; Preston McCready, one of the well- 
known dentists of Cadiz; Caroline Martha, Mrs. 
C. A McCann; Mary Belle (Mrs. W. H. Brink- 
erhoff), and George Cunningham, at home. 
The Doctor is a member of McCready Post, 
G. A. R. He united with the United Presby- 
terian Congregation of Cadiz, Ohio, while Dr. 
W. T. Meloy was the pastor, and is now an 
elder in that congregation. 




ARGARET McCREADY, widow of Rev. 
Jonathan Sharp McCready, was born 
near New Athens, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
a daughter of William McFarland, who 
was a native of Ireland, and was only nine 
months old when brought to this country by his 
parents. Robert McFarland, grandfather of 
Mrs. McCready, also a native of Ireland, of 
Scotch extraction, married Elizabeth Ferguson, 
and together they came to Taylorstown, Penn., 
in 1794, and some years later to Ohio. Three 
children were born to this pioneer couple, viz. : 
One that died in infancy: Mary who died in 
Harrison County, in her eighty-seventh year, 
and William. The last named, in 1824, pur- 
chased of the historic Joseph Huff a piece of 
laud near New Athens, Ohio, whereon he lived 
the rest of his life. In 1823 he married, in 
Belmont County, Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew 
and Martha Henderson, and a native of Penn- 
sylvania, to which State her parents came at an 
early date. Of this union ten children were 
born— four sons and six daughters — all but two 
of whom are living: Andrew, Mary, Martha 
and Elizabeth (twins, both deceased), James, 



William, Margaret, Robert, Nancy and Sarah. 
In 1876 the mother passed from earth at the 
age of seventy-six years, followed in 18 iS by 
the father when eighty-three years old. He had 
led a busy life. Beginning a poor boy, but en- 
dowed with a great desire to learn, he per- 
severed and improved every opportunity, bo 
much so that at the early age of thirteen he be- 
came teacher, a profession at which he made a 
marked success. His ability not being passed 
unnoticed by his fellow-citizens, he was sent to 
the State Legislature to represent his district. 
He did not seek political preferment, and never 
asked a vote; was associate judge for a long 
period, and for years was a director in the Har- 
rison National Bank of Cadiz. 

In 1850 Margaret McFarland was married 
at New Athens, Ohio, to Rev. Jonathan Sharp 
McCready, and they then settled in Cadiz. He 
was born near New Galilee, Beaver Co., Penn., 
April 15, 1828, a son of Hugh McCready, who 
was a farmer and died in Pennsylvania. Jona- 
than S. McCready attended an academy" at Dar- 
lington, Penn., and later Franklin College, New 
Athens, Ohio, where he finished his classical 
course. He had determined upon the ministry 
for his life work, and finished his education for 
the same, at Cannonsburg, Penn.. in 1855. He 
was first a minister in the Seceder Church, and 
later in the United Presbyterian. In 1856, 
immediately after his marriage, he took charge 
of the congregation at Cadiz, in which charge 
he remained until August 14, 1862, when he 
enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and 
Twenty-sixth O. V. I., and served under Gen. 
McClellan. He was made captain of his com- 
pany, and at the battle of the Wilderness, May 
6, 1864, he was wounded in the arm by a rifle 
ball, which rendered amputation necessary. He 
died, however, while on his way home on Sep- 
tember 7, his wife, from the time she could 
reach him, being present with him to the end. 
He was buried at Cadiz, having devotedly given 
his life for his country at the early age of thirty- 
six years. Since his death his widow has re- 
sided on Main Street, Cadiz. 



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Mi J, S. McFADDEN, deceased. One of the 
p— • I most prominent families of Harrison 

1 County is the one now under consider. 
f) ation. From the early coming to the 

county of its first representative to tbe present 
date, the name McFadden has been inseparably 
combined with tbe various enterprises of tbe 
county, and few, if any, have so largely con- 
tributed to its progress and upbuilding. 

A more respected citizen than Henry S. Mc 
Faddeu probably never lived in Harrison Coun- 
ty. His influence was felt on every hand, his 
death universally regretted. On the morning 
of July 4, 18S8, at the age of seventy five years, ' 
the summons came, and a kind and loving heart 
was stilled forever. His aged father and mother 
had preceded him to the grave, the former in 
1861, at the age of eighty-two years, and in 
1866 the latter, who for many years had been 
totally blind, followed her husband. The fol- 
lowing obituary appeared in the Steubenville 
Gazette soon after the funeral of Mr. McFadden: 

" Born in County Cavan, Ireland, the son of 
Samuel and Lydia (Stafford) McFadden in 
1813, he came with his father's family to 
America when only seven years of age, settling 
in Philadelphia, where his boyhood days were 
spent. Like many of the Scotch-Irish immi- 
grants of that day, the elder McFadden was 
poor, but with the characteristic energy of his 
race he set to work to build up for himself 
a position then always awaiting the energetic 
man in the new world, beginning as a peddler 
and extending his trade until it reached by 
wagon team to the western borders of Pennsyl- 
vania, and became very profitable. In this he 
was assisted by his sons, George and Henry, the 
former dead just twenty years, the latter the 
subject of this sketch, who has now entered into 
rest. But before this Henry had the business 
education of a factory boy, and that any other 
schooling was necessarily limited is evinced by 
the fact that when but sixteen years of age he 
drove and conducted the business of a four- 
horse peddling wagon through the mountains 
and wilds of central and western Pennsylvania, 



a region whose topography became so impressed 
upon his mind that to his last days he referred 
to it as to the highways of Harrison County. 

" In 1831 Samuel McFadden came to Cadiz, 
bringing Henry with him, and there opened a 
general store, leaving the son in charge while 
he returned to Philadelphia and brought out the 
remainder of the family in 1832. This estab- 
lishment continued in the McFadden name un- 
til 1875, a period of forty-four years, during 
most of which time the subject of this sketch 
was the active business spirit, entering into 
partnership with his father previous to 1840. and 
forming the head of the firm in subsequent 
partnerships after the death of his father, in 
1861, until, with his son, H. H. McFadden, now 
of the Steubenville Gazette, he permanently 
withdrew, and, as above noted, finally retired 
from the mercantile business in 1875, leaving 
it to the remaining partners, Messrs. Kinsey & 
Mansfield. Without detracting from the de- 
serts of others, it is but the truth to state that, 
during his lifetime Mr. McFadden did a more 
extensive general trade than any other man in 
the history of Harrison County, the transactions 
in which he was engaged in a strictly legitimate 
business way amounting to millions of dollars, 
his house being for many years the heaviest 
wool-buying and pork-packing establishment in 
the county, in addition to its extensive general 
mercantile business, in which it also took the 
lead . During this almost half century the McFad- 
den house earned a most enviable reputation for 
business integrity, that time can not efface until 
the generation that dealt with it has completely 
passed away. In all those years, though there 
were times of trouble and disaster, for such are 
sure to come with all who embark in trade, 
never once was the McFadden name dishonored 
until at last it was a synonym for promptness 
and upright business honor and honesty through 
all the region where the trade of the house ex- 
tended; no man has a better heritage than this. 
From the start of the Harrison Branch of the 
State Bank of Ohio Mr. McFadden was one of 
its main stays, and for years was a director, re- 



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taming his position in the directory when it was 
reorganized in 1S64 as the Harrison National 
Bank, an institution whose phenomenal success 
has for years been the subject of comment in 
the newspaper and business world. He con- 
tinued as a director up to the time of his death, 
being re elected during his last illness, and for 
the past dozen years was vice-president of the 
bank, where his ripe business experience was 
recognized as a decided factor in its success. 

" Mr. McFadden was married December 6, 
1842, to Frances Isabella, daughter of Charles 
M. and Elizabeth (Karg) Poore, a native of 
York County, Penn., where she resided at the 
time of her father's death, in 1 832, the widow 
subsequently removing with her family to 51c- 
Connellsville, Ohio, where the marriage took 
place. On that occasion Hon. John A. Bing- 
ham, then a young attorney of Cadiz, acted as 
groomsman, and the friendship of the long ago 
between the two young men has since so grown 
and strengthened with the passing years that 
latterly they were almost inseparable until the 
rude hand of sickness and death now has 
snapped the cord in two. This union, which 
proved a long and happy one, the forty-fifth an- 
niversary having been celebrated last December, 
was blessed with eight children, all of whom 
reached adult age, and seven of whom, with 
their mother, survive, the only break heretofore 
in the family being the death of Charles Poore, 
the oldest child, October 7, 1866, aged about 
twenty-three years. And in the years when this 
family was being reared there was no happier 
nor more pleasant home anywhere, nor one 
where the parents more exerted themselves to 
please and gratify without overindulging their 
children, a home full of bright recollections that 
nothing can ever efface. The surviving children 
are Henry H, of Steubenville; Fannie, wife 
of J.J. Hanna, of Kansas City; Belle, wife of 
0. W. Kinsey, of Oakland, Cal. ; John F., of 
Columbus; George E., of Fresno, Cal., and 
Lizzie T. and Sam F., unmarried and at home. 
Two sisters survive Mr. McFadden: Mrs. Jane 
Johnson, of Marion, and Mrs. Margaret Craig, I 



of Cambridge. Two others have passed away 
in recent years: Mrs. \V. L. Sharp, of Steu- 
benville, and Mrs. J. R. Hunter, of Cadiz. 

"His was a nature that reached out with a 
warm grasp and took in all generous and good 
that came in its way; hence his friendships were 
many and warm, and his place will be hard to 
fill in many hearts, not only in his own home 
circle, but wherever his way was cast. Benev- 
olent in spirit and generous to a fault, he took 
pleasure in giving all his life to those things 
that appealed to his ever open heart as worthy; 
yet seldom did he err in judgment, and he ex- 
perienced in full the blessing of going aright, 
though measured by the world's standard it was 
with too lavish a hand. Yet in all those years 
he never felt a want that he had not the means 
to till, and in his last days had a competence for 
himself and household, and he has filled a meas- 
ure of usefulness that would not have been, had 
he suffered his open nature to become obscured 
by the hardening spirit of the world. Though 
his early advantages for schooling were few, 
the general knowledge he possessed was remark- 
able, his mind being a veritable storehouse of 
valuable information, and there was scarcely any 
subject broached, however abstruse, that he 
could not discuss intelligently. From his earli- 
est to his latest years he was a persistent 
reader, and what he read he never forgot, though 
seemingly making no effort to memorize. In 
this he was remarkable, and it has been truly 
said that had it not been for his childlike mod- 
esty, peculiar to himself, he would have pushed 
to the front in political life, his interest in pol- 
itics always being great, in the old days as a 
Whig and since the dissolution of that party as 
a Democrat. Another remarkable trait of char- 
acter was his forgiving spirit; though at times 
wounded sorely by business or political friends, 
and no one felt such thrusts more than he, he 
never held resentment and was always ready 
to forgive and forget, even going so far as to 
quietly protest when the gauge was taken up 
in his behalf on such occasions. And now that 
he is gone, it must be admitted his plan was 



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right; he leaves a community where he lived 
more than a half century, and all his neighbors 
mourn, while not an enemy or one who wished 
him harm is among the number. It is good so 
to die when a man full of years and fitted as he 
for the sickle of the grim destroyer. Uniting 
with the Presbyterian Church early in life, he 
has for many years been one of its most stead- 
fast supporters, though his religious charity was 
so great it acknowledged the good of all de- 
nominations. His Christianity was not so 
much advertised as some, but it was none the 
less real, for it was the Christianity of a long 
lite nobly spent in the daily service of God and 
duty to men. Five years past the Psalmist's 
limit, the Lord has taken him to that full fount- 
ain of restful happiness which the Christian 
knows has been prepared for the people of God." 
The following resolutions were adopted July 
17, 1888, by the board of directors of the Har- 
rison National Bank, Cadiz, Ohio, on the death 
of Henry S. McFadden, vice-president of the 
bank: 

Whereas, It has pleased the Supreme Ruler in His 
all-wise providence to remove from us our associate 
and vice-president of this bank. Henry S. McFadden, 
who was a director in the Harrison branch of t tie State 
Bank of Ohio from January 1. 18SS, until its re-organ- 
ization as the Harrison Xational Bank in 1 *(>.">, and had 
since continually occupied the position of director in 
the new organization until the day of his death, the 
4th day of July, A. D. 1888, 

Therefore, resolved, That while we bow submis- 
sively to the decree of Him who doeth all things well, 
yet we feel that in his death we have lost an associate 
and friend on whose wise counsel it was always safe 
to act. one who. while strict in the enforcement of 
every rule of business, surrounded the driest details of 
our routine work with the sparkle of friendly inter- 
course. His Christian forbearance embraced not only 
the errors and shortcomings of his associates anil 
friends, but his mantle of charity was broad enough to 
cover all mankind. 

Resolved, That in the death of Mr. McFadden the 
community has lost its foremost citizen. His natural 
intellect, coupled with a business experience of fifty 
years, had so expanded his mind that he was enabled 
to comprehend instantly the wants of the community, 
and bis enlightened public spirit induced him to re- 
spond liberally in the furtherance of all public and 
charitable enterprises. 

Retolved, That we tender the widow and family of 
the deceased in their great bereavement our deepest 
sympathy, and can say by way of consolation that, 
while they are called to live in the shadow of their sor- 
row, they will still have the bright and living example 
of the dead husband and father to point them the way 
and light their darkened path. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be pre- 
sented to the family of the deceased, and spread on 
the minutes of the Board of Directors. 

The Poore family traces its ancestry to the 
twelfth century, the time of William Kufus, and 
came to America from England in 1635, set- 
tling in Newburyport, Mass. This first comer 
was John Poore, a Puritan. The next descend- 
ant of this family, of whom we have any knowl- 
edge, was John Poore, the grandfather of Mrs. 
McFadden, who established in Philadelphia the 
first female seminary in America, and, perhaps, 
the first in the world. He was a graduate of 
Harvard University, a church worker, and the 
leader of one of the first Sunday-schools estab- 
lished in Philadelphia, in 1791. 

Charles Merrill Poore, the father of Mrs. Mc- 
Fadden, resided in York County, Penn., where 
he was engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1832, 
when, in Baltimore, Md., he died of cholera. 
He was a man of marked piety, and the founder 
of the first Sunday school at York, Penn. He 
married Elizabeth Karg, whose parents had 
come from Brunswick on the Rhine. She died 
in Harrisburg, Penn., in March, 1858. Mrs. 
H. S. McFadden was born December 29, 1820, 
and was some seventeen years of age when, 
with her widowed mother, she came to Ohio and 
made a home at McConnellsville. . The old 
McFadden homestead in Cadiz, which was built 
in 1862, still shelters Mrs. McFadden and her 
daughter and son, Lizzie T. and Samuel F. 
The family are prominent in religious circles, 
being members of the Presbyterian Church, 
.Miss Lizzie being also a member of the VY." C. 
T. U. and W. F. M. S., and is one of the of- 
ficers of the W. F. M. Society of St. Clairsville 
Presbytery. 

Samuel Fleming McFadden is now engaged 
in the grocery trade at the old stand where his 
father did business. He has spent a number of 
years in the West engaged in the printing busi- 
ness, which he had learned partly in Cadiz and 
partly with his brother, Henry H., in Steuben- 
ville. In 1886 he returned to his home in 
Cadiz, where he has since resided. 



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HARRISOX COUNTY. 




OBEBT LYONS, deceased. The beauti- 
fill town of Cadiz has a just right to be 
V proud of her financial institutions, of 
which none stands higher in the confi- 
dence of the public than the present banking 
firm of J. B. & B. Lyous, founded in 1855 by 
their father, the late Bobert Lyons, whose 
prestige as a successful financier gained for him 
a wide celebrity and an honored name. He was 
in his lifetime one of the best known business 
men of Harrison County, in every respect self- 
made, having commenced life with barely a 
dollar, but by indomitable perseverance and 
scrupulous integrity he became one of the lead- 
ing citizens, financially and socially, in the 
county. Mr. Lyons was a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, born December 14, 1803, and when a lad 
of some fifteen summers he came to Cadiz, 
where he entered the arena of commercial life 
as a clerk, in the employ of his half brother, 
the Hon. Daniel Kilgore. After several years 
of service as such, a copartnership was formed 
with Mr. Kilgore, under the name of Kilgore & 
Lyons, doing a general merchandise business, 
which firm continued till 1847. In this year 
was organized the first bank of Harrison County, 
the Harrison branch of the State Bank of Ohio, 
and Mr. Lyons was chosen cashier of this insti- 
tution, being the first cashier in the county, 
remaining as such till 1855. Being an exceed- 
ingly active man, Mr. Lyons rapidly expanded 
his business, and in 1855 he established the 
banking concern now carried on by his sons. 

In 1 832 Mr. Lyons became united in marriage 
with Miss Ann Bowland, who bore him five chil- 
dren, three of whom are yet living, residents of 
Cadiz, viz.: J. B., Bichard and Mrs. D. B. 
Welch. The mother of these children dying in 
1814, Mr. Lyons chose for his second wife, 
Mrs. Anne W. Allison, of Washington County. 
Fenn., who some years later departed this life 
leaving no children. In August, 1887, Mr. 
Lyons followed her to the grave at the patri- 
archal age of eighty-four years. Politically he 
was a Bepublican, and in religion a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. 



y, ICHABD LYONS, junior member of the 
\^f( banking firm of J. B. & B. Lyons, Ca- 

V\, diz, is the second son of Bobert Lyons, 
born in that town August 21, 1840, and 
has, therefore, been identified with the place 
throughout his entire life. He was educated 
here, and while yet a young man entered his 
father's bank, where he early acquired the 
habits and knowledge of business which became 
the foundation of his present prosperous stand- 
ing in the world of finance. He has risen by 
his own individual efforts, by his characteristic 
probity, and by his well-known ability to the 
position of one of the most successful business 
men in Cadiz. Socially he is universally re- 
spected and remarkably popular, and no other 
citizen of Cadiz has a wider circle of friends 
and acquaintances. 

Mr. Lyons still enjoys an Arcadian life of 
celibacy, and makes his home with his brother- 
in-law, Mr. D. B. Welch. Politically he is a 
Bepublican, and in religion is a Presbyterian. 



DAVID CUNNINGHAM was born in Har- 
rison County, Ohio, March 1, 1837. His 
grandparents were among the early set- 
tlers of the county, coming from Penn- 
sylvania in 1813, and bringing with them their 
son John, the father of our subject. They set- 
tled near Cassville, and here it was he grew to 
manhood, and here, also, he married Miss Nancy 
Sharp. David Cunningham, after passing 
through the common schools in the country took 
a classical course at Franklin College, New 
Athens, Ohio, graduating therefrom in 1S57. 
He then began fitting himself for the profession 
of law, studying under Hon. John A. Bingham; 
in 1859 he was admitted to the bar, and has 
since been a member of the legal fraternity of 
Cadiz. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, 
Thirtieth O. V. I. , and was soon after chosen 
captain, in which capacity he served until 1863, 
when he was promoted to the rank of major. He 
participated in the battles of South Mountain, 
Antietam and Second Manassas, also at the sieges 





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of Jackson and Vicksburg. In the latter siege 
his regiment led the famous charge, in which in 
three hours 45,000 rounds of ammunition were 
tired, and fully one third of the regiment fell. In 
October, 1S63, he was honorably discharged, on 
account of failing health, and returned to Cadiz, 
where, in 1865, he was elected to the office of 
prosecuting attorney, and was re elected. In 
1871 he was elected to the Lower House of the 
State Legislature, in which he served one term. 
His practice as a lawyer has been a most success- 
ful one, and it now extends to the supreme courts. 
In 1865 he was chosen a director of the Harri- 
son National Bank of Cadiz, and is now presi- 
dent of said institution. On May 1, 1866, the 
Harrison National Bank of Cadiz was robbed of 
some $250,000. Maj. Cunningham, on this 
occasion, led the pursuing party, which, in Jef- 
ferson County, captured the robbers and returned 
the larger part of the money. In 1859 Maj. 
Cunningham married Miss Laura Phillips, who 
has borne him six children. 



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,\ILLIAM THOMAS WOOD, one of the 
best known business men of Cadiz, 
Harrison County, was born in Shrop- 
shire, England, in October, 184S, and 
when three or four years of age was brought to 
America by his parents, who first located in 
Media, Conn., from which point they moved to 
Pittsburgh, whence they came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, when our subject was about thir- 
teen years old. William T. was educated in 
the common schools of Cadiz. He learned the 
trade of tin and coppersmith, which vocation he 
followed about four years, and then went into 
the grocery business, as a clerk for S. F. Fergu- 
son, with whom he remained nine years. In 
1879 he entered into partnership with Reese 
Firby, in which he continued about three years, 
when the firm name was changed to Wood & 
Moore. About the month of March, 1884, the 
firm was dissolved, and Mr. Wood entered into 
business on his sole account, in which ho has 
met with the most gratifying success. 



In February, 1875, Mr. Wood married Miss 
Amanda W. Laizure, a native of Harrison 
County, daughter of Elijah Laizure, and this 
union has been blessed with four children: 
Fred, Edith, Robert and Ralph. The Laizure 
family are highly respected, and Elijah was the 
pioneer blacksmith of Harrison County. His 
death took place in 1884, and that of his widow 
some four years later. Mrs. Wood has a sister 
married to Michael Conoway, of Stock Town- 
ship, Harrison County; another sister is the wife 
of Dr. Scott, of Philadelphia, and still another 
sister is the wife of Capt. Heddiugton, in Frank- 
fort, Kas. Two brothers of Mrs. Wood, Charles 
and Willliam, reside in Fargo, Dak. In 1SS7 
Mr. Wood built his present substantial and 
pleasant residence on Main Street, Cadiz, and 
this home is a model one. 



T OHN CONWELL, one of the best known 
k. I and most worthy of the citizens of Cadiz, 
%^i Harrison County, is a native of the town, 
born in 1827. His father, Hiram Conwell, 
was a Virginian, descended of Scotch people, 
who immigrated to America in the days of Crom- 
well. By trade Hiram was a brickmaker, and 
the brick of which Harrison County Court- 
house is constructed were made by him. In or 
about the year 1S30 he descended the Missis- 
sippi to New Orleans, but as he never returned, 
it is believed he died of the cholera, which was 
prevalent about that time. Ho had married, in 
Ohio, Miss Mary Cady, who bore him some 
seven or eight children, of whom two, John and 
a brother residing in Ottawa, Kas., are the only 
survivors. Some years after her husband's 
disappearance Mrs. Conwell married Joseph 
Forker. and spent the remainder of her life in 
Harrison County, dying in Cadiz, July 8, 1865, 
at the age of seventy-five years. By her second 
marriage she became the mother of three chil- 
dren, two of whom, Isabella Belinda Forker 
(married to John Shauff over thirty years ago) 
and Henry G. Forker (unmarried) reside in 
Cadiz; the third child, Mary Jane Forker, was 



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married to Dr. C. Thomas, twenty -six years ago, 
and resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Her mother, 
.Mrs. Margaret Cady, died in Cadiz in May, 
1864, aged one hundred and three years; she 
had resided for many years in Harrison Comity. 
coming here when Mrs. Conwell was a small 
child, and being one of the first settlers of Har- 
rison County. 

John Conwell, whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch, being but a boy of four years 
when his father left for New Orleans, made 
his home with his mother until 1841, when his 
stepfather. Joseph Forker, died, and one year 
later our subject became bound as an apprentice 
to the trade of tailor. He had just about com- 
pleted his apprenticeship when the Mexican War 
broke out, and he responded to the call for vol- 
unteers by enlisting in a company formed at 
Cadiz, but being rejected he entered the regular 
army and proceeded to the scene of the conflict* 
He served until the close of the campaign, tak- 
ing part in all the battles and in the advance on 
the City of Mexico, in one engagement receiving 
a slight flesh wound in the leg; he was promoted 
to sergeant of Company C, Fifth Regiment, U. 
S. Infantry. On his return to Cadiz Mr. Con- 
well resumed his trade until 1849, in which year 
he joined B company which was en route over- 
land to California, but fever and ague compelled 
his return, after gold mining for a short time. 
In 1851 he found himself once more in his native 
town, and, having recovered from his indisposi- 
tion, he again embarked in tailoring. Before 
going to Mexico he had been betrothed to Mary 
J. Gordon, a native of Ireland, who came to 
America when ten or twelve years of age, and 
in October, 1848, they were married. Seven 
children were born to them, viz.: Jessie L., in 
Cadiz; Fannie May, deceased:' William Henry, 
who died at the age of five years; Charles Em- 
mett. in Cadiz; Minnesota, now Mrs. Holmes, in 
Harrison County; Caroline, now Mrs. Kennedy, 
and Ella, now Mrs. Pierce, both in Cadiz. In 
November, 1886, the mother passed from earth, 
at the age of fifty-eight years, and December 
15, 1888, Mr. Conwell married, for his second 



wife. Mrs. Elizabeth McConnell, of Cadiz, 
Ohio. 

At the breaking out of the War of the Re- 
bellion our subject enlisted in Company I, Thir- 
teenth 0. V. I., to serve his country for the sec- 
ond time in his life. The regiment was ordered 
to West Virginia, where it was sent in pursuit 
of Gen. Garnet's forces, Confederate Army, 
which were in retreat after the battle of Roaring 
Run and Carrick's Ford, to Greenland Gap. On 
that march Mr. Conwell received an injury from 
which he has never fully recovered. For some 
time he lay in hospital at Parkersburg. W. Va., 
and on sufficiently improving in health, he re- 
turned to the army where he remained about two 
years more. He then re- enlisted, this time in 
the One Hundred and Seventieth O. V. I., One- 
hundred-days men, and was encamped near 
Washington, taking part in the various battles 
of the Shenandoah Valley, including those of 
Snicker's Gap. Kernstown and Winchester, and 
then retreated to Maryland Heights, in which 
retreat Mr. Conwell narrowly escaped capture. 
During part of this military experience he was 
on detached service, and in the latter enlistment 
he was quartermaster of the Seventieth Regi- 
ment, serving for a time as captain. On his re- 
turn home from the seat of war, he once more 
took up his old vocation of tailoring, which he 
still carries on in connection with farming, being 
the owner of a fine property located about a mile 
from Cadiz. He is one of the proprietors of the 
Cadiz Gas Works, of which he is president; is 
also president of the glass works, which he 
helped to build, and he put up the opera house 
in connection with Mr. M. J. Brown, of the 
Farmers «.V Mechanics National Bank at 
Cadiz, Mr. Conwell overseeing the work. He is 
a member of the G. A. R., and in 1SS8 he was 
appointed at Columbus, Ohio, on the staff of 
Gen. John P. Rea, commander-in-chief of the 
G. A. R.. resigning in 188V); is also a member of 
the I. O. O. F. ; politically he is a stanch Demo- 
crat. His elegant home in the town is located 
on Lincoln Avenue, and the many capacious 
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his talented daughters iu both oil painting and 
crayon work. His youngest daughter, Mrs. Ella 
Pierce, is a graduate of the Cincinnati College 
of Music. 



HARLES S. McCOY, postmaster at Ca- 
diz, Harrison County, was born in Harri- 
son County, Ohio, January 1, 1858, and 
is a son of William H. and Margaret A. 
(Welling) McCoy. William H. McCoy was a 
son of William and Jane McCoy, born in Can- 
nonsburg. Washington Co., Penn. , August 22, 
1832, and when young came with his parents to 
Carroll County, Ohio, where the latter ended 
their days. In 1857 William H. removed to 
Harrison County, where for a short time he 
worked on a farm. Being a man of good edu- 
cation and a collegian, he for a number of years 
taught school, chiefly in Harrison County. On 
August 8, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, One 
Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., and was 
commissioned second lieutenant; he was wounded 
in action, and for years subsequently suffered 
from an injured eye. Having received his dis- 
charge March 14, 1804, on account of his disa- 
bility, he returned to Cadiz, Harrison County, 
and was twice elected county auditor. Under 
President Grant he was appointed postmaster at 
Cadiz, but, his health failing from the fatigues 
and hardships of war, he fell a victim to that 
fell disease, consumption, and on September 19, 
1884, he passed from earth, aged fifty-two 
years. He had been very active in the Repub- 
lican party, and for years served as county 
school commissioner and township trustee, and 
was also for some time a member of the city 
council of Cadiz. In all of his various posi- 
tions he was very efficient, and met with univer- 
sal approbation. He was a Knight Templar, a 
member of the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R., 
and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 
marriage of William H. McCoy took place on 
March 24, 1857, with Margaret A. Welling, a 
native of New Rumley, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 
a daughter of William and Margaret Welling, 



the former now a resident of West Carlisle, 
('"shocton Co., Ohio, and the latter deceased. 
To the marriage of William H. and Margaret 
A. McCoy were born six children, viz. : Charles 
S., William J., W. Raleigh, Harry, Mary, and 
Edward (the last named being now defeased). 
Mrs. Margaret A. McCoy is still a resident of 
Cadiz. 

Charles S. McCoy received his education in 
the schools of Cadiz, and on quitting school 
became a clerk in a book store at Cadiz, where 
he remained several years, and then became 
assistant postmaster under his father, which 
position he held until the latter's death. On 
October 1, 1SS4, under the administration of 
President Arthur, he was appointed postmaster; 
he served through the Democratic administra 
tion of Grover Cleveland, and March 21, 1889, 
under President Harrison was re-appointed. Of 
course it will be easily seen that Mr. McCoy has 
always been, what he is now, a stanch Repub- 
lican. The marriage of Mr. McCoy took place 
May 20, 1880, at Cadiz, with Miss Cora J. 
Houser, daughter of Wilson and Nancy J. 
Houser, of Cadiz, and one child was born to 
this union, but which died while yet in infancy. 
Mr. and Mrs. McCoy are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Cadiz; he is a 
member of the K. of P., S. O. V. and I. O. O. 
F. Mr. McCoy is recognized as a first-class 
business man, and has proven himself to be an 
efficient official. He has gained and retains the 
respect, of a host of friends, and stands a promi- 
nent figure in the social circles of Cadiz. 




RS. MARGARET WELSH, the sub- 
ject of this sketch, was born in Archer 
|| Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in Janu- 
ary, 1816. Her father. Francis Gil- 
more, was a native of Ireland, and while yet a 
single man came to America, where he met and 
married Miss Sarah McBride, who at that time 
was a resident of what is now Harrison County, 
Ohio. She was also a native of Ireland, and had 
accompanied her parents to the New World, 



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HAERISON COUNTY. 



settling in the aforementioned county. Her 
parents, soon after the marriage of tbeir daugh- 
ter, removed to the place where they died. 

Francis Gilmore and his young wife made 
their home on the farm, and here they shared 
life's joys and sorrows until March 30, 1840, 
when the wife closed her eyes to earth, aged 
almost fifty years. She was the mother of 
seven children, of some of whom the following 
is a brief record: William is deceased; Mar- 
garet is the subject of this sketch; John is in 
Oskaloosa, Iowa; Thomas and Samuel are also 
in Iowa. Throughout his busy life Mr. Gil- 
more was a farmer and stock-dealer, and one 
who by hard work and continual effort had to 
make his own success. 

Margaret Gilmore remained at home until 
1833, when she was united in marriage with 
John Welsh, a son of Samuel and Catherine 
Welsh, and born November 20, 1S08, in Penn- 
sylvania. His parents came from Ireland to 
America, making their home in Pennsylvania, 
and when John was yet a mere boy they moved 
to what is now Archer Township, Harrison Co. , 
Ohio, where he grew to manhood, inured to the 
hardships of a pioneer life. After their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Welsh settled near the old 
home place, where they remained seven years,and 
thence removed to another place on which they re- 
sided until 1874, when, desiring to rest from the 
arduous labors of the farm, they came to the town 
of Cadiz, and built the pretty little cottage where 
Mrs. Welsh continues to reside, and from within 
whose walls his spirit returned to its Giver, No- 
vember 10, 1881. Politically he was a Demo- 
crat, but not a strict partisan, always letting his 
better judgment dictate the casting of his ballot, 
and for many years he was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. He was a progressive 
man, and a good citizen, one possessing a large 
circle of friends. He was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, as is his widow. 
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Welsh are 
as follows: Samuel, now in Missouri; Jason, in 
Iowa; Sarah Jane, widow of John Adams, liv- 
ing in Archer Township, and Amanda, wife of 



Samuel F. Ross, a minister of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at New Philadelphia, Ohio. 



DAVID B. MOORI 
shoes, Cadiz, Han 
in Carroll Count 



AVID B. MOORE, dealer in boots and 
Harrison County, was born 
ty, Ohio, December 9, 
1834, a son of Thomas L. and Mary 
(Barnett) Moore, the former a native of Wash- 
ington County, Penn. , born December 9, 1800, 
and the latter born in Ireland in 1796, coming 
with her parents to America. Thomas Moore, 
grandfather of our subject, also a native of Ire- 
land, came to America soon after the Revolu- 
tion; his son, Thomas L., who was a farmer, 
came to Carroll County, Ohio, in about the 
year 1820. To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Moore 
were born nine children, of whom six are living, 
three in Harrison County, viz. : Keziah, wife of 
Isaac A. Lawrence, in Cadiz Township; Ann, 
wife of Capt. Andrew Smith, in Cadiz; and 
David B. The mother of these children dying, 
the father took for his second wife Mrs. Jane 
Palmer, a widow, by which union one child, 
now dead, was born. Mr. Moore moved from 
Carroll County to Guernsey County, and thence, 
in 1879, to Harrison, where he resided on a 
farm in Cadiz Township until his death, which 
occurred in 1882, when he was aged eighty-two 
years. He was a prominent abolitionist and a 
Republican, and a member of the United Pres- 
byterian Church. 

The subject proper of this biographical 
record received a common-school education, and 
remained at home until his marriage in 1860 
with Miss Miranda, daughter of Benjamin and 
Nancy Price, of Carroll County, Ohio, by 
which union were born two children: Carrie G., 
wife of Dr. Jesse Osborn, of Mount Pleasant, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio; and Mira L., who died in 
infancy. The mother of these children de- 
parted this life July 8, 1887, at the age of forty- 
six years; she was a most estimable woman, be- 
loved by all; was a member of the Presbyterian 
Church of Cadiz, and had been for several years 
leader of the choir in a church at Hagerstown, 



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31 



Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Moore remained 
on the farm for some years, and in 1S81 removed 
into the city of Cadiz, where he opened a boot 
and shoe store, which he carried on up to the 
time of his wife's death, when he sold the busi- 
ness, but in the following December reopened, 
doing now an excellent trade in the same line. 
Mr. Moore has made a success of life, and is 
highly honored for his upright principles. He 
is an elder in the Presbyterian Church; in pol- 
itics a Republican. 



R. TIPTON, one of the well-known citi- 
zens of Cadiz, was born in Green Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, August 19, 
1846, and is a son of John M. and Jane 
Tipton, born in Harrison County, Ohio. His 
paternal grandfather, Edmund Tipton, was a 
captain under Commodore Perry, the hero of 
Lake Erie, and was one of the founders of the 
first Methodist Episcopal Church in his section. 
About 1813 or 1814 he came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, and bought a half section of land in 
Green Township, and from him the Tiptons, of 
Harrison County, are descended. 

On November 12, 1867, Mr. Tipton married 
Miss Mary Swan, eldest duughter of Thomas 
and Nancy Swan, of Cadiz, and to this union 
have been born six children, three of whom are 
liviug and three deceased. The living are Bertha, 
John and Frank, at home. The deceased are 
Claude, the eldest, who died in August, 1886, at 
the age of seventeen; Carrie, who died aged 
about three years; the third died in infancy. 

In April, 1864, Mr. Tipton enlisted in the 
One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio National 
Guards and took part in the battle of Snicker's 
Gap, and stood beside Harvey Haverfield, when 
that young comrade was shot in the temple 
by a minie-ball and killed. On one occasion 
he heroically rescued Maj. Judkins from drown- 
ing, that officer having sunk twice while in the 
Shenandoah River, which the troops were cross- 
ing after a repulse. Mr. Tipton is a member of 
McCready Post, G. A. R., and makes his home 



in Cadiz, where he enjoys the respect of a large 
circle of acquaintances. 

C. R. Tipton, from boyhood, has been a 
lover of horses, and early began breaking, buy- 
ing and selling, and soon turned his attention 
to training trotters. He was the first to import 
into Harrison County fine stock from Kentucky, 
and has developed some very fast, animals, in- 
cluding Belle Brasfield (2:20), Kate Campbell 
(2:25), Harry Robertson (2:20), Captain 
Douds (2:265), Hi Wilkes (2:20), Charlie Tip- 
ton (2:27|), and many others. Mr. Tipton is 
still in the business, and is now also engaged 
with Clark's Horse Review, traveling all the 
time in its interest, his extensive acquaintance 
with breeders and trainers enabling him to do 
good and extensive work, which is enhanced 
by his familiarity with the pedigree of all the 
better families of blooded stock throughout the 
United States. 



J (AMES THOMPSON. This well-known 
| citizen of Cadiz, Harrison County, well 
I represents the first quarter of the nine- 
teenth century in his section. He was 
born in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
March 3, 1818. His father, David Thompson, 
was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, whence, 
when a lad of nineteen, he came to America in 
1792, settling near Chambersburg, Penn., where 
he became a farmer. In his native land he 
had learned the trade of a weaver, but this he 
entirely discarded for the more pleasant pursuits 
of agriculture. He soon met, loved and mar- 
ried Miss Martha Gift, a native of Pennsylvania, 
of German parentage, and some time after his 
marriage he was chosen keeper of the Franklin 
County Infirmary, which position he held some 
five years. In the meantime his aged father. 
Joseph Thompson, who had come with him to 
America, died in Pennsylvania, and David and 
his wife removed, in 1814, to what is now Har- 
rison County, Ohio, where he purchased, at six 
dollars per acre, 260 acres of land situated about 
one mile north of the town of Cadiz. The place 



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was but partly improved, and much hard labor 
did they expend upon it to bring it to the high 
state of cultivation, in which they left it at their 
death. In 1843. having reached the age of 
sixty -live years, the faithful wife closed her eyes 
for the last time on earth. She had borne ten 
children, named as follows: Joseph, deceased; 
Elizabeth, Mrs. William McFadden, residing in 
Iowa; Mary, Mrs. Joseph McFadden, in Cadiz 
Township; David, deceased; John, who died in 
Washington County, Iowa; Katherine, Mrs. 
John Sharp, of Holmes County, Ohio; Martha, 
deceased wife of Adam Dunlap; Rachel, Mrs. 
S. Atkinson, in Holmes County, Ohio; James, 
our subject, and Sophia, Mrs. John Hitchcock, 
deceased. After the death of his wife Mr. 
Thompson made his home with his son James, 
until his own summons came in 1868, when, at 
the extreme age of ninety-six years, he too was 
called from earth. Himself and wife had been 
many years members of the Union Reformed 
Church. 

James Thompson, a farmer's son as he was, 
had earl)' in life to bear the yoke of labor, aid- 
ing to improve and build up the farm. His 
opportunities for a school education were lim- 
ited to the meager facilities afforded by the old 
log school-house. In 1848 he married Miss 
Margaret, daughter of William and Mary 
(Grabb) Croskey, of Harrison County, the for- 
mer of whom had come to the county when a 
lad of seven years. His father, Robert Cros- 
key, moved to Ohio from Washington County, 
Penn., in 1812, and settled in the woods of 
what is now Green Township, Harrison County, 
and there "not a stick of timber had been exit 
by white men within five miles. ' ' Robert was 
an Irishman by birth, and had come to make a 
home in the New World, landing at Williams- 
port, Md. , on the day of the celebrated ' ' Boston 
Tea Party," which led so directly to the Revo- 
lutionary War. In Jefferson County, Ohio, 
Williani Croskey married Mary Crabb. In 
1ST:!, at the age of seventy-eight years, he died, 
and since then the widowed mother has made 
her home with her son, John, on the old farm, 



and although crippled some fifteen years ago by 
a fall, and now eighty-nine years of age, she 
enjoys comparatively good health. She is the 
mother of nine children, viz. : Robert, deceased; 
Margaret, Mrs. James Thompson; Henry, in 
McLean County, 111. ; Anna, Mrs. John Clifford, 
in Green Township, Harrison County; Mary, 
Mrs. George McFadden; Sarah, Mrs. Thomas 
Groves, of Jefferson County; John; one that 
died in infancy, and William. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thomp- 
son made their home in Cadiz Township, on the 
old Thompson homestead, until 1889, when, 
feeling that younger hands should guide the 
plow and perform the labor of the farm, they 
came to the town of Cadiz, where they pur- 
chased and improved a beautiful home, situated 
not far from the Presbyterian Church, of which 
they are both members. The record of their 
children is as follows: Mary Emma died at the 
age of sixteen years; Martha Elizabeth is now 
Mrs. A. W. McDonald, of Pittsburgh, Penn. : 
Anna Caroline is Mrs. W. H. Arnold, in Cadiz; 
David is deceased. This aged couple, re- 
spected by all, loved by many, having for more 
than forty years sailed together on life's ocean, 
are now patiently awaiting the time when the 
all- seeing Pilot shall guide their bark into the 
harbor of rest, whose waters wash the shores of 
Eternity. 



rip HE JAMISON FAMILY. Mrs. Mary 

Jamison, widow of Walter Jamison was 

born in what is now Green Township, 

■{/ . Harrison Co., Ohio, September 7, 1808, a 

daughter of Martin Snyder, who was a native 

of Lancaster County, Penn., where he grew to 

manhood. 

Martin Snyder, grandfather of Mrs. Mary 
Jamison, was a native of Germany, and when a 
young man came to America many years ago. 
In Pennsylvania he married Catherine Amon, 
who bore him the following named children, all 
now passed away; Mary, Eve, Henry, John, 
Betsy, Marklena, Kate, Adam, and Martin 



ham; i sox county. 



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(father of Mrs. Jamison). Martin Snyder, Sr. 
came with his wife and family, in 1802, to the 
then new State of Ohio, and settled in the woods, 
on a section of land where is now Green Town- 
ship. Harrison County, and they had to blaze 
the trees to mark their path. At that time, 
even where Cadiz now stands, the country was 
a vast forest wilderness, and this stalwart pio- 
neer family experienced all the adventures, 
dangers and hardships incident to those times. 
The grandfather died here in 1810, at the age 
of ninety years, and the grandmother in 1821, 
aged seventy years. 

Martin Snyder, father of Mrs. Jamison, was 
born about the year 1775, and in 1802 came 
with his parents to this section of the country. 
In the following year he was married to Ruth, 
daughter of Samuel and Nancy Tipton, and 
born, in 1779, twelve miles from Baltimore, Md. 
The mother died in that State, and the father 
and his family came, in 1802, to Jefferson 
County, Ohio, where he carried on farming, and 
died at an advanced age. After their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Snyder settled on a part of the 
old homestead, where a section of land, two 
miles west has been entered by his father. Here 
they reared their family and cared for his aged 
parents. His father he saw carried to the grave, 
and he himself followed him April 12, 1819, at 
the early age of forty-four years, his death be- 
ing the result of a fall from his wagon. He was 
a strong Adams Whig in his political convictions. 
A hard-working man, he was much missed in the 
little community in which he had lived, where 
his knowledge of veterinary surgeiy was of 
much service. After his death his widow car- 
ried on the farm, and cared for the aged mother 
(Mrs. Snyder, Sr.) until she was called from 
earth in 1821, at the age of about seventy years. 
The mother of Mrs. Jamison still continued to 
remain on the farm until March, 1850, when 
she, too, was summoned to " the better land," 
at the age of seventy-one years. She was the 
mother of eight children, as follows: Catherine 
and Martin, deceased; Mary (Mrs. Jamison); 
Samuel, deceased; Amon and Jacob in Green 



Township, Harrison County; Nancy and Zacha- 
riah, deceased. A cemetery had been laid out 
on a part of the old homestead, which the grand- 
father settled, and he was the first to bo buried 
therein. He and his family were members of 
the Lutheran Church, and it was his intention to 
put up a church building on his place, but death 
intervened. His son, Martin, the father of Mrs. 
Jamison, was also a Lutheran, as were all his 
children save one, who joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Society. 

On July 13, 1837, Mary Snyder was married 
to Walter Jamison, and they then at once came 
to Cadiz Township, to the farm, where are still 
residing Mrs. Jamison and her son, William 
Walter. Until the following December they 
lived in an old house which had been built by a 
man named Furney, and they then occupied a 
new one which they had in the meantime erected, 
the one still standing. The first habitation in 
the vicinity was erected by one Henderson, a 
squatter, guide, etc., who arrived in the latter 
part of the eighteenth century. In 1802 John 
Jamison (father of Walter) came to Ohio to enter 
land, and stayed with Henderson, of whom he 
some time later purchased the land of which he 
(Henderson) was then possessor. On the death 
of John Jamison (who at one time was owner 
of 650 acres), this property passed into the hands 
of his son Walter, who here died, July 1, 1883, 
at the age of eighty- three years, having been 
born P'ebruary 24, 1801 . His remains lie buried 
in the cemetery at Cadiz. Mr. Jamison was for 
many years a member of the Presbyterian 
Church; in politics he was a stanch Democrat, 
was a member of the Board of Equalization, was 
frequently trustee, and had served his county 
as coroner. His widow is now four-score years 
old, and in the enjoyment of good health. They 
were the parents of four children, viz. : Martin 
S., in Cadiz, Harrison County; Jane A., now 
Mis. G. W. Glover, of Columbus, Ohio; Ruth 
Ellen, who died at the age of five and a half 
years, and William Walter. 

William Walter Jamison was born in 1849, 
in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 



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received his education at the common schools, be- 
ing brought up to farm life. He is an uncompro- 
mising Democrat, and has been frequently hon- 
ored with positions of trust. He is a director 
of the Harrison County Agricultural Society, of 
which he was president three years, declining 
re-election, and several times he was judge of 
election. He is now owner of the old home- 
stead farm of 130 acres, part of w : hich lies 
within the corporation of the town of Cadiz, and 
here, with filial affection, he cares for his hon- 
ored widowed mother. He is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. 



THE PORTER FAMILY. About three 
miles south of the town of Cadiz, reside 
two brothers, Samuel T. and Robert 
Porter, who are the representatives of 
one of the old pioneer families of Harrison 
County. Their father, James T. Porter, was 
born in Washington County, Penn., near Can- 
nonsburg, and was a son of Robert Porter, of 
Scotch-Irish descent. Robert Porter served 
through the Revolutionary War, and his son, 
John, served through the War of 1812, also 
volunteered and went to Canada, where he par- 
ticipated in several severe battles. 

The maternal grandfather of our subjects 
was Samuel Porter, a native of Pennsylvania, 
who came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1802, 
and in partnership with his brother James, 
bought a section of wild land, where Samuel 
made a home in the woods. At that time Cadiz 
consisted of a blacksmith shop only, and the 
nearest settlements, comprising a few log cabins, 
were about three miles off. Samuel lived to 
see many of the remarkable changes which have 
since taken place in the county, having lived to 
the remarkable age of one hundred and five 
years. In Pennsylvania he had married Sarah 
Burns, who was born August 15, 1786, and who 
died in 1*30, the mother of the following named 
children: John, James, Smiley, David, Samuel, 
Jane, Polly. Elizabeth (the mother of Samuel 



T. and Robert Porter ). all now deceased; Nancy, 
who died in infancy, and Irwin and Sarah, who 
are still living and have never married. The 
last two named own and reside on the home- 
stead farm, which is considered one of the best 
in the county. They have led industrious lives, 
and their industry and economy have accumu- 
lated considerable wealth; have always lived in 
peace and friendship with every one, and are 
highly esteemed throughout the entire vicinity. 
They are members of the Presbyterian Church. 
Samuel Porter, who had early learned saddle and 
collar making, was the only person following 
that vocation in the county, and of course found 
patrons from miles around. In politics he was 
a Democrat. His death took place August 2, 
1869. 

James T. Porter passed his early days in 
Washington County, Penn., and there learned 
to be a tanner. He came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, in the early part of the present century 
and located on a farm not far from the present 
residence of his sons, Samuel T. and Robert. 
On March 31, 1812, he married here Miss Eliza- 
beth Porter, who was born in Pennsylvania, 
April 1, 1794, and who was a daughter of 
Samuel and Sarah Porter. This union was 
blessed with ten children, named as follows: 
Polly, Sally, Elizabeth and Samuel, all of whom 
are deceased, and Samuel T. and Robert, of 
whom this sketch has chiefly to treat; Elizabeth 
(the second), Jane and Rebecca, deceased, and 
Margaret (still living). The father of these 
children passed to the grave, February 24, 
1836, at the age of fifty years, and the mother 
followed May 4, 1863, at the age of sixty-nine 
years one month and four days. In- politics 
James T. Porter was an Old-line Whig, of the 
Adams School. 

Samuel T. Porter learned from his father 
the tanner's trade, which he followed until a 
short time after his father's death, when he 
gave it up. His brother, Robert, was reared to 
farming and managed the home place. He in 
later years, in partnership with his nephew, 
John Christy, engaged in the business of rais- 



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35 



ing and dealing in Spanish sheep, having fre- 
quently bought and sold sheep at from twenty 
to one hundred dollars each. In 1868 Samuel 
T. and Robert came to their present place, 
where they have ever since resided, their home 
being cared for by a niece, Maggie Morris, who 
has been with them since she was seven months 
old. They are both Democrats, and for nine 
years Samuel T. was school director of his dis- 
trict. The family belong to the Presbyterian 
Church, and are most widely known and highly 
esteemed in the county. They may well be 
classed among those who by hard work and en- 
terprise have greatly advanced the prosperity 
of Harrison County. 

Irwin Porter, uncle of Samuel T. and 
Robert, was born March 8, 1814, on the farm 
where he still resides, and from this place both 
his parents were borne to the grave. He is one 
of the wealthiest men in the county, and is 
noted for his honesty, uprightness and benevo- 
lence. He gave to the Presbyterian Church of 
Cadiz two thousand dollars, to build a parson- 
age, and also two hundred dollars to the United 
Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, toward the erec- 
tion of a parsonage. In rjolitics he has been a 
life-long Democrat. 




NDEEW J. REA. Within a few years 
of a century ago there was born in what 
is now Harrison County one of its most 
prosperous and influential citizens, by 
name Joseph Rea, father of Andrew J. Rea, the 
subject proper of this sketch. 

John Rea, the father of Joseph, was one of 
the pioneer ministers of the Presbyterian faith 
in this county, and it was he who organized the 
churches of that denomination in Cadiz, Beech 
Spring, Crab Apple and Nottingham, all of 
which are still in a prosperous condition. He 
was forty-live years pastor of Beech Spring 
Church. Mr. Rea was a native of Ireland, hav- 
ing been born in Tullow, County Carlow, to Jo- 
seph and Isabella Rea. At the age of nineteen 
years he came to America, where his education 



was mainly obtained, and in 1793 he married 
Elizabeth Christie, of Westmoreland County, 
Penn. , who bore him nine children — seven sons 
and two daughters. He died in what is now 
Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where for 
years he had lived and labored, passing from 
earth at the patriarchal age of eighty-four years. 

Joseph Rea, son of the above, was, as above 
narrated, a native of what is now Harrison 
County, born in that portion now known as 
Green Township, September 20, 1796. He re- 
mained at home until of age, when he married, 
near New Athens, Miss Jane, daughter of John 
and Mary McConnell, and also a native of Har- 
rison County, of which her father was one of 
the early settlers. For the first five years after 
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rea re- 
mained in Green Township, and then moved to 
Moore field Township, locating, in 1824, on the 
farm now owned by William Pickering, remain- 
ing there six years, thence moving to the farm 
in Cadiz Township, on which the Widow Kid- 
well now resides, and, in 1837, came to the 
farm which he purchased from Joseph Shotwell, 
and there spent the remaining days of his life. 
They were the parents of seven children, viz. : 
Elizabeth, widow of John Lafferty, residing in 
Cadiz Township; Mary, Mrs. Samuel Dunlap, 
in Nottingham Township; John, in Kansas; An- 
drew Jackson; Martha, on the old home place; 
and William and Joseph (both deceased). In 
1859 the mother died, at the age of fifty-nine 
years, and in April, 1S62, the father followed 
her to the grave. He was one of the prominent 
and most active Democrats in Harrison County, 
and served his district in the House of Repre- 
sentatives two terms — from 1832 to 1838. He 
and his wife were both members of the Presby- 
terian Church. 

Andrew J. Rea, the subject proper of this 
biographical sketch, was born in Moorefield 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in November, 
1826, and spent his boyhood days on the farm, 
sharing in its general duties. His school ad- 
vantages were very meager, being limited to 
instruction received in the old log school-house 



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HARRISON COUNTY. 



of bis day. In March, 1856, be was married to | 
Miss Mary, daughter of John and Elsie (John- 
s' ml Moore, and a native of the same township 
as her husband. The Moore family were de- 
scended from Irish ancestry, and came to this 
county early in the present century. After 
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Rea came to Cadiz 
Township and settled on the farm where their 
home has since been made, and where were 
reared their children, whose record is as follows: 
Martha Elizabeth is now the wife of George Hol- 
liday, of Moorefield Township; Elsie J. is living 
at home; Joseph died at the age of fourteen 
years; Lenora resides at home; John M. is be- 
ing educated at Franklin College. The home 
of Mr. and Mrs. Rea is on the "Clay Pike," 
four and a half miles west of the county seat. 
They have for many years been members of the 
Presbyterian Church of Nottingham; politically 
Mr. Rea is a Democrat, zealous in the interests 
of his party, and, although he resides in a 
strong Republican district, has held the office 
of county commissioner. Socially the Rea fam- 
ily rank high, and of them all speak in compli- 
mentary terms. Mr. Rea is a progressive citi- 
zen and a pleasant companion, one whose record 
has never been tarnished. 



■ EORGE McFADDEN. Harrison County 
, abounds in prominent families whose 
J records may well be perused by those to 
** come, who therein can not fail to find 
splendid examples of thrift, progress and hon- 
esty well worthy of emulation. To the citizens 
of southeastern Ohio the mere mention of the 
name McFadden suggests, almost invariably, 
the idea of respectability, intelligence, enter- 
prise and hospitality, for all of which they are 
noted, it being a marked exception to the gen- 
eral rule when aught else is the case with this 
family. Within the confines of the county now 
under consideration, are found quite a large 
number of families bearing the aforementioned 
name, all, more or less, directly or indirectly, 
connected by ties of consanguinity, and all 



tracing their lineage to the little Emerald Isle, 
from whose green shores so many of America's 
best citizens have come. 

The subject of this sketch is the grandson 
of one John McFadden, who was born in the 
city of Dublin, Ireland, where he remained until 
nineteen years of age, when he sought a home 
in the New World, settling in the State of Penn- 
sylvania, and a few years later he was united in 
marriage with Miss Sharpe, daughter of Col. 
George Sharpe of the United States Army. In 
the year 1800, in company with the Jamison 
family, he entered one-half of Section 4, in 
what is now Cadiz Township, and began at once 
to make preparations for the reception of his 
family, whom he had left temporarily in Penn- 
sylvania, and for whom he soon after returned, 
coming with them back to Ohio in 1801. It is 
needless to repeat the story of their settlement; 
how their primitive home was but an old log 
cabin, around which at night the ferocious 
wolves did prowl, with their oft-repeated fiend- 
like howls, seeming to protest against the inva- 
sion of their forest home; or how, gradually 
before the sturdy woodman's ax, the clearing 
grew larger and larger, and the waving wheat 
or the swaying corn took the place of the giant 
trees, whose ashes now enrich the soil from 
which they sprung. Years came, went and 
brought their changes; sons and daughters were 
born to the pioneers and grew to maturity, and 
at last, upon the same farm, where their first 
Ohio home was made, the aged father and 
mother closed their eyes to earth after a life 
well spent. Their children were Samuel, 
George, John, Joseph, Mary (Mrs. James 
Sharp, of Cadiz Township) and Margaret (Mrs. 
Edward Lafferty, of Athens Township), all of 
whom have in their turn followed to the grave. 
Of these children John was born in Pennsylva- 
nia in the year 1788, and, consequently, was 
some thirteen years of age when he came with 
his parents to Harrison County, and grew to 
manhood a pioneer boy, frequently being lost in 
the woods, into whose solitudes he would often 
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chose, as a wife, Miss Mary Dunlap, the daugh- 
ter of Adam and Rebecca Dunlap, of Harrison 
County, her family also being pioneers who had 
come to said county from Maryland. After 
their marriage they purchased a farm of one 
hundred acres of one Samuel Gilmore, who had 
entered the land, and, removing thereon at 
once, never moved from it until the)' passed 
from earth. In 1857 the father laid down life's 
cares at the age of sixty- nine, and one year 
later the mother closed her eyes to earth, also 
aged sixty nine. To their union twelve chil- 
dren were born, viz. : Adam, deceased; John J. 
and Samuel R., in Athens Township; George, 
our subject, in Cadiz Township; Margaret, 
widow of John McFadden, in Cadiz; Rebecca, de- 
ceased; Mary, Mrs. William Hamilton, in Cadiz; 
Sarah, deceased wife of John Porterfield, of 
St. Clairsville; Jennie, deceased; Esther, Mrs. 
Phillips, of Nebraska; Rachel, Mrs. William 
Hamilton, of Belmont County, and Elizabeth, 
who died at eleven years of age. Both father 
and mother were members of the Union Church. 
George McFadden, the subject proper of 
this memoir, in his boyhood attended the com- 
mon schools of the county and aided in the gen- 
eral duties of the farm. In 1860 he chose as 
life's partner Miss Mary, daughter of William 
and Mary Croskey, of Green Township, Harri- 
son County, they having come as pioneers to 
said township (the father, William Croskey, 
died there, the mother, now a woman of eighty- 
nine years, survives). The father and mother 
of our subject being dead, and there being no 
one save a brother to share in the duties of the 
farm, the newly wedded pair came at once to 
the place, and thereon have since made their 
home and reared their children, of whom they 
have had four, by name William, Mary Eliza- 
beth and Emma, all still at the home of their 
parents, and an infant, unnamed, deceased. 
On July 17, 1873, the brother Adam, who had 
never married or left the home place, died at 
the age of fifty-eight years. The house in 
which our subject now lives was erected by him 
in 1880, and is the third dwelling built on the 



place, which consists of 227 acres situated some 
two miles from the town of Cadiz, on the Cadiz 
and Athens pike. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden are 
members of the Presbyterian Church of Cadiz; 
politically Mr. McFadden is identified with the 
Democratic party. 



J* 



ENRY BARRICKLOAY, a prosperous 
farmer of Cadiz Township, Harrison 
County, was born in Fayette County. 
Penn., March 10, 1829. His grand- 
father, Henry Barricklow, came to America from 
Holland, and first settled in New Jersey, where 
his son, Frederick, was bora and married to 
Miss Nancy Dugan, a native of Fayette Coun- 
ty, Penn. After their marriage they came to 
Harrison County, to make a home, and here 
they passed the remainder of their lives. They 
had a family of five children (of whom four are 
now living), viz. : John D. and Henry, in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County; Alexander, in 
Athens Township; Margaret A., deceased, and 
George, also in Athens Township. The father 
died on the farm in Cadiz Township; the 
mother died in 1881, at the advanced age of 
eighty years. 

Henry Barricklow grew to manhood on his 
father's farm, sharing in its general improve- 
ment, and upon reaching manhood went to the 
Far West, where, in the State of Missouri, he 
entered for himself and brothers two sections of 
land. Returning to Cadiz he settled, in 1871, 
on the farm where he now resides, and on which 
part of the improvements, which are ample and 
good, are his own making. In October, 1878, 
he married Miss Mary Henderson, of Jefferson 
County, Ohio, but no children have been born 
to them. Mr. Barricklow' s farm lies about 
three miles northwest of Cadiz, near the County 
Infirmary Farm, and consists of 182 acres. Po- 
litically he is a Democrat, and in religion is 
associated with the United Presbyterian Church 
at Cadiz. Our subject is a business man, wide- 
ly known and esteemed. 



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IiOHN D. BARRICKLOW, oae of the well- 
^ I known and prosperous farmers of Harrison 
^J) County, was born in Fayette County. Penn., 
November 6, 1828. His grandfather. 
Henry Barricklow, and his father, Frederick 
Barricklow, were both natives of New Jersey. 
whither the ancestry had come from Germany. 
Frederick Barricklow was a young man when he 
moved to Pennsylvania, and here he remained 
until coming to Harrison County. In 1826 he 
was wedded to Nancy, daughter of John and 
Catherine (McClelland) Dugan. Mr. Dugan was 
a native of Ireland, from which country he came 
at an early age; his wife was of German extrac- 
tion. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bar- 
ricklow located in Fayette County, Penn., and 
in 1832 they came to Ohio, where they purchased 
the farm now occupied by J. D. Barricklow. 
Here they reared their family, and enjoyed the 
blessings of life, the respect and esteem of their 
acquaintances, and the mutual blessings flowing 
from married life till 1858, when the father died, 
at the age of sixty-three years. He had always 
carried on agricultural pursuits, and was re- 
garded as one of the successful followers and 
devotees of Ceres. Politically he was a life-long 
Democrat, taking a lively interest in tho affairs 
of his party. Mrs. Barricklow survived him till 
October 17, 1881, when she, too, joined the ' 'silent 
majority," at the age of eighty-one. She was 
the mother of five children, viz. : John D. , our 
subject; Henry, in Cadiz; Alexander, in Athens 
Township; Margaret A., deceased, and George 
W. , in Athens. 

John D. Barricklow grew to manhood on the 
parental farm, having the advantages of common 
schools of his county. He being the eldest in 
the family was placed in charge of the duties of 
the farm, which he discharged in a most satis- 
factory manner. In 1S59 he took a prospecting 
tour through the AYest, visiting the principal 
cities and States, remaining absent until 1803, 
when he returned to Cadiz Township, where he 
has since resided. Soon after his return he 
was married to Mary, daughter of Adam and 
Martha (Thompson) Dunlap. For the first dec- 



ade after their marriage, they lived in Athens 
Township, and here Mr. Barricklow took an 
active part in the recruiting of troops and sup- 
porting the principles of the North. In 1871 
he removed to the home place, where he has 
^since resided, and which, by hard work, coupled 
with judgment and shrewd business sagacity, he 
has increased from a farm of 167 acres to one 
comprising about 400. The children born to 
our subject and wife were as follows: Nancy 
Ellen, Mrs. John Ross, in Athens Township; 
John A. and Maggie A., at home; Martha E., 
deceased ; Frederick H. ; Carrie G. ; David T. ; 
Mary E. and Frank J., all at home. 

In politics Mr. Barricklow has always been 
a Democrat, and has been honored by his town- 
ship with many offices of trust, the duties of 
which he always discharged with perfect satis- 
faction to the people. After his removal to Cadiz 
Township he was nominated for land appraiser, 
but as the party was in the minority, he was de- 
feated. Himself and family are members of 
the Presbyterian Church at Nottingham, in which 
they take a prominent and active part. Mr. 
Barricklow is widely and prominently known, 
being one of the pleasantest and most entertain- 
ing of hosts. The family are among those earliest 
identified with the advancement of the count}-, 
and the present generation are fully maintaining 
the high record of their ancestors. 




[\ S. HAVERFIELD was born October 

2, 1838, in Cadiz Township, Harrison 

Mj' Co., Ohio, on the farm where he now 

resides, a son of John and Nancy 

(Richey) Havertield, both natives of Harrison 

County, former born on the same place as his 

son. 

James Havertield, great-grandfather of our 
subject, is supposed to have been born in Penn- 
sylvania of English extraction, and in 1798 he 
came to Harrison County, where in time he 
passed from earth. His son, William, grand- 
father of W. S., was a native of Huntingdon 
County, Penn., where he remained until 1798, 



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in which year he came with his parents to Ohio, 
and here purchased the farm where W. S. was 
born and still lives. In Pennsylvania William 
Havertield married Elizabeth Stitt, a native of 
the same State, and they then came to Ohio, 
where both died, he in 1858, at the age of eighty- 
four years. They were the parents of ten chil- 
dren, only one of whom is now living. William 
Haverfield was a soldier in the War of 1S12 
He was remarkably strong in his convictions of 
right and wrong, and is said to have been the 
first one in his neighborhood to banish whisky 
from the harvest field. In those early days the 
beverage was considered indispensable in farm 
labor, and many refused to work without it, but 
Mr. Haverfield was firm in his determination, 
and came off victorious, for ere long his neigh- 
bors, appreciating at last his idea of right, one 
by one followed his example. For many years 
he was a justice of the peace. 

John Haverfield, son of William, in his 
boyhood experienced all the hardships incident 
to pioneer life, and shared in the arduous duties 
of the farm. In 1836 he was married to Nancy, 
daughter of Thomas Richey, a resident of this 
county, whither he and his wife had come from 
Ireland. To Mr. and Mrs. John Haverfield 
were born seven children, as follows: W. S., 
Eliza Jane (Mrs. R. A. McCormick, in Cadiz, 
Ohio), Alvin, an unnamed infant, and John (all 
three deceased), Mary (now living with her aged 
mother) and Jessie (Mrs. John S. Thompson, 
in Carroll County, Ohio). On May 9, 1873, the 
father died at the age of sixty-two years; his 
life had been a busy one, and in the political 
struggles of his country he was particularly act- 
ive. He was an earnest advocate of freedom, 
and during the "underground railroad" sys- 
tem of ante-bellum days he was a strong worker; 
in fact many poor colored fugitives feasted and 
slept at his house. During the Civil War he 
aided largely in the raising of money and sup- 
plies for the "boys in blue," and in the recruit- 
ing of troops. He was a man of progressive 
ideas, one who made his influence felt in his 
community, and having a wide circle of ac- 



quaintances he left many friends and will long 
be remembered. His widow, now seventy-three 
years of age. hale and well preserved, makes her 
home on the old farm with her daughter Mary. 
W. S. Haverfield, the subject proper of this 
biographical sketch, grew to manhood on the 
farm in Cadiz Township, his education being 
received at the common schools of his county. 
In 1865 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Mary, daughter of Alexander Haverfield, who 
died in Harrison County, and to this union were 
born four children, as follows: Clara A., Fred 
E., John A. and George C, all living on the 
home farm, which is situated one mile west of 
the town of Cadiz. In 1804, responding to his 
country's call for aid to suppress the Rebellion. 
Mr. Haverfield enlisted in the One Hundred 
and Seventieth O. N. G. , serving 100 days in 
the forts near Washington and in the Shenan- 
doah Valley, after which he returned home. 
He is a worthy representative of a worthy pio- 
neer family, of whom all speak in the highest 
terms. Mr. Haverfield is a Republican. 



DAVID OGLEVEE, one of the prosperous, 
| retired agriculturists of Cadiz Township, 
' Harrison County, was born in Moorefield 
Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, May 10, 
1837. The paternal grandfather came to the 
county from Pennsylvania in an early day, and 
his son William, father of David, was born in 
Athens Township in 1810. When a boy he 
(William) moved with his parents to Moorefield 
Township, where he was reared on a farm, at- 
tending the common schools of the district. In 
1830 he was married to Susanna, daughter of 
John Price, of Big Stillwater, Belmont Co., 
Ohio, whither her parents, who were by birth 
English, had come in an early day. After mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. William Oglevee settled in 
Moorefield Township, and reared their family 
of eleven children, of whom the following is a 
brief record: John lives in Morgan County, 
Ohio; George is deceased; Agnes is the wife of 



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Archibald Hammond, of New Athens, Harrison 
County; David is the subject proper of these 
lines; Hugh is in New Athens; Elizabeth is the 
wife of D. S. Lantz, of Belmont County, Ohio; 
Jane died in Kansas; James is deceased; B. 
Frank lives in Cadiz Township; Annie is de- 
ceased; Sadie is the wife of O. R. McFadden, in 
Athene Township, Harrison County. The mother 
died in 1878, at the age of sixty-eight years, and 
the father August 1, 1884, when aged seventy- 
six years. He was in all respects a self-made 
man, having commenced life poor, making his 
success entirely by his own individual efforts, 
and at his death he was in a position to leave 
each of his surviving children a good farm. 
Politically he was first a Whig, and afterward a 
Republican, and he and wife were members of the 
Presbyterian Church in Nottingham Township. 
David Oglevee, whose name appears at the 
opening of this biographical sketch, received a 
good common-school education, and shared in 
the general arduous duties of the home farm. In 
October, 1866, he was married to Miss Jennie, 
daughter of William and Mary Ramsey, of Har- 
rison County, who carried on farming in Not- 
tingham Township, but later came to the town 
of Cadiz to live retired. John Ramsey, father 
(if William, was aiming the early settlers of 
Harrison County, coming from Pennsylvania. 
William Ramsey was a young man when he 
came to the county, and here married Miss Mary, 
daughter of John Hines, another of the early 
comers to the county. After marriage our sub- 
ject and wife remained on the farm in Moore 
field Township until April 1. 1889, when they 
purchased a home on Grant Street, Cadiz, and 
are here now living in peaceful retirement. No 
children blessed this union, but their home has 
been cheered by the presence of a niece, Sadie 
O. Lantz, who brightens and gladdens their path 
in life. Politically Mr. Oglevee is a Republican, 
but has been no office seeker. He and his wife 
are members of the Presbyterian Church, and 
are much esteemed far and wide. His farm of 
HH acres of prime land is situated some five 
miles east of Moorefield. 



OHN CRAWFORD was born in Archer 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, November 
29, 1816. His father, Edward Crawford, 
was a Virginian by birth, grew to man- 
hood in Brooke County, W. Va., and married 
Mary Wiggins, daughter of Edward and Charity 
Wiggins. The maternal grandfather, Alexan- 
der Wiggins, was of Irish parentage, his parents 
having come to America, where he was born; he 
died in Virginia. For a number of years Ed- 
ward Crawford and wife remained in Virginia, 
and in 1806 came to Ohio, settling, March 9, on 
a farm of one-quarter section of wild land, 
which he had entered, and which has since con- 
tinually remained in the family's possession. 
At first they were obliged to " camp out" in the 
woods, as the log house was but partly finished. 
From this place they never moved, and in 1830 
or 1831 death called the father, when he was 
aged seventy years. The mother survived many 
years, and it was not until she had reached the 
advanced age of ninety-four years that she 
passed from earth. She was the mother of 
twelve children, viz. : Ellen, deceased wife of 
James Hagerty; Mary, deceased wife of James 
Harper; Alexander, who died in Carroll County; 
Thomas, of Archer Township, Harrison County; 
Isabella, deceased wife of William Welch; 
Charlotta and Josiah, both deceased; Nancy, 
widow of William Lewis, Holmes County, Ohio; 
Margaret, deceased; Elizabeth, widow of Joseph 
McGonigal; John, in Cadiz Township, Harrison 
County; Harriet, widow of Mathew McCoy, of 
Archer Township, Harrison County. 

John Crawford grew to manhood very much 
as do other pioneer boys, and in 184'J chose, as 
life's partner. Miss Elizabeth, daughter of 
Samuel and Prudy Hedges, and they then set- 
tled on the old home place, where they remained 
until the aged father and mother were carried 
to the grave. It was in 1877 that death claimed 
the mother, who at the age of about fifty years 
laid down life's burdens. She had borne six 
children, namely: Mary, deceased wife of Ham- 
ilton Lisle, of Archer Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty; Samuel E., in Cadiz Township, Harrison 



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County: Alexander, on the home place; Harriet, 
who died in 1S7S: Mattie, Mrs. John Holland, 
of Cadiz, and Maggie, still at home, unmarried. 
In November, 1882, leaving the farm of 330 
acres in the charge of his son, Mr. Crawford 
purchased his present place, situated about one 
mile from the city of Cadiz, where, with his 
daughter, Maggie, he now resides, his home 
having been cared for by her since the death of 
the wife and mother. Politically Mr. Crawford 
is a Democrat, but has never held office of any 
kind, preferring to give his undivided attention 
to his home and farm. He is a well-known and 
esteemed member of the Presbyterian Church of 
Cadiz, Harrison County. Now a man of seven- 
ty-four years, and well-preserved for his age, 
he is widely known and respected throughout 
Harrison County. 



liOSHUA DICKERSON. Here and there, 
^ I scattered through the townships of Har- 
\UI rison County, may still be found a few of 
its pioneers, once stalwart men, but now 
fast faltering under the weight of years, only 
waiting to enter the " valley of the shadow." 
Such a one is the subject of this brief sketch, 
whose life has been chiefly spent in Harrison 
County, within whose borders he first saw the 
light November 9, 1808. 

His grandfather, Thomas Dickerson, had 
been one of the early comers to what is now 
Harrison County, arriving on Christmas day, 
1800, and settling on land now included in 
Cadiz Township, near where the Dickerson 
Church now stands. He cleared a portion of 
this, and in the spring planted a field of corn. 
As soon as the land was thrown open for a 
settlement, he "entered" a section of it, and 
remained thereon to build a home, working at 
his trade, that of blacksmith. Having been born 
in Fayette County, Penn., he there grew to 
manhood, and married Miss Mary Curry, who 
came with him to Ohio, to share the trials of a 
forest home. She became the mother of ten 
children, all of whom have passed away. The 



parents were spared to reach an advanced age, 
the father being called first, at the age of ninety- 
live; the mother for a few years had been totally 
blind, and some two years after her husband's 
decease, she followed to the grave, being then 
over ninety years of age. 

Barrick Dickerson, one of their sons, was 
born in Pennsylvania, and was brought by his 
parents to Harrison County. He learned of his 
father blacksmithing, at which he worked for a 
number of years. In Harrison County he 
married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of William 
Holmes, and a native of West Virginia, born 
near Wellsburg. Her brother had come to 
Cadiz Township some years previously, and was 
learning blacksmithing of Thomas Dickerson, 
when, being seized with fever, he sent for his 
sister Elizabeth to come and care for him. Thus 
was brought about the meeting which resulted 
in the marriage as related. Some time afterward 
they rented land in Coshocton County, same 
State, and a few years later they removed from 
there to the northern part of the State. Not 
pleased with this, however, Mr. Dickerson re- 
turned to Harrison County, and there spent a 
year in the milling business. His land in Co- 
shocton County, which he had retained, he now 
traded for the farm on which his son Joshua re- 
sides. In 1822 he was elected sheriff of Har- 
rison County, and consequently had to remove 
into the town of Cadiz, leaving the farm in the 
care of his son Joshua and a cousin, who worked 
it. While he was filling the position of sheriff, 
a notorious gang of horse thieves and counter- 
feiters were infesting the country from Wheel- 
ino r , Va., to the lakes. Several suspects had 
been arrested, and Sheriff Dickerson, having 
been sent to the northern portion of the State 
to take depositions, while there contracted 
fever, from which he died. His home had been 
cheered by the birth of nine children, viz. : 
Joshua: Susannah deceased, wife of Edward 
Lafferty; Polly, died in infancy; Thomas, de- 
ceased; Polly (second), now Mrs. Harrison Shot- 
well, of Glenville, Ohio: Jane, Mrs. Ira Crum- 
ley, in Washington Township, Harrison County; 



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William Wilson, in Athens Township; Eliza- 
beth, deceased wife of Daniel Clemens: and 
Baruch, who died in infancy. In political faith 
Barrick Dickerson was a Whig, and besides be- 
ing elected sheriff, he was nominated for com- 
missioner in opposition to William Henderson. 
He was a marksman of considerable ability, and 
was captain of the first rifle company in the 
county. His widow survived until 1830, when, 
at the age of sixty years, she also died. 

Joshua Dickerson was sixteen years old when 
his father died, and about one year later he 
went to the home of his uncle, Aaron Mercer, 
in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, to 
work in a woolen factory, and here spent four 
summers, the winters being occupied in a flour- 
ing mill. From this mill, which was an old- 
fashioned one, containing but one run of buhrs, 
in one winter were produced some 1,300 bar- 
rels of flour, which was retailed to the families 
of the surrounding country. In 1834 Mr. 
Dickerson married Miss Elizabeth Crumley, 
whose parents had come to Harrison County 
from Virginia, but some five years afterward 
she died, leaving no children; for his second 
wife our subject married Mary Elliott, who was 
born December 10, 1820, and who still survives. 
Her parents were Samuel and Nancy (Grimes) 
Elliott, both of whom died in Belmont County, 
Ohio, the father when she was eight years old, 
and the mother two years later. 

Joshua Dickerson and his wife, after their 
marriage, came to an old log house on the farm 
where they have since lived. The old house is 
still partly standing, although long years ago 
they moved from it. To them eight children 
were born, whose record is as follows: Aaron 
died of consumption at the age of thirty years. 
Barrick died in 1804 when aged eighteen, the 
result of exposure in the 100- days' service; 
Thomas resides near Flushing, Ohio; Sarah 
Elizabeth and Theodore live at home; Samuel 
died when three years old; Hiram resides near 
Athens, Ohio; Charles is in Colorado. Polit- 
ically Joshua Dickerson was originally a Whig, 
casting his first presidential vote for John Q. 



Adams, and upon the forming of the Repub- 
lican party he identified himself therewith. He 
has creditably filled various township offices, 
and was supervisor for four years. Theodore 
Dickerson, his son, now thirty-two years of age, 
is overseeing the home farm, which he has never 
left. Sarah E., the daughter, has also clung to 
home and parents, and now cares for the gen- 
eral household. 



HAUNCEY DEWEY* was born near Nor- 
wich, Conn., March 27, 1796, and died at 
his home in Cadiz, Ohio, February 15, 
1880. He was of New England parent- 
age, being the son of Eliphalet and Rachel 
(Hyde) Dewey, natives of Connecticiit, who re- 
moved from that State to Otsego County, N. Y. , 
in 1798, and thence, in 1836, to Cadiz, Ohio. 
The father of our subject was a farmer by occu- 
pation, and a participant in the struggle for 
colonial independence. He died at Cadiz in 
1837, his wife surviving him. This lady was 
a lineal descendant of Chancellor Hyde, of Eng- 
land, and was remarkable for her many virtues 
and accomplishments. She died in 1847. 

Up to his eighteenth year the subject of this 
sketch divided his time between the claims of the 
home farm and the modest country school, which 
the neighborhood afforded, working in summer 
and attending school in winter. At this period 
in Mr. Dewey's life the hardships in pioneer 
life in New York State had not by any means 
ended. The country was in a rude and unculti- 
vated state, and attention was absorbed in sub- 
duing its rough features and preparing it for 
the plow. The country had not made sufficient 
progress to warrant much attention to polite 
learning, and hence it is not surprising that 
when Chauncey Dewey aspired to a classical 
course, he should meet the disapproval of his 
father — a disapproval, however, which could not 
successfully combat the earnest determination of 

* Taken in part from sketch in Historical and Biographical 
Cyclopedia of state of Ohio.— Western Biographical Pub, Co., 
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the son. To recite the early experience of Mr. 
Dewey would be to repeat a story familiar to 
American ears, and which forms a part of the 
history of every self-made man of our times. But 
from this time he was perhaps more literally the 
carver of his own fortune, since the means with 
which he prosecuted his studies, preliminary to 
entering college, were accpiired by a vigorous 
use of the ax, cutting and selling wood off the 
home place. By this means he completed his 
academic course at Hartwick Academy, in Ot- 
sego County, N. Y., and at length matriculated 
at Union College, Schenectady, graduating in 
1820. After quitting college he commenced 
his preparation for the bar, under the auspices 
of Samuel Starkweather, Esq., a prominent 
practitioner at the bar of Cooperstown, N. Y. 

Believing that the West afforded better op- 
portunities to young men than could be obtained 
in the East, he accordingly made his way to the 
young State of Ohio, finally locating in the vil- 
lage of Cadiz. There he completed his law 
studies under the supervision of Gen. W. B. 
Beebe. He was at length admitted to the bar, 
where his legal acquirements and natural adapta- 
tion to the profession soon placed him at the 
head of the bar of his county. For a short time 
Mr. Dewey was professionally associated with 
Hon. Benjamin Tappan, who resided in Steu- 
benville. In 1836 he formed relations with Hon. 
Edwin M. Stanton, the great war secretary under 
Lincoln's administration. The firm of Dewey 
& Stanton lasted until 1842, when the firm was 
dissolved, and Mr. Stuart B. Shotwell became 
his partner, and continued to bear this relation 
until 1849. 

When the partnership between Mr. Dewey 
and Mr. Stanton was formed, the latter was a 
very young man, and it was while under the direc- 
tion of Mr. Dewey that he inculcated the habits 
of industry which formed so great an element in 
his subsequent success as a lawyer and public 
man. There is no question that Mr. Stanton 
placed a high value on the association with Mr. 
Dewey, and when he became secretary of war 
he ofttimes sought the advice of his intimate 

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friend and former partner on many state ques- 
tions of great importance. Mr. Dewey was 
most active at the bar between* the years 1830 
and 1840. He had been gradually withdrawing 
from practice since 1840,and when elected presi- 
dent of the Harrison Branch of the State Bank 
of Ohio, in 1849, he had practically withdrawn 
from the practice of law. 

Mr. Dewey and the Hon. Daniel Kilgore 
were the pioneers of the banking business in 
Cadiz, and their success was so pronounced as to 
excite a spirit of emulation among the business 
men of that town. The consequence vvas the 
establishment, from time to time, of banks in 
Cadiz, so that at the period of Mr. Dewey's 
death there were no fewer than five banking in- 
stitutions in the town. This circumstance con- 
ferred upon Cadiz the distinction of being the 
greatest banking town of its size in the United 
States. He was continued as president of the 
Harrison Branch of the State Bank until its 
business was wound up in 1865, when he super- 
intended its conversion into the Harrison Na- 
tional Bank of Cadiz, of which he was elected 
president, and filled the position until his death. 

In the latter years of his life Mr. Dewey 
was interested as a shareholder and director in 
the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad, 
and was particularly active in pushing the con- 
struction of that portion of the road known as 
the Stenbenville & Indiana Railroad, and was 
one of the first directors of the same. The 
construction of the Cadiz Branch was mainly 
due to his efforts. Mr. Dewey was a member of 
the Jefferson Fire Insurance Company of Steu- 
benville, of the Franklin Insurance Company of 
Wheeling, and of the Amazon Insurance Com- 
pany of Cincinnati. He was also originator of 
and interested in the iron works at Wheeling, 
W. Va., formerly known as Dewey, Vance & Co , 
and at the present time the Riverside Iron and 
Steel Works. 

Prior to the organization of the Republican 
party Mr. Dewey acted with the Whig party 
generally, but was never in any sense a parti- 
san, and this liberal spirit distinguished his en- 



tire connection with the Republican party up to 
the time of his death. While he cherished 
party principles and consistently voted for them, 
he often exercised a judicious discrimination in 
favor of personal merit. Mr. Dewey was never 
a candidate for political preferment, except on 
one occasion, in 1841, when he was chosen to 
the State Senate by the Belmont-Harrison Dis- 
trict. He resigned before the close of his term. 
His resignation was caused by a sensitive feel- 
ing over the result of the intervening guberna- 
torial contest between Wilson Shannon and Tom 
Corwin. Mr. Dewey was not in sympathy with 
the popular sentiment as expressed in that elec- 
tion, and found it consistent to resign. He took 
an active interest in the presidential campaign 
of 1840. The principal issue involved was the 
celebrated Van Buren sub-treasury project, a 
measure which Mr. Dewey decidedly opposed. 
His strong feelings on this question led him into 
an active participation in the canvass for William 
Henry Harrison. He made speeches through 
out southeastern Ohio, which, it is said, had 
much to do with influencing popular sentiment 
in that part of the State. 

For a period of forty years Mr. Dewey oc- 
cupied a position in his community which was 
as remarkable as it was unique, and which 
could be sustained in the person of a single in- 
dividual only by the most remarkable combina- 
tion of qualities. As president of the Harri- 
son Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and sub- 
sequently of the Harrison National Bank, he 
established a State reputation as a financier, and 
made the bank one of the leading fiduciary 
institutions in the State. His standing in 
this particular rendered him the most compe- 
tent adviser in financial transactions in that 
part of the State. There was, perhaps, not 
a single enterprise of any considerable mag- 
nitude established in Harrison County that 
the advice and counsel of Mr. Dewey was 
not first sought. Mr. Dewey stood confessedly 
at the head of all philanthropic and charita 
ble movements in Cadiz, and dispensed with 
an unstinted hand a large portion of the am- 



ple means, which a long and successful busi- 
ness career had enabled him to amass. While 
Mr. Dewey was not one of the earliest settlers in 
Harrison County, he was pre-eminently one of 
the pioneers and promoters of its business in- 
terests. In this regard, however, it is impossi- 
ble to separate him from his contemporary, Hon. 
Daniel Kilgore. 

Mr. Dewey married, in 1823, Miss Nancy 
Pritchard, daughter of John Pritchard, one of 
the pioneer settlers of Harrison County, and had 
issue ten children, of whom the following is a re- 
cord: Eliphalet (who resided in Texas), Harriet 
E. , Henry and John Henry are all deceased; 
Orville C. resides in Wheeling, W. Va. ; Mrs. 
Mary P. Moffett and Martha are both deceased; 
Clara is the wife of C. M. Hogg, of Cadiz, Ohio; 
Charles P. and Albert are both real estate deal- 
ers, in Chicago, 111. Mr. Dewey's home was a 
very pleasant and happy one, and all, both 
old and young, rich and poor, delighted to visit 
it. Mr. Dewey was a very benevolent, Chris- 
tian man, a member of the Presbyterian Church. 

An incident in Mr. Dewey's life, not men- 
tioned in the above biographical memoir, is the 
accident he received, whereby he was badly 
lamed, and from which he never fully recovered. 
He was en route, on one occasion, to Steuben- 
ville, to deposit money in the bank there, when 
he was thrown from his buggy and dragged a 
considerable distance, which accident nearly cost 
him his life, he being confined to the house and 
obliged to use crutches for two months. On 
another occasion he slipped on the ice, injuring 
the ligament of the hip bone, which accident 
also necessitated the use of crutches in walking. 
The confinement to the house, owing to these 
accidents, kept him weak, and was naturally 
very distressing to a man of his active, thorough 
business habits. 

Mrs. Nancy Dewey, widow of Hon. Chauucey 
Dewey, was born near Uuiontown, Penn., Octo- 
ber 27, 1S04. John Pritchard, her father, was 
a native of Maryland, and of Welsh descent. 
Her paternal grandfather was also a native of 
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mere child. The latter was yet but a lad wheu 
his mother died, and he was then taken and 
reared by his uncle, Charles King. His brother 
was taken by friends to the West Indies, and 
his sister married one John Rice. John Pritch- 
ard, upon reaching manhood, became a black- 
smith in Pennsylvania, and in 1798 married 
Sarah Bronifield, a daughter of Benjamin and 
Sarah Bromfield, of Pennsylvania, the former of 
whom was an extensive farmer. In 1807 the 
couple, coming to Harrison County, Ohio, set- 
tled on a wild piece of land near Cadiz, which 
at this time contained but a few houses, and 
around which the wolves, panthers and other 
wild animals of the early days were still plenti- 
ful. Many a poor farmer, who could but illy 
afford to lose stock, had his cattle, sheep or 
other domestic animals carried off by these fero- 
cious denizens of the forest. The Indians were 
also numerous, and would come in parties to 
trade with the white pioneers, bringing many 
beautifully-worked articles, such as moccasins, 
ornamented with many colored beads and por- 
cupine quills, and belts made of snakeskin, all 
painted and woven together, and profusely 
decorated with beads, etc. The squaws would 
have their papooses strapped on boards, and 
carried on their backs, and when tired, would 
stand papoose, board and all against some con- 
venient tree. Baskets the Indians used to bring 
in for trade in large quantities, tied onto their 
ponies in such numbers that it was difficult to 
decide whether ponies or baskets were walking 
along the road! 

Some time later Mr. Pritchard removed with 
his family into a large brick building, sup- 
posed to have been the first in the township, 
which stood where is now the Harrison Na- 
tional Bank building. Here the family kept 
hotel, and here it was that in 1823 Nancy 
Pritchard was united in marriage with Chauncey 
Dewey, who at this time was a young lawyer, 
struggling to make his mark in life and rise in 
his profession. Mr. Dewey had come to Cadiz 
in 1820 or 1821, and one year later was ad- 
mitted to the bar. In 1840 the couple removed 



to the home, in the beautiful suburb of the town, 
where they shared life's joys and sorrows until 
death separated them, and where the widow 
now resides. Mrs. Dewey's father was a soldier 
in the "War of 1812, while in the West; he was 
a blacksmith by trade, a hotel keeper, a mer- 
chant and a private gentleman. Her eldest 
sister, Mary, was the first wife of Hon. Daniel 
Kilgore. 



JiOHN M. RICHEY. As the woodman in 
clearing his land leaves here and there 
some stalwart elm or oak, which long years 
after stands alone in the midst of some 
green and fertile field, a solitary representative 
of the past; so the relentless reaper, Death, in 
his grim harvest of men, has spared here and 
there a pioneer who forms a connecting link be- 
tween the past and the present. 

The subject of this sketch is one of the very 
few remaining native pioneers of Harrison 
County, his life running back to the first decade 
of the century, having been born in what is now 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, November 
2, 1808. His father, Thomas Richey, was born 
in Ireland, where he married Mary Clifford, 
and together they came to America about the 
year 1795. For ten years they made their 
home in New York City, and then in 1805 came 
to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, where 
for a time they lived upon a piece of land be- 
longing to an Irishman, who in their native 
country, had been a neighbor, and by whom 
they had been induced to come to Ohio. 
Shortly afterward, however, they secured for 
themselves a one-quarter section of wild land, 
and moved thereon, cutting away the trees and 
brush that they might erect a log cabin. Some 
time afterward Mr. Richey built a saw- mill on 
the place, and turned his attention to the man- 
ufacturing of lumber, which at that time was 
very much in demand by the new settlers who 
were now constantly coming into the county . 
In 1823, at the age of fifty-three years, the 
mother died, having borne ten children, as fol- 



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lows: Margaret, the late Mrs. Melliken, of 
Allen County, Ohio; Mary, the late Mrs. James 
Haverfield, of Harrison County; Jane, the late 
Mrs. Joseph Watson, of Harrison County; Sam- 
uel, in Harrison County; John M., the subject 
of this sketch; Sarah, the late Mrs. Nimrod 
"Wagers, afterward Mrs. John Weaver; Thomas, 
in Cadiz Township; Nancy, now Mrs. John 
Haverfield, in Cadiz Township, and two who 
died in infancy; all being now deceased except- 
ing John M. and Nancy. The father survived 
the mother some thirteen months, and in Sep- 
tember, 1824, followed to the grave. Both 
were members of the Associate Reformed 
Church, which they had joined under Rev. 
William Taggart, pastor. 

John M. Richey from his early boyhood was 
compelled to labor. He had in the winter a 
few weeks to devote to the acquiring of such 
meager knowledge as the early schools afforded, 
and at the age of sixteen years he engaged to 
work on a neighboring farm, for one George 
McFadden, with whom he remained six years. 
Mr. McFadden had living with him a young niece 
named Anne Gilmore, daughter of Robert and 
Elizabeth (Collins) Gilmore, and a native of 
Jefferson County, Ohio, whence she had come 
to make her home with her uncle in Harrison 
County, when but three years of age. [For 
genealogy of the Collins and Gilmore families 
see conclusion of this sketch.] A mutual at- 
tachment soon sprung up between the young 
people, which, in 183-1, resulted in marriage at 
Middletown, Penn, whither they had gone, the 
bride being too young to marry under the laws 
of Ohio. They returned to Ohio, intending to 
settle on a farm, which by his own efforts he 
had earned, but Mr. McFadden would not suf- 
fer them to depart, so with him they made their 
home until the death of the uncle, when they 
were placed in possession of the farm on which 
he (our subject) was born. Some two years 
later they removed to it and built a house. Here 
they remained thirty -one years, and here some 
of their children were born, grew to manhood 
and womanhood, and married. 



At last, concluding to give up the active 
duties of the farm, Mr. and Mrs. Richey re- 
moved, in 1877, to the town of Cadiz, where, 
three years later (in 1880), the faithful wife was 
called from earth, at the age of sixty-three 
years and six months. Their children, ten in 
number, were the following named: Mary, de- 
ceased wife of Samuel McFadden; Ruth, Mrs. 
Craig Gilmore, in Illinois; George, deceased; 
Eliza Jane, Mrs. Samuel McFadden, in Cadiz 
Township; Arabella, Mrs. James McFadden, 
also in Cadiz Township; Thomas J., a farmer, 
in Cadiz Township; Robert Gilmore, married to 
Susan C. Dickerson, living in Missouri; Samuel, 
a farmer in Cadiz Township; Martha, and one 
deceased in infancy, the latter two being twins. 
Martha was united in marriage, in 1876, with 
Charles, son of John Osburn, of Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison County, and one child has blessed 
them, named George R., born January 30, 1877. 
Mr. and Mrs. Osburn are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church at Cadiz, and he is associated 
with the Knights of Pythias, Uniformed Rank. 
The winter following his wife's decease, Mr. 
Richey came to make his home with his daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Osburn, and her husband. Here he 
is still to be found, and, although a man past 
four score years, he is hale and hearty, and re- 
markably well preserved, both in mind and 
body. Politically he is a Democrat, having 
helped to elect Andrew Jackson in 1832, but 
has never sought or held office. [His brother, 
Samuel, was for six years county commissioner,, 
and his brother, Thomas, was treasurer for two 
years, lacking but two votes of re-election.] 
For many years Mr. Richey has been a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, as was also his 
beloved wife. 

Thomas J. Richey, son of John M. , was 
born July 5, 1845, and grew to manhood on the 
farm, attending the common schools. Septem- 
ber 4, 1868, he was married to Margaret, daugh- 
ter of Samuel McFadden, of Cadiz Township, 
Harrison County. Her father died in 1863; 
her mother now resides in Athens Township, 
Harrison County. They remained a few months 



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in Archer Township, and then removed to the 
old Richey homestead in Cadiz Township. In 
1885 Mr. Richey made a trip to Missouri, but 
not being pleased with the country, he returned 
to Cadiz, and moved upon his present place, 
where he has since resided. The following 
named children have blessed their union: Sarah 
Alice, born November 8, 1869; R. Chauncey, 
born June 22, 1S74; Mary B., born July 11, 
1876; Florence, born January 7, 1880, and Craig 
Hamilton, born May 25, 1884. In 1864, when 
nineteen years of age, Mr. Richey enlisted in 
Company K, One Hundred and Seventieth O. 
N. G. , which proceeded to Washington and the 
Shenandoah Valley, where he participated in the 
several engagements of that year, including 
Snicker's Gap and Winchester, besides many 
skirmishes, but was fortunate enough to escape 
being wounded. Receiving an honorable dis- 
charge, he returned home. He and wife are 
members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. 
Genealogy of the Collins family : Ann Work- 
man married Glasgo, and begat four children, 
viz. : Letitia, Agnes, Joseph and Ann Jane. 
Glasgo died, and the widow married David Col- 
lins, and begat rive children, viz. : John, Martha, 
Elizabeth (died), Elizabeth and Ruth. Leti- 
tia married Jacob Wilson; Agnes married 
James Thompson; Ann Jane married George 
Moore; Joseph married Miss Simington. 
John Collins married Ellen Patterson; Martha 
married James Boland; Elizabeth married 
Robert Gilmore; Ruth married George Mc- 
Fadden. Robert and Elizabeth Gilmore begat 
five children, viz. : Ephraim, John, Arabella, 
Ann and Joseph. Ephraim married Juliann 
Dennison; John died; Arabella married Theo- 
dore Jennings; Joseph married Lettie A. Brady; 
Ann married John M. Richey, and begat ten 
children, viz. : Mary, Ruth, George, Eliza Jane, 
Arabella, Thomas, Robert Gilmore, Samuel and 
Martha, an infant unnamed and George, de- 
ceased. Robert Gilmore married for his sec- 
ond wife Maria Pilgram, and they begat James 
T., Thomas, Lawrence H., B. F., Robert C, 
Elizabeth and Rachel. James T. married 



Catherine Luire; Thomas married Sarah Det- 
weller; Lawrence H. married Jane Forwood; 
B. F. married Charlotte Yard; Robert C. 
married Miss Patterson; Elizabeth married 
Sidney Lafferty, and Rachel married John Arm- 
strong. Martha Boland had two children, viz. : 
Robert and Ann — Robert died; Ann married 
Robert Lions and begat three children, viz. : 
James B. , Richard and Martha. Martha Bo- 
land married John Maholm, and begat three 
children, viz. : Eliza J. , Martha M. and James 
B. John Collins and Ellen, his wife, begat 
five children, viz.: Patterson, David, Jane, 
Elizabeth and Ellen. Ann Jane Moore and 
George begat sis children, viz. : Robert, Nancy, 
Ruth, Mary, John and Ann Jane. 



THE HEDGES FAMILY. In the year 
1S00 Samuel Hedges came from Virginia 
to that part of the then Far West which 
is now known as Cadiz Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, and cleared a portion of land 
which he had procured from the father of Judge 
Agnew, of Pennsylvania, who had entered it. 
Here Mr. Hedges planted an orchard, and then 
returned to his Virginian home, where he re- 
mained until 1803, in which year he once more 
came hither to finally make his home. This 
land is known as the Hedges homestead, and on 
it the descendants of Samuel are now living: 
Samuel Hedges married, in Virginia, Prudence 
Dunlap, a native of that State, and together, on 
horseback, they came to Ohio, crossing the 
Ohio River on the ice. While in this State the 
first time he had erected a log-house, but the 
ravages of time or the depredations of the wan- 
dering Indians or hunters had destroyed the 
doors and windows. Nevertheless, into this but 
partly finished house the family moved in mid- 
winter. Some time after coming to Ohio it be- 
came necessary for the husband to return to his 
old home in Virginia, so, bidding his family 
farewell, followed by his dogs he recrossed the 
river on horseback, intending to hurry back be- 



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fore the ice should break up. A sudden thaw 
and rain caused him to hasten his return, but 
already he had tarried too long, for, when he 
reached the river bank he found the stream 
filled with floating ice. What was to be done? 
There was neither bridge nor ferry anywhere 
near. He thought of his wife and little ones 
far away on the other side, and resolved to 
make the hazardous attempt to swim his horse 
across. He urged the steed forward, and then 
began a struggle for life. The brave animal 
fought gallantly against the huge blocks of ice 
that in their resistless force carried horse and 
rider farther and farther down the stream. The 
dogs faithfully followed their master, until at 
last, exhausted, they sank beneath the surface. 
The strength of the horse was fast failing; 
would he, too, succumb to the mad stream ? A 
thousand thoughts passed through the rider's 
brain. He regretted his rash attempt, but it 
was too late to turn back. Urging on his fal- 
tering steed he saw the bank get nearer and 
nearer, until at last it was reached; the coveted 
side was gained, but the poor beast had done 
his last work; he had served his master well, and, 
lying down upon the bank, never rose again. 
Continuing his journey alone, on foot, through 
the wilderness, Mr. Hedges finally reached his 
home, where he found his loved ones safe. 

In 1812 he erected on his farm what is sup- 
posed to be the first frame barn in the county, 
and it still stands upon a watershed of the farm 
so that the rain which falls upon one side of its 
roof falls away to join the waters of the Mus- 
kingum at Marietta, while from the other side 
it flows to the Ohio, near Wheeling. The fam- 
ily never moved away from their Harrison Coun- 
ty home, and here it was that in 1850 death 
separated them, taking first the mother when 
aged sixty-seven years. She had borne ten 
children, all of whom save one have since passed 
to the silent majority; the one survivor, " Aunt 
Rachel" (as she is called), already having 
passed the three-score and tenth milestone of 
her life, resides upon the old home place, where 
her childhood was spent. In was in 1865 that 



the aged father followed his wife to the grave, 
at the patriarchal age of eighty-two years. 

One of their sons, Samuel Hedges, Jr., was 
born in 1825, and in 1851 he was united in mar- 
riage with Mrs. Sarah Welsh, nee Rowley, who 
was born in Carroll County, but reared in Harri- 
son County. Her father, Luther Rowley, came 
to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, about 1828. 
He mingled considerably in local politics, and 
for a time was one of the county commissioners. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hedges came 
to the old Hedges homestead, and here were 
born their live children, named as follows: Mat- 
tie, now Mrs. Samuel Richey, in Cadiz Township, 
Harrison County; Luther R., also in Cadiz 
Township; William P., on the home place; Mary 
E., now Mrs. William Boyles, in Cadiz Township, 
and John D. , who died of consumption. In 1886 
the father was called from earth. His had been 
a life of hard work, and much of the clearing of 
the farm was done by him. Politically he was 
a Democrat. Since her husband's decease Mrs. 
Hedges has resided with her son, W. P. She 
was born in 1827, and is consequently now six- 
ty-three years of age. 

W. P. Hedges was born in 1858, and at- 
tended the common schools of his township and 
the town of Cadiz. In 1879 he married Miss 
Susan, daughter of Aaron Ross, of Harrison 
County, and they then settled near the home 
place, on the same section, and after the death 
of his father they came to the old house, where 
they now reside. Of their union two children 
have been born: Rachel and Samuel. Mr. 
Hedges is a member of the Prohibition party, 
and is connected also with : the Presbyterian 
Church of Cadiz. The farm at the time of the 
death of Samuel Hedges, Jr. , contained some 500 
acres, which after being divided among the 
children, left but 167 acres at the original 
farm. The house, which is a large and commo- 
dious one, is situated one mile northwest of 
Cadiz. It is built almost entirely of woods 
grown upon the farm, and is finished in fine 
walnut. A well-known landmark stands upon 
the farm, the "Standing Stone," a large mon- 



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umental stone, some thirty feet in height. Tra- 
ditions says it was by some mysterious means 
brought there and erected to mark the grave of 
an old Indian chief. 




B. HINES, county recorder, is a de- 
scendant of one of the oldest families of 
Harrison County, Ohio, and was born in 
Nottingham Township, February 2, 
1854. His father, John R. Hines, is a farmer 
by vocation, and in January, 1853, was married 
in Nottingham Township, to Elizabeth Christy, 
daughter of Robert and Jane Christy, all na- 
tives of Harrison County. To this union were 
born ten children, of whom eight are still living, 
three in Harrison County, viz. : our subject, in 
Cadiz; J. Henry Hines, doctor of dentistry; 
and Mrs. Belle J. Fulton, all married; the re- 
maining five reside in Iowa, including one 
daughter, Mrs. Charles Starwaltz, of Murray, 
Clarke County, and one, Laura, at home with 
the father in that State. The mother of this 
family was a truly noble Christian woman, who 
reared her children in the way they should go, 
and died at the age of forty-five years, three 
months and thirteen days, in Murray, Iowa, 
where the father still lives at the age of sixty 
years, and to which place he removed from 
Stock Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in Novem- 
ber, 1879. He has been a leader in the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church for many years. 

John Hines, the paternal great-grandfather 
of our subject, was a native of Westmoreland 
County, Va., but in 1804 removed to Steuben - 
ville, Ohio, and in 1807 to within five miles 
west of Cadiz, Ohio, purchasing a farm on the 
Moravian road. His son, William, the grand- 
father of our subject, was but four years of age 
when brought by his parents to Steubenville. 
Albert B. Hines led an uneventful life until 
about the age of eleven, when he was afflicted 
with an attack of that dread disease, cerebro- 
spinal meningitis, which carried away a younger 
brother, but from which Albert B. recovered 
after two years of suffering. He then resumed 



his life upon the farm, sharing its toils and 
duties until nineteen years old, when, feeling 
that his strength was inadequate to the require 
meuts of a successful farmer, he relinquished 
agriculture and for one year attended " Ground 
Hog" Seminary in Cadiz Township, under the 
instruction of M. B. Adams, a county examiner. 
He then, in 1874, entered Hopedale College, 
where he remained one year, but, his health 
continuing to fail, he in 1875 began teaching at 
Elk Run District. He had taught about a 
year when he began to realize that he had not 
fully recovered from the disorder with which 
he had been afflicted, his left foot failing in the 
performance of its functions. In the meantime, 
however, he had turned his attention to the 
study of medicine, and in 1877 returned to 
Hopedale College, but at the end of a month, 
his foot trouble having become more serious, he 
caused an examination to be made, when it was 
pronounced by the physicians that he was suf- 
fering from partial paralysis of the sciatic 
nerve. He then realized that he could never 
practice actively as a physician, and resumed 
teaching. By 1878, however, he had lost the 
use of hie lower limbs entirely, and was obliged 
to ride to and from his school. But he was 
possessed of great determination, and manfully 
held to his duties until 1880, when he was com- 
pelled to cease in the performance of them, as 
he had grown gradually worse and worse. His 
sufferings had been simply excruciating, and it 
was only by the exertion of almost superhuman 
will-power that he was able to keep up at all. 
Some fifteen times he had submitted to the cau- 
terizing of his back and limb with an iron 
heated to whiteness, the operations lasting 
thirty minutes each, and after the burnings the 
pain was much more intense than during the 
operation. 

In 1879 the parents of Mr. Hines moved to 
Iowa, and in January, 1880, he received word 
that his mother had died, when he at once re- 
moved to the Far West, where for some time 
he herded cattle, hoping that open air would 
prove a benefit, but he was frequently thrown 



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from bis pony, owing to bis disabled condition, 
and was of course unable to re-inount. Being 
thus obliged to relinquish herding, he turned his 
attention once more to teaching, and, with the 
aid of a wheel-chair as a means of locomotion, 
was able to teach two summers. He then, in 

1883, sold his herd of fifty cattle and returned 
to Harrison County with his sister Belle J., 
wife of Philip Fulton, with the intention of 
making a short visit only, but he was elected 
township clerk of Stock Township for one year, 
and subsequently was induced by the entreaties 
of friends to enter the mailing department of a 
card and novelty house in Cassville. In 1885 
he received the nomination on the Republican 
ticket as candidate for the office of county re- 
corder, to which position he was triumphantly 
elected, receiving more ballots than any other 
nominee for any office in the county. He filled 
his term with so much satisfaction to all con- 
cerned that he was re-elected in 1888, again 
running far ahead of his ticket, and is now filling 
out his second term. 

In the fall of 1882 Mr. Hines had made 
the acquaintance of Miss Laura E. Laughlin, 
daughter of Hugh C. and Emeline Laughlin, of 
Jewett, Harrison County, and on October 16, 

1884, they were married. One child, Walter 
A., was sent to bless this union, October 30, 

1885, Since taking up his abode in Cadiz, to 
which point his official duties have called him, 
Mr. Hines has established a side business in 
card and novelty manufacturing, which has con- 
tinued to thrive until the present day. Mr. and 
Mrs. Hines are highly esteemed members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 



K. McLAUGHLIN. Few, if any of 
the citizens of Short Creek Townshirj, 
Harrison County, are better or more fa- 
vorably known than S. K. McLaughlin, 
or " Sam," as he is usually called. His father. 
James McLaughlin, was born on the old home- 
stead near Adena, Jefferson Co., Ohio, and was 
the second son and sixth child in the order of 



birth of four sons and five daughters. He was 
reared in a very primitive manner. His knowl- 
edge was almost wholly self acquired, and so 
earnestly did he improve his opportunities that 
he acquired a liberal education, and was a man 
"well read" at the time of his death. He 
took an active interest in public life, being a 
Whig and later a Republican. He may also be 
classed as having been an Abolitionist, ever 
hoping and striving for the liberation of the race 
in bondage. He was an efficient elder in the 
United Presbyterian Church of Piney Fork, 
and once represented his congregation at the 
General Assembly in Philadelphia. He was the 
prime mover in securing new public schools 
at Adena, and encouraged all other worthy 
movements in his vicinity. He married Miss 
Sarah J. Kerr, a native of Harrison County, 
Ohio, and eldest daughter of Samuel and Annie 
(Smith) Kerr. Nine children were born to their 
union, one of whom died during childhood; the 
others being as follows: William B., living at 
Adena, Ohio; Ann E. (Mrs. Lewis Bernhard, 
in Harrison County); Mary E. (Mrs. William 
Courtright, in Frank] into wn, Ohio); Nancy J. 
(Mrs. J. C. McNary, in Unionport, Ohio) ; Sam- 
uel K. (our subject); Sarah A. (Mrs. H. W. 
Parks, of Hopedale); Joseph S., at home; Mary 
Emma (Mrs. R. G. Dean, in Omaha, Neb.). 
On August 25, 1865, Mr. McLaughlin died in 
his fifty-second year, and since her husband's 
decease Mrs. McLaughlin has remained at the 
old home, where they first settled after marriage, 
and where she, now seventy-three years of age, 
is peacefully awaiting the call from earth. 

One step farther back in t he genealogy of the 
McLaughlin family takes us to John McLaugh- 
lin, who came to Ohio in 1801, built a cabin and 
raised a small crop of corn, and in 1802 brought 
his family, settling in Jefferson County. In his 
early manhood John McLaughlin served the 
Government as a spy on the Indians, between 
Pittsburgh and Wheeling. After coming to 
Ohio he purchased some land of John Johnson, 
a brother-in-law, who had purchased it at twelve 
and one-half cents per acre. It was in an en- 



tirely wild state, and covered with dense forests, 
in which all sorts of game abounded, and where 
the howling wolves made terrible the nights of 
the pioneers. John McLaughlin was a man of 
more than ordinary attainments for those days, 
and soon after his coming to Ohio he was elected 
a member of the State Legislature, and served in 
that capacity eight years. He was then elected 
to the State Senate, in which he served eight 
years, making sixteen consecutive years of serv- 
ice; he was intimate and associated with Will- 
iam Henry Harrison, John C. Wright and Char- 
lie Hammond in the Senate. The sessions were 
first held at Zanesville, and later at Chillieothe, 
and thence were changed to Columbus. Mr. Mc- 
Laughlin was a member of the " call session" 
of 183*2 to settle the State line between Ohio 
and Michigan. He was the founder of Adena, 
securing the post office for that place, and giv- 
ing it its name. At the time of his death he 
was an elder in the United Presbyterian Church, 
and a member of the session of Piney Fork. 
He was also for many years a justice of the 
peace, and beyond all doubt was, during his 
life, the most prominent man in the district. 
He was born in "Washington County, Penn., No- 
vember 4. 1774, and died November 10, 1860, 
in his eighty-seventh year. About 1799 he 
married Miss Annie Johnstone, who died June 
6, 1S49, having borne thirteen children. 

S. K. McLaughlin, with whom we have 
mainly to deal, was born in Adena, Ohio, Sep- 
tember 12, 1846, and grew to maturity at the 
home of his parents. He first attended the com- 
mon schools, and at eighteen years of age en- 
tered the McNeely Normal College in Hope- 
dale. While in attendance here his father died, 
necessitating his return home, where he assisted 
his mother in the care of the farm. He soon 
passed a satisfactory examination, securing a 
" first-class" certificate, and for seven consecutive 
winters was a teacher in the public schools of 
Harrisville, No. 5, and Adena, spending his sum- 
mers at home on the farm. On May 22, 1872, 
he married Miss Mary Belle Snider, a native of 
Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, daughter 



of Samuel and Hannah Snider, and soon after 
their marriage I hey located on the old Hurford 
homestead, adjoining the one on which they now 
reside. The following year they removed to 
Adena, Jefferson County, where Mr. McLaugh- 
lin taught the village schools, and while there 
built what was then the finest residence in the 
village. Iu 1875 they came back to Harrison 
County, to their present place, on which they 
built their large and commodious house iu 1SS8. 
This dwelling is not only one of the pleasantest 
in the township, but its hospitable doors have 
ever the "latch-string out." Of their union 
four children have been born, namely : Charles 
Johnson, John Orin, Hannah Lucretia and 
Samuel Parks. Mr. McLaughlin is a member 
of the United Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, 
and in politics is a stanch Republican. For 
many years he served as trustee of Short Creek 
Township, and in 18S2 represented it in the 
Congressional Convention, which met at St. 
Clairsville, and spent one full week in session 
without making a nomination. Mr. McLaugh- 
lin is one of the most highly esteemed citizens 
of Harrison County; he is genial, large-hearted 
and progressive, in all of which virtues he is 
fully equaled by his most estimable wife. 



l,OHN H. HAMMOND, of Cadiz, is a na- 
^. I tive of Harrison County, Ohio, and was 
(J born January 21, 1822. His father, Alex- 
ander Hammond, was born in Washington 
County, Penn., and was a son of Robert Ham- 
mond, a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, born 
in 1765. In 1785 Robert married Jane Cassell, 
who was born iu County Down in 1764, and 
both were descendants of soldiers who fought 
under Oliver Cromwell, and later settled in the 
northern part of the island. Robert and his 
wife came to America at an early day, and after 
a residence in Pennsylvania he came *o Ohio 
and settled iu Belmont County, where he died in 
1845 iu his eightieth year, his widow following 
him to the grave in 1852 in her eighty-eighth 
year, both members of the Seceder Church. To 



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the union of Robert and Jane Hammond were 
born ten children in the following order: Mary, 
July 30, 1788; Alexander, May 16, 1790; David, 
June 26, 1792; William, August 2, 1794; Mar- 
tha, July 8, 1795; Elizabeth, October 24, 1797; 
Esther, February 1, 1801; John, March 10, 
1803; Robert, March 20, 1805, and James, 
May 13, 1808. 

The second-born of the above enumerated 
children, Alexander Hammond, came to Harri- 
son County, Ohio, in the year 1809, learned the 
trade of cloth fuller, and in 1812 married Eliz- 
abeth Hanna, daughter of Samuel Hanna, who 
was born in Westmoreland County, Penn. , in 
1763, and married Elizabeth Duncan, who was 
born in Scotland in 1766. Samuel Hanna 
came to Short Creek Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, in 1801, before the Territory had been 
admitted to the Union. After marriage Alexan- 
der Hammond made his home in Harrison 
County on a farm of fifty acres, and built a 
fulling-mill in Short Creek Township, which 
mill he operated for twenty years, when he 
returned to farming, having purchased a farm 
of 160 acres of Joseph Gill. Later he dis- 
posed of this property and purchased prop- 
erty in Harrisville, where he resided until 
his death, which occurred in 1874 in the 
eighty-fourth year of his age, he dying on the 
same spot on which he camped the first night he 
spent in Harrison County. His life had been 
a busy one, during which he had undergone 
many pioneer hardships; but he was a patient, 
prudent and industrious man, and was well to 
do generally. He was a member of the Liberty 
party, and was once its candidate for State rep- 
resentative; he was also a strong Abolitionist; 
his home was a station on the " underground 
railroad," and many a slave found shelter under 
his roof, and his horses and carriage were used 
in transporting them to Canada. A member of 
the Seceder Church, he once received a rebuke 
from its officials for listening to a sermon by a 
brother in-law, an ordained minister of the 
Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Hammond lived to 
the advanced age of ninety-three years, and 



died in 1S86, the mother of eleven children, six 
of whom are still living, three of them in Har- 
rison County, viz. : Esther, widow of R. P. 
Hanna, who was murdered or lost on a steam- 
boat in the Ohio River; Margaret, now Mrs. S. 
J. Hawthorne, of Harrisville, and John H. 

John H. Hammond made his home with his 
father until twenty-five years of age, clearing 
up the farm and doing other work necessary to 
improve what may be called a pioneer settlement. 
He received his education in the old-fashioned 
log school-house, but was by no means a dull 
pupil and acquired a very fair education, absorb- 
ing everything in the way of learning within 
the limited scope of his teachers' knowledge. 
In 1845 he was married to Miss Agnes E., 
daughter of David and Elizabeth Carrick, of 
the town of Cadiz, early settlers of Harrison 
County, of which Mrs. Hammond is a native. 
David Carrick was a veteran of the War of 
1812, and he and his wife died at an advanced 
age in Cadiz, in the cemetery of which city 
their remains were interred. To the union of 
Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have been born two 
children: Alexander James and Anderson N. , 
both now engaged in mercantile business at 
Cadiz. 

In 1868 John H. Hammond removed to 
Harrisville and engaged in the dry-goods trade, 
but in 1872 came to the town of Cadiz, where 
he has since made his home. Here he engaged 
in the hardware business, joining his son, An- 
derson N. , who had established the store in 
1868, but in January, 1889, the father sold his 
interest to the son' and retired from active 
employment. John H Hammond proved his 
patriotism by enlisting, in September, 1862, in 
Company C, One Hundred and Twenty sixth 
O. V. I., and was assigned to the Army of the 
Potomac, with which he took part in a few 
light engagements, holding the rank of second 
lieutenant until, prostrated by fever, he was 
compelled to resign and return home. But the 
fire and ardor of patriotism was not by any 
means quenched within his breast, and in 1864, 
on the call for one hundred-davs' men, entered 



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Company F, One Hundred and Seventieth O. 
N. G. , and went to help hold the forts at Wash- 
ington, and at the close of his term again re- 
turned to his home. Mr. Hammond, in politics, 
has always been a Republican, and he and wife 
are members of the United Presbyterian Church. 

Alexander J. Hammond, in the dry-goods 
business at Cadiz, was born in Harrison County, 
Ohio, August 14, 1846, and remained on the 
home farm until seventeen years of age, when, 
in the spring of 1864, he enlisted in the service 
of his country in Company C, Ninety-eighth 
O. V. I. He proceeded to Chattanooga, Tenn. , 
where he joined Sherman's army on its march 
to the sea; he was at Kenesaw Mountain, Peach 
Tree Creek, Atlanta, and in other engagements, 
and in August, 1865, was honorably discharged, 
and returned home. For a short time he at- 
tended the academy at Savannah, Ashland Co., 
Ohio, and then for a few months engaged in 
clerking. In the meantime he made a trip to 
the West, and on finally coming back to Cadiz 
engaged in the hardware business in partnership 
with his brother. Withdrawing in due time,he 
for a year acted as book-keeper for a company 
of mineral prospectors on the Big Sandy River. 
In 1878 he opened his present extensive dry- 
goods establishment, in which he has met with 
well-merited success. 

In 1870 Mr. Hammond was married at Cadiz 
to Miss Charlotte Hunter, daughter of J. R.and 
Letitia(McFadden)Hunter,and a native of Cadiz. 
This felicitous union has been blessed with two 
children, Percy Hunter and Helen. Politically 
Mr. Hammond is an out-and-out Republican, 
both by heredity and principle, and has served 
about ten years as clerk of Cadiz Township. 
He is a member of the G. A. R. ,and of the United 
Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, being its Sabbath- 
school superintendent for sixteen years. Mrs. 
Hammond is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. He is a self-made man in every par- 
ticular, and is generally and favorably known 
throughout the county, while his immense stock 
of dry goods bears a reputation that attracts 
custom from all the country surrounding Cadiz. 



Anderson N. Hammond, formerly partner in 
the hardware business with his father, John H. 
Hammond, was born in Short Creek Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1848. His early man- 
hood was spent on the home farm, and his edu- 
cation was completed at the college in Fulton, 
N. Y. In 1866 he settled in Cadiz and became 
a clerk in the post-office and in the hardware 
store of Harrison & Haverfield. In 1868 he and 
his brother bought the hardware department, 
which he and his brother conducted conjointly 
until 1873, when his brother withdrew and the 
father came in as a partner, as already related. 
In 1870 A. N. Hammond was married in Cadiz, 
to Nancy Jane, daughter of John Moore, and 
this union has been crowned by the birth of 
three children, viz.: Mabel J., Mary B. and 
John C. , all at home. Mr. Hammond has long 
been connected with the Cadiz Gas Light Com- 
pany, and for ten years has been its superintend- 
ent and secretary. He is also secretary of the 
Oil & Gas Company, and was one of the orig- 
inators of oil and gas prospecting in Harrison 
County. He is secretary of the Equitable Build- 
ing & Loan Association, and is also engaged 
in fire insurance, being agent for several respon- 
sible companies. In politics he is a stanch Re- 
publican, and he and his wife are members of 
the First Presbyterian Church of Cadiz. 



J|OHN C. LYONS, one of the old and well- 
known citizens of Monroe Township, Har- 
I rison County, is a native of Pennsylvania, 
born in Butler County. His father, 
Thomas Lyons, was also a Pennsylvanian by 
birth, and a son of William Lyons, who was a 
native of Ireland, and, emigrating to America at 
an early day, served as a soldier in the Revolu- 
tionary War, receiving a rifle ball in the hip, 
which ball he carried until his death, the sur- 
geon being unable to extract it. He afterward 
came to Harrison County, Ohio, and resided 
here for some years prior to his death, which 
occurred in Morgan County. Thomas Lyons 
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many years was an extensive lumberman, float- 
ing bis lumber down the Allegheny Eiver in 
huge rafts to Pittsburgh, which at that time was 
little more than a village. He furnished under 
contract all the scaffold poles, and much of the 
material used in the construction of the lirst 
prist in at Allegheny. He married Menie Lowrie, 
a native of Scotland, who, when a child, em- 
igrated with her parents to America. She was 
a sister of Walter Lowrie, who served as secre- 
tary of state in President J. Q. Adams' cabinet 
(it is thought), and resigned his position to ac- 
cept the secretaryship) of the Foreign Mission- 
ary Society, which position he held until his 
death. About 1820 Thomas Lyons came with 
his family to Ohio, and located in Harrison 
County, near where Tippecanoe now is, where 
they took up a tract of land, and locating there- 
on began its improvement. Like other settlers 
they lived in a log cabin, and cleared their 
patch; later, they removed to North Township, 
Harrison County, and some years later to Car- 
roll County, where they passed the remainder 
of their days. 

John C. Lyons is the second child of six sons 
and four daughters. His early life was spent 
at home with his parents, with whom, when a 
lad, he came to Ohio, and vividly does he re- 
remember the Indians who lived near them. 
The journey to Ohio was made by river to Steu- 
benville, and thence overland. They were 
among the first settlers here; the country was a 
wilderness, and the woods were full of deer, 
wolves and bears. The region was thinly set- 
tled, and long distances intervened between the 
cabins of the settlers. John C. Lyons received 
the limited educational advantages common to 
the period, in the log school-house with its stick 
chimney and roaring fireplace, the rude benches 
of split logs, and the single desk which ex- 
tended around the room on pegs driven into 
the log wall. Here the pioneer children were 
fortunate if they could attend school for a few 
weeks during the winter period, when the school 
was supported by the subscriptions of those who 
had children to educate. Amidst these scenes 



ho grew to maturity, assisting his parents in the 
duties of the farm until he was twenty three 
years of age, when he married Susanna Forbes, 
a daughter of one of the pioneers, and they lo- 
cated on a farm in Monroe Township, commenc- 
ing life for themselves. Here they resided 
many years, and then removed to Bowerston, 
where Mrs. Lyons died February 8, 1883, the 
mother of four children, of whom but one, a 
daughter, is now living. The only son, John F. 
enlisted in Company A, Eightieth O. V. I., 
proved a brave soldier, and participated with 
his regiment in most of its campaigns and 
marches. He contracted an illness while in the 
service, from which he never recovered, and he 
died in 1865 at Resaca, Ga. Our subject is a 
cousin of the lamented Gen. Lyons, who fell 
in the Missouri campaign. Mr. Lyons is a Dem- 
ocrat, politically, and has served many times as 
township trustee, although he has never sought 
office. In 1886 he was united in marriage with 
Miss Jennie Coons, a native of Licking County, 
Ohio, and a daughter of James M. and Mary 
Ann (Vandorn) Coons, early settlers of that 
county. This union has been blessed by one 
child, James C. Mrs. Lyons' father is a na- 
tive of Virginia, and when a lad of about five 
years he came to Franklin County, Ohio, where 
he grew to manhood. His parents were among 
the early settlers there, and made the journey 
overland on horseback, or " packing," as it was 
then called. He married Mary Ann Vandorn, 
whose parents had emigrated to Ohio from New 
Jersey. She died April 22, 1873, aged fifty-one 
years; Mr. Coons is still living, aged seventy- 
two years. Mr. Lyons owns 320 acres of fine 
land in Monroe TowDship, and twenty acres in 
the edge of Bowerston. He has been an inde- 
fatigable worker, but has now retired from the 
active duties of life, and is living in ease on the 
competence that has come from his early indus- 
try. Mr. Lyons can truthfully say that in all 
his life he has never drank enough intoxicating 
liquor of any kind to feel the effects thereof, has 
never used tobacco, and he challenges every 
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HARRISON COUNTY. 



ever heard Lira swear a profane oath; he has 
never had occasion to call a physician to pre- 
scribe for hiru, as yet, and he is his own lawyer 
as well as doctor. 



V AMUEL S. HAMILL, ex-sheriff of Har- 
rison County, is a native of Monroe Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, born June 22, 
1840. His father, Samuel W. Hamill, 
was a native of Ireland, born in County Antrim 
about the year 1787. He grew to manhood in 
his native land, then about 1820 immigrated to 
America, and for about seven years resided in 
New York, where, in 1824, he married Eliza 
Graham, a native of that city, and a daughter 
of George and Eebecca Graham, the former a 
native of New York, and the latter of Ireland. 
In 1827 they came to Ohio, first locating in 
Carroll County, at Leesville, and after a stop of 
a few months there, they located on a tract of 
land in Monroe Township, Harrison County, in 
the spring of 1828, purchasing the land from 
the patentee. The country was in its newness, 
and bears, wolves and deer roamed at will 
through the forest, viewing with distrust this 
encroachment upon their native domain by these 
Bturdy settlers, who braved the dangers and 
endured the privations of a frontier life, and 
claimed the virgin soil as their heritage. Mr. 
and Mr. Hamill lived in a primitive log cabin, 
cleared a patch of land, and raised their first 
crop of wheat; the threshing was done with a 
flail, and the wheat sold for twenty-five cents 
per bushel. This farm was their last earthly 
home, Mr. Hamill dying September 20, 1870, 
and his worthy wife February 28, 1870, at the 
age of seventy-three years. During his resi- 
dence here Mr. Hamill served his people as 
justice of the peace, and took an active interest 
in the advancement of the country, particularly 
in educational matters, serving for years as a 
member and clerk of the school board. The 
union of Mr. and Mrs. Hamill has been blessed 
by eight children, of whom four still survive, 
viz.: Rebecca J., Mrs. William B. Edwards, 



of Plymouth, 111.; Catherine A., Mrs. Edward 
Greenlus, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio: Sam- 
uel S., and Lindley M., of Monroe Township. 

Samuel S. Hamill, whose name heads this 
sketch, and who is the sixth child in the order 
of his birth, spent his early life upon the farm, 
and grew to manhood surrounded by such 
scenes as fell to the lot of the average pio- 
neer boy. He was first taught the rudiments of 
an education in a little log building, dignified 
by the title of school-house, whose furnishings 
were benches split from logs and a single desk 
extending around the side of the room, sup- 
ported on pegs driven into the wall. The old- 
fashioned "ten-plate stove" threw out a fierce 
heat, and the fuel was supplied and cut by the 
older pupils. Here for a few months during the 
winter period the pupils were taught the rudi- 
ments of an education, the teacher being paid by 
per capita subscription, and by being "boarded 
around." Our subject remained with his par- 
ents, assisting them at the duties of the farm, 
until after he had attained his majority, then 
November 1, 1861, he enlisted as a member of 
Company C, Forty-third Regiment, O. V. I. 
He was mustered into service, and in the 
spring of 18(52 his regiment was attached to the 
Army of the Mississippi, under the command of 
Gen. Pope, participating in the battle of New 
Madrid and the capture of Island No. 10, and 
in the spring of 1862 was with Gen. Halleck's 
advance on Corinth. During his term of serv- 
ice Mr. Hamill contracted a disability, which, 
becoming chronic, he has never recovered 
from. He was in the hospital some time 
and placed on detached duty, and was honor- 
ably discharged on account of physical disa- 
bility, at Memphis, Tenn., July 4. 1863. Re- 
turning to his home, he entered the academy at 
New Hagerstowu in the spring of 1865, and re- 
mained there the following year. Then, devoting 
his attention to agricultural pursuits, he en- 
gaged as a teacher in the public schools during 
the winter for the following three years. He con- 
tinued at farming until January, 1872, when he 
entered upon his duties as sheriff of the county, 



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to which position he had been elected on the 
Republican ticket the fall preceding. He filled 
the position satisfactorily, and discharged the 
duties so creditably that at the expiration of 
his term of office he was re-elected, serving un- 
til 1876, then returned to the farm, and has 
since resided thereon. He has held various 
township offices during his residence on his 
farm, among them those of assessor, trustee, and, 
in 1880, appraiser. On March 21, 1872, he 
married Miss Mary E. Heller, a native of Mon- 
roe Township and a daughter of Henry B. and 
Mary A. Heller, early settlers of Harrison 
County, and this union has been blessed by 
three children: Wilfred W., Robert E. and 
Nannie Edna. "Wilfred W. is now attending 
the Scio (Ohio) College. He devoted himself so 
assiduously to his studies that before attaining 
the age of sixteen years he had passed a successful 
examination before the county board of examin- 
ers, and was granted a certificate. In the spring 
of 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Hamill located on their 
present place, he now having 180 acres in Mon- 
roe Township. Mr. Hamill raises a large amount 
of stock and grain, and is particularly interested 
in fine horses. 

Samuel S. Hamill is one of five brothers 
who were in the Union army during the Civil 
War, and was the first man to volunteer from 
Monroe Township for the three years' service. | 
His eldest brother, Wallace S., enlisted in Com- 
pany A, First Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, 
and died in camp, in August, 1861. Another 
brother, Robert Emmet, enlisted in Company 
C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, O. 
V. I., was wounded at the battle of the Wilder- 
ness, survived the war and died from the effects 
of his wound at Sibley, Kas., November 9, 
1884. The second eldest brother, Benjamin 
G., was residing in Kentucky at the outbreak 
of the war; he enlisted and served in the Ken- 
tucky State Guards six months, and returning to 
his home he enlisted in the one-hundred -davs 
service; he was commissioned lieutenant of 
Company D, One Hundred and Seventy-eighth 
O. N. G. ; he died near Lawrence, Kas. , Sep- 



tember 20, 187G. Lindley M. served as a cor- 
poral in Company B, One Hundred and Seven- 
tieth Regiment, O. N. G. 



J(ACOB JAR VIS, county surveyor and 
deputy sheriff of Harrison County, was 
born in Kirkwood Township, Belmont Co., 
Ohio, in January, 1815. His father, 
Philip Jarvis, a native of Baltimore County, 
Md., moved from there, about the year 1811, to 
Belmont County, Ohio, where he entered a farm 
and married Mary Barnett. of Baltimore County, 
Md. ,who bore him eight children, four of whom 
are now living, one in Fairview, Guernsey Co., 
Ohio, two in Missouri and one (our subject) in 
Harrison County, Ohio. The mother died in 
Belmont County in 1S55, at the age of sixty-six 
years, and shortly after that event Philip Jarvis 
moved to Harrison County, where he died at the 
residence of his son, Jacob, in 1866, at the age 
of eighty-one years. The paternal grandfather 
of our subject, also named Philip, was a native 
American of German descent, as was also the 
maternal grandmother, the great- grandparents 
on both sides having been born in Germany. 
Jacob Jarvis, of whom this biographical 
memoir treats, remained on his father's farm in 
Belmont County till twenty-eight years of age, 
during four years of which time he worked as 
a sawyer in a saw- mill. His education was re- 
ceived in the common schools and at the college 
at Antrim. Guernsey Co., Ohio, where he studied 
surveying, and then returned to the farm and 
saw-mill. In 1845 he moved to Moorefield Town- 
ship, Harrison County, where for four years he 
worked in summer time on his father-in-law's 
farm, teaching school in winters. In 1849 he 
was elected to the office of county surveyor, and 
in the spring of the following year he came to 
Cadiz Township, where he has since made his 
home, having been eighteen years a resident of 
the town of Cadiz. Mr. Jarvis was married in 
Harrison County, Ohio, October 6, 1842, to 
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Moorefield Township, Harrison County, and four 
children have been born to them, viz. : Frank, 
in Tuscarawas Count)-; Mary, Mrs. Samuel Mc- 
Counell; Jennie, Mrs. A. Quigley, and Eliza A., 
Mrs. John Perry, the three last Darned being 
residents of Cadiz. 

Mr. Jarvis has been surveyor of Harrison 
County fourteen successive terms of three years 
each, such is his well-merited popularity; for 
twenty years he has acceptably rilled the posi- 
tion of deputy sheriff, and for thirty almost 
consecutive years he has been secretary of the 
Harrison County Agricultural Society. He is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Cadiz, of the I. O. O. F. and the F. & A. M., 
and in politics was originally a Henry Clay 
Whig, becoming, subsequently, on the forma- 
tion of the party, a stanch Republican. He is 
the author of the only wall map of Harrison 
County ever pmblished (1862), and has in his 
possession four large books tilled with survey 
records of the county. Widely known and 
highly esteemed, Mr. Jarvis justly deserves a 
prominent place in this Commemorative Record. 



f/AMES AND AUGUSTUS PORTER. But 
^ I few families within the borders of Harri- 
\J son County have been connected with its 
agricultural advancement longer or more 
devotedly than the one concerning which this 
sketch is written. The first of the Porter fami- 
ly to come to Ohio were two brothers, James 
and Samuel, who, about the year 1802, settled 
in what is now Cadiz Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, some three and one-half miles south of the 
county seat, on land which has never since 
passed out of the family possession, and on 
which Irwin Porter, Sr., now resides. Their 
father was John Porter, thought to have been a 
native of Pennsylvania. The family were origi- 
nally Irish people, who came to America in the 
early part of the eighteenth century. 

James Porter was born in Washington Coun- 
ty, Penn., about 1766, and although he dis- 



tinctly remembered the Revolutionary War, yet 
was too young to participate therein. An older 
brother, Robert P., however, bore arms in sup- 
port of the colonies in that sanguinary struggle. 
James was a farmer, and after comiug to Ohio 
continued in that calling until his death. At 
the time of the brother's coming Cadiz con- 
tained but a few scattered houses, and the near- 
est neighbors were several miles distant. They 
purchased a section of land, of which some 
previous comer had cleared a few acres, and 
at once set themselves vigorously to work to 
make a home. Samuel Porter was by trade a 
saddler, and turning his attention to that busi- 
ness, left the general work and clearing of the 
farm to James. In 1807 James Porter was 
married to Miss Margaret Ogilvee, a native of 
Maryland, and daughter of John Ogilvee, of 
Irish descent, who had married an English 
woman. James, with his young wife, carried on 
the farm until 1836, when, having passed his 
three-score and ten years, the husband was 
called to rest from his labors. His life had 
been filled with hardships, but had been re- 
warded with success. His widow survived him 
until 1852, when, at the age of seventy-five 
years, she, too, passed from earth. Their chil- 
dren, six in number, were as follows: Joseph, 
Elizabeth, John and Ann, all deceased, and 
James and Augustus, now residing together in 
Cadiz Township. 

James and Augustus Porter never left their 
parents while they lived, and have never sepa- 
rated one from the other. James was born Au- 
gust 29, 1818, and Augustus, February 18, 1822. 
In their boyhood they attended the common 
schools together, shared the general duties of 
the farm, and upon the marriage of an elder 
brother the entire care of it fell upon them. In 
1880 they purchased the so called old Sharp 
Farm, which adjoins and partly lies in the cor- 
poration of Cadiz, and moved upon it, still re- 
taining, however, the old home farm. The 
new farm was somewhat out of repair, but 
under their skillful management it has been 
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buildings, at the same time the old place has 
been kept fully up to the times. 

Neither of the brothers has ever married, 
and their business relations have ever been as 
one. Their business affairs have prospered, un- 
til to-day they rank among the wealthiest farm- 
ers in the county. Politically they are Repub- 
licans, James having filled the office of town- 
ship trustee. Well known by nearly every one 
in the township, James and Augustus Porter 
are recognized as substantial, honorable men, 
and good citizens. 



HE WELCH FAMILY. A commemora- 
tive record of the noble army of pioneers 
of Harrison County and their immediate 
descendants would be most incomplete 
were prominent mention not given of the dis- 
tinguished family of Welch, a name that has 
become the synonym of progressiveness in every- 
thing tending to the welfare of the county at 
large. 

Daniel Welch, the progenitor of the family 
settling in an early day in what is now Green 
Township, first came to the Territory of Ohio in 
1801. In the following year he revisited Wash- 
ington County, Penn., whence he had come, and 
after a brief sojourn returned to his new. wild 
home in Ohio, bringing with him his wife (whose 
maiden name was Elizabeth Wait) and his then 
small family. Here he entered two sections of 
land near the present site of Beech Spring 
Church, For many years he was a justice of 
the peace, and was a member of the first Con- 
stitutional Convention, convening then at Chilli- 
cothe, November 1, 1802. This honored pio- 
neer died at the age of fifty-six, the father of a 
numerous family, of whom the eldest son, John, 
died in the War of 1812 of camp fever. Eight 
sons and two daughters lived to old age, viz. : 
Sons — Daniel, Rezin, Benjamin, Pressley, Jacob, 
William, Cyrus and Samuel; daughters — Mary. 
who became Mrs. Jacob Voorhes, and resided in 



Millersburg, Holmes Co., Ohio., and Rhoda, 
who became Mrs. John Mansfield, and a resident 
of Jefferson County, Ohio, all being now dead, 
leaving numerous descendants scattered far and 
wide from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 

The first sermon ever preached by Rev. John 
Rea, the pioneer Presbyterian in eastern Ohio, 
was delivered in Mr. Daniel Welch's horse-mill, 
located on what is now known as the Scott - 
Simpson Farm; and the first Presbyterian 
Church building erected in Harrison County 
was located on his land, on the farm now owned 
by Dwight Black. The present cemetery for 
the Beech Spring Church was donated by Mr. 
Welch to the congregation, as well as the ground 
for the first church. 

Rezin Welch, the third son of Daniel and 
Elizabeth (Wait) Welch, was born near Miller's 
Run Church, Washington Co., Penn., April 
'27, 1795. and when a lad of seven years he was 
brought by his father to near the present site of 
the Beech Spring Church, in Green Township, 
Harrison County. His early education was 
necessarily limited, the schools and everything 
pertaining to them in pioneer days being very 
primitive. Leaving home at the age of sixteen 
years, Mr. Welch was apprenticed to learn the 
saddle and harness business, which he completed 
and worked at as a journeyman in eastern Ohio 
and western Pennsylvania. In the year 1818 
he was married, by Rev. Obediah Jennings, at 
Steubenville, Ohio, to Eliza Bayless, and the 
young couple immediately located in Smithfield, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio, where he established him- 
self in the saddle and harness business. In 
those early days, when money was not to be 
had, he had to trade his goods occasionally for 
cattle and horses, which, in order to convert, 
them into cash wherewith to replenish his stock 
in the shop, he was compelled to take to the 
then Far East, ' ' away over the mountains. ' ' 
This became introductory to a much more ex- 
tensive business in droving, and afterward he 
became familiarly known in Harrison, the ad- 
joining counties, and in western Pennsylvania, 
as a buyer of horses. From Smithfield he 






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moved to Cadiz, in the spring of 1833, where 
he established a dry-goods store, in company 
with his brother William, in the upper room of 
what was then the hotel kept by John S. Lacey, 
and now known as "The Globe," Mr. Welch 
continuing his droving interests until 1853. Age 
coming on him, however, and feeling able no 
longer to pursue the arduous labors of a drover, 
he opened, April 10, 1855, a private banking 
house, under the name of Rezin Welch & Co. 
(the "Co." being his son, D. B. ), of which firm 
he remained a member up to the time of his 
death, which occurred November 24, 1881, when 
he was in his eighty-seventh year. His first 
wife died in July, 1S42, and his second (whose 
maiden name was Maria Bayless), whom he 
married in 1846, survived him a few years, dy- 
ing in 1886. His children are Maria, now 
Mrs. Walter Butler Beebe, of Columbus, Ohio; 
Eachel Ann, now Mrs. William R. Allison, of 
Steubenville, Ohio; Caroline, now Mrs. Thomas 
C. Rowels, of Topeka, Kas. ; David Barclay, of 
Cadiz, Ohio, and Eliza, now Mrs. Rev. H. Parks 
MacAdam, of New York Mills, N. Y. Rezin 
Welch was, politically, an Old-time Whig and a 
Republican, and in religion he was a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. 

David Barclay Welch, son of Rezin and 
Eliza (Bayless) Welch, was born in Smithlield, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio, November 23, 1830, and 
in the spring of 1833 he made his debut in 
Cadiz, with his parents. Here he received a 
fair common school education, such as the then 
y r oung town afforded, which was supplemented 
with an attendance of three terms at Franklin 
College, New Athens, Harrison County. Several 
years of his boyhood and youth were passed in 
droving with his father, and, like many of the 
young men of to-day, he started from home in 
the twenty-first year of his age, to seek his 
fortune. Arriving at St. Louis, Mo., he there 
attended commercial college, and afterward 
found employment as book-keeper for a whole- 
sale grocery at Pekin, on the Illinois River. 
After remaining there about a year, Mr. Welch 
returned home on a visit, and, having con- 



tracted malaria, was pursuaded by his father to 
remain in Cadiz. During the following year or 
two he was engaged in the live-stook business, 
in partnership with Mr. Tom George (now of 
Des Moines, Iowa), the firm being familiarly 
known as "The Mammoth Sheep Company," 
such title having been suggested, doubtless, by 
the magnitude of the business transacted by two 
young men. Financially, the company was 
only tolerably successful, their greatest gain 
being in experience, and in the restoration to 
health of our subject. This copartnership hav- 
ing been dissolved, Mr. Welch became associated, 
in the spring of 1855, with his father in the 
banking business, the style of the firm being 
Rezin Welch & Co. This partnership existed 
until the death of the father in 1881, when the 
son continued the business (having with him as 
a partner Mr. I. Craig Moore) until 1884, at. 
which time an arrangement was made for the 
consolidation of the bank of Rezin Welch & Co. 
with the First National Bank of Cadiz, Ohio. 
Mr. Welch was then appointed president of the 
latter institution, which position he still holds. 
In 1857 David Barclay Welch was united in 
marriage with Miss Martha Collins Lyons, daugh 
ter of Robert Lyons, of Cadiz, and to this union 
have been born three daughters and one son, 
all yet living, viz. : Anna E. (now Mrs. I. Craig 
Moore), Ida A., Mary D. and Rezin. Mr. 
Welch was a member of the school board twelve 
years, and an active member of the Harrison 
County Military Committee during the Civil 
War. Politically he is a Republican, and in 
religion a member of the Presbyterian Church. 




I, ARRICK FRANCIS OGLEVEE, a 
farmer of Cadiz Township, Harrison 
County, was born in Moorefield Town 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, March 3, 1848, 
a son of William Oglevee. also a native of Har 
rison County, and by occupation also a farmer. 
The grandfather of our subject was John Ogle- 
vee, a native of Pennsylvania, of Irish extrac- 
tion. The ancestors, farther back, came to 



America in the latter part of the last century, 
but the exact date has not been preserved. John 
Oglevee enlisted as a soldier in the War of 1812, 
but on his way to the front was taken ill and had 
to return to his home; he never recovered and 
soon after passed from earth. William Oglevee 
grew to manhood on the farm, and was married 
to Miss Susanna Price, a native of Belmont 
County. Ohio, in which county both of her 
parents died. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Oglevee made their home in Moorefield 
Township, Harrison County, and here in 1869 
the mother died, having borne eleven children, as 
follows: John, living in Morgan County, Ohio; 
George, deceased; Agnes, now Mrs. A. Ham- 
mond, in Athens Township, Harrison County; 
David, in the town of Cadiz, Harrison County; 
Hugh, in New Athens; Elizabeth, now Mrs. D. 
S. Lance; Jane and James, both deceased; Bar- 
rick F., our subject; Annie, deceased, and Sadie, 
now Mrs. O. R. McFadden, in Athens Town- 
ship. In 1884 the father passed from earth, at 
the age of seventy-eight years. 

B. F. Oglevee was reared and educated a 
farmer. His education was obtained at the 
common schools of his native county, and in 
1879 he was united in marriage with Agnes, 
daughter of James and Elizabeth Haverfield, of 
Cadiz Township, Harrison County. In 1885 
Mr. Oglevee and wife came to their present 
home, which under their management has been 
amply improved, and the home is among the 
best in the township, improvements in the way 
of buildings being entirely of their making. The 
farm is a fertile one of ninety acres, situated 
some three and a half miles west of the county 
seat. Politically Mr. Oglevee is a Republican, 
standing firmly for his opinions in that as in 
everything else. The father having been one 
of the stanchest and earliest of the Abolitionists 
in his vicinity, the children seemed to inherit 
the very principles of the Republican party, and 
stand firmly by it. Mr. and Mrs. Oglevee are 
members of the United Presbyterian Church at 
Cadiz. Their union has been blessed by two 
children, twins, named Nannie and Nellie. 




i ILLIAM ROGERS, one of the few re- 
maining pioneers of Harrison County, 
was born December 14, 1817, a son of 
John and Nancy (Lemasters) Rogers, 
the former a native of Maryland and the latter 
of near Hopedale, Harrison Co., Ohio. Will- 
iam Rogers, grandfather of our subject, was 
born August 20, 1749, of English ancestry, who 
came from the mother country at an early age, 
settling in Maryland. He was a farmer, own- 
ing land in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and 
later was a comb manufacturer. He was liv- 
ing in the former State at the time of the Revo 
lution, and was cradling rye for Col. Elliott on 
Independence Day. He married Miss Susanna 
Barrett, who was born in Maryland July 30, 
1752; they had eleven children, all now passed 
from earth. William and Susanna (Barrett) 
Rogers came to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 
1808, locating on Lee's Run in Harrison County 
in 1809, not far from where our subject now 
lives. On January 7. 1817, the grandmother 
died, and December 27, 1830, the grandfather 
followed to the grave. 

John Rogers, youngest child of William 
and Susanna (Barrett) Rogers, was thirteen 
years old when he left Maryland with his par- 
ents, and fourteen when they arrived in Har- 
rison County. He attended the common 
schools, and was brought up to farm life. On 
September 28, 1815, he married Nancy, daugh- 
ter of Isaac and Jane Lemasters, who were 
among the first white settlers to cross the Ohio 
River, building a cabin in the then Far West 
toward the close of the last century. The ma- 
ternal great-grandfather was killed by Indians. 
Isaac Lemasters was eighteen years of age 
when he came to Jefferson County from Vir- 
ginia. He lived for a time with his mother and 
sister, on Piney Fork of Short Creek, and 
bought a farm on that run; he afterward re- 
moved to near Jewett, Harrison County, where 
he and his wife remained until death. After 
their marriage John Rogers and his wife made 
for themselves a home in Cadiz Township. 
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child, William. They lived on a wild piece of 
land which the grandfather had entered, and 
here they shared life's joys and sorrows until 
1S69 when death called the faithful wife to her 
grave. On February 6, 1878, John Rogers 
departed to his long home, at the patriarchal 
age of eighty three years. His early life was 
entirely devoted to sheep raising. In politics 
he was first a Whig, then a Free-Soiler and 
lastly a Republican. He was a strong worker 
for the emancipation of the slaves, and gave 
his countenance to all efforts tending to that 
end. He and his wife were members of the 
Wesleyan Methodist Church. 

William Rogers, the subject proper of this 
sketch, grew to manhood under the parental 
roof, his education being secured in an old log 
school-house, although it may be said that he 
has never altogether abandoned his books, such 
is his fondness for learning. On June 21, 1838, 
he married Miss Maria, daughter of Thomas and 
Charity (Blair) Adams, and a native of Harrison 
County. Of this union were born seven children, 
viz. : James Birney, in Cadiz (named for the can- 
didate for president of the Liberty party); John 
Thomas, in Newark, Ohio; Isabelle Jane, now 
Mrs. John Freeburn, in Ohio; William Pinckney, 
on the home place; Albert Lawson, living near the 
old home; Nancy Ellen, now Mrs. A. B. Cut shall, 
in Stock Township, Harrison Count}', and Bailey 
Sumner, in Scio, Harrison County. The mother 
died July 24, 1881, and the father has since re- 
mained on the old home place, which is now in 
charge of his son, William P., and which he had 
bought in 1857, coming to it in 1862. Of this 
homestead only an old unused stable is left, of 
the original standing, William Rogers having 
himself erected the present substantial dwelling- 
house and out- buildings. In politics Mr. Rogers 
was originally a Free-Soiler, afterward a Repub- 
lican on the formation of that party. He was 
a strong advocate in the cause of freedom to the 
slave, and a prominent debater on that subject 
as a member of the Lees Run Anti-Slavery So- 
ciety. Since 18S5 Mr. Rogers has been a stanch 
advocate of Prohibition, his motto in that con- 



nection being, "Fight for the weak. " He has 
neither sought nor held office; was several times 
urged to accept the nomination for representa- 
tive on the Republican ticket, but invariably de- 
clined, considering that office brings responsi- 
bilities he does not desire to assume. 



HENRY BOYLES, one of the well-known 
leading representative citizens of Har- 
rison County, was born in Lancaster 
County, Penn. , January 5, 1814. His 
father, Henry Boyles, who was a native of New 
Jersey, born of English extraction, from the 
home of his birth went to Virginia, where he 
married Rachel Barkhurst, who died, leaving 
there children, all now deceased. After her 
death Mr. Boyles moved to eastern Pennsyl- 
vania, and in Chester County he became united 
in marriage with Jane, daughter of Robert Fil- 
son. At first they made their home in Bedford 
County, same State, till 1820, when they came 
to Ohio, arriving at Steubenville in January, 
1821. Here they resided a short time, and 
then removed to Clinton Township, Jefferson 
County, locating on School Section No. 16. 
where he worked at his trade, that of carpenter, 
and later they proceeded to Knox Township, 
where in 1834 he died at the age of sixty-five 
years. His widow survived him till 1854, when 
she, too, while living at Steubenville, was called 
from earth. They had six children, viz. : John, 
Samuel, Elisha, Margaret, Henry and Joseph 
F., all now deceased except Henry; Joseph F. 
died in Rockport, Ind., in 1889. The mother 
was a member of the Union Church. 

Henry Boyles, as will be seen, was seven 
years old when his parents brought him to Ohio. 
His education was necessarily limited, as in his 
boyhood days schools were of a very primitive 
nature. The school-houses were the traditional 
log buildings, with puncheon floors and greased- 
paper windows, and the text books used were 
for the most part the "United States Spelling 
Book, ' ' an arithmetic and the Bible. He learned 
carpentering of his father and eldest brother, 



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which he followed seventeen years in various 
towns and villages. From Steubenville he came 
in July, 1S43, to Harrison County, where he 
married, some time thereafter, Miss Martha 
Grimes, a native of Cadiz, and daughter of 
William and Rebecca Grimes, who had come to 
this part of the country in 1802; for a time they 
carried on farming operations, but Mr. Grimes 
having received an injury to his arm they com- 
menced to keep hotel in Cadiz; they both died 
in the house which they had built, in 1839, on 
their farm near town. In 1848 Mr. and Mrs. 
Boyles removed to Wellsville where, along with 
a partner, he carried on a wholesale grocery 
and commission house, but after a few weeks 
the partner died, and the business was closed 
up. They then returned to Steubenville, where 
he kept a commission house one year. Here he 
built himself a dwelling-house, and two years 
later, his wife's youngest brother having died, 
her mother was left alone on the farm, and at 
her desire they left Steubenville and moved on 
the farm. She died at their home in 1856, and 
soon after Mr. Boyles bought out the interest of 
the other heirs, and he still owns and lives on the 
place. On April 4, 1874, Mrs. Boyles departed 
this life at the age of forty-eight years. Their 
daughter, Martha A., was badly injured in the 
winter of 1873, by a runaway team in a sleighing 
party, from which she died May 3, 1874, at the 
early age of twenty years. The children born 
to our subject and wife were the following: 
Mrs. Rebecca J. Brock, a widow, living in Cadiz 
Township; William Henry on the home place; 
Frank Anderson, who died at the age of five 
years; Martha A., whose death is recorded 
above, and an infant unnamed, also deceased. 
Politically Mr. Boyles is a Democrat, and though 
he has never held office yet he has been honored 
by nomination for Congress in a strong Repub- 
lican district, reducing the majority on that ticket 
by 2,000 votes, and carrying Steubenville; in 
Harrison County he was nominated for commis- 
sioner. He is a member, as was also his wife, 
of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. Mr. 
Boyles' farm of 165 acres of well-improved land 



adjoins the corporation limits of Cadiz, and he 
pays much attention to the raising of sheep. 
He is a very robust man for his years, of good 
physique, standing six feet two inches, and 
weighing on the average 185 pounds. 



JAMES K. OUR ANT. Within the confines 
of Harrison County few are the men who 
in their chosen vocation have made so 
marked a success as he whose name heads 
this sketch. From a poor, obscure farm boy, 
by his own hard efforts, he fought his way up- 
ward, until he has become one of the best 
known and most prosperous farmers in Cadiz 
Township. Mr. Ourant was born in the town- 
ship of Nottingham, Harrison Co., Ohio, on 
December 19, 1833. His father, Washington 
Ourant, was but a child when his father. John 
Ourant, died, and, being left comparatively 
homeless, he was then brought to Harrison 
County, where he grew to manhood, and, in con- 
nection with farming, learned the trade of a hat- 
ter, which he followed for a number of years. 
He chose, as a life partner, Miss Mary, daughter 
of Arthur Martin, and together they made their 
home in Nottingham Township, from which 
they never removed until death called them to 
the "other shore," she being the first to lay 
down life's sorrows, passing to the grave on 
March 21, 1866, at the age of fifty-eight years. 
She had borne the following named children: 
John M. , residing on the old farm in Notting- 
ham Township; James K., our subject; Eliza 
Ann, on the home farm; William G., in Cadiz 
Township; George W., deceased; Enos B., in 
Omaha, Neb. ; Joseph T., in Freeport, Harrison 
County, and Mary M., now Mrs. Bartow, and 
living in Minuesota. On September 10, 1884, 
the aged father closed his eyes to earth, aged 
seventy-six years, having been born November 
7, 1808. In the latter half of his life he had 
retired from his trade as a hatter, and spent his 
time on the farm. He was a man of enterprise, 
a stanch Republican, and an attendant of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 



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James K. Ourant remained under the pa- 
rental roof until he was nineteen years of age. 
Having a natural taste for the life of a dealer, 
in 1853 he became a clerk at Bucyrus, Ohio, 
where he remained some four years, and having 
thus acquired a knowledge of mercantile busi- 
ness, he opened a small general store for him- 
self at Minksville, and later at Cassville, Harri- 
son County. His means were very limited, and 
it took keen financiering to " make both ends 
meet." He applied himself arduously to his 
business, and had the satisfaction to find him- 
self gradually making a financial success. He 
soon began the buying and selling of horses. 
Here, too, his star of prosperity was in the as- 
cendant. For a number of years he bought 
quite largely for foreign markets, but within the 
last few years he has purchased solely for the 
home trade, and it may safely be said that, in 
this line, he handled more horses than any 
farmer in Harrison County. During the year 
1888 he purchased and sold over 400 head. 

On December 31, 1857, he was united in 
marriage with Miss Katie, daughter of John 
Gates, of Richland County, Ohio, and in 1862 
they came to the farm where their home has 
since been made, and which under their efficient 
management has been much improved and beau- 
tified. They erected a large and elegant dwell- 
ing, which is one of the finest in the township, 
moving therein during the spring of 1885. In 
1886 Mr. Ourant began building a horse barn, 
which occupied his time for some two years, and 
which was undoubtedly the finest country barn 
in the State. It was constructed throughout of 
the finest materials, weather-boarded with the 
best poplar, and finished inside in polished oak, 
with walnut panels. The heads of the stalls 
were made of turned solid walnut panels, while 
the entire ceiling was also paneled work and 
polished. The structure was 35x60 feet and 22 
feet from the floor to the base of the square 
tower which rose from the center of the roof to 
the height of eighty-five feet, and consequently 
was visible for miles around the surrounding 
country. The barn had stall room for sixteen 



horses, and contained a tine office, harness-room, 
water troughs and feed granaries. All in all it 
was a magnificent structure, and spoken of with 
just pride through the neighboring townships. 
But this triumph of mechanical skill was des- 
tined not long to stand. Unknown to him Mr. 
Ourant must have had some enemy, who sought 
revenge for some fancied wrong, or perhaps it 
was envy that filled the breast of him who 
lighted the incendiary match; at all events, on 
the afternoon of October 2-4, 1889, the building 
was burned to the ground. 

Politically Mr. Ourant is a Republican, but 
has never sought office. Both he and his esti- 
mable wife are widely and favorably known, and 
at their home, some seven miles from the town 
of Cadiz, they are enjoying the fruits of their 
thrift and prosperity. No children have been 
born to them, but in their household a daughter 
of Mr. Ourant' s brother has grown to woman- 
hood and wedded. 



itfpY EUBEN ALLEN McCORMICK was 
w>\ born in Washington Township, Har- 
f\ rison Co., Ohio, June 19, 1839. His 
•fj father, John McCormick, was a native 

of Pennsylvania, in which State he grew to 
manhood, a farmer, and from thence he came to 
Harrison County, settling in Washington Town- 
ship, having purchased a farm near Freeport. 
He married Esther, daughter of Reuben Allen, 
who was one of the leaders in the Society of 
Friends in Harrison County; his wife was 
Joanna McMillan, also of Quaker origin, and a 
native of Maryland. Both died in Washington 
Township, Harrison County, at the ages of 
ninety-three and seventy-eight years, respect- 
ively. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. John 
McCormick remained in Washington Township, 
where, at the age of forty-seven years, the wife 
passed from earth, having borne the following 
named children: Reuben Allen, the subject of 
this sketch; James B., residing at Sidney, Neb. : 
Henry Clay, who died in the army; John T. and 
William M., both at Columbus Junction, Iowa. 



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The father died November 9, 1869, at the age 
of fifty-nine years, a stanch Republican and a 
leader of his party in his township. In 1845 
he was elected sheriff of the county, serving 
one term, living during the time at the county 
seat, and on the expiration of his term of office 
he returned to the duties of the farm, declining 
re-election. For a continuous period of thirty- 
five years he was delegated a special messenger 
to carry election returns to the county seat on 
election clays; he was member of the I. O. O. F. 
Reuben Allen McCormick grew to maturity 
on his father's farm, receiving no more than the 
district-school advantages, and in August, 1862, 
he enlisted in Company F, Ninety-eighth O. V. 
I., going at once to the front. October 8 fol- 
lowing, at the battle of Perry ville, Ky. , he 
received a gunshot wound in the left shoulder, 
the missile cutting the nerves and arteries to 
such au extent that the arm has since been use- 
less. After some time spent in the army hos- 
pital, he was appointed post-quartermaster at 
Louisville, Ky. , and in this capacity spent one 
and a half years. He was then transferred to 
Bowling Green, same State, where he remained 
to the close of the war, when, after almost four 
years' efficient service, he received an honorable 
discharge and returned to his home ; since when, 
wearing not, it is true, an empty sleeve, but 
having a perfectly useless arm, he has been an 
almost constant sufferer as the price of his loy- 
alty to his country. During the interim between 
his wound and appointment to post-quarter- 
master he made a visit to his home, where, in 
September, 1863, he was united in marriage 
with Miss Eliza, daughter of John and Nancy 
Havertield, of Cadiz Township, and born on the 
old homestead farm, whereon still reside her 
aged mother, and sister, Mary, and brother, W. S. 
Mrs. McCormick accompanied her husband to 
the field of his labors at Louisville and Bowling 
Green, Ky. , and remained with him until the 
close of the war, when they returned to Ohio. 
Three years later Mr. McCormick was elected 
auditor of Harrison County, since when their 
home has been in the town of Cadiz, where for 



eight years after his term of office he conducted 
a livery and feed stable, erecting a large building 
for the same; later, however, he retired from 
this business and sold agricultural implements 
until December, 1889, when he was appointed 
assistant door-keeper of the House of Repre- 
sentatives at Washington, D. C, which position 
he still holds. Mr. McCormick has held various 
positions of trust and honor in the community, 
in all of which the duties have been conscien- 
tiously discharged. He is a member of Mc- 
Cready Post, G. A. R., of Cadiz, and for some 
time was its commander. In the fall of 1889 
he was chosen quartermaster of the said post. 
Mr. and Mrs. McCormick are the parents of two 
children: Nannie, born July 3, 1864, now the 
wife of W. H. Lacey, of York, Neb. ; and Fay, 
born March 24, 1S77, still at home with her 
parents. The family are all identified with the 
United Presbyterian Church of Cadiz. 



JfOSEPH HURFORD,* the veteran advo- 
cate of phrenology. Dr. Joseph Hurford 
/ was born and raised in Harrison County, 
Ohio, and is now eighty years of age. He 
was of the Friends persuasion, and of En- 
glish descent. When quite young he com- 
menced the study of dentistry, which was then 
in its infancy in this country, no plate work being 
done at that time, and became a very successful 
operator, making from ten to thirty dollars a 
day. At this vocation he continued to practice 
for several years. Being very tall, six feet four 
inches, he found the stooping and confinement 
of an office wearisome and exhaustive, so that 
he felt compelled to abandon the business. He 
then gave all his time to the study of law, read- 
ing all day, and at night often till late. The 
effect was hard on his eyes, but he persevered 
and finished the course, and would have soon 
practiced at the bar, but the painful result of 
his unremitting study was the discovery that he 
had incurred an attack of amaurosis, which com- 
pelled him to give up the use of his eyes for 
*From the Phrenological Journal. 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



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nearly a year before he dared to read or write, 
and knowing tbat to practice law successfully it 
would require constant reading and writing, he 
procured the best works on the eyes in print, 
and was very careful how he used them. It 
was not long ere he became well informed as to 
the treatment of both eye and ear. Following 
this line of study he also read anatomy and 
medicine. About that time he happened to 
meet with Combe's "Constitution of Man." 
He purchased a copy and found it an invaluable 
book. He loaned it to many different persons, 
until it was quite worn out; then he procured 
another copy, and sent that on its round among 
his acquaintances. He keeps up this practice 
to-day, having for years taken six copies of the 
Phrenological Journal for the special purpose 
of distributing them among his neighbors. He 
also read Combe's Treatise on Phrenology, and 
other books relating to that science, and the 
Phrenological Journal. Bocoming as well 
posted as any one could be in those days by 
reading, he procured nearly a dozen skulls, In- 
dian and others, among them an Esquimaux 
and that of Catachee, tbe celebrated Indian 
chief, who divided the Black Hawk Tribe. He 
obtained busts and casts of the brain of differ- 
ent types, taking some himself, and so pursued 
his study and observations until he felt certain 
that he was well informed with regard to phre- 
nology; then, in company with Dr. Jesse B. 
Thomas, of Philadelphia, he started out on a 
lecturing tour. Dr. Thomas had an excellent 
magic lantern and many very fine English as- 
tronomical views. This combination proved 
successful for Hurford, as his charts and ex- 
aminations were much in demand, and he easily 
cleared from twenty-five to forty dollars a day 
after getting fairly to work. The lantern enter- 
tainment drew good audiences on free tickets, 
but gave Thomas very little to do, as he was not a 
phrenologist and nobody wanted his astronom- 
ical charts, so Thomas withdrew. Hurford con- 
tinued and made it pay well. Many profes- 
sional people attended his lectures, and com- 
plimented him on his methods and accuracy as 



an examiner. He was about thirty years old at 
this time. Later he married a highly accom- 
plished lady of western Pennsylvania, who did 
not wish him to travel and lecture, as she could 
not accompany him, so he reluctantly settled on 
a farm, and remained there for a number of 
years; meanwhile he lost not a particle of in- 
terest in the science of phrenology, and found 
occasional opportunity to lecture on it, and even 
now, at eighty years of age, he is the old advo- 
cate, doing all he can in the way of urging 
people to study its principles and apply them in 
their lives. 

After spending some years in travel, Dr. 
Hurford was induced to go to a water-cure near 
Pittsburgh, and engaged in hydropathy. There 
he remained but one year. Afterward he set- 
tled in Salem, Ohio, where he devoted himself 
to the treatment of the eye and ear, and with 
remarkable success. Securing a competency, 
he retired from business, and settled in New 
Brighton, Penn., where he has lived since, enjoy- 
ing the highest regard of his fellow townsmen. 
Mrs. Hurford died about five years ago. 

While engaged in the study of phrenology, 
before his marriage, he discovered a composition 
of which he made casts of the brain and other 
parts of the body. This proved so valuable 
that his brother manufactured and sold in one 
summer six thousand dollars worth of such casts, 
and for a while a very lucrative business is 
conducted in this way. [The above sketch was 
supplied by Mrs. Henry Craig, of New Brigh- 
ton, who has known its subject for many years.] 

His portrait* indicates a tine organization, 
mentally, with physical powers unusually well 
preserved. The general tone of the rnakeup is 
elevated, and at the same time there is a decided 
practical vein in the character. The fullness of 
the forehead and the marked projection of the 
orbitar ridge show strength in observation, 
power to criticise, power to combine, arrange, 
i devise. The mechanical faculty is indicated to a 
very unusual degree by the swelling temporal 



• Referring to portrait printed in the Phrenological Journal 
In connection with the sketch. 



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region, aDd associated with it is that taste and 
desire for harmony that are essential to the cre- 
ation of successful designs. 

There can be no doubt that if he had de- 
voted himself to a pursuit requiring the exer- 
cise of the mechanical elements of mind in as- 
sociation with those that impart grace, symme- 
try and beauty to work, he would have reached 
a very creditable place. For instance, he would 
have excelled in architectural design and con- 
structive engineering. He has the organization 
that adapts one to a pursuit requiring delicacy 
of manipulation, as in the finer departments of 
surgery. He has the ability to understand de- 
tails in their relation to the out-working of a 
definite object. His judgment should be quick- 
ly drawn, and he should be inclined to rather 
prompt action. The nose shows strength of 
will and a penetrating view of matters. His self- 
esteem, however, is but moderate, and has not 
helped him much in the furtherance of his pur- 
poses, because he has always been disinclined to 
anything partaking of assumption or pretense, 
but on the other hand has been modest and re- 
served, sensitive and deferential, giving way to 
others, even where valuable personal interests 
suffered loss by such lack of self-assertion. 
Probably, too, his consideration for the rights 
of others has been somewhat excessive, and led 
him to overlook his own side of right and privi- 
lege. It is altogether likely that, with an organi- 
zation and temperament so well adapted to a pur- 
suit that relates to human nature on either its 
physical or mental side, he would have attained 
conspicuous eminence as a phrenologist, had he 
remained in the lecture field. The success that 
was so early achieved was but. the promise of 
further and better rewards. [The above sketch 
appeared in the Plirenological Journal in the 
summer of 1890, since when the following facts 
have been ascertained:] 

The Hurford family are of English origin, 
and are lineal descendants of Lord John Hur- 
ford, of that country, whose son, John Hurford, 
came here with the Quaker, William Penn. One 
of his sons was named Samuel, whose son was 



called John, he being born in Culpeper County, 
Va. , where he grew to manhood. He there 
married Miss Sarah Hayes, a native of Virginia, 
by whom he had seven children, namely: Evan, 
John, Samuel, Rachel, Sarah, Mary and A.nn. 
Some years later, with his family, he removed 
to Jefferson County, Ohio, which then contained 
what now is called Harrison County, and here 
Evan Hurford met and married Miss Sarah Hall, 
who was born and reared in 'North Carolina. 
She was a member of the Society of Friends, 
whose doctrine forbade its members to marry 
outside of that faith. Accordingly, in order to 
gain consent to their union, Evan identified him- 
self with the Quakers. The young people were 
about twenty-one years of age when their mar- 
riage vows were spoken, and they shared the 
joys and sorrows of life for over seventy years, 
dying within one year of each other, each at the 
age of ninety. Their first home was made in 
the woods, some five and a half miles southeast 
of the town of Cadiz, Ohio, where they obtained 
110 acres of land. Their first settlement was 
their home for life, for here it was death found 
them. They were both strictly honest and con- 
scientious people, and by thrift and economy 
they succeeded in laying by ' ' something clever ' ' 
for their eight children, whose names are as 
follows: Aquila, Joseph, Mary Ann, Christian, 
Sarah, John, Hannah and Rachel. Evan Hur- 
ford was a man of exceptionally brilliant mind, 
and was considered by all who knew him to be 
a man of superior talent and judgment. 

Joseph Hurford was born in 1809, attending 
first the old log school-houses in his native town- 
ship, and later Mt. Pleasant Seminary. He 
was about twenty years of age when, with his 
uncle, John Hurford, he went to Harrisville. 
where they each underwent the operation of 
having two bone teeth inserted. Joseph watched 
the operation with interest, and upon returning 
home began to prepare himself for the same busi- 
ness, and ere long was competent to do a good 
job of either inserting or extracting teeth, by 
which he was enabled to make from 15 to $20 
per day. He thus became probably the first 



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dentist to practice through Harrison, Jefferson 
and Belmont Counties. His reason for aban- 
doning this calling is given in the sketch above. 
His early reading of law was prosecuted by the 
light of the lard lamp during the summer, and 
the flickering blaze of a coal tire during the win- 
ter. At the time of his beginning to lecture on 
the science of phrenology, few, if any, lecturers 
on that subject had visited Harrison County, 
where his first efforts were made. Mr. Hurford 
later extended his lecture field, and it was dur- 
ing one of his tours that he met Miss Rebecca 
Ann Welsh, of Washington County, Penn., 
whom he afterward married. Of their union 
two children were born, a daughter and a son, 
both of whom died in youth. For a number of 
years the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hurford was in 
Cadiz, whence they removed to Pittsburgh, as 
above stated. His success as an eye and ear 
specialist at Salem may be briefly shown by 
stating that in one year he inserted ten artificial 
eyes and cured 1-40 cases of sore eyes and deaf- 
ness. Mrs. Hurford died in New Brighton in 
1885, and since her death the Doctor, now far 
past the alotted three-score and ten years of life, 
is calmly waiting the time when his life's sands 
shall have run out, and the "Grim Boatman" 
shall come only to find a passenger ' ' waiting 
and watching," his life's trusts having been 
well and efficiently executed. 



DAVID BORLAND. Among the early 
settlers of Harrison County was Samuel 
_^ ' Borland, who came from Westmoreland 
Count} - , Penn., of which he was a native, 
and January 27, 1819, entered land from the 
Government in North Township, where the fam- 
ily now live, the patent for which, signed by 
President James Monroe, is now in possession 
of Samuel Borland's son David. Samuel Bor- 
land, father of the Samuel just spoken of, was a 
native of Ireland, whence he came to this coun- 
try at an early day, settling near Manor Station, 
in Westmoreland County, Penn., where he fol- 
lowed farming. Here he was married to Miss 



Lydia Cary, who participated in the defense of 
one of the old forts against the Indians. She was 
a remarkable woman, accustomed to the haul 
ships of pioneer times, and was an excellent Bhol 
with the rifle: she and her husband both died in 
Pennsylvania. They had born to them the fol- 
lowing named children: Samuel, John. Rachel. 
William, Mathew, Margaret. David. Mary. 
Andrew and James, all now deceased. Of these, 
Samuel grew to manhood in Pennsylvania, and, 
as above related, came to North Township in 
1819, but leaving his land in charge of Juda 
Hess and family, he revisited his native State, 
remaining until 1821, in which year he returned 
to his new Ohio home, where he permanently re- 
sided. Mr. Borland was twice married, first to 
Mary Little, who bore him three children: Will- 
iam (in Tuscarawas County, Ohio). Washington 
(in Carroll County, Ohio), and Lydia (the wife 
of James Waddington, in Nebraska). Ten years 
after marriage this wife died, and for his second 
Mr. Borland chose Elizabeth, daughter of Sam 
uel and Elizabeth Hevlin. by which union two 
children were born, viz. : Mary, deceased wife of 
James Mackey (her family are living in Den 
nison), and David, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch. In 1862 the father died 
at the age of seventy- seven years: he was not in 
his lifetime in the enjoyment of very good health, 
but he was an energetic man, possessed of good 
judgment, which brought him success in the 
world. His widow passed from earth in October, 
1884, at the advanced age of eighty-seven years; 
she had been in the enjoyment of good health 
almost to the last, hale and hearty and uncom- 
plaining. 

David Borland, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born January 27. 1831, on the farm 
where he now lives, and received a good common- 
school education. On December 24, 1857, he 
was united in marriage with Miss Ann. daughter 
of Dominick and Elizabeth Havnar, both of 
whom died in Monroe Township, Harrison 
County. To Mr. and Mrs. Borland have been 
born three children, viz.: Leroy H., living near 
the old homestead, and Martha Elizabeth and 



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Albert, attending college at Scio. Mr. and Mrs. 
Borland have been well and favorably known in 
the county as people of enterprise and hospitality 
of strict integrity, and the friends of education 
and social progressiveness. Mr. Borland in pol- 
itics is a Democrat. His fine farm of 170 acres 
nf highly improved land is situated about three 
miles from the town of Scio. Mrs. Borland died 
October '_'•>. 1 VJH, aged fifty-seven years, thirteen 
days, and is buried at Connotton. She was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
having commenced in the following of Christ 
when but a child, and for forty odd years she 
was a true Christian, and her work in that life 
was a commentation of her. She was a noble 
compauion and a kind and indulgent mother, 
but we must all bow in submission to the will of 
the Omnipotent God, and she was first to break 
(he family circle. Her last sickness was short 
and during it she spoke frequently of death and 
that her time for departure would soon be here; 
and when death's gloom was cast upon her she 
realized it and said: "I am prepared; the door 
is open; they are all around." She soon then 
departed this earthly life for a heavenly home 
beyond, and her husband's and children's loss 
is her gain. 



T\[ LONZO C. POCOCK, a thriving farmer 
/ \\ of Burnley Township, Harrison Co. .Ohio, 
IrX^ is a son of Joshua and Catherine (Wil- 
•f/ son) Pocock. Joshua Poeock is a son of 

Lloyd Pocock, a native of Baltimore County, 
Md., and Lloyd's father was a native of Eng- 
land and one of the early settlers of Balti- 
more County. Lloyd Pocock was father of 
three boys and five girls. In 1810 he came to 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and settled near Union- 
port, where he remained till 1832, when he 
moved to Coshocton County, same State. 
Joshua Pocock was born November 15, 1814, in 
Jefferson County, and moved with hiB parents 
to Coshocton County; was married to Catherine 
Wilson in March, 1834, and departed this life 
on Julv 23, 1890, on his farm in Holmes 



County, Ohio. He was the father of five chil- 
dren, by name: Louisa M. Doak, who resides 
in Terre Haute, Ind. ; Edgar J. , in Columbus, 
Ohio; Alonzo C. , our subject; Althea G. Howe, 
in Urbana, 111.; Lloyd W., in Coshocton, Ohio. 

Alonzo C. Pocock, our subject, was born in 
Keene, Coshocton Co., Ohio, December 4, 1840. 
He stayed on the farm with his parents until his 
seventeenth year,and clerked in country stores and 
taught school until 18(>l,when he enlisted, June 
13, 1861, in Company K, Twenty-fourth Regi- 
ment O. V. I., and was discharged at the expi- 
ration of his service, June 24, 1864, as quar- 
termaster-sergeant. After he returned home he 
entered into the dry-goods business, in company 
with A. J. Doak, which partnership existed one 
year. He then went on the farm, and in 1865 he 
spent the winter in Eastman's Business College, 
Chicago, 111., worked on the farm till the fall of 
1866, when he was engaged with D. D. Mallory 
& Co., of Chicago, 111., as book-keeper, for 
some time. On November 21, 1867, Mr. Po- 
cock married Miss Martha E. Houser, born Feb- 
ruary 24, 1847, a daughter of James and Ruth 
(Jolley) Houser. 

James Houser was born in Mason County, 
Ky., February 7, 1816. At the age of eight 
years he came with his parents to Cadiz, Ohio, 
where he grew to young manhood. On Au- 
gust 12, 1841, he married Ruth Jolley, the 
daughter of the late Malachi Jolley, of Scio, and 
six children were the fruit of this union — four 
sons and two daughters — three of the former, 
Malachi, Alfred and Charles, dying in infancy; 
the three surviving children are Mrs. Eunice 
Stephenson, of Scio; Mrs. Martha Pocock and 
William F. Houser, of Hopedale, Ohio. In 
the fall of 1841, after his marriage. Mr. Hou- 
ser settled on the farm known as the Jolley 
Farm, adjacent to the village of Scio, and on 
this farm he lived and died. For nearly half a 
century he watched the marvelous growth of 
this community, and no man was more prominent 
in bringing about this development than him- 
self. Under his sturdy blows woodlands gave 
way to pasture fields, and marshy lowlands 



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were turned into rich meadows. He was not 
only a practical farmer, but was a heavy dealer 
and trader in all kinds of stock, and took great 
delight in handling and breeding the best 
quality of sheep and horses. As to his social 
nature few persons were blessed with a more 
genial, mirthful temperament; always cheerful, 
never morose, with sunshine in his face, and 
happy in the midst of adversity and trouble. To 
friends he was cordial, kind and generous, but to 
those who sought to do him injury, he was relent- 
less and severe. But while persons were often 
grieved at his faults they were kept ignorant of 
his reverses. He maintained a cheerful mood 
in spite of fault finders and adversities; he was 
the incarnation of energy and force, tireless in 
his labors, and carried his youth aud elasticity 
down to old age. He kept his mind and body 
moving under the highest tension, and when 
death came it was like the breaking of a wheel 
or ratchet, and the machinery of his constitu- 
tion stopped quickly. Mr. Houser made no 
pretense to or profession of religion, yet it must 
be said to his credit that he did much to pro- 
mote the cause of both religion aud education. 
To him was due more thau any other citizen the 
founding of the Scio College. Not only liberal 
in his donation of the ground for the beautiful 
campus and buildings, but tireless in awaken- 
ing and bringing public sentiment to its favor 
and support. Though like all self sustaining 
colleges, it has struggled for its existence 
against wind and tide, yet, in the last year or 
two, it has caught new inspiration and life. 
Its influence is now lifting into prominence the 
town after which it was named, and whatever 
Scio College may do in the future, it will ever 
owe its incipiency aud infant growth to James 
Houser. Mr. Houser departed this life Octo- 
ber 20, 1889. 

After his marriage Mr. Pocock removed to 
Holmes County, Ohio, where he resided on a 
farm till the spring of 1869, when he removed 
to Green Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, where 
he resided two years. In the spring of 1871 he 
proceeded to Scio, and there engaged in the dry- 



goods business till 1S77. when be removed to 
Wayne Township, Jefferson County, ami rented 
a farm, where he remained till 1882; then went 
to Unionport, Ohio, where he remained till 
L884; then traded his property in Scio for a 
farm of 154 acres near Miller Station, in Ger- 
man Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1880, 
and then came to the farm where he now lives. 
This farm contains 157 acres, and is located two 
miles west of Jewett on the P. C. & St. L. R. 
K. Our subject and wife are parents of one 
child, Earle H. Pocock, born in Scio, April 21, 
1874. Mr. Pocock is a member of Henry G. 
Hixon Post, No. 581, Department of Ohio, G. 
A. P., at Scio, Ohio. 




ILLIAM B. ANDERSON, a citizen of 
' Rumley Township, Harrison Co., O., 
was born in Stock Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, on Dec. 29th, 1843. His 
ancestors came from Ireland. His great-grand- 
father, Robert Anderson, was born in Ireland in 
A. D. 1753. When twenty-one years of age he 
became a sailor, and on one of his voyages to 
the West India Islands, took with him his only 
brother, who was in feeble health and who died 
and was buried on the island of Jamaica. After 
following the sea for six years, his parents being 
dead, he, together with a company from Ireland, 
emigrated to America, settled in Maryland, A. t 
D. 1780, and in the following year married 
Miss Margaret Johnson, who had come from 
Ireland some years before. When she left 
Ireland she was accompanied by her parents, 
both of whom died on the voyage. There were 
born to Robert and Margaret Anderson, while 
in Maryland, two sons, Samuel, born 1783, and 
Richard, born 1785. When these sons were 
three and one years old, respectively, the par- 
ents turned their faces westward, the father 
walking and carrying the younger and the 
mother riding horseback carrying the older 
child and all else they possessed. Crossing the 
Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mts., they settled in 



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the woods and built a cabin near to what is 
now the town of Claysville, Washington Co., 
Pa. They cleared away the forest and built for 
themselves a comfortable home. There were 
born to them ten more children, viz. : John, 
William, Robert, Mary, Hugh, James, Jane, 
Margaret, Thomas, and one that died in infancy. 
The parents after living a faithful and zealous 
Christian life, having united with the Presby- 
terian Church in early life, sleep in Three Ridge 
Presbyterian Church-yard, near West Alexander, 
Pa. On a large sandstone slab — in general 
use in early times — we find the following in- 
scription: " Margaret Anderson, departed this 
life, Sept. 18th, 1N27, in the 67th year of her 
age." "Robert Anderson, departed this life 
Sept. 2nd, 1838, in the 85th year of his age." 
"Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, 
like a shock of corn cometh in his season." 

Samuel, the eldest of these twelve children, 
and grandfather of William B. Anderson, the 
subject of our sketch, received a liberal educa- 
tion, mostly from private teachers. He became 
an excellent mathematician, and when near his 
majority became a teacher and surveyor. 

At the age of thirty, he married Miss Cath- 
arine Forbes, daughter of John Forbes, of 
Irish ancestry. He bought a tract of land near 
Claysville, Washington Co., Pa., and combined 
farming and teaching, in which he was fairly 
successful, and which he continued for about 
forty years. There were born to them eight 
children, viz.: Robert, John, James, Samuel, 
Hugh, William, Jane and Thomas. In A. D. 
1838, he sold his land near Claysville, Pa., and 
emigrated to Ohio, where he purchased a farm, 
on which was a grist- mill and saw-mill, in the 
Stillwater valley in Stock Township, seven miles 
west of Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio. Politically, 
he was a Whig prior to 1856, when he joined 
the Republican party, and was intensely loyal to 
the Union during the dark days of the Rebellion. 
He and his wile united with the Presbyterian 
Church in their youth, and lived consistent 
Christian lives, and now rest in the cemetery of 
the Ridge Presbvterian Church in Harrison 



County, Ohio. I find on their tombstones the 
following inscription: 

" Catharine Anderson, departed this life Oct. 
10, A. D. 1847, in the 54th year of her age. 

"Samuel Anderson, departed this life Feb. 
22, A. D. 1860, in the 83rd year of his age." 

Robert Anderson, the eldest of these eight 
children, and father of William B. Anderson, 
was born near Claysville, Washington Co., Pa., 
Oct. 11, L815. He had but common-school 
advantages for an education. He assisted his 
father on the farm and came with him to Harri- 
son County, Ohio, in 1838. He learned the 
trades of millwright and miller. On July 1. 
1840, he married Miss Esther McCollaugh, of 
Archer Township. He took charge of his 
father's mills aud operated them successfully 
for seven years; but farming being his choice of 
occupations, he resolved to change from milling 
to farming. He accordingly rented a farm in 
Archer Township for the period of three years. 
At the expiration of the three years, having 
accumulated a little money, he purchased the 
N. E. 4 of Sec. 16, Perry Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio. This land was mostly timbered, but 
by hard labor and perseverance, assisted by his 
wife, who very frequently worked by his side at 
burning brush and rolling logs, a good part of 
the farm was cleared and a comfortable home 
secured. In the spring of 1860 he sold his 
farm and returned to Harrison County, pur- 
chasing a farm in North Township, where he 
still resides. Politically, he is a Republican; 
was formerly a Whig, and has always been 
intensely loyal to his countrj'. Esther, his wife, 
is of Scotch ancestry. Her great-grandfather, 
Wm. McCollaugh, settled in Washington Co., 
Pa., about the middle of the eighteenth century. 
His son John, grandfather of Esther Anderson, 
married Esther Gamble, of Washington County, 
Pa., A. D. 1785. There were born to them nine 
children: William, Esther, Alexander. Margaret, 
Joseph and Samuel (twins). Martha. James and 
George. They emigrated with their family to 
Ohio in A. D. 1813, and settled near the town 
of Cadiz, Harrison County. Joseph (one of the 



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twins), father of Esther Anderson, married 
Sarah Lyons, daughter of John and Elisabeth 
(Beattie) Lyons, A. D. 1817. There were born 
to them eight children: Elisabeth, Esther. 
John. Mary, Sarah Jane, Isabel, James Beattie 
and Martha. He was a Republican in politics 
and always loyal to his country. The parents 
were both members of the Presbyterian Church 
and were faithful Christians. The mother died 
A. D. 1836, and was buried in the Beach Spring 
Cemetery in Harrison County. The father died 
Jan. 30, A. D. 1870, and was buried in the 
Ridge Presbyterian Cemetery in Harrison 
County. His age was 74 years. Esther, his 
second daughter, as we have noted, married 
Robert Anderson and is still living. They re- 
side in their comfortable farm home, with their 
son Thomas H. in charge of the farm, he in his 
seventy-sixth year and she in her seventy-first 
year, and are nearing their fiftieth wedding 
anniversary. Religiously they are Presbyte- 
rians, as are all their children. He has been a 
ruling elder in the church since 1855. There 
have been born to them nine children, viz. : 
Sarah A., born in Harrison County, May 23, 
1842, now Mrs. Thos. McDivitt, a farmer in 
North Township; William B., born in Harrison 
County Dec. '2.'.), 1843; Samuel L., born in Har- 
rison County Jan. 22, 1846, now a farmer in 
Archer Township; Isabel J., born in Harrison 
County Jan. 21, 1848, now Mrs. S. J. Rippeth 
(she and her two daughters reside in Scio, Ohio; 
her husband died Dec. 19, 1883); Joseph M. , 
born in Carroll County Feb. 20, 1850, now a 
Presbyterian minister, was educated at Franklin 
College, New Athens, Ohio, graduated in 1879, 
studied theology at Western Theological Sem- 
inary. Allegheny, Pa., is now pastor of Cum- 
niiiisville Church, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mary E., 
born in Carroll County Mar. 5, 1852, now 
Mrs. Thos. Brough, a farmer in Cadiz Town- 
ship; Thomas H, born in Carroll County Aug. 
23, L854, now with parents on the home farm; 
Martha F., born in Carroll County Dec. 30, 
L856, married Thomas Whittaker, a farmer in 
North Township (she died February 17, II 



' leaving a little son, Ralph, four years old, aud 
twin daughters, five days old, one of whom fol- 
lowed her in a few months), and John E. , born 
in Harrison County Aug. 15, 1862. died March 
25, 1864. 

William B. worked on the farm at home till 
he was eighteen years of age, when, in response 
to the call of President Lincoln for three hun- 
dred thousand more men he volunteered Aug. 
11, 1862, for three years, or during the war, in 
Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 
Ohio Vol. His regiment was assigned to the 
Third Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps, 
Army of the Potomac, and when the Potomac 
Army was reorganized in March, 1864, under 

] Gen. Grant, his regiment was transferred to the 

! Second Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps. 

! Ho was constantly with his regiment, and up to 
May 6th, 1864, had taken part in eight engage- 
ments. In the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 

1864, he was severely wounded and taken from 
the field. He recovered and rejoined his regi- 
ment during the investment of Petersburg, Va., 
took part in the battles that resulted in the 
capture of Richmond and Petersburg, the race 
after Lee's army, and the battle of Sailors 
Creek, and was at the surrender of Lee at Ap- 
pomattox C. H. , Va. ; returned with his corps 
to Washington, D. C, and marched in the grand 
review through the principal streets of Wash 
ington, where they were reviewed by President 
Johnson, Gen. Grant, Gen. Meade and man; 
other distinguished officers. He was mustered 
out of the service and arrived at home July '_'. 

1865, having served two years and ten months. 
He enjoyed good health during the entire time, 
and was never absent from his regiment or ex 
cused from duty except when he was wounded. 
After returning from the army he was employed 
by his father to work on the farm by the year. 
At the expiration of the fifth year, Sept. 6. INTO. 
he married Miss Mary Buchanan, of near Fair- 
view — now Jewett, O. — purchased land in North 
Township and engaged in farming on his own 
account; sold his land in 1872 and engaged in 
mercantile business for two years. In 1S7.> he 



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purchased land in Archer Township, and re- 
turned to the farm. In 1883 he sold his farm 
in Archer Township; his father-in-law, Jos. 
Buchanan having recently died, he purchased 
the Buchanan homestead near Jewett, in Bum- 
ley Township, where he now resides. 

His wife, Mary Buchanan, is of Irish an- 
cestry, her great-grandfather, John Buchanan, 
emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, to Amer- 
ica about A. D. 1750, when quite young, and 
settled in Carlisle, Md. He married a Miss 
Boss, whose lineage at this date is unknown. 
He served as captain in the war for independence, 
and at the close of the war emigrated to Wash- 
ington County, Pa. There were born to them 
eleven children, John, Jonathan, Mary, Boss, 
Samuel, Thomas, Joseph, George, Margaret, 
Pollie and a daughter whose name is now un- 
known, but who married a Mr. Harvy. Samuel, 
the fifth of these eleven children and grand- 
father of Mary B. Anderson, was born in Mary- 
land March 4th, A. D. 1773, and married Mary 
Neiper, of Washington County, Pa., A. D. 
1799. Emigrated to Harrison County, Ohio, 
and entered the N. W. \ of Sec. 11, Township 
11, and Bange 5, situated in the Connotton 
Valley, and received his patent deed May 8, 
A. D. 1806, signed by Thomas Jefferson, Presi- 
dent of the U. S., and James Madison, Secre- 
tary of State. There were born to them on this 
homestead two sons and four daughters, Jane, 
Mariah, John, Margaret, Joseph and Nancy, 
one of whom, John is still living at this date 
(1891) at the age of eighty-four years. When 
the youngest child was two years old the mother 
died July 15, A. D. 1818, and was buried at 
the Beach Spring Cemetery in Harrison 
County, a devoted Christian and member of the 
Presbyterian Church. The father married, after- 
ward, Mrs. Mary (Stanley) Buchanan, of Mt. 
Pleasant, Ohio, widow of John Buchanan de- 
ceased, who was second cousin to Samuel Bu- 
chanan. She died January 21, A. D. 1838, 
and was buried in the Bidge Cemetery, a faith- 
ful Christian and member of the Presbyterian 
Church. The father, after assisting each of his 



daughters and eldest son to purchase farms, 
conveyed to his youngest son the homestead, re- 
quiring that he care for him the remainder of 
his life. He died March 23, A. D. 1858, in his 
eighty-second year, an affectionate parent and 
an earnest Christian: he was a ruling elder in the 
Presbyterian Church for many years. He was 
buried in the Bidge Cemetery. Joseph, the 
youngest son and father of Mary B. Anderson, 
was born April 23, A. D. 1814, and February 
8, 1838, married Elisabeth Hines, daughter of 
Jacob and Susanah (Brough) Hines, of Archer 
Township, Harrison Co. There were born to 
them ten children: Margaret, born Oct. 28, A. 
D. 1839, now Mrs. Johnson Montgomery, a 
farmer of Jefferson County, Ohio; Susan, bora 
October 9, A. D. 1841, now Mrs. Stringer, 
widow of John Stringer, deceased farmer of 
Harrison County; Samuel, born Oct. 25, A. D. 
1S43, died Sept. 5, 1863, aged nineteen years; 
Mary, born Dec. 19, A. D. 1845; John, born 
Mar. 11, A. D. 1848, now a merchant in 
Pueblo, Colo.: Thos., born Nov. 8, A. D. 1850, 
now a Presbyterian minister, was educated at 
Wavnesburg College, Greene County, Pa., 
graduated in 1874, studied theology at the 
Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 
is now pastor of the church at Ida Grove, Iowa; 
Malinda, born April 6, A. D. 1854, now Mrs. 
John Patterson, a farmer of Archer Township. 
Harrison County; James, born October 5, 1856, 
died December 11, 1857; Albert, born May 1. 
1859, died in infancy; Elisabeth, born in 1861, 
died in infancy. The mother died Jan. 5, A. 
D. 1883, aged sixty-four years; the father died 
July 11, A. D. 1883, aged sixty-nine years, 
having lived all his life on the homestead, where 
he was born. They united with the Bidge 
Presbyterian Church in their youth, lived and 
died in the Gospel faith, and were buried in the 
Bidge Cemetery. Mary, as we have noted, is 
the wife of William B. Anderson, who, as we 
have also noted, is in possession of the Bu- 
chanan homestead, where his wife was born and 
raised, and which has never passed out of the 
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have been born to them four sons and one 
daughter, viz. : Robert Everett, born Sept. 21, 
A. D. 1871; Joseph Buchanan, born Dec. 1, 
A. D. 1873; Aeriel Ward, born Nov. 6, A. D. 
1876 (Centennial boy); Elisabeth Esther, born 
Oct. 28. A. D. 1881, and William Craig, born 
Oct. 11. A. D. 1886. 



If ffENRY EAGLESON was born February 
IpH 6, 1807, near Beach Spring Church, 
1| Green Township, Harrison Co.. Ohio. 
T/ He served for several years as ruling eld- 

er in the above-mentioned church, and his oc- 
cupation was farming. He was married, March 
31, 1831, by Rev. Benjamin Mitchell, to Miss 
Eliza Hoss, who was born January 18, 1808. 
To this union nine children were born, viz. : 
Andrew, born February 26, 1832; Jane Hervey, 
born March 14, 1834: Nancy Elizabeth, born 
June 19, 1836; John Calvin, born August 21, 
1838, died September 26, 1841; William Henry, 
born January 21, 1841; Mary Isabella, born 
April 27, 1843; Margaret Beatty, born June 8, 
1845, died April 22, 1857, and her remains were 
buried in Beech Spring Cemetery; Amanda 
Fulton, born November 6, 1847, and Robert 
Dool. born May 18, 1850. They were all Pres- 
byterians. Henry Eagleson, his wife and family 
lived on a farm near the place of his birth for 
twenty seven years. They then went to Peoria 
County, 111., in the spring of 1858, and in 1859 
moved to Washington, Tazewell Co. , 111. After 
a sickness of three weeks of typhoid fever his 
Maker called him home September 26, 1862, 
and bis remains were interred in Deer Creek 
Cemetery, Tazewell County, 111. After the 
death of her husband Mrs. Henry Eagleson 
lived in Washington for several years, and is 
now residing with her youngest daughter, Mrs. 
W. E. Crane, in Moline, 111., and in good health 
at the present time. 

Their oldest child, Andrew, was married on 
October 24, 1855, by Rev. William S. Dool, to 
Sarah Maria Simpson, who was born December 
29, 1833, near Beech Spring Church. They 



lived in Ohio for a few years, and then moved, 
in 1858, to Peoria County, 111. To this union 
three children were born, viz. : Violet Jane, 
born October 1, L856, in Harrison County, Ohio; 
William Henry Simpson, born January 21,1859, 
at Peoria, Peoria Co., 111., and James Elmer, 
born July 3, 1861, in Washington. Tazewell 
Co., 111. They are all members of the Presby- 
terian Church. 

Andrew Eagleson was a farmer, like his 
father before him. After an illness of three 
weeks, of typhoid fever, he died December 4, 
1862, and his remains were buried in Deer 
Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Andrew Eagleson, after 
the death of her husband, returned to her 
father's home in Harrison County, Ohio, where 
she still lives with her brother, William Simp- 
son. Violet Jane Eagleson was married Decem- 
ber 21, 1882, by Rev. H. W. Parks, to J. A. 
Smith, a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, and 
to this union two children were born: Everet 
Eagleson, born August 26, 1886, near Union 
Grove School-house, Jefferson Co., Ohio, and 
John Wilrner.born September 24, 1889, in Harri- 
son County, Ohio. They lived in Jefferson Coun- 
ty fur four years, and then came to Harrison 
County, where they now reside. William Henry 
Simpson was united in marriage April 10, 1889, 
by Rev. H. W. Parks, to Miss Maggie H. John- 
ston, a native of Washington County. Penn.. 
and one child, Violet, was born to this union 
December 23, 1890. William H. Simpson is a 
school-teacher by profession, and they are now 
living in Hopedale, Harrison Co., Ohio. 

Jane Hervey Eagleson was married October 
15, 1857. by Rev. William S. Dool, to William 
B. Merchant, a native of Jefferson County. 
Ohio, and they lived in Ohio for a short time, 
when they moved to Illinois. Mr. Merchant 
was a farmer for a few years, and entered the 
insurance business. To this union were born 
three children, viz. : Clarence Beatty, who died 
when young; Ulysses Grant, who died when an 
infant, and Alvin Eagleson, who was born No- 
vember 12, I860. Mrs. Merchant died Septem- 
ber 19, 1S62, and her remains were interred in 



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Deer Creek Cemetery. Alvin Eagleson Merchant 
was married to Miss Louie A. Garrett, a na- 
tive of Belmont County, Ohio, and they have 
four living children, viz.: Agnes J., Alvin B., 
Stacy B. and Edna A. Alvin also followed in 
the same line as his father, and he is engaged 
in the insurance business in Washington, Taze- 
well Co., 111., where he now resides. 

Nancy Elizabeth Eagleson was united in mar- 
riage June 19, 1856, with Mr. Alexander Mayes, a 
native of Cadiz, Harrison Co.. Ohio, and they 
have three children, viz. : Rebecca Isabella, born 
April 7, 1857, near Cambridge, Guernsey Co., 
Ohio ; Henry Milton, born April 1 5, 1862, near De- 
Witt, Clinton Co. . Iowa, and Jennie Elizabeth, 
born June 1, 1868, near De Witt, Clinton, Co., 
Iowa. Alexander Mayes and his wife and 
daughter, Jennie E., are now living at Tipton, 
Cedar Co., Iowa. Rebecca Isabella was mar- 
ried September 23, 1880, to William Kiser, and 
they lived in Cedar County, Iowa, until death 
broke the union, Mr. Kiser dying July 6, 1887. 
Henry Milton Mayes was married February 27, 
1883, to Miss Minnie Victoria Witmer, and they 
live near Tipton, Iowa; they have two children. 

William Henry Eagleson worked with his 
father on the farm for several years, and then 
was united in marriage in September, 1864, with 
Miss Sarah B. Ferree, of Eureka, 111. They 
are now living in York, York Co., Neb., and 
have three children, viz. : Henry Wilber, born 
July 2, 1865, is now married and has a little 
girl to keep up music in the night when papa 
is sleepy (he lives in Broken Bow, Neb., and 
keeps a dry-goods store); Mamie E., born June 
7, 1872 (she graduated in York High School in 
the spring of 1890), and Anna Grace, born in 
February, 1874. 

Mary Isabella Eagleson was married Sep- 
tember 15, 1864, by Bev. William A.dams, to 
Mr. Zachariah Walker Sutton, at Washington, 
111. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton are members of the 
Christian Church; he is a farmer by occupation, 
and lives in York, York Co., Neb. They have 
five children, viz. : Elmer Ellsworth, born Jan- 
uary ( J, 1866, in Tazewell County, 111. (he is a 



member of the Christian Church), Julia Eva- 
line, born May 13, 1867 (also a member of 
the Christian Church), was married September 
4, 1884, near Greenwood, Cass Co., Neb., to 
William Mather, and they have two children: 
Clyde, born September 21, 1885, and Edith, 
born January 9, 1889, and died March 6, 1890; 
Minnie Fulton, born August lit, 1872, near 
Pontiac, Livingston Co., 111.; Freddie Bertram, 
born March 6, 1878, near Fairbury, Livingston 
Co., 111., and Flora Eliza, born February 3, 
1881, near Greenwood, Cass Co., Neb. 

Amanda Fulton Eagleson and W. E. Crane 
(of New Jersey), were united in marriage Sep- 
tember 26, 1878, at Washington, III, by Bev. 
I. A. Cornelison, and they are now living in Mo- 
line, 111. ; Mr. Crane is a dealer in groceries. 

Bobert Dool Eagleson and Miss Latimer (of 
Lincoln, Neb. ), were united in marriage May 
18, 1850, and they have two children: Osie 
Mable and William Henry. Mr. Eagleson is 
also a farmer. 



IiOSIAH MOBGAN ESTEP (deceased) was 
^ 1 1 born February 19, 1829, a son of James 
\Jj S. and Sarah (Gaston) Estep, both of 
English descent, the families having come 
from the mother country about the same time. 
Robert Estep, the first of the family of that 
name to come to America, located at first in 
New Jersey, and later in Washington County, 
Penn. Josiah M. Estep, after gaining a knowl- 
edge of the elementary branches of learning 
in the common schools, finished his education 
at what is now Washington and Jefferson Col- 
lege, leaving the same in 1850. In 1852 he 
entered the law office of Hon. John P. Penny, 
of Pittsburgh, Penn., in order to prepare him- 
self for the legal profession, and later became 
a student in the office of a relative, Mr. S. P. 
Peppard, at Cadiz. Ohio. In 1854 he was ad- 
mitted to the bar, and, Mr. Peppard dying, 
succeeded to the latter' s practice in Cadiz. 
For many years he and Hon. John A. Bing- 
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Mr. Estep was a thoroughly well-read man, an 
able pleader, and during his practice, in the 
majority of the appealed cases to the Supreme 
Court, his pleadings were sustained. In 1869, 
after the amendment of the constitution, and 
the negro became a citizen, a case of miscege- 
nation that attracted much attention — the mar- 
riage of a negro with a white woman — came 
up before the courts. The people were much 
excited, and clamored loudly for the man's life. 
Mr. Estep was the only member of the bar 
who would undertake the defense. He fought 
it on a jury trial, and on technical points se- 
cured an acquittal. He was a Democrat, and 
consequently stood in the ranks of the political 
minority in Harrison County. In 1868 he was 
nominated for Congress in opposition to John 
A. Bingham, and reduced at the election the 
usual majority of '2,000 to one of 400. Mr. 
Estep made sixty- six speeches during this hotly- 
contested campaign. In 1871 he was again in- 
duced to run for office, this time for the com- 
mon pleas judgeship of his district, and, although 
failing of election, led his ticket over 500. In 
1882 he was urged to accept the Democratic 
nomination for Congress in the Sixteenth Dis- 
trict, it being considered that his popularity 
would overcome the Republican majority, but 
he declined the honor. 

In September, 1857, Mr. Estep was united in 
marriage with Miss Amanda J. Crabb, and five 
children were born to them, viz.: Charles J., 
in Cleveland, Ohio; W. G. [see below]; Josiah 
M., a civil engineer at Lynn, Mass.; Jane C. 
(now wife of James G. Patrick, prosecuting at- 
torney at New Philadelphia, Ohio, and son of 
Judge Patrick); Junius D., at home. Josiah 
M. Estep died May 5, 1888, and was buried in 
the cemetery at Cadiz; his widow, now aged 
fifty-three years, resided in that city until 
March, 1891, when the family removed to Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

W. G. Estep was born June 17, I860, and 
was well educated. He graduated at Wooster, 
Ohio, in the class of 1882, then commenced 
his law studies, and in the fall of 1884 was 



admitted to the bar at Columbus. He after- 
ward, in the old office so many years occupied 
by bis father, practiced his profession until 
March. 1891, when he removed to Cleveland, 
Ohio, to practice law with his brother, C. J. 
Estep. On June 2:1 1887, he was married, in 
Cadi/., to Miss Mary, daughter of Samuel and 
Eliza Slemmons, and a native of that city. Her 
father, who died of cholera when she was but 
a young girl, was owner of several thousand 
acres of woodland, was agent for the Star Route 
offices, and the transporting of stores to the 
Government posts. The mother of Mrs. \V. (i. 
Estep passed from earth in Cadiz, in 1877. To 
Mr. and Mrs. Estep has been born one child, 
named Josiah M. In politics Mr. Estep is a 
Democrat, and in religion he is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. 



THE SIMPSON FAMILY. The founder 
of the Simpson family in this part of the 
country was James Simpson, a native of 
Ireland, who came to America in the lat- 
ter part of the eighteenth century, settling 
in Washington County, Penn. , where he car- 
ried on brickmaking in connection with farm 
ing. He was born April 30, 1750, and married 
(date not now known) Margaret Conner, who 
was born October 25, 1755, also was a native of 
Ireland. (They came over in the same ship, 
but were not married until after their arrival in 
America.) Here, the place of their first settle- 
ment, they died, and were buried, she dying 
March 25, 1815, and he September 20, 1819. 
Politically, he was a strong supporter of the 
Federal party. Their children were eight in 
number, as follows: John, Margaret, William. 
Elizabeth, James (who settled in Ohio), Mary 
Robert and Sarah. Of these, James, the im- 
mediate ancestor of the families now living in 
Green Township, Harrison County, was born 
July 14, 1791, in Washington Comity, Penn., 
where his early life was spent. On June 20, 
1816, he was united in marriage, by the father 
of the bride, with Violet, eldest daughter of 



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Rev. Abrani Scott, a Presbyterian minister, and 
soon after their marriage they migrated to Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, where they remained until 
1829, in which year they came to Harrison 
County, settling in Green Township, where 
they passed from earth, Mrs. Simpson June 30, 
1855, and Mr. Simpson December 8. 1871; 
they lie side by side in Beech Spring Cemetery. 
Soon after their settlement in the county they 
united with the Presbyterian Church at Beech 
Spring, of which they were constant attendants. 
They were the parents of the following named 
children: Margaret Kebecca, born December 
25, 1818, died July 26, 1843: Abram Scott, 
born January 3, 1821, died November 3, 1884; 
John McDowell, born October 4, 1822, died 
April 16, 1825: William, born April 30. 1825; 
Josiah Marshall, born September 15, 1828, died 
May 30, 1830, and Sarah Mariah, born Decem- 
ber 29, 1833. Mr. Simpson was an active 
worker in the Democratic party, and served 
his township in many offices of trust, and was 
justice of the peace. 

A. S. Simpson, son of James and Violet 
(Scott) Simpson, was born January 3, 1821, in 
Belmont County, Ohio, where his boyhood and 
youth were spent on his father's farm. He 
early manifested an acuteness of intellect, as 
well as a strong desire for study, and at the age 
of twenty-one he found himself fully fitted for 
the position of ' instructor, a profession he fol- 
lowed for many years. On March 26, 1857, he 
was married, by Rev. Israel Price, to Celia, 
daughter of John Davis, of German Township, 
and for about six years after marriage they 
remained on the old home place; then rented a 
farm near by, on which they lived for two ye%rs, 
when they bought the place where the family 
at present reside in Green Township, Har- 
rison County. One child was the result of 
this union, named James William Alexander. 
The father died November 3, 1884, and was 
buried in Beech Spring Cemetery. His widow 
and son still reside on the farm, which has 
been under the management of the latter since 
his father's death. In politics A. S. Simpson 



was a Democrat, and was several times honored 
by his party with offices of trust in his town- 
ship. He was a member and active worker in 
the Beech Spring Presbyterian Church, as are 
his widow and son. 

J. W. A. Simpsox. sou of A. S. and Celia 
(Davis) Simpson, was born in Harrison County, 
Ohio, Novembor 30, 1858, and was reared to 
farm life, attending the common schools of his 
district. On November 29, 1883, he was 
united in marriage with Elizabeth T. , daughter 
of Moses Thompson, of Hopedale, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. They were married by Rev. Jamie- 
son and Rev. Parks. This union has been 
blessed with two children: John Davis, born 
September 24. 1884, and Frank Hoobler, born 
March 3, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have 
always resided, since their marriage, on the old 
home farm left by his father. He is a strong 
supporter of the Democratic party, and numbers 
among the rising young men of his section. 

William Simpson, third son of James and 
Violet (Scott) Simpson, and only surviving 
member of their family (retaining the Simpson 
name), was born in Belmont County, Ohio, 
April 30, 1825. He was educated at the 
schools of his neighborhood, attending also to 
the various duties of the farm. Like the Simp- 
son family, generally, he is a zealous Demo 
crat, and has always taken a deep interest in 
the political campaigns of his times. From his 
youth he has been a consistent member, and 
for quite a while an officer in the Presbyterian 
Church of Beech Spring, and has always taken 
an active and prominent part in the advance- 
ment of religious and social reform. 



JW. FERRELL, the subject of this bio- 
graphical sketch, was born August 13, 
1837, in Burnley Township. Harrison Co., 
Ohio. His grandfather, James Ferrell,a 
native of Maryland, was married to Naomi 
Hitchcock, who lived in Harrison County. In 
early life they settled in Archer Township, where 
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land on which they remained during their lives. 
They were the parents of the following named 
children: Charles, John, Ibby, Jane, Thomas, 
Rachel and Mary. James Ferrell died Novem- 
ber 12, 1849, in the eighty-third year of his age, 
his wife joining bim in the silent land Novem- 
ber 17, 1855, in the eighty fourth year of her 
age. Thomas Ferrell, the father of J. W. Fer- 
rell, was born August 21, 1808, and until about 
twenty years of age received the advantages of 
the common schools. He then attended the 
high school at Cadiz. After teaching school for 
some time he entered the ministry in the United 
Brethren Church, and acquitted himself with 
credit in both professions. On March 19, 1829, 
he was married to Margaret Lemasters, daughter 
of Isaac Lemasters, a resident of Archer Town- 
ship. His children were John N., living in and 
practicing law in Orville, Wayne Co., Ohio; 
Susan J., deceased; J. W., living in Archer 
Township, Harrison County; Elizabeth A. and 
Nancy M. R. , living in Union Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio. Thomas Ferrell was a Republican 
in politics, and although not active, still worked 
zealously for the advancement of his party. His 
death occurred November 29, 1875, and he was 
buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. His widow 
died August 21, 1885, and was buried beside 
him. 

J. W. Ferrell remained at home until about 
twenty- four years of age, when he commenced 
farming on the old Ross Farm in Archer 
Township, remaining there several years. In 
the spring of 1869 he purchased a farm in Archer 
Township, Harrison County, and November 11, 
same year, he was married to Mary Palmer, 
daughter of John Palmer, a resident of Carroll 
County. On December 29, following, he moved 
to his farm in Archer Township where he now 
resides. On March 8, 1879, his wife, Mary Fer- 
rell died, leaving five children to mourn their loss, 
and comfort the bereaved husband. The names 
of his children are as follows: Harry L.. born 
September 2, 1870; Carrie A., born July 7. L872; 
Jessie E., born July 14, 1873; J. Howard, born 
December 6, 1874; Thomas T., born November 



18, 1876. On June 29, 1882, Mr. Ferrell was 
married to Jane A. Stewart, daughter of James 
Stewart, a resident of Stock Township, Harrison 
County. He represents one of the oldest fam- 
ilies, and retains and merits the respect in which 
thev were held. 




k\ILLIAM SKELLEY, is a well-to-do 
farmer of Green Township. Harrison 
County, and was born in Stark County. 
Ohio, August 6, 1831. His father, 
Robert Skelley, was born in Ireland in 1788, 
and was brought to America in 1792 by his 
parents, who settled in Ligonier Valley, West- 
moreland Co., Penn. The father of Robert, 
also named William Skelley, was married to a 
Miss Ferguson, both of whom died in West- 
moreland County, Penn., the parents of three 
children, John, William and Robert, all now 
deceased. Robert Skelley was a farmer, and 
remained with his parents until his marriage, in 
1816, with Miss Elizabeth Creighton, daughter 
of Patrick and Elizabeth Creighton, who were 
born in Ireland, but early located in Penns\ 1 
vania, whence they moved to Stark County. Ohio. 
where they died. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Skelley 
passed a few years in Pennsylvania after their 
marriage, and then, in 1820, came to Stark 
County, Ohio, where, about 1838, -Mrs. Skelley 
died, aged about forty-five years, the mother of 
nine children, named as follows: Sarah. Eliza- 
beth, John, Elinor, Elizabeth, Jane and Robert, 
all deceased; William, our subject, and James, 
in Milford, Kosciusko Co., Ind. In December, 
1842, Mr. Skelley, with his two sons, William 
and James, who were then but mere lads, moved 
to Green Township, Harrison County, and 
joined a brother, John Skelley. Here, in 1845, 
Robert married Hannah Miller, who bore him 
no children. His death took place in 1N6S, at 
eighty years of age. He was a man of moderate 
education, was a soldier in the War of L812, 
and was wounded at Fort Meigs, and also at 
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in other battles, and returned to his home in 
the fall of 1813. 

William Skelley, the subject of this sketch, 
was but eleven years of age when he came to 
Harrison County, and his first work was for his 
board and clothes, he being at that early age 
thrown upon his own resources. He secured a 
good common-school education, however, and 
early began teaching, his first school being 
opened in Green Township, when he was nine- 
teen. This vocation he followed four years in 
Green Township, and also taught one term in 
Illinois. His father had secured a land warrant 
for his services in 1812, and our subject and his 
brother, James, made an entry near Des Moines, 
Iowa, but later traded for other property in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, on which brother John 
resided two years. Selling this, our subject 
dealt in wild lands, and also town property in 
Hopedale, making his home on a small farm 
near the latter place. In 1862, at Hopedale, 
William chose as his life partner Miss Mary 
Frances Moore, daughter of James and Ellen 
Moore, and a native of Harrison County, whose 
mother died when she was small; her father 
died in 1884. To this union have been born 
three children, viz.: James R., born February 
9, 1865, now a teacher of shorthand, typewriting 
and commercial science in the Toledo Business 
College; Ella J., born December 14, 1871, died 
when two weeks old; Lizzie R. , born December 
15, 1872, died of diphtheria June 13, 1876. 
For six years Mr. and Mrs. Skelley resided in 
Harrison County, and in 186S moved to Uhrichs- 
ville, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, where they re- 
mained three years; they then returned to Hope- 
dale, where Mr. Skelley secured a half interest 
in the Hopedale Mills. In the fall of 1S72 he 
sold out and rented the farm on which he 
resides, but which he now owns, having come 
into possession in 1888. It contains 143 acres, 
and is chiefly devoted to sheep-raising. 

Politically Mr. Skelley is a Republican, and 
has held various positions of honor and trust. 
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and 
is charter member of the Knights of Pythias 



Lodge at Uhrichsville. With his wife he is a 
member of the Christian Church at Hopedale. 
He had some military experience, having en- 
listed in May, 1864, with the one- hundred-days 
men. He was commissioned second lieutenant 
of Company B, One Hundred and Seventieth 
O. N. G., and was stationed at Fort Simmonds; 
later he was sent to the Shenandoah Valley, and 
took part in the battles at Snicker's Gap, Win- 
chester and other places. He is a man of 
frugal, temperate, industrious habits, and un- 
tiring perseverance. What he undertakes, he 
rarely fails in accomplishing. Modest and un- 
assuming, he has never sought office or distinc- 
tion of any kind, and whilst he highly appreci- 
ates the approbation of his neighbors and friends, 
he courts the adulation of none. A constant 
reader — when business permits — he has pecul- 
iar literary tastes, and his library, though not 
large, is of rare quality. Candor and honesty 
are prominent characteristics in his makeup, 
whilst his uncompromising devotion to truth 
makes him fearless and outspoken in his advo- 
cacy of justice and right. A kind husband, an 
indulgent parent, a generous neighbor, an up- 
right citizen, in the full possession of his mental 
powers, he bids fairly for another decade of use- 
fulness and well-doing. 



Gl HARLES H. REED. Among the many 
. settlers who left their native State with 
f) the intention of making a home in what 
was then the Far West, may be men- 
tioned Thomas Reed, father of Charles H 
Reed, so well and favorably known in Green 
Township, Harrison County. The father of 
Thomas emigrated from England about the 
commencement of the Revolutionary War, and 
like many other aliens took up the cause of his 
adopted country, and fought valiantly and faith- 
fully through those long weary years. His 
family he brought with him, and soon after the 
close of the struggle they settled in eastern 
Pennsylvania. His children were named John, 
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Thomas. He was a strong Federalist in his 
convictions, and an ardent supporter of that 
party. A member of the Presbyterian Church 
in early life, he joined the Seceder Church upon 
its organization, and remained a member of the 
same until his death. His remains now rest in 
Pennsylvania. 

Tbomas Reed's early life was passed in 
farming and attending the common schools. In 
1799 he was married to Mary Walker, who bore 
him the following named children: William 
and John. In 1803 this wife died and was 
buried in Fayette County, Penn. In 1808 he 
was united in marriage with Nellie Stone, of 
Pennsylvania, a daughter of Rev. Benjamin 
Stone, a minister of the Close Communion 
Baptists. After their marriage they remained 
a short time in Pennsylvania, but soon deciding 
to move westward, they came to Jefferson 
County, Ohio, where they purchased a farm. 
The following named children were born to 
them: Mary, Sarah, Rachel, Jeremiah, Charles 
H. , Benjamin, McNara, Thomas, Eleanor and 
Nancy Jane. Mr. Reed and family attended 
the Presbyterian Church at Bloomfield, Jefferson 
County; his wife was a member of the Baptist 
Church at Pine Run; in politics he was a Whig. 
In 1833 they moved to Coshocton County, where 
he remained; in 1853 the father died and was 
buried at Keene, Coshocton Co., Ohio; in 1866 
his widow died and was placed by his side. 

Charles H. Reed, the subject proper of these 
lines, was born April 8, 1818, in Wayne Town- 
ship, Jefferson Co., Ohio. He passed his early 
youth at the home of his parents, and at the 
early age of fifteen started out in life for him- 
self. He first sought employment in Coshocton 
County, where he remained about a year, re- 
turning to Green Township, Harrison County, 
where he has since resided. He has never mar- 
ried, but resides on the farm, his niece being 
housekeeper. Politically, Mr. Reed was a Dem- 
ocrat, but finally joined the Prohibition ranks, 
and now is a strong supporter of that cause, 
still holding to the great principles of Democ- 
racy — equal and exact justice to all men; 



" therefore rum, the great fraud of our land, 
must go." The Presbyterian Church at Beech 
Spring claims him as a member. He is the sole 
representative of his family, and retains the re- 
spect of his neighbors and acquaintances, which 
the Reed family always had. 



^\ EV. DR. R. G. CAMPBELL was born 
L/' in York County, Penn.. April 4, 1834. 

j\ His father, Robert, was also a Permsyl- 
■J) vanian, while his grandfather, William, 

was a native of Delaware, born of Scotch-Irish 
extraction. Robert Campbell was a farmer. aud 
was married in Pennsylvania to Miss Mary 
Gowan, a daughter of Alexander and Mary 
(Shaw) Gowan, of Scotch descent. In 1879, at 
the age of eighty years, Mrs. Mary Campbell 
passed from earth, and in 1883 her husband 
was called away at the age of eighty-one — she 
having been born in 1798 and he in 1802. 
They were the parents of five children, viz. : 
William, who died at the age of two years; 
Alexander G., of Martin's Ferry, Ohio; R. G., 
our subject; James Hervey, in Arkansas City, 
Kas. , and Isaac Williams, in York County. 
Penn. 

Dr. R. G. Campbell remained on the home 
place until twenty-one years of age. His edu- 
cation was begun at the common schools, and 
subsequently he studied Latin under Rev. Will- 
iam Carlisle, later attending a classical school 
at Perryville, Juniata Co., Penn.; he afterward 
taught several terms of school, and in 1S-V> 
went to Pittsburgh, and thence to Wheeling, 
Va., thence by boat to Bellaire, Ohio, by rail- 
way to Cambridge, Ohio, and on foot sixteen 
miles to Antrim. For three months he attended 
Madison College, under Rev. Samuel Findley, 
D. D. He then started on foot for St. Clairs 
ville, seeking friends in Belmont County, Ohio. 
On Wheeling Creek he found the farm of Jo- 
seph B. Smith, whose youngest daughter after- 
ward became his wife. He taught at Hendrvs- 
burg that winter, and the next spring entered 
college at New Athens, and graduated in Sep- 



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ternber, 1858. For two years previous to gradu- 
ation, however, he was tutor in Greek, Latin 
and the English branches. During this time 
he was thrown upon his own resources, but by 
economy carried himself through. He studied 
theology under Rev. D. F. Beid, of Unioutown, 
Ohio, spent three years at the seminary in Al- 
legheny, Penn., and was licensed to preach in 
April, 1861. In November, 1S63, he was or- 
dained pastor at Martin's Ferry, where he re- 
sided until September, 1867, and was then 
called to the presidency of Franklin College 
and the United Presbyterian Church at New 
Athens, Ohio. The presidency he held until 
1871. when Dr. A. F. Eoss came from Iowa t<> 
take charge of the college. Dr. Campbell held 
the pastorate for nineteen years, and for four 
years has been preaching at Eoney's Point, 
Ohio Co., W. Va. 

On November 3, 1863, Dr. Campbell was 
united in marriage with Euphemia E., daughter 
of Joseph and Eliza (Stewart) Smith, to whom 
allusion has already been made; the Smith fam- 
ily came from York County, Penn., about 1830. 
They were the parents of seven children — rive 
girls and two boys — of whom but two survive, 
one being Mrs. Eev. Andrew Gordon, a widow, 
of Monmouth, 111., who for twenty years was a 
missionary in India, and whose husband was the 
author of the work entitled "Thirty Years in 
India." The other daughter is the wife of our ! 
subject. In 1885 Dr. Campbell built his present 
house, which is pleasantly situated on a hill 
overlooking New Athens from the east, and here 
all the children are gathered. Their names are 
Carrie Lauretta, who taught languages in Frank- 
lin College for some time; Emma Blanche, who 
taught Greek, Latin and German in Franklin 
College, and was married June 5,' 1890, to Eev. 
H. G. Furbay, of Georgetown, Ohio; Eobert 
Addison, of Pittsburgh, Penn. ; Maggie Felicia 
and Edna Crete Garfield. The eldest three are 
graduates of Franklin College. 

Dr. Campbell has never taken an active part 
in politics, but is a Republican in principle, 
casting his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and 



of late years he has affiliated with the Prohibition 
party. Mrs. Campbell is a member of the United 
Presbyterian Church of New Athens; ber parents 
were formerly members of the old Seceder 
Church at Unity, Belmont Co., Ohio. 



fjOHN L. WOODWAED, one of the well- 
^. 1 1 known farmers of Short Creek Township, 
\J Harrison County, was born near Harris- 
ville, in that township, January 28, 1855, 
a son of Isaac and Sarah Ann (Thompson) Hague 
Woodward, former a native of Chester County, 
Penn., and now living on a farm near George- 
town; latter a native of Harrison County and a 
daughter of John C. and Mary Thompson. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Woodward 
located near Harrisville for a time, and then 
moved to near Georgetown, where they resided 
until the day of his death, October 5, 1890. 
Two children have been born to them: John 
L., and Mary E., now Mrs. William Hammond, 
of JeffersoD County, Ohio. The parents were 
members of the Society of Friends of near 
Georgetown. 

John L. Woodward, whose name opens this 
sketch, was brought up on the farm, attending 
in the meantime the common schools of his 
neighborhood; then for a time studied at Hope- 
dale College, in Green Township, after which 
he returned to the duties of the farm. On 
March 20, 1877, he was married to Miss Sarah, 
daughter of Isaac and Anna L. Thomas, of 
Short Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where she was born. She grew to womanhood 
in her native township, where for a time she 
taught school. Her father first saw the light 
on the farm where she and her husband now 
live, and became one of the founders of the 
Mechanics Bank of Cadiz, Ohio. After mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Woodward resided one year 
on the farm where his father lived, and in 1878 
he bought the Hargrave property in Short Creek 
Township, on which they moved and have since 
made their home. Two children have been 
born to them: Clara Edna, born November 29. 



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1879, and Walter Isaac, born March 23, 1884, 
both at home. Mr. and Mrs. Woodward are 
both members of the Society of Friends; in 
politics he was originally a Republican, but is 
now a Prohibitionist. The family are highly 
respected in the community, being classed among 
the most progressive in the county. 



P. C. & St. L. R. R. , Cadiz Junction, and James 
R. Mr. and Mrs. Cady are both members of the 
Presbyterian Church. 



d | AMES CADY, farmer, German Township 
Harrison County, is a son of John and 
Margaret (Parr) Cady, natives of Ireland, 
former of whom was a son of Joseph, who 
located in Reading, Penn., in 1783, and was a 
mason by trade. John Cady was born in County 
Tyrone, and came with his parents to Reading. 
He was the father of four sons and six daugh- 
ters, and was an early settler of Washington 
County, Penn. ; subsequently he moved to Cadiz, 
Harrison County, and lived there until his death 
in 1824. 

James Cady was born in Washington County, 
Penn., March 2, 1812, and received such an edu- 
cation as the schools of those days afforded. In 
1829 he commenced to learn the tin and copper 
trade, and in 1832 he moved to West Virginia, 
where he worked at his trade until 1838, when 
he moved to Flemingsburg, Ky., where he re- 
mained until 1842. He then returned to Cadiz 
and started in the tin and copper business, which 
he continued till April, 1856, when he moved to 
Cadiz Junction, and carried on an eating housi> 
till 1873. In 1862 he had bought the farm of 
220 acres on which he now lives, but did not 
move to it until 1883. On October 2, 1834, he 
married Miss Caroline T. Purdy, of New York 
City, and they became the parents of ten chil- 
dren, viz. : Isabel; William H, a tinner in Den- 
nison, Ohio; Dorcas C wife of William H. 
Randall, a Southern California laud speculator; 
Adeline E. ; Caroline T. ; Elizabeth A. ; James 
Ella, who was married to R. J. McCarty, for- 
merly agent at Cadiz Junction, P. C. & St. L. R. 
R. , both now deceased ; Lucinda M. , wife of John 
S. McKay, an engineer and machinist in 
Memphis, Tenn. ; John E. , a laborer on the 




DAM DUNLAP, the founder of the Dun- 
lap families now in Harrison County, 
Ohio, was born in Ireland, where the 
family had long been residents. They 
were engaged principally in agriculture, a call- 
ing which the family still follow. There is but 
little authentic history of the family antecedent 
to Adam. In his early life he was married to 
Rebecca Work, a resident of his native place. 
Their family was composed of twelve children, 
half being girls. With his family Adam re- 
moved to Ohio in 1812, and settled in Athens 
Township, Harrison County. The year previ- 
ous he and his son had erected a small cabin 
and cleared a small piece of ground. Their 
journey was long and tedious, over roads 
slashed through the woods, and in covered 
wagons. After much difficulty they reached 
their destination, and commenced pioneer life 
in earnest. We little realize at the present day 
what it means to come into a new country, cov- 
ered with forests centuries old, teeming with 
wild animals of all sorts, menacing not only 
the lives of the domestic animals of the settlers, 
but also those of the settlers themselves. Here 
on the tract he had entered Adam and his wife 
remained until death called them to their 
reward. From his advent in the county Mr. 
Dunlap took a prominent part in the politics of 
his section, and was considered one of the 
ablest and shrewdest members of the Demo- 
cratic party. In affairs of religion he also took 
a prominent part, as well as in educational ques- 
tions, believing, with many others, that in the 
community in which intelligence existed, as well 
as morality, there could be nothing but progres- 
sion and welfare. He was among the founders 
of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, and 
was one of the builders of the original edifice. 
On September 22, 1830, he died, and was laid 
to rest amid the scenes of his early religious 



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labors, and May 20, 1846, his widow followed him 
and was laid at his side. Of his family Kobert 
was born in 1794, coming with his father to 
Ohio, and settling in Athens, on the home place, 
where he remained until he was married to Mary 
Pattison, a daughter of Hugh Pattison, a resi- 
dent of Pennsylvania. Hugh Pattison came 
from Ireland with his family and wife, Nancy. 
They settled in Pennsylvania, where almost im- 
mediately thereafter Mr. Pattison died, leaving 
two small girls, who afterward married the 
Dunlap brothers. Soon after his marriage Rob- 
ert Dunlap commenced housekeeping in Athens 
Township, on what was then a new tract of 
land, and much of which he cleared himself. 
His wife bore him the following named children: 
Adam, Jr.,. in Athens Township; Hugh P., in 
Cadiz Township; and Samuel, Nancy, Rebecca, 
Mary and Robert, all rive deceased. In his 
politics Mr. Dunlap followed his father, being 
among the leaders in his section, and many 
times represented his township in the Demo- 
cratic convention. He held nearly all of the 
township offices in the gift of his fellow-towns- 
men, the duties of which were faithfully dis- 
charged. On September 29, 1852, Mrs. Dunlap 
died, and March 2. 1860, was followed by her 
husband; both now rest in Nottingham Ceme- 
tery. A self-made man in every respect, Mr. 
Dunlap retained and merited the respect of all. 
Adam Dunlap, Jr., was born October 2, 1820, 
on the paternal farm. From his early youth he 
was trained to industrious habits as well as eco- 
nomic principles. He early engaged in assisting 
on the farm, and there saw much of the manner 
in which his father met with success, and it is 
needless to say profited by the example so con- 
tinually before him. In February, 1845, he was 
married to Margaret, daughter of Samuel Mc- 
Fadden, and the young couple commenced their 
married life in Cadiz Township, where they re- 
mained about twenty years, when they removed 
to Athens, where their home has since been made. 
The children born to this union were as fol- 
lows: Robert, Samuel, Mary (deceased), Eliza- 
beth (deceased), and A. J. Like his ancestry, 



Mr. Dunlap, has been a Democrat, and, like 
them, takes an active part in the campaigns of 
the party. In his township he has been trustee, 
and also held other minor offices. He and fami- 
ly are members of the Presbyterian Church at 
New Athens, in which he is one of the liberal 
patrons and supporters. In 1803 Mrs. Dunlap 
died and was buried in Nottingham Cemetery, 
and June 27. 1874, Mr. Dunlap married Sarah 
Jane Dickerson, a member of the family of Asa 
Dickerson. of Cadiz Township; she lived about 
eleven months only, and was buried at Cassville. 
Mr. Dunlap engages in general farming and 
stock-raising, his farm being situated about two 
miles west of New Athens, and classed among 
the best in his township. 

Robert Dunlap was born November 14, 1845, 
and his youth and early manhood were spent at 
the home place, which he, as the eldest son, act- 
ively engaged in cultivating. The common school 
claimed his attention until about nineteen years 
old, when he ceased attendance. On April 20, 
1871, he was married to Margaret, daughter of 
J. J. McFadden, of Athens Township, and im- 
mediately commenced his married life on the 
place where he has since resided. His children 
are Mary and C. C. His farm is situated about 
two and a half miles from New Athens, where 
he engages principally in stock-raising. He is 
eminently successful, and is regarded as one of 
the rising men of his section. A Democrat in 
politics, he has always supported that party, and 
he and family are members and supporters of 
the Presbyterian Church at New Athens. 

Samuel Dunlap was born November 13, 
1847, in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where he spent his early youth. On March 16, 
1876, he was married to Annie R. , daughter of 
John J. McFadden, of Athens Township, and 
the children born to this union are Grace, 
George D. , Edwin J. and Adam. Mr. Dun 
lap is a supporter of the Democratic party, and 
he and his family belong to the Presbyterian 
Church at New Athens. 

A. J. Dunlap was born June 14, 1859, in 
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spent on the farm. His educational advantages 
were superior to those of the farm boy usually, 
and when he was in his twentieth year he en- 
gaged in teaching, which he followed for some 
time with eminent success. On June 9, 1887, 
he married Annie McAdarn, a resident of Moore- 
field Township. Harrison County, and after his 
marriage he came to the home place, where he 
has since resided, and which he at present is 
managing. Two children have been born to 
his marriage: Minnie E. and Craig B. A. J. 
Dunlap is a Democrat in politics, and he and 
family are members of the Presbyterian Church 
at New Athens. 



IiOHN DUNLAP, a son of Adam Dunlap, 
w. I was born in Fayette County, Penu.. in 
\J! J 785. and with his parents came to Har- 
rison County, Ohio, where he embraced 
the limited advantages of the common schools. 
Early trained to work, his whole life was one 
ceaseless round of toil, endeavoring to clear 
up his farm and render it productive and hab- 
itable. In his early manhood he married 
Nancy Dickerson, who was a resident of Fay- 
ette County, Peun. , and to this union were 
born Adam, Susan, Mary, Eebecca, Joshua 
and John. The father of these was one of the 
pioneer Democrats, and was considered one of 
the leaders of his party. One of the founders 
of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, he 
always was a liberal supporter of that faith. 
He died soon after his wife's taking away, and 
they rest side by side in Nottingham Cemetery. 
Joshua Dunlap was born in 1S'2'2 in Athens 
Township, Harrison County, where his early 
youth was spent. In 1847 he was married to 
Nancy &., daughter of Robert S. Watson, and 
the young couple proceeded at once to Morgan 
County, where they remained some eighteen 
mouths, and then returned to Athens. Here 
they reared the following family: Watson; A. 
C. (deceased); Rachel A. (Mrs. J. L. Scott), in 
Missouri; Mary J. (Mrs. Winfield Scott), also 
in Missouri; Louisa B. (Mrs. John Webb), de- 



ceased; and Susie (Mrs. John P. Dunlap). With 
limited advantages for education Joshua Dun 
lap was, during his life, an exceedingly intelli- 
gent man, one who exercised a beneficial influ- 
ence in the section in which he resided. He 
was a member of the Presbyterian Church from 
early youth, and in politics he inherited Demo- 
cratic principles, but he was too intelligent a 
man to accept them without investigation. In 
the fall of 1879 he was suddenly stricken with 
internal rupture, and on September 14 he died; 
he was buried in Nottingham Cemetery; his 
widow died in 1884, and was buried by his side. 
Watson Dunlap was born October 13. 1849, 
in Athens Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 
has here since made his home. He has fol- 
lowed farming for a business, combined with 
stock-raising, and has attained as much success 
as usually falls to the lot of man. On Septem 
ber 7. 1874. he was married to Mary A. Dicker- 
son, a resident of Athens, and two children 
have, blessed this union: Lizzie E. and Floyd 
C. From conviction and principle Mr. Dunlap 
is a Democrat, and takes quite an active part 
in the politics of his township. From early 
life he has been a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, to which also his family belong. He 
is the only representative of his branch of the 
Dunlap family who have so many years had 
the respect and confidence of all. He is a 
typical representative of such a family, and is 
worthy of them. 



djOSEPH DUNLAP, one of the sons of 
Adam Dunlap (sketch of whom appears 
I elsewhere in this volume), was born June 
29, 1818, in Athens Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. His early life was spent in dealing 
and working the home farm, where he remained 
until he was of age. His educational advan- 
tages were of a primitive character, and con- 
sisted entirely of that imparted during tin' shori 
winter school session of the district. His natural 
aptitude for learning, however, largely supplied 
the defect of instruction, and during his life he 



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has been an extensive reader and observer. He 
is well versed in the political questions of the 
day, as well as on the leading questions that 
have for the past half a century been before the 
people. A firm believer in Democratic doc- 
trines, he has been unswerving in his adherence 
to the principles enunciated by Jefferson and 
advocated by Jackson. On February 12, 1846, 
Mr. Dunlap was married to Julia Ann, dangh- 
ter of John and Hannah Hayes, residents of 
Pennsylvania. He commenced his married life 
in Mooretield Township, where he remained a 
short time, then went to Belmont County, and 
finally removed to Athens Township, where he 
has since resided. His children are as follows: 
Adam B., residing at Freeport; John A., in 
Athens Township; Harriet J. (Mrs. Israel How- 
ells), in Mooretield Township: Pattison, de- 
ceased: William H. , in Mooretield Township; 
Hannah F. (Mrs. Israel Shepard); Mary (Mrs. 
John Stephenson); A. M. and James V., in 
Athens Township; Cora B. (Mrs. James Green), 
in Rumley; Robert S., in Mooretield Township, 
and Le Grand E., in Athens Township. 

The family have for years been among the 
representative members of the Nottingham Pres- 
byterian Church, in which they are most loyal 
and earnest workers. September 3, 1878, Mrs. 
Dunlap died and was buried in Nottingham 
Cemetery. For the past few years Mr. Dunlap 
has been living with his son, A. M. , one of the 
rising and successful young men of his section. 

A. M. Dunlap was born May 20, 1860, in 
Belmont County, Ohio, where the earlier por- 
tion of his life was spent. His education was 
that of the common schools, and there was the 
foundation laid for the present knowledge which 
he possesses. On June 30, 1887, he was mar- 
ried to Laura J., daughter of R. L. and Sophia 
Moore, of Mooretield Township, and since his 
marriage he has resided in Athens Township, 
where he engages in general farming and stock- 
raising. Though yet a young man, still he is 
widely and favorably known in both the political 
and social life of the township. A Democrat, 
it might be said, from birth, he has steadfastly 



continued so, and always supports that party. 
He is one of the young men of his section whose 
success in life is almost a foregone conclusion. 



THOMAS WILSON COUCH, a widely- 
known citizen of Green Township, Har- 
rison Co. , Ohio, was born in Guernsey 
County, in the same State, August 26, 
1823, and is a son of Nathan Couch, a native of 
Fayette County, Penn. Philip Couch, the 
father of Nathan, was born in German}', but 
came to America when quite young, and lies 
buried beside his wife in Pennsylvania. 

Nathan Couch learned the trade of shoe- 
making in Pennsylvania, and after reaching his 
majority was married in that State to Annie 
McPeck. For a time the couple resided near 
Pittsburgh, and then came to Ohio, where they 
entered 160 acres of wild land in Guernsey 
Count}', which land Mr. Couch cleared, but later 
sold out and came to Harrison County with his 
family. Here he died in Green Township at 
seventy-five years of age, his widow following 
him to the grave some five years later, also aged 
about seventy-five. Their children were named 
as follows: Sarah, Joseph, Polly, Daniel, Eli, 
William, Mary, Jackson, Nathan and Thomas 
Wilson, all of whom are deceased excepting the 
last named — the subject of this sketch. 

Thomas Wilson Couch in his early manhood 
learned wagon-making, at which trade he served 
a full apprenticeship. At the age of twenty- 
one he left the parental roof and located at a 
post-office called Green, there to follow his 
trade, which post station has since developed 
into the thriving village of Hopedale, with post- 
office of the same name, and here Mr. Couch 
still makes his home. He was married to Miss 
Margaret, daughter of John Campbell, and a 
native of Guernsey County, Ohio, but in 1875 
this lady died, leaving six sons, viz. : Perry, in 
Green Township; Sutton, in Short Creek Town- 
ship; Welling and John, in Green Township; 
Wilson, in Cadiz, and Nathan, in Green Town- 
ship, Harrison Co.. Ohio. On August 7, 1876, 



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Mr . Couch chose, for his second wife, Miss 
Lydia Jane, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth 
Barcroft, of Harrison County. Joseph Barcroft 
was a native of Maryland, and was brought to 
Harrison County, Ohio, when a boy; his wife 
was born in Pennsylvania and came to Harrison 
County when twenty years old. She is still liv- 
ing in Hopedale, and has a family of eight chil- 
dren, viz. : Lydia Jane, Mary, William, Eliza- 
beth, Sarah Ann, Joseph, Ruth and Mahala. 
To this second marriage of Mr. Couch there has 
been born one child, Maggie Jane. Mr. Couch 
began life a poor man, but has made a success 
in his business, and is now in comfortable cir- 
cumstances. He is a Republican politically, 
but has never been an office-seeker. While he 
is a consistent member of the Church of the 
Disciples, his wife is equally devout in her wor- 
ship at the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



WASHINGTON J. VANCE. This mem- 
l\/' ber of the well-known Vance family 
V/V[ was bom July 23, 1844, in Belmont 
County, Ohio. His father. Swan C, 
was born near Wheeling, Va., May 111. 1798, 
and James, father of Swan O, was a native of 
old Virginia, to which State his father came 
from Wales. In 1800 James, with his family, 
came to Belmont County, Ohio, and purchased 
a farm in Wheeling Township, where he re- 
mained until his death, holding the highest re- 
spect of all. Swan C. Vance came to Belmont 
County, Ohio, when about sixteen years of age, 
and entered the employment of Thomas Mor- 
rison, a hatter, in St. Clairsville. He spent 
much of his leisure in reading and study, and 
so succeeded in acquiring the culture of mind 
that distinguished him in after life. He was 
married to Mary Chandler, a resident of Bel- 
mont County, but who survived but a short 
time, having borne him two children: Anna 
B. and Tersey Jane. Mr. Vance next married 
Sarah Bethel, a daughter of James Bethel, and 
to this union were born children as follows: 
James, deceased; Mary, deceased; Lucinda, 



(Mrs. James E. Judkins); John A., of Flashing; 

"Washington J., of Athens Township; Lousia 
E. (Mrs. Charles H. McCall). of Flushing. 
For many years Mr. Vance followed the trade 
of hatter, and in 1840 he purchased a farm in 
Flushing Township, Belmont County, on which 
he remained until his death, which occurred Sep 
tember H, 1885, his interment being at Rock 
Hill. On February 4, 18S7. his widow died. and 
was laid by the side of her husband. From 
early manhood he took a prominent part in the 
politics of his county, and was one of its most 
trusted leaders. He held the office of com- 
missioner of the county, satisfactorily discharg- 
ing the duties thereof for many years, and was 
also first assessor of his township under the 
new law of assessment; many other offices were 
given him by his party, whose trust he never 
betrayed. His family were members of the 
Rock Hill Baptist Church. 

Washington J. Vance spent the early part 
of his life in attendance at the common schools. 
At the age of sixteen years, iinbued with pa- 
triotism and love of country, he enlisted in her 
defense, joining, September 23, 1861, the Fif- 
teenth O. V. I., which regiment was sent to 
the South, where it was assigned to the Army 
of the Cumberland. He was actively engaged 
in all of the movements and battles of that 
army, including Shiloh, Stone River, Mission 
Ridge, Perryville, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, 
Atlanta and several others. In 1S64, his time 
of enlistment having expired, he re-enlisted for 
three years more. His regiment, on the march 
to Atlanta, was under tire from May 8 to Sep- 
tember 1, with the exception of three days. In 
all, he was engaged in twenty-three battles, 
and out of the original one hundred men in the 
company only seven returned. After the capt- 
ure of Atlanta his regiment was sent to Ten- 
nessee, to intercept Hood, where it was en- 
gaged November 30. 1864, at Franklin, and 
! also at Nashville, December 15-16, same year. 
j They were then sent to eastern Tennessee, 
where they received the news of Lee's surren- 
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where they remained until November 24, when 
they were returned to Columbus, and, ou De- 
cember 27 were discharged from the service. 
This made four years three months and seven 
days' consecutive service, with no leave of ab- 
sence from his company, a record which would 
be difficult to duplicate. On his return home 
Mr. Vance engaged in farming two years, then 
entered mercantile business, which he followed 
about, five years, and then re-engaged in farm- 
ing, which he has since followed. 

On November 15, 1878, Mr. Vance was 
married to Maggie McMillan, a daughter of 
William McMillan, a resident of New Athens, 
but she survived only a short time, dying Feb- 
ruary 24. 1881, leaving no family, and was 
buried at New Athens. On February 28, 1883, 
Mr. Vance married Maribah A. Pickering, a 
daughter of Joseph Barricklow, no children 
having been born to this union. Mr. Vance 
and family are constant attendants at and mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Rankin. In his politics a Republican, he has 
always done good service for that party, and 
has been many times honored by it with offi- 
cial positions. As a progressive man he is well 
known throughout the county in which he has 
a large circle of friends and admirers. 



d(OHN YARNALL, farmer, Moorefield, 
Township, Harrison County, is a son of 
' Aaron and Mary A. (Bell) Yarnall. Aaron 
Yarnall, who was a son of Thomas Yar- 
nall, a native of Washington County, Penn., 
was born about 1783 also in Washington County, 
Penn., and there grew to manhood. In 1811 
he migrated with his family to Ohio, settling in 
Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where 
he purchased 100 acres of land, on which lie 
erected a small log cabin, in which he resided 
for some years, when he replaced it by a more 
comfortable residence. The land was cleared 
by his own hands, and transformed into a beau- 
tiful farm. He was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church for many years, the services 



of which society were held for many years in 
what is known as the Old Fiester Mill, in Notting- 
ham Township. He died at his old home in 1S51 ; 
his widow followed him to the grave in 1857. She 
also was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Yarnall were 
born nine children, named as follows: Ziba, 
William, Aaron, Eli, Colver, John, Nelson. 
Lydia and Mary A. 

John Yarnall, our subject, the only one of 
the above-named children now living, was born 
February 27, 1827, in Nottingham Township. 
Harrison Co., Ohio, where he grew to manhood 
and was educated in the common schools. April 
21, 1S50, he married Miss Nackkey Rogers, and 
to this union were born three children: Henry 
H. , now in Tuscarawas County; Sylvester F., 
in Oberlin, Kas., and Jasper, deceased. Mrs. 
Yarnall departed this life in 1S61, and October 
14, 1803, Mr. Yarnall married Mrs. Elizabeth 
Rass, widow of the late Thomas Rass, and born 
June 28, 1S33, a daughter of Alexander and 
Sarah (Ramsey) Fulton, of Nottingham Town- 
ship. After his first marriage Mr. Yarnall lo- 
cated in Nottingham Township, and in 1870 he 
purchased the farm he now owns, containing 
100 acres on Section 12 in Moorefield Township, 
in the northwest corner, situated one and one- 
half miles east of the village of Moorefield, on 
the Cadiz and Cambridge road. Mr. and Mrs. 
Yarnall are the parents of two children, Mary 
R. and Ida B., both residing at home. The 
family are members of the Nottingham Presby- 
terian Church. 



ElLIJAH CARVER. Among the highly 
respected citizens of Freeport, Harrison 
I County, none enjoy the confidence of 

their friends to a greater extent than the 
subject of this sketch. The family originated 
in Germany, where for many generations they 
had engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. 
John Henry, the father of our subjct, was in 
early youth imbued with the spirit of adventure, 
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direction. Accordingly be enlisted as drummer 
boy in a regiment of Hessian soldiers wbo were 
preparing to start for America, and witb tbem 
be came bitber and fougbt through tbe en- 
tire Revolutionary War. Soon after peace was 
declared, be, having already determined to re- 
main in tbe new Republic, was united in mar- 
riage to Talitba Mitcbel, a resident of Nortb 
Carolina. Some time after marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Carver removed to Mount Pleasant, Jeffer- 
son County, Obio, where they arrived in 1 70S, 
and remained until 1803, wben tbey removed to 
Flushing Towusbip, Belmont County, remain- 
ing there until 1812, when Mr. Carver came to 
Freeport and purchased tbe farm where his 
death occeurred. His children were named as 
follows: John, Rebecca, Henry, Elizabeth, 
James, Ann and Abner, all deceased, and 
Mary, living in Iowa, and Elijah, in Freeport. 
Mr. Carver and family were consistent mem- 
bers of the Society of Friends. He was a man 
of strong convictions, and, while a member of 
tbe Federal party, still was a strong Abolition- 
ist. He never sought political preferment, but 
quietly attended to bis home duties. On March 
15, 1841, he passed away, and was laid to rest 
in Green Mount Cemetery, whither his widow 
followed him, March 14, 1845. 

Elijah Carver was born July 17, 1810, in 
Belmont County, Obio. His early youth was 
spent on tbe home place, where be found full 
employment in assisting in the usual duties, as 
well as clearing much of tbe land. In his early 
manhood he managed the home place, but after 
his marriage, which occurred November 26, 
1835, with Nancy Boals, a daughter of James 
Boals, a resident of Freeport, he moved to the 
farm where be has since resided. On January 
24, 1854, Mrs. Carver died, leaving tbe follow- 
ing named children: Henry B., in Washington 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio; Mary J. I Mrs. 
Thomas Sloan), in Minnesota, and James C. , in 
'Jambridge, Obio. On April 25, 1871, Mr. 
Carver was married to Narcissa E., daughter of 
Joseph Bevan, and tbe children of this marriage 
are Anna and Thaddeus. In his political belief 



Mr. Carver was originally a Whig, but is now a 
Republican; has taken an active part in the 
politics of bis section, and has been honored 
many times with office by bis party, both in 
township and county. In 1854 he was elected 
county commissioner, and so well did he dis- 
charge bis duties that he was urged to accept a 
renomiuatiou. This he refused until 1857, 
when he was re-elected by a strong majority. 
He and bis family are members of tbe Society 
of Friends at Freeport. The only representa- 
tive of a well-known family, Mr. Carver has, by 
bis upright life and enterprising spirit fully 
sustained the family record in these particulars, 
and has also won the confidence and esteem of 
all who know him. 



M 



RS. ELIZA WILSON, of Moorefield 
Township, Harrison County, is a daugh- 
I| ter of Jonah and Sarah (Joice) David- 
wj son, natives of Maryland. Jonah is a 

son of Samuel, whose father was a native of 
Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 
an early day, settling in Maryland. Samuel 
Davidson was born in Allegany County, Md., in 
1771; bis brothers and sisters were thirteen in 
number. Samuel Davidson married Mary Drake, 
a native of Pennsylvania. They were the par- 
ents of sis children, namely: Lewis, Jesse, 
Jonah, Mary, Hannah and Nancy. Samuel 
Davidson migrated to Harrison County. Ohio, in 
1812, and entered a tract of land in Washington 
Township. His cousin had come to this land 
prior to Samuel coming to it, and bad erected 
thereon a small log cabin, in which Samuel and 
family took up their abode, and in which they 
resided for some years. Samuel was a member 
of tbe Protestant Methodist Church for many 
years; his wife was a member of the Society of 
Friends. Jonah Davidson was born in Allegany 
County, Md., July 4, 1804, and. in 1812, came 
witb bis parents to Ohio, where he grew to 
manhood and was educated at tbe common 
schools. In 1829 be married Miss Sarah Joice. 
and to them was born, October 20, 1832, one 



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daughter, Eliza, in Washington Township, Har- 
rison County, on the farm on which her paternal 
grandparent first settled. Mr. Davidson died 
June 16, 1889; his wife died in 1859, a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church for a number 
of years. 

Mrs. Eliza Wilson was reared to womanhood 
on the home farm, and on August 4, 1864, she 
married James Wilson, who was born on the 
farm where Mrs. Wilson now resides: he was a 
son of James Wilson, Sr. , and Sarah (Brock) 
Wilson, natives of Virginia, who were among the 
early settlers of Moorefield Townsbip. James 
Wilson and wife were the parents of three chil- 
dren, namely: Jonah D., Sarah B. and James A., 
all residing at home. Mr. Wilson, previous to 
his marriage with our subject, had been married 
to Nancy J. Tarbert, who was born in 1836, a 
daughter of James and Nancy (McCollough) 
Tarbert, and to this union was born one son 
named Madison, who resides with our subject. 
Mr. Wilson departed this life in 1873. Mrs. 
Wilson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and enjoys the esteem of all who have 
the pleasure of her acquaintance. 



yjALENTINE TRUSHEL, one of the best 
known farmers of North Township, Har- 
rison County, was born there October 17, 
1846, and is a son of John Trushel, an 
old settler of the township and a native of Penn- 
sylvania, who came here with his father. Solo- 
mon Trushel, a pioneer and a great deer hunter, 
who died on the farm where our subject was 
born. John Trushel, in fact, reached his ma- 
jority on this farm, and for years he worked as 
a tanner, but the later years of his life were de- 
voted to farming. He married Fannie Little, 
who died in 18 1 6, aged eighty years, and the 
mother of thirteen children, viz. : Solomon, de- 
ceased; Eli, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Peter, 
in North Township; David, in Carroll County; 
William; Valentine, the subject of this sketch; 
Abraham and Joshua, deceased; Mahala; Eliz- 
abeth, widow of James Morgan, of Carroll 



County; Susanne, deceased; Mary, Mrs. Thomas 
Rea, of Monroe Township, Harrison County, 
and Sarah. The father of this family died in 
1884, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. 
Valentine Trushel was reared on the home 
farm, attending the common school a short time 
each winter. With the exception of one year 
passed in the West, he has never been away 
from Harrison County. In 1875 he chose as 
his life partner Miss Rebecca Stearns, daughter 
of William and Susan Stearns, of Carroll Coun- 
ty, Ohio, their present place of residence. Mr. 
Trushel brought his bride to the home farm in 
North Township, where, with filial affection, he 
continued to care for his father and mother in 
their declining years. To the union of Mr. and 
Mrs. Valentine Trushel have been born five chil- 
dren, named as follows: Ellen Dora, John Will- 
iam, Howard Franklin, Clara Susanne and Jes- 
sie Florence, all residing with their parents. 
Mr. Trushel is a Democrat in politics, but has 
never been an office-seeker, preferring to apply 
his time and attention to the duties of the farm, 
which consists of 134 acres situated two miles 
west of Scio, and which he devotes largely to 
stock raising, a specialty in which he has met 
with abundant success. The Trushel family, as 
will be perceived, is one of the oldest and most 
generally respected in North Township, and 
stands high in the esteem of the community. 



JESSE FORSYTHE. The earliest authentic 
record of the Forsythe family dates back to 
the time when they loft Scotland for Ire- 
land, from which country the family came 
to America about the middle of the eighteenth 
century. The family then consisted of John 
Forsythe, the grandfather of our subject, and 
his wife. Soon after their arrival they settled in 
Fayette County, Penn. , where their children, 
John, Robert, Jesse, Eli, Nancy and Elizabeth, 
were born and reared. The Forsythes were 
Presbyterians of the old Scotch school, and 
were rigid Conformists. They engaged in agri- 



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culture, which has ever been the chief occupa- 
tion of the family. 

Jesse Forsythe, the third son, spent his 
early life in Pennsylvania, where he was mar- 
ried to Mahala Patterson, who bore him the fol- 
lowing named children: William, bora March 
10, 1800; Maria, born September 25, 1801; 
Elizabeth, born September 21, 1803; Matilda, 
born September 21, 1805. Upon the death of 
his wife Mr. Forsythe was united in marriage, in 
1811, to Sarah Colvin, who bore him the follow- 
ing named children: Samuel, born January 19, 
1812; Harrison, bora January 15, 1813; Joseph 
D., born December 22, 1814; Nancy, born 
November 19, 1816; John, born June 15, 1818; 
Benjamin F., born March 15, 1820; Levi C, 
born August 2, 1S22; Rebecca, bora December 
1, 1824, and Jesse, born November 6, 1826. In 
1825 Mr. Forsythe removed from Pennsylvania 
to Harrison County, Ohio, settling on a farm in 
Washington Township, the lease of which he 
purchased from Stephen Vallow, and here he 
resided during his life. The farm was greatly 
improved under his care, and is now occupied 
by his son Jesse. From his earliest advent into 
the county Mr. Forsythe took an active part in 
the political affairs of his section, and so well 
did he discharge the duties which were con- 
tided to his care that he quickly became a 
leader in his party. He was a Whig, and at 
his death was strongly convinced of the party's 
integrity. Like his father, he had been a Pres- 
byterian, and had always been a promoter of 
that faith, but soon after his arrival in Ohio, 
however, he united with the Baptists, and 
assisted in the organization of that congrega- 
tion which is now known as the Corinth Church. 
A progressive and enterprising man, Mr. For- 
sythe did much to make Harrison County a 
leading one in the State. On November 5, 1857, 
he passed away, his wife having died June 24, 
1854 

Jesse Forsythe, the youngest child of the 
family, was, as stated, bora November 0, 1820, 
in Washington Township, Harrison County. 
Here he grew to manhood, and here he acquired 



the rudiments of an education which he has 
largely increased by subsequent study. Soon 
after leaving the common schools he began the 
study of law, and when nearly ready for admis- 
sion to the bar his mother died, leaving the care 
of the aged father to him. He immediately 
gave up all thought of being admitted, and un- 
dertook the management of the home place, thus 
sacrificing his hopes for the care of his parent. 
While deprived of the pleasure of study, owing 
to his time being largely devoted to the farm, 
he still took an active part in the political affairs 
of the county. His education, coupled with his 
native talent, as well as his knowledge of men. 
served largely to place him almost immediately 
in the lead of his party. For many years he 
steadily refused any nominations whatever, al- 
though always in attendance at the county, sen- 
atorial and congressional conventions of his 
party. In these he rendered efficient service, 
always supporting that candidate who, he 
thought, best represented the people. 

Jesse Forsythe, Jr., was married October 
26, 1854, to Eliza Dean, daughter of Samuel 
and Mary Dean, of Cross Creek Township, Jef- 
ferson Co. , Ohio. He commenced reading law 
in 1852 with his brother, Levi C. Forsythe, 
of Cadiz. His brother going in partnership 
with Judge Means, of Steubenville, and moving 
to that place, he then continued the study of 
law with his brother- in- law, Judge Lemon. 
His mother dying at that time he returned, at 
his father's request, to the farm to take care of 
the latter, and after the father's death he pur- 
chased the homestead farm. Col. Forsythe has 
never missed an election, and has always at- 
tended the caucuses, believing the best men 
should be nominated for office. He is a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, but always 
judges persons by their acts rather than by 
their profession. During the War of the Re- 
bellion he was elected colonel of the Third Bat- 
talion, Harrison County Militia. In 1877 he 
was elected a member of .the Ohio Legislature, 
served his term, but refused to be a candidate 
again, giving as his reason that the pay of a 



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representative, after deducting expenses, would 
not justify a man to neglect his own business. 
He has six children, viz. : Ben Franklin, a min- 
ister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; S. C, 
a farmer; John C now attending law school at 
Cincinnati; Mary D. France. Grant and Will 
S.. at home. His wife, nee Eliza Dean, died 
January 17, 1890, aged sixty-one years three 
months and twenty-two days, and was interred 
in Greenmont Cemetery, Freeport, on the 19th. 
She had been a consistent member of the Presby- 
terian Church of Deersville, Ohio, for thirty-five 
vears, having united with that church during 
the ministry of Dr. T. R. Crawford. 



I' I/ON. DAVID A. HOLLINGSWORTH. 

Y !Slj Among those whose names are indelibly 
II associated with the progress of Harrison 
■fJ County, Ohio, during the last quarter of 

a century, is the subject of this brief biograph- 
ical memoir. The influence a man exerts, in 
molding the character of a community, is told, 
not so much by the length of time he may have 
resided therein, as by his own individual char- 
acter and activity. 

David A. Hollingsworth, during his residence 
in Cadiz, has justly gained and keeps one of the 
foremost places in the legal, political, social 
and religious circles of his county. In the 
various positions of honor and trust to which he 
has been called, he has invariably proven him- 
self the man for the place; and in the legislative 
halls and in the councils of the State he has 
shown himself a deep thinker, a clear reasoner, 
an eloquent advocate, the champion of right, 
and ever the friend of the common people. In 
his legal practice, his counsel, based upon a 
thorough investigation of the principles of law, 
may always be relied upon as the real opinion 
of the adviser. So thoroughly has this princi- 
ple of "honest counsel" characterized his 
whole professional career that the community 
repose in him unquestioned confidence. The 
following sketch is but a faint outline of an 
honorable family and a most worthy citizen. 



David A. Hollingsworth, of Cadiz, Ohio, was 
born November 21, 1844, in Belmont County, 
Ohio. His father. Elihu Hollingsworth, is also 
a native of Belmont County, born in 1813, and 
is still (1890) living there with his wife, Lydia 
Ann Hollingsworth. He was a prosperous mer- 
chant at Flushing, and took a prominent part 
in public affairs until recently, when he retired 
from active business on account of advancing 
age. He was of the Society of Friends, but 
upon his marriage cut of the Society, in 1839, 
he joined, and has ever since been a member of, 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Levi Hol- 
lingsworth, father of Elihu, removed from Penn- 
sylvania, in 1804, to near where Flushing now 
stands, and there cleared out a farm in the 
wilderness, which he occupied until his death, 
in 1829. He was a lineal descendant (through 
a line of three direct ancestors, each named 
Thomas Hollingsworth) of Valentine Hollings- 
worth, Sr. , who, in 1682, came to America in 
the ship "Welcome" with William Penn, and 
who occupied many prominent positions in the 
colony of Pennsylvania, being a member of the 
Assembly in 1683 and 1687. and again in 1695. 
He came from Belfast, Ireland, but was origi- 
nally from Cheshire, England, and was of the 
Hollingsworth family established there A. D. 
1U22. The church of the family and the hall, 
both several centuries old and very much out of 
repair, are still standing; the family arms are 
on each. 

Valentine Hollingsworth' s first wife, Catha- 
rine, from whom the subject of this memoir is 
descended, was a daughter of Henry Cornish, 
high sheriff of London, who was falsely accused 
of treason and unjustly executed, in 1685, dur- 
ing the turbulent reign of James II. , of England, 
the bloodthirsty tyrant who was afterward 
driven from the throne by the Prince of Orange. 
The historians, Hume and Macaulay, record the 
fact, that, although King James subsequently 
discovered and punished the perjury of the wit- 
nesses against Cornish and granted an estate to 
his family, yet the cruel and atrocious character 
of his judicial murder did much to arouse the 




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people of England and hasten the revolution 
which, in 1088, resulted in the deposition of the 
king. 

Macaulay. in speaking of the execution, says 
that "he died with courage and many pious ex- 
pressions," although, as the eminent author 
adds: "In order that no circumstance of degra- 
dation might be wanting, the gibbet was set up 
where King Street meets Cheapside, in sight of 
the house where he had long lived in general 
respect, of the Exchange where his credit had 
always stood high, and of the Guildhall where 
he had distinguished himself as a popular 
leader.'' William Perm, who stood near him 
and witnessed the execution, afterward said that 
he "could see in Cornish's deportment the 
natural indignation of an innocent man slain 
under the forms of law." 

After the accession to the throne by William 
and Mary, in 168' t, this "wicked and infamous 
judgment,'' as Macaulay termed it. was an- 
nulled, and the consequent attainder reversed 
by a special act of Parliament. 

Valentine Holliugsworth's second wife, Ann 
Calvert, was a near relative of Cecilius Calvert 
(Lord Baltimore), founder of the colony of 
Maryland. His descendants are quite numer- 
ous in eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and 
Maryland; many of them till important posi- 
tions of honor and trust, and they are connected 
by marriage and otherwise with some of the 
most prominent families of that section of the 
country. A part of the original land purchased 
by Valentine Hollingsworth from William Penn, 
in 1682, is still occupied by his descendants. 
It is located on the east side of the Brandy wine, 
in New Castle County, Del. , not far from where 
the famous battle at the crossing of that river 
was fought, in 1777, between the patriot forces, 
under Gen. Washington, and the British, under 
Lords Cornwallis and Howe. 

The family and descendants of Valentine 
Hollingsworth in America, although generally 
adhering to the peaceful doctrines of the 
Friends, have been more or less distinguished 
as soldiers, in every war in which the colonies 



or the United States have been engaged. A 
number of them served under Gen. Washington 
during the Revolutionary War. and were at 
times personally intrusted by him with difficult 
and important duties pertaining to the welfare 
of the army. 

Lydia Ann Hollingsworth, mother of David 
A. Hollingsworth, is a native of Virginia. She 
was the youngest daughter of the late Barrack 
Fisher, of near Pughtown, in that State. He 
was of German descent, and was, at the time of 
his death, in 1830, one of the influential land- 
holders of the Shenandoah Valley. Although 
living in a slave State, and surrounded with the 
social and other influences of slavery, he re- 
fused to countenance the institution, and always 
cultivated his plantation with free labor. 

David A. Hollingsworth was educated in the 
public schools and at. Mount Union College. 
At the age of sixteen, June 27, 1801, he en- 
listed as a private soldier in Capt. James Wash- 
burn's Company B, Twenty fifth 0. V. I., and 
was engaged in several important battles and in 
some of the hardest, campaigning of the Civil 
War. After a service of about two years, his 
health having failed, he was honorably dis- 
charged on surgeon's certificate of disability. 
He studied law and was admitted to the liar, 
September 17, 1807, at St. Clairsville, Ohio. 
In September, 1869, he located at Cadiz, and 
has ever since been actively engaged in practice, 
both in the State and Federal courts. On mo- 
tion of Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, of Wash- 
ington, D. O, March 2, 1880, he was admitted 
and qualified as an attorney and counsellor of 
the Supreme Court of the United Stale-, and 
has since been of counsel in a number of im- 
portant cases in that court. In 1S73 he was 
elected prosecuting attorney of Harrison Coun- 
ty. Ohio. He was vigorous and active in the 
prosecution of offenders, and .--.ion established 
an enviable reputation as a criminal lawyer. 
He was re-elected in 1875, In L879 he was 
nominated by the Republicans ami elected State 
senator from the district composed of Belmont 
and Harrison Counties, receiving a majority of 



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over six hundred, although the district was at 
the time represented by a Democrat. He was 
re-elected in 1881 by a majority of over twelve 
hundred. In the Senate he took a leading part, 
serving as chairman of the Committees on 
Judiciary, on Federal Relations, on Privileges 
and Elections, and on Railroads, Turnpikes and 
Telegraphs. In the last mentioned position, he 
was especially vigilant in guarding the interests 
of the people as against the powerful railroad 
and other corporation influences of the State. 
Of his services in this respect, a writer, at the 
time, in one of the leading newspapers of the 
State, said: 

Senator Hollingsworth's voice and vote are always 
felt in favor of the common people as against corpor- 
ate monopolies, and the journals of the Senate will 
show his active and intelligent .support of all measures 
intended for the benefit of the working classes, such 
as those to provide for the safety and ventilation of 
mini's, to require railroad companies to construct 
fences, crossings and cattle guards at their own ex- 
pense, to give laborers a prior lien for their wages in 
the construction of railroads, to prevent the families 
of railroad employes from being deprived of the bene- 
fit of the homestead and exemption laws of Ohio, by 
the attachment of their wages in other States, to pro- 
hibit members of the Legislature and other State and 
county officials from accepting free passes on railroads, 
to prevent gambling in grain or cornering the provision 
markets, to preserve the purity of primary and other 
elections, and to prevent speculative or graveyard in- 
surance, which has been completely broken up in the 
State, by what is known as the " Hollingsworth Law," 
a measure introduced and successfully championed by 
him against powerful and determined opposition. 

He was also watchful of the agricultural in- 
terests of the people, and was the first member 
of the General Assembly to call attention to the 
threatened reduction of the wool tariff in 1883, 
which he did by securing the adoption of a joint 
resolution opposing the recommendation of the 
tariff commission on that subject. Senator John 
Sherman afterward presented the resolution to 
the Senate of the United States for considera- 
tion. Mr. Hollingsworth's most marked sue 
cess, however, while he was a member of the 
Ohio Senate, was as chairman of the Judiciary 
Committee, which led to his appointment as 
attorney-general to succeed Attorney-General 



George K. Nash, upon the promotion of that 
gentleman to be a member of the Supreme 
Court Commission. By the special request of 
Gov. Charles Foster, April 21, 1883, he resigned 
as senator and accepted the position of attorney- 
general for the unexpired term of Judge Nash. 
Among other legal questions claiming his offi- 
cial attention there were two of unusual impor- 
tance, involving as they did, the public revenues 
of the State. One related to the validity of an 
act passed by the General Assembly providing 
for the taxation of moneys, credits and personal 
property converted during the year into " green- 
backs," or other non- taxable securities, for the 
time the owner might hold such moneys, etc., 
during the tax-year. His opinion in support of 
the act happened to be the first one he was 
called upon to write after his appointment, and 
it naturally aroused the opposition of a num- 
ber of wealthy men in the State, who had pre- 
viously been in the habit of avoiding such taxa- 
tion by ignoring the law as unconstitutional. 
Many of the ablest lawyers at the bar also 
questioned his opinion, and it was promptly 
taken into the courts for adjudication. After a 
number of contrary decisions in the lower courts, 
it finally reached the Supreme Court of the 
United States at Washington, where it was suc- 
cessfully argued and sustained by Gen. Hol- 
lingsworth. 

The other question grew out of the en- 
forcement of what was known as the ' ' Scott 
Liquor-tax Law." The collection of this tax 
was resisted by the saloon keepers of the State, 
who employed Ex-Gov. Hoadly to argue the 
constitutionality of the act before the State Su- 
preme Court. Gen. Hollingsworth presented 
and argued the case on behalf of the State. In 
an elaborate opinion delivered by the late Judge 
McHvaine, the court sustained the law. Its 
provisions, however, were subsequently nullified 
by a partisan decision in 1884, after the person- 
nel of the court had changed. But this latter 
decision was never accepted as sound law, either 
by the people or bar of the State, and soon af- 
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enacted the law in the form now found on the 
statute books, and known as the "Dow-Law." 
Its validity has long since ceased to be ques- 
tioned. At the close of his term of office Gen. 
Hollingsworth declined to be a candidate for elec- 
tion to the position, and on January 14, 1884, 
voluntarily resumed the practice of law at 
Cadiz. The Ohio State Journal, of the same 
day. contained the following editorial mention 
of the fact: 

Attorney-Genera] Hollingsworth, after a busy term 
of eight mouths, to-day retires from office, leaving a 
clear docket for his successor. Besides attending 
to the usual number of trial causes in the Supreme 
and other courts on behalf of the State, he has offi- 
cially rendered exactly two hundred written opinions, 
and has collected and paid into the State treasury the 
sum of $40,652.76. He will return to Cadiz, and here- 
after devote his attention exclusively to private prac- 
tice. 

Mr. Hollingsworth, ever since his location in 
Cadiz, has been favorably known in connection 
with the public and business enterprises of the 
town and county. He acted as president of the 
First National Bank of Cadiz for a number of 
years, but finding that its duties interfered too 
much with his increasing legal business, he 
resigned, and has since devoted his time en- 
tirely to the law. He has always taken an 
active interest in political questions, contribut- 
ing each year of his time and means to the sup- 
port of the principles and candidates of the 
Republican party. In 1S82 he acted as tem- 
porary chairman of the Republican State Con- 
vention, and has at times been prominently 
mentioned by the press of the State in connec- 
tion with the Republican nomination for gov- 
ernor, and also for supreme judge, but has never 
personally encouraged the use of his name for 
either. In 1888 the Republicans of Harrison 
County, under the leadership of the venerable 
John A. Bingham, of Cadiz, presented his name 
to the Republican District Convention as a suit- 
able candidate for Congress, but they were un- 
able to secure his nomination, owing to a feeling, 
in some parts of the district, that the nomina- 
tion, at that time, belonged to one of the other 



counties. His friends, however, had reason to 
feel proud of the support he received, and es- 
pecially of the eloquent tribute paid him by 
Mr. Bingham, who, among other generous 
words of commendation, said that it was a real 
pleasure to him to speak in behalf of his "friend 
and neighbor, the unanimous and voluntary 
choice of his county, who," he assured the con- 
vention, "was the peer of any man who had 
ever aspired to a nomination in the district; a 
gentleman whose character was without stain 
or shadow; a soldier whose courage had been 
tried in the battle's front amid the enemy's 
shot and shell; a Republican of unquestioned 
fidelity; a patriot; a ripe scholar; a man of the 
people — fit to represent, not only a district, but 
the American people, in the Congress of the 
Nation." 

In April, 1875, Mr. Hollingsworth was mar- 
ried to Miss Linda McBean, daughter of the 
late Dr. John McBean, of Cadiz, a native of 
Scotland, and a noted physician and scholar. 
They have one child, Donald McBean Hollings- 
worth, born July 1, 1885; their first child, Henry 
McBean Hollingsworth, born February 14, 1876, 
died January 19, 1881. 



QEORGE HECKLER, another of the well- 
, to do progressive merchants of Scio, Har- 
rison County, is a native of Germany, 
, l having been born in September, 1838. 
His father, Henry Heckler, was married in the 
Fatherland to Margaret, and they came with 
their family to America in 1848, settling in Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio, where he carried on farm- 
ing. They were blessed with five children, viz.: 
George; John, in Williams County, Ohio; Eliza- 
beth, wife of Frederick Seaman, and Catherine 
and Michael, deceased. The mother died in 
1848, and the father five years later at the age 
of filty-four. 

George Heckler, the subject proper of these 
lines, was ten years old when his parents brought 
him to America, and when twelve years of age 
he started out in life for himself. Coming to 



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Scio he here apprenticed himself with George 
A. Weight bo the trade of carriage-making, and 
afterward worked for him in Scio for twenty 
years. Mr. Heckler then moved to a farm in 
Carroll County, and for some time followed 
agricultural pursuits, after which he returned 
to Scio. where he opened out a grocery store, 
which he has since continued, and which has 
grown to be one of the largest businesses in the 
place, being now a general store with complete 
stocks of dry goods, groceries, queensware, etc. 
In October. 1861, Mr. Heckler was united 
in marriage with Miss Mary M., daughter of 
Benjamin and Charity (Webb) Amos, by which 
union six children have been born, viz.: John 
William, a dentist in Kansas City, Mo. ; Dais; l>.. 
married to J. B. Wooster, who is engaged in 
mercantile business in Buffalo, N. Y. ; Harry 
B., also a dentist in Kansas City; Lizzie Ger- 
trude, Jennie A. and Ida, at home. Politically 
Mr. Heckler is a Republican, and has held va- 
rious township offices of trust; he is a member 
of the K. of P. and I. O. O. F. He is owner 
of the block in which his store and residence are. 



||OHN SHULTZ. farmer and stock raiser, 
w I Monroe Township, Harrison County, was 
yjl born March 31, 1843, on the farm where 
he now resides. His father. Solomon 
Shultz, a native of Germany, born in 1799, im- 
migrated to America and located in the eastern 
part of Harrison County, Ohio, where he mar- 
ried Rachel Knoff, a native of Maryland, born 
in 1801, and who had come to Ohio with an 
aunt when but a girl of twelve years, her parents 
having died when she was young. About 1887 
Mr. and Mrs. Shultz settled on a farm in Mon- 
roe Township, and began to clear and improve 
the land. The country was a wilderness at that 
time, and they were among the early settlers of 
this region. They did their threshing with a 
flail, and hauled the wheat forty miles to Steu- 
benville to market, selliug it for twenty rive 
cents per bushel. Wolves, deer and bears were 
plentiful. Mr. Shultz died January L5, 1878, 



and his widow March 3, 1888. Eight children 
were born to them, seven of whom are now 
living. 

John Shultz, our subject, the youngest 
child in the family, grew to manhood with his 
parents, and was educated in the early log 
school-house. In 1803 he enlisted in Company 
B, One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., as a 
"one-hundred-dayman." August 22, 1S72, he 
married Martha A. Carter, a native of Jefferson 
County, Ohio, and a daughter of Basil and Mar- 
garet B. (Guy) Carter, both worthy people of 
Wheeling, W. Va., and early settlers of Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, where they did much to 
advance the country. Immediately after mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Shultz located on the home- 
stead, and his parents made their home with 
them until their death. Four children have 
been born of this marriage, viz. : Clarence H. 
(deceased when aged one and a half years), 
Rilla Rosella, Mary Belle and Burdella Eleanor. 
Mrs. Shultz is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church; Mr. Shultz is not a church member, 
but is liberal in the support of all religious de- 
nominations. He is a Democrat in politics. 



f/OHN WESLEY CASSELL, at one time 
^. I one of the active and progressive farmers 
\J, of Green Township, Harrison County, now 
engaged in banking business, was born in 
Frederick County, Md., December 27, 1821. 
His grandfather, John Cassell, a native of 
Germany, came to America, and here married, 
and carried on his trade of blacksmith, he and 
his wife dying in Frederick County, Md. Jacob 
Cassell. father of John Wesley, was born in 
that county and State April 15, 1799, and for a 
few years, while a resident of Maryland, he car- 
ried on a store, but during the remainder of his 
life followed farming. In 1821 he was married 
to Elizabeth Devilbiss, whose grandparents were 
from Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Cassell made 
their home in Unionville, Md. , until 1835, when 
they came with their family to Harrison County, 
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town of Cadiz. Here, April 18, 1867, at the age 
of sixty- nine years, Mrs. Cassell died, and Mr. 
Cassell then moved to Hopedale, to the home of 
his sun. John Wesley, where he was enlisted 
over to the " silent majority,'' January 7, 1881, 
at the advanced age of eighty-two years. They 
were the parents of four children, viz. : John 
Wesley; Leonard Asberry, residing in Cleveland, 
Ohio; Chelnissa Decker, who died in January, 
1888, and Mary, who died when a young girl. 
The parents had been for many years members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

John Wesley Cassell was, as will be seen, 
just fourteen years old when he accompanied 
his parents to Harrison County. When twenty- 
four years of age, he became united in marriage 
with Miss Eliza J., daughter of James and 
Sarah (Hayes) Knox, and a native of Cadiz, her 
parents having come to Harrison County in an 
early day. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Cassell settled on a farm he had bought near 
Hopedale, and here they shared life's joys and 
sorrows until 1870, when they sold their farm 
and moved into Hopedale, where they still make 
their home, their present dwelling on Cadiz 
Street, which was erected by him in 1874, be- 
ing the largest and most commodious in the 
town. They have no children. Our subject 
now carries on a general banking business, be- 
ing associated with J. B. Burton, in Kellogg, 
Jasper Co., Iowa. 

In 1804, in response to the call for "four 
months' men, "Mr. Cassell enlisted in the Seven- 
tieth O. N. G., which regiment was sent to 
Washington and then to the Shenandoah Valley, 
where it participated in several engagements. 
At the expiration of his term of service Mr. 
Cassell received an honorable discharge, and re- 
turned to peaceful pursuits at home. Polit- 
ically he was originally a Whig, casting his first 
presidential vote for W. H. Harrison, and on 
the formation of the Republican party he united 
with same. He has never been an office seeker, 
but has served on the election board and has 
acted as judge of elections. He and wife are 
members of the Disciples Church at Hopedale. 



YRUS McNEELY (deceased), who in his 
lifetime was perhaps the most widely - 
knoHh resident of Green Township, Har- 
rison County and vicinity, and practically 
the founder of the town of Hopedale, was a 
native of Harrison County, Ohio, born May '2.1, 
1809. His grandfather came to America from 
Ireland, prior to the Revolution. Andrew Mc- 
Neely, father of Cyrus, was a native of Berks 
County, Penn. , and when he was a few years 
old his father died. He was a hatter by trade, 
but at the age of forty commenced farming. 
In the city of Philadelphia he had married, in 
1800, Miss Sarah Bettle, a native of Philadel- 
phia, and, in 1802, they came to where now 
stands Cadiz, where the subject of this sketch 
was born. They had a family of three sons and 
three daughters, all of whom died in early life, 
excepting Cyrus, who passed from earth May 1, 
1890, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. 
In 1852 the mother died, when in her eightieth 
year, a Presbyterian in religion, though bom a 
Quaker, and in 1858 the father followed her to 
the grave at the age of eighty-six. In politics 
he was a Whig and afterward a Republican, 
was for four years a member of the Ohio Legis- 
lature, and for twenty years was a justice of the 
peace in Cadiz. 

Cyrus McNeely, whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch, when twelve years of age 
came into Green Township, Harrison County, 
with his parents, who settled near Beech Spring 
meeting-house. Here he grew to manhood, 
attending the common schools, and sharing in 
the duties of the farm. On May lit, 1837, he 
was married to Miss Jane Donaldson, of Cin- 
cinnati, whither he had gone on a visit, and 
then returned to the farm in Harrison County. 
In 1849 he moved to where the town of Hope- 
dale now stands, which place he laid out that 
year, and at the same time he established what 
he designed to be an improved country school, 
but which developed into the present widely- 
known non-sectarian college at Hopedale, and 
which stands on land bought by Mr. McNeely. 
He built the fiouring-mills still standing in the 



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valley, and made many other desirable improve- 
ments. On April 10, 1887, Mrs. McNeely was 
called from earth at the age of eighty years, the 
mother of two children: Lorenzo and Bryant, 
both of whom died early in life. She and her 
husband rest side by side in the private burial 
ground of the Donaldson family at New Rich- 
mond, twenty miles above Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Mr. McNeely continued to reside at Hopedale 
up to his death, excepting the time he spent at 
a sanitarium near Columbus, Ohio. Politically 
he was no enthusiast, and had not cast his vote 
for years, but was a recognized Republican in 
sentiment. In religion he and his wife were 
members of the Disciples Church at Hopedale, 
which society he had united himself with sixty- 
five years ago. 




\ILLIAM HARRISON, a leading and 
progressive agriculturist of Short Creek 
Township, Harrison County, Ohio, 
was born in that township November 
21, 1842. His father, Hezekiah Harrison, 
was a native of Maryland, and was born in 
1804, of English ancestry. In 1820 he came to 
Harrison County, locating in Green Township, 
where he and his brothers rented land. In 1829 
he was married to Miss Lydia Hilbert, daughter 
of David Hilbert, and six children were the 
result of this union, viz. : David, in Marion 
County, Kas. ; Albert J., who died in May, 
1889, leaving two sons, now residing in Cadiz, 
aged respectively twenty-three and twenty years 
(Albert J. was a soldier in the War of the Re- 
bellion, having enlisted in the One Hundred and 
Twenty-sixth O. V. I. ; at the battle of the 
Wilderness, under Grant, he lost an arm, which 
was ultimately the cause of his death); Henry 
H. , a dentist in Wheeling, W. Va. ; William, 
the subject of this sketch; Milton, who died 
when two years of age; and Arabella, who re- 
sides in Cadiz. Hezekiah Harrison, in partner- 
ship with his brother-in-law, David Hilbert, 
built the Union Vale Mill, which still stands. 



He and his wife made their home in Green 
Township until 1839, in which year they moved 
to Short Creek Township, where, after engaging 
in the occupation of farming, the mother died 
in 1869, at the age of fifty-six years, and the 
father, in 1877, when aged seventy-three years. 
Politically he was a member of the Republican 
party, and in religion he was associated with 
the Presbyterian Church. 

William Harrison, of whom this sketch is 
written, received a good common-school educa- 
tion, and was brought up to farm life, following 
that vocation until the breaking out of the War 
of the Rebellion, when he enlisted in the "United 
States Signal Corps, serving two years at Wash- 
ington City, and returning to Harrison County 
at the close of his term of service. In 1867 he 
was married to Miss Sallie A. Hargrave, daugh- 
ter of Joseph and Margaret Hargrave, of Har- 
rison County, Ohio, the parents of five children, 
viz. : William, in Archer Township, Harrison 
County; Joseph M. , in Jefferson County ; Sallie 
A. (Mrs. Harrison); Elisha, in Cadiz, and Mary 
O, wife of I. J. Thompson, in Mt. Pleasant, 
Jefferson County. After marriage Mr. Harrison 
carried on, for about ten years, a saw- mill and 
lumber business in Short Creek Township, and 
in 1877 they came to the farm where they now 
reside, not far from the old home farm where 
his parents and family lived for nearly twenty 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are the parents 
of four children, as follows: Caroline Hilbert, 
Frederick, Ralph B. and Claribel, all at school. 
The home of the family is situated about three 
miles from the town of Cadiz, adjoining the 
Cadiz and Harrisville pike. "There are eighty- 
seven acres of valuable land, where Mr. Har- 
rison carries on general farming and the grow- 
ing of small fruit. His farm is underlaid with 
a valuable and accessible vein of coal nearly six 
feet in thickness. He and his wife are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the New 
Athens District; he is a member of the F. & A. 
M. , and in politics is a Republican. Mr. Har- 
rison is a representative self-made man, his suc- 
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efforts, and be and his wife enjoy the respect 
and esteem of the community at large. 



^ AMTJEL DUNLAP, son of Robert Dun- 
lap, was born in Athens Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, December 24, 1825, and 
is a son of Robert and Mary (Pattison), 
Dunlap. Early in life he showed those habits 
of enterprise and sagacity that made him one of 
the successful men of his section. Closely 
trained to business methods, and having a nat- 
ural aptitude for dealing, his whole life was 
one of successful business ventures. His 
knowledge of books and the " Rule of Three'' 
was obtained at the common schools, and many 
times was the apprehension and comprehension of 
the student quickened by the application of the 
master's ferule. However, he later engaged in 
teaching in his section, and was successful in 
that profession; but not having a very strong 
desire to continue the duties of school teacher, 
which he found were severe as well as inade- 
quately remunerative, he engaged in farming 
and stock dealing, which he followed until his 
death. In 1857 he was married to Mary J., a 
daughter of Adam Dunlap. and the union was 
blessed with the following named chidren: 
William F., Emily and James P. (deceased). In 
his township he was many times honored by his 
party with positions of trust and honor, and at 
various times held the offices of trustee and clerk 
and others. He and family were members of 
the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, in which 
he had filled the offices of trustee, deacon, 
treasurer, etc. He died June 29, 1882, and was 
buried in Nottingham Cemetery. 

William F. Dunlap, son of Samuel and 
Maiy J. Dunlap, was born August 2, 1858. 
His early youth was spent largely on the home 
place, and since the death of his father it has 
been under his efficient management. On Octo- 
ber 211. 1SS5, he was married to Mary H., 
daughter of Samuel Dunlap, a resident of Not- 
tingham Township, Harrison County. The 
children born to this marriage are Emily Belle 



and Samuel P. William F. Dunlap is a Dem- 
ocrat, like his ancestry, and he and family are 
members of the Presbyterian Church at Not- 
tingham. He is an energetic and industrious 
young man, and bids fair to keep up the repu- 
tation for shrewdness which his father had. 



JOSEPH DUNLAP was burn in Athens 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, May 30, 
1834. His father, also named Joseph, 
was born in Fayette County, Penn., and 
at the early age of ten years accompanied his 
parents, who removed from Pennsylvania to 
Harrison County, Ohio, and settled in Athens 
Township. Adam Dunlap, the father of Joseph, 
married, in Pennsylvania, Miss Work, and about 
1809 started for what was then considered the 
Far West. After many hardships and diffi- 
culties incident to early travel, they arrived in 
Steubenville, Ohio. From this place to where 
they intended to settle, a trackless wilderness 
had to be traversed; but, undaunted, they con- 
cluded to push on, until by the most untiring 
efforts they reached the place of their choice. 
Much of the distance Mr. Dunlap was com- 
pelled to cut through his way. In Athens 
Township they finally built their log cabin and 
commenced the work of clearing. Twelve chil- 
dren were members of their family, all of whom 
are now deceased. Mr. Dunlap was a Demo- 
crat in politics, and his first vote was cast for 
Thomas Jefferson. He died at the age of some 
seventy years, his wife surviving him and dy- 
ing at the remarkable age of one hundred and one 
years. The father of our subject remained at 
home until the death of bis parents, caring for 
them during their old age, and assuming the 
duties which had been laid down by them. He 
was married to Sarah Gilmore, with whom he 
lived till her death, which occurred in 1S36; she 
left six small children. Mr. Dunlap was after- 
ward married to Mary Ann Brown, who died, 
and he was next united in marriage with Susie 
Webb; his death occurred March IT, 1879, and 
his remains were buried in Nottingham Ceme- 



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tery. He was a Democrat, politically, but was 
not an office seeker. 

Joseph Dunlap, whose name stands at the 
head of this sketch, remained at home during 
his youth, assisting materially in the cultivation 
of the farm, and for several years after attain- 
ing his majority he managed the home place 
with great credit to himself. On October 25, 
1885, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of 
Adam Dickerman, a well-known resident of 
Athens Township. After marriage he remained 
in Athens Township for about nine years, then 
removed to Noble County, Ohio, where he re- 
mained a short time, returning to Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison County; then went to Cadiz 
Township, remaining there but a brief time, 
when he purchased the farm where he now 
lives in Archer Township. The following 
named children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Dunlap: Sarah, born in L856; Jennie, born in 
1858; Lee D., born in 1861; Crittenden, born 
in 1862. Mr. Dunlap is a Democrat, though 
not active in politics. He is a self made man, 
and has attained his present financial success 
entirely by his own efforts. His family is one 
of the oldest and most highly respected in Har- 
rison County. 



J I AMES DUNLAP." > About the beginning 
of the present century the progenitor of 
' the Dunlap family in Ohio emigrated 
from Pennsylvania, making the journey 
overland with one horse and a wagon. He found 
the country a wilderness, and he often found it 
necessary to clear a way through the thicket, the 
journey lasting six weeks. He settled on a tract 
of land in what is now Monroe Township, Car- 
roll County, and there, surrounded by the dan- 
gers of frontier life, he and his family set to work 
to clear the land and build up for themselves a 
home, where they resided until their deaths. 
Among the children of Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap 
was a son named David, who was born in Penn- 
sylvania, and when a lad came with his parents 
to Ohio. He assisted them in the early struggles 



in clearing the farm, and grew to maturity in 
the wilderness. He married Mary Ann Kail, a 
native of Carroll County, Ohio, whose parents 
were early pioneers there, and she died about 
1843, leaving four children, of whom our subject 
is the second in order of birth. He was born in 
a log cabin on his father's farm in Carroll County, 
Ohio, August 0, 1S36. His mother died when 
he was but a small lad; his father afterward 
married Jane Logan, and they now are living in 
Carroll County. 

James Dunlap grew to maturity in his boy- 
hood home, and experienced those privations 
that fell to the lot of pioneer boys. His cloth- 
ing was all home manufacture, and with his 
home-made pants on he felt as proud as though 
dressed in broadcloth. His educational advan- 
tages consisted of a few weeks' schooling during 
the winter at the old school-house, with its rude 
furnishings, and he began life for himself as a 
common laborer, working on a farm for ten dol- 
lars per month. In 1859 Mr. Dunlap married 
Miss Mary Jane McHugh, a native of Union 
Township, Carroll County, and located on a 
farm. In the fall of 1SG7 Mrs.Dunlap died, leav- 
ing two children : Julia Violet (deceased at five 
years), and Laura B., now Mrs. John Timmer- 
man, of Bowerston. December 26, 1870, Mr. 
Dunlap married Miss Martha Willett, a native 
of Carroll County, Ohio, born November 10, 
1845, a daughter of James and Salinda (Newell) 
Willett. Her paternal grandparents, John and 
Martha Willett, at an early day were pioneers in 
Ohio from Cumberland Count}', Penn., and were 
married in Pennsylvania; her maternal grand- 
parents, Peter and Christina. Newell, came to 
Ohio from New Jersey about the same time. 
Mrs. Dunlap vividly remembers the old log 
school-house, where she was first taught the 
rudiments of an education. Mr. and Mrs. Dun- 
lap now reside on their place adjoining Bowers- 
ton, where they have a pleasant home and enjoy 
a handsome competence, which is the result of 
their own personal efforts. Three children make 
glad their household, as follows: William Burt, 
born August 12, 1872; John N. , born December 



HAERISON COUNTY. 



lO'.t 



38, 1S74, ami James Lewis, born September 1 1, 
1882. Mrs. Dunlapis a member of the Method 
iet Episcopal Church atBowerston; Mr. Dunlap 
is a Democrat in politics, is township trustee, in 
which capacity he served before; has also served 
as a member of the board of education. Mr. 
Dnnlap has traveled quite extensively through 
the West, buying and selling cattle and stock of 
all kinds. He owns property in Jasper County. 
111., and has landed interests in the West. 



THOMAS HOPKINS, a retired merchant 
and one of the oldest citizens now living 
in Moorefield, Harrison County, is a son 
of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Bourne) 
Hopkins, natives of Ireland. Benjamin was a 
son of Nicholas, a native of County Wicklow, 
Ireland, but the grandfather of Nicholas was a 
native of England. Nicholas Hopkins was the 
father of seven children, named as follows: 
Joseph, Edward, John, William, Benjamin, 
Isabelle and Fannie. Benjamin Hopkins was 
born about 1790, some forty miles from Dublin, 
in County Wicklow, Ireland. He and his wife 
reared a family of six children, named Nicholas, 
John, Matthew, Thomas, Ann and Rebecca, 
Thomas and John being the only two who ever 
left Ireland. John immigrated to London, 
Ontario, Canada, where he was employed for 
twenty years by the Great Western and Grand 
Trunk Railroad Companies; he died at his home 
in London, Canada, in 1888. 

Thomas Hopkins, our subject, was born 
June 21, 1821, and received a practical business 
education in County Wicklow, Ireland, where he 
grew to young manhood. In his youth he 
served an apprenticeship of live years in a 
country store in the village of Shillelagh, 
County Wicklow. Soon after he left Shille- 
lagh, and his health then failing, he was ad- 
vised by medical men of Dublin to take a sea 
voyage, and consequently he sailed for the 
United States. He came to Freeport, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where he remained one year, and 
then spent one year in Ottawa, Canada (then 



known as Byetown); then returned to Ireland, 
where he spent six years in a dry-goods house in 
Dublin. In L849 became, the second time, to 
the United States, landing in New York City, 
where he remained for a short time, when lie 
again went to Ottawa, Canada. The same year 
he came to Freeport, Ohio, where he engaged in 
a general store as salesman for one year. In 
1850 he came to Moorefield and engaged in 
mercantile business in company with Nelson 
Driggs. In 1852 Mr. Driggs sold his interest 
to Parsons & Hollovvay, and in 1854 our subject 
purchased their interest in the business. In 
187S he sold one-half interest in the business 
to Anderson Wallace, and in 1883 he sold the 
other half to Mr. Wallace. 

On April 22, 1862, Mr. Hopkins married 
Miss Sophia Green, who was born in 1827, a 
daughter of John and Mary (Hole) Green, of 
Freeport, Ohio, and to this union were born two 
children: Mary E., who died January 20, 1886, 
and Annie, who resides with her father. Mrs. 
Hopkins departed this life October 23, 1879. 
She was an active member of the Friends So- 
ciety for many years, while Mr. Hopkins has 
been a member of the English Episcopal Church 
all his life. Politically ho is a Republican, and 
has served his township as treasurer for several 
years. Mr. Hopkins has been very successful 
in his business pursuits, and is the owner of 
several hundred acres of laud in Harrison and 
Belmont Counties. He is highly respected by 
all who know him. 



iT^-EORGE H. COLLINS, postmaster at 
I f Piedmont, Ohio, is one of the leading 
\J merchants of Moorefield Township, Har- 
>|i rison County. He is a son of Zachariah 
and Rachel (Willoughby) Collins, and was born 
in Moorefield Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
September 2. 1850. He was reared on a farm, 
and when nineteen years of age entered Hope- 
dale College, where he spent two and one-half 
years, and after leaving Hopedale he attended 
Eastman's Business College of Poughkeepsie, 



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N. Y. , from which he graduated September 3, 
1878. He spent the fall and winters of 1870 
and 1871, 1872 and 1873, 1873 and 1874, 1875 
and 1870, 1876 and 1877, in teaching; the first 
two terms were taught in Flushing Township, 
Belmont Co., Ohio, in what is known as the 
Bethel District; the remaining terms were taught 
in the Plum Run District, in Mooretield Town- 
ship. In the fall and winter of 1879 he erected 
his present store building and dwelling, and 
April 28, 1880, began business. 

On May 11, 1880, Mr. Collins married Miss 
Elizabeth A. Hilbert, who was born in German 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, February 6,1851, 
a daughter of Henry and Margaret (Finnicum) 
Hilbert. This union has been blessed with two 
children, namely: Earl H., born April 9, 1881, 
and Clara M., born June 22, 1883. On January 
29, 1884, he was appointed postmaster at Pied- 
mont, receiving his commission February 13, 
1884, it being dated at "Washington, D. O, and 
signed by W. Q. Gresham, Postmaster-General, 
February 5, 1884. Mr. Collins held the office 
till September 11, 1886, when he was retired by 
the Democratic administration; but May 31, 
18S9, he was reappointed, receiving his com- 
mission June 18, signed by John Wanamaker, 
Postmaster-General, dated Juno 14, 1889. 

When Mr. Collins started in business at Pied- 
mont, he had had no experience and very little 
capital, but success has been his lot. He is now 
one of the leading business men of the county, 
and is highly esteemed by those who know him. 
Although he is not a member of any church, he 
is a liberal supporter of the Gospel. His wife is 
a member of the Lutheran Church of New Jef- 
ferson, Harrison County. 



THE CULBERTSON FAMILY. The first 
of this family (in Harrison County) to 
come to America was Robert Culbertson, 
a native of Ireland, where he married. 
This wife died in the Emerald Isle, leaving 
four children: James, John, Samuel and Eze- 
kiel, all now deceased, and all of whom came 



with their father, in 1811, to these shores and 
to Ohio, where they settled on a piece of partly 
improved land, situated one mile northeast of 
New Athens, in what is now Harrison County. 
By his second wife, whom he married in Ire- 
land, Robert Culbertson had ten children, viz. : 
Thomas, Robert, Benjamin, William, Hugh and 
Joseph, all deceased; George, in Muskingum 
County, Ohio; Annie, widow of Thomas Pol- 
lock, living in Guernsey County, Ohio; Mary, 
who died when eight years old, and Gillespie, 
in New Athens, Harrison County. The father 
died at the age of eighty-seven years, and was 
buried on Christmas day, 1840; he had been a 
stonemason in his native land, but after coming 
to Ohio, he followed farming exclusively. Po- 
litically he was always a stanch Democrat, and 
in religion he was a member of the Seceder 
Church. His widow survived him some time, 
dying at the age of sixty-seven years. 

Gillespie Culbertson, son of Robert, was 
born in October, 1816, in Athens Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and received his education 
at the common schools of his day. He was 
brought up to farm life on the old homestead, 
and never left his parents, whom he saw car- 
ried to their graves. On December 17, 1840, 
he was married to Miss Dorcas Holt, of Guern- 
sey County, Ohio, who bore him four children, 
as follows: John, living on the old Robert 
Webb Farm; Mary, deceased wife of Jeremiah 
Brown, of Monroe Township, Harrison County; 
Sarah Ann, wife of F. M. Cooper, living in 
New Athens, Harrison County, and Robert 
Holt, who died when seventeen years of age. 
The mother dying August 15; 1865, at the age 
of forty-seven years, the father wedded Novem- 
ber 8, 1866, for his second wife, Eliza J., 
daughter of James and Elizabeth (McKinney) 
Duncan, and a native of Guernsey County, 
where her parents died, the father in 1835, and 
the mother in 1861. By this union one child 
was born, Dorcas Eliza, now the wife of Samuel 
A. Kirkland. Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson remained 
on the farm, where he had lived for seventy- 
three years, until October, 1889, when they 



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moved into New Athens to live retired from 
active life. He bad succeeded on the death of 
his parents to the old farm situated a mile from 
New Athens, and now comprising 121 acres. 
Gillespie Culbertson died .September 11, 1890. 
He was always a stanch Democrat, his first 
presidential vote having been cast for Van- 
Buren. In his religious convictions he (as is 
his widow) was a member of ; the United Pres- 
byterian Church. Mr. Culbertson was never 
a very robust man, and for the past few years 
he required, in walking, the use of two canes. 

John Culbertson, son of Gillespie and Dor- 
cas (Holt) Culbertson, was born September 20, 
1841, on the old homestead, which has been in 
the possession of the family for nearly fourscore 
years. He was reared to practical farm life, 
and also acquired some knowledge of carpen- 
tering, remaining at home until he was twenty- 
five years of age, at which time, on November 8, 
1806 (the date of his father's second marriage), 
he was united in the bonds of matrimony with 
Miss Sarah Jane, daughter of William and 
Hannah (Waiters) McDowell, old residents of 
Athens Township, Harrison County, the former 
of whom died, the owner of 600 acres of laud, 
the latter still living in the township. Mr. and 
Mrs. Culbertson resided for five years after 
their marriage on a farm which he had rented 
of his father-in-law, and in 1872 he bought 
seventy-nine acres of laud west of his old home, 
where he carried on farming until 18S5, in 
which year he moved to his present place, which 
he had bought the year previous, and known 
as the old Robert Webb Farm, in Athens 
Township. In 1806 he erected his elegant and 
roomy dwelling on laud which bis father bad 
plowed fifty years before. It is of modern 
style of architecture, finished in hardwood, with 
a slate roof. It is pleasantly situated on the 
slope of the highest point of land in the county, 
commanding a view in one direction of sixteen 
miles, and of eight miles to the westward. 
The farm comprises 185 acres, all fenced and 
well improved, being fully equipped with com- 
modious outbuildings, and called the best in the 



townsbip, all things considered. In 1889 Mr. 
Culbertson purchased a lot of four acres on the 
old McConnell Place, which turned out to 
be the first point where his grandfather stopped 
in the county. To Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson 
twelve children bave been born, viz. : William 
M., John G., Samuel C, Charles Albert, Robert 
Holt, George Washington, Frank Clinton, Mary 
Jane, Emma Florence, Clarence Cleveland, all 
yet at home, an infant stillborn and Hugh AY., 
born June 28, 1890. The mother died Septem- 
ber 19, 1890, in her forty-fifth year. Politic- 
ally our subject is a solid Democrat, but lias 
never aspired to office; he (as was his wife) and 
four of the sons are members of the Presby- 
terian Cbureh at New Athens. 



IfAMES B. ROGERS, grocer, Cadiz, was 
k. I born in Cadiz Township, Harrison, Co., 
%J) Ohio, July 21, 1839, and is a son of Will- 
iam and Maria (Adams) Rogers. John 
Rogers, the paternal grandfather of James B., 
was a native of Maryland, and in 1808 came to 
Harrison County, Ohio, with his parents. He 
was reared a farmer, and married Nancy Lemas- 
ters, a native of Ohio, and to this union, De- 
cember 14, 1817, was born one child, William, 
the father of the subject of this sketch. In 
1869 Mrs. Nancy Rogers passed from earth, 
followed by her husband in 1878. at the age of 
eighty-four years. John Rogers was identified 
with the anti slavery movement almost from in- 
fancy, but was a Whig until the organization of 
the Liberty party, with which party he affiliated 
until the formatiou of the Republican party, of 
which, in 1856, he became a stanch member; 
his house* was one of the stations on the " Under- 
ground Railroad." In religion he was first a 
Methodist and then a Wesleyan. William Rog- 
ers, as a pioneer's son, helped to clear up the 
home farm in Cadiz Township, and worked hard 
toward improving it. In June, 1838, he mar- 
ried Miss Maria Adams, who was born in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County, in 1818, a daugh- 
ter of Thomas and Charity (Blair) Adams, who 



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came from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Harri- 
son County at an early date. She lived to 
share with him the joys and sorrows of earth 
until 1881, when, at the age of sixty-four years 
she passed away, the mother of seven children, 
viz.: James B. , John T. (of Newark, Licking, 
Co., Ohio), Isabella J. (Mrs. J. E. Freeburn), 
William P., Albert L., Nannie E. (Mrs. A. B. 
Cutshall) and Bailey S., all except one being 
residents of Harrison County. Since his wife's 
death William Rogers has continued to reside 
on his farm, live miles west of Cadiz. In poli- 
tics he was originally a Whig, was a stanch Aboli- 
tionist and a conductor on the "Underground 
Railroad," and is now an equally stanch Prohi 
bitionist. A man of strong personal feelings 
and equally strong convictions, he was barred 
at an early day from communionship with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church on account of his 
abolition principles, and his open discussion of 
the manumission question, and he has never 
sought to be reinstated to church membership. 
He has been repeatedly urged to run as a can- 
didate for the State Legislature, but always de- 
clined a nomination. At seventy-two years of 
age he is still well preserved, and is intelligent- 
ly and calmly waiting his summons hence. 

James B. Rogers, whose name opens this 
sketch, grew to manhood on his father's farm; 
he absorbed all the knowledge the common 
schools afforded, and then attended the Oberlin 
College. In 1861 he settled in the town of 
Cadiz and opened an ambrotype gallery, which 
he managed one year, in the meantime marry- 
ing Miss Mattie M. Merryman, daughter of 
John and Mary Merryman, all being natives of 
Harrison County, Ohio. On December 24, 
1863, Mr. Rogers enlisted in Compafty K, One 
Hundred and Twenty-eighth O. V. I., with 
which regiment he passed three months in 
Cleveland, Ohio, and the balance of the time, 
until the close of the war, on Johnson's Island, 
Sandusky Bay, guarding prisoners. In July, 
1865, he was honorably discharged, when he re- 
turned to Cadiz, having been home but once 
during his term of service. For a year he en- 



gaged at carpentering and operating a saw- mill 
in connection. He then bought a farm in Stock 
Township, Harrison County, and in 1868 began 
teaching in winter, carpentering and farming in 
summer, and thus alternated the seasons until 
1876. In 1877 he sold his farm and removed 
to Southern Illinois, where he purchased an- 
other farm, on which he resided eighteen months, 
and then, in consequence of malarial disease 
contracted there, returned to Ohio, where he 
ran a saw-mill for about two years, when, in 
1883, he opened his grocery in Cadiz, which he 
has ever since conducted with profit.' Polit- 
ically Mr. Rogers' was first a Republican, and 
cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln; since 
1885, however, he has been a Prohibitionist. 
By this party he has been several times nomi- 
nated for office, but, as a natural consequence, 
has been defeated, the party being as yet in a 
hopeless minority. He is at present chairman 
of the Executive and Central Committees of that 
county. There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Rogers four children, viz. : Herman A., Jasper C. 
(editor of the Flambeau, a county Prohibition 
paper), Clarence S. and Angela Estelle. Mr. 
Rogers is a member of the G. A. R. and of the 
Disciples Church, while Mrs. Rogers is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 
success of Mr. Rogers in business is due solely 
to his perseverance and strict integrity in all 
his transactions, and he is one of whom all speak 
highly in these connections. He is well worthy 
a place in his county's record. 



MEHOLLIN FAMILY. The first of this 
well-known family to come to America 
was Joseph Mehollin, who emigrated 
4 ' from Ireland at an early date, and died 

in Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio. He had a 
son, also named Joseph, who was born in Jeffer- 
son County and, when manhood was reached, 
married Margaret McFadden. They made their 
home in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, on 
a piece of land which he had entered, and here 
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at the age of sixty-five years; his widow survived 
him many years, and died in 1S77. at the age of 
eighty- four years. They were the parents of six 
children, but three of whom are living, viz. : 
John, in Cadiz Township; Sarah, widow of Will- 
iam Jamison, also in Cadiz Township, and Mar- 
garet (Mrs. George Tarbot), residing near 
Moorefiekl, Harrison County. John Mehollin 
was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, 
in ISIS, and was brought up to farm life. He 
married Miss Elizabeth McFadden, by whom he 
had four children, viz.: Samuel, in Cadiz Town- 
ship; Joseph, on the home place (unmarried); 
Mary Margaret, deceased wife of Leonard Row- 
land, of Cadiz Township, and John Findley.also 
in Cadiz Township. In 1S75 Mr. Mehollin came 
from the old home place to where he now re- 
sides, some four miles from Cadiz on the Chss- 
ville road, where he owns a farm of some 500 
acres, besides which he has given each of his 
children a farm of 100 acres. Mr. Mehollin is 
a living representative of the pioneer days, 
whose life has been one of arduous labor. 

Samuel Mehollin was born September 28, 
1846. His early life did not vary very mater- 
ially from that of farm boys in general, and his 
education, aside from the country school, was the 
discipline of duty. After making a trip to the 
Far West, in 1871, he married Miss Mary, daugh- 
ter of Samuel Nash, now a resident of Cassville, 
Harrison County, and to this union were born 
three children, viz. : Maria Odella, George E. 
and Ettie Luella. In 1879 the mother was called 
to her last sleep, at the early age of twenty-six 
years. Left alone with his small children Mr. 
Mehollin chose another wife in the person of 
Miss Belle, daughter of Archy Smith, who re- 
sides near Dickerson's Mills, Harrison County, 
by which union two children have been born: 
John Andrew and Florence Pearle. Mr. Me- 
hollin is a Republican in political sentiment.but 
not an office seeker. His farm of Kit) acres is 
situated some five miles from Cadiz. 

John F. Mehollin was born March 17, 1856, 
and remained on the old home farm until he was 
married in 1S7S, choosing as his life's partner 



Mi^s Belle, daughter of John and Harriet Martin. 
of Cadiz Township, Harrison County. Their un- 
ion has been blessed with four children: Andrew, 
Chester Arthur, Harriet Viola and Mary Eliza- 
beth, all living at home. Mr. Mehollin's farm, 
consisting of 107 acres, is situated some live 
miles west of Cadiz. Politically he is a Repub 
lican, and he is one of the well-known, enterpris- 
ing farmers of his township. 



JOHN D. MITCHELL was burn November 
22, 1825, on the farm where he now re- 
_J sides, situated five and a half miles from 
Cadiz, Harrison County. John Mitchell, 
Sr. , father of our subject, waa born in Wash- 
ington County, Penn.. and his father. Matthew 
Mitchell, had come from Ireland, locating there, 
but later moved to Harrison County, Ohio, and 
entered the land which has never since passed 
out of the Mitchell family's possession. In 
Ireland, Matthew Mitchell had married Jennie 
McDill, with whom, after entering the Harri- 
son County land, he returned to Pennsylvania, 
where they both died. His Ohio possessions 
fell to his son, John, who, having, in 1816, 
married Miss Margaret McGee, moved upon 
them with his wife, and began at once to erect a 
cabin home. There they endured such priva- 
tions and dangers as only the pioneers of a 
forest country experience. They saw the deni- 
zens of the forest gradually exterminated, and 
their place given to the herds and flocks. Tiny 
saw their dusky Indian neighbors recede be- 
fore the advancing wave of immigration, until 
all was changed. In November, (865, the pio 
neer father was called from earth, at tin' age of 
seventy nine years, and his remains are in- 
terred in the cemetery at Cassville, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. He left a large circle of friends. 
Few men in Harrison County commenced life 
poorer, or made an unaided success of life more 
marked than did he. For some ten years after 
her husband's death the aged widow calmly 
awaited the final summons home, and at tin- age 
of eighty-five years, in 1 S7T 1 . --he fell asleep in 



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death. She was the mother of eleven children: 
Jane, deceased (she was married to Abe Cor- 
ban, and lived near Cassville); Matthew, in No- 
ble County, Ohio; Nancy, deceased; Rose Ann, 
deceased (she was married to John Chamberlain, 
and lived in Poweshiek County, Iowa); Morris, 
in Knox County, 111. ; Elizabeth, deceased; Peg 
Ann deceased (was mai - ried to John Nash, and 
lived near Cassville, where she reared a family 
of six sons; John D., our subject; George, de- 
ceased; Sarah (married John Houser, and moved 
to Mercer County, 111., where she died, leaving 
six children); Mary, deceased (married Welling 
Calhoon, and lived in Crawfordsville, Ind. ). 

John D. Mitchell has lived through many 
changes of his county. The fields, which now 
are pastures or cultivated farms, were in his 
boyhood covered with dense groves of the sugar 
maple, which were so large and abundant as 
to give the place the name of " The Sugar 
Farm," and on it still stands one of the best 
sugar groves to be found in the county. The 
first school Mr. Mitchell attended was like other 
primitive schools, the ruling power being a 
huge switch in the hands of the rustic master, 
which often fell heavily on the transgressor 
who neglected some rule or failed to recite. 
In 1852, feeling " it is not good for man to 
be alone," he chose, as a life partner, Miss 
Rebecca Hammond, but she, some thirteen 
years later, was called from earth. Six of her 
children died when young, one. Rebecca, sur- 
viving her but a few months. On November 
5, 1868, a second wife was chosen by our 
subject, in the person of Elizabeth A. Kyle, 
the daughter of Thomas and Jane (McNary) 
Kyle, of German Township, Harrison County, 
to which union six children have been born, 
viz. : Thomas Crawford; Frank Morris, de- 
ceased; Maggie Jennette; John Kyle, deceased; 
Samuel M. and Ida Bell; those living are still 
at home. Mr. Mitchell has a farm of 483 
acres, and devotes his time to the culture of 
sheep, possessing at all times from 300 to 000, 
and has never sold over 200 bushels of wheat 
on his place. His present house was built, 



ami improvements generally have been made, 
by himself, and he and his family rank high 
among the respected citizens of the county. 



fiONATHAN BINNS, a well-known citizen 
k I of Short Creek Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty ty, is a descendant of one of the early 
families, and was born here April 6, 1851, 
a son of David and Rebecca (Hall) Binns. Da- 
vid Binns was born in Yorkshire, England, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1815. In 1818, with his parents, Da- 
vid and Margaret (Holden) Binns, he came to 
America and settled in Brownsville, Penn. 
They belonged to the religious Society of 
Friends. David grew to manhood with his par- 
ents, learning the cabinet-maker's trade by an 
apprenticeship. He was educated in the public 
school of Brownsville, but his education was 
chiefly self accpiired. In 1839 he came to Ohio, 
and for one year he resided in Belmont County, 
where he worked in a machine shop; following 
spring (1840) he located on a farm in Harrison 
County, which he purchased in the fall of 1839. 
In 1841 he married Rebecca, a daughter of 
Thomas and Mary Hall, a native of Jefferson 
County, near Harrisville, and a descendant of 
one of the pioneer families. They located on 
their farm and began clearing it, as it was 
mostly a mass of timber, and uncultivated, and 
there they resided until their deaths. Rebecca 
Binns died in 1807. David Binns married his 
second wife, Sara L. Newlin, in 1871, and lived 
until 1S77; he was known among his fellow-men 
as an upright and straightforward citizen, who 
always took an active interest in the public im- 
provements of his day, and was well read in his- 
tory. He was a fine penman, and at various times 
taught writing. He was the father of ten chil- 
dren, of whom two are deceased. The eldest 
son, Oliver, died at the age of one year, and a 
daughter, Elizabeth, at the age of seventeen 
years. The living are Joseph P., in Short 
Creek Township; Margaret Ann, now wife of 
Lewis Hall; Jonathan, our subject; James H., 
in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson Count) 7 ; David, in 



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Colerain. Belmont Co., Ohio; Thomas H., in 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County; Addi- 
son, also in Mount Pleasant Township; Mary H. 
is now the wife of Walter Edgerton. 

Jonathan Binns was born on the old home- 
stead, and received first the advantages of the 
Friends Select School, later spending one term 
at Mount Pleasant Boarding School. In 1S73 
he married Rosella Bailey, a native of Belmont 
County, Ohio, and a daughter of Stephen and 
Martha Bailey. Her parents both died when 
she was but a child, and she was reared in the 
family of Nathan Hall. Their union has been 
blessed by three children: Oliver W., Elza R. 
and Martha. After their marriage they lived in 
Jefferson County, on a farm, for six years. In 
1879 he purchased his present farm, the old 
homestead, and moved thereon. This farm con- 
sists of 133 acres, well improved with a good 
house and commodious barn and outbuildings. 
From a small beginning they have been the ar- 
chitects of their own fortune, and now have a 
comfortable, pleasant home. 



II I( "tJLLIAM HERRON, a prominent citi- 
\J\\/J zen of Scio, Harrison County, where 
M[ iff he has for the past twenty years car- 
ried on a general store, is one of the 
best known and most highly esteemed residents 
of the county, of which for many years he has 
been a justice of the peace. He was born in Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio, November 8, 1826, a son of 
Charles and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Herron, and a 
grandson of James Herron, who emigrated from 
the north of Ireland to America at a very early 
day. Charles Herron, who was a tanner by trade 
in his younger days, but the greater part of whose 
life was spent on a farm, was married in Jeffer- 
son County, and in 1S37 came to Carroll Coun- 
ty, same State, where he settled on a farm near 
Perry sville. Here he died in 1866, at the age 
of eighty-one years, having been, in his political 
convictions, first a Whig, and afterward a Free- 
Soiler; his widow died in 1882, aged eighty-five 
years. They were the parents of nine children, 



of whom the following is a brief record: Rachel 
married a Mr. Bess, and is now deceased; Sarah 
was the wife of Joseph Harrison, now deceased; 
James is deceased; Elizabeth married Richard 
Irwin, of Harrison County, and is also deceased; 
William is the subject proper of this sketch; 
Nancy is the wife of Joseph Robinson, and re- 
sides in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Jane is the 
wife of Samuel James, of Harrison County; 
John and Ruth Ann are both deceased. 

William Herron received a good common- 
school education, and was brought up to farm 
life until apprenticed to the saddle and harness 
trade at Perrysville, Carroll County. At this 
place he opened, in 1850, a general store, which 
he carried on until 1857, when he sold out and 
bought a store at Unionport, Jefferson County; 
this he sold, and then, in 1861, he returned to 
Perrysville, and carried on a store there until 
1867. In 1864, in response to the President's 
call for one-hundred-days men, he enlisted in 
the Eighty-eighth Battalion, O. N. G., of Car- 
roll County, which formed (by consolidation at 
Camp Chase) with the Thirty-ninth Battalion, 
O. N. G., of Jefferson County, forming the 
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh I". S. Regiment, 

0. V. I. , of which he was made major. The regi- 
ment was ordered to Reely Barracks, from there 
to Ft. Delaware, and during the remainder of its 
term of service performed guard duty over sev- 
eral thousand prisoners. Being mustered out 
September 6, 1864, Maj. Herron returned to 
Carroll County, and in 1867 he bought the old 
homestead, on which he remained uulil L871, 
when he came to Scio and embarked in his 
present business, building the store in 18 1 '2. 
Two of his sons, William Grant and Joseph 
Harrison, are in business with him. On July 

1, 1847, our subject was married to Margaret, 
daughter of Jacob Gladden, of Carroll County, 
and by her he had nine children, viz.: Charity 
Elizabeth, deceased wife of William Ross, of 
Perrysville, Carroll County; an infant, deceased; 
Mary Alice, at home; Alfred Clark is married, 
and carries on a roofing business in Scio, Ohio; 
Calvin O, who was killed on the railroad at 



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Canon City, Colo. : William Grant; Cora Mar- 
garet, wife of John Grissinger, in Pennsylvania; 
an infant, deceased, and Joseph Harrison, liv- 
ing at In mie. On March 24, 1874, the mother 
died at the age of forty-eight years, and December 
'24. 1875, Mr. Herron married Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of John and Mary Binger, and a native of 
Carroll County, but reared in Harrison; her 
father died in the latter county, and the mother 
afterward married Robert Russell, and returned 
to Carroll County. 

Maj. Herron, in politics, is a stanch Repub- 
lican, and has served his township and county 
in various offices of trust. "While a resident of 
Carroll County he was a justice of the peace, 
but resigned to remove to Jefferson County, and 
in Harrison County he has filled a similar posi- 
tion for fifteen years — for the past twelve years 
without intermission; has been township treas- 
urer several times. He is a member of the 
F. & A. M., and Hickson Post No. 581, G. A. R. 
Both he and his wife are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 



d[OHN S. LACEY. The ancestors of John 
S. Lacey were English, and came to 
America in colonial days. The greater 
part of the descendants of these immigrants 
have long been and are now residents of Virginia 
and Kentucky; but the immediate ancestors of 
the subject of this memoir remained in Delaware 
till the early part of this century. William B. 
Lacey, a cousin of John S. Lacey, settled in 
Pittsburgh, and there founded a seminary, which 
he conducted successfully till about the year 
1840, when he accepted the presidency of a 
similar institution in New Orleans, La. Will- 
iam Lacey. father of John S. Lacey, with his wife 
and three sons J. S.. Robert and Anderson — 
came to Ohio in 1805, and took up land near 
Chillicothe, Ross County. John S. was born in 
Sussex County. Del, January 14, 1798. In the 
War of 1812 he and his brother Robert enlisted 
in the National army. Robert was with Gen. 
Harrison in Fort Meigs when the fort was be- 



sieged by the British and Indians; John S. was 
of the force sent to the relief of the fort, and 
both brothers rendered effective and patriotic 
service. In the spring of 1816 John S. Lacey 
came to Cadiz, Ohio, and entered into a con- 
tract for the erection of a county court-house, 
and under that contract the present court-house 
was erected, his cousin, John M. Lacey being 
associated with him in this contract. In 1824 
he was elected sheriff of Harrison County to fill 
the unexpired term of Barrick Dickerson, who 
died in office; in 1825 he was elected for the 
full term of two years; in 1827 he was elected 
county treasurer, and was continuously re-elected 
to serve four consecutive terms — facts which 
prove that he served his constituents faithfully 
and efficiently. 

Among the documents he left there is one 
showing the origin of a title he bore from the 
date of the document to the end of his life — a 
commission signed by Jeremiah Morrow, gov- 
ernor of the State of Ohio, August 9, 1823. ap- 
pointing him major of the First Regiment, 
Fifth Brigade, Ohio State Militia. In this con- 
nection it may be stated there is also a certifi- 
cate signed by Robert Lucas, governor of the 
State of Ohio, dated November 18, 1830, declar- 
ing John S. Lacey duly elected an elector of 
President and Vice-President of the United 
States. About the close of his last term as 
sheriff he succeeded John Pritchard as proprie- 
tor of the Cadiz House, now New Arcade House. 
This house he conducted until 1831, when he re- 
moved to the Cadiz Hotel, on the corner of 
Market and Steubenville Streets, which he had 
recently built and equipped. He then con- 
tracted to carry the United States mail over a 
route from Wheeling, W.Va., through Cadiz, New 
Philadelphia and Wooster to Norwalk, Ohio, and 
placed upon the route a line of four-horse 
coaches, going triweekly each way. and main- 
tained it till he retired from the hotel in 1841. 
In 1842 he built the present Lacey homestead in 
Stock Township, Harrison County, and removed 
to it in December of the same year. Here he 
resided till his demise, January 1 •">. 1S73. On 



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December 31, 1820, John S. Lacey was married 
to Anna Janette Hoyt, daughter of Jesse Hoyt, 
and granddaughter of Jesse Hoyt who served as 
a soldier in the French and Indian War, prior 
to the Revolution. Anna Janette Hoyt's 
mother's maiden name was Anna Hoyt, though 
of a family in no way related to Jesse Hoyt, and 
Anna Hoyt's mother was Elizabeth Brush. The 
following memoir of Anna Janette Lacey was 
contributed to the Pittsburgh Christian Advo- 
cate, by the Rev. W. B. Watkins, December 17, 
1885: 

" The subject of this memoir was born in the 
city of New York July 22, 1802, and died at 
Lacey ville, Harrison Co., Ohio, September 2U, 
1885. She was a daughter of Jesse Hoyt, a 
member of the Hoyt family which traces its 
genealogy to Simon Hoyt, who was born in Eng- 
land in 1595, and was one of the founders of 
Charlestown, Mass., in 1625, Mrs. Lacey being 
of the seventh generation. In May, 1820, Miss 
Hoyt removed to Cadiz, Ohio, where, on the last 
day of the same year she was married to John 
S. Lacey, and in March of the next year she 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
At the same time Bishop Sirnpson, who lived in 
the same town, was ten years of age, and his 
uncle was judge of the county court. They at- 
tended the same church, and, after the conver- 
sion of the bishop, the same class. At a little 
later date, when 'band-meetings' were still a 
part of the religious ceremony of the church, 
they were members of the same band. She was 
also present when the bishop preached his first 
sermon, from the text in Ephesians v.: 14: 
Awake, tliou that steepest, and ai'ise from the 
dead, and Christ shall give thee light. She dis- 
tinctly remembered, and in after years frequently 
referred to, the powerful effect produced by that 
initial discourse. 

"In 1842 the Lacey family removed from 
Cadiz to their new home, about eight miles dis- 
tant, and the little village that grew around the 
hotel they kept became known by their name. 
In all the relationships of life Mrs. Lacey devel- 
oped extraordinary ability and fitness — her ex- 



ecutive powers were marked and able, her in- 
tellect keen and penetrating, her conversation 
graced with intelligence and extensive reading, 
and ber religious character and experience un- 
wavering and devout. She was strongly attached 
to the church of her choice. She had cast her 
lot with it when it was literally ' little and un- 
known.' She fully understood its spirit and dis- 
cipline, and she rejoiced in its communion. Her 
home was always a hospitable one, and among 
the more aged members of the Pittsburgh and 
East Ohio Conferences there are many who can 
testify to the cordiality of their welcome to its 
enjoyments. In addition to these things she 
was profoundly versed in the deep things of 
God, shrank from no duty or responsibility, and 
it was evident, even to the casual observer, that 
her life was hid with Christ in God. 

"One who knew her well thus sums up her 
character: Her graces of mind and heart en- 
deared her to all. Her benevolence was only 
limited by her means, and none were turned 
away from her door without a kind word and 
substantial help. * * * She was an extraor- 
dinary woman, loved and admired by all. An 
unaffected Christian, she was firm in the faith of 
the Gospel, and her lovely life was the result of 
its sacred lessons. Her words were not mean- 
ingless, but were from profound thought. She 
was the presiding genius of her home, and her 
memory will ever be a pleasant thought. Her 
life was a poem. She met death with calmness 
and resignation. Althoiigh long an invalid, no 
complaint ever fell from her lips; and that cheer- 
fulness which distinguished her life was with 
her to the last hour. She desired no ostentation 
at her funeral, but at her request the parlors of 
the homestead were trimmed with the flowers 
from the garden which she admired so much, 
and the bright foliage from the forest trees, rich 
and golden with autumn hues." 

The following sketch of Maj. Laeey's per- 
sonal characteristics is contributed by the Hon. 
John A. Bingham : 

" In compliance with your snggestion.I write 
with pleasure my recollections of the late Maj. 



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John S. Lacey, one of the early and one of the 
most enterprising and highly-respected citizens 
of Harrison County, and a resident therein for 
nearly sixty years. He was a man of irreproach- 
able character, good judgment, of strict integrity, 
just and charitable toward all; sincere in his 
friendship, and faithful to duty, as it was given to 
him to know his duty. Frequently official trusts 
were committed to him, and he never failed to 
perform them with ability and fidelity. For 
more than twenty years preceding his death he 
resided on his farm at Laceyville, during all of 
which time his hospitable mansion was open for 
the entertainment of the public. His house was 
indeed a rest for the weary and a delight to his 
friends. Honored as I was during niy early and 
later manhood with the confidence and friend- 
ship of this useful and greatly esteemed citizen, 
now that he has been gathered to his fathers, he 
still lives to me, as he doubtless does to others, 
a cherished and very pleasant memory. 

Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Lacey, three of whom died in infancy. William 
B. , the eldest of the children who reached ma- 
turity, died in Cincinnati in 1867; Anna Janette, 
the youngest, and wife of Rev. W. B. Watkins, 
died at the homestead in 1866. The surviving 
children, four in number, are, in the order of 
the seniority, as follows: Jesse Hoyt, a resident 
of Omaha, Neb.; Henry Brush, occupying the 
homestead; Robert Stinson and Anderson 
Parker, residing in "Washington, D. C. 



r AMUEL D. EDGAR, one of the most 
successful agriculturists of Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County, was born in 
Monroe County, Ohio, August 30, 1812. 
James Edgar, the grandfather of Samuel D. , 
who was a native of Ireland, at an early age 
came to the United States, and for a number of 
years resided in Washington County, Penn., from 
which place he removed to Wellsburg, Va., 
where he kept a hotel, and there also his son, 
James, father of the subject of this sketch, ran 
a ferry-boat. James Edgar, just mentioned, 



came, later, to Harrison County, Ohio, entering 
the tract of land now owned by his heirs, and 
on this he resided until his death, which occurred 
about 1845. The children of James, Sr., were 
six in number, and were named James, Jane, 
William, Adam, Elizabeth and Nancy. 

James Edgar, Jr., father of Samuel D., was 
born in Washington County, Penn., February 22, 
1791. He married Miss Charity Bartow, who 
was born in Washington County, N. Y., July 21, 
179S, a daughter of Zenas and Elizabeth (Car- 
penter) Bartow, also natives of the same county 
and State. Zenas Bartow, who was born about 
1750, gallantly served as a captain in the War 
of the Revolution, and about 1809, with his 
family, came to Ohio in a wagon team, settling 
in Connottou, Harrison County, where his last 
days were passed. To James Edgar, Jr., and 
wife were born the following children: An 
infant, unnamed, Elizabeth and Adam de- 
ceased; Cyrus, a resident of Monroe County, 
Ohio; Margaret, deceased; James, killed in the 
Civil War; Pho?be Petty, residing in Notting- 
ham Township; Francis, deceased; Matilda 
Kidwell, in Nottingham Township; Elijah G. , 
deceased; Charity Hanlon, also in Nottingham 
Township, and Samuel D., whose name heads 
this sketch. James Edgar, Jr., after his mar- 
riage, located in Cadiz Township. Harrison 
County, where he remained until 1810, when 
he removed to Monroe County, but within a few 
years came to Nottingham Township, Harrison 
County, where he died March 16, 1882, and 
seven hours later his faithful wife, the sharer 
of his toils and burdens, also passed away. 
Politically Mr. Edgar was a Democrat, but at 
the close of the War of the Rebellion he joined 
the Republican ranks. 

Samuel D. Edgar, whose name opens this 
sketch, at the age of nine years came from 
Monroe County to Harrison County, with his 
parents, on their return to the latter, and here 
was reared to manhood. On February 10, 
1864, he enlisted in Company F, Ninety-eighth 
O. V. I., served at the battle of Kenesaw Mount- 
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Peach Tree Creek, Ga., June 20, 1864, and at 
Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864; July 10, 1865, he 
was honorably mustered out and returned to his 
home. On January 14, 1869, he married Miss 
Susan Poulson, who was born March 14, 1852, 
in Nottingham Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
a daughter of John and Rachel (Rogers) Poul- 
son, and to this union were born seven children 
in the following order: Frank S., August 24, 
1869; Lillie B., January 16, 1871; James H., 
December 27, 1873; Lewis B. , December 5, 
1877; John P., November 11, 1881, died Feb- 
ruary 10, 1889; Samuel G., March 13, 1885, 
and Lulu Blanche, April 27, 1887. After his 
marriage Samuel D. Edgar purchased his pres- 
ent farm of ninety-one acres in Section No. 16, 
Nottingham Township. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, and in religion adheres to the faith of 
the Disciples Church, of which church his wife 
is also a member. 

John Poulson, the father of Mrs. Edgar, is 
a son of James Poulson, a native of Maryland, 
born about 1781, who was a basket-maker by 
trade, and early came to Ohio, settling in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County. James was twice 
married, and by his first wife became the father 
of nine children, as follows. John (deceased); 
James, residing in Jasper County, Iowa; Jacob 
and Elizabeth (both deceased); Jehu, in Jasper 
County, Iowa; Wilson; William, in Montpelier, 
Iud. ; Harriet and Mary Ann, residents of Harri- 
son County. By Mr. Poulson' s second wife there 
were born three children: Samuel, Robert and 
Maria. John Poulson was born in Cadiz Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, April 23, 1812. He 
married Miss Rachel Rogers, who was born in 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, April 2(3, 
1816, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Lewis) 
Rogers, and to this union were born nine chil- 
dren, viz. : Samuel and Elizabeth, both de- 
ceased; Sarah Russell, residing in Belmont 
County, Ohio; Thomas, in Nottingham Town- 
ship, Harrison Comity: Matilda (deceased); 
Harriet Rogers, in Nottingham; Susan, wife of 
Samuel D. Edgar, our subject; Salina I., and 
Evans, both deceased. Mr. Poulson, after his 



marriage, continued his residence in Cadiz 
Township for a short time, and then moved to 
Nottingham Township, where he bought the 
farm owned by his son, Thomas. Here he died 
February 19, 18(53, a member of the Wesleyan 
Methodist Church, his widow dying April 21, 
1876, in the faith of the Disciples Church. 




LFRED PHILLIPS. The Phillips fam- 
ily in America are of English descent, 
their ancestors having come here at the 
commencement of the War of the Revo- 
lution. They settled in Pennsylvania, where 
the ancestry made their home until they removed 
to Ohio. Richard Phillips, grandfather of Al- 
fred, came to Ohio in 1803, and remained in 
Jefferson County until 1815, when he removed 
to Washington Township, Harrison County, 
where he purchased a large tract of land, which 
was largely improved and cleared by him. In 
his early manhood he was married to Comfort 
Davidson, who bore him the following named 
children: Joseph, John, Margaret, Hannah, 
Lewis and Eleanor Ann. An enthusiastic sup- 
porter of the Democratic party, he took a prom- 
inent part in its success, and was many times 
called to positions of honor and trust in the 
service of his township. He and family were 
members and liberal supporters of the Meth 
odist Episcopal Church. In Washington Town- 
ship, amid the scenes of their early struggles. 
his wife died in 1835, and he in December, 
1856, aged eighty-four years. John Phillips, 
the father of Alfred Phillips, was born December 
19, 1804, in Jefferson County, Ohio, and spent 
his youth on the parental farm, where he was 
employed in the duties incident to a farmer's 
life. In 1831 he was united in marriage with 
Eleanor Johnson, who, still at the advanced age 
of eighty-six years, retains her youthful vigor 
of mind. Settling in Washington Township, 
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips passed the entire portion 
of their married life there, and after many 
years of toil and economy enjoyed the fruits of 
their industry. Their children were as follows: 



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Richard, in Washington Township; Mary, Mrs. 
William Boyd; Alfred, in Freeport; Sarah Car- 
ver and Nancy, both deceased. July 1, 1886, 
John Phillips died,, deeply regretted by all. 
His life was one of good deeds and remarkable 
usefulness. He maintained the doctrines of the 
Democratic party, in religion was a Universalist, 
and was well posted in their doctrinal points. 
Largely a self-made man, he could look back on 
his life and feel a contentment only given to 
those who have deserved it. 

Alfred Phillips was born in Washington 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, December 26, 
1835. In this place he spent most of his 
youth, attending the common schools, and being 
busily employed during the working season in 
the duties of the farm. September 1, 1863, he 
was married to Rachel A. , daughter of William 
Mears. of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and he 
then bought a farm in Washington Township, 
where he remained until 1873, when he pur- 
chased his present residence, in Freeport Town- 
ship. His farm, consisting of 170 acres, is ex- 
cellently located about two and a half miles 
from Freeport. He carries on general farming 
and stock-raising, and is meeting with the suc- 
cess always attendant on enterprise and good 
judgment. A prominent member of the Dem- 
ocratic party, he always supports it in State and 
national politics, but uses his own judgment in 
local elections. He is a worthy representative 
of a worthy family, and has the highest confi- 
dence of all. His children were John, Wilbert, 
Leona, Mary (deceased) and Richard. 




\ILLIAM WELCH. Among the ear- 
liest settlers of Harrison County none 
probably preceded the parents of Will- 
iam Welch — Samuel and Katherine. 
The father came from Ireland at an early age, 
landing almost penniless in New York, where 
he met and married a young native of his be- 
loved Isle, by name Katherine Coulter. To- 
gether, poor in goods but rich in hope and 
health, they commenced their journey westward, 



arriving in Harrison County, and settled on 
what is now known as Lyons Welch's Farm, where 
they remained until they took their departure 
to that " country from whose bourne no traveler 
returns.'' Samuel Welch entered what is now 
known to the residents of Archer Township as 
the Lewton Farm, also the Sil Palmer Farm 
and William Welch Farm, on which the latter 
now resides. In the forests swarming with 
wild beasts and fierce Indians he manfully 
struggled to effect improvements, that his chil- 
dren might at least have more of the com- 
forts of life than he and his wife enjoyed. Re- 
turning from felling the stalwart trees that 
crowned the hills and stood out in majestic 
pride on their slopes, he would take his gun to 
kill a wandering deer, or perchance the savage 
bear that during the night may have raided his 
pig pen; or would lie in wait for the wolves, 
which, becoming hungry, would hover about the 
door of his cabin, snuffling and growling, mean- 
time licking their half-famished jaws for some 
one with whom they might appease their rav- 
enous appetite. Under such difficulties and 
dangers did our early settlers labor, until, in the 
sunset of their life, they saw the wild beasts re- 
placed by lowing herds and bleating flocks, the 
mighty forests felled, and the soil now clothed 
with green meadows, waviug fields of grain, 
or cheerful woodland. Six children were reared 
by this old pioneer couple, of whom only two 
now survive: William, in Archer Township, 
Harrison County, and James, in Deersville, 
same county. The mother died in 1842, and 
was buried in Ridge Cemetery, and in 1846 Mr. 
Welch was married to Mrs. William Keepers, a 
resident of Stock Township, this county. On 
March 30, 1850, he died, surrounded by his 
children, and was buried by the side of the wife 
of his youth. 

William Welch was born September 18, 
1818, in Archer Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
and until he was of age he remained at home, 
assisting his father in the working of his farm. 
On October 22, 1840, he was married to Agnes, 
daughter of George Fisher, a resident of Rum- 



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ley Township, and then settled on the farm on 
which he now resides. To this union was born 
Susana, now Mrs. William Sampson, resid- 
ing in Stock Township, this county. On Feb- 
ruary 14, 1845, Mrs. Welch died and was laid 
to rest in Ridge Cemetery, and September 
18, 1845, Mr. Welch married Miss Emily Jane 
Nixon, a resident of Archer Township, who bore 
him four children: James W. , now living at 
home; Rebecca Jane (Mrs. A. J. Palmer), in 
Stock Township, Harrison County; John N. , in 
North Township, Harrison County, and Rev. A. 
C, in Youngstown, Ohio, a member of the East- 
ern Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference. The 
mother of this family died February 28, 1887, 
and was buried at Hanover, Harrison Co. , Ohio. 

Mr. Welch is one of the prominent Demo- 
crats of his section, though not an office seeker. 
He is a man of sound judgment, deep convic- 
tions, and sterling qualities. By the aid of his 
children and his own perseverance he has 
brought his farm up to its present state of culti- 
vation, and now in his declining years he trusts 
the arrangement of his farm to his son James 
W. , with whom he resides. He can look back 
on a life well spent, and, with full- knowledge 
that he has the respect and esteem of the entire 
neighborhood, he rests contented and happy. 

James W. Welch, son of William Welch, was 
born July 1, 1847, in Archer Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where he received an ordinary com- 
mon-school education, at what was called Opos- 
sum Hollow School-house, during the winters, 
laboring assiduously on the farm during the 
summers until the winter of 1865, when he went 
to Harlem Springs, Carroll Co., Ohio, and at- 
tended one term of school at what was then 
known as Rural Seminary, and the following 
spring he went to Hopedale Normal College, 
Harrison County, Ohio, where he attended 
school one year. Up to this time he had in his 
mind to study medicine, but he now decided to 
be a farmer and returned home where he re- 
mained until May 25, 1869, when he became 
united in marriage with Rate M., daughter of 
Aaron Conaway. He then removed to North 



Township in the same county, where he re- 
mained until the spring of 1885, when he came 
to the old homestead to manage the farm for his 
father. Only one child has resulted from this 
marriage, G. Emory, born September 6, 1870, 
at present at home assisting in the farm work. 
Mr. Welch is a Republican, and has been elected 
at various times to offices of honor and profit; 
he is very active in politics, and contributes 
liberally of his time and money to the cause. 
Both himself and family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and prominently 
identified with all the worthy and benevolent 
projects of the society. Mr. Welch is a repre- 
sentative of one of the leading families of the 
county, and fully merits and retains the respect 
and esteem in which they were held. 



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PHRAIM McCLEARY (deceased) was 
born of poor but honest parentage in 
j Harford County, Md., October 19, 1810. 
When a young lad he was bound out 
as an apprentice to learn the blacksmith's 
trade, receiving in return for his services his 
board and clothes. When he became of age he 
established himself in business, his capital con- 
sisting of twenty-five cents, and when in after 
life he enjoyed the pleasures of the handsome 
competence he had won, he would often point 
with pride to his humble beginning. The first 
fifteen hundred dollars he earned was paid for 
security. He located in Harrisville, Ohio, soon 
after finishing his apprenticeship, and here re- 
sided many years. He was a man of indomitable 
will and energy, and ofttimes he rose early 
enough to have a wagon ironed before breakfast 
time, and the first sound that greeted the in- 
habitants of the village upon awakening was the 
musical clang, clang, of " Eph McCleary's" 
hammer, as he forged the glowing metal into 
some desired and useful shape. He had an 
especial bent for horses, his judgment upon 
them being widely sought and highly appre- 
ciated, and he was frequently called upon to sit 
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State fairs. In connection with his trade he 
purchased and shipped many horses to Balti- 
more and other eastern points, and, in these 
ventures his clear knowledge and keen judg- 
ment met with a good reward. His first wife, 
Nancy J. Dunn, was a daughter of Gen. 
Dunn, who for many years represented Belmont 
County in the General Assembly of Ohio, and 
when a member of that body he would often 
make the journey from his home to Columbus 
on horseback, it requiring several days to make 
the trip. This union had been blessed by three 
children, all of whom died in childhood. On 
April 4, 1S44, Mr. McCleary married Mary A. 
Gillespie, a lady of more than ordinary attain- 
ments, and who for several years had been a 
teacher in the public schools of Ohio. She was 
a daughter of Menzes and Chloe (Phelps) Gilles- 
pie, an early settled family of Franklin County, 
Ohio, her native place. Her father, Menzes 
Gillespie, ran away from home when a lad, and 
enlisted in the United States service in the War 
of 1812. He was appointed sergeant of the 
Twenty-fifth Regiment, New York Volunteers, 
and participated in the battles of Chippewa and 
Niagara Falls, also the battle and siege of Fort 
Erie. Mr. McCleary removed in April, 1S59, 
from Harrisville to a farm near by, and there 
died April 28, 1874; he was one of the most 
successful farmers in the county. His widow, 
who was born August 22, 1819, survived him 
until May 19, 1886, her death occurring at 
Harrisville. She was the mother of eight chil- 
dren, as follows : Clayton A. , died February 28, 
1880; Chloe A. ; Mary Effa, now Mrs. Henry 
Stiers, of Short Creek Township, Harrison 
County; Julia Alma, Mrs. George T. Holmes, 
of Athens Township, Harrison County; Ardelia 
L., who married John Siebert, and died Novem- 
ber 25, 1879; Sarah Jane, who married John 
A. Jamison, and died June 2, 1878; Nancy 
Eudora, who died November 10, 187S, and 
Elnora G., now Mrs. Franklin C. Mansfield, of 
Steubenville, Ohio. Of these, Clayton A. was 
a graduate of Franklin College, New Athens, 
and was married September 7, 1870, to Henri- 



etta Holmes, of Short Creek Township. He 
commenced life on a farm which his father had 
given him; was elected a director of the First 
National Bank of Cadiz, in his father's place. 
In 1876 he moved from the farm to Harrisville, 
where he entered mercantile business and re- 
mained until he lost his health. There was no 
limit to his acts of charity, at all times denying 
himself for the poor, and always remembering 
them at Christmas. He was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. He left a widow and four 
children, one son being the only grandson of 
Ephraim McCleary to keep the family name in 
existence. 

Mrs. Chloe A. (McCleary) Holmes was born 
in Harrisville, Harrison Co., Ohio, March 16, 
1850; was united in marriage September 8, 
1870, with Joseph M. Holmes, who was born in 
1847 in Short Creek Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, where he grew to maturity. His parents, 
Abraham and Rachel (Mansfield) Holmes, were 
early settlers in the township. Mr. Holmes 
was stricken down in the prime of his life, 
dying in 1871. Mrs. Holmes, with her daugh- 
ter, Josie M.j now resides in Harrisville. There 
she has a beautiful home surrounded by the 
comforts and enjoyments of life, and is univer- 
sally respected and esteemed. Mrs. Holmes is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



d'OHN F. MOORE, farmer, Moorefield 
Township, Harrison County, is a son of 
j Uriah and Mary A. (Fulton) Moore. He 
was born in Moorefield Township January 
1, 1845, grew to manhood on the old farm and 
received a common-school education. On Au- 
gust 30, 1866, he married Miss Catherine B. 
Knight, who was born December 1, 1848, a 
daughter of Joseph and Eliza Ann (Jones) 
Knight, natives of Ohio, her grandparents hav- 
ing been born in Pennsylvania, whence they 
came to Nottingham Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, being among the early settlers. 

John F. Moore and his wife are parents of 
three children, named as follows: William E., 



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Annie M. and Hannah M. , all residing at home. 
In 1873 Mr. Moore purchased a part of the farm 
on which he now resides, and which contains 
eighty acres in Section No. 7, Moorefield Town- 
ship. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are members of the 
Nottingham Presbyterian Church; politically 
Mr. Moore is Democratic. 



•fr^\ W. REED, a retired business man of 
U*K Jewett, Rumley Township, Harrison 
Vy County, is a son of John and Dorcas 
■f/ (Orr) Reed. John Reed was born in 

Archer Township, Harrison County, June 6, 
1818. Dorcas Orr was born in Green Town- 
ship, same county, June 4, 1812, a daughter of 
Robert Orr, who was born in County Tyrone, 
Ireland, in 1769. Robert Orr's wife bore the 
maiden name of Ann Huston, and was also a 
native of Ireland. Robert Orr migrated to 
"Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1795, remained 
there until 1802, and then came to Green Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he entered 160 
acres of land. He was the first justice of the 
peace in Green Township, and served for twen- 
ty-two years. He was father of nine girls, born 
and named as follows: Martha, born May 23, 
1801; Esther, August 15, 1802; Jean, April 1, 
1804; Mary Ann, September 6, 1806; Miriam, 
August 13, 1808; Zipporah, March 13, 1809; 
Bathsheba, April 2, 1810; Dorcas, June 4, 1812, 
and Betty, July 7, 1814. Robert Orr was a 
son of Andrew Orr, and died November 4, 1857. 
John Reed was a son of Arthur Reed, a native 
of Pennsylvania, and born in 1791; his fore- 
fathers were natives of Germany, and settled in 
Pennsylvania in the early days. Arthur Reed 
was the father of ten children, by name, John, 
James, William, Nancy, Ellen. Margaret, Mary 
Ann, Catherine, Mrs. Lemuel Hale of Bloom- 
field, Ohio, and Mrs. Sandy Dennis, of Indiana. 
He came from Pennsylvania to Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1810. He was a 
school-teacher in Pennsylvania and had to go 
from house to house to teach his scholars. 
After he came to Ohio he followed wool carding. 



John Reed worked in the carding mill with his 
father in his boyhood days, and March :i. 1^16, 
he married and settled on Robert Orr's farm in 
Green Township, but in 1853 moved to Union 
Port, Jefferson Co., Ohio, where he followed 
the carpenter's trade, contracting and building. 
After some years he returned to Green Town- 
ship, Harrison County, bought a small piece of 
land and built a house, but followed his trade 
until 1880. He died at his home March 18, 
1884; his wife died October 8, 1866. They 
were the parents of two children: Elizabeth 
Ann, who was born October 6, L850, and died 
January 19, 1853, and R, W. Reed, born May 
17, 1848. 

Our subject received a practical business ed- 
ucation at Hopedale Academy. He remained at 
home until 1872, but May 5, 1869, he married 
Miss Elizabeth McClellan, born May 8, 1846, a 
daughter of William and Eve (Rinehart) Mc- 
Clellan, former of whom was a son of Robert 
McClellan, a native of Ireland, who came to 
Westmoreland County, Penn., in an early day, 
and from there to Jefferson County, Ohio. Mrs. 
Reed's grandfather was Rev. John Rinehart, a 
Lutheran minister of primitive days, who set- 
tled in Jefferson County early in the century. 
He was twice married, the father of fifteen chil- 
dren, six of whom are now living, Mrs. Reed's 
mother being the eldest. The musical talent 
seemed to be largely inherited by the Rinehart 
family, of which Miss Ella Russell, the wonder- 
ful singer who is creating such a sensation in 
Europe, is a descendant; she is a great-grand- 
daughter of Rev. Rinehart. Prof. M. L. Rine- 
hart is also a son of Rev. Rinehart, and uncle to 
Mrs. Reed, and many more of them are profess- 
ors of vocal and instrumental music. 

R. W. Reed, March 18, 1872, came to Jew- 
ett, Ohio, and worked in the planing rnill for 
his uncle till 1884. In 1884, in company with 
Dr. England, he bought a drug store, but same 
year he sold his interest to Dr. England, and 
went to Martin's Ferry where he embarked in 
the hardware business; there he remained till 
1886, and "then sold and returned to Jewett, of 



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which place he has served as clerk for two years. 
To Mr. Reed was born January 5, 1872, one 
child, Willie S., who died February 17, 1878, 
of scarlet fever. Mrs. Reed is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Reed of the 
Presbyterian Church, and he is at present pres- 
ident of a national literary and social organiza- 
tion known as the E. H. C. 



J | AMES MINTIER, one of the well-known 
wide-awake citizens of Short Creek Town- 
_^ l ship, Harrison County, was born in Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, March 9, 1829. His 
paternal grandfather, who was of Scotch-Irish 
extraction, came to this country at an early date. 
Robert Mintier, father of James, was a native 
of the Keystone State, and was there reared to 
agricultural pursuits. At the age of twenty- 
eight (in 1819), he married, within the borders 
of Belmont County, Ohio, Miss Elizabeth, 
daughter of Robert and Jane Hammond, and 
they then located in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
where several of their children were born, and 
where they remained some ten or twelve years, 
moving, in 1831, to Harrison County, and set- 
tling in Short Creek Township, on the farm 
where David Mintier now lives. Here they 
toiled and reared their family, sharing life's 
joys and sorrows until 1863, when the wife and 
mother was called from earth, at the age of 
sixty-five years. She was the mother of twelve 
children, viz.: Alexander (deceased); Joseph, 
in Short Creek Township; Thomas, in Muskin- 
gum County, Ohio; William, who died at the 
age of two years; John, in Belmont County, 
Ohio; James, of Short Creek Township; Mary 
and Martha (twins), former of whom is now 
Mrs. John Hanna, of New Athens, Ohio, and 
the latter died at the age of nineteen years; 
Eliza Jane, widow of James Henderson, and 
living in Harrisville, Ohio; Robert Johnson, in 
Kansas; Esther, wife of Joseph Shepard, in 
Iowa; and David, living on the home place. 
The father departed this life in 1870 v when aged 
seventy-nine years. He was a hard worker from 



his boyhood, and was the architect of his own 
fortune; in politics he was a stanch Republican, 
in religion a member of the Unity Church, of 
Belmont County, as was his wife. He served 
several months in the War of 1812. 

James Mintier grew to manhood on the old 
farm, and received the advantages of a common- 
school education. On October 26, 1851, he was 
married to Eliza Ann Kibble, who lived only 
about seven months, and October 27, 1858, he 
took, for his second wife, Mary Barnett, of 
Guernsey County, Ohio, but she enjoyed only 
seven years of married life, dying in 1865, and 
leaving one child, Eliza Ann, afterward mar- 
ried to Dr. David Phillips, of Iowa; two chil- 
dren died prior to their mother's decease. On 
August 16, 1866, Mr. Mintier mai-ried, for his 
third wife, Elizabeth A. , daughter of John and 
Eleanor L. Davis, and born in Belmont County, 
Ohio. Her paternal grandparents came to Har- 
rison County in 1807, settling on what is now 
the Johnson Farm, in Athens Township. This 
was nearly all woodland, with only a cabin on it. 
Here the old couple died, and here John Davis, 
the father of Mrs. Mintier, was born and grew 
to manhood. He married Eleanor L. Israel, 
whose maternal grandparents were Germans; 
her great-grandfather, Robert Israel, served 
three years as a lieutenant in the Revolution; 
the grandfather died in Wheeling, and the 
grandmother in New Athens, Ohio. The par- 
ents of Mrs. Mintier both died in the year 1884, 
the mother in April, and the father in October, 
in Jefferson County, Iowa. Mrs. Mintier is the 
only one of their family now living in Harrison 
County. In 1859 Mr. Mintier moved onto the 
farm where he now resides. Their children three 
in number, are all at home, viz. : Mary E. , Rob- 
ert A. and John D. Politically Mr. Mintier is 
a stanch Republican, but has never been an 
office seeker. In 1864, in response to the call 
for one-hundred-days men, he enlisted in the One 
Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., Company 
F. ; was stationed at Washington, and was pres- 
ent at the battle of Shenandoah Valley, as well 
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took part, coming through all without a wound. 
On receiving an honorable discharge, he returned 
to his home and the peaceful pursuits of the 
farm. He and his wife are members of the 
Presbyterian Church of New Athens; in poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and is a member of 
James Love Post, G. A. R., at New Athens. 
Their home is pleasantly situated on the Har- 
risville and Moorfield road, about one mile east 
of New Athens, and comprises excellent tillable 
land. 

Joseph Mintier, the second son of Robert 
and Elizabeth (Hammond) Mintier, was born in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, October 25, 1822, and 
when a boy of ten summers he came to Harrison 
County along with his parents, their mode of 
conveyance being a wagon, and their route nat- 
ure's untutored wilds. He grew up a stalwart 
youth on the farm, attending the subscription 
schools of the neighborhood, also for a time 
Franklin College, New Athens, where he fitted 
himself for a teacher in the common schools, 
and for two terms he was a pedagogue in Bel- 
mont County. In 1846 he was married to Miss 
Eleanor, daughter of William and Ellen Camp- 
bell, of Belmont County, Ohio, where they both 
died. In 1853 Mrs. Mintier departed from 
earth, leaving three children, viz. : Elizabeth and 
Martha, in Leavenworth, Kas., and Robert 
Campbell, since deceased. The Campbells came 
from Washington County, Penn., in the persons 
of three brothers, John, James and William. 
In the fall of 1854 Mr. Mintier married for his 
second wife Miss Eliza Jane, daughter of James 
and Martha (Pennell) Carrick, and born in Short 
Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. Her 
mother died when she was but a small child, 
her father in 1885. He had come from Penn- 
sylvania and settled in Short Creek Township, 
where he lived and died, not far from George- 
town, where three brothers had each secured a 
farm, all being now deceased. Mrs. Mintier's 
half brother, E. L. Carrick, and sister now re- 
side there. Her mother bore three children, as fol- 
lows : One that died when three years of age, John 
S. and Eliza Jane (Mrs. Mintier). Her father 



was first a Whig, and then, on the formation of 
the party, a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Min- 
tier after their marriage spent nine years in 
Bureau County, 111., and in 1862 they returned 
to Ohio, to the old home farm which was placed 
in their charge, the brother, David Mintier. hav- 
ing gone to the war. In the spring of L869 
our subject purchased the piece of land in Short 
Creek Township on which he has since resided 
with his family, all the improvements being 
made by his own hand. He erected, in 1873, 
all the buildings, but the old house supposed to 
be the first frame building in this part of the 
country, is still standing on the farm. By his last 
marriage Mr. Mintier has six children, all liv- 
ing, viz.: Sarah Belle, at home; James O, in 
Oberlin, Decatur Co., Kas.; Josephine, wife of 
Alonzo Eli, in Athens Township, Harrison 
County; Milton S. , Minnie Jennette and Oscar 
Glen, all at home. Politically Mr. Mintier is a 
stanch Republican, "dyed in the wool," and for 
one year he was assessor of Short Creek Town- 
ship; he and his wife are members of the Unity 
Church of Belmont County. The farm of sixty- 
two acres is situated about two miles east of 
New Athens, on the Harrisville, New Athens 
and Moorefiekl road. 

David Mintier, the youngest son born to 
Robert and Elizabeth (Hammond) Mintier, was 
born February 3, 1841, on the farm which he 
now owns in Short Creek Township, Harrison 
County. His brothers having all left the pa- 
rental roof, the care of the farm devolved upon 
him. He was educated at the common schools 
and remained at home until December 9, 1861, 
when he enlisted in Company G, Forty-third O. 
V. I., which regiment was sent to Missouri, 
where it joined the Army of the Southwest. He 
was in several engagements, including the bat- 
tle of Kenesaw Mountain, the burning of At- 
lanta and Sherman's march to the sea. He was 
present at the grand review held in Washington 
in 1865, and after a service of three years and 
seven months he returned home (1865) to the 
peaceful pursuits of the farm, reassuming 
charge of the place, and caring for his aged 



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father. On September 26, 1867, he was mar- 
ried to Margaret Jane Ritchey, daughter of 
Alexander and Eliza (Haneway) Ritchey, of 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County. Her 
grandfather, Andrew Ritchey, was one of the first 
settlers of this part of Harrison County and 
died here. The parents of Mrs. Mintier are 
both deceased, the mother having died in July, 
1849, aged thirty-nine years; the father who 
was a farmer died in Muskingum County, Ohio, 
in March, 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Ritchey had sev- 
en children, three of whom are now living, viz. : 
Mrs. Wine, in Columbus, Ohio; Margaret Jane. 
(Mrs. Mintier, the only one living in Harrison 
County), and Mrs. Flowers, a resident of Point 
Pleasant, \V. Va. One child, Lillie Glen, was 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Mintier, who lived only 
six months. In politics Mr. Mintier is a Re- 
publican, and is a member of James Love Post, 
G. A. R. at New Athens; Mrs. Mintier is a 
member of the Unity United Presbyterian 
Church of Belmont County. The farm is situ- 
ated one and a half miles east of New Athens, 
and the house is the same which his parents 
built. Mr. Mintier is a representative citizen, 
highly respected by all who know him. 



If AMES ROWLAND is said to have been, 
w I in his lifetime, the wealthiest farmer of 
\yj Moorefield Township, Harrison County. 
He was a son of John and Rachel (Ingle) 
Rowland. Robert, the father of John Row- 
land, was a native of Scotland, who, about 
1750, migrated to York County, Penn., where 
he remained until his death. The father of 
our subject was born in York County, Penn. , 
in 1758, and lost his mother when he was a 
small boy; his father, Robert Rowland, having 
married again, John was bound out to a Mr. 
Wells. When the Revolutionary War broke 
out Mr. Wells was drafted, and tried all over 
the country to get a substitute, but failing to 
find one, he hired Jonn Rowland, who was 
then a mere boy. John served until the close 
of the war, and then was hired as an Indian 



scout to protect frontier settlers. He was under 
the command of Maj. McMahon, and served as a 
scout for three years along the Ohio River from 
Steubenville, Ohio, to Louisville, Ky. During 
this time he engaged in several battles with the 
Red Men. Many days he would travel through 
the forest, sleeping on the ground nights with- 
out a fire, not daring to make one for fear he 
would be discovered. All he had to eat was 
what he carried in his knapsack. One incident 
related by Mr. Rowland was the capturing of a 
Mrs. Buskirk by the Indians. He, in company 
with fifteen men, was put under the command 
of an officer and stationed at a point on the 
Ohio River, where they knew the Indians would 
cross with their prisoner. They concealed 
themselves in the brush, and during the night 
the Indians came with their prisoner to cross. At 
seeing so many Indians the officer in command 
of the company became frightened, and rose up 
and shouted for every man to take care of himself. 
At this the Indians in turn became frightened, 
supposing they were about to be captured, shot 
their prisoner, and then fled for their lives 
acrost the river; at the same time the soldiers 
were making as rapid progress as they could in 
the opposite direction. The Indians were very 
troublesome during these years, murdering 
whole families, burning their buildings and 
driving off their stock. After Mr. Rowland 
left the service he married Rachel Ingle, a daugh- 
ter of William and Rachel (Edington) Ingle, 
former of whom was one of the first settlers in 
Steubenville, Ohio. After Mr. Rowland's mar- 
riage he remained in Steubenville until 1815, 
when he removed to Moorefield Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, and purchased 260 acres of 
land of his father-in-law. On this land was an 
old log house, to which he built additions, and 
started a hotel, it being one of the first hotels 
opened in Harrison County, and this house Mr. 
Rowland conducted for about thirty years. He 
died at the home of his son, James, April 20, 
1855, well known throughout the country and 
highly respected by all who knew him; he was 
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years. John Rowland bad two brothers older 
than himself, viz. : Matthew, who settled near 
Mansfield, Ohio, and James, who located near 
Cincinnati, both of whom rose to eminence in 
their respective localities; all three of these 
brothers were very tall, tine-looking men. 

James Rowland, the subject proper of this 
memoir, was born near Steubenville, Ohio, 
February 24, 1805. Being reared in the hotel 
as bartender and hostler, he had not much of 
an opportunity for attending school. He had 
five sisters and four brothers, whose names are 
as follows: Sarah, William, Mary, Rachel, Levi, 
Elizabeth, Cyrus, Rebecca and John. In Jan- 
uary, 1828, our subject married Miss Elizabeth 
Linard, born April 15, 1807, and to this union 
were born twelve children, of whom eight are 
living, viz. : Sarah Jane, who occupies the 
homestead; John, in Kansas; Matthew, in Not- 
tingham Township; Linard, in Cadiz Town- 
ship; Elizabeth, in Freeport, Ohio; Christiana, 
in Illinois; Rachel, in Illinois; Margaret, in 
Allegheny City, Penn. ; those deceased are 
Henry, Mary, Ella aud James. Mr. Rowland, 
after his marriage, built a saw-mill near where 
he last lived, and which he operated for thirty 
years; then turned his attention to farming, 
principally to the raising of sheep. In 1836 he 
exchanged his log cabin for a fine brick resi- 
dence, and was always very successful in any- 
thing he undertook. He had been a member of 
the Christian Baptist Church for many years, 
and contributed liberally of his means toward 
the erection of all churches in his neighborhood, 
and to their support. His political sentiments 
were those of the Democratic party, and he cast 
his first vote for Andrew Jackson in 1828. About 
midnight July 30, 1890, he died from heart 
failure in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He 
was suddenly attacked with violent pains in and 
around the chest, but everything that could be 
done failed to relieve him. Before the physi- 
cian, who had been at once sent for, arrived, 
Mr. Rowland breathed his last and was at rest. 
Death had no terrors for him. He was emi- 
nently a good man, a Christian, and a true gen- 



tleman of the old school, and his character was 
above reproach. He was always honestly dili- 
gent in business, and even to the last day of 
his life everything received his personal super- 
vision. He met all the ups and downs of life — 
its vicissitudes and adversities — with Christian 
fortitude and resignation. 



djOHN H. FERGUSON, postmaster at Ger- 
mano, Harrison County, is a son of Vincent 
/ and Mary (Amspoker) Ferguson. Vin- 
cent was a son of Henry and Elizabeth 
(Johnson) Ferguson ; Henry was a son of Henry, 
Sr. , a native of Scotland, who came to Indiana 
County, Penn., among the early settlers. He 
was the father of five children, viz. : Samuel, 
John, Henry, Thomas and Joseph. In 1802 
Henry, Sr. , came to Harrison County, Ohio, and 
settled in Green Township, one mile west of 
Hopedale, where he entered quite a large tract 
of land. Here he built a small log cabin, where 
he lived for a number of years. Gradually the 
forests gave way to the strong, steady stroke of 
our brave pioneer, till there appeared in their 
place fine meadow lands and green pastures, 
and in course of time the primitive log cabin 
was replaced with a fine brick residence. 
Henry, the younger, was born in Indiana Coun- 
ty, Penn., in 1788, and received his education 
in Indiana County, Penn., and in Harrison 
County, Ohio. He grew to manhood on the 
farm in Ohio, where he took an active part in 
clearing the land. In 1812 he served in the 
war against Great Britain. About 1S10 he 
married Miss Elizabeth Johnson, aud to this 
union were born six children, viz.: Vincent, 
deceased; Samuel, deceased; John, who resides 
in Kansas; Isabelle, deceased; Mary, deceased, 
and Eliza A. Hines, in Archer Township. Hani 
son Co., Ohio. Henry Ferguson died at his 
home in Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
in 1863, his wife having preceded him to the 
grave in September, 1856; both were members 
of the Presbyterian Church for many years. 
Vincent Ferguson was born in Green Town- 



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ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, July 12, 1812, and 
was reared to manhood on the old farm, receiv- 
ing his education at the subscription schools of 
Green Township. On March 19, 1835, he mar- 
ried Mary Amspoker, who was born December 
21, 1810, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Nor- 
ris) Amspoker, who came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, in 1803, and settled five miles north of 
Cadiz. Samuel Amspoker and his wife were 
parents of nine children: John, Alexander, 
Samuel, Elizabeth, Susan, Mary, Sarah, Charles 
N. and James. Vincent Ferguson was a tanner 
by trade, which he learned in Hopedale, Ohio. 
Soon after his marriage he removed to Ger- 
mano, where he engaged in the tanning busi- 
ness, which he followed as long as his health 
would permit. He was a member of the Seced- 
er Church for a number of years, or till the 
union in 1858, when he joined the United Pres- 
byterian Church. He departed this life May 
20, 1876, and his widow is still living at the old 
home in Germano, in the enjoyment of peace 
and comfort. To Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Fergu- 
son were born twelve children, viz. : Amelia, 
deceased; John H. , our subject; Elizabeth, wife 
of Martin Overholt, residing in Custer County, 
Neb. ; Samuel J., Mary Jane and Rebecca A., all 
deceased; Susan P., wife of Henry Redman, re- 
siding in Iowa; Mary I.; Margaret A., also in 
Iowa; Henry W., in Colorado; Sarah O, de- 
ceased; Etta R. , living with her mother. 

Our subject was born in Germano, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, January 20, 1838, and received a 
practical business education in Germano, learn- 
ing the trade of tanner under his father, at 
which he worked till the call for more soldiers. 
August 8, 1862, when he enlisted in Company 
A. One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, 
O. V. I. ; in November, 1863, he was promoted 
to sergeant, and was honorably discharged June 
25, 1S65. He then returned home and bought 
one-half of the old tannery, but in 1SS1 this 
tannery was destroyed by fire, since which time 
he has been engaged in buying and selling hides 
and leather. On October 6, 1881, Mr. Fergu- 
son married Addie Plummer, who was born July 



18, 1849, in Washington County, Ohio, a daugh- 
ter of Robert L. and Charlotte (Faires) Plummer, 
and they have one child, J. Dorris, born March 
30, 1890. In May, 1889, our subject was ap- 
pointed postmaster at Germano. He is a mem- 
ber of C. L. Duffield Post,- G. A. R., No. 339, 
of Germano, and he and his wife belong to the 
United Presbyterian Church. 




LBERT MOORE, farmer, of Moorefield 
Township, Harrison County, is a son of 
John and Elsie (Johnson) Moore. John 
Moore was born in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, August 4, 1809, a son of Robert and 
Mary (Armstrong) Moore. John grew to man- 
hood in Jefferson and Harrison Counties, Ohio, 
and received such an education as the common 
schools of the early days afforded. His wife 
was born October 6, 1811, a daughter of Will- 
iam Johnson, who was an early settler of Moore- 
field Township. To this union were born three 
children, named as follows: Mary, wife of 
Jackson Ray, of Cadiz Township, Harrison 
County; Johnson, a farmer in Moorefield Town- 
ship, and Albert, our subject. Mr. Moore, after 
his marriage, purchased the farm our subject 
now owns, which contains 158 acres, and is 
known as the Grand View Farm. He re- 
sided in a log cabin on this place for some 
years, but in 1838 erected a brick residence. 
One day, while the family were away on a 
visit while the brick house was being erected, 
the cabin caught fire and burned with all its 
contents. In 1866 the brick house also was, 
with all its contents, destroyed by fire. The 
same year, however, the fine residence our sub- 
ject now resides in was erected. John Moore 
spent his life in clearing his land and making 
improvements on his farm, and died May 14, 
1874. He was well known throughout the 
county, and highly respected by all with whom 
he came in contact. 

Albert Moore, our subject, was born July 
7, 1841, was reared to manhood where he now 
resides, and received his education at the com- 



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mem schools of the township. June 13, 1867, 
he married Miss Sarah McFadden, born May 
13, 1844, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret 
(Kankin) McFadden. To this union have been 
born three children: Margaret, born May 4, 
1868; Mary F., born December 2, I860, died 
May 31, 1870, and John A., born July 30, 1872. 
Mr. Moore has held several offices of trust in 
his township, and is known as one of the lead- 
ing men in all public enterprises. 



V 



Mi RS. SARAH BARCLAY, of Moorefield 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, is a 
daughter of Micajah and Clarissa 
(Hawse) Insley. Micajah was a son of 
Solomon and Britannia (Dean) Insley, natives 
of Maryland. Solomon Insley was born about 
1770, and was the father of six children, named 
Jemima, Sarah, Rebecca, Eunice, Hudson and 
Micajah. Solomon migrated with his family in 
1816 to Franklin Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where he resided a short time, and removed to 
Guernsey County, Ohio, where he spent the re- 
mainder of his life. Micajah was born, in 1791, 
in Maryland, where he grew to manhood, and 
received a common-school education. He came 
to Ohio with his parents, and after being mar- 
ried, purchased a farm of eighty acres in Frank- 
lin Township, Harrison County, where he re- 
sided a short time. He then removed to Not- 
tingham Township, where he spent the remain- 
der of his life. He was for many years a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which 
his wife was also a member. She was born in 
Maryland in 1801, and died in 1885. The hus- 
band died in 1845. This union was blessed 
with the following-named children: Asbury, 
deceased; Eunice, deceased; Sarah, our subject; 
Maria Kennedy, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio; 
Robert, residing in Kansas; John, in TJhrichs- 
ville, Ohio; Rachel, in Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio, and Benjamin, killed at the battle of 
Petersburg, in August, 1864. 

Our subject was born March 18, 1829, in 
Nottingham Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 



where she grew to womanhood. She was mar- 
ried, January 1, 1857, to James Barclay, who 
was born September 23, 1823, in County Derry, 
Ireland. This union was blessed with eight 
children, named as follows: Joseph, residing at 
home; David, attorney at law, Dennisou, Ohio; 
John, Clara and William, at home; Benjamin. 
instructor in book-keeping and accounts ;tt 
man's Business College, Pouglikeepsie, N. Y. ; 
James and Annie, teachers in Harrison County. 
The father of this family departed this life April 
21, 1885. He was a member of the United 
Presbyterian Church, and his wife was a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church. After their 
marriage they settled on the farm where our 
subject now resides, and in 1879 they erected 
the fine residence which the family now occupy. 
The farm contains 123 acres on Section 30; 
they are also owners of 130 acres on Sections 25 
and 31, in Moorefield Township. 



JOHN HOST. In the latter part of the 
eighteenth century, when America had 
succeeded in shaking off the fetters which 
had so long held her, and offered the sons 
of other countries a land of freedom, a large 
number of strong, energetic and resolute people 
left their native lands for the Western shores, 
here to secure the blessings of liberty for 
themselves and their posterity. Among the 
many who came from the Fatherland was the 
founder of the Host family, who rank among 
the prominent residents of Harrison County. 
Soon after his arrival here Harvey Host was 
united in marriage with Nancy Fulton, and they 
settled in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Host died 
and was buried. They were the parents of the 
following named children: Harvey, Samuel, 
James, John, W : illiam and Eliza. Mrs. Host 
survived her husband, and was married to John 
Moffat, with whom she removed to Harrison 
County, where they both passed away, and were 
buried in Beech Spring Cemetery. 

Samuel Host was born December 20, 1801, 
and passed his early life on the farm. At the 



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age of nineteen he was apprenticed to the trade 
of blacksmith, which he followed nearly his 
entire life. On August 27, 1825, he was married 
to Louisa Oxley, who died June 12, 1834, and 
was buried at Bloomfield, Jefferson County. 
She left live children, named as follows: Henry, 
James, Mary Ann, John and Louisa. On April 5, 
L838, Mr. Host was again married, on this occa- 
sion to Jane, a daughter of William Hines, of 
Harrison County, and the children of this mar- 
riage were William H, Sarah, David, Amos and 
Eliza Jane. Mr. Host spent the last four years 
of his life at the home of his son, John, who 
with true filial love gave him every care and 
attention to make his closing days comfortable. 
On November 2, 18S9, he passed away, and was 
buried at Beech Spring Cemetery. In politics 
he was a consistent Democrat, though never an 
active worker in his party. 

John Host, the subject of these lines, was 
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, September 27, 
1831, and at the age of three years he was 
placed at the home of his grandparents, where 
he remained until the second marriage of his 
father, after which he lived at his paternal 
home. At the age of sixteen he commenced 
life for himself, having nothing save his energy, 
indomitable will and steady perseverance to 
assist him. He has by the aid of his faithful 
wife now attained a leading position in the 
financial circles of his neighborhood. On April 
22, 1858, he was united in marriage with Kuth 
A. McMillan, who was born August 31, 1835, 
a daughter of John McMillan, a resident of 
Carroll County, Ohio, and soon after their mar- 
riage they located in Green Township, Harrison 
County, where they remained about eight years, 
then moved to Franklin Township, of which 
they were residents for about four years, and 
then returned to Green Township, where they 
have since resided. The names and dates of 
birth of their children are as follows: Jane L., 
born February 16, 1859; John William, July 28, 
1860; Mary A., May 30, 1862; Samuel V., Jan- 
uary 13, 1864; David Homer, September 17, 
1866; Violet B., October 3, 1868; Francis Mar- 



ion, February 3, 1871; Maggie E., March 24, 
1873; Minnie May, October 3, 1875; and Eva 
I., October 26, 1S7S. Mr. Host and family 
are members of the Presbyterian Church at 
Beech Spring. He is a Democrat in politics, 
and, although not pretending to be much of a 
politician, is a faithful worker for his party. 



(P^- AMUEL ELLIOTT (deceased) was born 
in Belmont County, Ohio, in about the 
year 1817. His father, also named Sam- 
uel, was a native of Ireland, whence, 
when a small boy, he was brought by an uncle 
to this country, and to Belmont County, Ohio. 
Here the uncle settled, and the boy grew to 
manhood on a farm. In course of time he mar- 
ried Miss Mary Grimes, who became the mother 
of our subject; both parents died in Belmont 
County, the mother first, and the father marry- 
ing again, the children by his first wife were 
scattered among relatives and friends. There 
were five children in this family, viz. : Joseph, 
in New Athens, Harrison County; Samuel and 
James, both deceased; Mary, now Mrs. Joshua 
Dickinson; and Nancy, now Mrs. Joshua B. 
Dickerson, in Short Creek Township. 

Samuel Elliott was taken by an uncle, Sam- 
uel Davis, of Athens Township, Harrison County, 
and on the farm where Mrs. Johnson now lives 
he grew to manhood. In 1845 he was married 
to Miss Sarah, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth 
(Holmes) Thomas. Isaac Thomas, grandfather 
of Mrs. Elliott, and who was one of the first 
settlers of Short Creek Township, came from 
Virginia in the early part of the century, set- 
tling in the woods, on a farm where W. M. 
Giffen now resides. They had the following- 
named children: Peter, Isaac, Susan, Kuth, 
Anna, Sarah and Aaron, all deceased. Of these, 
Isaac, father of Mrs. Elliott, married and lo- 
cated on the old home place, where they reared 
their family; but later (in 1843) they removed 
to Iowa, taking up their residence in Washing- 
ton County. In 1852 the mother died, at the 
age of fifty-two years, having borne eight chil- 



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dren, named as follows: Aarou and Asa (de- 
censed); Abram, a miaister in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, North Ohio Conferen 
John, in Iowa; Taylor (deceased); William, in 
Colorado; Sarah, now Mrs. Elliott, born Octo- 
ber 28, 1828; Susan, now Mrs. David Twinand. 
The father died in 1867, at the age of eighty 
two years. He was a member of the Society of 
Friends, but he afterward united himself with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Sarah Thomas 
was reared at home until her marriage with Mr. 
Elliott, and they then spent one year in Green 
Township. In 1847 they came to Short Creek 
Township, Harrison County; afterward, in 1850, 
they bought their present farm, to which they 
at once moved. Here most of their married 
lives were spent, and here it was that on Jan- 
uary 15, 1881, Mr. Elliott, at the age of sixty- 
one years, died. He had been in failing health 
for several years, and finally lung trouble set in. 
In politics he was at first a Democrat, but after- 
ward joined the ranks of the Republican party. 
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Shepherdstown, in Belmont County, 
for years. He started in life poor, but by hard 
work, honest perseverance and economy, he ac- 
cumulated a sufficiency. He was a good neigh- 
bor, a kind husband and father and a progres- 
sive citizen. His remains now rest in the 
cemetery at Harrisville. 

Mrs. Elliott is the mother of nine chil- 
dren, as follows: Mary Elizabeth, in Guernsey 
County^, Ohio; Hameline, on a farm near Cadiz, 
Ohio; Martha J., now Mrs. Thomas, living near 
Monnt Pleasant, Jefferson Co. , Ohio; Susann A., 
now Mrs. Anderson, in Short Creek Township, 
Harrison County; Reason Wilson, living near 
Harrisville, Ohio; Malinda, now Mrs. Samuel 
Brokaw, in Belmont County, Ohio; Aaron, on 
a farm in Short Creek Township: Harry , who 
died of measles at the age of nineteen, in 1883; 
and Taylor. Since the death of her husband 
Mrs. Elliott has carried on the farm, with the aid 
of her younger son, who still remains with her. 
She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, of Shepherdstown, having joined at 



the age of thirteen. Her farm is situated nearly 
half way between Harrisville and New Athens, 
and consists of ninety-six acres of good land. 
Mrs. Elliott is a progressive woman, and has 
had her home enlarged Bince her husband's 
death. The family are well known and highly 
esteemed in the community. 



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It M ARY (PATTERSON) SCOTT, widow of 
\f/\ Alexander M. Scott, was born in Car- 
1| roll County, Ohio. John Patterson, 
her father, was a native of Scotland, 
but was a young man when he came to America. 
In Pennsylvania, near Harper's J! ills, he met 
Miss Isabella McMillan, and November 25, 1824, 
made her his wife. She was born in Scotland, 
but was a little girl when brought to America 
by her parents, both of whom died in Pennsyl- 
vania. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson came to Ohio 
immediately after marriage and settled in Car- 
roll County, in the wild forest. Mr. Patterson 
put up a rude log cabin to serve as a shelter till 
a better one could be erected, in which they 
shared the toils and pleasures of life together 
until November 17, 1816, when Mrs. Patterson 
passed away at the early age of thirty-seven 
years, being the mother of thirteen children, as 
follows: James, of Linn County, Kas. ; Marga- 
ret, the wife of Matthew Nickle, of Beaver Coun- 
ty, Penn., deceased; Robenia, wife of William 
Rutan, of Ashland County, Ohio; Euphemia, 
Mrs. John Harrison, of Harrison County, Ohio; 
William, in Morgan County. 111. : Mary, the 
subject of this sketch; Isabelle, wife of William 
Hogue, in Carroll County, Ohio; Adam, who was 
killed in the War of the Rebellion; Thomas and 
Jane, who both died when small ; Martha, Mrs. 
Joseph Doty, of Richland County. Ohio; John, 
who died at two years of age: Alexander, in 
Morgan County, 111. 

March 27, 1849, Mr. Patterson married Cath- 
erine Adams, who bore him four children, viz. : 
Elizabeth. Mrs. Dr. Cook, of Scio; Jane, who 
died at two years of age; Samuel, in the West, 
and John, on the old homestead, in Carroll 



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Count} - . Ohio. Mr. Patterson died in 1859, aged 
sixty eight years; his widow survived him until 
1882. 

Mary Patterson remained at home with her 
parents until her marriage with Alexander M. 
Scott, August 25, 1853. Alexander was a son 
of Benjamin and Susannah Scott, of Washing- 
ton County, Penn., and in 1851 came to Carroll 
County, Ohio. After his marriage he made his 
home in Perry Township, Carroll County, and 
there he died January 8, 1878, aged fifty-two 
years. His death resulted from an old attack 
of typhoid fever, from the insidious germs of 
which he had greatly suffered for twenty years, 
gradually failing until the end. After his death 
Mrs. Scott continued to reside on the farm until 
November, 1886, when she purchased her pres- 
ent pleasant home in Scio and removed to it for 
the purpose of educating an adopted son. Mrs. 
Scott had no children of her own, and this young 
man, "William P. , is the son of her sister Mar- 
garet, who, dying, left him to her care, and she 
has certainly exercised a mother's care over him. 
He is now a student in Scio College. Mrs. 
Scott is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
of which William P. is also a member, and both 
are highlv esteemed by all who know them. 



|l\ It ATHAN HAVERFIELD was born near 
I \l Wheeling, W. Va., in 1797, a son of 
1_ James and Nancy Haverfield, former of 
J/ whom was a native of Ireland, whence, in 

an early day, he came with his father to Amer- 
ica, finally settling, in 1800, in what is now 
Harrison County, Ohio, whither they had come 
from eastern Pennsylvania. James and Nancy 
Havertield were the parents of seven children, 
viz. : William, John, Joseph, James, Nathan, 
Elizabeth and Ellen. 

Nathan Haverfield, before leaving the Key- 
stone State, had married Miss Harriet Barnett, 
a native of that State. Their land purchase here 
consisted of 100 acres of wild woodland, on which 
they experienced the hardships common to all 
early settlers. Their toil was rewarded, how- 



ever, for in course of time a fertile farm took 
the place of their forest home, and here they 
spent years of happiness together. Nathan 
Haverfield died at the age of .seventy-six years, 
and four years later his widow followed to the 
grave, when eighty six years old. They were 
the parents of eleven children, viz. : John N. 
and James N. (sketches of whom appear else- 
here in this volume); William B. deceased; 
Thomas H. , in Indiana; Sarah Jane, deceased; 
Jemima H. (widow of Jeremiah Weaver! in 
Franklin Township; Joseph, in Cadiz Township; 
Nathan B. , in Cadiz Township, on the home 
farm; Samuel Patterson, deceased; George A., 
deceased, and Nancy E., wife of Neal McCaf- 
frey, residing in Iowa. 

Nathan Haverfield was a member of the Se- 
ceder Church, now called the United Presby- 
terian Church, of Cadiz, and in his political pre- 
ferments he was a stanch Republican. He was 
a musician of no small merit, both vocal and 
instrumental, the violin being his favorite in- 
strument. In his younger days he taught sing- 
ing school, and for several years he was "clerk " 
in the Seceder Church, his desk being placed 
near the pulpit, and in front of the congrega- 
tion, his duty being to give out the Psalms, two 
lines at a time, and lead the singing. He was 
a great lover of books, and a close student, so 
much so that he became well versed in history, 
and succeeded in securing quite a large library 
of standard works and other books, Shakespeare 
having prominent place in his collection. At 
his funeral Rev. W. T. Meloy (now pastor of 
the First United Presbyterian Church, Chicago, 
111.), who conducted the services on that occa- 
sion, and who had for several years prior to the 
death of Mr. Haverfield been his pastor, re- 
marked in his address that the deceased had a 
knowledge of matters pertaining to many sub- 
jects far exceeding that of the average farmer. 
Two, at least, of Nathan Haverfield' s older 
brothers served in the War of 1812, a war that 
left a military spirit among the people, and 
for a number of years subsequent to the close 
of the struggle the laws of Ohio required every 




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able-bodied man of certain age to be enrolled in 
the State Militia, and to muster for military 
training twice each year — once for company and 
once for regimental drill. Mr. Havertield was 
at this time in command of a regiment at least 
1,000 strong, which he would put through the 
manual and other exercises. The people, how- 
ever, in course of time became indifferent and 
careless, and these old-time militia musterings 
were abandoned. 



If ATHA.N B. HAVERFIELD is a son of 
Nathan and Harriet (Barnett) Havertield, 




and was born January 29, 1835, on the 
farm he now owns. His parents were 
pioneers, and notice of them appears in other 
family sketches elsewhere in this volume; 
but, in addition, it may be said that hard 
as did the pioneers of Harrison County work, 
their labor brought but slight returns. They 
often carried a small amount of grain on horse- 
back eight or ten miles to mill to have it pre- 
pared for the family use. Oats were frequently 
drawn to Cadiz, where, at only six and one-fourth 
cents per bushel, they were exchanged for nails 
at twelve and one-half cents per pound. 

Nathan B. Havertield, our subject, while a 
young man, learned the trade of a carpenter, 
and for some twelve years followed that voca- 
tion. At the time of the Pike's Peak excitement, 
in 1859, he joined a party of gold seekers, and 
from there, some time later, went td California, 
where, for almost four years, he remained, work- 
ing at his trade and in tbe mines. In 1863 he 
returned to Harrison County, and on May 13, 
1864, went out in Company K, One Hundred 
and Seventieth O. N. G., as a private, and on 
May 5 was appointed sergeant of his company, 
in which capacity he served until his time of 
enlistment expired. While in this company he 
was stationed in the forts near Washington, 
later was in the Shenandoah Valley, and partici- 
pated in the battles of the Wilderness, Snicker's 
Gap, Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg. At 
Snicker's Gap he stood near his cousin, James 



H. Haverfield. when he was killed, and. aided 
by a comrade, bore his inanimate body from the 
field of carnage, crossed the river and buried it 
in a garden, where it reposes in an unmarked 
grave. Nathan B. , onr subject, fortunately re- 
ceived no serious wounds, although bo near the 
enemy that a rebel bullet, striking the breast 
works near his face, threw dirt in his eyes. 
September 10, 1865, he was honorably dis- 
charged and returned to his home. 

On November 1.1, following, Mr. Havertield 
was united in marriage with Miss Mary A., 
daughter of Samuel and Casaudria Harper (both 
of whom are deceased), who came to Harrison 
County at an early date, and therein reared their 
family. After his marriage Mr. Havertield came 
to the old farm to care for his aged parents, 
who, resting from their labors, were hand in 
hand descending the "hill of life." He has 
since remained on the place, from which both 
his father and mother have departed to join the 
"silent majority." The farm is now his sole 
possession, he having bought the interests of 
the other heirs. He built the present commodi- 
ous house which stands beside its more humble 
neighbor — the old log cabin first erected on the 
farm, and which, as a relic of the past, Mr. 
Haverfield allows to stand. His home has been 
brightened by the presence of six children: 
Annie B. (now Mrs. M. B. Finical, of Crawford 
County. Kas.), Harry H., Hattie O. Nellie E., 
Frank P. and Minnie M., the latter five residing 
at home. Politically Mr. Haverfield is a stanch 
Republican. He is a member of the G. A. R. , 
and has been a Freemason twenty live years. 
Mr. Haverfield has a large circle of friends, and 
most creditably represents the pioneer ancestry 
from whom he is descended. Not yet succumb- 
ing to the weight of years, he enjoys shoulder- 
ing his gun and joining the boys in a fox chase 
or a rabbit hunt. His farm is situated some 
three miles from Cadiz, not, far from the Mora- 
vian road, and is devoted to the raising of Jersey 
cattle and sheep. 

Joseph Haverfield was born in Cadiz Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, November 15. L832. 



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He spent his early life on the home farm, and 
March 15, 1855, married Miss Mary Jane, 
daughter of Samuel Johnston, of Harrison 
County, where both her parents died; a brother, 
John Johnston, is now living in the western 
part of the county. After their marriage one 
winter was spent on the home place, and in the 
spriog of 1850 they came to their present home, 
where all the buildings are the work of his 
own hands. Three children were born to them : 
Harriet Elizabeth (married to James A. Mitchell, 
of Cadiz Township, Harrison County), Kersey 
Wood and Bertha Virginia. Politically. Mr. 
Havertield is a Republican, and has held various 
positions of trust in his county; was supervisor 
two years and assessor two terms. His farm 
consists of eighty-five acres, located two and 
one-half miles west of Cadiz, on the Deersville 
road. On it there is one fish pond, stocked with 
carp; his longest pond is probably the largest 
in the county. In connection with farming he 
is also engaged in mining coal. Mr. Haverlield 
is well known and universally esteemed. 



f=^ AMUEL FULTON, a wealthy farmer of 
Nottingham Township, Harrison County, 
is a son of Alexander Fulton, who was a 
son of Philip, whose father, a native of 
Scotland, came to America at an early day and 
settled in Cecil County, Md., where Philip was 
born June 24, 1777. For many years Philip 
Fulton taught school in his native State, and 
April 2, 1801, he was married to Miss Sarah 
Hanna, who was born in Harford County, Md., 
May 8, 1782. About the year 1805 Philip, with 
his wife and children, migrated to Washington 
County, Penn., where he resided until about 
1808, when he brought his family to Steubenville, 
Ohio, and here he enlisted in the War of 1812, 
but served only about three months. Soon af- 
ter the close of the war he removed to Harrison 
County, Ohio, and purchased the tract of 160 
acres on which his son, John Fulton, now re- 
sides, in the southeastern part of Nottingham 
Township, and on this he erected a small cabin: 



here he and his faithful wife endured all the 
hardships incident to such pioneer life, the land 
being partially paid for by raising flax, which 
Mrs. Fulton spun and wove into cloth, which 
was disposed of at a fair price. Mr. Fulton also 
manufactured brick on his land, and these were 
sold to his neighbors for chimney building. In 
due course of time a better residence was erect- 
ed, and prosperity made glad the family home. 
On a barn built by Mr. Fulton, in 1S35, is sup- 
posed to still exist the first lightning rod ever used 
in Harrison County, being made of one-quarter 
inch iron, with each point tipped with twenty- 
five cents' worth of silver. To the union of Mr. 
and Mrs. Fulton were born twelve children, viz.: 
Jane S., born December 15, 1801; Alexander, 
September 12, 1803; William, April 28, 1806; 
Philip S., July 10, 1808; Hannah, February 4, 
1811; Harrison, May 11, 1813; Elizabeth Lantz, 
February 9, 1815 — all now deceased; Sarah 
Davison, born July 20, 1818, and living in 
Freeport Township, Harrison Co., Ohio: Mary 
A. Moore, born April 14, 1821, and living in 
Moorefield Township; Julia Pickering, born 
May 3, 1823, also living in Moorefield Town- 
ship: John, born March 2, 1827, living in Not- 
tingham Township, and Calvin, born August 19, 
1833, now deceased. Philip Fulton departed 
this life September 14, 1841, and his widow 
September 3, 1845, both members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church. 

Alexander Fulton was born in Maryland, 
but was reared to manhood in Ohio, and, No- 
vember 2. 1820. he was married to Miss Sarah 
Ramsey, who was born in Maryland, February 
12, 1804, the only child of Samuel and Eliza- 
beth (Cochrane! Ramsey. Samuel Ramsey, son 
of Charles Ramsey, of Scotland, was born in 
Chester County, Penn., May 23, 1780: Elizabeth 
Cochrane was born in the same county, October 
2S. 170S, and their marriage took place in 1802. 
The children born to this union were seven in 
number, viz.: Samuel; Elizabeth Yarn all, resid- 
ing in Moorefield Township, Harrison County: 
Alexander, deceased; Albert, deceased; Philip, 
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County; Mar}' J., at home with her aged par- 
ents, and Sarah A., deceased. In 1804 the 
Ramsey family went to Allegheny County, Penn., 
and there resided until 1818, when they came to 
Harrison County, Ohio, and in this county Mrs. 
Elizabeth Ramsey died, November 18, 1857, 
and Samuel Ramsey followed j her to the long 
home March 14, 1858. Alexander Fulton was 
a very successful farmer. He was a sincerely 
religious man, and a close adherent of the 
United Presbyterian Church. In politics he 
was an active Republican. His death took 
place March 15, 1881, in Nottingham Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. 

Samuel Fulton, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born in Nottingham Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, August 17, 1827, and was 
reared on the home farm as a tiller of the soil. 
Receiving his education at the common schools, 
he still gave his aid to the improvement of the 
home place until his marriage, March 13, I860, 
with Miss Caroline Watson, who was born in 
Marion County, Ohio, October 11, 1838, a 
daughter of William and Sarah (Kennedy) 
Watson. The father, William Watson, was 
born in Ireland in 17 ( J8, and when fourteen 
years of age came to America, landing in New 
York City with a cash capital of three cents. 
From that city, however, he made his way to 
Maryland, and there found employment on the 
National Pike, then in course of construction, 
and was soon appointed to the charge of a crew 
of laborers engaged in the construction of the 
road. Subsequently, having made a success- 
ful career pecuniarily, he reached Illinois, in 
which State he died in the year 1870. After 
marriage Samuel Fulton and his bride settled 
on his newly purchased farm, on which he and 
his family still reside. The children born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fulton are as follows: 
Mary I., born May 30. 1861; Albert B., born 
October 6, 1862; Barbara E., born November 
18, 1864; William A., born December 7, 1867, 
and Sarah E., born May 11, 1878, all residing 
with their parents. In politics Mr. Fulton is a 
Republican, and under the allspices of this 



party has filled the offices of township trustee 
seven years, and of school director twenty-five 
years. He and his wife are active members of 
the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, and enjoy 
the respect of the community in which they live 
to the fullest extent. 



El D WARD M. S. M. CO XN ELL, New 
Athens, Harrison County. In every 
I commuuity there are to be found those 

who are recognized as leaders in all 
matters of public welfare and progress, to whom 
the people look for advice, and are not disap- 
pointed. Such a man is the one who is the sub- 
ject of this sketch. He was born April 3, 1836, 
in Athens Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 
has been a life-long resident there. The first 
of the family to come to America were James, 
Elizabeth and John McConnell, natives of Scot- 
land, who reached this country about the middle 
of the eighteenth century. Upon arrival here 
they immediately settled in Pennsylvania, where 
they underwent those hardships and dangers in- 
cident to pioneer life. James was one of the 
settlers of Louisville, Ky., and Elizabeth resided 
with her brother, John. John McConnell (grand- 
father of E. M. S.) was born in Scotland, and 
his early youth was spent partly in Scotland and 
partly on the farm in Pennsylvania, which he 
assisted in managing along with his brother 
James and sister Elizabeth. Soon after he at- 
tained his majority he was married to Mary 
Morton, a daughter of Edward Morton. He 
remained in Pennsylvania till the spring of 
1801, when he came to Ohio and located in 
what is now known as Athens Township, when* 
he entered a large tract of land in the wilder- 
ness, many miles from other human habitation. 
The forests teemed with all kinds of wild beasts, 
which were a source of much danger to persona 
as well as domestic animals. Many are the 
thrilling adventures those sturdy pioneers could 
relate were they still animate. John's Bister, 
Elizabeth, while returning from a visit to her 
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took, always on horseback, was followed and 
nearly caught by a pack of wolves, whom hunger 
had made ravenous, but by hard riding she suc- 
ceeded in evading them. As Mr. McConnell 
was one of the earliest settlers in Athens Town- 
ship, his home was the headquarters of the 
families who came afterward, and who were re- 
ceived and entertained with that true hospitality 
which has ever characterized the McConnell 
family. Little do the present residents of the 
well-settled and improved farms of Athens Town- 
ship realize the inconveniences and hardships 
the early settlers were compelled to undergo, 
while wresting their farms from the primeval 
state; how many of the necessities of life were 
brought on horseback from beyond the mount- 
ains of Pennsylvania, thus making them costly; 
and how much time and labor were consumed in 
getting their milling done, sometimes taking three 
or four days. In order that the last mentioned 
inconvenience might be removed, Mr. McConnell 
built a "horse-mill," the first in this section, 
and well was he repaid, both by the receipts 
and the gratitude of his neighbors. His chil- 
dren were as follows: James, William, Mar- 
garet, Elizabeth, John and Jane. James and 
"William, were engaged in a general mercantile 
business on the Ohio Eiver, and after many 
years of successful business were both stricken 
with a disease, the germs of which were thought 
to have come in some of their importations; the 
other children are also now deceased. 

John McConnell, the father of Edward M. 
S. McConnell, was born in Pennsylvania May 5, 
1796, where he remained until about five years 
old, when his parents came to Ohio, his early 
life being spent on the farm, where he grew to 
manhood. His education was received in the 
ordinary schools, and in the academy (afterward 
Franklin College) at New Athens. On October 
20, 1823, he was married to Jane Robinson, 
daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Robinson, 
residents of Delaware, near Wilmington. Tbeir 
family were among the earliest settlers of that 
State and were of Irish and German ancestry. 
After his marriage Mr. McConnell settled on 



the land which had been entered by his father, 
where he remained till his death. His children 
consisted of Robert, living in Guernsey County, 
Ohio; William, deceased; James, deceased ; Mar- 
garet. Mrs. William Howell, in New Athens; 
Mary, Mrs. Joseph Holmes, in Athens Town- 
ship; John, deceased; E. M. S. , our subject; 
Elizabeth, Mrs. John Cook, in Bridgeport, Ohio; 
Francis M. , deceased; Adam, in Athens Town- 
ship; and LaFayette and Martha, both de- 
ceased. In his politics Mr. McConnell was an 
earnest supporter of the Democratic party, and, 
while many times solicited to accept office, he 
always refused, though never failing to do his 
full share of the party work. He was one of 
those men whose influence long survives them. 
His honesty and probity of character were never 
questioned, and his whole life was an example 
worthy of emulation. On August 18, 1878, he 
passed away, and was buried in Crab Apple 
Cemetery, Belmont County, Ohio, where his 
wife was also laid, she having followed him to the 
grave April 10, 1887; both had been consistent 
members of the Presbyterian Church. 

E. M. S. McConnell grew to manhood on 
the farm of his father, attending to the various 
duties thereof, and pursuing his studies at the 
schools which the country then afforded. On 
December 29, 1859, he chose, as his life's 
partner, Cynthia Styers, a daughter of John 
Styers, a resident of Coshocton County, Ohio, 
who was a native of Pennsylvania, the family 
being of German ancestry, and among the 
earliest settlers of Northwestern Pennsylvania. 
During an Indian raid in that section the entire 
family of original settlers, except two boys and 
two girls, escaped, the boys subsequently es- 
caping by running away. One of the girls who 
was too young to walk was killed, the other was 
carried off by the savages. She was about 
seven years of age, and passed the remainder of 
her life with her captors, marrying a chief and 
rearing a large family. In 183") she was visited 
by her nephew, John Styers, the father of Mrs. 
McConnell, who found her well satisfied with 
her surroundings. After their marriage Mr. 



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and Mrs. McConnell settled down on the place 
where they still reside. Two children resulted 
from this anion, viz. : Alice M. and John S. 
Like his father, Mr. McConnell is a Democrat 
and takes a deep interest in his party's success. 
He has been successively elected trustee of his 
township, an office which he still holds. He is 
recognized as one of the keenest politicians in 
his section, and one of the leaders in his party. 
His family are well known in the financial and 
social circles of the county, and are worthy of 
the high respect in which they are held. 




. OBEKT E. COCHRAN, another of the 

II . 

well-known representative, progressive 

agriculturists of Cadiz Township, Har- 
rison County, and owner of Oak Dale 
Farm, was born on that farm on September 14, 
1822, of Scotch-Irish descent. His father, Rob- 
ert Cochran, was born in Dauphin County, Penn., 
September 15, 1771, and when a young man 
removed with his father's family to Allegheny 
County, Penn., twelve miles from Pittsburgh, on 
the Monongahela River, where, April 24, 1800, 
he married a Miss Dorcas Neal, who died March 
1, 1801, and left a young daughter. In the 
same year he came to Ohio, locating on a heavily 
timbered farm, one-half mile from Cadiz, which 
he commenced to improve by building a horse- 
mill and getting it in operation, also a log cabin 
to live in, and effecting other improvements 
necessary to make a home. He then returned to 
Allegheny County, Penn., and married his sec- 
ond wife April 7, 1807, in the person of Miss 
Sarah Calhoou; then came back to his Ohio 
home with his wife, who in the course of time 
bore him six children, viz. : Eleanor, who died 
September 17, 1867; Samuel, living at this time 
in Cadiz Township; David, went West and died 
in Kansas, October 30, 1883; Mary, wife of W. 
H. Caldwell, living at this time one mile and a 
half from Cadiz; Robert R. and Sarah J., living 
on the old homestead, whither the father and 
mother had come so long ago, and where they 
experienced all the hardships of pioneer life, 



living to see many changes and vast improve- 
ments — the wilderness to "blossom as the rose." 
The father died February 1, 1861, aged ninety 
years. He was a Jacksonian Democrat, remaining 
one all his life. He was a justice of the peace 
for several years. His widow died April 4, 
1867, at the old homestead, which she helped to 
beautify, now the residence of her son, R. R.. 
who had remained at home to care for his par- 
ents in their declining years, abandoning an in- 
clination to seek a home on the Pacific coast to 
a sense of duty. 

Robert R. Cochran received a good com- 
mon-school education, and was reared to practi- 
cal farm life. On October 10, 1867, he mar- 
ried Miss Rachel, daughter of William and 
Mary J. Hedges, of Cadiz Township, and they 
settled down for life on the farm where they 
yet reside. Six children were born to them, 
viz.: J. William, R. Euimett, Mary E., Frank 
Mc, R. Burchfield and Henrietta K., all at 
home. In 1851 the present beautiful home of 
Mr. Cochran was built, and in 1875 was re- 
modeled, being now one of the fiuest brick 
structures in Cadiz Township. The farm of 
over 300 acres is situated half a mile from the 
town of Cadiz. At one time the upper part of 
the farm had six cabins standing on it, all at 
one time. Politically Mr. Cochran is a Demo- 
crat, casting his first vote for Polk in 1844. 
Mr. Cochran is a strong and vigorous man for his 
years, enjoying the respect and esteem of his 
fellow-citizens. 




R EV. T. J. MILFORD, Ph. D. Among 
the comparatively late comers into Har- 
rison County, who have impressed their 
individuality largely upon the commu- 
nity, have exercised a strong and beneficial in- 
fluence on the moral, social and political senti- 
ments of the people, none perhaps have ex- 
ceeded Rev. Dr. Milford. Springing from a 
line of ancestors that have ever been famed for 
their intelligence and moral virtues, who have 
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foremost in political or moral reforms, it is not 
strange that be should exert snch an influence 
wherever he might choose to make his home. 
The family originated in Ireland, where Thomas, 
the grandfather of Mr. Milford, was born. The 
name seems to have arisen as follows: One of 
the victims of the Scotch religious persecutions, 
having been driven out of Scotland, went to 
Ireland and there adopted the name of Milford. 
Thomas Milford, when at the age of sixteen, 
filled with the spirit of adventure and the desire 
to make a fortune, sailed from Ireland and 
landed in America about the close of the eight- 
eenth century. He married, and purchased a 
farm in Butler County, Penn., to which he and 
his wife, Jane Parker, removed. They followed 
agriculture the remainder of their lives, dying 
in the place where they first settled. Their chil- 
dren were named as follows: James. Mary, Sam- 
uel, Jane, William, Leanna, Thomas, Montgom- 
ery and Caroline. The father was a supporter of 
the Whig party, and he and family were con- 
stant attendants at the United Presbyterian 
Church, of which he had for many years been a 
leading member. 

James Milford was born April 2, 1816, in 
Pennsylvania. His early youth was spent in 
the duties which claim so much of a farmer 
boy's attention on the home farm. The educa- 
tional advantages which he enjoyed were exceed- 
ingly limited, but served, however, to give him 
an insight into the rudiments of knowledge, 
which led him in subsequent years to improve 
his mind by study and observation. In 1833 he 
was married to Susannah Hartway Jamison, who 
was born in Huntington County, Penn., in 1811. 
They commenced their married life in Venango 
County, Penn. , where they remained a short 
time only, and then removed to Parker City, 
Butler County, where they made their home. 
The issue of their union were John J., in Butler 
County, Penn.; Thomas J., in Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison County; George W. , in Valley 
County, Neb.; James P., in Butler County, 
Penn. ; Benjamin F., in Mercer County, Penn. ; 
Robert F., in Nebraska; William H. H. , in 



Mercer County, Penn., and Jane M., now Mrs. 
E. H. Crawford, in Pennsylvania. A strong 
Whig during the life of that part}', Mr. Milford 
was ever ready to render any assistance for the 
benefit and the advancement of the principles 
advocated by that party. Upon the organiza- 
tion of the Republican party, he became a mem- 
ber of it, and remained among its steadfast 
members till his death. In his county he was 
a recognized leader, always foremost in all 
movements for the welfare of his county. 
From early youth he was a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, of which his family were also 
members. Liberal in his views, charitable in 
action as well as thought, sincere in his opin- 
ions, he was universally respected by all. On 
January 24, 1881, he died, and was buried in 
Allegheny Cemetery, where now by his side 
quietly sleeps the beloved companion of his 
early struggles and ultimate success, who died 
November 26, 1887. 

Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Milford was born May 
23, 1837, in Venango County, Penn. Here his- 
early life was spent, on the farm of his father, 
and he attended the district schools of his neigh- 
borhood during the winter sessions. The knowl- 
edge thus gained served only to urge him on to- 
greater endeavor to secure a liberal education. 
For several years he pursued a course of study 
privately, and also attended the Academy of 
West Sunbury, in Butler County, Penn., where 
he remained till the call for troops for the de- 
fense of his country. He immediately aban- 
doned his course of study, and enlisted in the 
Thirteenth P. V. I., Company H. To such men, 
who, leaving a brilliant future, battled for their 
country, too great credit can not be given. The 
regiment was among the first sent out, and was 
present at the battle of Bull Run. In 1862 Mr. 
Milford again enlisted, his previous term having 
expired, this time in the One Hundred and 
Thirty-seventh P. "V. I., Company G. His regi- 
ment was sent to join the Army of the Potomac, 
and arrived just after the battle of Antietam. 
Belonging to no corps, they were assigned to 
build fortifications at Washington. He served 



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through his second enlistment, and was honora- 
bly discharged. He then returned home, and 
soon afterward entered Washington and Jeffer- 
son College, from which he graduated in 1865, 
In the fall subsequent to his graduation, he en- 
tered the Western Theological Seminary at 
Allegheny, where he graduated in 1868, being 
the valedictorian of his class. He immediately 
received a call at Callensburg and Concord, 
Penn., where he remained three and one-half 
years. Receiving a call at Crab Apple Church, 
Belmont County, he removed with his family in 
1873. Of this church he remained in charge 
for eight years, uniting to his pastoral duties 
that of instructor in Franklin College, which he 
was persuaded to accept. In 1881 he resigned 
his work, and with his family spent nearly two 
years in the West, where he engaged as pastor 
of churches in his vicinity. During this time 
he received, without his previous knowledge, 
the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy 
from two colleges. 

On September 1, 1869, he was married to 
Mary E. Francis, a resident of Pennsylvania. 
Her father was Hon. William M. Francis, of 
Lawrence County, Penn., and his father, An- 
drew Francis, was a native of County Down, 
Ireland, where he married Elizabeth McCure. 
William M. Francis, at the age of seventeen, 
came to Baltimore, Md., and entered Lafayette 
College, where he graduated, with the intention 
of entering the theological seminary, but his 
health failing, he was compelled to abandon his 
theological studies, and has since been engaged 
in the real estate business. 

On October 25, 1839, he was married to Elea- 
nor Junkin, a resident of Mercer County, Penn., 
only daughter of Capt. John Junkin, who died 
in the War of 1812, and niece of the distin- 
guished preacher and educator, Rev. George 
Junkin, D. D. LL. D., president of Lafayette 
College, Pennsylvania, Miami University. Ohio, 
and Washington College, Virginia, and also of 
Rev. D. X. Junkin, D. D., Mrs. Francis herself 
being one of the most finely educated and ac- 
complished members of the well-known Junkin 



family. They took up their residence at New 
Wilmington, Penn., where they have since re- 
sided. His children are Darned Mary E., now 
Mrs. T. J. Milford; Martha F., how Mrs. R. 
W. Dunn; John J.,D. D.,of Cincinnati; Eliza- 
beth B., now Mrs. Judge Williams, of Little 
Rock, Ark. ; William M., of Belle Plaine, Kas. ; 
Jennie, deceased; Julia, now Mrs. Rev. J. A. 
Anderson, of Leroy, N. Y. 

In his political views Mr. Francis was a strong 
and earnest Whig. He took an active interest 
in party affairs and was among those prominent 
in State politics. At the commencement of the 
Civil War he was appointed by the President as 
commissioner of the hospital service, a position 
in which his untiring energy found active em- 
ployment. In this position he remained until 
the close of the war. In 1859 he was elected 
senator of his district, and was elected president 
of that body, that office being the same as the 
present office of lieutenant-governor. He was 
re-elected, and again served as president of the 
Senate. He was prominent among the leaders 
of the State, and was high in the councils of his 
party. He is a man of strong character and 
excellent judgment, regarded as one of the most 
eloquent and brilliant platform orators in the 
State, and his influence will long be felt in the 
community in which he resides. He and his 
family are members of the Presbyterian Church, 
in which he ranked as one of the most eminent 
ruling elders, being a member of the Reunion 
Committee of 1869. Now, with his aged wife, 
he is spending his latter days at Franklin, Penn. 
Dr. Milford' s family consists of Eleanor F., 
born October 27, 1873; James Hartway. born 
May 13, 1876, and Mary E., born July 4. 1879, 
Dr. Milford is a Republican, and has always 
supported that party. He is a man of thorough 
education and high intellectual ability and at- 
tainments, having served as professor in several 
colleges. His wife is a graduate of Westmin- 
ster College, New Wilmington, Penn. , and stood 
high in her class in that prominent institution of 
learning, being regarded as an exceptionally 
graceful and accomplished writer and essayist. 



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Dr. Milford is especially distinguished as a pro- 
found thinker and scholar in the departments of 
metaphysics, mathematics, the natural sciences, 
and theology, as well as for a modesty and diffi- 
dence which causes him, to an unusual degree, 
to shrink from anything that savors of notoriety 
or display. 



THOMPSON McFADDEN, a worthy mem- 
ber of the widely known and justly 
esteemed family of that name in Harrison 
County, is a native of the same, born in 
Cadiz Township June 7, 1S30. His father, 
Joseph McFadden, was a native of the Key- 
stone State, born of Irish parents, the date of 
whose coming to America has been lost. At the 
age of four years, in 1801, he came with his 
parents to Ohio, and lived near Cadiz up to the 
time of his death. He was married, December 
28, 1820, to Miss Mary, daughter of David 
Thompson, and to this union were born six 
children, three of whom have passed from earth, 
those now living being Thompson; Joseph, also 
a farmer in Cadiz Township, and Mrs. Mary 
Fitch, residing in California. v The mother of 
these children dying March 2, 1844, the father 
married, October 11, 1855, for his second wife, 
Catherine Henderson, and on February 26, 1858, 
he departed this life at the age of sixty-five years; 
in politics he was formerly a Democrat, but died 
a Republican. His widow is now making her 
home in Belmont County, Ohio. 

Thompson McFadden attended the common 
schools of his native township, and was reared 
to a good, practical farm life. When some 
seven or eight years of age he removed to the 
farm whereon J. W. Osburn now resides, and 
when twenty- four years old, on November 23, 
1854, he was married to Miss Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of John and Eliza (McFadden) Dickerson, 
and also a native of Harrison County. After 
their marriage our subject and wife came to the 
farm in Cadiz Township, which has since been 
their home. At that time, in lieu of the present 
commodious residence, which was built by them, 



there stood on the place the old log cabin, a 
relict of pioneer days. The farm, which was 
originally a half section, comprises 255 acres 
of choice farm land. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden 
have been blessed with six children, as follows: 
Eliza, who died of diphtheria at the age of 
twelve years; Margaret Jane, at home; Alice, 
Mrs. Emmett Belknap, in Harrison County; 
Joseph T., on the home farm, and Annie L. and 
Lizzie G., also at home. In politics Mr. Mc- 
Fadden is a Republican, but he has never held 
nor sought office; he and his wife are members of 
ihe First Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. 



**T\ W. BARRICKLOW. The progress as 
Y*(/ well as development of any section is 
V^ largely determined by the number of 
•fj enterprising, intelligent and progressive 

citizens who make their home within its bound- 
aries. That Athens Township is among the 
progressive ones of Harrison County is a well- 
known fact, and among those who have been 
prominent in the development of this section is 
the well-known Barricklow family, one branch of 
which is represented by the subject of these 
lines, R. W. , who was born in Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, March 6, 1839. His 
father, John Barricklow, came from Fayette 
County, Penn. , where he was born October 20, 
1803. Henry, father of John, was born in 
November, 1772, near New Brunswick, N. J., 
and Henry's father, Conrad (who was a Revolu- 
tionary soldier), was born in New Jersey, to 
which colony his father, about 1735, emigrated 
from Holland, in company with a brother, who 
settled on Long Island. Conrad was married 
to a Miss Farrington, who bore him a numerous 
family. Henry Barricklow grew to manhood in 
New Jersey, where he was married to Maribah 
Oglivee, of the State of Maryland, and the young 
couple commenced their married life in Fayette 
County, Penn., to which they had removed; in 
1809 they came to Harrison County, Ohio, where 
they purchased a farm where Henry S. Barrick- 
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Sarah, John, Joseph, Anna, Henry, Julia, Con- 
rad and Farrington. From his arrival in this 
county until his death, Henry Barricklow took a 
prominent [tart in the educational, political and 
religious welfare of the county and was ever, 
ready to serve his country in all ways. He was 
elected justice of the peace, which office he held 
many years, and was also a commissioner of the 
county. On April 27, 1852, he passed away 
and was laid to rest by the side of his wife who 
had died in May, 1848. 

John Barricklow was at an early age a resi- 
dent of Athens Township, and was early inured 
to the hardships and struggles of the first set- 
tler. Laboring under educational disadvantages, 
but little suspected at our day, he, however, laid 
at the common schools the foundation of an ed- 
ucation, which largely by his own efforts cov- 
ered a wide range of practical knowledge. In 
1836 he was married to Rachel, daughter of 
Robert S. Watson, a resident of Athens, and to 
this union two children were born: Henry and 
R, W. On March 20, 1839, Mrs. Barricklow 
died, and in 1853 Mr. Barricklow was married 
to Mary Ann, a daughter of Nicholas Johnston. 
Mrs. Barricklow passed from earth in January, 
1875, and at her death her remains were interred 
in the Cadiz Cemetery. Mr. Barricklow followed 
her to the grave July 21, 1875, and was also 
buried at Cadiz. A stanch Democrat, he was 
prominent with his own party, and was popular 
even with his opponents. 

R. W. Barricklow has always made his home 
in his native township of Athens, and his early 
education was received entirely at the common 
schools. August 20, 1867, he was married to 
Isabelle A. Moore, a daughter of John Moore, 
then a resident of Green Township, Harrison 
County, and to this union were born two chil- 
dren, Jessie R.and Mary E. Formerly a Demo- 
crat in his political affiliations, Mr. Barricklow 
has since united with the Prohibitionists. He 
and his family are members of the Presbyterian 
Church of Cadiz, in which he is an elder. His 
farm consists of 300 acres, situated about four 
miles from Cadiz. Mr. Barricklow is one of 



those farmers who do not believe an education 

a hindrance to successful farming. Hospitable 
and affable in manner, intelligent and consider- 
ate in conversation, he has won the respect and 
esteem of all. 



IJI( NDREW JAMISON (deceased) was born 
U |\ in Pennsylvania, April 3, 1825, a son of 
IPlL\ Barkley and Margaret (Patterson) Jami- 
4/ son, former also a native of the Key- 

stone State, born in 1790; latter a daughter of 
Andrew and Mary Patterson, natives of Ireland. 
Andrew Jamison, grandfather of our subject, 
came from Ireland to Ohio at an early day, 
settling in Harrison County, where he died. He 
was married to a Miss McGee, a native of South 
Carolina. Barkley Jamison and his wife came, 
in 1825, to Harrison County, settling in Green 
Township, where the former died, October 23, 
1870, at the age of seventy- four years. In 
politics he was at first a stanch Democrat, and 
then a Republican; in religion he was a member 
of the United Presbyterian Church. His widow 
was born in 1800, and died in 1874, aged seven- 
ty-four years, having moved after her husband's 
death to Cadiz, to reside with her daughter. 
They are buried in the new cemetery. They 
were the parents of nine children, of whom three 
are yet living, viz. : Jane, now wife of Dr. Wort- 
man; Margaret and Agnes, in Cadiz; Isaac, 
Mary, Alexander, John, Andrew and Joseph, are 
deceased. 

Andrew Jamison, the subject proper of these 
lines, remained at home until his marriage, Sep- 
tember 6, 1849, with Ann, daughter of Walter 
and Martha Jamison, of Harrison County, and 
by this union were born the following named 
ten children: Martha (now Mrs. Ezra Carrick), 
born August 31, 1850, living in Short Creek 
Township; John A., born February 20, 1852, at 
home; Oliver, born February 7, 1854, died 
September 28, 1857; Barkley. born May 11, 
1856, died October 13, 1857; Walter, bom De- 
cember 17, 1S.">7, killed March 2,1861; Mary 
(now Mrs. John Wheeler), born August 17, 



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1862, living in Short Creek Township; Marga- 
ret, born June 28, 1864; Clara, born October 
16, 1867; Ella, born December 19, 1870, and 
Joseph, born March 31, 1873, all at home. 
The parents remained one and a half years in 
Green Township, and in 1851 came to their 
present farm in Short Creek Township, where 
the father died November 2, 1885, at the age of 
sixty years, six months and twenty-nine days. 
In politics he was a Republican, and for a time 
was township trustee and county commissioner. 
He was a member of the United Presbyterian 
Church at Cadiz. In 1864 he enlisted in the 
One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., and was 
sent to Washington; he participated in the bat- 
tles of Shenandoah Valley and Snicker's Gap, 
and received an honorable discharge. His 
widow, who now lives on the farm, is a member 
of the United Presbyterian Church of Cadiz. 

John A. Jamison, their eldest son, was mar- 
ried, September 27, 1876, to Sarah Jane, daugh- 
ter of Ephraim and Mary McCleary, of Harrison 
County, both now deceased. The father, who 
was a blacksmith and horse-dealer and an ex- 
tensive farmer, also a bank director, was an 
early comer to the county. Mr. and Mrs. John 
A. Jamison settled in Short Creek Township, 
where, June 2, 1878, the wife died, leaving one 
child, Walter McCleary, born June 2, 1878, 
now living with his father, who is residing on 
the home place in Short Creek Township, where 
he is carrying on general farming for his own 
account. The present house was built in 1867, 
and the farm, consisting of 240 acres, is located 
some five miles from Cadiz on the Cadiz and 
Harrisville pike, largely devoted to sheep and 
stock generally. It was purchased by the 
maternal grandfather of Mrs. Jamison, James 
Beatty, from Hugh Eogers, March 27, 1807, 
and April 8, 1849, was transferred by him to 
Walter Jamison. The original deeds are in the 
possession of the family, and John A. Jamison 
now owns half of the home place — 120 acres. 
James Beatty was married to Jane Randall, and 
they both died in Harrison County, the latter 
in Cadiz. Their family consisted of the follow- 



ing named children: Mary Ann, Margaret, 
Joseph, James and Randall, all now deceased, 
the last named being killed by falling from a 
wagon. On September 25, 1890, John A. 
Jamison was married to Miss Emma May Dun- 
lap, daughter of Samuel and Mary Dunlap, 
residents of Athens Township. 



Ill SA HOLMES, one of the few survivors of 
II l\ the honored band of citizens who were 
1 1 \\ born in Ohio when it was in its earliest 
•f/ infancy as a State, first saw the light 

December 4, 1806, on the farm where he now 
(1890) resides, in Short Creek Township. Harri- 
son County. His grandfather, Obediah Holmes, 
was a native of New Jersey, whither his ancestry 
had come from Holland, and the family is now 
scattered here and there over the United States. 
Obediah was married, in New Jersey, to Miss 
Mary Chun, whose uncle was a captain in the 
Revolutionary War. They had the following 
named children: John, William, Obediah, Isaac, 
Jacob, Joseph, Samuel, Elizabeth and Margaret, 
all now deceased. The parents died, the father 
in Virginia, about the year 1796, and the mother 
in York Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, in 
1812, and lies buried at Holmes Church, in 
same township. John Holmes was a soldier in 
the Revolution, and being taken prisoner by the 
British, was sent to England, where he was 
confined in prison, dying there of fever. 

Joseph Holmes, father of Asa, was born in 
Shepherdstown, Va., in February, 1771, and in 
1781 he accompanied his parents to the place 
where his father died, when the remainder of 
the family moved to the "frontier," which was 
then to the border of civilization. Here for a 
time he was engaged as one of the guards 
against Indians, under the Government, and 
toward the close of the century he came with 
the rest of the family to what afterward became 
Jefferson County, Ohio. Here, in 1799, he was 
united in marriage with Miss Sarah, daughter of 
George McNabb, a settler of near Mt. Pleasant, 
Ohio, at an early day, and supposed to have 



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been of Scotch extraction. With his young 
wife. Mr. Holmes came to Short Creek Town- 
ship, Harrison County, where he entered a sec- 
tion of land on which his son, Asa, now (1890) 
resides, the original papers signed by President 
Jefferson being in the possession of Asa. The 
place was then a wilderness, and here they 
erected a log house, hewing and chopping and 
clearing away the brush, and making for them- 
selves a comfortable home, where they lived 
lives of toil and contentment, "far from the 
madding crowd's ignoble strife." They were 
blessed with a family of eleven children, a 
record of whom is as follows: George is de- 
ceased; Mary, wife of John Glazner, deceased; 
Elizabeth was first married to William Dicker- 
son and afterward to Isaac Thomas, all now de- 
ceased; Cynthia was married to John Sty res, 
both now deceased; Asa is the subject of this 
sketch; Abram is deceased; Martha is the wife 
of John Webb, in Athens Township, Harrison 
County; Joseph is in Hopedale, same county; 
Sarah was married to James Haverfield, both 
now deceased; Susan was first married to 
Joseph Webb and afterward to Joseph Dunlap, 
all now deceased; John died when eight years 
old. On February 10, 1862, the mother died 
at the age of seventy-nine years, and April 2< >, 
1868, the father was called to his rest, being aged 
ninety seven years. Politically he was a Dem- 
ocrat, and in 1833 he was elected to the State 
Senate, serving two years. In the War of 1812 
he was a member of the frontier guards, being 
captain of the first company to go out from his 
section, serving under Gen. Harrison, and later, 
at home, he was made colonel. He was a life- 
long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in 1802 he helped to organize the church of 
that denomination at Dickerson, with which he 
was connected during the remainder of his life. 
In the burial ground of this church he and his 
wife, as well as other members of the family, 
sleep their last sleep. 

Asa Holmes, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was reared on the home farm, and re- 
ceived his education at the common schools of 



his district. In 1810 his father had aided in 
the building of a school-house on the same 
ground where the Science Hill school-house now 
stands, and here our subject was educated. 
When twenty-four years of age he commenced 
to learn the trade of a carpenter, removing into 
Georgetown" where he took charge of a mill for 
a time, and followed his trade some years; in 
1835 he did the carpenter work on the house 
where he now lives, also built the barn which 
was remodeled in 1880. In 1837 Mr. Holmes 
was married to Mary, daughter of Thomas and 
Hannah McCoy, of Athens Township, Harrison 
County, and in 1845 he returned to the home 
place where he has since remained. The record 
of the ten children born to our subject and wife 
is as follows: James Taylor is an attorney at 
Columbus, Ohio (he served three years in the 
War of the Rebellion) ; Susanna is the widow of 
Albert Harrison, and is now living in Cadiz; 
A.bram is post-office inspector, with residence at 
New Philadelphia, having been appointed under 
the Cleveland administration (he served three 
years in the Civil War, was formerly in mercan- 
tile business, then was auditor of his county 
five years); Emeline lives at home; Sarah Eliza- 
beth is the wife of Henry Stringer, of Short 
Creek Township, Harrison County: Wilson is in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, near Smithtield. where 
he carries on. farming; Mary Ellen is the wife 
of Samuel Dickerson, in Athens Township, Har- 
rison County; Henrietta is the widow of C. A. 
McCleary. and lives in Cadiz Township, Harri- 
son County; Oliver Wendell is a minister of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Kent, Ohio; Clif- 
ford A., resides at the home place. The entire 
family are adherents of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Politically Mr. Holmes was a life-long 
Democrat, his first presidential vote having been 
cast for Andrew Jackson: he was trustee ten 
years during a period when the Democrats had 
'but eighty votes to three hundred of their oppo- 
nents, which in itself attests to the popularity 
of our subject. His farm of 1 15 acres is situ 
ated some five miles southeast of Cadiz, where 
now (1890) at the age of eighty-four years, with 



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all bis faculties wonderfully well preserved, he 
calmly awaits the summons that will call him to 
the "Better Land." 

Since the above was written, Asa Holmes, 
the patriarch of his connection peacefully fell 
asleep at 10 o'clock in the morning, January 3, 
1891, thus rounding up and completing one 
of the best and gentlest of lives. As a patriot 
he rejoiced greatly in the growth, strength and 
prosperity of his country. He had a burning de- 
sire for knowledge that was with him to the last 
day of his life. He followed with an interested 
mind the marvelous advances of science in many 
fields. There were but few men in the non- 
professional ranks who more thoroughly under- 
stood the theology and spirit of his church. He 
possessed a judicial mind and lived with the 
purpose that no one should be misjudged by him 
or wronged by any action of his life. 



¥ OHN D. WEST, M. D. From two Cale- 
V I donian families of distinguished lineage 
%J) on the one side, and of honorable ancestry 
on the other, is descended the subject of 
this sketch, Dr. John Douglass West, of Hope- 
dale, Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
His paternal grandfather was John West; his 
father was James West, born in Kirkcaldy, 
Fifeshire, June 11, 1791. The latter emi- 
grated to the United States, and settled in 
Maryland in 1S15. Here for two years, in the 
capacity of superintendent, he was connected 
with the construction of what was then known 
as the Baltimore Turnpike. Removing to 
Wood County, Va., (now West Virginia), he 
purchased a farm, which he occupied and im- 
proved for eight years, and then lost by reason 
of the worthlessness of his title. While in 
AVood County he met and married Miss Isabella 
Douglass, a daughter of Scottish parents, 
whose father, John Douglass, was a descendant 
of the distinguished Scottish family of that name. 
Isabella Douglass was born in Akeld, Northum- 
berland, September 15, 1802. Her mother was 
Susan Howey, daughter of Andrew Howey 



and Margaret Mitchison, and her paternal 
grandmother was Anna Davidson. The mar- 
riage of James West and Isabella Douglass 
took place in 1825, and thus the descendants of 
two Scottish homes united across the sea, and 
laid the foundation of an American family of 
honorable record. The young couple moved to 
Summit County, Ohio, shortly after their mar- 
riage, the husband for about two years being 
engaged as a superintendent in the construction 
of the Ohio Canal. Determined upon making 
a home for himself and his family, and on ac- 
count of the health of the latter, he bought a 
farm in 1S2S, in Fox Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, where he removed in the fall of that year, 
and lived until his death. This farm, if it 
could be distinguished by such a name, con- 
sisted chiefly of wild, uncleared land, surrounded 
by a wilderness; only a few acres had been 
cleared for cultivation. The home of the 
couple was a rude two-story log house, win- 
dowless, with clapboard door and puncheon 
floor. But here they toiled, suffering the pri- 
vations of life in a new country, until they had 
improved their farm, assisted in the develop- 
ment of the country around them, and reared 
their children respectably. In 1851 the hus- 
band and father died. He had been a Whig in 
politics, and in religion, a member of the Asso- 
ciate Reformed Church, in which he had held for 
many years the office of ruling elder. There 
were born to James and Isabella West nine chil- 
dren : Susanna is the wife of Robert Philpot, of 
Humboldt, Neb. ; John Douglass is the subject of 
this sketch, and one of the best known and most 
successful physicians in Harrison County, Ohio; 
Katherine was married to John Hunter, of Dell 
Roy, Ohio, and is deceased; Margaret Ann is 
the wife of John Bebout of Mechanicstown, 
Carroll County, Ohio; Isabella is the wife of 
William A. Frater, of Douglass County, Ore- 
gon; James D. is an undertaker in East Liver- 
pool, Columbiana County, Ohio; Mary Eliza- 
beth was married first to John Smalley, aud 
after his decease, to William Kerr, and resides 
near New Lisbon, Columbiana Co., Ohio; two 



HABEISOX CO I 'XTY. 



ll'.t 



of the children died in infancy. The mother of 
this family, now (1891) in her eighty-ninth yen-, 
has made her home with Dr. West almost 
constantly since the death of her husband; she 
is still in the full possession of her faculties. 

John Douglass West, in his early boyhood, 
enjoyed such advantages of education as a sub- 
scription school had to offer. This institution 
of learning was carried on in a log cabin two 
and a half miles from his home. The cabin, in 
lieu of the plate glass used in the public schools 
of these days, had greased paper for window 
panes; the seats were made of slabs and flat 
rails, and the writing desk consisted of a rough 
board laid upon two pins driven into the side of 
the cabin. Nevertheless, having the advantages 
of an educated father, and bending bis mind to 
such studies as were afforded him in the primi- 
tive school, he so mastered the branches of a 
common-school education, that, at the age of 
seventeen he was competent to enter upon the 
duties of a common-school teacher himself. By 
the pursuit of this calling he earned and saved 
sufficient money to enable him, in 1849, to enter 
Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, as a stu- 
dent. At the death of his father, in 1851, he 
was called home to take charge of the family, 
and although he had not then completed his 
college course, the board of directors afterward 
conferred upon him the degree of master of 
arts. In 1852 the old homestead was sold, and 
the family removed to Mechanicstown, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, where John D. turned his attention 
to the study of medicine, under the direction 
of J. F. Lindsey, M. D. During this period 
he earned the support of himself and family by 
employment in the small dry-goods store owned 
by James Spears, and by teaching. For three 
years he was principal of Neville Institute, Co- 
lumbiana County, Ohio. He finished the study 
of medicine under the direction of Dr. Benja- 
min Ogden, of East Liverpool, Ohio, to whom 
he was assistant for three years. Later he at- 
tended medical lectures at Rush Medical Col- 
lege, Chicago, 111. 

While studying medicine he married, in 



1853, Martha Jane Merrick, born June 9, 1832, 
the daughter of Israel J. and Sarah (Arbuokle) 
Merrick, the former of win mi was born in 1802 
and died in L881; the latter, born in 1812, is 
still living. Mr. Merrick came bom Maryland, 
and was one of the first settlers of Carroll 
County. In 1863 Dr. West moved to Dell Roy, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, and commenced the practice 
of medicine on his own account. Here he re- 
mained until November, 1800, when he moved 
to Hopedale, where he has since lived. In 
1884 he rebuilt his residence here, making it 
one of the best, in point of architecture, in the 
village. On April 12, L884, his wife died. 
The issue of this couple consisted of three BOns, 
all college graduates, and two daughters, as 
follows: Mrs. W. S. Sheppard, Mrs. R. M. 
Thomas, James J. and William H. West, all 
residents of Chicago. 111., and Israel M. West, 
who died at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 
September, 1885, of apoplexy, the result of an 
injury to the brain, caused by a fall some time 
previous. The mother of these children is 
buried in Green Township Cemetery, where her 
husband has erected a handsome family monu- 
ment. In November, 1880, Dr. West married 
Mrs. Josephine M. Mansfield, relict of Mr. 
Thomas Mansfield, and daughter of Mr. Isaac 
Holmes, who was an early settler of Green 
Township. 

In 1880 Dr. West wrote and compiled for 
publication a medical work entitled "Maiden 
hood and Motherhood, or Ten Phases of 
Women's Life," a book of more than 700 
pages, which met with a very large sale, and is 
regarded as a standard volume on the subjects 
of which it treats. Politically. Dr. West was a 
Democrat until the administration of James 
Buchanan, when he abandoned that party and 
its policy and became a Republican. He has 
frequently been solicited to accept office, by 
serving as a member of the Ohio Legislature 
but has invariably declined to enter active po 
litical life. While a young man he became 
connected with the United Presbyterian Church, 
and at the death of his father was elected to 



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fill bis place as ruling elder, which office he 
held for thirty- four years, when he left that 
church and became a member of the Reunited 
Presbyterian Church. 



C. CLEMENS, a progressive farmer of 
Cadiz Township, Harrison County, was 
born in Washington County. Penu., June 
28, 1833. His grandfather, John Clem- 
ens, was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, 
and came to America in his early manhood, 
bringing with him his wife, Frances (Scott), 
whom he had married in their native land. 
They first located in Eastern Pennsylvania, 
whence they removed to Washington County, 
and later, about the year 1837, to Harrison 
County, Ohio. Some time after this they came 
to Tuscarawas County, where they both died, 
each having reached the remarkable age of one 
hundred years. The Scott family was one 
widely known in Tuscarawas County, Alexan- 
der, a brother of Mrs. John Clemens, being 
owner and proprietor of the Scott Mills, in said 
county, and a man of wealth and influence. 
The family had inherited a large sum of money 
from a relative who had grown rich in the sugar 
trade in Jamaica, and, dying, left his estate to 
his relatives in America. Alexander Scott went 
to Jamaica for his portion, and thus secured his 
wealth. The money he obtained was all in 
coin, and when he came with it to Tuscarawas 
County it had to be brought in a wagon. To 
John Clemens and his wife were born the fol- 
lowing named children: David, John, Joseph, 
William, James, Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary, 
Frances and Rebecca, all now deceased, the last 
to be carried off being Samuel, who died in Iowa 
in January, 1887. Of these children, James, 
who became the father of our subject, grew to 
manhood on the home farm on Raccoon Creek, 
and married Miss Mary Campbell, a native of 
Pennsylvania. Her parents, who were of Scotch 
birth, emigrated to America and died in Penn- 
sylvania. James Clemens and his wife re- 
mained in the Keystone State for a few years 



after their marriage, and in 1836 came to Har- 
rison County, settling some four miles west of 
the town of Cadiz, where they purchased land 
and moved into an old house which still stands 
on the John Mehollin place. His own posses- 
sions being small, James Clemens for a number 
of years worked on rented land. Selling this 
place some years later, the family spent a num- 
ber of years on various farms of the county, and 
finally in Athens Township purchased a farm 
one mile east of the Rankin Methodist Episco- 
pal Church. Here they remained until death 
claimed them both, at the ages, respectively, of 
seventy-two and seventy years, the wife dying a 
few years prior to the husband. They were the 
parents of eight children, viz. : John (now de- 
ceased) married Eliz. Moore, and they were the 
parents of eight children; Eliza Jane died in 
infancy; Frances (now deceased) was wife of 
Simpson Bethel, and they were the parents of 
three children; Samuel C. ; Mary J. is the wife 
of Thomas Furbay, of New Athens, Ohio; Alex- 
ander S. is a merchant of Newport, Tuscarawas 
Co., Ohio; Rebecca and Gillespie both died in 
young manhood and womanhood. The father 
was a stanch Democrat, and for a number of 
years was constable of Cadiz Township. Both 
he and his wife were members of the Notting- 
ham Presbyterian Church, he having been con- 
verted under the ministry of Rev. Dr. Crawford ; 
his wife had formerly been a member of the 
Raccoon Creek Presbyterian Church of Penn- 
sylvania: both now sleep in the Nottingham 
Church Cemetery, in Mooretield Township, Har- 
rison County. 

Samuel C. Clemens was brought up a 
farmer, and his education was such as the com- 
mon schools afforded. On May 12, 1804, he 
was married to Miss Sarah J. , daughter of 
Hugh B. Dunlap, of Athens Township, Harri- 
son County, and they afterward remained nine 
years in Athens Township, living one mile east 
of the old home place, and then, upon the 
death of his father, bought the old farm, and 
moved thereon. They resided a short time at 
Stumptown, and in 1S77 purchased the John J. 



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Ilea place (better known as the " Sally B. Mc- 
Fadden Place"), near Cadiz, and here their 
home has since been made, on the Cadiz and 
Athens pike, three-quarters of a mile from town. 
where Mr. Clemens owns 13-4 acres of land. 
Politically, our subject is a Democrat; in Athens 
Township he held the position of trustee, and 
in Cadiz Township has several times been nomi- 
nated for a similar position, but, belonging to 
the party in the minority, has been defeated. 
Both he and his wife are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church at Cadiz, having been for- 
merly connected with the same denomination in 
Nottingham. Beginning life a poor boy, and 
working by the month for small wages, Mr. 
Clemens has gradually advanced himself until 
it may justly be said of him that he is one of 
the representative self-made men of the county. 



rpvEV. WILLIAM H. HAVERFIELD, 
y»\( born March 14, 1861, near the town of 
l\ Cadiz, Harrison County, is a son of 
■fj Gillespie and Sarah Jane (Hines) Hav- 

erfield. He was educated at Franklin and Scio 
Colleges, graduating from the latter in 1890, in 
the fall of which year he entered the East Ohio 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and is now located at Wegee, Belmont Co., 
Ohio. For five years he taught in the common 
schools of his county, and afterward read law 
with Hon. J. M. Garven, of Cadiz. 

His mother (Sarah J. Hines) was born Octo- 
ber 29, 1830, a daughter of William and Isa- 
bella (Hitchcock) Hines, of whom mention is 
made in the sketch of the Hines family of Cadiz 
Township. In May, 1S60, she was married to 
Gillespie Haverfield, who died March 17. 1882, 
at the age of sixty-two years. He was a farmer 
by occupation, the greater part of his life hav- 
ing been spent in agricultural pursuits in Har- 
rison County, and at the time of his death he 
owned a farm near Cadiz. They were the par- 
ents of seven children, of whom the following is 
a record: Rev. William H. is the subject proper 



of this sketch; Mary Belle is the wife of John 
Keesey, and is living in Cadiz Township; Cath- 
erine May is the wife of John Barger, also in 
Cadiz Township; Gillespie Sherman is a farmer 
in Cadiz Township; Ida Alice, Melissa Jennette 
and Martha Alberta are at home. Since the 
death of her husband Mrs. Haverfield has re- 
sided with her children near Cadiz. 



DAVID L. TAYLOR, member of the firm 
| of Case, Taylor & Co., of Franklin. 
__' Harrison Co., Ohio, was born in Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio, November 2. 
1860, and is a son of Thomas S. and Sarah J. 
(Ripley) Taylor, also natives of Tuscarawas 
County, of which their parents were pioneers. 
Thomas S. Taylor was twice married, and be- 
came the father of nine children, and of the 
three by the first marriage, David L. Taylor 
was the second in order of birth. In the com 
mon school of his native township, and at Leb- 
anon Normal College, David L. Taylor received 
his education, and after his graduation taught 
school during the winter months, saving his 
earnings and investing them in live stock. Oc- 
tober 3, 1882, Mr. Taylor married Mi<s Bertha 
I. Case, of Tuscarawas County, daughter of 
William E. Case, his present partner. Mr. 
Case is a prominent and active business man, 
and holds an interest in six mercantile establish- 
ments, making his home at Newcomerstown. 
Following his marriage Mr. Taylor resided on 
the farm in Tuscarawas County, but soon re- 
moved to Medina County, Ohio, where he also 
engaged in farming. During the presidential 
campaign of 1884 he established tli<* Medina 
Democrat, which he edited and published one 
year. He then returned to Tuscarawas County, 
and after a short stay on the original farm, be- 
came a member of the firm of Case, Taylor & 
Co., beginning business at Albany, Ohio. In 
August, 1888, the firm opened their store at 
Franklin. Harrison County, and are doing the 
largest business of any similar firm in the place, 



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handling an extensive line of clothing, hats, 
caps, boots, shoes and general merchandise. 
The management of this business falls upon 
Mr. Taylor, and the creditable manner in which 
he conducts the affairs of the firm speaks well 
for his business abilities. He is naturally a 
shrewd man, and has the satisfaction of know- 
ing that he has been the maker of his own fort- 
une. Lucy May Taylor is the only child that 
has blessed the union of David L. and Bertha 
I. Taylor, but she is the sunshine of the home 
at Franklin, where the family enjoy the respect 
of all who know them. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in politics he is a Democrat. 



J(OHN N. HAVERFIELD, a leading farmer 
of Stock Township. Harrison County, was 
' born in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co. , 
Ohio, May 17, 1820, a son of Nathan and 
Harriet (Barnett) Haverfield, former of whom 
was a son of James Haverfield, a native of Ire- 
land, who in an early day immigrated to Amer- 
ica, finally settling with his family, in 1800, 
in what is now Harrison County, Ohio, whither 
they had come from eastern Pennsylvania. 
James and Nancy Haverfield were the parents of 
seven children, viz. : William, John, Joseph, 
James, Nathan, Elizabeth and Ellen. Of these, 
Nathan was born, in 1797, near Wheeling, W. 
Va., and before leaving Pennsylvania he mar- 
ried Miss Harriet Barnett, a native of that 
State. Their land purchase consisted of 100 
acres of wild woodland, on which they experi- 
enced the hardships common to all early settlers. 
But their labor was rewarded, for a fertile farm 
took the place of their forest home, and here 
they spent years of happiness together. At the 
age of seventy-six Nathan Haverfield passed 
from earth, and four years later his widow fol- 
lowed him to the grave, aged eighty-six years. 
They were the parents of eleven children. [See 
sketch of Nathan Haverfield at page 134.] 



John N. Haverfield grew to manhood in 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, and re- 
ceived his education at the common schools. 
On October 27, 1842, he married Miss Emeline 
Lavely, who was born April 30, 1822, a daugh- 
ter of John and Annie (Gorsuch) Lavely, natives 
of Maryland. This union has been blessed 
with four children, viz.: Henry L. , in Cadiz, 
Ohio; Harriet A. Birney, in Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio; William Kinsey, in Jewett, Ohio, and 
Emmet N., in Cadiz, Ohio. After his marriage 
Mr. Haverfield remained with his father about 
one year; then purchased a farm of 163 acres, 
on which he remained till 1852, when he bought 
the second farm near the first, which contained 
160 acres; he remained on the second farm five 
years, and then removed to Stock Township, 
where he rented a farm for one year. He then 
returned to his first purchase in Cadiz Town- 
ship, where he remained until October 1, 1861, 
when he purchased the farm where he now re- 
sides, which contains 230 acres, in Stock Town- 
ship, Harrison County. Politically Mr. Haver- 
field is a Republican, and held the office of 
infirmary director for six years. Mr. and Mrs. 
Haverfield are active members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which he has been an offi- 
cer during the past forty years, having held the 
positions of class leader, steward, Sunday-school 
superintendent and trustee; and now, at the age 
of seventy- one years, he still holds the positions 
of steward and trustee; he has been a director 
in the Farmers & Mechanics National Bank of 
Cadiz since its organization in 1873. Mr. and 
Mrs. Haverfield stand among the foremost in 
the social and financial ranks of the countv. 



It T/ENRY L. HAVERFIELD, hardware 
r™H merchant, Cadiz, Harrison County, was 
1 born in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., 
■%) Ohio, July 29, 1843, and is a son of John 

N. and Emeline (Laveley) Haverfield. Nathan 
Haverfield, father of John N. , was a native of 
Maryland and an eaily settler in Ohio. John N. 




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Haverfield was reared a farmer, received a com- 
mon-school education, and in 1843 married Miss 
Emeline Laveley, a native of Harrison County, 
Ohio, and a daughter of John and Anna Lave 
ley, natives of Maryland, who came to Ohio 
quite early in life. To the union of John N. 
and Emeline Haverfield were born four children, 
viz : Henry L., whose name heads this sketch; 
Harriet Ann (Mrs. N. L. Birney), of Tuscara- 
was County, Ohio; William Kinsey, of Jewett, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and Nathan Emmet, of Ca- 
diz, Ohio. 

Henry L. Haverfield passed the first eight- 
een years of his life on the home farm, when, 
in August, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, 
Ninety- eighth O. V. I., and was assigned to the 
Army of the Cumberland, in which he served 
three years, taking part in the march of Sher- 
man to the sea. He was constantly in the ranks, 
was never wounded or captured, nor was he 
ever sick or home on furlough. Receiving his 
discharge June 10, 1865, he returned to the 
home farm, and April 17, 1866, he was united 
in marriage with Mary Elizabeth Barrett, a na- 
tive of Harrison County, Ohio, and a daughter 
of William H. and Eliza Barrett. To this 
union six children have been born, viz. : Brice 
Worthington, of Detroit, Mich. ; John William,- 
Eral Raider, Eugene Laveley, Raymond B. (de- 
ceased), and Cora Ethel. After marriage Henry 
L. Haverfield resided on the home farm until 
1885, when he settled in Cadiz and formed the 
copartnership of Barrett & Haverfield, which 
was later changed to the firm of Haverfield & 
Crawford. In February, 1890, Mr. Haverfield 
bought out the interest of E. S. Crawford, and 
now has the full control of the business. He 
does an extensive trade in hardware, house- fur- 
nishing goods, etc., and is noted for fair deal- 
ing and the low prices at which he offers his 
wares. In politics Mr. Haverfield is a Repub- 
lican; he is a member of the G. A. R. and of 
the Mystic Circle, and, with his wife, of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. The family stand 
high, socially, and the business integrity of Mr. 
Haverfield is universally recognized. 



Tp5jLIAS YOST, one of the old settlers of 
I^J Short Creek Township, Harrison County. 
IL^i is a native of Virginia, born in Frederick 
County, near Winchester. December 2, 
1805. He is a son of Michael and Rachel 
(Keckley) Yost, both also natives of Virginia. 
Michael Yost lived in that State at the time 
of the Revolution, and saw 900 Hessians who 
had been taken prisoners, but were released 
at the close of the war. The Yost family are 
descended from German ancestors, and the fore- 
fathers on both sides were in the American serv- 
ice, and at the capture of Cornwallis at York- 
town. In 1806 Michael Yost and family came 
overland in a wagon drawn by a five-horse team 
to Ohio, and located near Harrisville. The 
country was at that time an unbroken wilder- 
ness, and Harrisville consisted of but a few 
scattered cabins of settlers who had sought 
homes there. He left his family with one of 
the early settlers, John Wells, while he built a 
small cabin on his farm. He cut down the tim- 
ber, and from the logs soon commenced putting 
up a cabin, into which he moved his family, fin- 
ishing the cabin afterward. In this humble 
dwelling, suffering all the privations of a pio- 
neer life, he lived with his family. His first 
crop consisted of three acres of corn, planted in 
June. There was no wheat in the country, and 
to get flour for his family he would go fifteen 
miles, to near Mt. Pleasant, and reap wheat all 
day, his pay being one bushel of wheat. This 
he would take to mill and give toll for grind- 
ing; in this way he supported his family until 
he could produce enough for that purpose on 
his own farm. The family lived in the original 
cabin until 1818, when Mr. Yost built the brick 
house which now stands on the place, and is in 
a good state of preservation. The country 
abounded in wild game, and with his trusty rifle 
the bold pioneer would add to the store of pro- 
visions. Mr. Yost killed as many as three deer 
in one day, and our subject remembers seeing 
his father stand in the cabin doorway and shoot 
j a deer that had ventured too near the house. 
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died at the old homestead February 19, 1849. 
Michael Yost was born November 3, 1760, and 
died at the home of his son, adjoining the old 
homestead, February 2, 1819. He was a man 
of unswerving determination, and lived and 
died a member of the Lutheran Church; politic- 
ally he was an adherent of the old Whig party. 
Eleven children were born to Michael and 
Rachel Yost, ten of whom grew to manhood 
and womanhood, and of these our subject was 
the seventh child in order of his birth. 

His life, until he became of age, was spent 
at home, assisting his parents in the performance 
of the duties of the farm. His education was 
limited to the meager advantages of those early 
days, when the teaching consisting of nothing 
but the simple rudiments of an education. The 
old log school -ho uses, with their huge fire- 
places, are fresh iu the memory of our subject, 
and he relates an incident of trying to write 
when the room was so cold that the ink would 
freeze on his pen. On December 30, 1834, he 
married Kezia Kithcart, a native of Pennsylvania 
and a daughter of Squire Joseph Kithcart, at 
whose house Gen. Washington often visited 
during the Revolutionary War. When twelve 
years of age she came to Ohio with her mother, 
her father having died in his native State. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Yost located 
on a farm in Short Creek Township and began 
life for themselves. In 1838 they purchased 
and moved upon the farm where Mr. Yost now 
resides. The Yost family made brick and were 
the pioneers of that industry in this region. 
When Mr. Yost settled on his present farm there 
was but a rude log cabin, in which he lived un 
til the following fall, when he built his present 
house, having manufactured the brick himself. 
He and his brothers were the makers of nearly 
all the brick used in the construction of the 
houses in the neighborhood. Mrs. Yost was born 
April 25, 1812, and died in 1878, having borne 
her husband eleven children, of whom eight are 
now living. Mrs. Yost was a respected member 
of the United Presbyterian Church of Harris- 
ville, at the time of her death. She was a faith- 



ful wife and helpmate, and a kind and affection- 
ate mother, and her death was deeply mourned 
by all. On March 7, ISM). Mr. Yost married 
Miss Ann Macklin. a native of County Armagh, 
Ireland, and born December 2, 1842, a daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Ann (Benson) Macklin. Her 
father died when she was but a child of three 
years, and her mother when she was eighteen 
years of age. She reached America in 1869, 
coming directly to Ohio. This second marriage 
of Mr. Yost has been blessed by two bright-eyed, 
rosy-cheeked little daughters, who add to the 
happiness of his home. Politically Mr. Yost was 
a member of the old Whig party, and then be- 
came a Republican; cast his first vote for John 
Quincy Adams, and has voted for every Whig or 
Republican President since. He has served as 
a member of the school board, and is a pleasant 
gentleman, a fluent conversationalist, kind and 
charitable to all, and is well read upon the topics 
of the day. Mr. and Mrs. Yost now reside on 
their farm near Harrisville, where they have a 
pleasant home, surrounded by the r eomforts of 
life. The Yost family are a loog-lived people. 
It will be seen by the dates already given that 
Michael Yost attained an age of nearly one hun- 
dred years. Our subject, now in his eighty- 
sixth year, is active and strong, and has had 
within his house a gathering of three genera- 
tions. He has seventy grand and great-grand 
children, and ten great-great- grandchildren. 
Michael Yost and brother were called upon to 
serve in the War of 1812, but before being 
mustered into service peace was declared. 



;HE HINES FAMILY. Some time prior 
to the Revolutionary War of 1776, there 
came to America from their native coun- 
try, Germany, John Hines and family, 
of whom was Rudolph, son of said Hines. 
Rudolph Hines was a Revolutionary soldier. 
In 1806 he moved from Steubenville, Ohio, with 
his family into Virginia, onto the farm known 
as the Biggs Farm, where he lived eight years, 
and saw the first steamboat go down the Ohio. 



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Steubenville was then a town of but few houses, 
and bad but one store, kept by David Merry- 
man. There was no court of law there, and 
the punishment of offenders against the laws 
was to whip, and sere with a hot iron. In the 
spring of 1814 Rudolph Hines moved to and 
settled with his family on a farm in Harrison 
County, Ohio, and lived and died in the (now) 
old log house that is still standing. He died 
at the age of ninety years, and his aged wife 
si Kin followed him. They were the parents of 
twelve children, all of whom have died. Will- 
iam Hines, son of Rudolph and Sarah (Huff) 
Hines was born in Allegany County, Md. , 
March 19, 1800. He was four years old when 
his parents moved to Steubenville, Ohio, and 
lived there one year. On February 15, 1827, 
William Hines, above mentioned, was united in 
marriage with Miss Isabella, daughter of John 
and Jane (Mahon) Hitchcock, both of Irish par- 
entage, the father born in Maryland, the mother 
in Ireland, having come to this country when a 
child. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Hines continued to remain on the old homestead 
until his death, in September, 1887, being then 
eighty-seven y r ears of age. In religion he was 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; 
in politics, at first a Whig, and afterward, on 
the formation of the party, a Republican. His 
life had been one of toil, and he succeeded in 
accumulating a considerable amount of property, 
at one time owning 300 acres of land. Since 
his decease his widow has resided at her present 
home, which was erected in 1S64, where, now in 
her eighty-sixth year (having been born January 
2 1, 1806), she calmly awaits the final summons. 
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hines were 
the following named: John R., in Clarke 
County, Iowa; Sarah Jane, widow of Gillespie 
Haverrield (of whom mention is made in the 
sketch of Rev. W. H. Haverfield); a son, de- 
ceased in infancy; Lemuel Browning, in Red- 
field, Cal.; William Fletcher, on the farm; Mary 
Ellen (now Mrs. Joseph McBeth), in Deersville, 
Harrison County. Samuel Montgomery, in Not- 
tingham Township, Harrison County; James Mc- 



Mahan, on the farm; Thomas Hogg, who died 
at the age of six months, and Ezra Lawson.who 
died at the age of fourteen years. 

William Fletcher Hinks. the fourth sou of 
William and Isabella (Hitchcock) Hines. was 
born in February, 1839, in Harrison County, 
Ohio, and in his boyhood attended the common 
schools of his district. On August 8, 1862, he 
enlisted in Company F, Ninety-eighth O. V. I., 
which was attached to the Army of the Cum- 
berland. He served his country nearly three 
years, and participated in sixteen battles, in one 
of which he received a slight wound. He lay 
for four months in Hospital No. 18, at Nash- 
ville, Tenn., with typhoid fever, and after his 
recovery rejoined his regiment; June 10, 1865, 
he received an honorable discharge, and re- 
turned home. On February 7, 1807, he was 
united in marriage with Christina, daughter of 
Christopher and Ara (Carnes) Spiker, and a na- 
tive of Harrison County, whither her parents 
had come at an early day, the mother dying 
here in 1870, and the father in 1879. To Mr. 
and Mrs. W. F. Hines were born five children, 
viz.: Arabella, Dempsey S., Philip O. and 
Mary Maud, at home, and Lemuel Oscar, de- 
ceased. Politically, Mr. Hines is a stanch Re- 
publican. He is a member of the G. A. R. 
His farm is the old homestead, being a part of 
the land first entered by his grandfather in this 
section. 

James McMahan Hines, the sixth son born to 
William and Isabella (Hitchcock) Hines, is a 
native of Harrison County, Ohio, born March 
5, 1844, and in early life received a fair com- 
mon-school education. On August 7, 1863, 
he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Independent 
Battalion of Rangers, O. V. C, under Maj. 
Imes, of Columbus. They were detailed for 
duty in the mountains of Kentucky, and par- 
ticipated in many skirmishes and engagements. 
Mr. Hines served about seven months and then 
returned home. On February 2, 1805, he again 
enlisted, this time in Company B, One Hundred 
and Ninety-seventh O. V. I., being attached to 
the Eighth Corps, Army of the East. He was 



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fortunate enough to escape wounds, but was 
confined three or four weeks under the care of 
Dr. Shackelford, having been thrown from a 
horse down a steep embankment, whereby he 
was badly bruised. On his recovery, he re- 
turned to his regiment, and served till the close 
of the war, filling, in this last enlistment, a term 
of six months, less two days, being mustered 
out July 31, 1865, at Camp Bradford, Baltimore, 
Md. He was among the troops sent out to re- 
pel Morgan' s raid, but did not meet the enemy, 
although they were drawn up in line of battle 
under Gen. Warfle for six hours. On Novem- 
ber 3, 1868, Mr. Hines was married to Elmira 
J., daughter of Elijah and Margaret (Mahaffey) 
Carson, and a native of Harrison County. Her 
mother was born in Washington County, Penn., 
her father in Maryland, whither the ancestry 
had come at an early date from Wales. John 
Carson, father of Elijah, was a pioneer of Har- 
rison County, and died in Nottingham Township. 
Elijah learned the trade of shoemaker, which 
he carried on in connection with farming. Po- 
litically, he was first an Old-line Whig, then a 
Republican, and finally a Prohibitionist; for 
many years he was a justice of the peace in his 
township. He was born in 1810, and died in 
November, 1887; his wife was born in 1803, 
and died in 1884. They were the parents of 
seven children, all but one yet living and of 
these, three reside in Harrison County, viz. : 
Mrs. Joseph G. Rogers; Mrs. James M. Hines, 
of Cadiz Township; and Mrs. T. B. Huffman, 
in Cadiz. For seven years after marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. James M. Hines lived with her fa- 
ther, and then in the fall of 1876 moved to their 
present place, all the improvements on which 
are of their own making. The children born 
to them were as follows: Leonora, at home; 
Alexander L. , deceased; James Kinsey and 
John Newton, at home; and one that died in 
infancy. Mr. Hines is a straight Republican, 
and while a resident of Nottingham Township, 
he was assessor two years. He is a member of 
the G. A. R., and at one time was associated 
with the Union League. 



DAVID SNIDER, an old-time farmer, son 
of John and Fanny (Rolen) Snider, was 
' born in North Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, his present place of residence, 
May 7, 1824. He resided on the home farm 
with his father until his marriage, which oc- 
curred in October, 1837, to Miss Elizabeth 
Watters, daughter of William and Elizabeth 
Watters, of North Township. At the time of 
his marriage Mr. Snider had already prepared 
for his bride a home where they have since re- 
sided. This farm Mr. Snider cleared with his 
own hands, at a time when the country abounded 
with wolves and other wild beasts, that were a 
continual annoyance to the pioneer. But he 
succeeded in clearing up his tract, and now, in- 
stead of a desolate and howling wilderness, there 
stands a fertile and richly cultivated farm, re- 
plete with every convenience calculated to make 
life enjoyable. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Snider have been born the following named 
children: Mary L. , William, Joseph, Johnnie 
Thompson and Nancy Jane, twins (deceased), 
and Margaret Ann. 

In polities Mr. Snider is a stanch Repub- 
lican, but he has never condescended to seek 
office, preferring to devote his time and atten- 
tion to the cultivation of his farm and to the 
comfort and advancement of the interests of 
his family. He has been very successful as a 
farmer, and socially he and family stand very 
high in the esteem of all his neighbors. 




ILLIAM HENRY BOOR is one of the 

old and well-known citizens of Bower- 
jf[ ston, Harrison County, where the fami- 
ly have been connected with the history 
of the place from an early day. The first of 
the family to locate here was Michael Boor, who 
was a native of Pennsylvania, born near Carlisle, 
February 5, 1797, his parents having emigrated 
to America from Germany, and located in Penn- 
sylvania. He grew to maturity in his native 
State, and there married Caroline Barantz, who 
was born near Harrisburg, Penn. , September 10, 



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1802. Her parents bad also emigrated from 
Germany, and located near Harrisburg, where 
the father kept what was then known as The 
Four-Mile Drove yard — a stock yard. After 
marriage they resided in Pennsylvania, where 
Mr. Boor followed farming. 

About 1830 Mr. Boor took his family, which 
then consisted of his wife and four children, and 
emigrated, with several neighbors, to Ohio. 
The little caravan moved slowly westward 
through an unbroken wilderness, in which the 
only roads were the early Indian trails. Reach- 
ing Harrison County they halted in North Town- 
ship, and there for several years they resided, 
Mr. Boor engaging as a laborer. About the 
spring of 1839 they removed to Bowerston, and 
there Mr. Boor rented a grist-mill and began 
milling, and for the following twenty-live years 
devoted his attention to that business. He then 
removed to Van Wert County, Ohio, where he 
purchased and settled on a farm in the wilder- 
ness. In 1855 he moved to De Kalb County, 
Ind., and engaged in milling there. Later he 
located on a farm in Defiance County, Ohio, 
where he resided until his death, which occurred 
in 1867. His widow is now in her eighty-eighth 
year, and resides on the original place in Defi- 
ance County, where she makes her home with 
her daughter, and is extremely active and bright 
for one of her advanced years. 

In a family of eleven children, of whom five 
still survive, our subject is the sixth in order of 
birth. He was born in a log cabin in North 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, March 8, 1835, 
and his early life was spent amidst such scenes 
and privations as surrounded the pioneer boys 
of that period. He was taught the rudiments 
of an education in the little log building which, 
with its rude desks and benches of split logs, 
was dignified by the name of a school-house, 
and in which the scholars were taught for a few 
weeks during the winter season. His clothes of 
that period were of home manufacture, which 
his mother wove for him. Just before he be- 
came sixteen years of age he went to New Cum 
berland to learn the blacksmith's trade, and after 



an apprenticeship he followed this trade as a 
journeyman. January 2, 1S55, Mr. Boor estab- 
lished himself in business in Bowerston in a 
rented shop, with a rented outfit, and he takes 
pride in stating that after he was ready to go to 
work he had only two cents in money in the 
world; but we might here state that his stock of 
energy, pluck and determination was unlimited. 
He had inherited those qualities, and they have 
ever characterized his life. Here he worked 
steadily at his trade until the outbreak of the 
war, when, laying down his hammer, he shoul- 
dered his musket and marched forth to the de- 
fense of his country. 

August 13, 1862, Mr. Boor entered Company 
C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., 
Capt. R. M. Lyon's company. He was mus- 
tered into service at Camp Mingo and proceeded 
to Parkersburg, and from there moved down to 
participate in the battle of Martinsburg. He 
took part in the battles of Culpeper Court 
House, Kelly's Ford, Locust Grove, Mine Run 
and the Wilderness. In the second day's en- 
gagement at the last-mentioned battle he re- 
ceived a gunshot wound in the left shoulder, 
from which he has never recovered. He was 
granted a furlough, and was laid up four months, 
and was not able to rejoin his regiment until 
November, 1S64; he then participated in the 
two battles of Petersburg, and was present at the 
surrender at Appomattox, and with the Sixth 
Army Corps was sent in pursuit of Gen. Johnston. 
He was mustered out of service at Washington 
at the close of the war, and received his final 
discharge at Columbus, Ohio. Returning to his 
home he re engaged at his trade, which he car- 
ried on until 1884, when he retired from active 
business life in that respect, transferring his 
business to his son, who still carries it on. For 
the past seven years Mr. Boor has engaged in 
the undertaker's business at Bowerston. 

Politically Mr. Boor is a Republican, and is 
a hearty supporter and firm believer in the prin- 
ciples and policy of the party, and for years 
served as constable and member of the village 
board, but has never sought office. He is a 



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charter member, and was one of the prime mov- 
ers in securing the establishment of the R. M. 
Lyon Post, No. 405, G. A. R., of which he has 
served as commander one year and chaplain two 
years. He is also a charter member of the 
K. O. T. M., Tent 76, at Bowerston, and is M. A. 
in said tent. 

December 18, 1855. Mr. Boor was united in 
marriage with Miss Mary. M. Bower, a native of 
Monroe Township, born near Bowerston, and a 
daughter of Henry Bower, one of the early set- 
tlers here and a descendant of the family after 
whom the town is named. This union has been 
blessed by thirteen children, of whom six sons 
and four daughters still survive. Mr. and Mrs. 
Boor are members of the United Brethren 
Church, of which they have been members for 
thirty five years, and in which Mr. Boor has 
held official position for a very long time. He 
was the founder, and superintended the erection, 
of the church here. Mr. and Mrs. Boor and 
family are highly respected, and they have 
been the architects of their own fortune. 




\ILLIAM RANKIN. The Rankin fam- 
ily are of Scotch descent. The first 
to come to this country was William 
Rankin, who settled in Virginia, in 
the Shenandoah Valley, married Abigail Tassia, 
and by her became the father of eleven chil- 
dren, viz. : William, David, Matthew, John, 
James, Zaecha, Thomas, Mary, Abigail, Samuel 
and Jesse. The father and a portion of his 
family subsequently settled in Washington 
County, Penn., where they lived in a block- 
house on their plantation of 1,800 acres, on. 
Raccoon Creek. Of the children named, James 
was killed by Indians on his way to Pennsyl- 
vania from Kentucky, where he had purchased 
a large tract of land. Thomas settled in Har- 
rison County, Ohio, in 1805. Zaecha died in 
Pennsylvania from hydrophobia, resulting from 
the bite of a mad wolf. Jesse also came to 
Ohio, but returned and died in Pennsylvania. 
James Rankin, the eldest son of Thomas 



Rankin, was born in Mount Pleasant Township, 
Washington Co., Penn., December 22, 17S4, 
and was married to Hester Earley, December 
15, 1809. Miss Earley was born near Char- 
tiers, Penn., May 31, 1793, and became the 
mother of eight children, viz. : Jane, Thomas, 
Margaret, Nancy, Sarah, William, Matilda and 
Israel, of whom three, Jane, Thomas and Will- 
iam, are deceased. James Rankin, the father 
of these children, served as a minute-man in 
the War of 1812, and in 1S13 settled in Har- 
rison County, Ohio, on the farm where his son, 
Israel, now resides. Thomas Rankin, the 
father of James, died May 12, 1832. 

William Rankin, the subject proper of this 
sketch, son of James and Hester (Earley) 
Rankin, and great-grandson of the original 
pioneer, was born March 12, 1822, in Athens 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, of "which town- 
ship his father was the earliest settler. Born 
and reared on a farm his life differed little from 
that of the youth of his neighborhood. His 
education was received at the common schools, 
but his mind received a subsequent training by 
home study and reading. November 27, 1856, 
he was married to Mary Dunlap, a daughter of 
John Dunlap. Bringing his wife to the home 
place, he there resided until his death, January 
3, 1864. Only one child, Susan Jane, came to 
cheer their married life, and she still remains at 
home with her mother, and, with a daughter's 
care, is making the last days of her parent 
pleasant and comfortable. In his political 
beliefs Mr. Rankin took a strong stand, and al- 
ways advocated the principles of the Democratic 
party. A man of strong convictions and excel- 
lent judgment, his advice was often sought in 
various matters of life. In early life he united 
with the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, 
which was founded by his ancestry, and like 
them always was a strong and liberal supporter 
of it. He held the various offices of the church, 
all of which he discharged with conscientious- 
ness. His death was regretted by a large circle 
of friends and neighbors, and truly mourned by 
all who knew him. His remains now rest in the 



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Rankin Cemetery. Truly may it be said of him 
that be was the embodiment of progressiveness, 
justice, honesty and truth. 



d.ACOB STONER, one of the old and well- 
I known citizens of Monroe Township, Har- 
I rison Co., Ohio, is a native of Maryland, 
was born near Hagerstown. December 25, 
1815, and is a son of Jacob and Mary Stoner. 
AVhen he was but a child of two years his 
father died, and he was taken into the family 
of Elias Stillwell, a worthy citizen of Maryland, 
who, in 1818, immigrated to Ohio, making the 
trip overland in a wagon. The journey was 
through the wilderness, and the only roads were 
Indian trails. They located in Colerain Town- 
ship, Belmont County, Ohio, where they resided 
until their deaths. Here, amidst all the priva- 
tions of the pioneer period, Jacob Stoner grew 
to manhood. He attended the subscription 
school a few weeks during the winter period, 
and remained with his benefactor until he had 
attained the age of nineteen years, when he 
started out for himself, coming to Deersville, 
Harrison County, to begin life as a laborer by 
clearing land, at five dollars per acre. He cut 
many cords of wood for twenty-five cents per 
cord, and has split rails at twenty-five to forty 
cents per hundred, many hundreds of them at 
twenty-five cents. He saved his meager earn- 
ings and invested them in land for himself 
in Monroe Township, and thus began his up- 
ward progress. April 26, 1838, he married 
Honor Sneider, a native of Pennsylvania, who 
was born in Washington County June 25, 1820, 
and had immigrated to Ohio with her parents, 
David and Christina Sneider, who settled in 
Monroe Township, where they resided until 
their death. Following their marriage, Mr. 
and Mrs. Stoner settled on a small farm in 
Monroe Township, and began clearing and im- 
proving the land. They began on a capital of 
pluck, determination and energy, and the strug- 
gles endured by these pioneers were many and 
numerous. They would clear a small patch 



and sow some wheat; this was harvested by 
hand and threshed with a Hail, and then ex- 
changed for the necessaries of life. Mr. Stoner 
has sold oats for leu cents per bushel, after hav- 
ing hauled them many miles. Home-made 
clothing was the universal rule. The busy 
housewife would spin the yarn and weave it 
into cloth for clothing and blankets, as occa- 
sion and necessity required. The ladies in their 
linsey dresses, and shawls over their heads, and 
the men in their wampuses and linsey pants, 
felt as contented as though dressed in broad- 
cloth. Mrs. Stoner vividly recalls the time 
when she wove the cloth for her family. In 
those early struggles the women did their share 
toward the success of the country. Ofttimes 
have they labored in the field helping at harvest, 
and day after day has Mrs. Stoner helped her 
husband in the clearing, piling the brush he 
grubbed. By the strict application of business 
principles, by strict industry and economy, they 
won for themselves a competence. They began 
life on nothing, and have therefore been the ar- 
chitects of their own fortunes. They now own 
ninety-five acres of fine land in Monroe Town- 
ship, Harrison County, upon which they reside. 
The farm, besides being good land for agricul- 
tural purposes, also furnishes a good supply of 
coal of a good quality. Their union has been 
blessed by eleven children, of whom seven are 
now living, viz. : Mary E., married to Urias B. 
Hite, and residing at Dennison, Ohio; Sarah, 
married to Michael Lynch, of Dennison, Ohio; 
William, a resident of Monroe Township, Har- 
rison County; David, a resident of Monroe 
Township, Harrison County; Jacob S., of 
Franklin Township, Harrison County; James M., 
of Tippecanoe, Ohio; Ella O, now Mrs. James 
M. Evans, residing in Auburn, Sangamon Co., 
111. Of their sons William enlisted in Com- 
pany H, Eleventh Ohio Cavalry, in 1802, and 
was attached to the western service, and served 
three years and six months on the frontier. 
David enlisted in 1S04 in Company C, Forty- 
third O. V. I. , and was attached to the army 
under command of Gen. Sherman. He par- 



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ticipated in the marches and campaigns of the 
regiment, and was at Lookout Mountain and 
Missionary Ridge. He served until the close of 
the war, was honorably discharged and returned 
home. He was lying sick in the hospital at the 
time. He is now a member of the G. A. R. 
George W. enlisted in 1865, as a member of 
the One Hundred and Ninety-fourth O. V. I., 
was mustered into service at Camp Chase, and 
that night was taken sick and died in camp, 
March 30, 1865. For nearly forty years Mr. 
and Mrs. Stoner have been respected members 
of the Tunnel Hill Church, of which Mr. Stoner 
is a trustee. They have been liberal in their 
support of the church and in charitable and 
benevolent enterprises. Politically Mr. Stoner 
is a hearty supporter of the Republican party, 
and believes in protection for American indus- 
tries. He has served as township trustee. Mr. 
and Mrs. Stoner reside on their farm near Phila- 
delphia Road, and are respected and esteemed 
by all. 

David Stoner is now with his parents; he 
was born September 23, 1845. March 14, 1867, 
he married Mary Fowler, a daughter of John E. 
Fowler. She died March 31, 1874, leaving two 
children, viz. : Jane and Honor Ingaby. Sep- 
tember 26, 1879, Mr. Stoner married Susan 
Winrod, a native of Belmont County, Ohio. 
Mr. Stoner resided several years in Belmont 
County, and served three and one-half years as 
constable of Flushing Township, also many 
years as school director. » In the spring of 1890 
they removed to Monroe Township. 




^ILLIAM WILEY (deceased) was a na- 
tive of Washington County, Penn., born 
in 1776, a son of Thomas and Rebecca 
(Lytle) Wiley, natives of Lancaster 
County, Penn. Our subject was reared to farm 
life, and grew to manhood in his native State, 
where he married, in 1804, Miss Elizabeth Vance. 
The young couple at once came to Ohio, and 
entered 160 acres of laud in Short Creek Town- 
ship, Harrison County. This farm Mr. Wiley 



cleared and improved with his own hands, and 
it became the birthplace of his interesting family 
of seven sons and sis daughters, as follows: 
Joseph; Thomas, married to Mary Tendeley; 
Anna, married to Hugh Martin; John; David, 
married to Laura J. Stanley; James, married 
to Harriet Wight; William, married to Olive M. 
Stanley, who died leaving two children — Ger- 
trude Blanche and Lura De Ett; Rebecca; Mary 
Jane, married to N. W. Shannon; Elizabeth; 
Clarissa, married to Joseph Jamison; Wilson, 
married to Eliza McGowan, and Priscilla. Of 
these the deceased are Joseph, Thomas, John, 
David, James, Mary Jane and Wilson. The 
father died in 1853, the mother having preceded 
him in 1848. They were both members of the 
Presbyterian Church. 

William Wiley, the seventh child enumerated 
above, was married November 3, 1864; his first 
child, Gertrude Blanche, was born May 20, 1866, 
and his second, Lura De Ett, was born May '24, 
1870. Noah Stanley, father of Mrs. Olive M. 
Wiley, was born and reared in Trumbull 
County, Ohio, and died there in 1873. The 
mother of Mrs. Wiley bore the maiden name of 
Sarah Bowman, and was born in Columbiana 
County, Ohio, where she resided until her mar- 
riage with Noah Stanley. She is now living in 
Trumbull County, at the age of eighty-six years. 



JOHN SHAFFER was born March 18, 1848, 
in Archer Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, 
his remote ancestry having come hither 
from Germany, and settling in Mary- 
land. His immediate ancestors, having become 
dissatisfied with the locality, left Maryland, 
and, after searching for a place to build up 
a home, finally settled in Pennsylvania. There 
they toiled and cleared the farm on which they 
died. His maternal grandparents, Jacob and 
Margaret (Lute) Hines, were natives of the 
Keystone State. John's father, Samuel, the 
next to the youngest of a large family, was 
born near Donegal, Penn. There he spent his 
early life, engaged in farming during the sum- 



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mei season, and attending such schools as were 
tln'ii in existence. In 1829 he was married to 
Cliristena Hines. Determining to better his con- 
dition, he and his young wife started for the vast 
and then little known West, arriving in Harrison 
County, Ohio, about 1S30, where he purchased a 
farm and immediately erected a log cabin, which, 
though sadly lacking in architectural beauty, 
still answered the purpose of sheltering them 
from the vicissitudes of the rigorous climate. 
This place was situated near where the Ridge 
Church now stands. In this cabin Heaven be- 
stowed upon them their first born, Peter H. , 
who came to cheer the loneliness of their pioneer 
life on September 19, 1830, and who died at his 
home in Perry County, Ohio, October 10, 1S90. 
With much labor Mr. Shaffer succeeded in 
bringing his farm to a high state of cultivation, 
and adding those improvements which are so 
necessary to the successful farmer. On Febru- 
ary 17, 1833, Elizabeth was born (she is now 
Mrs. Isaac Hoobler, and is living in Archer); 
Jacob was born February 17, 1835, but died in 
early infancy; Margaret (Mrs. Emanuel Hoob- 
ler) was born December 31, 1830, and is living 
in Worcester, Mass. ; Mary Ann (Mrs. William 
Briggs) was born December 29, 1838, and is 
living in Guernsey County, Ohio; Matilda (Mrs. 
Henry Brown), was born January 31, 1841, but 
is now deceased; Samuel, born December '27. 
1843, is also dead; Martha, born June 2, 1846, 
is now Mrs. W. S. Maxwell, in Zanesville, Ohio; 
John, born March 18, 1848, is now living on part 
of the home place; James, born January 8, 1850, 
is living in Guernsey County, Ohio. Mr. Shaf- 
fer was a Democrat, but not active in politics, and 
he and wife were members of the Ridge Presby- 
terian Church. After a long and severe illness, 
which he endured patiently, he died, surrounded 
by his children, February 27, 1854, and was 
buried in the Ridge Cemetery. He was highly 
esteemed in life and much lamented in death. 
His widow, at the age of eighty three, March 16, 
1889, joined him in the silent land, and her re- 
mains were laid to rest in the cemetery, at 
Antrim, Guernsey Co., Ohio. 



Mr. John Shaffer remained at home, assist - 
ing his mother in managing the farm after the 
death of his father. In 1869 they removed to 
Guernsey County where he met, and, on Septem- 
ber 1 t, 1S7"), married Miss Elizabeth R. Lind- 
say, daughter of Robert and Mary (Sankey) 
Lindsay, residents of Guernsey County. In 
the spring of 1870 he removed to Harrison 
County, and purchased the place where he now 
resides. Four children have been born to him: 
Willa J. , born September 11, 1876; Nellie C, 
born May 4, 1880; one that died in early in- 
fancy, and Iva Olive, born October 18, 1885. 
Mr. Shaffer has 100 acres of land, well wooded 
and in a good state of cultivation. The build- 
ings are very conveniently arranged, and are of 
a substantial nature. Mr. Shaffer engages in 
general farming, making no specialty. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat, and has been honored 
with various offices in his township. 



h 



EVI ARBATJGH, of the firm of Arbaugh 
& Sargent, millers, of Scio, Ohio, was 
born in Perry Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, April 5, 1840. His father, James 
Arbaugh, was born in Maryland, and when a 
small boy was brought by his parents to Rum- 
ley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where the 
grandfather, John Arbaugh, died while our sub- 
ject was still young; the grandmother died some 
years later— about 1805. Of the children of 
John Arbaugh two are living— Levi, in Rum- 
ley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and Adam, 
in Van Buren County, Iowa. James Arbaugh 
was reared a farmer, and was educated in 
the old time log school-house. In 1840 he 
married Catherine Cook, daughter of Martin 
Cook, of German descent. This couple located 
on a farm in Carroll County, Ohio, and thence, 
in 1807, went to Iowa, where, in 1SN2. the 
father died, aged sixty- eight years. The mother 
is still active and resides in Van Buren County, 
Iowa, aged sixty-nine years. She became the 
mother of eight children, viz. : David and Will- 
iam, who died in infancy; Levi, our subject; 



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Mary Ann, Mrs. Joseph Snider, near Runiley, 
Harrison Co., Ohio; Rose Ann, who died in 
1886; John C, a merchant in Iowa; Samuel, 
a stock-dealer in Iowa, and Rachel, married and 
liviug in California. 

Levi Arbaugh passed his time on the home 
farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he 
he went into the saw-mill business, which he fol- 
followed some five and a half years. He then be- 
came a merchant at Franklin, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
and while there, in 1874, he married Miss Lizzie 
J. Campbell, daughter of Samuel T. and Sarah 
(Ross) Campbell, who are now living near Deers- 
ville. This marriage has been blessed with four 
children, viz. : Bertha N. ; Clara Myrtle; Ches- 
ter and Grace — all at home and being educated. 
After spending five years on a farm in Monroe 
Township, Harrison County, for which farm he 
had traded his business in Franklin, he then, 
in 1889, took possesion of the Adelphi Mills, 
which he had purchased at Scio, and one month 
later sold a half interest to J. E. Sargent, and 
the present partnership was formed. 

Politically Mr. Arbaugh is a Republican, and 
while in Franklin held several township offices. 
He is a man who from early life has been hard- 
working, and has made his own success finan- 
cially. ■ All persons speak very highly of him, 
and the new firm have the full confidence of the 
community. 




LEXANDER LOVE, one of the children 
of James C. Love, was born November 
21, 1816, in Archer Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, and resides on the home place, 
where he engages in general farming. He con- 
tinues to improve the farm, and has at present 
one of the best producing properties in his sec- 
tion. His grandfather came from Ireland at an 
early age, and settled on a farm in Harrison 
County, remaining there until his death in 1850. 
In politics Mr. Love was a Democrat, as his 
descendants are at the present time. The fol- 
lowing are the names of his children: George, 
Nancy, James, Mary, Thomas and John. 



James Love, the father of the subject of this 
sketch, was born February 9, 1814, in Athens 
Township. On April 10, 1839, he was married 
to Jane McFadden, daughter of Samuel Mc- 
Fadden, a resident of Cadiz Township. Mr. 
McFadden came from Ireland while a child 
with his parents, and with them settled in Har- 
rison County. He assisted in raising the first 
house in Cadiz. Eight children resulted from 
the union of James and Jane Love, seven of 
whom are still living, one having died of measles 
in the military hospital at Fredericksburg, Va. 
The names of the living are John, James and 
Mrs. Mary McRacken, in Stearns County, Minn. ; 
Mrs. Lizz McFadden, in Marion County, Kas. ; 
George, a dentist in Scio, Ohio, and Jennie, on 
the old homestead, besides the subject of this 
sketch. James Love was one of the stanchest 
Democrats in his township, and served as 
trustee for several terms, discharging the duties 
to the full satisfaction of his constituents, and 
to the benefit of the township. He and wife 
were members of the United Presbyterian 
Church. He died July 12, 1876, at the home 
place, surrounded by his mourning family. 

Alexander Love remained at home, assisting 
his father in the care and management of the 
farm — indeed, relieving his father entirely from 
the duties incident to farm life. On November 
16, 1876, at the residence of her father, Mr. 
Andrew Devore, one of the prominent and sub- 
stantial farmers of Archer Township, Mr. Love 
was married to Jennie L. Devore. They imme- 
diately commenced housekeeping in the house 
in which he now resides. He is the father of 
three children: Andrew D., born February 26, 
1878; Homer L., born October 24, 1881, and 
Alexander A., born June 7, 1884. Mr. Love is 
a Democrat of prominence in his township, and 
has held many positions indicative of the respect 
and confidence in which he is held by his neigh- 
bors. Among these may be mentioned school 
director, member of the Board of Education of 
his township, and township trustee, which last 
he has held .for a long time, and still continues 
to fill with great ability. He and wife are mem- 



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bers of Ridge Presbyterian Church, and are high 
in the esteem of their fellow church members. 



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UGH OGLEVEE, a member of one of 
the most widely and favorably known 
1J families in Harrison County, is a native 
of the same,, born August 1, 1839, in 
Moorefield Township. His paternal grand- 
father, John Oglevee, was married to Agnes 
Passmore, and in 1800 settled in what is now 
Harrison County, Ohio, locating first in Cadiz 
Township, whence he moved to Athens Town- 
ship, to a farm belonging to John Webb, 
Sr. , at that time but partially improved; from 
there they proceeded to Boggs Fork, on the 
Stillwater, where the grandfather died in 1806, 
being buried in Crab Apple Cemetery. The 
grandmother passed away at the home of her 
son, William, when in her eighty-sixth year. 
She was twice married, first to one Patterson, by 
whom there were two children: Jane and Mary 
(who married two brothers named Duulap, of 
Harrison County, Adam and Robert, respectively), 
the former of whom died in Moorefield and the 
latter in Athens Township. By her second hus- 
band, John Oglevee, she had the following 
named children: Elizabeth, William, Hugh, 
John and Nancy, all now deceased. 

William Oglevee, the father of our subject, 
was reared on the farm in Harrison County, 
attending in winters the common schools of the 
neighborhood. He was married to Miss Susan- 
nah, daughter of John and Elizabeth Price, and 
a native of near Stillwater, Belmont County, 
Ohio. Her father was of English extraction, 
her mother of Scotch, and they came at an 
early day to Belmont County, where they died 
and were interred in Stillwater Cemetery; he 
had been a soldier in the War of 1812. After 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. William Oglevee settled 
on a farm in Moorefield Township, where were 
born their family of eleven children, as follows: 
John, now in Morgan County, Ohio: George 
(deceased); Mrs. Agnes Hammond (a widow), 
living in New Athens; David, a resident of 



Cadiz, Ohio; Hugh, in New Athens; Elizabeth 
Ann, wife of Dewey Lance, in Belmont County, 
Ohio; Jane and James (deceased); Barrack F., 
in Cadiz Township; Annie E. , deceased, and 
Sarah S., wife of Oscar McFadden, in Athens 
Township. The mother passed from earth on 
the old homestead in Moorefield Township in 
1879, at the age of seventy years, and the 
father died at the home of his daughter, Mis 
McFadden, in 18S3, when aged seventy six 
years. They were members of the Nottingham 
Presbyterian Church, he having been one of the 
pioneer members of the same, and at the time of 
his death only three of the first members were 
living. William Oglevee in his life time had 
been a hard-working, industrious, frugal man. 
Hugh Oglevee, the subject proper of this 
sketch, grew to manhood on the farm in Moore- 
field Township, attending the common schools 
of the district. In July, 1863, in response to 
his country's call, he enlisted in Company H, 
One Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., three 
years' service. The regiment was attached to 
the Army of the Potomac, and participated in 
twenty-six battles, among which may be men- 
tioned the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Har- 
bor, Monocacy, Winchester, Aquia Creek and 
Cedar Creek. Our subject was wounded at the 
Wilderness, being struck in the thigh by a bul- 
let, which necessitated his confinement to hos- 
pital some six months, and a stay at home for a 
time. After his recovery he returned to the 
seat of war, and served till the close of the 
struggle. During his service he received five 
wounds, none, fortunately, proving serious save 
the one in the thigh, which still causes him 
trouble. After an honorable discharge he re- 
turned to his home, some eight miles west of 
New Athens. Thence he removed to Morgan 
County, same State, where he carried on farming 
fourteen years, and in 1879 came to Athens 
Township, Harrison County, settling on a farm 
situated one mile north of New Athens. In 
October, 1889, he and his amiable wife took up 
their residence in the village, to retire from the 
arduous duties of the farm. 



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While a resident of Morgan County Mr. 
Oglevee became united in marriage August 16, 
1866, in Belmont County, with CallieE., daugh- 
ter of Joseph and Mary (Brock) Morris, and a 
native of Harrison County. The Morris faniily 
had come to the county at an early date, and 
here her father was born. Her mother died in 
Belmont County, and her father is at present 
living in German Township, Harrison County. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Oglevee has been born one 
child, Loie M., married to Adam O. McFadden, 
of Athens Township. The parents are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church, and politically 
Mr. Oglevee is a Republican, but no office- 
seeker. He is a member of James Love Post, 
No. 686, G. A. R., of New Athens. 



ARAH McKEE. Among the early set- 
tlers of Harrison County none are more 
identified with the growth and prosperity 
of it than the McKee family. The 
founder of the family came to America when the 
father of our subject was about four years of 
age, and settled in Redstone, Penn. His family 
consisted of twelve children. Robert, the father 
of James McKee, was married in 1806 to Ra- 
chel Wills. They soon after came to Ohio, and 
settled in Harrison County, where they died. 
He was a strong Whig in politics, and was an 
ardent supporter of that party. In early life, 
both himself and wife were members of the 
Presbyterian Church, but soon after marriage 
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which 
faith they died. He and wife now sleep to- 
gether in Bethel Cemetery. 

James McKee was born Febuary 11, 1811, 
in Archer Township. He spent his youth in 
attending the district schools and assisting his 
parents in the various duties of the farm. No- 
vember 24, 1S34, he was united in marriage to 
Sarah Lewis, a daughter of Joseph Lewis, a 
resident of Pennsylvania. After marriage they 
settled on the farm on which Mr. McKee died, 
and which he labored so much to bring to the 
high state of cultivation which it had reached 



at the time of his death. His children were born 
and named as follows: Mary, August 23, 1835; 
Hannah, November 20, 1836, died September 
19, 1843; Rachel, March 23,1838; Martha, No- 
vember 4, 1839, died July 3, 1882; John, June 
27, 1841, died September 11, 1864; Henry, 
February 16, 1843; Joseph, July 17, 1S45; 
Amanda, October 14, 1847; Robert M., March 
17, 1849, died June 24, 1857; Eliza, March 30, 
1851, died May 17, 1854; Adeline, June 29, 
1853; Anna Rebecca, December 1, 1855. In 
politics Mr. McKee was a strong and enthu- 
siastic Republican, and was a hearty supporter 
of Lincoln and the principles which led to the 
forming of that party. A member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, the same as his 
wife, they were both ready and willing to bear 
their full share of the burdens of life and duty, 
and were ever found foremost in church work. 
May 8, 1886, he passed away, leaving his chil- 
dren and dearly beloved wife to mourn his de- 
cease. He was buried at Cadiz, in the new 
cemetery. His widow still resides on the place 
in Green Township which is ably managed by 
her son Henry. The family are well known 
and highly respected, and they certainly deserve 
a prominent place in the record. 

Mrs. Sarah McKee' s father, Joseph Lewis, 
was born October 31, 1769, in New Jersey. At 
an early age he married Rachel Canby, a resi- 
dent of Pennsylvania, and the young couple 
commenced housekeeping immediately in Penn- 
sylvania. Their family of children was a large 
one, and were named Jesse, born June 30, 1792; 
Jaeob, born August 14, 1793, died February 5, 
1883; Joseph, born January 5, 1795, died March 
1, 1882; Elizabeth, bom May 11, 1796; David, 
born October 20, 1797; Vernon, born October 
23, 1798, died April 5, 1882; Lydia,born March 
10, 1800; Rebecca, born April 18, 1802, died 
April 20, 1802; Esther, born April 21, 1804; 
Williatu, born May 15, 1806; Rachel, born April 
26, 1810; Sarah, born November 24, 1812; Han- 
nah, born Jul} T 20, 1815. Joseph Lewis was a 
Whig in politics, and he and wife were Quakers 
in religious matters, but the children were all 



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Methodists. September 4, 1853, he died, and 
was buried at Bethel. His wife died September 
1, 1852, and was buried at Bethel also. The 
eldest two boys, Jesse and Jacob Lewis, with 
their families, left Chester County, Penn., in 
1817, came to Harrison County, Ohio, where, 
with their brother, Joseph, who came later, they 
each bought a farm in Green Township, where 
they lived the remainder of their days. In 
1829 the parents, with Joseph and family and 
Sarah and Hannah, came to Harrison County, 
remaining there as long as they lived. 




|v ARRICKLOW FAMILY. Within the 
limits of Harrison County, probably no 
name is better known, or more suggest- 
ive of enterprise and progress, than 
that of the family now under consideration. 
The first of the name to come to Ohio was one 
Henry Barricklow, a native of New Jersey, who, 
when a lad, was taken by his father to Fayette 
County, Penn. Here he learned the trade of a 
tailor, and worked at it until 1809, when, with 
his family, consisting of his wife and four chil- 
dren: Sarah, John, Joseph and Ann, he came 
to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, where 
were born to them Henry, Julia, Conrad and Far- 
rington. His wife was Miss Maribah Oglevee, 
a native of Maryland; her father was a Revolu- 
tionary soldier — a captain. In Harrison Coun- 
ty he purchased of William Welling the north- 
west quarter of Section 13, in Athens Township, 
to which he added forty acres, and this land has 
since remained in the family possession, being 
now owned by two grandsons, Henry S. and 
Joseph E. After coming to Harrison County, 
Henry, the senior, made his residence therein 
until death called him from earth in April, 1852, 
in the eightieth year of his age. His life had 
been an earnest and active one. His father be- 
ing a Revolutionary soldier, and absent from 
home in the service of his country, threw upon 
the shoulders of Henry, then a mere child, va- 
rious duties and burdens, under which many a 
man of mature strength and years might well 



have quailed: but resolutely he bore them, and 
tlms engrafted into his young life those sturdy 
and determined principles which marked the 
pioneers of this great State, and which proved 
the groundwork of his success. Of his chil- 
dren all have now passed to the ranks of those 
deported save Farriugton, now a resident of 
Nottingham Township, Harrison County. 

After the father's death the old homestead, 
by purchase, came into the possession of Jo- 
seph and Farriugton, the latter of whom, soon 
after the sale, disposed of his interests to Jo- 
seph, who retained possession until his decease, 
at which time he had increased his property 
until his broad acres numbered 800, most of 
which are situated in the township of Athens. 

Joseph Barricklow was from childhood up 
to his death, which occurred on April 13, 1875, 
a farmer, accustomed to the various and arduous 
duties of the business. His education was only 
such as the primitive schools of any new coun- 
try might be expected to furnish, but added 
thereto he had an abundance of practical good 
sense and energy that enabled him to be, in a 
business sense, " a leader among men." In 1846 
he chose as his life's partner Miss Phoebe, 
daughter of Eli and Charity Bartow, both of 
whom were natives of New York State, aud pio- 
neers of Harrison County. Before entering 
that county, however, they made for a time a 
home in Guernsey County, same State, and it 
was here that there daughter, Phoebe, was born 
May 21, 1813. Her grandfather, Bartow, was 
among the very earliest comers to Harrison 
County, passing through where Cadiz now 
stands, when there was but one house in the 
place. To Joseph Barricklow and his wife 
were born two sons and one daughter, viz. : 
Henry S., born December 10, IS 17: Maribah Ann. 
born April 22, 1849, and Joseph E., born July 
1, 1855. Of these children Henry S. married, Oc- 
tober 11, 1883, Miss Lizzie B. (who died Sep- 
tembei 13, L884), daughter of James and Eliza- 
beth Havertield, and of their union was born 
one child, Lizzie, who died in infancy. Joseph 
E., October 10, 1883, married Miss Mary L.. 



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daughter of Isaac and Angeline Walker, and to 
them have been given two sons: Paul W. and 
Henry S. The Barricklow family, as previous- 
ly mentioned, is one of prominence in the coun- 
ty, possessing a wide acquaintance of friends. 
Henry S. Barricklow, who now resides with 
his aged mother on the old homestead farm, is 
one of the directors of the Harrison National 
Bank, and exerts a marked influence on the af- 
fairs of his township and county, in which he 
is the owner of over 600 acres of choice land. 



'p.DWARD LAUGHRIGE was born in 
I^J County Tyrone, Ireland, September 10, 
1L*. 1803, and died June 16, 1889, in Green 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. His 
father. Edward Laughrige, also a native of 
Ireland, and an agriculturist by occupation, 
married Margaret McConnell, and in 1809 they 
came with their family to America, locating for 
a brief period in Wilmington, Del., thence re- 
moved to Brooke Count}', Va., and after a short 
residence there came to Jefferson County, Ohio. 
The children born to Edward and Margaret 
(McConnell) Laughrige were as follows: Rob- 
ert, Edward, James, Matthew, Joseph, Jane, 
Elizabeth and Margaret. Shortly prior to the 
death of the parents the family removed to 
Western Ohio. 

Edward Laughrige, the subject proper of 
these lines was educated in the common schools 
and brought up to farm life. February 10, 1824, 
he married Marjory McConnell, and by her had 
the following named children, the dates of their 
respective births being given: Jane, November 
21, 1S24; Joseph, September 20, 1S26. Mar- 
garet, September 25, 1S28; Thomas, February 
2, 1831; Robert, November 21, 1832; Edward, 
August 16, 1834; Elizabeth, May 2, 1836; 
Nancy, April 21, 1838; John, September 27, 
1S40; William, February 28, 1843; Samuel, 
June 7, 1847. The mother of these children 
died August 26, 1868, and was buried in Mon- 
roe Township, Harrison County. April 1, 1869, 
Mr. Laughrige married, for his second wife, Su- 



sannah, daughter of John Conaway, of Stock 
Township, Harrison County, and by her has two 
children: James H. , born December 14, 1869, 
and Susannah, born January 12, 1872. The 
widowed mother now occupies the farm in Green 
Township, Harrison County, which is under the 
management of her son, James H. Laughrige. 
The entire family have always been consistent 
adherents of the Presbyterian Church, and in 
politics Mr. Laughrige was, like his father be- 
fore him, an enthusiastic Democrat. 



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H. HILLYER. The earliest history 
of the Hillyer family dates back to 
England, where the father of our sub- 
ject was born in the county of Hants, 
which includes the Isle of Wight. His name 
was George, and in company with his brother, 
William, he came to America in 1830 and 
settled in Franklin Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio. Soon after his majority George was 
married to Amelia, daughter of R. J. Edna, a 
resident of Deersville, Harrison County, and 
there were born to him the following children: 
Thomas, of Fairpoint; Mary J. (Mrs. Jacob 
Price), of Franklin Township; Robert, deceased; 
Henry, of Franklin Township; Caroline, de- 
ceased; W. H. , our subject; Louisa (Mrs. 
Joseph Copeland); Jewell E., of Franklin 
Township; Edward, deceased; Silas, deceased; 
Armenia (Mrs. Addison Bear), and Albert, of 
Chippewa. From his arrival in Harrison 
County, George Hillyer was identified with the 
Republican party, and always lent his aid to 
its success. He was a member of the Presby- 
terian Church, and for over forty years was an 
elder. In 1888 he passed away and was buried 
by the side of his wife. 

W. H. Hillyer was born November 26, 1844, 
in Franklin Township, Harrison County. His 
youth was spent on the farm and in attending 
the common schools. At the age of nineteen 
he entered the employment of J. T. Clark, 
with whom he remained one and a half years, 
and then purchased the interest of his employer. 



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Here he continued until 1872, when he sold out 
and purchased a farm in Perry Township, Tus 
carawas Co., Ohio, and engaged in agriculture 
till 1SS3, when he removed to Bridgeport. Bel- 
moot Co., Ohio, where he again entered mer- 
cantile life. In 18S8 he removed to Freeport, 
where he at present conducts a general store, 
and carries one of the most extensive lines in 
the town. Enterprising and progressive, the 
place has gained by his coming. He is a Re- 
publican, and takes a prominent part in local 
politics, though business prevents him accept- 
ing any office. December 16, 1868, Mr. Hill- 
yer married Mary E., daughter of Ira Dalrymple, 
a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio. He and 
his wife have had born to them the following 
named children: F. I., Nellie B. , W. W., Ida 
A., Eva, Carrie (deceased) and Mary. Mr. 
Hillyer and family are members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church. 



IfSAAC CURTIS is one of the best known 
and successful business men of Freeport, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. He was born in Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, September 10, 1820. 
His father, Samuel, was a native of Loudoun 
County, Va. , where the grandfather, Barnabus 
Curtis, was also born. The family trace their de- 
scent from the Germans, and have since their 
arrival in America been occupied in agriculture. 
The family of Barnabus Curtis consisted of six 
boys and two girls. In the earliest settlement 
of Belmont County, Ohio, Barnabus Curtis and 
his family were participants, and were among 
those whose labors have done so much toward 
beautifying and improving that section. He 
was a follower of Andrew Jackson, and was al- 
ways loyal to his party. In the Baptist faith 
he and his goodly wife, who had with him 
shared life's pleasures and sorrows, lived and 
died together. Samuel Curtis spent his early 
life at the home place in Virginia, where he re- 
ceived his rudimentary education, and was also 
trained in hard work, economy and industry. 
In 1812 he enlisted in the defense of his coun- 



try, and did his duty faithfully and conscien- 
tiously. In L816 he was married to Malinda 
Sinclair, a resident of Virginia, whose parents 
were also early settlers of Belmont County, Ohio. 

Their children were Mary, Isaac. Frances, Mar- 
garet, Townsend, Presley and Samuel. Some 
time previous to his marriage Mr. Curtis had 
entered a tract of land in Kirkwood Township, 
and there erected a log cabin, whose primitive- 
ness would make a strange contrast to the com- 
modious buildings of to-day, and this farm was 
by steady labor cleared by himself and children. 
The woods were teeming with wild animals, and 
deer were so plenty that they grazed around the 
house, seemingly fearless. The depredations of 
the wolves were a great annoyance to the keep- 
ers of the sheep, and incessant watchfulness was 
required lest the latter be destroyed. Like his 
father, Mr. Curtis was a Democrat in his pol- 
itics, and was a stanch Baptist in religion. In 
1876 he passed away and was buried in Belmont 
County, where the remains of his wife also rest. 

Isaac Curtis has spent much of his time in 
farming, and has been successful in that voca- 
tion. From early youth he was accustomed to 
the duties inseparably attached to such occupa- 
tion, and has taken a pride as well as an inter- 
est in seeing they were well done. His educa- 
tion was received at the common schools of his 
county, and has been largely added to by his 
extended course of study and general reading 
since. From his youth he has supported the 
Republican party, of which he is one of the 
leaders in his section. He has been his party's 
choice for many of the offices in his township, 
and has filled them all acceptably. He and 
family adhere to the faith of their parents, and 
are supporters of the Baptist Church. 

On July 27, 1847, Mr. Curtis was married 
to Ella, a daughter of John Ball, a native of 
Maryland, and an early settler of Belmont 
County, Ohio. John Ball, a short time previous 
to his locating in Belmont County, was married 
to Nancy Fowler, whose parents were natives of 
England. The children resulting from this 
union were named Joseph, Augustus, John, 



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Isaac, Lavina, Millie, Betsy, Peggy and Ellen. 
The family were well and favorably known in 
Belmont County, where they lived and where Mr. 
and Mrs. Ball now quietly rest. After his mar- 
riage Mr. Curtis engaged in manufacturing and 
selling fanning-mills for some time, and then 
entered the mercantile business, which, however, 
he abandoned, owing to his failing health. He 
next began the droving business, which he pur- 
sued till he purchased his farm, since when he 
has been engaged in agriculture, though deal- 
ing occasionally in produce. This farm consists 
of 308 acres, half of which he has cleared and 
improved. The children born to Mr. Curtis 
were named William (deceased), Amanda (Mrs. 
T. N. Mills, in Uhrichsville, Ohio), Francis M. 
(deceased), Franklin (in Sumner County, Kas.), 
Melinda (Mrs. Scott Kennedy, in Uhrichsville, 
Ohio), James T. and Mary (deceased), Martha 
(Mrs. James A. Bennett, in Cleveland, Ohio), 
Ada (Mrs. Benton McConnell, in New Philadel- 
phia), Elwood (at home) and Samuel Everett, 
married November 26, 1888, to Miss Ella, 
daughter of Annie and Ellen McNamee. 



JAMES N. HAVERFIELD was born in 
^ I Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, Oc- 
\Jj tober 14, 1821. His grandfather, James 
Haverfield, who was a native of Ireland, 
came with his father to America, finally settling 
with his parents in what is now Harrison Coun- 
ty, Ohio, in the year 1800, coming hither from 
eastern Pennsylvania. Their home was made 
in the dense forest, where their cabin of logs 
furnished them shelter from the wild beasts and 
the winter blasts. Nathan Haverfield, father of 
James N. , was born near Wheeling, W. Va., 
in 1797, and before leaving Pennsylvania he 
married Miss Harriet Barnett, a native of that 
State. Their purchase consisted of 100 acres 
of land, as wild as nature's wildest, on which 
they experienced the hardships common to all 
early settlers; their toil was rewarded, however, 
a fertile farm taking the place of their forest 
home, and here they spent years of happiness 



together. But death comes to all, and when 
seventy-six winters had left their wrinkles on 
his brow and their frosts in his venerable locks, 
the father closed his eyes to earth. Politically 
he had been a stanch Republican, and was a 
member of the Seceder Church, now called the 
United Presbyterian Church, of Cadiz. Four 
years after her husband's decease the widowed 
mother, then eighty-six years old, followed him 
to the grave. Eleven children were born to 
this honored couple: John N. (a sketch of 
whom appears elsewhere in this volume); James 
N., the subject of this sketch; William B. (de- 
ceased); Thomas H, in Indiana; Sarah Jane 
(deceased); Jemima H (widow of Jeremiah 
Weaver), in Franklin Township; Joseph, in 
Cadiz Township; Nathan B., in Cadiz Town- 
ship, on the home farm; Samuel Patterson (de- 
ceased); George A. (deceased), and Nancy E., 
wife of Neal McCaffrey, residing in Iowa. 

James N. Haverfield was twenty years of 
age when he started in life for himself. Up to 
this time he had aided in the general cultivation 
of the farm, but after leaving home he turned 
his attention to learning the trade of a carpen- 
ter, and for some four years followed that call- 
ing in his native county. He married, in 1844, 
Miss Martha, daughter of Samuel and Isabella 
(Moore) Hitchcock, of Harrison County, and 
the same year they came to the farm, where, in 
1850, death carried off the faithful wife who 
left one child, Nathan, now grown to manhood 
and married, and residing near the old home; 
two daughters had died when infants. Realiz- 
ing that it is not good for man to be alone, Mr. 
Haverfield, in 1857, chose for his second wife, 
Miss Eliza, daughter of Moses McDougall, one 
of the well-known citizens of Harrison County, 
h native of Ireland, and who, after marrying 
there, came with his wife to Harrison County, 
Ohio, where his daughter Eliza was born. To 
Mr. and Mrs. Haverfield were born the follow- 
ing children: Sarah Alma (Mrs. G. F. Hanna, 
in Columbus, Ohio), Amanda Belle (Mrs. W. 
H. Wiley), Nannie Estelle (at home, unmarried), 
and James Lloyd (deceased). Politically Mr. 




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Haverfield is a Republican, ami has repeatedly 
been chosen to positions of honor and trust 
among his people; for sixteen years he has been 
township trustee. Both he and his esteemed 
wife are members of the Old School Presby- 
terian Church at Cadiz. His home is some two 
miles west of Cadiz, and his farm of 257 acres 
is devoted quite extensively to sheep raising. 
His improvements are ample and pleasant, and 
his fields are dotted here and there with artificial 
ponds, in which the German carp and other 
edible fish abound. The family are extensively 
known and highly respected in the county. 




\ILLIAM McGREW, one of the best 
known and most highly honored of the 
worthy agriculturists of Green Town- 
ship, was born in Hancock County, Va., 
April 6, 1828. James McGrew, his father, was 
a native of Virginia, where his ancestors had 
lived for many generations, and in early life he 
learned the miller's trade, which he followed 
nearly his entire life. April 2(3, 1824, he was 
married to Mary Pentecost, of Virginia, and by 
her had five children, viz. : Alexander, Murray, 
William, James and Joseph. After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. McGrew remained in Hancock 
County, Va., for about eight years, when they 
came to Jefferson County, Ohio, and here Mr. 
McGrew carried on the milling business, being 
the only miller within a radius of many miles. 
He was also engaged for many years in the flour- 
ing trade, shipping much of that staple to New 
Orleans and intermediate points. On one of his 
trips south he was seized with yellow fever,which, 
after a brief illness, carried him off, and he was 
buried where he died. His widow died in IN HI, 
and was laid to rest in Cadiz, Harrison County. 
Mr. McGrew was a Democrat, and was always 
ready to assist his party to the best of his 
ability. He and wife were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

William McGrew, whose name opens this 
biographical memoir, commenced for himself 
early in life, and engaged in farming, which he 



has since followed with well-merited success. 
For a few years he lived in Cadiz, Harrison 
County, then moved to Virginia, whence, after a 
short sojourn, he returned to Ohio, and settled 
in Green Township, Harrison County, where he 
has since remained. October 20, 1848, he was 
married to Cynthia Corbin, who died January 
2ti, 1NN5, a life long member of the Crab Apple 
Presbyterian Church, and was interred in Crab 
Apple Cemetery, Belmont County. The names 
and dates of birth of their children are as fol- 
lows: Mary E. , August 12, 1849; Rebecca J., 
March 12, 1851; William J., January 15, 1853; 
Emma T., November 27, 1855; John F., Feb- 
ruary 6, 1857; George W., October 28, 1859; 
Joseph Stanton, October 28, 1801, and Robert 
E. Lee, November 23, 1804. On March 31, 
1887, Mr. McGrew took for his second wife Miss 
Mattie Kane, a daughter of William Kane, and 
a member from childhood of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Cadiz. Mr. McGrew has 
always been a straight Democrat, though never 
active in politics. By his business sagacity he 
has succeeded in gaining a competency, and by 
his honesty and integrity has secured the esteem 
of his neighbors. 



¥ OHN LAW. In 1820 John Law emigrated 
<. I with his family from Ireland, and located 
\,J on a tract of land in Monroe Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. Here he entered 
360 acres of Government land, on which he 
erected a log cabin, and, settling therein, began 
to hew out from the unbroken wilderness that 
surrounded them a home for himself and family. 
The country then was a complete wilderness, the 
woods were full of deer, bears and wolves, and 
there were but a few settlers in the township. 
Their immediate neighbors were Matthew 
Simpson, a family named Foraker. and another 
one by the name of Hyde. Mr. Law's family 
contained eight children — two sons and six 
daughters. Of this family there are five now 
living, as follows: Mrs. Fannie McMillan, of 
Washington Township, Harrison County; Mrs. 



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Betty Birney, of Harrison County, Ohio; Mrs. 
Jane Humphrey, of Harrison County; Mrs. 
Margaret Simpson, of Stock Township, Harri- 
son County, and Mrs. Charlotte Beatty, of 
Licking County, Ohio. The boys were named 
Matthew and Henry. This family grew to ma- 
turity amidst the thrilling scenes and privations 
of frontier life. They would walk long dis- 
tances to attend church and school, and the 
nearest market place was New Hagerstown. 
Reaping was done with a sickle, and threshing 
done by hand, and wheat sold for twenty-live 
cents per bushel. Men would reap for thirty- 
seven and a half cents per day, and old settlers 
traded a bushel of wheat for one pound of 
coffee. 

Grandfather Law died in June, 1862; his 
wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Lynn, 
died in the spring of 1864. Their eldest child, 
Matthew, was born in Ireland in 1806, and came 
to America with his parents, and well sustained 
his part in clearing up the farm. March 31, 
1836, Matthew married Rebecca Birney, and 
this union was blessed by four children — one, 
a daughter, dying in infancy. The three sons 
were named John, William B. and Robert B. 
The two latter now live near Connotton, Ohio. 
In October, 1868, Mrs. Law passed to her last 
long sleep, and on September 9, 1878, Mr. 
Law's death occurred. Both were respected 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
with which Mr. Law had united in 1831 at 
Mount Hope. He was a man of sound sense 
and correct judgment. His opinions on all 
questions were firm and decided and not given to 
change. He was very conscientious in his walk, 
and had a kind heart. He was a member of 
the old Whig party, and took an active interest 
in the politics of the day. He never sought 
office, but his fellow-citizens elected him to 
various positions in the township, all of which 
he tilled with satisfaction. 

Of the four children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Matthew Law, John, of whom we write, is the 
eldest. He was born on the original home- 
stead in Monroe Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 



August 26, 1837. He grew to manhood with 
his parents, and his early life was spent upon 
the farm. He attended the early schools and 
recalls the old log school-house, with its rude 
benches and split logs, its puncheon floor and 
single desk on pegs. The old-fashioned ten- 
plate stove threw out a fierce heat, that battled 
with the cold that came in through the cracks 
and crevices; the single window extending the 
whole length of the house gave a scant light. 
This was the first school-house built in this dis- 
trict. Amidst such scenes as these he grew to 
manhood, and remained with his parents until 
his marriage, February 26, 1862, to Miss Sarah 
Jane Trimble, a native of Monroe Township. 
They began life on a capital of pluck, deter- 
mination and energy, and they now reside on 
the place where they first located, to which has 
been added the original homestead, making 
a farm of 210 acres of excellent land. He 
erected a beautiful residence in 1887, and his 
home is a most pleasant one. Four children 
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Law: Robert 
Elmer, Forbes, William B. and Matthew. 

Mr. Law raises a large amount of stock and 
grain, and is one of the leading farmers of his 
section, and he raises some very fine Norman 
horses. For many years his judgment has been 
sought on these questions as a thoroughly 
posted man on stock, and as a veterinary sur- 
geon. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. , 
Leesville Lodge, and K. of P. , Centennial 
Lodge No. 94, at Bowerston. 

Mrs. Law is the youngest daughter in a 
family of five daughters and two sons. Her 
parents, Robert and Sarah (Evens) Trimble, are 
both natives of Jefferson County, Ohio, and 
descendants of early pioneer families. They 
grew to maturity and were married there Au- 
gust 7, 1825, and to them were born seven 
children: Mary, Ann, Lucy, John (dow a resi- 
dent of Union County, Ohio, w*here he is a 
prominent farmer and tile manufacturer), 
Martha, George, and Rebecca (widow of Frank 
Courtwright, and residing in Franklin). Robert 
Trimble came with his family to Monroe Town- 



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ship about 1833, and resided here until their 
death. They located on a farm on Section 15 
that they entered from the Government, and 
like the other old settlers they 1 milt their cabin 
and cleared their patch. Their death oc- 
curred on the original homestead. 



AMUEL W. ADAMS, one of the most 
prosperous and highly respected farmers 
of Archer Township, Harrison County, 
was born November 18, 1839, at the 
home place of his parents, in Stock Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. His father, Samuel Ad- 
ams, was born on January 20, 1808, a son of 
William and Mary Adams, natives of Pennsyl- 
vania, their ancestry having originally come 
from Ireland. Samuel Adams received a com- 
mon-school education, and remained at home 
until he attained the age of manhood. In 1833 
he was married to Miss Jane Stewart, daughter 
of James Stewart, who, with his family, emi- 
grated to this country from Ireland, landing 
July 4, 1811, at Philadelphia, where they re- 
mained about one year, and then removed to 
Washington County, Penn., where their daugh- 
ter, Jane C, was born. Here they remained 
about seven years, the father following the oc- 
cupation of farming with excellent success. In 
the year following his marriage (1834), Samuel 
Adams proceeded to Laceyville, this county, 
where he purchased his first farm, which had been 
entered by James McClintock, where he resided 
seven years, and then moved to Archer Town- 
ship, locating on the old Adams Homestead, 
which his father, William Adams, had entered 
in 1S19. Here he resided until his death, which 
occurred June 13, 1874, when he had reached 
the age of sixty-six years. He was a man highly 
respected by all, a Whig, then a Republican in 
politics, and a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, with which he had united when twenty 
years of age. He was infirmary director six years. 
His widow is living with her son in Archer Town- 
ship, receiving his filial and thoughtful care. 
She is remarkably well preserved, and her mind 



still retains its youthful vigor, her memory being 

h dingly retentive. 

Samuel \V. Adams, of whom thia Bketch 
chiefly treats, received his education at (lie com- 
mon schools of his neighbor] .1. which he 

attended in winter time, assisting his father on 
the farm in summer. This labor he continued 
until he was twenty-six years of age, when, de 
siring to expand his mind and experience by 
some change of scene, he proceeded to Findlay, 
Ohio, where he met and married Miss Flora J. 
Gray, daughter of Samuel and Eliza Gray, ft inner 
residents of this county. Mr. Gray is now de- 
ceased and is buried at Findlay, where his widow 
still remains. Two children have come to 
brighten the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Adams, viz. : 
Frank S., now a resident of Kansas, and Carrie, 
who is at present taking a collegiate course. In 
1869 Mr. Adams removed to Harrison County 
and settled on his model farm of 163 acres, pleas- 
antly situated in Archer Township. There are 
many banks of coal on his property, although 
none have yet been opened. The buildings 
thereon are excellent and comfortable, put np and 
completed in modern style, and a snug evergreen 
hedge surrounds the dwelling. As a Repub- 
lican, his first vote having been cast for Lincoln, 
Mr. Adams is an active politician, and has held 
the position of infirmary director six years. He 
does not seek political preferment, but is satis- 
fied to work for the party of his choice, and to 
receive the reward of an approving conscience. 
He and his wife are members of the Presbyte- 
rian Church, and are both found among the rep- 
resentative people in all social and benevolent 
enterprises. 



L M ARGARET KEESEY and JAMES 
Ml KEESEY. The first of the Keesey 
1 family to come to Ohio was Conrad 
Keesey, a native of Pennsylvania, born 
in 1790, who in his native State grew to man- 
hood and married a Miss Burkett, with whom, in 
1816, he crossed the mountains, pressed west- 
ward and finally settled in what afterward be- 



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came Harrison County, Ohio, where, after some 
years, his wife died, leaving seven children: the 
eldest is Mrs. Erasmus Barrett, of Cadiz Town- 
ship, the others being scattered through other 
States. Some time after his first wife's death 
he married Ellen Brooks, who survives him, 
living at White Cloud, Iowa, aged eighty-eight 
years. In 1874 Conrad Keesey died at the age 
of eighty- four years. 

James Keesey, son of Conrad, upon reaching 
manhood, was married, May 30, 1846, to Miss 
Margaret, daughter of John L. and Verlinda 
(Harrison) Laport, and born December 22, 1826. 
Her grandfather, Abram Laport, came to Harri- 
son County when Cadiz had but one house, a 
blacksmith shop and a small store. He entered 
the farm on which the County Infirmary build- 
ings now stand, at that time all woodland, where 
there were few neighbors save Indians. Dur- 
ing the early days of settlement, wolves de- 
stroyed the few sheep that the early comers tried 
to raise. On one occasion, catching in a large 
trap the wolf that had one by one carried off his 
flock, Mr. Laport, in a fit of anger at the dep- 
redator, skinned him alive and released him. 
The wolf, slowly bleeding to death, ran nearly 
a mile and fell dead. One of the first grave- 
yards of the neighborhood waB made upon his 
land. Some years later he left Harrison County 
and settled in Logan County, Ohio, where both 
he and his wife died. 

John Laport, upon reaching manhood, hav- 
ing secured a good education for those days, be- 
came a teacher in the public schools; by trade, 
however, he was a carpenter. He married Miss 
Verlinda Harrison, second cousin of President 
W. H. Harrison and daughter of Ephraim and 
Margaret (Kincade) Harrison, of Pennsylvania. 
In May, 1850, they removed to Indiana, where 
they both died, he in Henry County, and she at 
the residence of her son in Hancock County. 
She bore ten children, of whom Mrs. Keesey is 
the eldest, and the only one living in Harrison 
County, the others being scattered through other 
States. It might here be mentioned also that her 
grandfather had been a soldier in the Revolution. 



After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Keesey 
settled on the farm where the widow and chil- 
dren now reside, and from which Death called 
the husband and father on January 6, 1884, at 
the age of sixty-two years five months. He 
was a Republican in politics, and filled the office 
of supervisor for some time; for four years he 
was superintendent of the County Infirmary. 
He was an enterprising man, a hard worker and 
a respected citizen. At the time of his death he 
was owner of some 215 acres of land, situated 
about five miles northwest of Cadiz. Since her 
husband's death Mrs. Keesey has continued to 
reside on the old farm. She is the mother of 
twelye children, a brief record of whom is as 
follows: Jane Ann is deceased; Conrad lives in 
Uhrichsville, Ohio; Mary Verlinda is deceased; 
Amanda V. (Mrs. A. Johnson) is now Mrs. D. D. 
Bowman; John L. is on the home farm; Susan 
H. , Mrs. James Milliken, lives in Cadiz, Ohio; 
Charles W. is in Peabody, Kas.; Ella (Mrs. Ed- 
ward Trenner) has her residence in Areola, 111. ; 
Frankie died in infancy; Jessie F. (Mrs. Elmer 
Bowers) also lives in Areola, 111. ; Maggie B. 
and Bert Q. are both at home. 

John L. Keesey was born October 23, 1852, 
and received a good common-school education. 
On November 24, 1881, he was married to Mary 
Belle, daughter of Gillespie and Sarah J. (Hines) 
Haverfield, and after their marriage they set- 
tled on a part of the old farm, on the Moravian 
road, four and a half miles from the town of 
Cadiz, in Harrison County. Three children have 
been born to them, by name: Clara, Elsie and 
Sherman, all at home. Politically Mr. Keesey is 
a Republican; Mrs. Keesey is a member of the 
Asbury Chappel Methodist Episcopal Church. 



T'HOMAS M. CREE. The subject of this 
sketch was born April 24, 1835, in Free- 
port Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio. His 
father, James, was born May 12, 1798, 
in Pennsylvania, where he remained until his 
marriage. The father of James, Robert Cree. 
married Elizabeth Villars, a resident of Penn- 



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sylvania, born October 12, 1703, and daughter 
of John and Mary Villars. She bore him the 
following children: Ann, born November 13, 
1788; Mary, born December 17, 1789; Jaunet, 
born February 5, 1790; Robert, born April 12, 
1791; George, born December 28, 1793; Elea- 
nor, born April 20, 1795; John, born September 
18, 1796; James, born May 12, 1798. 

Jamea Uree was married December 27, 1817, 
to Sarah Woods (born March 10, 1803), and 
soon afterward came to Freeport Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, settling on land in Section 25, 
where he remained, clearing and improving it, 
until his death. Here he reared the following 
family: William A., born December 31, 1818, 
died October 17, 1881; Elijah W., born April 
22, 1826, died October 1, 1843; James H., 
born August 29, 1829, died December 6, 1855; 
John W. , born January 30, 1832; a daughter, 
born April 24, 1833, and died unnamed; 
Thomas M., born April 24, 1835; Sarah J., 
born May 20, 1837; George W., born April 4, 
1839; Robert B., bom November 5, 1841, en- 
listed October 13, 1862, in Company C, Forty- 
third O. V.'L, and on his way home died at 
Memphis, Tenn., May 10, 1863; Mary M., born 
September 7, 1844; Elizabeth V.,born June 16, 
1847. In politics Mr. Cree was Democratic, 
and took a leading and prominent part in the 
political affairs of his section. He held many 
offices of honor and trust in his township, and 
that he faithfully discharged his duties is 
attested by his repeated re-elections. Among 
the leaders in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
he took a prominent stand in the work, and was 
a faithful attendant as well as a liberal sup- 
porter. He held nearly all the offices in the 
church government, and exercised the same tact 
and executive ability that had so distinguished 
him in other capacities. Largely a self-made 
man, he was independent in all things, and 
always acted according to his own judgment 
and conscience, rather than according to other 
people's opinions. James Cree died May 16, 
1859; Mrs. Cree died September 23, 1860. 

The early life of Thomas M. Cree was spent 



on the home place, where the management of 
the farm devolved largely upon him. He re- 
ceived a rudimentary education in the commou 
schools, which he afterward supplemented bj 
an extra course of reading. March 6, L859, be 
was married to Caroline A., daughter of Mead 
and Elizabeth Grant, of Carroll County. She 
was born November 20, 1839. Mead Grant 
died June 7, 1883; his widow died February 8, 
1886. After his marriage Thomas M. Cree 
still continued his management of the home 
place, but April 1, 1871, he purchased his pres- 
ent farm. This he has much improved, and in 
1889 built a large and commodious stock barn, 
thirty by fifty feet, with slate roof. Here he 
engages in general farming and stock-raising. 
Mr. Cree is a stanch Democrat in National and 
State politics, but in local matters votes accord- 
ing to his own judgment. He has tilled the 
office of school director for many years, and has 
also been trustee of his township. His children 
are named Stewart Theodore, born January 20, 
1860; Sendona Jane, born December 15, L862; 
Mary A., born November 15, 1864, died August 
10, 1867; Ida May, born October 22, 1866; 
Julia Ann, born December 27, 1868, died June 
3, 1887; Roetta Frances, born May 6, 1870; 
Ora Emery, born July 2, 1872; Renius Thomas, 
born September, 7, 1874; Lonzo Benjamin, 
born December 5, 1876; Nannie Odessa, born 
November 15, 1879. Mr. Cree is now the only 
representative of that family that has been so 
well known in this section, and which has ever 
since its settlement in the county been among 
its foremost and progressive citizens. 




RS. ELIZABETH HAVERFIELD, 
widow of James Haverfield, late of 
|| Cadiz Township, is a native of Jeffer 
son Couuty, Ohio, having been born in 
the year 1830. Her father, Hugh Barr, was a 
native of Pennsylvania, from which State he 
removed to Jefferson County. He was the t'n-t 
of his family to come to Ohio, his father, 
Thomas Barr, remaining and dying in Pennsyl- 



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vania. In Jefferson County he was married to 
Miss Agnes, daughter of William Henderson, 
and a native of Pennsylvania. In 1837 they 
left Jefferson County and settled on a partially 
improved place in Rumley Township, Harrison 
County, situated about one mile from Rumley 
Village. They remained on this place until 
they were called by death, the mother dying at 
the age of thirty, leaving six children, four of 
whom still survive, Mrs. Haverfield being the 
only one in Harrison County. The father mar- 
ried, for his second wife, Mrs. Eliza Spangler. 
Elizabeth Barr was but thirteen when the death 
of her parents left her homeless, and she then 
went to live with a cousin, Dr. Patton, until she 
had reached maturity. On May 21. 1851, she 
was united in marriage with James Haverfield. 
He was the son of John Haverfield, and was 
born upon the farm where his widow and family 
now reside. 

John Haverfield came from Pennsylvania to 
Harrison County, and in Cadiz Township en- 
tered land. He married Miss Agnes Henderson, 
and they lived for a number of years about one 
and a half miles southwest of Cadiz, on the 
farm now owned by Mr. John Osborn, after 
which they removed to the farm now owned by 
Mrs. Elizabeth Haverfield, upon which they 
spent the remainder of their lives. Four chil- 
dren were born to them, all of whom have 
passed to the silent majority. The grandfather, 
James Haverfield, came with his wife to America 
from Ireland. 

James Haverfield, Jr., spent his early life 
aiding in the general duties of the farm, and, 
school advantages being few, he had small 
chance for acquiring an education. He did 
however, manage to attend for a few terms the 
old log school-house, and there acquired a 
knowledge of the rudimentary branches. In 
1851 he was married to the subject of this 
sketch. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. James 
Haverfield came at once upon the place where 
the remainder of life's trials and triumphs 
were shared. In 1863, their house having been 
entirely consumed by fire, they moved to the 



upper farm, and there resided for some four 
years, and while there erected the present 
dwelling, into which they moved in 1867. 
This house is the fourth one erected on the 
place. On April 2, 1880, death forced an entrance 
into the happy home and bore from it the hus- 
band and father, at the age of sixty-six years. 
His life's work had been general farming, and 
in connection therewith he had given consider- 
able attention to stock-raising. By his zeal and 
good judgment he not only secured his own ad- 
vancement, but was a material aid to the prog- 
ress of his township. Politically Mr. Haver- 
field always stood firmly in the Republican 
ranks, and in religion was for years identified 
with the United Presbyterian Church, at Cadiz, 
as has also been his widow. At the time of 
his death he was the owner of over 300 acres of 
choice farming land, situated some four miles 
from the county seat. 

Since the decease of her husband, Mrs. Hav- 
erfield has taken charge of the old homestead, 
where, with her unmarried children, she now 
resides. She has borne nine children, whose 
names and residences are as follows: Agnes, 
Mrs. B. F. Oglevee, in Cadiz Township; Hugh 
Henderson, in Kansas; Martha Jane, deceased; 
Carrie, Mrs. O. C. Hines, of Archer Township; 
Lizzie B., Mrs. H. S. Barricklow, of Athens 
Township, deceased; Ella, John Harvey, Rettie 
May and Lula Irene, all at home. The family 
are widely and favorably known in the county. 



It FENRY P. WORSTELL was born May 
f!^J 18, 1836, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. 
1 His father, Hiram Worstell, was born in 
•fj Philadelphia, Penn., September 7, 1804, 

and the father of Hiram, Matthew Worstell, was 
born in Bucks County, Penn., where the family 
had resided several generations. The founder 
of the family was James Worstell, who came to 
Pennsylvania with William Penn. Matthew 
Worstell married Rachel Price, who bore him 
the following children: Ceneath, Hiram, Mar- 
tha, Smith, Matthew, Sarah, John, Rachel, Will- 



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iain and James. In 1805 Matthew Worstell 
came to Ohio, and entered land near Steuben- 
ville. where he was engaged mostly in the mer 
cantile and milling business. He. with his family, 
was a member of the Society of Friends, and in 
politics he was a Whig. 

The youth of Hiram Worstell was passed 
near Steubenville, where he met and married 
Ann Pittis, daughter of John Pittis, of Deers- 
ville, Harrison County. Their children were 
John, Mary, Thomas, Robert, Edward, Eliza- 
beth, Jane, William, Julia and Henry. Soon 
after leaving the commou schools Hiram Wors- 
tell entered the medical office of Dr. Tappan, 
at Steubenville, Ohio, with whom he remained 
until he was licensed as a practitioner, and the 
practice of medicine became his vocation for 
the greater part of his life. In politics Mr. 
Worstell was an ardent and progressive Repub- 
lican, and always took an active part in the de- 
velopment of that party. He was a liberal and 
progressive man, and one who was ever num- 
bered among the influential and substantial men 
of his section. In January, 1884, he passed 
away, and his remains were laid beside those of 
his wife, who died in 1873. They now quietly 
sleep at Feed Spring Cemetery. 

The early life of Henry P. Worstell was 
spent in Franklin Township, Harrison County, 
where he was educated, and has for the most 
part spent his life. January 5, 1860, he was 
married to Eleanor Scott, daughter of Charles 
Scott, of Harrison County, Ohio. Their chil- 
dren are Margaret, Jennie, L. G. , James Will- 
iam, Edward, Mary (deceased), Frank L. (de- 
ceased), Ida, Etta, Robert L. and Clyde B. Mr. 
Worstell is a Republican, and has always been 
among the workers of that party. He has served 
his township in various capacities, such as trus- 
tee, assessor, etc. He and family belong to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Mount Zion. 
The home farm of Mr. Worstell is one which 
gives every evidence of good management and 
thrift, and its well-cultivated fields show the ag- 
ricultural skill and careful industry of its owner. 
His social standing is of the highest. 



d|ONATHAN KIM MEL, one of the oldest 
farmers in Rumley Township, Harrison 
I Co., Ohio, is a son. of Henry and Cbris- 
tena (Gidinger) Kimmel, of whom further 
mention is made below. Henry Kimmel, father 
of the subject of this sketch, was a son of Leon- 
ard Kimmel, who was a native of Germany, 
born in 1741, and came to Pennsylvania in 1758, 
and settled at Glade, Somerset County. He was 
the only one of his family who dared to brave the 
perils of crossing the ocean. His two brothers 
started with him and came as far as the seaport 
from which they were to sail, but turned back 
in fear at sight of the boundless waters of the 
ocean. Leonard vainly urged them to come 
with him, but, finding his entreaties useless and 
persuasion unheeded, finally told them he should 
come even if he were drowned, for he was tired 
of being under the rule of the king. The de- 
termined spirit of the young man shone out no 
less brilliantly in years to come than it did in 
those days of his young manhood, when he de- 
termined to brave the perils of the voyage to 
the new world alone. He married Miss Susan 
Zimmerman, of Glade, Somerset Co., Penn., 
whose parents were amongst the earliest settlers. 
The fruits of this union were eight children: 
John, Adam, Henry. Leouard, Frederick. Nancy, 
Mary and Susannah. About 1800 the family 
removed to West Virginia, locating on the Cheat 
River, where John, Henry and Adam engaged 
in the manufacture of millstones. These were 
put on rafts and run to different points on the 
Ohio River, where they were sold. Some of the 
stones were in the old grist- mill at Scio, North 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. The young men, 
after selling their millstones, invested the pro- 
ceeds in wild lands in Harrison County, Ohio, pur- 
chasing 800 acres. John being the foreman, the 
land was entered in his name. He entered 160 
acres where Thomas Crab now resides, 160 acres 
where M. R. McNary lives, 160 on Section 20, 
and 320 acres on Section 1», in Rumley Town- 
ship. In 1807 Leonard removed to Rumley 
Township and settled on the farm now owned 
by M. It. McNary. He died in 1825; his widow 



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followed in 1828. His son, Henry, our subject's 
father, was born in 1789, in Pennsylvania, and 
married Miss Christena Gidinger, in June, 1814, 
she being a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth 
B. Gidinger, natives of Germany. Mrs. Kim- 
mel was born in Glade, Somerset Co., Penn. 
Christena (Gidinger) Kimmel, mother of Jona- 
than Kimmel, subject of our sketch, emigrated 
to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1808, and was 
fourteen years old at that time, and was mar- 
ried to Henry Kimmel in June, 1S14. They 
were the parents of eight children: Susan, de- 
ceased; Jonathan, the subject of this sketch; 
Henry, deceased; Abraham, living in Rumley 
Township; Elizabeth, deceased; Isaac, died in 
a Southern prison; Christena, married to M. 
Sawvel, and now living in Arkansas, and John 
deceased. Christena (Gidinger) Kimmel at this 
writing is alive and enjoying a fair degree of 
health at the age of ninety-seven years. She 
has been a life-long member of the Lutheran 
Church. She has resided at the present place 
of residence since 1814, and is now living in the 
fourth dwelling erected on nearly the same site. 
When she came to Ohio she came by the way of 
Steubenville, which town contained at that time 
less than a half dozen dwelling-houses. 

Jonathan Kimmel, subject of our sketch, 
was born July 15, 1815, in an old log cabin near 
the site of his present residence. He resided here 
all his life, except nine years he lived in North 
Township. He was married in January, 1836, 
to Mariah Catharine Nupp, daughter of John 
P. and Catharine (Wolf) Nupp, natives of Get- 
tysburg, Adams Co., Penn. Jonathan and Mariah 
Kimmel were the parents of eleven children 
(five of whom are dead): Sarah Jane, wife of 
Jacob Condo, of Germano, Ohio; Elizabeth, 
widow of Jacob Stall, in Jewett, Ohio; Nimrod, 
killed in the army at battle of Fisher's Hill; 
Christena, at home; Titus, deceased; Simon P., 
living in Rumley Township; Jonathan, Jr., at 
home; George, deceased; Isaac, at home; Mary 
Magdalena, deceased; Martin, deceased. 

The Kimmel race are mostly of Lutheran 
faith, and Democratic in politics. The subject 



of this sketch possesses at present of real estate 
2S9 acres of fine farming land, in a good state 
of cultivation. He has served on the township 
board as trustee for twenty years. 



JOHN A. DUNLAP. Among the worthy old 
families of Cadiz Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, stands the subject of this sketch, John 
A. Duulap,who was born December 1,1859. 
His grandfather, Samuel Dunlap, was one of the 
earliest comers to what is now Harrison County, 
Ohio, where he settled in 1807, on a wild piece of 
land, making a home for himself and family in the 
unbroken forest, and here he did the real hard 
work of his life; this farm has since remained con- 
stantly in the possession of the family. About 
the year 1800 he was married to Miss Sarah, 
daughter of Joshua Dickerson, and a native of 
Pennsylvania, who lived to share with her hus- 
band the toil of a pioneer's life until October 
2, 1839, when death claimed him. His widow 
survived him several years, when she, too, laid 
down the burden of life and passed to her long 
home, November 11, 1858. They were the par- 
ents of seven children, most of whom have fol- 
lowed to the grave, one of the survivors being 
Mrs. Nelson Pearce, of the town of Cadiz. 

Adam Dunlap, father of John A., was born 
in Pennsylvania in 1805, and was two years of 
age when brought by his parents to Harrison 
County, where he was reared a farmer. To say 
he received but limited school advantages would 
not be far from right, for he only attended the 
subscription schools of his boyhood days, which 
at the best were very meager. He married 
Miss Margaret, daughter of David Thompson, of 
Cadiz Township, and of this union three chil- 
dren were born, viz. : Sarah, Mrs. John Porter; 
Martha, Mrs. Samuel Porter, and Mary, Mrs. 
J. D. Barricklow, all of Cadiz Township. The 
mother died, and for a second mate the father 
chose Elizabeth J. Spratt, by whom seven chil- 
dren were born, as follows : Nancy, Mrs. A. Ter- 
rell, in West Virginia; Samuel, who died while a 
child, January 4, 1859; Elizabeth J., Mrs. Rob- 



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ert Holliday, in Moorefield Township; Amanda 
Adeline, deceased wife of Henry Barto, of Har- 
rison County; John A., on the Louie farm: 
William S., in Athens Township; Clara B., who 
died when eleven years old. In 1871, at the 
age of forty-two years, the mother died, and in 
1888, the father, a man of seventy eight years, 
followed to the grave. He was a Democrat in 
his political faith. At the time of his death 
he possessed about 400 acres of land, situated 
some live miles from Cadiz. 

John A. Dunlap remained upon the home 
farm until he grew to manhood, and December 
6, 1883, he was married to Miss Mary H, 
daughter of James and Margaret Chaney, of 
Cadiz Township, which union has produced two 
children, viz. : George Alvin and Chauncey 
Adam, both living. Politically Mr. Dunlap is 
a Democrat, but not a strong partisan. Since 
his father's decease he has cared for the farm, 
and although still a young man he is well and 
favorably known. The family has always been 
earnestly identified with every worthy movement 
in the county. 



ffACOB PITTENGER is one of the well- 
^ I known, honest, substantial farmers of that 
\JJ old section known as Burnley Township, 
Harrison County. He is a son of Abra- 
ham and Susanna (Osborn) Pittenger, and Abra- 
ham Pittenger was a son of Henry Pittenger, a 
native of New Jersey. The Pittengers are de- 
scendants of German ancestors, from whom 
some of the finest families of southern New 
York and New Jersey are sprung. 

Abraham Pittenger was born about 1ii4. 
and his wife in 1780. When they came to 
Burnley Township, Harrison County, they set- 
tled in Jewett, upon a farm now owned by 
James Aiken. Their house was a log cabin, but 
somewhat more substantial than those of their 
neighbors; in this they lived for some time, and 
endured all the hardships and privations of 
pioneer life. Where the cattle and sheep now 
graze was then the home of the bear, wolf, deer, 



and other wild animals. But one by one the 
trees fell before the ax of the sturdy pioneer 
until the large farm was Dearly all cleared and 
cultivated. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pittenger were 
active members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and did much that helped to establish 
the church of their choice in their neighborhood, 
their house being used for many years as the 
general place of worship for the community. 
Mr. Pittenger was a man highly respected by all 
with whom he came in contact. The union of 
this worthy couple was blessed with twelve chil- 
dren, viz.: Henry, Samuel, Peter, Sarah, Abra- 
ham, Isaac O. , Mary, all deceased; Jacob, our 
subject; Phoebe, wife of Bobert Atkinson; John, 
deceased: Nathaniel, in Deunison, Ohio, and 
Nancy, wife of James Foster, in Jackson County, 
Ohio. Mrs. Pittenger died in 1847, and in 
1855 Mr. Pittenger removed to Cadiz Junction, 
and purchased the farm now owned by Samuel 
Winings, where he resided until his death in 
1865. He served a short time in the war "of 
1812, and was in every way an honorable man, 
and a man of whom his posterity may well feel 
proud. His wife's father was William Osborn, 
who was an early settler near Cadiz, but after- 
ward removed to Bichland County, Ohio. The 
remains of Abraham Pittenger and wife are de- 
posited in the Bethel Church-yard of Green 
Township, Harrison County. 

Jacob Pittenger, the subject of our sketch, 
was bora August 19, 181$, upon the old farm 
settled by his father, and was educated in the 
log school-house of his native township. In 
April, 1842, Jacob Pittenger married .Miss Man- 
Ann Hendricks, a daughter of Peter and Cathe- 
rine (Webster) Hendricks, who were among the 
earliest settlers of Kumley Township, and of 
Dutch descent. After his marriage our subject 
and his young wife purchased the farm which 
| he now owns, consisting then of wild land 
j only, with no buildings. But their hearts were 
young and their hopes were high, and here they 
came and set up their household gods, working 
early and late, cheerfully and bravely, to pay 
for their new home. But earnest, conscientious 



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toil always brings its reward, and after a few 
years money become more plentiful, and tbe 
rougb farm began to put on a more cultivated 
air. the old buildings they had erected were 
replaced by more elegant and substantial ones, 
and just as they were ready to settle down and 
spend their old age in peace, plenty and com- 
fort, the good wife met with an accident which 
caused her death in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Pit- 
tenger were the parents of two children only: 
Isabelle, wife of O. S. Dutton, and John Wes- 
ley, who died in 1882, leaving one daughter, 
Carrie M. , who resides in Rumley with her 
mother. Mr. Pittenger is well known and highly 
respected by all sects and creeds, and is an 
active member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, to which his parents belonged. 




^ILLIAM WEBSTER CUSTER, M. D., 

for forty years a successful physician 
of Scio, was born in New Rumley, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, July 1, 1816. His 
grandfather, Emanuel Custer, died in the town 
of Jessup's, in Maryland, when over one hun- 
dred years of age; at one time be visited Ohio, 
where he entered a section of land which he 
afterward gave to his daughters; he had a 
family of six children, viz. : Jacob, died in Har- 
rison County; John and Emanuel, died in Mary- 
land; Charlotte, married to James, Cummings; 
Susan, to John Hendricks, and Mary, to Joseph 
Cummings, a brother of James, above mentioned. 
Of these, Jacob was born in Jessup's, Md. , and 
learned the trade of blacksmith, which he fol- 
lowed in connection with farming, in after life. 
When a young man he came to Ohio, and set- 
tled in Rumley Township, where he entered 
wild land. He was married to Sarah, daughter 
of William Webster, a pioneer of this part of 
the State, and by her had eight children, all 
sons, named as follows: William W., whose 
name stands at the head of this sketch; Alexan- 
der, who died at the age of four years; Stewart 
F., a resident of Connotton, Harrison County; 



John and Henry L. , in New Philadelphia ; Robert, 
a grocer in Scio; Isaac, a dentist in Westerville, 
Ohio, and Vincent, who died when aged seven 
months. The mother died in 1830 at the age 
of thirty-seven years, and the father in 1862, 
when seventy-two years of age; he was a brother 
of John Custer, the father of Gen. Custer. 

William Webster Custer received a fair ed- 
ucation at the schools of his boyhood period, 
and when thirteen years old he became a teacher 
in the common schools; then, at the end of three 
years, he became a private tutor for some time 
in a family named Adams, teaching an adopted 
daughter. Desiring to improve his education 
he afterward again entered school, spending his 
earnings in that way. Having decided on tak- 
ing up the medical profession, he began a course 
of study with Dr. John Markle, of New Jefferson, 
Harrison County, with whom he read medicine 
some six months, while yet teaching; then read 
with Dr. S. M. Stockon, of New Hagerstown, Car- 
roll County, with whom he was associated in the 
practice of his profession some ten or twelve 
years. Here he married Frances Amelia, daugh- 
ter of Eber and Mary (Kibbee) Phelps, and who 
was born in Massachusetts, coming to Franklin 
(now Kent), Portage Co., Ohio, when she was 
five years of age. In 1850 Dr. and Mrs. Custer 
came with their family to Scio, where he has 
ever since been in the practice of his chosen pro- 
fession, and in 1856 they moved to their pres- 
ent elegant home situated on the south side of 
the corporation limits, on College Avenue, and 
known as "Shady Side." To them have been 
born five children, viz. : Mary E.,wife of Dr. D. 
J. Snyder, living in Scio; Caroline A., wife of 
W. N. McCormick, in Florida; James A., who 
died in the army as related below; Albert O. , 
who was a telegraph operator and died April 1, 
1870, at Steubenville, Ohio, in his twentieth 
year, and Clarence P. , at home. James A. , 
when fifteen years old enlisted, November 5, 
1863, in Company H, O. V. C. , and was sent 
South. At Mount Sterling, Ky. , while repelling 
Morgan's last raid, he was shot in the forehead 
and instantly killed. He was a sturdy, resolute 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



W! 



hoy. fearless and determined, and be died, val- 
iantly, a soldier's death at the post of duty. 

The Doctor is kept very busy in his profes- 
sional duties, and finds no time to spare for mu- 
nicipal office. In his political preferments he 
is a Republican, and he and his wife are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church. 



TM. SEWELL, Ph. D., professor of mathe- 
matics at Franklin College, New Athens, 
Ohio, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, 
October 29, 1842, and is a son of Peter 
Sewell, a native of Delaware. The Sewells are 
of German origin, but for two generations 
have been natives of America. John Wiley, 
the maternal grandfather of our subject, was 
wounded in the War of 1812, and died at Al- 
exandria, Va. , from the effects of his injury. 
Peter Sewell was reared in Maryland, was a 
mechanic, and about 1826 married Miss Susan 
Wiley, who was a native of Virginia, and of 
Irish descent. In 1828 they came to Ohio, 
and passed one year in Harrison County, and 
then settled in Belmont County. They had a 
family of six children, named as follows: Re- 
becca, Mary Ann, Theodore, John William, 
Thomas M. and Josephus, but of these, Thomas 
M. , our subject, is the only one living. In 1861 
the family moved to New Athens, for the pur- 
pose of educating our subject, but the war 
broke up the school in 1862, and for a while 
the family returned to Belmont County, but 
again came to Harrison County, where the mother 
died in 1883, at the age of eighty-two years, and 
the father in 1885, aged eighty-nine years. 
Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Thomas M. Sewell, the subject of this 
sketch, early learned the carpenter's trade, and 
was but nineteen years of age when he came 
to New Athens to be educated at Franklin 
College. It was while pursuing his studies 
that, in 1864, he entered the signal service of 
the regular army, and was taken to Missouri, 
where he served about twenty months, or until 



December. 1865. On his return home he re- 
sumed carpenter work, which he followed four 
years. In the fall term of 1869 he was made 
professor of mathematics in Franklin College, 
at New Athens, and since then his field of in- 
struction has been extended to include natural 
science, he now being in the twenty-first year 
of his professorship. He is a thorough instruct- 
or, and is fully qualified for his work. In 
1870 he was married to Miss Eliza J. Hughes, 
daughter of Edward and Sarah Hughes, of 
New Athens, and this union has been blessed 
with three children, viz. : Aura, Cora and Maggie. 
Politically, the Professor is a Republican, and 
he is a member of the James Love Post, G. A. R. 
The Professor, with the exception of the Rev. 
Dr. Campbell, is the longest resident teacher in 
the college. He occasionally does a little sur- 
veying for outside parties, but with this excep- 
tion his attention is given strictly to the duties 
of his chair. Prof. Sewell commenced life in 
somewhat needy circumstances, and his educa- 
tion has been obtained by hard work and a fixed 
determination on his own part to succeed. At 
the close of the war the Professor and a number 
of others went on an Indian expedition to the 
Rocky Mountains, where he spent the sum- 
mer; he then went through Wyoming, Montana, 
Dakota, the Yellowstone Park, etc., gaining 
fresh knowledge at every step. 



1 G. HOWELL. M. D. Among the young 
w I physicians of Harrison County none are 
%Jj more widely or favorably known than the 
subject of this sketch. He is a descend- 
ant of one of the old families of Virginia, from 
which State his grandfather, John Howell, came 
to Belmont County, Ohio, at a very early date. In 
his early life John was wedded to Eleanor Mer- 
cer, a resident of Virginia. The result of the 
marriage was as follows: Benjamin. Isaac, Lem- 
uel, Hiram, John, Melinda. Kiuily.Ingabe, Rhoda 
and Lydia Ann. His farm was entered and 
cleared largely by himself and family, and was 
among the best in Belmont County. He was a 



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Whig, and with his family belonged to the 
Friends Society. In 1843 he passed away on the 
farm where he had so long and unceasingly toiled. 
His widow survived him until 1872, when she. 
too, was called, and was laid beside him in the 
cemetery at Flushing. 

Hiram Howell, the fourth born of the above 
family, was born in Flushing Township, Belmont 
County, in April, 1820. He spent his youth on 
the home place, where he engaged in the 
duties incident to farm life and attending the 
common schools of his neighborhood. In 1844 
he was married to Eliza Kirk, daughter of Robert 
Kirk, of Belmont County. He immediately settled 
on the home place, where he has since resided. 
Only three children were born to his marriage: 
Joshua C, who died of wounds received at the 
battle of Spottsylvania, in May, 1864; J. Gr. , 
the subject proper of this sketch, and Eliza J. 
Mrs. Howell survived until 1852, and in 1855 
Mr. Howell was married to Martha Howell, a 
resident of his native township. Their children 
are Alice, J. A., Laura, Addis, Emily and Stella. 
In his township Mr. Howell has taken an active 
part in politics, and has held various offices in 
the gift of his fellow-citizens. An industrious 
and intelligent man, he has always been known 
for his liberal views and opinions. 

Dr. J. G. Howell was born in Flushing Town- 
ship, Belmont County, December, 1847, and his 
early youth was spent in the district schools 
of his section, and afterward at Hopedale 
Academy, where he remained a short time. 
For several terms he was engaged in teach- 
ing in his native county, in which vocation 
he met with eminent success. In 1875 he 
entered the Miami Medical College at Cincin- 
nati, where he pursued a full and thorough 
course of study, and in 1877 was graduated, re- 
ceiving the degree of M. D. He is among the 
progressive physicians, and keeps fully abreast 
of the times. Eminently successful in his pro- 
fession he has the confidence of all. He has a 
large and constantly growing practice, and may 
well feel proud of his success. In 1889 he was 
appointed a member of the board of examiners 



for pension claimants. June 5, 1879, he was 
married to Mary Knox, a daughter of M. M. 
Knox, a resident of Freeport, and this union has 
been made the happier by the birth of the fol- 
lowing children: Nellie, Bertha, Ada L. and 
Marion G. His family worship at the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church, of which he is a member. 
Numbered among the Republicans of his section, 
he takes a prominent part in their councils. 



L 



EANDER J. REYNOLDS, a farmer of 
Moorefield Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
is a son of R. B. Reynolds, who was a 
son of Richard B. Reynolds, who was a 
son of Joseph Reynolds, a native of Cecil 
County, Md. , the last named having been born 
June 5, 1754, and having married Miss Rachel 
Barnard, who was born in Cecil County, Md. , 
March 16, 1756. To this union were born ten 
children, viz. : Jeremiah, Israel, Rebecca, Su- 
sanna, Lydia, Richard B. , Joseph, Cyrus, Let- 
tice and Abia. In 1816 Joseph migrated to 
Ohio and settled in Belmont County, where he 
spent the remainder of his life, dying in Kirk 
wood Township November 11, 1836. Richard 
B. Reynolds was born in Cecil County, Md., 
September 30, 1790, and was reared to manhood 
on the farm. He married Miss Esther Sidwell, 
who was born in Cecil County, Md., August 22, 
1791. This union was blessed with nine chil- 
dren, named Jeremiah, Matilda, Rachel, Su- 
sanna, Richard B., Oliver, Reuben, Esther and 
Cyrus. Richard B. Reynolds came to Ohio in 
1815 and settled in Belmont County, where he 
departed from earth August 3, 1829; his wife 
survived him till May 27, 1874. Mr. Reynolds 
was a member of the Society of Friends, as was 
also his father. R. B. Reynolds, Jr., was born 
in Belmont County, Ohio, April 11, 1820, where 
he grew to manhood. He married Miss Mary 
Hissey, who was born in Baltimore, Md., Janu- 
ary 16, 1820, a daughter of James and Eliza- 
beth (Mars) Hissey. This union was blessed 
with seven children, viz. : Leander J. , Oliver 
R., Andrew J., Cyrus H. , David N, Phcebe A. 



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and J. F. The mother of these children died 
March 20, 1880. Mr. Reynolds has resided in 
Belmont County all his life. Politically he is a 
Republican, and he is a Methodist Protestant 
minister. 

Leander J. Reynolds was born in Belmont 
County, Ohio, November 7, 1842. Here he 
grew to manhood and received a practical busi- 
ness education at the common schools. In Au- 
gust. 1862, he enlisted in Company B, One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-sixth Regiment O. V. I. He 
participated in the battle of the Wilderness, also 
in several other battles. May 9, 1864, he re- 
ceived a severe wound in his left hand and arm, 
from which he did not recover until his dis- 
charge, being mustered out January 17, 1865. 
October 31, 1867, he married Miss Martha 
Groves, a daughter of John F. and Lavina 
(Lloyd) Groves, natives of Belmont County, 
Ohio. John F. Groves is a son of Barnet 
Groves, a native of Maryland, who came to Ohio 
among the early settlers (or about 1817) and 
settled in Belmont County. Our subject, in 
1868, removed to Harrison County and settled 
on the farm which he now owns, aud which was 
purchased by his father in 1866. It contains 
eighty-four and one-half acres, situated on Sec- 
Lion 28, in Moorerleld Township. Mr. Rey- 
nolds and wife have been blessed with two chil- 
dren: Etta P., born February 27, 1869, and 
Ralph E., born February 9, 1879. Politically Mr. 
Reynolds is a Republican, and he and wife are 
both active members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Smyrna, Ohio. Etta P. Reynolds is 
a member of the class of 1890, Franklin College, 
New Athens, Ohio. 




. OBERT STEWART, an enterprising and 
W successful business man of Freeport, 
Ohio, has but few equals in his section. 
Although but a short time a resident of 
the town, he has built up a business second 
to none in the county. His family history can 
be traced to Ireland, where John Stewart, the 
grandfather of Robert was born. He there 



married Mary Hughes, and with his wife and 
one child, Elizabeth, came to America, arriving 
here about 1815, and proceeding at once to 
Washington County. Penn., where he purchased 
a farm and remained until 1835, when they re- 
moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where John 
and Man Stewart ended their days. Their chil- 
dren were named Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel Wil- 
kin); Jane (Mrs. James Sleeth); John, and Mar- 
garet (Mrs. William Tidrick). In his latter 
years John Stewart was a Republican, though 
he had supported the Democratic party pre- 
viously. He was a member of the Seceder 
Church. 

John Stewart, the younger, father of Robert, 
the subject of this sketch, was born in Wash- 
ington County, Penn., in 1817. His youth was 
spent on the farm and in attending the common 
schools. In 1MO he was married to Mary, 
daughter of Daniel Tidrick, and one child, 
Robert, resulted from this marriage. Mrs. Stew- 
art died April 9, 1861, and for a second wife 
Mr. Stewart married Elizabeth Bendure, a resi- 
dent of Belmont County. The issue of this 
marriage is as follows: Jane, Mary Belle, Ella, 
Maggie, Kizzie, Laura, John and Eva Mr. 
Stewart has been a successful agriculturist as 
well as a merchant, and is still living in Guern- 
sey County, Ohio, where he has taken an active 
part in the county's welfare, as well as support- 
ing the party of his choice. With his family 
he is a member of the United Presbyterian 
Church. 

Robert Stewart was born March 17, 1842. in 
Guernsey County, Ohio: attended the schools of 
this section, supplementing the education there 
received by a course at an academy at London- 
derry from 1859 to 1861, when he took a buai 
ness course at Duff's Business College, of 
Pittsburgh. He enlisted with the Fifth O. 
V. C. Independent Battalion, and was sent im- 
mediately to Kentucky, where he was engaged 
in lighting guerrillas or what was Letter known as 
bushwhackers. After his term of enlistment 
expired he returned home, but soon after re- 
enlisted, this time in the One Hundred and 



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Eighty-fifth O. V. I., Company H., which regi- 
ment was also sent to Kentucky, where it re- 
mained until the close of the war. Mr. Stewart 
then returned home and engaged in the mercan- 
tile business with his father until 187U, when he 
entered into partnership with John C. Logan. 
In 1884 he came to Freeport, where he formed 
a copartnership with W. J. Blackwood. The 
firm deal in agricultural implements, fertilizers, 
salt, seeds, and during the winter carry a large 
trade in evaporated fruits. September 28, 
1869, Mr. Stewart was married to M. C, daugh- 
ter of Robert Stockdale, of Guernsey County, 
Ohio, and the result of the union was Clarence 
L. , born January 15, 1871, and who died Au- 
gust '28, 1872. A leading Republican in his sec- 
tion, our subject has served as delegate in various 
conventions of his party, to which he has ren- 
dered much valuable service. His wife is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. 



qD. SPIKER, one of the representative 
progressive business men of Scio, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, is a native of the county, 
,i born in Stock Township, December, 26, 
1846, a son of William Spiker, who was born in 
the same township, in 1826. The first of this 
family emigrated from Holland at a very early 
day, and the great-grandfather came from Penn- 
sylvania to this part of Ohio, where he entered 
a farm. Christopher Spiker, the grandfather, 
was born in 1806, on the same place as were his 
son and grandson, and was married to Aerie 
Carnes; they both died in Harrison County, 
the grandmother in March, 1870, at the age of 
sixty-six, and the grandfather in 1S79, when 
aged seventy-two years; he was a farmer and 
grist-miller. William Spiker was brought up 
to farm life and grist-milling, and at the age of 
nineteen he was married to Mary, daughter of 
Adam Cottrell, a native of Scotland, who came 
to America when seven years of age, his parents 
having died when he was a small boy. Mrs. 
Spiker's father died in 1842, her mother in 1886. 
After marriage, William Spiker and wife settled 



on a farm, and ten years later he commenced 
carpentering and contracting. They now live 
in Deersville, Harrison County. He is a Re- 
publican in politics, has been for several years 
township treasurer, and has served two terms 
(six years) as infirmary director. 

G. D. Spiker spent the early part of his life 
on a farm, attending, during the winter months, 
the common schools of his district, which was 
supplemented by a course of study at Scio Col- 
lege, where he completed his education, at the 
age of twenty-three. After leaving college, he 
taught in two schools in Harrison County three 
years each, and then embarked in the business 
of building contractor, a large portion of the 
residences and public institutions in Scio hav- 
ing been put up by him. In 1885 he erected a 
planiug-mill, in company with Joshua Arbaugh, 
whom he bought out in 1888, and has since car- 
ried the industry on for his own individual ac- 
count, manufacturing doors, sash, blinds, etc., 
having in connection a well-stocked lumber- 
yard. His home he erected in 1890. In 1871 
he was married to Lizzie, daughter of Edward 
and Catherine Gibson (both deceased), and born 
in Harrison County. This union has been blessed 
with two children, viz. : James Madison, born 
in 1S72, and Ketura, born in September, 1877, 
both at home. The parents are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church; in politics Mr. 
Spiker is a Republican, and in his affiliations a 
member of the F. & A. M. 



*T?Hi LIJAH JOHNSON. The Johnson family 
IpJ are of English descent, and were among 
* ' '[ those who in 1620 dared the terrors of 
an ocean voyage, and made their landing 
at Jamestown, Va. The earliest recorded his- 
tory of the family is found in that of William 
Johnson, who was the grandfather of Elijah. 
He was born in Maryland, and there married 
Nancy M. Stallings, who bore him a family con- 
sisting of six boys and four girls. In 1802 he 
came to Harrison County, Ohio, with his family, 
settling in Mooretield Township, where he had 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



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entered a large tract of land. The nearest 
neighbor was some seven miles distant, though 
the company of various kinds of wild animals 
was much nearer than safety would call for. 
Here he resided until his death, which occurred 
in his seventy-ninth year, his widow surviving 
him until her eightieth year. In his politics 
he was ever a stanch Democrat, and was always 
a supporter of that party. He was a man of 
strong constitution and of great physical endur- 
ance, which enabled him to pass many consecu- 
tive days in hunting, in which he was an adept. 

James Johnson, an uncle of William, and 
his two children aged ten and twelve years, 
were taken prisoners by the Indians — he by 
one band and his children by another. After 
many fruitless endeavors to escape, he was 
eventually given his liberty, as a treaty of peace 
had been made. His children were more for- 
tunate in escaping. Being guarded by two 
Indians only, they waited until the guards were 
asleep, when one took the gun and placed it at 
the head of one sleeping Indian, the other boy 
taking a tomahawk and standing over the other. 
At the same moment they both used their 
weapons with fatal results, and thus were at 
liberty. James Johnson lived to the good old 
age of one hundred and seven years, and on his 
one hundredth birthday cut and split one hun- 
dred rails. The two boys grew to manhood, 
and were among the successful ministers of the 
Protestant Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Thomas Johnson was born in Maryland and 
accompanied his family to Ohio. He was edu- 
cated at the common schools, and was early 
initiated in the business of farming, and this he 
followed throughout his life in Harrison and 
Tuscarawas Counties. December 25, 1823, he 
was married to Susannah Collins, a daughter of 
William Collins, a native of England, and an 
early settler of Harrison County, Ohio. He 
made his home in Moorerield for some time, 
then removed to Tuscarawas County, where 
he lived for three years, and then settled in 
Deersville, where, in 1835, February ID, Mrs. 
Johnson died, leaving the following family: 



Elijah, Jonas, Ann and Isabelle. In 1838 
Thomas Johnson married Rebecca Marshall, 
who bore him two children. William S. and 
James S. Mrs. Johnson died in 1861, and was 
followed by her husband November 11, L871. 
In his politics an earnest believer in the Jeffer- 
sonian theory of government, Mr. Johnson took 
an active part in the advancement of the Demo- 
cratic party. 

Elijah Johnson was born in Harrison County. 
Ohio, January 13, 1825. Much of his early 
life was spent on the farm, his leisure time being 
devoted to the cultivation of his mind. He had 
the advantages of the common schools only, but 
so well did he improve his opportunities, that at 
the age of twenty years he engaged as instructor 
and met with marked success. This profession 
he continued for sixteen years consecutively in 
Harrison and adjacent counties, the great de- 
mand for his services enabling him to command 
a higher salary than was paid ordinarily. 
January 14, 18-17, he was married to Mary 
Cockerill, a daughter of Abraham Cockerill, a 
resident of Harrison County, and the children 
born to this union were named Thomas N. , 
Adam M., Adoniram J., James O, Elizabeth 
(Mrs. Samuel Ritchey) and Emma E. 

Thomas N. Johnson was born in Freeport 
Township, Harrison County, and early received 
educational advantages which had been denied 
his father. Soon after leaving the common 
schools he entered Dennison University, at Dan- 
ville, Ohio, and in 1875 received the degree of 
A. B. During his college course he engage. 1 in 
teaching, and on his graduation accepted the 
position of principal of schools in Indiana, ami 
afterward in Maryland, and then in Cleveland, 
Ohio, where he is at present. He is known as 
one of the prominent educators in the State, and 
has always taken a front rank in his profession. 
In 1878 he was married to Anna White, a resi- 
dent of Cumberland, Md., and his children are 
Alfred, Thomas and R. E. 

The Johnson family have been life-long Dem- 
ocrats, aud are independent thinkers and voters. 
They are well and favorably known in the section 



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in which they live, and are among the pro- 
gressive citizens. 



AMUEL OSBURN. This well-known 
citizen of Archer Township, Harrison 
County, is a native of Westmoreland 
County, Penn., born April 4, 1813. His 
descent he traces from an old Scotch family, 
who in the days of religious persecution in their 
native land — "land of the mountain and the 
flood" — moved with their little ones and all 
their worldly possessions to the North of Ire- 
land. They were stern, rugged Presbyterians 
in their religious convictions, and brooked no 
interference with their time-honored " Confes- 
sion of Faith," and right to worship according 
to their conscience. 

Samuel Osburn, grandfather of the subject 
of this memoir, was born in County Derry, Ire- 
land, where he married Susanna Garven, and 
had Heveral children. Coming with his family to 
America in the seventeenth century he settled in 
Westmoreland County, Penn., where he partic- 
ipated in the Indian War, assisting materially 
in the effort to settle the difficulties with the 
aborigines, at that time agitating the country. 
Alexander Osburn, father of our subject, 
was born May 14, 1785, and in after life carried 
on farming in Pennsylvania, where he was mar- 
ried May 10, 1808, to Miss Mary, daughter of 
James and Mary Barnes, natives of Ireland, 
then of Pennsylvania. To this union six chil- 
dren were born, three of whom are now living, 
viz. : Samuel (the subject of this sketch), John 
(in Archer Township) and Mary (who was mar- 
ried to Rev. William C. Mason (now deceased), 
a Presbyterian minister in Illinois. Early in 
the year 1810 the parents moved with their 
family to Harrison County, Ohio, and settled on 
a farm in Athens Township, where the father, 
the previous year, had put up a small log cabin. 
On this farm the mother died January 5, 1824, 
at the age of forty-three years. Alexander Os- 
burn was married (the second time) to Miss 
Martha Rankin, of Washington County, Penn., 



and to this union two children were born : James 
D-, of Carroll County, and Mrs. Rebecca Ram- 
sey, of Scio, Ohio. Martha Rankin Osburn 
departed this life December 25, 1848. 

In 1829 the father moved to the farm in Ar- 
cher Township, where his son Samuel now lives, 
and here died at the patriarchal age of four- 
score and two years. He was a hard-working 
man, and as one of the earliest settlers of the 
township and county had all the hardships of 
the pioneer to experience. After his removal to 
Archer Township he engaged in raising sheep, 
and owned the first flock of fine sheep in the 
township. He was a stanch supporter of the 
Whig party, taking an active part in politics, 
and he and his family were prominent members 
of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a 
member many years, and ruling elder, appointed 
by Steubenville Presbytery to General Assembly 
in the year 1846. He enlisted in the War of 
1812, but did not see service, hostilities having 
closed soon after. 

Samuel Osbukn, the subject proper of these 
lines, attended the common schools of his neigh- 
borhood, where he received an education that he 
has ever since improved, and remained with his 
father during the latter' s life time. In 1835 
Mr. Osburn married Miss Elizabeth, daughter 
of John and Jane Welsh (natives of Ireland), 
then of Lancaster County, Penn. John Welch 
with his family moved to Archer Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, about the year 1822. 
Immediately after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Os- 
burn commenced housekeeping on the old 
home farm of Mr. Osburn. Six children have 
blessed them, namely: Alexander (deceased, 
a brief record of whom follows), John \V. 
(in Cadiz Township), Jane (Mrs. Morrison 
Moorehead, in Green Township, Harrison 
County), Martha (Mrs. Granville Dickerson, in 
Nodaway County, Mo.), Amanda (Mrs. L. A. 
Welsh, iu Archer Township), and Matthew 
Beatty (residing with his father). Mr. Os- 
burn' s farm of 172 acres, which is situated 
about four miles from Cadiz, is highly im- 
proved, and his residence, admirably placed on 



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the slope of one of the hills, commands a view 
rarely equaled. In politics Mr. Osburn was 
originally a Whig, and since the organization of 
the Republican party be has been one of its ar- 
dent supporters. In early days his house was 
the headquarters of the Whigs of his township, 
ai id the flag of our country floated over his 
farm during the war. The family were repre- 
sented in the Civil War by the son, John W., 
who, as already stated, is a resident of Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. 
Osburn are members of the Presbyterian Church 
at Cadiz. He was first a member of the Ridge 
Church in Archer Township, and of it was made 
an elder; in 1885 he united with the Cadiz 
Presbyterian Church, where he was again 
elected ruling elder. He was twice a delegate 
appointed by the Steubenville Presbytery to the 
General Assembly, and in 1870 he attended the 
Assembly in Philadelphia, also the one held in 
Pittsburgh in 1878. His wife united with the 
church at an early age, and has always been 
most highly respected and esteemed by her fel- 
low church members, as well as by her acquaint- 
ances and friends. Mr. Osburn and his home 
circle are numbered among the representative 
families of the county, and are highly esteemed 
by all. • 

Mrs. Sarah Osburn, widow of Alexander 
Osburn, the eldest son born to Samuel and 
Elizabeth (Welsh) Osburn, is a daughter of 
William and Mary Hedges, a record of her im- 
mediate ancestry being given in the sketch of 
W. P. Hedges, of Cadiz Township. In 1868 
she was united in marriage with Alexander Os- 
burn, and they then located on the farm in 
Cadiz Township, where his brother John now 
resides. Here they remained some three years, 
and then removed to their farm in Archer Town- 
ship, where, on July 21, 1875, Mr. Osburn passed 
from earth at the early age of thirty- four years. 
Since her husband's death Mrs. Osburn has re- 
sided in the town of Cadiz with her two sons, 
Clare. M. and Norwood S. Mrs. Osburn is a 
consistent member, as was her husband, of the 
Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, Ohio, 
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LEWIS T. ROMANS, one of the leading 
business men and enterprising citizens of 
I Freeport, Harrison Co., Ohio, was boru 
January IS, ls:i'.l, in Belmont County, 
same State. Here at the home of his parents 
his early life was spent, attending the common 
schools, to which institutions his educational 
training was limited. At an early age he en- 
tered mercantile life in the capacity of clerk 
and salesman in the employ of Thomas Green, 
with whom he remained about one year, when 
he left his business life to assist in the defense 
of his country. In 1802 he enlisted in the 
Forty third O. V. I., Company D, which was 
assigned to the Army of the Tennessee under 
Gen. Sherman. He participated in the various 
battles, skirmishes and raids of that regi- 
ment, and served his time of enlistment with 
great fidelity and patriotism. On his return 
he re-entered the employment of Mr. Green 
and remained with him until 1865, when 
he engaged with Clendenning Bros., for six 
months, and then with A. B. Johnson, in whose 
service he continued some four years. So well 
was he known, and so well did he discharge the 
duties entrusted to him, that his services were 
largely sought. He also engaged with Niblock 
Bros., till, his health failing him, he carried 
on farming for some few years, but finally was 
persuaded to return to his old employment, 
which he continued until 1882, when he en- 
gaged in business for himself, opening a gen- 
eral merchandise line, in which he has suc- 
ceeded in building up a large and profitable 
business. From his youth he has taken an 
active interest in political questions and has 
always been a supporter of the Republican 
party. He and family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Freeport. in 
which they take an active and prominent part, 
and in which Mr. Romans has been class leader 
for several years and also a member of the 
hoard of trustees. Mr. Romans is an energetic 
man as well as a representative one. His suc- 
cess is of his own achieving, and with it he has 
retained the good-will of all. On September 21 I, 



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1805, he was married to Sarah A. Rice, daugh- 
ter of Hiram and Mary Rice, of Freeport. The 
issue of their marriage is Elva I., Hiram R., 
Nettie F., and Willett C. 

The Romans family are of English descent, 
and came to Pennsylvania about the middle of 
the eighteenth century. The earliest known 
record of any of the family is that of Thomas 
Romans, who in early life was married to Han- 
nah Buffington and reared a family comprising 
the following: Mary, Jacob, Ruth, Ann, Jessie, 
Joseph, Susan, John, Cynthia, Elizabeth and 
Franklin. Thomas Romans was a blacksmith 
by trade, and followed it for the greater portion 
of his life. He was a Whig in politics, and a 
Friend in religious matters. In the early 
settlement of Guernsey County, Ohio, he was a 
conspicuous figure, and was always in the ad- 
vance of any movement for the benefit of his 
section. He lived to the advanced age of nine- 
ty-three, when he passed from earth. 

Jacob Romans, eldest son of Thomas Ro- 
mans, was born in Pennsylvania August 13, 
1805, and at the age of thirteen years accom- 
panied his parents to Ohio, where his life has 
since been spent. He passed his early days on 
the paternal farm. December 20, 1826, he was 
married to Mary Hibbs, daughter of Valentine 
Hibbs, of Guernsey County, Ohio, whose family 
came from Loudoun County, Va. The result 
of this union was Hannah H., born December 
18, 1827; Ruth B., born May 4, 1830, died July 
31, 1830; Thomas, bom July 20, 1831, died 
August 8, 1831; William, born February 20, 
1833; Valentine, born September 13, 1834, 
died September 6, 1860; Joseph, born January 
12, 1836; Lewis T., born January IS, 1839, 
and Nelson, born January 6, 1844. Mr. 
Romans lived until March 6, 1873, when he 
was called to his reward. Mrs. Romans sur- 
vived him until May 31, 1883. They now 
sleep side by side. Mr. Romans was an ardent 
Whig and Republican, and was much interested 
in political matters. He and family were 
among the leading members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which they always took an 



active part. Kind, generous and upright, the 
family have deservedly held the respect and con- 
fidence of the community. 



Z. COURTRIGHT. Among the repre- 
sentative and most enterprising citizens 
of Freeport village, in Harrison County, 
none have done more to advance its in- 
terests than Z. Z. Courtright. The family were 
among the earliest settlers of the State of Ohio, 
having settled here in 1S00. The earliest au- 
thentic record of the family is that of John, wbo 
was born September 7, 1774, in New Jersey, 
where he remained until his marriage. He 
then located in Washington County, Penn. , 
where he remained a short time, and then pro- 
ceeded to Columbiana County, Ohio, where he 
purchased a farm, now the present site of Saline- 
ville. His children were named Jacob V., 
James, Samuel, Isaac, William, Milo, Judith 
and Rebecca. An active and vigorous man, he 
entered heartily into the movements of progres- 
sion in his section. He was possessed of an 
active and energetic temperament, and was one 
of the successful men in his section. 

Samuel Courtright, the third child of John, 
and born April 30, 1809, in Columbiana County, 
was early initiated in the stern realities of life. 
In 1829 he was married to Frances Zollars, 
a daughter of Frederick Zollars, of Harrison 
County. He commenced his married life in 
Carrollton, Ohio, but remained there a short 
time only, when he removed to Short Creek 
Township, in Harrison County, remaining there 
until 1856, when he removed to Smithfield, Jef- 
ferson County. He was the father of the fol- 
lowing named children: James; Franklin (de- 
ceased); Z. Z., our subject; Vail, in Illinois; 
Mary Jane, now Mrs. George D. Walcott; 
Charles, deceased; Ann Rebecca. Mrs. Thomas 
Penny; John, in Freeport; Sarah, Mrs. Will- 
iam Carriek; William, in Franklin; Joseph W. ,in 
Freeport; Melissa, Mrs. Wilson Lugar. Mrs. 
Frances Courtright died in 1862, and in 1867 Mr. 



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Courtright was married to Mary E. Stonebraker. 
Only one cbild, Luella, blessed this union. In 
his politics Mr. Courtright always supported the 
Democratic ticket. The family worshiped at 
the Presbyterian Church at Adena, Jefferson 
County. Mr. Courtright was one of the promi- 
nent and successful farmers of his section. 

Z. Z. Courtright, who was born July 1 2, 
1832, in Harrison County, Ohio, has had a life 
rilled with business activity and hard work. 
Commencing his life and work on the farm, he 
followed the vocation of agriculture, although 
not exclusively, as much of his attention was 
devoted to milling, in which he attained a suc- 
cess rarely met with in that business, but he has 
now retired from the active duties of his busi- 
ness, and is enjoying with his family the fruits 
of his industrious as well as economic habits. 
In 1858 he was united in marriage with Mary 
A. Crew. He commenced his married life in 
Short Creek Township, where he remained until 
1866, when he removed to Franklin, where he 
followed milling nine years, and then came to 
Freeport, where he has since remained. Here 
he carried on a mill until 1884, when he sold. 
In politics he was a Republican, until he per- 
ceived the inactivity of the old parties in settling 
the Prohibition question, when he joined the 
Prohibition party, and has since been among 
the foremost in the advancement of its interests. 
In religion he and family are Presbyterians. 
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Z. Z. Court- 
right are as follows: George T. , in Freeport; 
Fannie I., Mrs. William P. Burrell; Charles O, 
in Galesburg, 111., and Oscar L. , at home. 

George T. Courtright was born April 4, 
1859, in Short Creek Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty. He acquired a good education in the schools 
of the vicinity, and passed his time at home un- 
til his marriage, April 20, 1881, to Belle Wil- 
kin, daughter of James Wilkin, of West Vir- 
ginia. Since his marriage he has resided in 
Freeport, where both he and wife have a large 
circle of friends and acquaintances. Kind in 
disposition, hospitable in manner, irreproacha- 
ble in character, he has the respect of all. 



JOSEPH W. COURTRIGHT, one of the 
wc^ll known citizens of Freeport Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, was born January 6, 
L847, in Short Creek Township, and is a 
son of Samuel and Frances (Zollars) Courtright. 
His early life was spent on the farm of his 
father, assisting in its duties. In December, 
lsii I, Mr. Courtright, then but a youth of seven- 
teen, enlisted in the Ninety-eighth O V. I., and 
was discharged at the cessation of hostilities at 
Louisville, Ky. He then returned home and 
engaged in the milling business, which he has 
since followed. In 1875, in company with his 
brother, he purchased the Freeport Mills, which 
they managed until 1888, when, having built up 
a large trade and made the mill one of the best 
in the section, they sold out to the present owner. 
He then received an appointment in the mail 
service, on the Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Railroad, 
which position he filled acceptably for three 
years and nine months, although his resignation 
was on file for several months before it was ac- 
cepted. Some time previous to his leaving the 
mail service he purchased the milling property 
at West Lafayette, which he managed until 
October, ISS'.t, when he came to Freeport, where 
he engaged in milling at his old stand. In his 
business he is one of the foremost, and has thor- 
oughly mastered its details. His social qualities 
and genial spirit have won for him many friends, 
who. once so, always continue. In public affairs 
Mr. Courtright is widely read and is a man who 
forms his convictions only after careful study of 
his subject. In his political affiliation he is 
Democratic, although he is not a free trader. 
While not desiring office, he often lends his aid 
in the support of his party, and is an efficient 
worker. September 28, I Mil',, he was married 
to Letitia Burns, daughter of John M. Burns. 
Mrs. Courtright lived until August 17, 1875, 
when she passed away. Their family consisted 
of two children: Lillie B. and Lizzie M.. both 
of whom are now deceased. In 1872 they 
received into their family. Ada, who lias since 
remained with them. October 15, ISM, Mr. 
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Freeport, who bore him one child on December 
17, 1889. Mr. Courtright is a member of the 
G. A. R. , J. H. Reeves Post, at Freeport, and of 
the F. & A. M. lodge, No. 415, at Freeport. 



SAMUEL DUNLAP, an old settler and 
prosperous farmer of Moore field Town- 
ship, Harrison County, is a son of Will- 
iam and Margaret (Rankin) Dunlap. 
William Dunlap was born in Fayette County, 
Penn., in 1780; Margaret (Rankin) Dunlap was 
born, in 1787, in the same county. William 
Dunlap migrated to Ohio in 1806, and purchased 
160 acres of land on Brushy Fork, Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison County. In 1812 he revisited 
Pennsylvania; the next season he returned to 
Ohio, and purchased 160 acres of land on Sec- 
tion 36, Moorefield Township, now owned by 
William Kirkpatrick's heirs. William Dunlap 
did not remain long in Ohio, but returned to 
Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1837, 
but again came back to Ohio and settled in Bel- 
mont County. May 19, 1838, his wife died, and 
in a short time after Mr. Dunlap purchased the 
farm which our subject now owns, and which 
contains 160 acres, 110 being in Mooretield 
Township in Section 34, and fifty in Flushing 
Township, Belmont County. To Mr. and Mrs. 
William Dunlap were born six children, namely: 
Adam, now in Missouri; James, deceased; Will- 
iam, in Missouri; Samuel, our subject; Mar- 
garet, deceased, and Rebecca, deceased. Will- 
iam Dunlap was a member of the Baptist Church 
for many years, and died at the home of his 
son Samuel in 1865. 

Samuel Dunlap, our subject, was born in 
Fayette County, Penn., June 25, 1825, and in 
1837 came with his parents to Ohio, where^e 
grew to manhood. In 1844 he married Miss 
Eliza Jane Bethel, who was born in Belmont 
County, Ohio, in 1827, a daughter of James and 
Mary (Brock) Bethel. To this union were born 
five children, viz.: William J., residing in Bel- 
mont County, Ohio; Margaret A. Dunlap, of 
Moorefield Township, Harrison County; Lycur- 



gus M., in Belmont County; Thomas A., in Bel- 
mont County; Joseph O, in Belmont Count}'. 
Mrs. Samuel Dunlap died December 19, 1858, 
and in 1859 Mr. Dunlap married Miss Mary E. 
Bethel, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ogle- 
vee) Bethel. To this union were born five chil- 
dren, as follows: O. E. , who resides at home; 
Eliza J. Campher, of Moorefield Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio; Isaac E., Samuel A. and 
Cora B. , all three at home. This second wife 
died in 1872. Mr. Dunlap is well known to the 
people of the county, having resided on the farm 
he now owns since 1S39, and is one of its most 
highly esteemed citizens. 



JOSEPH R. STEPHENSON, saddler and 
w. I harness-maker, Scio, Ohio, was born in 
%J) Steubenville, Ohio, December 29, 1837. 
and is a son of W. H. H. Stephenson, 
The progenitor of the Stephenson family in this 
country was John S. Stephenson, who came 
from Ireland before the American Revolution 
and located in Cumberland County, Penn., 
where he married Margaret Huston; thence he 
moved to Washington County, where he entered 
400 acres of land the year before the opening of 
the war. He and wife both died there about 
1839, the wife at the age of eighty years. They 
were the parents of eleven children: James, 
William, John, Andrew, Joseph, Jane, David, 
Thomas, Robert, Isabelle and Sarah, all of 
whom grew to maturity, but all of whom are 
now deceased. John S. Stephenson and his 
wife's father, William Huston, both served in 
the war for independence. The Hustons were 
of Scotch descent. Joseph Stephenson married 
Isabelle Gourley, daughter of John and Hannah 
(McDonald) Gourley. John Gourley was a 
farmer of Cumberland County, Penn. , and died 
in W est Virginia, across the river from Steuben- 
ville, Ohio, February 14, 1829, and there his 
wife also died. They were the parents of five 
children: Sarah, Jane, Isabelle, John and Will- 
iam, all deceased. The parents of W. H. H. 
Stephenson were Joseph and Isabelle Stephen- 



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son. They settled near Steubenville, Ohio, but 
on the Virginia side of the Ohio liiver, near 
Island Creek, in 1813, and subsequently moved 
to Jefferson County, Ohio, thence to Rock 
Island County, 111., where the father died 
August 9, 1830, aged fifty- four years; the 
family then returned to Jefferson County, Ohio; 
the mother, however, died in Washington Coun- 
ty, Penn., December 2, 1862, aged seventy sis 
years. This couple were the parents of eight 
children, viz.: Deborah, born July 15, 1809, 
now living in Scio, Ohio; Hannah, born Decem- 
ber 31, 1810, died in September, 1888; William 
H. H. , born September 17, 1813; John, born 
December 3, 1815, died October 2, 1880; 
Thomas, born in 1817, died June 7, 1845; 
Joseph, born in 1822, served through the War 
of the Rebellion, and died June 17, 1873; Mar- 
garet, born February 22, 1824, and died Sep- 
tember 10, 1883; George B., born August 1, 
1826, residing at Braddock, Penn. 

The early life of W. H. H. Stephenson was 
passed in Jefferson County, Ohio, and when a 
boy he served an apprenticeship at the tanning 
business in Richmond, Ohio. After learning 
his trade he went to work as a journeyman at 
Steubenville, Ohio, where he was married, April 
6, 1836, to Miss Rebecca Ann Douglass, daugh- 
ter of Robert Douglass, of Pennsylvania. Some 
two years were then passed in Steubenville, when 
they went to Independence, Washington Co., 
Penn. ; then in 1845, moved to Richmond, Jef- 
ferson Co., Ohio, and purchased the tan-yard 
in which he learned his trade, carrying on 
the business for nine years; and in 1854, he came 
to Scio, where he purchased a tan-yard, which 
he sold three years later and bought a harness 
shop. December 18, 1888, Mrs. Stephenson 
died, at seventy-seven years of age, the mother 
of seven children: Joseph R., in Scio; Robert 
T., in North Township; Isabelle H., deceased; 
John T., deceased; James, in Scio; Mary Jane, 
deceased; Samuel S., killed in the army at 
Petersburg, Va. Of the above, Samuel S. , John 
T., Robert T. and James served during the Civil 
War. John T. was struck in the breast by a shell 



which injury caused his death years later: the 
other two escaped uninjured. W. H. H. Ste- 
phenson held the rank of captain in a volunteer 
company in Richmond, Jefferson Co., Ohio, be 
fore the war, and also the same rank in a company 
at Scio, and hence is always spoken of as Capt. 
Stephenson. 

In April, 1854, as already stated, the family 
came to Scio, Harrison, Co., Ohio, and here 
Joseph R. Stephenson learned his trade of 
harness- maker of John Pluukett, and then car- 
ried on the business for his father, who had 
bought out Plunkett. This business has been 
greatly enlarged, is the only shop of the kind 
in Scio. is fully stocked and is kept fully up to the 
breast of the times in every particular. In 1864 
Joseph R. Stephenson was married to Miss Min- 
erva Weight, daughter of George A. Weight, of 
Scio. One child only has been born to this 
union: Lulu M. , a teacher of oil painting, 
crayon and pastel work. Politically Joseph R. 
Stephenson is a Republican, and has held serv- 
eral corporation and township offices. He was 
assistant postmaster for sixteen years under 
John Giles, having entire charge of the office 
and doing all of the work. He is a Knight of 
Pythias, and is well known and respected. 



THE ENGLISH FAMILY. Prior to the 
Revolutionary War, there came to these 
shores from England, Patrick English, 
who took sides with the colonists in their 
struggle for freedom, serving throughout the war. 
Afterward, having succeeded in getting land 
rights, he located at Redstone, Penn., thence 
moved to Cadiz, Ohio, and finally to Coshocton 
County, same State, where he died. 

James English was either a native of Vir- 
ginia, born on the Potomac, or of Baltimore 
County, Mel., and with his parents, came to 
Cadiz, Ohio, previous to which he had mined 
in Redstone, Penn., and saved one hundred dol- 
lars in cash. He was married to Jane Pickens, 
and they then made their home on leased land 
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drafted in the War of 1812, but sent a substi- 
tute, and about this time he entered land in 
North Township. To Mr. and Mrs. English 
were born fourteen children, of whom the fol- 
lowing is a brief record: Talitha is deceased; 
John is a farmer in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; 
James died at the age of seventeen years; Mat- 
thew is in New Philadelphia, Ohio; Thomas 
died at Nashville, Tenn., during the War of the 
Rebellion; Susannah is also deceased; Alpha 
lives in Iowa; Nelson died in Iowa; Nancy (de- 
ceased) was the wife of William Donaldson, in 
North Township, Harrison County; William is 
a resident of Kansas; Jane is the wife of Sam- 
uel McLean, in Iowa; Alexander is living in 
Harrison County; James (second) is a glass 
manufacturer in Brilliant, Ohio; and Mary E. 
is the wife of John Morgan, in Iowa. The 
mother of these children dying in 1842, Mr. 
English, in 1844, took, for his second wife, Ann, 
daughter of John McCarroll, whose father was 
a weaver by trade in his native country, Scot- 
land, and coming to America, worked at the 
same, together with farming, and died in Har- 
son County, Ohio. By this union were born 
five children, the following being their names 
and dates of birth: Martha (Mrs. James Price, 
in Leesville, Carroll Co., Ohio), born July 2, 
1845; George, February 11, 1847; Isaiah, De- 
cember 5, 1848, living in North Township; Ma- 
lida (Mrs. T. W. Smith, in North Township), 
August 17, 1850; and Scott, August 13, 1852, 
also living in North Township. The father, who 
was bom October 17, 1791, died June 6, 1869, 
aged seventy-eight years, and the mother, born 
January 25, 1809, followed to the grave Octo- 
ber 17, 1884, at the age of seventy-five years. 
Mr. English was a hard-working man, and made 
his own success in life. He at one time dealt 
in stock, and had frequently to walk from Pitts- 
burgh, Penn., to his home. Politically, he was 
a Whig and Abolitionist. 

George English, the subject proper of these 
lines, a son of James and Ann (McCarroll) 
English, in his early manhood assisted in the 
duties of the old farm, attending, in the winter 



season, the common school of the neighborhood, 
which was supplemented by study for some time 
at the academy in New Hagerstown. On Sep- 
tember 4, 1877, he was married to Miss Julia 
A., daughter of Griffin Lewis, of Jefferson 
County, Ohio, and to this union two children 
were born: Otto Lewis and Ralph M. Politic- 
ally, Mr. English is a Republican. He is a 
worthy, generous and hospitable citizen, a lover 
of books, and a man who thinks for himself. 
His farm of 240 acres is situated some two and 
a half miles from Scio, and has all modern im- 
provements thereon. 



SCOTT ENGLISH, one of the enterprising 
and progressive young farmers of North 
' Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, was born 
on the old English homestead, in North 
Township, August 13, 1852, and is the youngest 
child of James and Ann (McCarroll) English. 
He remained at home, and with filial affection 
assisted his widowed mother until he reached 
his majority, in the meantime attending the 
common schools, and otherwise improving him- 
self. October 29, 1S79, he was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Ida Masters, daughter of Isaac 
and Ann (Overholtz) Masters, whose ancestors 
were among the earliest settlers of Harrison 
County. In politics, Mr. English has followed 
the lead of his lamented father, and is a stanch 
Republican. He is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias lodge at Scio, and, socially, stands in 
the front rank of North Township's best citizens. 



JOHN MILLER STEVENSON, a well- 
known farmer of North Township, Harri- 
son Co. , Ohio, was born in Carroll County, 
in the same State, March 4, 1846. His 
father, David Stevenson, was born in Ireland, 
where he married Agnes Miller. Some years 
afterward, with his wife and seven children he 
started for the New World, but on the voyage 
one of the children, David, died at the age of 
six weeks and was buried in a New York ceme- 



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tery. The parents ami the rest of the family, 
however, reached Ohio in safety, and for a few 
years resided in Steubenville, and then pur 
chased a farm in Lee Township, Carroll County, 
on which the father, who was born in ITS I. 
died November 11, 1869; his widow died in 
1879, at the same place, at the age of seventy- 
four years. The children were twelve in num- 
ber, and were born in the following order: 
Fannie, Mrs. John Erskine, of Jefferson County, 
Ohio; Ellen, who died in Ireland; Matthew, of 
Jefferson County; Josiah, minister of the United 
Presbyterian Church, at Olathe, Kas. , Eliza J., 
wife of Thomas McCombs; Johnnie, who died 
at the age of fourteen months; Ellen (the second) 
who died in 1887, the wife of Joseph Walker; 
David, who died at sea; Mary Ann, deceased; 
David, killed at thebattleof Perry ville: William 
Robert, United Presbyterian minister in Port- 
land, Oregon, and John Miller, whose name 
opens this sketch. The parents were members 
of the United Presbyterian Church of Scroggs- 
field, Carroll County. 

John M. Stevenson was reared to farming, 
and was educated at the common schools of 
Carroll County, Ohio. February 25, 1869, he 
married Jennie M. George, daughter of Andrew 
and Ann (Robins) George, of Carroll County. 
Her grandfather, Robert George, was a pioneer 
of Carroll County, and settled in the forest, 
where his son, George D., now resides. Robert- 
was a judge of the county court, also a represent- 
ative in the State Legislature, and both he and 
wife died in Carroll County. Andrew George 
was a miller, and kept his mill running without 
cessation from Monday noon until 12 o'clock 
Saturday night. In 1840 he married Ann Bob- 
ins, who died in 1847, the mother of four chil- 
dren: John W. ; Robert Mitchell, died a member 
of the Ninety-eighth Regiment, O. V. I., at 
Nashville, Tenn. ; Sarah and Jennie M. For 
his second wife Mr. George married Miss Eliza 
Graham, and still resides on the old farm in 
Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson re- 
sided on the homestead until the spring of INN:',. 
when he purchased the Donaldson Farm, about 



one mile east of Scio, Ohio, on which he erected 
his present tine residence in the fall of 1889. 
The farm is one of the best in the township and 
consists of ISfiJ acres. The children born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson are seven in num- 
ber, and are named William Mitchell, David, 
Andrew George, Agnes. Annie, Lida Frances 
and Jennie Pearl. Politically Mr. Stevenson is 
a Republican, and served in Carroll County as 
township trustee and as a member of the board 
of the Carroll County Fair Association. The 
year following his coming to Harrison County 
he was elected trustee and served two terms. 
In the spring of 1890 he was elected, and was 
also made a member of the Harrison, Carroll 
and Jefferson District Fair Board. The family 
are members of the United Presbyterian Church 
of Scio. 

The George family are of Scotch origin. 
Thomas George left his native land on account 
of religious persecution and sought refuge in 
County Antrim, Ireland. He was the father of 
rive children: Robert, Alexander, Robert, Eliza- 
beth, and Daniel, who died on his passage to 
America. His wife died iu 1730 or 1735. He 
first located in Philadelphia, moved thence to 
Harrislmrg, and died in West Virginia. His 
son, Robert George, was born in Ireland, came 
to this country when a lad. and took part in the 
battle of Bunker Hill. Ho afterward resided 
eighteen miles west of Gettysburg, and planted 
the first Covenanter Church in Washington, 
Penu. In 1808 he settled in Carroll County, 
Ohio. Thomas George, son of Robert, was 
born where Harrislmrg now stands. February 
15, 17S0. He was a farmer, and at twenty-one 
years of age settled in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
where he served as justice of the peace for many 
years, and was also associate justice of the 
Supreme Court for twenty-one years; he also 
served one term in the State Legislature. He 
abandoned the Covenanter faith, and with his 
brother Robert founded the Associated Church 
at Scroggsfield and at Glade Run, in which he 
was an elder. In 180:! he married Jane Hunter 
in Pennsylvania. 



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JAMES MAXWELL, one of the early set- 
tlers of Harrison County, was born April 
26, 1838, in Nottingham Township, Har- 
rison Co. , Ohio. His father, James Max- 
well, was born in Virginia, to which State his 
father, William, came some time prior to the 
Revolutionary War. William Maxwell was 
born in Ireland, as was also his wife, and his 
children were named James, William, Henry, 
Alexander, John, Margaret and Elizabeth. The 
father of this family was engaged in agriculture, 
and always remained in Virginia, where him- 
self and wife now quietly sleep. At an early 
date in the settlement of Ohio, James Maxwell, 
with his family, came to Jefferson County, 
where they remained some years. They then 
came farther west, and made their home in Not- 
tingham Township, Harrison County, where for 
many years they resided. While in his early 
manhood Mr. Maxwell married Hannah Polick, 
who bore him the following named children: 
David, Mary Jane, Walker, John, Elizabeth, 
Margaret, Henry, James, William and Rachel. 
In 1868 James Maxwell died, and July 23, 1886, 
Mrs. Maxwell passed away, and was laid to rest 
by the side of her husband. For many years, 
and up to the time of their decease, they were 
faithful members of the Disciples Church. In 
his political associations Mr. Maxwell was a 
Democrat, and always supported that party. 
His was a hard-working, industrious life, one of 
many trials and self-denials, but after a struggle 
he succeeded in amassing a competency. 

James Maxwell was born in Harrison Coun- 
ty, Ohio, and has spent nearly his entire life in 
the confines of the county. His earliest educa- 
tion was received in the schools of the day and 
in the labor and duties of the farm. On Decem- 
ber 14, 1859. he was married to Elizabeth Mc- 
Cullough, of Nottingham Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, and the young couple commenced 
life with no assistance, but gradually added to 
their possessions. Mrs. Maxwell died, leaving 
one child, Hannah Jane, and Mr. Maxwell af- 
terward married, for his second wife, Sarah 
Willison, of Washington Township, the fol- 



lowing named children being the result of 
this union: Martha E., Mary Margaret, Joseph 
S. and Maudie P. Like many of the older 
class of residents Mr. Maxwell has always 
taken an active and prominent part in his town- 
ship's welfare, and has ever been among its 
representative men. Politically he is a Demo- 
crat, and is one of the old school. He takes an 
interest in his party's success and never fails in 
his duty. Financially Mr. Maxwell is self-made, 
and has by his own efforts become the owner 
of 220 acres of excellent land. Honest and 
upright, he is respected by all. 



|[OHN J. McFADDEN, one of the well- 
w. I known and prominent farmers of Athens 
\yj Township, Harrison County, was born in 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, Oc- 
tober 21, 1820. His early youth was spent on 
the home place, where he labored at various 
farm duties, and during the winter months 
attended the common schools, which at that 
time were supported by subscription. The 
school-houses of that day were of a very primi- 
tive nature, consisting of a log building and 
huge fireplace, in which blazed the logs, the 
warmth of which permeated the entire building. 
The text books were the Testament and the 
National Speller. Under such difficulties the 
youth of that age were educated, and much 
credit is due them for their hard, earnest work. 
On February 28, 1S44, Mr. McFadden was mar- 
ried to Esther, daughter of John Clifford, a 
native of Ireland, and after their marriage they 
settled in Athens Township, where they have 
since resided. Their children are Mary, now 
Mrs. Adam McConnell; Margaret Jane, born 
July 12, 1846, wife of Robert Dunlap; Rebecca 
Ann, now Mrs. Samuel Dunlap; John C. ; 
George D. ; E. S., in New Athens; Sarah, now 
Mrs. Samuel McFadden; Adam, of Athens 
Township, and Samuel W., of Cadiz. The 
family are members of the Presbyterian Church 
at New Athens. From his earliest youth a mem- 
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has many times been elected to positions of 
trust by his party; has repeatedly held the 
offices of trustee and assessor, and was treasurer 
of his township for thirty consecutive years. 
His family are among the influential ones of his 
township, and have all inherited the probity of 
character which was so marked in their ancestry. 
The progenitor of the McFadden family in 
this country was John McFadden, who was 
born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1700, but who, at 
the age of nineteen years, sought a home in 
Washington County, Penn., where a few years 
later he married a daughter of Col. George 
Sharpe, of the United States Army. In the 
year 1800, in company with the Jamison fam- 
ily, he entered one- half of Section No. 4, in 
what is now Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, and at once made preparations for the 
reception of his family, whom he had left tem- 
porarily in Pennsylvania, and whom he brought 
to Ohio in 1801. In 1805 he entered the land 
where S. C. Clemens now lives. It were useless 
here to attempt to relate the many hard- 
ships and privations to which this hardy pioneer 
and his family were subjected, suffice it to say 
that John McFadden and his wife, after a well- 
spent life, at ripe old ages, passed from their 
first home in Ohio to another and a better land. 
Their children were as follows: Samuel, George, 
Mary (Mrs. J. Sharp, of Cadiz Township), 
John, Margaret (Mrs. Edward Lafferty, of 
Athens Township) and Joseph, all of whom fol- 
lowed their pioneer parents to the grave. Of 
these, John was born in Pennsylvania in 1788, 
and at the age of seventeen years (in 1805) 
came with his parents to Ohio, settling in what 
is now Harrison County, where he grew to man- 
hood on the original homstead. He was married 
to Miss Mary, daughter of Adam and Rebecca 
Duulap, of Harrison County, pioneers from near 
Uniontown, Fayette Co., Penn. After mar- 
riage Mr. McFadden purchased the farm of one 
hundred acres from his father, where George 
McFadden now lives, and here he and his wife 
ended their days, Mr. McFadden dying in 1857, 
at the age of sixty-nine years, and Mrs. McFad- 



den one year later, at the age of sixty-nine also. 
Both were consistent members of the Union 
Church. There were born to this venerable 
and highly respected couple twelve children, in 
the following order: Margaret, a widow, living 
in Cadiz; Adam, deceased: Rebecca, deceased; 
Mary, widow of William Hamilton; John J., in 
Athens Township; Sarah, deceased; Elizabeth, 
who died at the age of eleven years: Samuel R., 
also in Athens Township; George, in Cadiz 
Township; Esther, now Mrs. J. D. Phillips, in 
Nebraska; Rachel, now Mrs. William Hamilton, 
in Bollaire, Ohio, and Jennie. 



THOMAS CHANEY (deceased), who. in 
his lifetime, was one of the oldest and 
best known residents of Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison County, was born October 
28, 1803, in Virginia. His father. Nathan 
Chaney, was born in Maryland, to which coun- 
try his ancestors came at the commencement of 
the French and Indian War. In the State of 
Virginia, to which he had moved, Nathan met and 
married Sarah Mansiield, and immediately began 
the pursuit of agriculture, in which he engaged 
until his death. In 1805 he removed from Yir 
ginia and came to Harrison County, Ohio, set- 
tling in Cadiz Township. His children con- 
sisted of seven daughters and six sons. He died 
in 1837, his wife surviving him ten years, and 
dying in 1847. The life of each was one of 
continued hard work and struggles, and many 
were the hardships they were compelled to 
undergo. In his political associations he was 
Democratic. 

Thomas Chaney' s early life was spent at 
home, where he assisted in the various labors of 
the place, his education being received at the 
ordinary district school, and very limited as to 
time. In early youth he commenced his own 
career, and engaged in working around the 
neighboorhood at almost starvation wages; but 
he kept manfully on, and determined to succeed, 
and little by little added to his savings, mean 
time acquiring habits of industry and economy, 



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which were among the factors of his success. 
On September 25, 1836, he was married to 
Elizabeth Clark, a daughter of James Clark, 
who was born in Fayette County, Penn. , where 
he married Sarah Watson; his family were 
Martha, Elizabeth, Mary, John and William. 
He was a soldier of 1812, and served through 
the entire war. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Chaney commenced housekeeping on rather a 
meager plan, as they realized that they must 
make their own way. How well they did this 
is attested by the fact that the place is one 
of the best farms in eastern Athens, in a high 
state of cultivation, well improved with excel- 
lent buildings. This they wrought out by their 
own hands, and in their old age had the pleasure 
of enjoying the fruits of past labors. The 
names of their children are James, John, 
William, Sarah, Martha, Samuel, Mary Ann, 
Elizabeth Ann, Mary Ellen, Thomas W., Han- 
nah and Nancy. Mr. Chaney departed this life 
July 1, 1890, and his widow is now living among 
her children. While not taking an active part 
in politics, he supported the Democratic party. 
Samuel Chaney was born December 14, 
1846, and spent his youth on the home place. 
On August 5, 1875, he was united in marriage 
with Clarinda, daughter of John Edwards, a 
resident of New Athens. His family are Iona 
Estelle, Charles A., William V. and Willis C. 
Like his father, Mr. Chaney is a Democrat, but 
has never held office, as he considers his atten- 
tion fully occupied by his business duties. He 
now manages the home place, and is doing it in 
a successful manner. Quiet and unassuming, 
his presence is, nevertheless, always felt and 
acknowledged. 




>\ILLIAM H. JOHNSON. The founder 
' of this family of Johnsons in America 
was William Johnson, whose parents 
were natives of Ireland. They, desir- 
ing to better their circumstances, embarked for 
the Western Hemisphere in a sailing vessel, tak- 
ing with them their six small children. When 



about half way across the ocean, however, the 
parents died, and were buried at sea. After 
landing at New York the orphan children pro- 
ceeded on to Westmoreland County, Md., where 
they finally settled. Of them, William was 
there, early in life, united in marriage with 
Elizabeth Laughlin, whose parents were resi- 
dents of Pennsylvania, and of their children 
John came in 1802 to Ohio, where he entered a 
large tract of land in Green and Short Creek 
Townships, Harrison County. In 1814 William 
Johnson and his wife and the remainder of their 
family came to Harrison County and settled on 
land which had been entered a short time pre- 
vious. The family of William were named as 
follows: John, William, Richard, Alexander, 
Robert, James, Samuel, Ann, Catherine, Mary 
and Elizabeth. They were, as are their descend- 
ants, all members of the Beech Spring Presby- 
terian Church. On June 4, 1829, William 
Johnson died, his wife having preceded him 
January 10, 1816, and they were both laid to 
rest in Beech Spring Cemetery. In political 
sentiment Mr. Johnson was a Whig. 

James Johnson, son of William and Eliza- 
beth (Laughlin) Johnson, was born April 12, 
1793. in Washington County, Penn., and ac- 
companied his parents on their removal to Ohio. 
His early life was spent at home, where he re- 
mained until March 19, 1818, when he was mar- 
ried to Mary, daughter of James Simpson, and 
born May 28, 1794. The issue of this union 
was as follows: Margaret, born October 6,1819; 
Elizabeth J., born February 12, 1821; Mary 
Simpson, born July 5, 1823; Sarah, born De- 
cember 30, 1825; Catherine, born October 15, 
1830, and William H, born May 4, 1833. On 
November 9, 1863, James Johnson passed from 
earth, his beloved wife following him Jauuary 
25, 1881, and their remains rest side by side in 
Beech Spring Cemetery. During his lifetime 
Mr. Johnson was engaged in the milling busi- 
ness, and also carried on a farm, both with con- 
siderable success. Like his immediate ancestors, 
he was an ardent supporter of the principles of 
the Whig party, and afterward of the Repub- 



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liean, though he never sought oflice. Of his 
children, Margaret, the eldest, was married 
September 18, 1845, to Samuel Muchmore, who 
died August 21, 1889, and their children were 
as follows: Albert, born November 6, 1847, 
died December 28, 1878; Martha, born July 29, 
1850, married, December 3, 1868, to John Tall- 
man (by whom she had one child, Ina, born 
April 10, 1870), and William, born June 29, 

1853, was married March 11, 1886, to Annie 
Tidball. Mary S., third daughter of James and 
Mary (Simpson) Johnson, was married June 28, 

1854, to John Dickerson. who died April 12, 
1865, and their children were as follows: James 
H., born May 3, 1855, married October 1, 1879, 
to Eva Parkinson (their children were John T., 
bom December 29, 1883, died August 23, 1884; 
Earl, born March 19, 1887, and Ealph, born 
January 12, 1890); Anna M., born November 
16, 1856, was married February 1, 1882, to 
William H. Hunter (by whom she had one child, 
Lillian, born April 12, 1883, and died June 9, 
1888); Ruth, bom December 11, 1857, died 
April 19, 1887; Lewis, bora January 16, 1859, 
died February 4, 1864, and Flora Bell, born Oc- 
tober 15, 1865, was married January 1, 1890, to 
Isaac B. Scot. Sarah, fourth daughter of James 
and Mary (Simpson) Johnson, was married Oc- 
tober 8, 1846, to William Boals, and they had 
one child, James, born April 24, 1848, and 
married, August 11, 1876, to Mary Walker, by 
whom he has one child, Lane Edna, bom Jane 
12. 1879. Mrs. Sarah Boals died April 8, 1887. 

William H. Johnson, the subject proper of 
this biographical memoir, spent his early life 
on the farm, and on the death of his father he 
assumed the management of the home place, 
which he has since continued, and he and his 
two sisters cared for their aged widowed mother 
until her death. On October 11, 1877. he 
was married to Mary Ann Parkinson, daughter 
of Thomas Parkinson, a prominent farmer of 
Green Township, Harrison County, and by this 
union there are two children: James P., born 
August 2, 1880. and William Lewis, born Octo- 
ber 15, 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are promi- 



nent in church matters as members of the Beech 
Spring Presbyterian Church, of which society 
lii> ancestry were close adherents. In politics 
he is a Republican. The Johnson family are 
among the best known in Green Township, and 
are worthy of the respect in which they are held. 




ried. 



k ICHA11D CECIL. The earliest history 
of the Cecil family is that of one Kings- 
bury Cecil, who was born in Maryland, 
where he was reared and where he mar- 
He soon after removed to Kentucky, 
where he engaged in agriculture, and after many 
years' residence died there. One of his sons, 
Philip Cecil, was born in Maryland and accom- 
panied his parents to Kentucky, where he spent 
bis early youth. Like many of the adventur- 
ous people of his time he determined to seek his 
own fortune, and in the early part of the pres- 
ent century he came to Harrison County, Ohio, 
with his family, settling on a farm which was 
entirely wild. He was united in marriage with 
Mary Logan, daughter of John Logan, and they 
set bravely to work, in a few years succeeding 
in making a comfortable living. They reared 
the following named family of children: Rich- 
ard, John, William (deceased), Kingsbury, 
Margaret, Jesse and Wesley. In 1845 Mrs. 
Cecil died, followed by her husband in 1850, 
and they now sleep side by side in the cemetery 
at Deersville. From the time of his coming into 
the county Mr. Cecil and family identified them 
selves with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and were constant attendants and consistent 
members of that society. In politics a Whig. 
Mr. Cecil was among the strong members oi the 
party, and was strongly inclined toward anti- 
Blavery. Firm in his convictions, unerring in 
his judgment, he was at once an honored and 
valued citizen. 

Richard Cecil was born May •_':'.. 1823, near 
the place on which he now resides, and was 
early instructed in the duties of farming, in 
which he has since been engaged, his early life 
being spent in Harrison County, Ohio. Like the 



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pioneer settlers' children, Mr. Cecil was so much 
occupied with the home duties that he found 
little leisure to attend the schools, which at that 
day were held only for two or three months 
during the winter season. He, however, suc- 
ceeded in obtaining a fair rudimentary knowl- 
edge of such branches as were taught, and add- 
ing to these the natural abilities of his mind, 
which he possessed as an inheritance, he became 
one of the well educated men of his section. On 
February 25, 1847, he was married to Jane E. 
Bliss, daughter of Zadoc Bliss, of Franklin 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. Zadoc Bliss 
was born February 26, 1788, in Connecticut, 
and in early life was married to Keziah Hoskins, 
who was born April 4, 1786, and died May 31, 
1851, Mr. Bliss having passed away July 8, 
1850. Their children were named as follows: 
Ralph, Sarah O, Mary, Emily, James, George 
W., Zebulon, John, Keziah and Jane E. Mr. 
and Mrs. Bliss came to Ohio in 1826, and set- 
tled in Franklin Township, Harrison County, 
after a short residence in Columbiana County. 
He was a Whig in politics, and was a prominent 
Abolitionist, he being one of the two who first 
cast their votes for that party in the township. 
He and his wife were active members of the 
Disciples Church, and their lives were made up 
of hard work, as they had settled on a farm al- 
most entirely in the natural wilderness, and 
which they largely cleared. They now quietly 
rest side by side in the cemetery at Deersville. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Cecil settled 
on the farm where they now reside, and which 
they have almost entirely improved themselves. 
The buildings, which are large and commodious, 
are fine specimens of architectural skill, and are 
admirably adapted for their several purposes. 
The record of their children is as follows: Sarah 
Jane was born April 16, 184S, and is now Mrs. 
A. Oliphant; George was born July 17, 1850; 
Mary K. was born May 19, 1853; Emma L. 
was born April 9, 1856; John B. was born De- 
cember 11, 1858; Jesse F. was born March 21, 
1861; Clara was born September 10, 1863; an 
infant son died unnamed; Clarence A. was born 



June 8, 1867, and Merritt E., March 31, 1870. 
In politics the male members of the family have 
always been stanch Republicans, and have ever 
taken an active part in the duties and privileges 
of the party. Mr. Cecil has served his township as 
trustee for more than fifteen years, and has at all 
times discharged the various duties in a satisfac- 
tory manner. For many years the family have 
been identified with the Christian Church, and 
have been among its most liberal supporters. For 
more than thirty years Mr. Cecil has been 
deacon in his society, and has also held other 
offices. His present prosperity is due to his own 
efforts and those of his helpmeet, they having 
had but little assistance other than their own re- 
sources. The home place has grown from 
eighty acres to 240, and comprises as good land 
as there is in the vicinity. The family are well 
known and are among the leaders in the finan- 
cial and social circles of the township. 



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ENRY B.CARVER.oneof the well-known 
and prominent citizens of Washington, 
Township, Harrison County, was born 
October 17, 1836, the eldest son of 
Elijah and Nancy Carver. From his youth he 
has been engaged in farming and stock-raising, 
and iii each branch has achieved success. He 
received the advantages of the common schools, 
but circumstances did not allow his continuance 
at them after he had attained his sixteenth year. 
He was, however, not easily discouraged in his 
desire for securing to himself some of the bene- 
fits of a liberal education, and earnestly he set 
about obtaining them. His leisure moments he 
devoted to reading and study, and soon had the 
satisfaction of perceiving he was gaining an 
amount of varied knowledge that has since made 
him one of the most entertaining of conversa- 
tionalists as well as one of the leading men of 
his section. He takes a lively interest in the 
events of the time, and keeps fully posted in 
regard to them. In political matters he has 
universally supported the Republican party, and 
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ship. In the county conventions he has taken 
a prominent part, and is universally recognized 
as a shrewd and far-sighted political prophet. 
In religious matters he in inclined to Liberal 
views, and although not a professor of any par- 
ticular faith, still is an interested and liberal 
supporter of church enterprises. His success 
in life has been largely due to his good man- 
agement and business qualifications. His farm 
lies one and a half miles north of Freeport, and 
is well adapted both by situation and improve- 
ment to his business, as agriculturist and stock- 
raiser. A progressive man, as well as energetic, 
he has done his full share toward the develop- 
ment of the section, both in its political, educa- 
tional and moral welfare. On April 8, 1858, he 
was united in marriage with Sarah Phillips, 
daughter of John Phillips, of Washington Towu- 
ship, and by this union are the following named 
children: Arizona B. , born February 1'*. 1859, 
and Izora Belle, born January '20, 1862, now 
Mrs. George Regie. Mrs. Carver died August 
20, 1870, and March 20, 1878, Mr. Carver mar- 
ried Nannie E. McCullough, daughter of Jona- 
than McCullough, of Tippecanoe, and this mar- 
riage has been blessed with twins: Eustace Eric 
and Eunice Erva, born October 21, 1879. 

[Since the above was written Henry B. Car- 
ver departed this life June 25, 1890, respected 
by all who knew him. ] 



JfOHN C. KERR. Among the best-known 
families, of Harrison County, are the 
I Kerrs, of whom the geutlemau whose 
name heads this sketch, a resident of 
Green Township, is an honored representative. 
James Kerr, his father, was a native of Adams 
County, Penn., born in 1787, and in 1805 he and 
his parents moved to what is now Harrison 
County, where they entered a large tract of land, 
in what is now known as Short Creek Town- 
ship. Here the parents toiled, cleared a farm. 
reared their family and died, their son, James, 
remaining with them until their death, caring for 
them in their declining years. In 1807 he was 



married to Catherine Duff, who bore him the 
following named children: John C. James, 
William, George, Margaret Ann, Joseph and 
Thomas L. On September 21, 1827, the mother 
died, and was laid to rest in Beech Spring 
Cemetery, and in 1829 the father took for his 
second wife Martha Morrison, of Belmont Coun- 
ty, who still lives at the patriarchal a_'.- of 
ninety one years. Tn 1846 James Kerr depart- 
ed this life, and his remains were laid to resl 
in Bellefontaiue, Ohio. He was a member, as 
is his widow, of the Presbyterian Church, in 
which he was an elder for over thirty years. In 
politics he was a Whig. 

John 0. Kerr, our subject, was born in Short 
Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, April 15, 
1811. His boyhood and early youth were 
on the farm, attending, in the winter season, 
the district schools, and at the early age of six- 
teen he commenced life for himself, learning the 
carpenter's trade, at which he worked for man] 
years. On March 23, L836, he was married to 
Mary Henderson, who bore him the follow 
ing named children: Martha A., Amanda K. 
and James H. H. In 1847 the mother died. 
and she now sleeps her last sleep in Crab Apple 
Cemetery, Belmont Co., Ohio. Mr. Kerr after- 
ward married. January 11. L854, Sarah Newell. 
who died in 18(52, and was buried in Cadiz, leav- 
ing the following named children: George, John, 
Gilland, Bentley, Thomas Corwin and Vance 
C. On November 3, L863, Mr. Kerr took for 
his third wife Grizelle Taggart, a daughter of 
Rev. William Taggart, a well-known resident of 
Cadiz. Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Ken- 
are members of the Presbyterian Church: in 
politics he was a Whig until the organization of 
the Republican party, when he became one of 
its most enthusiastic supporters. He was 
strongly opposed to slavery, taking a deter 
mined and prominent stand against that evil. 
He has held many offices of trust and 1 

g which may be mentioned that of trustee. 
In 18411. while a resident of Belmont County, 
he was elected to represent his district in the 
State Legislature, and so satisfactorily did he 



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discbarge the duties of the office that in 1848 
he was nominated a candidate for the Senate, 
but, owing to the intensity of the feeling on the 
slave question he was defeated by a few votes. 
Beginning in the world comparatively penniless, 
Mr. Kerr is an example of what can be accom- 
plished by energy, economy and perseverance, 
and his life is well worthy of emulation. . 



K. SHIVERS, proprietor of a livery and 
one of the leading and successful young 
business men of New Alliens, was born 
September 25, 1856. His father, Thomas 
Shivers, was born March 15, 1810, in Frederick 
County, Md. , of which county his father, Joshua, 
was also a native. Joshua Shivers was, in his early 
life, married to Keziah Kelly, and raised the 
following family: Sarah, Jemima, Thomas M., 
Frances A., William and Joshua (twins), Lu- 
cinda and Samuel. In 1862 he died, and was 
buried in New Athens Cemetery; he was a 
strong Whig in politics. Mrs. Shivers lived 
until March 22, 1874, when she died and was 
laid to rest by the side of her husband. They 
and their family were members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at New Athens. Thomas 
Shivers spent his early youth in the township 
of Athens, where he attended the schools, which 
were at that time extant. In 1838 he was mar- 
ried to Mary, daughter of Morgan Morris, aad 
for some time resided in the vicinity of New 
Athens, finally removing into the town itself. 
Nearly all his life he was engaged at the car- 
penter's trade, which he had learned during his 
minority, and was regarded as one of the most 
expert builders of his section. Many buildings 
of the present time are witnesses of his skill 
and workmanship. His wife bore him the fol- 
lowing children: Keziah E., Sarah J., Kachel 
A., William T., Mary E., Hannah L., Samuel K. 
and Luella J. While not taking an active part 
in his county's politics he was a believer and 
supporter of Jacksonian Democracy. An in- 
dustrious and economic life was the one he led, 
and at his death he was sincerely mourned by 



many. Mrs. Shivers died April 14, 1885, Mr. 
Shivers March 7, 1886, and they are buried in 
the cemetery at New Athens. 

S. K. Shivers, the subject proper of these 
lines, is entirely self made, having by his own 
hard work and economy succeeded in building 
up a good trade, and by careful attention to the 
wants of his patrons, as well as the courtesy 
which he gives to all, has won their esteem. On 
September 16, 1873, he was married to Mary 
M., daughter of Cyrus and Susannah Rowland, 
and two children have been born to this union: 
Cora M. and Ross A. Like his father he has 
alwavs been a Democrat. 



If It S. BLACK (deceased). Prominent among 
ip^l the leading citizens of his native town- 
1 ship, of which he was eminent in agri- 
■{/ cultural matters, ranked, in his lifetime, 

this gentleman. He was born in Green Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, November 22, 1819, on the 
place where his parents first settled. James Black, 
his grandfather, was a native of Ireland, and just 
prior to the breaking out of the Revolutionary 
War he emigrated to America, where he im- 
mediately enlisted in the interests of his adopted 
country, serving throughout the entire struggle. 
Soon after the close of that war he married Jane 
Stewart, and they then settled in Eastern Penn- 
sylvania, where they reared the following named 
children: Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, James 
and Jane. The entire family were members of 
the Beech Spring Presbyterian Church, he be- 
ing a ruling elder among the founders of the 
same; and to-day their descendants are as stanch 
adherents of that society as they were. James 
Black moved to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1806, 
where he entered the farm on which he died. 
His death occurred in 1846, and he was buried 
in the cemetery at Beech Spring by the side of 
the wife who had preceded him to the grave in 
1824. In politics he was a believer in the prin- 
ciples advanced and sujiported by Washington 
and Hamilton. 

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of the Keystone State, born in Adams County in 
1 785, and in 1800 moved with his father's family 
to Harrison County, where, in 1812, he married 
Isabelle Hervey, a daughter of Margaret Hervey, 
who on the death of her husband came to Har- 
rison County. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Black settled on a portion of the home 
place, where they spent many peaceful and happy 
years, and in 1851 they removed to a farm near 
Beech Spring. They had the following named 
children: J. H., born March 15, 1813, died 
March 28, 1885; J. S., born June 20, 1816; H. 
S. (our subject), and Margaret J. (Mrs. William 
Dunlap), born March 21, 1825. The parents 
died, the father in 1865, and the mother in 1S72, 
and they both sleep their last sleep in the cem- 
etery at Beech Spring. They were members of 
the Presbyterian Church at Beech Spring, of 
which he was a ruling elder several years. 
Politically he was a Whig, until the Republicans 
came into existence, when he became an earnest 
supporter of that party. 

H. S. Black, the subject proper of this bio- 
graphical memoir, spent his boyhood and youth 
on the paternal farm, his education being con- 
fined chiefly to the common schools of his neigh- 
borhood. On October 31, 1843, he was united 
in marriage with Jane, daughter of Samuel 
Thompson, of Green Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, and they immediately settled on the home 
place, where they remained until 1804, when 
they moved to the farm known as the Daniel 
Welch Farm, and remained there until his death, 
which occurred January 22, 18U0. 



■f^i AMUEL HAMILTON, grocer and farmer, 
Cadiz, was bora April 19, L821, in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison Co.. Ohio, a son of 
Francis H. and Ruth (Williams) Ham- 
ilton, former a native of Ireland, born in 1 71)11, 
and latter of Scotch descent. Francis H. Ham- 
ilton was a weaver in his native country, ami 
came to America about the beginning of the 
present century, locating in Noblestown, Penn. 
At one time he was a merchant in Cannonsburg, 



afterward at Mercer, and was owner of consider- 
able property. He remained in business in 
Mercer until 1820, in which year he came to 
Cadiz, Harrison County, and here made his 
home. In 1806 he married Kutb Williams, and 
by her had ten children, viz. : John, who died 
in Pennsylvania; James, who died in Illinois; 
David and Jane, who died in Cadiz; Francis 
(deceased); William, in Cadiz; Samuel (our sub- 
ject); Sarah (deceased); Mary, now Mrs. Jacob 
H. Herdman, in New Concord, Muskingum 
Co., Ohio; Thomas (deceased). The mother of 
this family died in 1842, aged fifty-four years, 
the father in 1844, at the age of seventy eight 
years. He was originally a Jacksonian Demo- 
crat, but later became a Whig, and was a soldier 
in the War of 1812; he and his wife were mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church. 

The subject proper of this biographical 
record when a lad of thirteen commenced to 
learn the shoemaking trade, serving a six-years' 
apprenticeship, although during some two years 
of the time he was employed in the grocery 
business of Joseph H. Penn. In 1846 Mr. 
Hamilton commenced in that line for himself in 
Cadiz, which he has since continued. He has 
also a farm of fourteen acres adjoining the town, 
part being inside the corporation. On August 
6, 1843, Mr. Hamilton was married to Margaret 
J., daughter of Michael Miller, of Harrison 
County, and born August 10, 1826. The Miller 
family were Germans. To this union were born 
four children, as follows: One deceased in in- 
fancy; Samuel D., in Harrisville, Ohio; Henry 
C. and Elosia B., both at home. The mother 
dving February 7, 1S57. the father took, for his 
second wife, Bridget Downey, a native of Ire- 
land, whence she was brought to Vermont by 
her parents about the year L84 2. when she was 
three years old. Her father died in Kansas 
City in 1889, at the age of eighty-nine year-; 
her mother yet lives at an advanced age. She 
came to Harrison County in 1852. By this 
marriage Mr. Hamilton has one child, Emma 
Frances, now the wife of William C. Leslie, a 
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United States Carriage Shops at Columbus, 
Ohio. Mr. Hamilton had but meager educa- 
tional advantages, and has had to rely entirely 
on his own individual exertions, meeting with 
well merited success. He was originally a 
Whig, and then a Republican on the formation 
of that party, casting his first vote for W. H. 
Harrison, even before coming of age. He was 
a member of the city council several years, and 
is altogether a very. popular man. 

Henry C. Hamilton, son of the above, was 
born December 29, 1850, at Oadiz, and was 
educated at the common schools of the town, 
learning the grocery trade of his father, which 
he has always followed, having general charge 
of the business. He is one of the rising young 
business men of Cadiz, and is much respected. 
In politics he is a Republican. 



WT^EV. T. R. CRAWFORD, D. D., of 
IW( Moorefield Township, Harrison County, 
V isa son of Nathaniel and Susan Craw- 
■f/ ford, and was born near New Athens, 

Ohio, March 8, 1820, of Scotch-Irish origin. 
He graduated at Franklin College in 1844, and 
on the same day was chosen professor of mathe- 
matics in said college, and during his teaching 
there he read Hebrew under President A. 
D. Clark, D. D., and theology under Dr. Rea. 
He soon left college for the purpose of 
completing his theological course, and he was 
licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery 
of Steubenville, October 6, 1846. He immedi- 
ately received a call from the Presbyterian 
Church of Nottingham, and was ordained and 
installed pastor, laboring one-third of his time 
at Deersville for nine years, after which his 
whole time was confined to Nottingham, where 
he continued pastor forty years, when he asked 
and received a release from his charge. He 
had five brothers and two sisters, three of whom 
are living and settled in life; Dr. James B. 
Crawford, at Gillespie, 111. ; Nathaniel, who re- 
sides on a farm in the northeast part of this 
State, and Monica, who is married to I. K. 



Welch, and resides at Unionport, Ohio. In 
1846 Dr. Crawford was married to Miss Isabel 
Parks, daughter of Hugh and Mary Parks, 
near Wheeling, W. Va. The ancestors of our 
subject fled from Scotland in the seventeenth 
century, during the Covenanter persecution, 
and settled in the north of Ireland. His father, 
Nathaniel Crawford, at the age of sixteen years, 
together with the household of which he was 
a member, emigrated to the United States 
just at the close of the Revolutionary War. 
Three brothers of the grandfather of Dr. Craw- 
ford had come to this country at an earlier 
period, and were in the Revolutionary strug- 
gle. They fought on the American side, and 
a fourth brother was a captain under Lord 
Cornwallis on the British side. The three 
former lost their lives in battle at different 
periods during the war — one of them, a colonel 
of an artillery company, fell at the battle of 
Bunker Hill; one lost his life in a skirmish 
on the Hudson River, and the third was killed 
at the battle of Saratoga. The father of the 
subject of this narrative and two of his uncles 
were through the War of 1812-16, and three 
of his brothers, James, John and Andrew, 
were in the late Civil War as Union soldiers, 
the last two named losing their lives as a 
sacrifice for their loyalty to the stars and stripes. 
The fortieth anniversary of the settlement 
of Dr. Crawford over the congregation of Not 
tingham was celebrated October 19, 1886, at 
which time he asked a release from his onerous 
charge, and in the morning of said day de- 
livered his farewell discourse from the words: 
" And thou shalt remember all the way which 
the Lord thy God led thee these forty years." 
A large assemblage of people was present, 
together with sixteen of the surrounding minis- 
try of different denominations. Many of them 
made appropriate and historical addresses. 
During the forty years of his pastorate in this 
church, Dr. Crawford, according to his record, 
preached 5,100 sermons, made 350 popular 
lectures, made 14,437 pastoral visits to the sick 
and well, has administered, in the Nottingham 




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Church, baptism to 960 infants or children and 
has baptised 4S0 adults in the same. There 
were received into bis entire charge 1,*J 10 per- 
sons, 975 by public profession of faith, and 'J3'2 
by letter, making an average of over 30 addi- 
tions annually for forty years. 

After purging the roll, at the end of his 
ministry with his people, there were still 378 
names of members on the records. The old 
church of Nottingham had unparalleled pros- 
perity all through these forty years, and was 
never in a more prosperous condition than at 
the end of this long pastorate. Up to this date 
Dr. Crawford has aided in conducting 781 
funeral services, and he has solemnized 431 mar- 
riages. During the forty-three years of the 
residence of the subject of this biography in the 
same place, many events of a personal and his- 
toric character have occurred, too numerous to 
rehearse in this connection. We will, however, 
note a few things that may be of interest to 
some people in the western part of this county. 
and which are gathered from his sketch 
book. He says: "At the beginning of my 
sojourn here no railroads passed through this 
State; our eyes and ears were daily greeted with 
the duplicated four-horse stage in the summer 
season, coaches traveling on the great thorough- 
fare from east to west through our neighbor- 
hood and village, together with heavy road 
wagons carrying agricultural produce and mer- 
chants' goods, also, from August to December, 
large droves of cattle and hogs almost continu- 
ally in sight of each other. But this slow 
transportation scheme has given way years ago 
to the railroad coach and freight car. " Again 
the record says: "How hard for a pastor in 
war times. During my charge in this church 
we passed through two fiery, bloody wars — the 
first with Mexico to relieve Texas from oppres- 
sion and appropriate said territory. The old 
Whig party said the object of the administration 
party was to extend slave territory. The Demo- 
cratic party said ' No, we wish to deliver the 
abused and overtaxed people of Texas from Mexi- 
can oppression.' The second was that terrible 



civil conflict between our own Stairs, running 
through f< lUT years of tern ir, recriminat ion,blood 
shed and death. Political wire- workers branded 
the opposite party with everything degrading and 

humiliating, and many times when the angry 
waves of political strife and excitement ro 
high it was a hazardous business and stormy 
work for a pastor to stand firm at the Gospel 
helm in behalf of truth and righteousness, and 
pilot his congregation, made up of different ele- 
ments, through the conflicts of passion and the 
breakers of different kind--." Hi- record 
further says: " Shortly after President Lincoln 
delivered his proclamation of liberty to the 
slaves, I called upon a respectable parishioner, 
and was received in a courteous manner. 
After religious conference and prayer the head 
of the family addressed me as follows: ' Now, 
Mr. Crawford,' said he. 'you see what this war 
has come to— recklesslj destroying State rights. 
and robbing a large portion of the citizens of 
these United States of their legal property.' 

• Mr ,' said I, ' you will admit with me that 

slavery was the procuring cause of the war, and 
this is just "what the war has come to," and 
it appears to me there can be no cessation of 
strife until slavery is blotted out.' 'You 
ministers,' said he, 'should condemn from the 
pulpit this proclamation, as not in keeping with 
justice.' In reply— 'I do not regard it, Mr. 

, as in keeping with my commission, nor do 

I think it wise or prudent for me. or any pastor 
situated a- I am to introduce your suggestions 
into his pulpit administrations on the Sabbath 
day.' In a few days afterward, in the course of 
my parochial work, I called upon an equally in- 
telligent and courteous family, but of a differ- 
ent political creed. It was near noon, I was 
kindly invited and remained for dinner. Uter 
a portion of Scripture was read and | 
offered. I was then about to take my leave, when 
the wife and mother said: 'My dear sir. 1 
looked for yon the last two Sabbaths to come 
out in your sermon in defense of President 
Lincoln's proclamation; this is certainly 
the most important deliverances that has ever 



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come from the "White House.' 'Certainly,' said 
I, 'It is of vast importance.' 'Why, then,' 
said she, ' do you not preach about it? Why not 
commend the proclamation and condemn the 
Southern confederacy — the Democrats and the 
sympathizers in the North, as a part of your ser- 
mon, at times, from the pulpit on Sunday?' 

' Suppose, Mrs. , I personally desired all 

the objects you wish, would it be according to 
the revealed will of Christ, or even good com- 
mon sense, to introduce this in the way you de- 
sire into my pulpit exercises ? I can reply to 
you, as I did the other day to a man, though 
from a different political standpoint, and say 
that I can not see that it would be wise or pru- 
dent, or in keeping with my authority as a 
preacher of the gospel of Christ, to drag into 
the pulpit on the Lord's day plans of civil 
polity, which would not only mar the peace of 
this congregation, but destroy my future useful- 
ness here and elsewhere, and be at war with the 
general interests of the Kingdom of Christ.'' 
We take but another extract from the rem- 
iniscence book of Dr. Crawford in regard to his 
escape from being captured by Gen. Morgan's 
Southern cavalry, when passing through this part 
of Harrison County : " It was early in the morn- 
ing of July 24, 1S63. I had my horse harnessed 
to make a call upon a sick man four miles from 
town, but was prevented by being informed 
that Mr. W. and wife, together with Mr. B. and 
wife, were going to make us a social visit that 
forenoon, and were desirous to meet us at our 
home. Our guests soon drove up in their car- 
riages. After dinner was over we were utiliz- 
ing the few moments previous to their departure 
in social conference. Suddenly the sound of 
horses' feet and the loud voice of a man were 
heard on the street, which drew us to the front 
rather hurriedly. Both our eyes and ears were 
greeted with an unusual sight and sound for 
our otherwise quiet village. Two men, driving 
furiously a span of rather small, fleet horses, 
coupled to a light vehicle, going east and call- 
ing aloud, ' In twenty-five minutes John Mor- 
gan will capture your town. ' This was an alarm, 



and unwelcome news, such as we did not ex- 
pect or desire to hear, for our citizens had made 
no arrangements to entertain such unlooked-for 
guests, whose reputation for acts of hostility 
and cruelty had preceded them. We had not 
even heard that those invaders had crossed the 
Ohio Biver. On their trail through this State 
they passed through Harrison County, and Mor- 
gan and his band were afterward soon capt- 
ured. Immediately our country visitors left, 
and twenty minutes before 3 o'clock p. m., the 
Southern cavalry dashed into our village in a 
variety of dress, of somewhat military appear- 
ance, only so far as implements of warfare were 
concerned. I soon observed that they were 
capturing citizens to put into the front of their 
ranks, and having no desire to be conscripted 
on so short notice and so unceremoniously, with- 
out even an opportunity to hire a substitute, I 
concluded the best policy would be to desert my 
house and home for the time being. I coun- 
seled Mrs. Crawford to make the best of her 
way to the house of Mr. W., who resided about 
one mile and a half distant, at the same time 
telling her not to fear, as the invaders did not 
appeal disposed to harm ladies — that I would 
make the best of my efforts to get out of the 
calamity by concealing myself in corn patches 
and back lots to avoid being captured. On de- 
serting my house the things that gave me the 
most anxiety were leaving my manuscripts and 
library to the care of such a motley crowd of 
roughs. I soon overtook my wife, and we made 
our way to the house of a parishioner. I left 
her there and retraced my steps back to high 
ground, in full view of my house, barn and back 
lots, where I discovered the enemy had made 
their headquarters during their foraging in that 
vicinity, doubtless because of its location, sit- 
uated in the east end of town at the cross-roads, 
and for this reason my personal property fared 
worse than any other part qf the village. Whilst 
standing alone, viewing the scene with some 
alarm and excitement, thinking they would burn 
the town and thereby destroy my property, at 
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among the Morganites. Gen. Shackleford bail 
couie up and drove out the raiders after an oc- 
cupancy of nearly four hours. The Southern 
guerrillas started in my direction on the road 
to Wheeling. I speedily turned about, and 
crossing certain fields for a near route to the 
Presbyterian Church of Nottingham on the 
the same road, hastily concealed myself, as I 
supposed quite safely, in a clump of alder bushes 
and briars inside the cemetery at the lower edge 
of the grove, to watch them destroy the church 
building, for they had already burnt the two 
large covered bridges in the rear. When con- 
gratulating myself on a sure hiding place, to 
my utter astonishment and great horror, the 
ranks of the rebels halted and speedily tilled up 
the grove and hitching grounds, ranging them- 
selves along the boundary fence of the grave- 
yard. I lay immediately inside the fence and 
not more than twenty feet from it, hidden only 
by leaves and low brush. I was impressed with 
my dangerous fix. The cavalry overlooked me, 
for they themselves appeared excited. I could see 
the very whites of their eyes, and at times im- 
agined they saw me. Thoughts flitted through 
my mind; my imagination was wrought up to the 
highest pitch, and my nervous system rather ex- 
cited. Question after question would arise in my 
mind, such as, What shall I do? How shall I 
do? Shall I lie still ? Is it better to run ? And 
many other such crude ideas came and went in 
quick succession. Not being acquainted with 
the rules of warfare I concluded that every- 
thing was against me, and, ' if I run, the cavalry- 
men will shoot me; if they see me concealed 
here they will take me for a spy and shoot me; 
they will certainly soon discover and capture me;' 
thus I thought and felt, as I lay wonderfully 
quiet in my hiding place. After I had lain 
about twenty minutes in this retreat, the report 
of a musket was heard in the rear, and in a mo- 
ment all mounted and were in rank and off in 
double quick, for Gen. S., their pursuer, was 
drawing nigh. This providence was no small 
relief to me, for it let me out of my embarrass- 
ing situation. I returned and found Mrs. 



Crawford where I had left her, much worried 
and perplexed in regard to my safety, imagining 
that some fatal calamity had befallen inc." 

We now quote a few extracts from some of 
the addresses made by a part of the ministers 
present on the fortieth anniversary celebra- 
tion of the retiring pastor of the Nottingham 
Church: Prof. D. J. McAdam, <>f Washington 
and Jefferson College for the last twenty five 
years, had been selected bv a vote of the 
congregation ( because of being a member of 
said church from his youth) to respond to the 
farewell sermon on this occasion. In the course 
of his remarks he said. "It is not for me to 
pronounce an eulogy upon the work of Dr. 
Crawford. He has been the pastor and edu- 
cator in this church for two score years. That 
fact is the most eloquent eulogy. And forty 
such years! It is much to have lived in such a 
time as this, and keep abreast of its progress; it 
is much to have been a leader in that progress. 
How much of the influence of this people is 
due to the loug pastorate which is this day clos- 
ing? How much is due to the fact that you 
have thus become known as a church and people 
who could work together with such harmony as 
to retain the same pastor for forty years, and 
instead of abating, increasing your church work; 
thai you have thus fastened the eyes of the 
entire church upon you. While speaking of 
the influence which this pastorate has brought 
to this community, we would be ungrateful, as 
we would be untruthful, if we did not mention 
the important part our pastor's wife has bad in 
this agency, in her direct influence upon the 

w u of this congregation, as a stimulus to 

cultivation and refinement, as an example of an 
earnest church worker, and an example of an 
earnest, devoted, unselfish Christian woman. I 
must dwell no longer. I have only left me to 
fulfill the commission which I have from this 
church, to say a parting word to you. Dr. Craw- 
ford, in their behalf. And as I see the upturned 
faces of these, your people, pleading that I 
should say some word expressive of the emo- 
tions which are in their hearts. I feel, ;i- never 



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before, how cold are even eloquent words, how 
much colder than ice must be mine. We rejoice 
that you have yet before you continued years of 
life; that your mental powers are unimpaired, 
and your intellect still clear." Rev. Robert 
Alexander, D. D. , of St. Clairsville, Ohio, 
chosen by the presbytery to be their represen- 
tative upon this occasion, said among other 
things: "I am directed by the presbytery of 
.St. Clairsville to come to you to-day, my brother, 
with words of hearty congratulation over the 
loDg and successful pastorate which is now clos- 
ing. We congratulate you on the condition in 
which we find this church, at the close of this 
long pastorate. After holding this charge for 
forty years, you resign it to the presbytery, 
not divided and weakened, but in the highest of 
prosperity to which it has ever attained. You 
have seen its growth from weakness to strength 
and power. You have seen the aged pass away, 
and the young grow up and become old; but 
the communion table has been kept full, the 
church roll has been growing longer, and the 
efficiency of the people greater year by year. 
You now return to us (the presbytery) a united 
and prosperous church. We congratulate you 
on the commanding influence you have attained 
among the brethren in the presbytery. The 
respect which is felt for your opinions, and 
weight of your influence among your brethren 
in the ministry are such as any man might de- 
sire. You have had no hobbies to ride, you 
have had no eccentricities, your judgment has 
always been good, and you have kept forward 
in uniform and consistent course, and thus you 
have gained and held the respect and confidence 
of all (your ministerial brethren)." Rev. Dr. 
Schrom, of Pittsburgh, Penn., spoke on "The 
Responsibilities of a long Pastorate." We give 
a few quotations from his address: "Knowing 
what we do of both pastor and people, and after 
listening to the statements that have been made 
here to-day (in the fortieth anniversary sermon) 
of the work accomplished, we are safe in say- 
ing that this has been a most successful pastor- 
ate. This is said in no spirit of mere commen- 



dation, but because we believe it to be true. 
There is something stimulating in seeing a man 
at the end of forty years of faithful labor, sur- 
rounded by a multitude of friends, counted by 
hundreds, those who under his ministry have 
come to Christ as a personal Saviour — his mem- 
ory crowded with the recollections of other hun- 
dreds who have triumphantly passed from the 
church on earth to the church in Heaven. And 
now, when the natural strength is beginning to 
abate, to say with his Saviour, ' I have finished 
the work thou gavest me to do,' and, with 
the Apostle, ' I have fought a good fight, I have 
kept the faith.' * * * It ought to stimulate 
us all to greater diligence and more efficient 
work. Brethren of the presbytery, there are 
many lessons here for us; there are encourage- 
ments here for us. Let us thank God for this 
pastor, for this church, for this pastorate, with 
its world-wide belongings and results. We dare 
not say more, for the subject grows wider and 
more interesting as we advance." 

The early history of the subject of this sketch 
was identified with Cross Creek Township and 
the city of Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio. 
His father, after marriage, purchased a farm near 
Steubenville, on the eastern boundary of Cross 
Creek Township, and with his wife removed to 
it, and lived and died upon the same, at an ad- 
vanced age. His son, Thomas R. Crawford, 
finished his primary school education at the age 
of thirteen years; then studied surveying and 
civil engineering, and followed said business for 
a short time as deputy for William Lowry, Sr., 
who was county surveyor, but aged and infirm. 
In his seventeenth year he entered upon his 
academic studies. After he completed this 
course he applied and received a commission 
from Washington, D. C. , to survey a portion of 
Iowa into sections, but being earnestly opposed 
in this undertaking by his father, on account of 
his youth and the necessary exposure in that new 
and far-off country, that he was constrained to 
return his commission. He then entered upon 
the regular college curriculum of study, and 
graduated at Franklin College, as related at the 



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opening of this sketch. Dr. Crawford, in Oc- 
tober, 1840, began his pastoral work in the 
Nottingham Presbyterian Church, which service 
the providence of God appeared to control and 
prosper for two score years until feebleness of 
health and infirmities of age compelled him to 
resign his onerous charge, which was then the 
largest and most prosperous rural congregation 
in eastern Ohio, numbering nearly 400 members, 
and about 130 families as parishioners, at the end 
of this long ministerial service. He received the 
academic degree of D. D., in 1867, from Frank- 
lin College. Dr. Crawford, from the age of sis- 
teen years, and for fifty years onward, did not 
rest from constant study and laborious work, 
until he resigned his pastorate October 19. 1886, 
and after a short rest he entered upon home 
mission work again. Among his college com- 
panions were the Hon. John A. Bingham, of 
Cadiz, Ohio; Hon. Cowen, ex-United States 
Senator, of Pennsylvania; Hon. Joseph S. Fow- 
ler, ex-United States Senator, of Tennessee; the 
late Dr. William M. Grimes, of Steubeuville. 
Ohio; Rev. Dr. William T. McAdam, of the 
United States Army; also the late Drs. \V. T. 
and Samuel Findley; Drs. D. C. Irwin and 
Joseph R. Wilson, of North Carolina, who are 
members of the Southern General Assembly. 

We further refer the reader for any more 
information of the life work of the subject of 
the foregoing record to two volumes of His 
writings, one published in 1887, of about 200 
pages, titled, "Forty Years' Pastorate and 
Reminiscences of Rev. T. R. Crawford, D. D." 
and a former one called "A Historical Narra- 
tive," published in 1S71. These contain a 
synopsis of an exceedingly busy life of one 
whom the late Rev. William M. Grimes, D. D. , 
of Steubenville, Ohio (both alumni of the same 
college and class) said, in the course of an 
address made before a large assembly on the 
occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Dr. 
Crawford, which was afterward published: "I 
met you, my brother, first either in the college 
hall or on the streets of Athens; and can it be 
that nearly half a century has passed away? 



My recollections of our past associations are 
only pleasant. Being close companions, and 
graduating in the same class, uniting with the 
church at the same sacramental season, we 
were at the Lord's table for the first time 
together. We were ordained to the full work of 
the gospel ministry by the same presbytery, 
and for more than twenty-five years were co- 
presbyters and neighbors, and now, I am proud' 
to say, that in all these associations there 
never was a jar or bitter word between us. 
* * * I have watched your work as a 
minister of Jesus Christ with great interest and 
delight. We are the servants of God by ap- 
pointment. There is a great necessity of divine 
appointment in order to the validity of the 
ministerial office. But no fears of the Divine 
sanction should haunt your bosom, my brother, 
seeing the Holy Ghost has set His seal in such a 
wonderful manner to your work." It will take 
much wisdom, religious forethought and con- 
servatism on the part of the elders and suc- 
cessor to the pastorate to direct, under God, the 
future interests, unity and prosperity of so 
large a rural congregation and one so successful 
and influential in the Presbyterian order for 
nearly a half century. 




^ILLIAM H. MoGAVBAN, a resident of 
North Township, Harrison County, was 
born in Harford County, Md., March 
3, 1812, and is a son of William Mc 
Gavran, who was born on the same farm in 
1768, and whose father, John McGavrau, a na- 
tive of Ireland, and a tailor by trade, settled in 
the colony of Maryland about the year 1755. 
He (John) was married to a Baptist lady named 
Margaret Hill, who bore him four' children, 
named Mollie, Margaret, Mark and William. 
John McGavran died about 1 770, at the age of 
thirty-three years, and his widow married a Mr. 
O'Dauiel, and later died in Fayette County, 
Penn. The children were all reared in the Prot- 
estant faith. 

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tion for those early times, and became a teacher 
in the subscription schools, a vocation he fol- 
lowed several years; he was a fine penman, and 
the young people from all the region round 
about came to him to learn the art of chirog- 
raphy. He was also a land owner. On March 
17, 1791, he married Miss Ann Thompson, a 
native of Harford County, Md., and daughter 
of Thomas Thompson. The young couple re- 
sided in Marylandu ntil 1818, and then came to 
Springfield Township, Jefferson Co., now Lee 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, bought 160 acres 
of land in the woods, and here Mr. McGavran 
died in 1853, at the age of eighty-six years and 
nine months; his widow survived until 1863, 
when she died at the home of her son, in Co- 
lumbiana County, Ohio, aged ninety-one years. 
Eleven children were born to them, as follows: 
Elizabeth, who married Thomas Magattogan, 
and afterward Benjamin Toland, and died at 
ninety-six years of age; Mary, wife of Charles 
Lucy, died at seventy-five, in Schuyler County, 
111. ; Sarah. Mrs. Samuel Hill, died in Morgan 
County, Ohio; John, died in Columbiana County, 
Ohio; Martha, Mrs. John Mays, died in Illinois; 
Margaret, married to George Lucy, brother of 
Charles, died in Kentucky; Thomas, who mar- 
ried Margaret Brown, died in Colorado; Lilly 
Ann, died at the age of twenty-two, unmarried; 
Mark, who married Louisa Daniels, and died at 
Minneapolis; William H, the subject of this 
sketch; and Stephen, who died in Harrison 
County, Ohio. 

William H. McGavran, the only one left of 
the above-named family, was six years of age 
when brought by his parents to Ohio. He be- 
came a very good scholar, and when sixteen 
years old he was apprenticed to a carpenter in 
Jefferson County, whom he served four years. 
He then traveled for a time and located in Mi- 
nerva, Stark Co., Ohio, where he met with pros- 
perity. In 1835 he married Miss Elizabeth, 
daughter of Hon. James Brown, from near 
Greensburg, Penn., and a few years later moved 
to Steubenville, Ohio, where he remained from 
the spring of 1841 to the fall of 1843, when he 



sold his property and purchased a farm in North 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, which was im- 
proved. He continued to work at his trade of 
carpenter, and added cabinet-making and un- 
dertaking, making coffins by hand. In 1886 
he left the farm in charge of his son, and with 
his wife took up his residence in Scio. To Mr. 
and Mrs. McGavran have been born six children, 
viz.: James B., deceased; Henrietta, wife of 
William H. H. Masters, of Scio; George W., 
deceased; S. B., a doctor in Cadiz, Ohio; 
Elizabeth Margaret, deceased wife of N. E. 
Clendennin, treasurer of Harrison County, Ohio, 
and William Thomas, on the home farm. Origi- 
nally Mr. McGavran was a Whig, and voted for 
William H. Harrison for president in 1836 and 
1840; in 1860 he voted for Abraham Lincoln, 
and has voted for every Republican nominee 
since. He served as postmaster under Pierce. 
In 1859 he was elected to represent his county 
in the State Legislature, and was serving when 
the Civil War broke out. James A. Garfield 
was at this time in the State Senate. For nine 
years before 1861 Mr. McGavran served as jus- 
tice of the peace; for thirty-five years he has 
been a member of the I. O. O. F. ; for ten 
years he was a member of the Baptist Church, 
and for the past thirty-eight years has been a 
member of the Church of the Disciples. His 
wife is a Presbyterian. Mr. McGavran helped 
to build the Pan Handle Railroad, and also Scio 
College, investing some money in each. 



DAVID C. TOWNSEND. About the year 
| 1812 Joseph Townsend, a native of 
' Bucks County, Penn., emigrated with 
his family to Ohio and located near Har- 
risville. Three years later he was accidentally 
shot by a hunter. The eldest of his family of 
thirteen children was a son named David, who 
came to Ohio with his parents, and there mar- 
ried Catherine Cherry, and they resided on the 
original farm until their deaths in 1874 and 
1872, respectively. They had reared a family 
of four sons and four daughters, of whom the 



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third child, Joseph, was horn Juno 2, 1818. 
He spent his early life at home with his parents, 
assisting them in the maintenance of the family. 
He afterward learned the wagon-maker's trade, 
serving an apprenticeship. This occupation he 
followed for many years in Harrisville, but 
since 1872 he has lived a retired life there. 
In 1S42 he married Albina Strodes, a native of 
Harrisville, and whose parents were early set- 
tlers there; she died in 1874, having become the 
mother of thirteen children — seven sons and six 
daughters — and of this family the third child in 
the order of his birth was David C, whose 
name stands at the head of this sketch. 

David C. Townsend was born near Harris- 
ville, Ohio, March 13, 1846, grew to manhood 
with his parents, and was educated in the pub- 
lic schools. In 1870 he married Adeline Morris, 
and their union has been blessed by six children, 
of whom five are now living: Belle, Effie, 
Georgia, Lydia and Virgil. Mr. Townsend be- 
gan life as a farm laborer, but now owns fifty 
acres of fine land in Short Creek Township, 
and he is recognized as one of the leading ag- 
riculturists of this region: has been the architect 
of his own fortune, and with his family enjoys 
the respect and esteem of all. Politically he is 
a Republican. 



GEORGE H. HEBERLING, one of the 
stalwart, typical pioneers of Harrison 
County, was horn in Berkeley County. 
Va., February 6, 1S14, son of John and 
Mary (Crumley) Heberling. Andrew Heber- 
ling, grandfather of George H., came from his 
native Germany at an early date, and married 
in this country. John Heberling was a black- 
smith by trade, which he followed in early life. 
After his marriage he and his wife remained in 
Virginia until 1823, when, with their family, 
they came to Harrison County, and settled on a 
partially improved farm of 253 acres, located 
near West Grove Church, in Short Creek Town- 
ship. Here they died, the father in 1864, at 
the age of about eighty-seven years, and the 



mother shortly afterward at the age of eighty- 
four years. They were the parents of ten 
children, of whom the following is a brief 
record: Henry died in Jefferson County. Ohio, 
and the remainder are Eliza, wife of James 
Ady, in Muscatine County, Iowa; John, in 
•Miles, Jackson Co., Iowa; Hiram, in Osage 
County, Kas. ; William, in Greene County, 111.; 
George H. , in Harrison County, Ohio; James, 
in Howard County. Mo.; Andrew, in Iowa; 
Rebecca, widow of Thomas Lewis, living in 
Dubuque, Iowa, and Mary, deceased wife of 
Joseph Holmes. Mr. Heberling was a soldier 
in the War of 1812. but having been crippled 
before his enlistment he was discharged. Polit- 
ically he was a Whig and Abolitionist, and was 
for several years a justice of the peace. 

George H. Heberling attended the common 
schools of his times, and was reared to farm life. 
He learned the trade of machinist, which he fol- 
lowed, manufacturing threshing machines, his 
father having bought the right to manufacture 
and sell the first Spike Machine ever used, and 
the family for years manufactured and sold 
them. In 1835 our subject was united in mar- 
riage with Matilda, daughter of Ralph and 
Eleanor (deary) Spurrier, and a native of Mary- 
land, later resident of Harrison County. They 
were married March 3, 1801, and then moved to 
Ohio, settling on land in what afterward became 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where 
they made their home in the woods, having to 
hew away the trees and brush to make a place for 
their little cabin. Here Mr. Spurrier died April 
2. 1N48, aged seventy-live years, having been 
born in 1773, his wife following him to the 
grave June 2, 1869, aged eighty-five years, hav- 
ing been born December 18, 17S4. They were 
the parents of eleven children, their names and 
dates of birth being as follows: John, April 3, 
1802; Samuel, February 21, 1805; Warner la 
farmer), August !'.», 1S07; Sallie. November 1". 
1809; Richard, September 5, 1812; Ruth,Maroh 
24, 1815; .Matilda. September 1">. 1817; Eliza- 
beth, March 7. 1820; Mary Ann, December 5, 
1822; Asenath, September 20, 1824; William. 



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March 22, 1827; all deceased except Warner, 
Elizabeth, Mary An ii and William. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Heberling 
lived on the home place of his parents, which 
was afterward sold, and they then located near 
Georgetown, in the same township, where he 
carried on farming and milling. In 1882 they 
came to their present place, which is situated 
four and one-half miles southeast of Cadiz, and 
comprises 115 acres of well cultivated land. To 
them were born nine children, viz. : Thomas and 
William, deceased; Mary Ellen, wife of J. R. 
Watkins; John, deceased; Warner, at home; 
Andrew, in California; Henry, at home; Haz- 
lett and Martha, deceased. Of these, William 
enlisted in Company C, Ninety-eighth O. V. I., 
Capt. John A. Norris, of Cadiz, and at the bat- 
tle of Perryville, or Chaplin Hills, Ky. (his first 
engagement), he was mortally wounded. His 
father proceeded to the place where he was ly- 
ing and brought home his body, which now lies 
in the graveyard at West Grove. Warner 
Heberling married Rosanna Hagan, who died in 
1881, leaving five children, one having died 
previously, and the names of the six are Iona 
B. , John G., Edgar L. (deceased) and George 
C. (twins), Halbert S. and M. Delia. Henry 
Heberling married Mary J. Stevens, of Short 
Creek Township, Harrison County, who has 
borne him one child, George R. Mr. and Mrs. 
Heberling were for some years members of the 
Methodist Protestant Church, but are now as- 
sociated with the Society of Friends. Politic- 
ally our subject was first a Whig, and afterward 
a Republican, and at one time he was an active 
officer of the Underground Railroad. 

[Since the above was written Mrs. Matilda 
Heberling was called to her long home December 
23, 1890.] 

JfOSEPH BEVAN, one of the early settlers 
v. I and prominent farmers of Freeport Town- 
\^j ship, Harrison County, and intimately con- 
nected with its industrial and financial 
growth, was born at St. Clairsville, Ohio, Feb- 
ruary 27, 1819. His father, Stacy Bevau, was 



born in Pennsylvania, where the family has long 
resided, and in the early part of the present 
century came with his parents to Ohio. They 
entered a large tract of land, and settled in 
Belmont County, where Samuel, the father of 
Stacy, passed his life away. In his early man- 
hood Stacy Bevan was married to Eunice Faw- 
cett, a resident of Belmont County, and this 
wife dying, he was next married to Jane Rob- 
erts, also a resident of Belmont County. 

The early life of Joseph Bevan was spent on 
the home farm in Belmont County, where the 
lessous of industry and economy were early in- 
culcated. Finding the advantages of the common 
schools too limited, he entered the academy at 
Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, where he laid 
the foundation of a knowledge which became so 
useful to him in after years. On August 30, 1841, 
he chose as his life's partner, Maria, daughter 
of Stephen Hall, of Quaker City, and the young 
couple commenced their married life in Belmont 
County, where they remained four years; then 
removed to Guernsey County. On their farm 
there they remained eleven years, and finally 
came to Harrison County, and purchased the 
farm now occupied by the family. They have 
ever been industrious and economical, and have 
succeeded in building up a competence. The 
issue of their marriage was as follows: Eunice, 
Mrs. W. W. Wallace; Narcissa, Mrs. Elijah Car- 
ver; Mary Ellen, Mrs. John Bethel; Ruth Ann, 
deceased; Jane, Mrs. James Kirby; Priscilla 
and Hannah, both deceased; John G. and Jes- 
sie, both at home. From his earliest manhood 
Mr. Bevan was identified with the principles 
advocated by the present Republican party, and 
was always in the front ranks of the workers. 
The family are members of the Society of 
Friends, and are among the liberal supporters 
and constant attendants of that society. On 
September 21, 1881, Mr. Bevan died, and his 
remains now rest in Greenmount Cemetery. His 
family still occupy the home farm, its duties 
and management having fallen on the son, John 
G., an intelligent and worthy young man, who 
bids fair to hold the respect the father gained. 



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PkHILLIP SHAMBAUGH, JR., who is a 
farmer, and a representative of one of the 
oldest families of Rumley Township, 
Harrison County, is the youngest child 
of Michael and Hettie (Hazlette) Shambaugh, 
who were married May 31, 1832. Michael 
Shambaugh is a son of George Shambaugh, who 
was a son of George Shambaugh, a native of 
Germany, and who immigrated to Westmoreland 
County, Penn., in an early day; he was a very 
successful and wealthy farmer. His son, George, 
was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., about 
1745, and died in Perry County, that Stab-, in 
1827; his children were George, Jacob, John, 
Phillip, Mollie, Barbara and Catherine. George, 
son of the last mentioned George Shambaugh, 
was born in Perry County, Penn., in 1787, and 
there grew up to manhood. He married Mrs. 
Elizabeth Wirt (a widow) nee Brown, who was 
born in 1777. a daughter of Michael Brown (of 
German descent), both of whom, at a later date 
(in 1 SIT), moved to Rumley Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, and entered the farm, comprising 
about 220 acres, on which Phillip, Jr., now re- 
sides, of which he owns 160 acres. The journey 
from Perry County, Penn. , to Rumley Town- 
ship was made with a four-horse team and a 
large covered wagon, together with two cows, 
and it took two weeks to accomplish the journey. 
The land then was heavily timbered and a 
dense wilderness; they lived in their wagon un- 
til they could erect a small cabin, prepare a 
small piece of ground for garden, potatoes, 
etc., which required nearly two months' time. 
They worked early and late, and, in a few years, 
the land put on a more cultivated appearance, 
the forests gave place to pleasant pastures and 
fine meadow lands, when the cabin was ex- 
changed for a more commodious and comforta- 
ble dwelling. To this couple were born four 
children, as follows: Phillip, residing in Rum- 
ley Township; Michael, who died March 20, 
1803; George, residing on a farm in Unmley 
Township, and Margaret, who married Samuel 
Hazlett (both of whom are now deceased). Mr. 
Shambaugh served in the War of 1812, and 



died September 4. 1SU7. his wife having died 
several years before. His uncle, Jacob Sham 
baugh, served in Hi.' Revolutionary War for 
three years, lie being quite a young boy when 
he entered the service. An officer came to Ja- 
cob's father and demanded his team, consisting 
of four horses, one a three-year-old colt, fur use 
in the army. The father, however, did not want 
his team to go, but readily consented, providing 
the officer would enlist the boy, with the privi- 
lege of driving and caring for his team. The 
officer accepted the terms, the boy served his 
three years as teamster in the army, and, upon 
his return home, delivered back to his father his 
team, unharmed and in good condition. Mr. and 
Mrs. Shambaugh were active and faithful members 
in the United Brethren Church for many years. 
Michael Shambaugh was born in Perry 
County, Penn., June 18, 1811. and was but six 
years old when he came with his parents to 
Rumley Township. Here he grew to manhood 
on the home farm, receiving an ordinary educa- 
tion in the subscription schools. The school- 
house where he attended was built of logs, with 
no floor, and the windows were holes cut through 
the side of the building, with greased paper 
fastened over them to let the light in. In one 
end was a large tire -place, by which the pupils 
warmed themselves one side at a time; the chim- 
ney was only about five feet high. One day, 
while the teacher was out, the scholars piled the 
door full of wood and logs, so he could not get 
in; he then made an effort to come down the 
chimney, but the boys out-generaled him, and 
kept him back with firebrands quite a while, 
but Anally let him in. Then the play changed, 
the rod succeeded the firebrands, aud the per 
scented teacher became the hero, and so con- 
tinued throughout his term, the boys having 
learned not to trifle with birch-rod school teach- 
ers. To Michael Shambaugh and wife (Hettie) 
were born ten children, namely: James, born 
March 5, 1833, who resides on a farm near New 
Rumley, Ohio; Elizabeth, born August 1, 1834, 
married Abraham Fetroe, moved to Iowa, and 
died there in March, L864, leaving four children; 



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Mary A., born July 27, 1836, wife of John W. 
Finnicucn, a thrifty farmer, of Rumley Town- 
ship, Ohio; Simon B., born September 7, 1838, 
who died unmarried, October 14, 1873, at the 
old home (a triumphant death), leaving property 
worth $16,000, bequeathing to the church 
$3,000, and balance to his brothers and sisters; 
Adam H. , born September 11, 1841, married to 
Mary Jane, daughter of Samuel Scott, of Rum- 
ley Township (he is a farmer in Madison County, 
Iowa, and is quite wealthy); Charlotte, born 
June 21, 1842, married, May, 1873, to Peter 
Overholt, who died February, 1877, and his 
wife died at her old home in January, 1879, 
leaving one boy W. B. Overholt (one boy-baby 
had died nearly two years before); Maria, born 
August 22, 1844, married to H. L. Thompson, 
August 3, 1871, and lives on a farm in Archer 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio; Jane, born No- 
vember 28, 1846, died October 30, 1867, at the 
old home, a true Christian; John, born October 
13, 1848, married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob 
Gutshall. a very wealthy farmer, near Des 
Moines, Iowa (John is living near his father- 
in-law, on a farm, and is a very successful 
farmer), and Phillip, who was born February 
18, 1851, and was reared to manhood on the 
home farm. He received a common-school 
education in the district school, and attended 
school one year at Westerville College, Wester- 
ville, Ohio. On March 15, 1881, he married 
Miss Eliza Loretta Scott, of New Rumley, who 
was a daughter of John A. Scott, Esq., and 
Eliza (Bivington) Scott, the latter of whom is 
now deceased. To Phillip, Jr., and Eliza L. 
Shambaugh have been born two children: Mary 
Maud and Estella Loretta. Mr. and Mrs. 
Shambaugh are both active members of the 
United Brethren Church. 

Michael and Hettie Shambaugh resided on 
the old farm until their death; Michael died on 
March 20, 1863, and his wife, Hettie, born 
April 16, 1816, died October 22, 1884. They 
were faithful and devoted members to the 
church of their choice, United Brethren; were 
firm, but kind and generous in disposition, very 



liberal to all the needs of the church, their 
family and to the poor of their neighborhood. 
Their home was a home for the minister, the 
layman, the stranger, and all who came to their 
door, and their hospitality and generous dis- 
positions were universally appreciated, for no 
one who knew them could but speak of them in 
the highest terms of praise. ' ' Blessed are the 
dead who die in the Lord: for their works do 
follow them." 



I/SAAC K. LEMASTERS. The name of 
William Lemasters will long be remern- 
_[ bered as that of one of the hardy and 
energetic pioneers of his day. Born De- 
cember 20, 1816, in Ohio, of the stanch and 
substantial race that has made that State a lead- 
ing one in the Union, he inherited many quali- 
ties which served to win for him the respect of 
his fellow-citizens. His education was limited 
to the common schools, but his native energy 
and force of character received a severe and 
excellent training in the school of hardship and 
trial, which had so many students within its 
walls during the first settlement of this county. 
At an early day his father with his family 
removed to Ohio, settling on the western bank 
of that river, on whose bosom now floats so 
much of the interior commerce of this State, but 
which then had only an occasional canoe filled 
with blood-thirsty Indians, or a small boat car- 
rying a few families to their western home. 
During Mr. Lemaster's first prospecting tour, 
he and his brother-in-law were surprised by 
a party of Indians, and the brother-in-law 
killed, being buried where he fell. Soon after- 
ward Mr. Lemasters brought his family, and 
though many times compelled to seek the pro- 
tection of the block-houses, still none of the 
family were injured. In a short time they re- 
moved to Short Creek Township, where they 
lived a few years, and then came to Archer 
Township, where they purchased a farm on 
which they passed the remainder of their lives. 
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Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Busby, a prom 
inent resident of Archer Township, and they 
immediately commenced housekeeping on the 
farm on which Mr. Lemasters died, and on 
which his widow still resides. Their family 
consisted of the following named children: 
Abram R., born September 7, 1840, died Sep- 
tember 13, 1S43; Deborah J., born April 13, 
1842, died April 27, 1855; Amanda A., born 
May 12, 1845, died October 11, 1854; Isaac K., 
burn September 8, 1846; Melinda, born August 
29, L848; Deborah J., born February 12, 1850; 
Mary, born August 23, 1853, died November 1, 
1854; John, born May 1, 1855; William Jacob, 
born August 29, 1850, and Joshua Ellsworth, 
born December 28, 1861, and died July 21, 
1883. In politics Mr. Lemasters was an Old- 
line Democrat, and while not active in seeking 
political preferment, still was ever ready and 
willing to assist his party in all ways. He and 
his wife were members of the Methodist Church, 
and were always ready to answer all calls of 
duty. Mr. Lemasters died March 8, 1877, and 
was buried in Bethel Cemetery; his widow lives 
with her sons on the home place. 

Isaac K. Lemasters, whose name opens this 
sketch, married, in 1800, Miss Lizzie Devore, 
who was born August 9, 1850, a daughter of 
Moses Devore, a resident of Harrison County, 
and the young couple immediately settled on 
the home place, where they have since resided. 
The following named children have been born 
to them: Stewart Glenn, born December 12, 
1876; Edna Browning, born February 16, 
1879, and Mary May, born October 2, 1881. 




OBEBT MITCHELL. The name of 
Mitchell is one of the oldest and most 
highly honored in Harrison County, and 
has ever been identified with all the 
movements tending to the promotion of the 
county's interests, either financially or socially. 
The ancestry of this family were from the high 
lands of Scotland, rugged sons of " the land of 
the mountain and the flood," who transmitted 



to their descendants those principles of honesty, 
shrewdness and industry peculiar to the race. 

John Mitchell, the father of the gentleman 
whose name heads this sketch, came from Scot- 
land in early youth, locating at first in Maryland, 
whence, after a short sojourn, he moved I" 
Steubenville, Ohio, and shortly after to Archer 
Township. Harrison County, where he met and 
married Mis-, .Mary, daughter of Rudolph Hines, 
a resident of Cadiz Township. Heir Mr. Mitch 
nil built him a small log cabin, which still stands 
alongside the present commodious brick residence 
— a contrast suggestive of the industry and per 
severance of their present owner. Nine sons 
and three daughters were born to John and Mary 
(Hines) Mitchell, all now deceased except Rob- 
ert. The parents have both departed this life, 
the father when seventy two years of age, and 
they lie side by side in the Moravian Ridge 
Cemetery. They were members of the Seceder 
Church, which they generously supported. Mr. 
Mitchell, politically, was a prominent Whig, and 
a stanch adherent of the principles of that party. 
His brother. Robert, was a veteran of the War 
of 1812, serving with distinction under Gen. 
Harrison. 

Robert Mitchell, the subject proper of this 
personal narrative, was born January 5, 1816, 
on the place where he now resides in Archer 
Township. Harrison Co., Ohio, and until he was 
twenty-eight years of age he remained at home, 
attending the common schools in boyhood, and 
assisting his father in the duties of the home 
farm. On January 2, 1845, he was married to 
Eliza Jane, daughter of James Atkinson, of Ar- 
cher Township. Harrison County, where she was 
born June 10, 1823. Soon after marriage they 
purchased a small farm and commenced house- 
keeping in a frame building, very limited in its 
proportions, in which they lived until by hard 
work and economy, they were enabled to add 
ninety acres to their farm and build their pn-ent 

eleganl residence, which stands on tl astern 

slope of a magnificent hill, commandinga view of 
the surrounding country rarely equaled. Five 
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, 



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as follows: Jane, born October 31, 1845, mar- 
ried to John Biggar, February 2, 1865, died 
June 30, 1871, leaving three children, one of 
whom died in infancy, July 22, 1871 (the others, 
Laura and William, are residing with their 
grandfather); John R., born March 11, 1847; 
James A., born March 13, 1851; William, born 
August 19, 1853 (deceased); Mary E., born Sep- 
tember 2, 1855, married first to Clarence Hav- 
erfield, and after his death to Hamilton Lisle. 
The parents are members of the United Presby- 
terian Church at Cadiz. In politics Mr. Mitch- 
ell was an ardent Whig, and on the organization 
of the Republican party he became united with 
them. He is clear-headed, a stanch upholder of 
the right, arriving at conclusions only after ma- 
ture deliberation and thorough examination, 
openly espousing whatever side of an issue he 
may consider best for the interests of his fellow- 
citizens. His present condition of prosperity 
he has secured by his frugality and close atten- 
tion to business. Commencing at the foot of 
the ladder, he has, rung by rung, ascended in 
the social scale until he is now recognized as one 
of the most solid farmers in his township. His 
farm has reached its present state of cultivation 
and improvement by his own labor, supple- 
mented by that of his amiable wife. The build- 
ings are substantial, neat and pleasing to the 
eye. And here at the age of seventy-four years, 
spent in honest toil, he rests from his labors, a 
worthy representative of the early honest set- 
tlers who made the land from a wilderness to 
blossom as the rose. 



Ji W. GALLAHER, a genial restaurant 
keeper at Means, Harrison County, is a 
_J son of W. C. and Ellen (Green) Gallaher, 
natives of Harrison County, Ohio, former 
of whom, a son of William, was born in 
Union County, Penn., of Irish descent. J. W. 
Gallaher, our subject, was born in German 
Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, November 14, 
1844. He spent his boyhood days on the farm, 
and in January, 1862, he ran away from home, 



and enlisted in the United States service, in 
Company G, Seventy-fourth Regiment, O. V. I. ; 
he served four months, when his father took him 
out of the service. Again, in May, 1863, he 
ran away, and went into Company H, One Hun- 
dred and Seventy-sixth Ohio State Militia, in 
which he served four months as a private. In 
December, 1865, he married Miss Sarah E. Bar- 
rett, a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Con- 
well) Barrett, and after his marriage he went 
to Cadiz Junction, where he commenced in the 
grocery business; there he stayed till 1874, and 
then moved to Illinois, where he was in the 
hotel business till 1877, when, in company with 
another man, he drove to the Black Hills, in 
search of gold, taking four months to make the 
journey, and in the fall they drove home. Next 
spring the gold excitement broke out in Lead- 
ville, and thither he went, remaining until 1880, 
then returned to his home in Illinois, and in the 
spring of 1881 again went to Leadville; in 1882 
he proceeded to New Mexico, prospecting and 
raising vegetables. In 1883 his family returned 
to Ohio, and in the fall of same year went to 
Peachcreek, Oregon, where he ran a stationary 
engine for the A. & P. R. R. Company; in the 
spring of 1884 he returned to New Mexico, and 
traded his ranch for property on Gold Avenue, 
Albuquerque, N. M. ; then sold this property 
and returned to Ohio, where he bought the 
property which he now owns. Our subject and 
wife have had born to them six children, named 
Lemuel J., Francis O, John C. (killed by cars 
October 11, 1881), Jessie B., Willie (died Octo- 
ber 14, 1881) and Annie B. In 1886 Mr. 
Gallaher helped to capture a party of burglars 
that had stolen about $250,000 from a bank in 
Cadiz, for which he received $1,000. 



ARAH ANN CANNON was born July 
27, 1820, and in 1844 was married to 
William Mills, a native of Jefferson 
County, Ohio, born September 1, 1811, 
and died November 25, 1864. John Mills, 
father of William, was born in County Down, 



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Ireland, November 18, 1766, and died in Car- 
roll County, Ohio, April 29, 1853. Alexander 
Mills, the father of John, was born in County 
Down, Ireland, December 11, L738, and died 
December 4, 1815. The father of Alexander 
died February 10. 1776. John Mills, in his 
old age, moved from Jefferson County, Ohio, 
to Carroll County, where his son, Alexander, re- 
sided. Two, only, of Alexander's children are 
now living: Ithamar and Shane, and both are 
farmers of Carroll County. 

William Mills grew to manhood in Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, and worked in his father's 
saw-mill until he got hurt in digging a race, 
after which he taught school until 1837. He 
then came to New Athens, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
and entered Franklin College. Afterward he 
studied medicine under Dr. Enoch Thomas, of 
the same place, with whom he practiced for 
three years. In 1844 he was married to Sarah 
Ann Cannon. Beginning in autumn of the 
same year he attended a course of lectures at 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Penn., 
after which he continued his practice alone in 
New Athens for nearly twenty years. Pre- 
viously, however, he had purchased a farm, 
and to this he retired a few months before 
his death, but still pursued his practice. Here 
he died in his fifty-third year, the father of 
eight children, viz. : Rachel Jane, James Al- 
len, Moses Cannon and John Sullivan (all de- 
ceased); Jesse Lewis, in Kansas; Mary E., 
Mrs. Dr. J. H. Irwin, in Oregon; Nancy Pris 
cilla. Mrs. Dr. James A. Calhoon, of Pitts- 
burgh, and Robert Emmett, deceased. 

For her second husband Mrs. Mills mar- 
ried Joseph Dickerson, a native of Pennsylva- 
nia, and son of Thomas Dickerson, who came 
to Athens Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 
1800. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson came 
from the farm to the house in which Mrs. Dick- 
erson now lives, in New Athens, where Mr. 
Dickerson died in the spring of IS77. lacking 
only twenty days of being eighty-one years of 
age. There were no children born to this 
union. Since the age of sixteen Mrs. Dicker- 



son has been a devout and consistent member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



TOHN ALEXANDER VOOEHES, one of 

w. I the best known citizens and one of the 
S^J oldest residents of North Township, liar 
rison Co., Ohio, was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, October 20, L823, and is :, 
of Jacob Voorhes, a native of New Jersey. 
The Voorhes family originally came from tier 
many to America in 1670. The grandfather of 
our subject, Jacob Voorhes, a tailor by trade, 
weighed about L30 pounds, which was in great 
contrast with the balance of the family, who 
were tall, strong and robust men. Jacob Voorhes, 
the father of our subject, when a young man, 
came to the then Far West, and for some time 
resided in Jefferson County. Ohio. He learned 
the trade of a cabinet maker in Wellsburg, W. 
Va., under the father of Hon. Edwin M. Stan 
ton. Subsequently he built a cabin in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, for his father, who, with his 
family, came to Ohio in 1803, and entered a 
tract of wild land in Jefferson County. Some 
time later he went, to Pennsylvania, and worked 
at his trade in Fayette County, and there met 
an. I married Elizabeth Gaskell, daughter of 
Budd and Hannah G. Gaskell, the former of 
whom was a soldier in the War of the Revoln 
tion. Some years later the father of our sub- 
ject,and his wife, came to Jefferson County,* >hio, 
to live, and John A., our subject, was the firsl 
child born to them after their arrival. In March, 
L833, the family moved to North Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and here purchased lTL'i 
acres of land, mostly wild, on which the par 
ents ended their days, the mother "lying Janu- 
ary 16, 1876, at the age of eighty-one years, 
and the father July 4, same year, at the age 
of eighty-nine. Nine children were born to Ja- 
cob and Elizabeth Voorhes. viz. : Samuel Sickles. 
a miller and farmer; Andrew Linn, deceased; 
Charles P., an attorney in Millersburg, Ohio; 
John Alexander, our subject; Crawford B., in 
Scio; Louise, Mrs. Benjamin Simms, in Missouri: 



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George W., a tailor, who lived in Coshocton 
County, Ohio, and died November 11, 1890, at 
the age of sixty years; Jacob Ogden, in Uhrichs- 
ville, Ohio, and Richard Marion, an attorney in 
Coshocton, Ohio. The parents were members 
of the Disciples Church. In politics Mr. Voorhes 
was a Democrat, although strongly auti slavery. 
John Alexander Voorhes was but nine years 
of age when he came on foot from Jefferson to 
Harrison County, and when about a mile from 
his destination — the farm which he now owns — 
the poor boy broke down from exhaustion. He 
recovered in a short time, however, and man- 
fully struggled on until the desired point was 
reached. Here he early took his ax and helped 
to clear the farm from the forest, and to build 
up a home. His aged father and mother were 
poor, although the father bad made consider- 
able money while in Pennsylvania, which, un- 
fortunately, he lost by going security for his 
friends. With filial affection our subject cared 
for his parents until the end, and also did much 
to advance the younger members of the family. 
The father was blind for fourteen years. The 
marriage of John A. Voorhes took place in 1864, 
with Miss Ann, daughter of Patrick and Hanora 
(Hickey) Doyle, natives of Ireland, who came to 
America when their daughter Ann ..was eleven 
years old, she having been born in 1S42. She 
had made her home with the Voorhes family, 
and it was during this period that our subject 
formed an affection for her. To this union have 
been born four children, named as follows: 
Andrew Linn, John Edward, Mary D. and Will- 
iam Doyle. The mother departed this life July 
2, 1890, at the age of forty-eight years. In 
politics Mr. Voorhes is a Democrat, but is not a 
blind partisan. He has differed from his party 
on many points, more especially in the slavery 
question, and has exercised his own judgment 
in voting for a candidate. For himself he has 
never sought an office, finding it to be more prof- 
itable and more to his taste to attend to his pri- 
vate affairs. Although not a member of any 
church, he is a man of strong mural convictions, 
and is charitable to a fault. His dwelling, which 



is a very pleasant one, was erected in November, 
L863, soon after the Civil War, and is situated 
three quarters of a mile northeast of Scio. For 
twenty-two years Mr. Voorhes has been away 
from his home four nights only, and, during the 
past thirteen years, for not a single night. He 
has now retired from hard work, leaving the 
cultivation of the farm to his sons. 

Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, of whom mention 
has already been made in this memoir, was a 
classmate of Charles F. Voorhes, brother of our 
subject, and was a frequent visitor at the home 
of his father. The maternal grandfather of our 
subject, Budd Gaskell, a blacksmith by trade, 
died in Crawford County, Penn. The mother of 
Mrs. Ann (Doyle) Voorhes died when Mrs. Voor- 
hes was but six years of age, leaving four chil- 
dren, viz. : Mary, Mrs. Patrick Kinney, of Steu- 
benville, Ohio; Ann, Mrs. Voorhes; Kate, Mrs. 
Thomas Kinney, and Michael, who died in I860. 
Upright in all his dealings, John A. Voorhes en- 
joys the esteem of his fellow- townsmen to the 
fullest extent. 




4LLIAM B. LAW, one of the well- 
known and respected citizens of North 
Township, Harrison County, is a na- 
tive of the county, born in Monroe 
Township, February 22, 1841, of Scotch-Irish 
descent. His grandfather, John Law, was a 
physician, school teacher and civil engineer in 
his native land (Ireland), but after coming to 
America in about 1828, he became a farmer. 
He had married in the " Emerald Isle " a Miss 
Lynn, by whom he had nine children — two 
sons. Matthew and Henry, and seven daughters. 
Charlotte (wife of William Beatty, living in 
Licking County, Ohio), Fannie (widow of John 
McMillan, and living in Harrison County, Ohio), 
Rebecca (deceased wife of Robert Irvine), Mrs. 
Margaret Simpson (in Stock Township), Mrs. 
Mary Simpson (who died in Illinois). Mrs. Jane 
Humphrey (widow, residing near Cadiz, Harri- 
son County), and Elizabeth Birney, widow of 
Robert Birney (deceased), resident of Harrison 



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County, Ohio. The grandparents, with their 
family, came to Harrison County, entering 160 
acres of land, on which they erected a log 
house in Monroe Township, in about 1828. 
Here John Law died in 1859, at the age of 
ninety four years and three months, his wife 
following him to the grave shortly after, when 
in her eightieth year. 

Matthew Law, father of William B. , was 
about twenty years of age when he came to 
America. He married Rebecca Birney, of 
Green Township, Harrison County, and they 
then settled on the old homestead of his father 
in Monroe Township. They had born to them 
four children, as follows: John, in Monroe 
Township; William B., in North Township; 
Robert B. , also in North Township, and Jane, 
who died in infancy. The mother died in Sep 
tember, 1864, at the, age of forty-eight years, 
and Mr. Law then (his sons having married 
and taken up homes of their own) broke up 
housekeeping, and went to live with his son, j 
Robert B. , at whose home he died September 
9, 1879, when aged seventy-one years. He 
was at first a prominent Whig, and on the 
question of foreign enfranchisement became a 
Democrat; he was not an aspirant for county 
office, but held several positions of trust in his 
township. He and his wife were members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

William B. Law attended the common 
schools of the district, completing his education 
at Hagerstown Academy in 1861. He also was 
school teacher. In October, 1862, he was mar- 
ried to Rebecca J. Forbes, by whom he hail 
three children, viz.: James F., a farmer in Car- 
roll County; Edgar W., at home and attending 
school at Scio College, and Mary, in Illinois. 
Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Law 
came to the place in North Township where he 
has ever since carried on farming. Iu January. 
1888, he took, for his second wife, Florence, 
daughter of William and Nancy (English) Don- 
aldson, by whom he had a son, Berlin D. Law, 
born October 4, 1890. Politically Mr. Law has 
always been a Democrat, and, although living 



in a Republican township, his popularity has 

placed him in public positions of trust. For 
four terms (twelve years I be was justice of the 
peace in North Township, tilling the office with 
ability. He was a member of the board of edu- 
cation for about twelve years, resigning the po- 
sition when he was elected justice of the peace. 
Mr. Law's farm of '254 acres is situated on the 
township line, near Connotton, where he is en- 
gaged in breeding tine stock, making a specialty 
of Shorthorns (being the first to introduce that 
1 need of cattle into the township I. draft horses 
and roadsters. He is also general agent, for 
eastern Ohio, for the Manhattan Life Insurance 
Company of New York, organized in 1850. He 
united, in 1862, with the Presbyterian Church 
at Xew Hagerstown, Carroll Co., Ohio. 




K. HAVERFIELD, manufacturer of 
sash, doors, blinds, etc., Jewett, Har- 
Ifj rison County, is a son of John and 
Emeline (Lavely) Haverfield, and was 
born in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
January 23, 1854. He was reared on his father's 
farm, and finished his education at Hopedale 
Academy in the winter of 1874-75. On May 
20, 1875, he married Miss Annie Humphrey, 
who was born June 19, 1853, a daughter of 
William and Jane (Law) Humphrey, natives of 
Ireland, the former born in 1812 and the latter 
in 1813, both of whom came to Ohio in 1818, 
where they were married. William Humphrey's 
father was Thomas Humphrey, and Jane Law's 
father was named John. Thomas Humphrey 
died in Ireland, and William came to Ohio with 
his mother. The Laws and Humphreys settled 
in Monroe Township! Harrison ( ounty, on what 
is known as Plum Creek. 

After our subject's marriage his father 
him a farm iu Stork Township, where lie re 
mained till 1S80. He then went to Kansas and 
to Denver, Colo., where he stayed till the spring 
of l s ^7, when he returned to Harrison County, 
Ohio, settled in Jewett, and bought of John K. 
Miller a planing-mill, and a line residence that 



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was partly finished. Mr. and Mrs. Haverfield 
are the parents of one child, Clara, born June 
30, 1883. Both are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Mr. Haverfield has been 
mayor of Jewett for the last three years. 



ARLETON ADOLPHUS SKINNER, a 
well-to-do farmer, is one of the best 
known citizens of Moorefield Township, 
Harrison County. His father, Samuel 
Skinner, was a son of Joseph, a native of 
France, born June 14. 1766, and whose wife 
was a native of Scotland, born December 21, 
1770. This couple immigrated to the "United 
States in an early day, and settled near the 
Natural Bridge in Virginia. They were the 
parents of nine children, as follows: William, 
Philip, Madison, John, Joseph. Samuel, Charles, 
Nancy Hull and Lucy Willis. They remained 
in Virginia some years, then removed to Mor- 
ristown, Belmont County, Ohio, where they 
spent their last days, Joseph dying April 18, 
1837, his wife having preceded him to the 
grave January 5, 1811. 

Samuel Skinner was born in Virginia on 
January 26, 1794, and was quite young when 
brought by his parents to Ohio, where he grew 
to manhood. On July 22, 1817, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Catherine Clements, who was born 
August 14, 1796, a daughter of Abraham Clem- 
ents, of Guernsey County, Ohio, and by this 
union there were two children, viz. : Malinda 
Martin, born in 1818, and died September 5, 
1864, and C. A., born August 18, 1829. About 
1820 Samuel Skinner removed to Moorefield 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he opened 
a saddle and harness shop, having learned his 
trade of William Skinner, of Washington, Ohio. 
At this he worked several years in Moorefield, 
during which time he purchased 222 acres of 
land. Politically, he was a Whig, and for thirty 
years was a justice of the peace in Moorefield 
Township, being at his time considered one of 
the best exponents of common law in the 
county. He was well known throughout the 



county, and highly respected by all. Mr. Skin- 
ner departed this life June 2, 1860, his wife fol- 
lowing him to the grave April 3, 1885, and their 
remains rest in Moorefield Cemetery, an elegant 
monument marking their last resting place. 

C. A. Skinner was born where he now re- 
sides in Moorefield Township, Harrison County. 
His school advantages were somewhat limited, 
as he had to follow the plow when only twelve 
years of age, doing a man's work, but, being 
gifted with energy, ambition and an active 
mind, he acquired for himself a practical busi- 
ness education. In 1858, while at work in the 
harvest field, he received a sunstroke, from 
which he did not recover in several years. On 
July 3, 1856, Mr. Skinner married Miss Lucy 
A. Thompson, who was born January 8, 1S26, a 
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Hague) 
Thompson, residents of Moorefield, Ohio. The 
family on Mrs. Thompson's side were Quakers, 
her ancestry being English, and bearing the 
name of Towner; Mr. Thompson's family were 
people of Ireland. To Mr. and Mrs. Skinner 
were born four children, who all died in early 
infancy. In the summer of 1875 Mr. Skinner 
repaired the old residence, and now has one 
of the finest homes in Moorefield Township. 
In politics he is a stanch Republican, but never 
ran for office until the fall of 1890, and he is now 
a member of the State Board of Equalization. 



djAMES ROSS ROBERTS, harness-maker 
| and saddler, Jewett, Harrison County, is 
i a son of Robert and Ruth (Atkinson) 
Roberts, natives of Virginia. Robert 
Roberts was one of a family of five children born 
to his parents, viz. : Samuel, Alexander, William, 
Robert and Mary. Robert was born in 1790 in 
Brooke County, Va. (now W. Va.), and thence 
came to Jefferson County, Ohio. During his 
boyhood days, however, he had been in Steu- 
benville, Ohio, where he had been employed in 
the gunshop of James Ross, the gentleman from 
whom our subject derives his name. He was 
charmed with the State, and when, in 1817, he 









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married Miss Ruth Atkinson. Annapolis, Jeffer- 
son Co., Ohio, was the home of their choice. 
Miss Atkinson was a daughter of James Atkin 
son. and was one of a family of eight children, 
all of whom are now deceased. At Annapolis, 
Ohio, Robert Roberts was engaged in work at 
his trade, that of gunsmith, until 1827, when he 
removed to a farm in German Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, belonging to Mrs. Roberts, left 
her by her father, James Atkinson, known as 
.Section No. 27, and divided, at Mr. Atkinson's 
death, equally among five heirs. Here the 
elder Mr. Roberts died in 1834, and here he lies 
buried in the family burying ground, on part of 
the old homestead; Mrs. Roberts lived on in her 
widowhood until 1885, when she entered into 
rest. To them were born eight children, by 
name, William (deceased), Thomas (deceased), 
George, Mary (deceased), J. R., Ellen, John, 
and Caroline (deceased). 

James Ross Roberts, the subject of our 
sketch, was born in Annapolis, Ohio, May 20, 
1826, and was only eighteen months old when 
his parents removed to German Township, Har- 
rison County. After the death of his father, in 
1SH4. he began to work for the neighboring 
farmers, during the summer, for the small pit- 
tance he could earn, and spent the winters 
in working for his board and attending school. 
At sixteen years of age he entered the harness 
shop of John Land as an apprentice. Mr. Land 
left the county, after which Mr. Roberts, then 
a oung man of good habits and with a deter- 
n.' nation to succeed, went to Steubenville, Ohio, 
and Pittsburgh, Perm. , in search of a situation. 
No one would take an apprentice unless he 
would agree to serve five years for his board and 
clothes. This, Mr. Roberts thought, was too 
much to require of an apprentice, therefore he 
began learning the trade of a mason, at which 
he was engaged for two years. He then entered 
a harness shop with a Mr. Hughes, who had 
come from Pittsburgh. Penn.. to Jefferson 
County. Ohio, where our subject remained four 
years. In February, 1851, he married Miss 
Dillie Ann, a daughter of Samuel and Eli 



Potts, natives of Ohio, and to this union were bora 
three children: Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Miller, 
now deceased; Samuel, an operator in Dennison, 
Ohio, and Richard, deceased in infancy. The 
wife of his youth died in 1856, and in 1858 
Mr. Roberta married Miss Margaret Hyder. 
daughter of George and Catherine (Oulp) Ryder, 
who were among the early settlers of German 
Township, Harrison County. To this union 
have been born live children: l\atie Bell, wife 
of Mindeu Hall, assistant train master. Crafton, 
Penn. ; John, an employe of a railroad company 
in Dennison, Ohio; Thomas, brakeman on the 
W heeling & Lake Erie Railroad; McClellan, 
conductor on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Rail- 
road, and William, conductor on the Pan Handle 
Railroad. Both our subject and wife are active 
and influential members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and are highly respected by a 
wide circle of acquaintances for their many 
sterling qualities. Mr. Roberts lias served in 
the capacity of clerk for German Township, six 
years, as clerk of Rumley Township, twelve 
years, and as justice of the peace in Rumley 
Township, nine years, which facts go to attest 
to his many excellent business qualities and the 
soundness of his judgment. 



/^EORGE MARTIN. Few indeed are the 
-. men who, like the subject of this sketch. 
\*Jl' have spent more than the allotted three 
■Ji score and ten years in Harrison County, 
Ohio. George Martin was born March 1, 1817, 
on the farm owned by Aaron 1!"<>. and not more 
than one half mile from his present residence. 
Fifteen days after his birth his parents. Arthur 
Martin, a native of Ireland, and Margaret Mar- 
tin, nee Urey, of Lancaster County. P< ., re 

moved to the farm where the balance of their 
lives was spent, and where our subject and his 
family now reside. George Martin was a young 
man whose lightness of spirits ami jollity eon 
tributed largely to the merry-makings of the 
early day. and he grew to manhood much as 



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did other farmer boys of those early days. On 
January 3, 1853, he married Miss Kachel H. , 
daughter of John and Matilda Kennedy, she 
being a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. In 
February following their marriage they came to 
the home which they never left till the wife and 
mother was carried out to the " silent city of 
the dead." She departed this life January 17, 
1881, aged forty-nine years, leaving three chil- 
dren: Angelina (now Mrs. A. B. Conwell, in 
Kansas), William Hamilton and Orlando K. (at 
home). In 1877 Mr. Martin lost the sight of 
his left eye, and the other in sympathy becom- 
ing threatened and beginning to fail, he went 
to the medical department of the State Univer- 
sity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, to have an 
operation performed with the hope of saving 
the sight, but in spite of all that could be done 
the sight gradually became dimmer, until at 
last the final flickering spark of day went out, 
leaving him to grope his aged way in midnight 
darkness. His farm is cared for by his sons. 
George Martin's work is finished. The feet 
that once led lightly in the dance now slowly 
pick their tottering way. The brain that once 
so earnestly laid plans for the future now lives 
only in retrospect. The ears, that once heard 
the words, of comfort and cheer from the de- 
parted wife, now, blunted to the sounds of earth, 
are rendered more alert to catch the first vibra- 
tion of the summons to the final reunion. One 
of But four, who, as early as he, were in this 
part of the county, he will ere long be gone, 
and the sods falling upon his coffin will echo 
back that another pioneer is departed, and one 
long to be remembered. 

Orlando K. Martin, his youngest son, was 
born July 23, 1S57, and his home has ever been 
made upon the farm. On July 23, 1884, he was 
married to Miss Alma E. Carson, daughter of 
D. L. and Ella (Wells) Carson, and a native of 
Harrison County, Ohio. One child, Clara B., 
has been born to them .... William H. Martin, 
the elder son of George Martin was born in 
1855, and still remains on the farm unmarried. 
Both are Republicans in sentiment. 



IiEWELL E. HILLYER, a prosperous 
^ I young farmer and a son of George and 
\J) Amelia (Edna) Hillyer, was born March 
12, 1848, in Franklin Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where he has passed his whole life. 
He was reared on the home place, on which he 
performed all the duties demanded of a farmer's 
son, until he reached his majority, when, his 
father's health having failed, he was placed in 
full charge. On November 26, 1873, Jewell E. 
Hillyer married Miss Susan, daughter of John 
R. and Martha Melany, and the results of this 
union are two children : Harry E. , boi - n August 
26, 1874. and John S., born October 11, 1877. 
Like George Hillyer, his father, Jewell E. was 
identified with the Republican party, but lately 
has been a Prohibitionist, and. while not seek- 
ing the emoluments of office, still does his share 
of party work. Since the foundation of the 
Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs, the Hill- 
yer family have been among its stanchest sup 
porters, and this immediate family are no ex- 
ception to the rule. Jewell E. Hillyer is an 
entirely self-made man, as he began his business 
life with hardly any means of his own, but he is 
now the owner of 225 acres of excellent land, 
;n a high state of cultivation, and is engaged in 
the breeding of the better grades of stock, more 
especially blooded horses, in which he has 
achieved a most enviable reputation. He is 
highly esteemed among his neighbors as an en- 
terprising, industrious and thrifty young man, 
and as the embodiment of integrity. 

George Hillyer, father of our subject, was 
born in England, on the Isle of Wight, Hants 
County. Thomas Hillyer, father of George, 
also a native of England, where he was married 
to Ann Rogers, came with his family to Amer- 
ica, landing in New York, where they remained 
some time, and then proceeded to Franklin 
Township. Harrison Co., Ohio, where his de- 
scendants still reside. The family comprised 
the following children: George, William, Ann, 
Mary Ann. Elizabeth and Henry. In 1842, 
paring a visit to England, Thomas Hillyer died, 
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1857, when she too passed away. George Hill- 
yer was about sixteen years of age when he was 
brought to America, and soon after his majority 
he was married to Amelia Edna, daughter of 
Jewell Edna, of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, and the children resulting from this 
union were Thomas, Robert (deceased), Mary 
Jane, Caroline (deceased), Henry, Jr., William 
A., Louisa, Jewell E., Edward (deceased), Silas 
(deceased), Emma and Albert. George Hillyer 
was first an active Whig, and then a Repub- 
lican. He was among the organizers of the 
Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs, and was 
always one of its liberal supporters and consist- 
ent members. He died in December, 1886, and 
was buried beside his wife who had died in 1871. 



Ei D WARD STANTON McFADDEN was 
born in Athens Township, Harrison Co., 
I Ohio, January 14, 1S57, and is a son of 

John J. and Easter (Clifford) McFadden. 
He grew to manhood on the home farm, and was 
educated primarily at the common schools, but 
subsequently attended the college at New Athens. 
He then became a teacher in the l; Irish Ridge " 
school for two years, and during this period he 
married Miss Anna, daughter of Samuel and 
Mary (Richey) McFadden, of Cadiz. The young 
couple passed their first year of married life in 
the town of Cadiz, and then moved to the vil- 
lage of Moorefield, where, for five years, Mr. 
McFadden was employed as a clerk by A. J. 
Schreiber & Son. On December 1, 1885, he 
purchased the store and stock of James Day, in 
New Athens, where he still carries on business. 
His stock in trade consists of groceries, queens- 
ware, and the other line of goods usually kept in 
what is denominated a "general store," and his 
affability and suavity have won for him a class 
of substantial customers who cling to him. His 
children are two in number: Lillian M. , born 
June 23, 1881, and Bessie S., born September 
12, 1883. 

In politics Mr. McFadden is a Democrat, 
and under the auspices of that party is filling 



the position of township treasurer. Mrs. Mc- 
Fadden is a member of the Presbyterian Church 
of New Athens, and, like her husband, holds 
the esteem of all who know her. Mr. McFad- 
den, who represents one of the pioneer families 
of Harrison County, well sustains the enviable 
reputation of the family. He is strictly honest, 
and fearlessly stands for his convictions of right. 
In business he is progressive, keeps abreast of 
the times, and manages it so that it pays. He 
makes his home in the same building which con- 
tains his store, and which is located on the 
"Pike,*' the main thoroughfare. 



AMUEL SNEDDEKER, an old time 
farmer of German Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, was born in Wayne Township, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio, February 0, lNl'J, 
and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Cutshall) 
Sneddeker, natives of Pennsylvania. John was 
a son of Garrett Sneddeker, who was an early 
settler in Pennsylvania, Washington County, in 
which county John Sneddeker was born, in 
1789. Garrett Sneddeker raised a family of 
four children, named John, Jacob, Elizabeth 
and Polly. John Sneddeker was brought to 
Ohio about 1800, and here he married Elizabeth 
Cutshall, a daughter of Nicholas Cutshall, 
who came to German Township, Harrison 
County, in 1800. Mr Cutshall built the first 
mill ever built in German Township, having 
both horse and water power, and comprising 
both saw- and grist-mill; the stones he used in 
grinding are still near the place where the old 
mill stood; the farm is now owned by Irven 
Naragon. In 1816 John Sneddeker purchased 
120 acres on Section 1, German Township, 
where he cleared about ten acres, built a small 
log cabin, and died the same year, tin' father 
of a family of four children, as follows: Re- 
becca, wife of Jacob Dimmire. of Jasper County, 
Iowa: Samuel, the subject of this sketch; Gar- 
rett, who died in iufane\ ; and Elizabeth, de 
ceased. 

Samuel Sneddeker, after his father's death. 



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stayed on the farm till 1826, when he went to 
Hopedale, Green Township, Harrison County, 
to learn the tanning trade, and remained there 
until 1833, when he returned to the old home 
to help his mother. October 30, 1849, Mr. 
Sneddeker married Miss Mary J. Glasener, a 
daughter of Garrett and Ann (Maholm) Glas- 
ener, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to 
Cadiz, Ohio, in 1800. After his marriage Mr. 
Sneddeker bought forty-four acres of land in 
the western edge of Jefferson County, near his 
mother's farm, where he lived for six years, 
when he sold and came to where he now lives, 
and bought 116 acres, about one mile north of 
Miller's Station. His mother died September 
19, 1875, and our subject is now owner of the 
old homestead, to which he has added fifty-nine 
acres. He has as comfortable buildings as there 
are in the township, and is one of the leading 
farmers of Harrison County. Mr. Sneddeker 
and wife have had born to them nine children, 
viz.: Margaret and Deborah, deceased; Anise, 
wife of John Grable, farmer in Jefferson County, 
Ohio; Florence, wife of John Kirkpatrick; Mary 
J., wife of James Buchanan; John, in Brule. 
Keith Co., Neb., and Rebecca, Bethia and Sam- 
uel, all living at home. 



d/OSEPH SMITH (deceased). Some are 
strengthened by adversity and hardship, 
while others, less strong, are brokon down 
and destroyed. Among the former class 
are those hardy pioneers who, though poor in 
worldly goods, were still rich in energy, resolu- 
tion and perseverance, braving successfully the 
dangers and difficulties attendant on the settle- 
ment of a new country. 

Among the residents of Archer Township, 
none have labored more assiduously than the 
late Joseph Smith, who was born February 11, 
1801. His parents dying when he was a young 
child, he was thrown on the tender mercies of 
strangers. In his tenth year he joined the fam- 
ily of Frederick Zeller, for the purpose of learn 
ing the blacksmith's trade, which he followed 



at intervals, but much of the time was passed 
in assisting on the farm. With this family he 
remained until he was of age, when he purchased 
a set of blacksmith's tools, and commenced to 
work for his old employer. In this he engaged 
for some time, but finally, as the trade was injur- 
ing his health, he sold his tools and embarked in 
the milling business, which he followed for near- 
ly eight years. He then purchased a small farm, 
but this he soon after sold, and bought the farm 
now owned by Thomas Baker. This he retained 
for some time, but finally disposed of it, and re- 
moved to Perry County, Ohio, where he engaged 
in buying and selling coal, making a handsome 
profit. He remained there for a time, and then 
upon the death of his wife, he determined to re- 
turn to the scene of his childhood, trusting 
that familiar scenes and faces might tend to 
cheer him, and soon after returning he pur- 
chased the farm which he still owns. On May 
15, 182S, he was married to Rachel, a daughter 
of Peter Hayes, one of the early residents of 
Archer Township. Together they traveled life's 
pathway, sharing each other's joys and sorrows, 
until September 7, 1863, when the loving wife 
departed on that journey from which none re- 
turn, and was buried in Perry County, this State; 
she was a member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. 
Smith, soon after returning to Harrison County, 
was married May 17, 1865, to Jane, daughter 
of Henry Easlick, one of the highly respected 
families of Archer Township, who were among 
the oldest settlers of Harrison County, and 
among those most highly respected and esteemed. 
The family are all deceased, except three sisters 
who live in Archer Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty. Joseph Smith died June 28, 1890, a mem- 
ber of the Lutheran Church. In politics he was 
a Democrat, and cast his first vote for Gen. 
Jackson, for whom he voted three times. He 
was ever an interested observer of all matters of 
State and Nation, and up to the day of his death 
evinced a knowledge of the affairs of the present 
time seldom equaled by any. His memory to 
the last was excellent, and all his senses were in 
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proachableness of character and unquestioned 
integrity make one deserving of a place in the 
esteem of his fellow-citizens, Mr. Smith surely 
occupied a high one. 



»r="] DWIN S. WOODBORNE, one of the 
1^1 most esteemed citizens of Harrison Coun- 
IL^ ; ty, is a native of England, horn in 
Somersetshire, May 14, 1817, a son of 
James W. and Jane (Scott) Woodborne, the 
former of whom died when Edwin S. was some 
six years of age. In 1825 our subject immi- 
grated to America, landing in New York, where 
he remained eleven years engaged in the trades 
of plumber, printer and blacksmith and car- 
riage-maker. In 183G he moved to Newark, N. 
J. ; in 1838 he proceeded from there to Carroll 
County, Ohio, where he carried on his trade 
(blacksmith and carriage-maker), and in 1841 he 
moved to Germano, in German Township, Har- 
rison County. While here he was elected 
sheriff of the county, serving until 1860, having 
been re-elected. In the early part of the latter 
year he came to Scio, where he commenced car- 
riage-making and the manufacture of agricult- 
ural implements, from which he retired in 1875. 
For some twelve or thirteen years he also car- 
ried on a livery business in Scio. While in 
Carroll County Mr. Woodborne was married to 
Annie Roudebush, whose parents were among 
the first settlers of Carroll County, and by this 
union there were born three children, of whom 
the following is a brief record: George W. is a 
physician in Uhrichsville, Ohio (he was recorder 
of the county two terms); Margaret Catherine 
is the wife of D. C. Foster, and they reside in 
Uhrichsville; Tobias R. is postmaster at Denni- 
son, Ohio. In 1877 the mother died at the age 
of sixty-five years, and in 1S81 Mr. Woodborne 
became united in marriage with Mrs. Mary E. 
Smith, widow of George W. Smith, and daugh- 
ter of Michael and Margaret (Stites) Rawlings. 
She is a native of Harrison County, Ky. , born 
in 1833. Mary E. Rawlings was first married 
in 1854 to George W. Smith, of New York City, 



who died of paralysis in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
1878. In the War of the Rebellion he served 
under Col. Ellsworth, and was wounded at the 
first battle of Bull Run. 

Mr. Woodborne served his adopted country in 
the Civil War by enlisting, in 1863, in Company 
F, Ninety-eighth O. V. I., which regiment was 
sent to Tennessee and Georgia, and was with 
Shermau; but being forty-six years of age, and 
not well able to stand the fatigue, and, more- 
over, having been injured (from which he has 
never yet recovered), he applied for a discharge, 
which was granted him in 1865 by order of 
President Lincoln. His youngest son was in 
the same company and went with Sherman to 
the sea, and his eldest son was one of those who 
were in the charge near Petersburg, being 
severely wounded in the head. George W. . the 
eldest son here alluded to, first enlisted in Com 
pany E, Eighty eighth O. V. I., June 10, 1862, 
to serve three months, and was discharged Sep- 
tember 26, 1862; was enrolled on August 2, 
1863, to serve six months, but was discharged 
to be enrolled in the three years' service, or 
during the war, and was finally discharged May 
19, 1865. Oar subject assisted in enlisting 
several companies in the county. He is a Repub- 
lican in politics; is a member of the F. & A. 
M.. the I. O. O. F., and also of Welch Post, No. 
422, G. A. R., at Uhrichsville, Ohio. 



li IrANCE WILSON KAIL, a thriving 

ls*| farmer of Rumley Township, Harrison 

1 County, was named for one of the first 

•fj 8i tilers of Steubenville, Ohio, who was 

also one of the wealthiest men of Jefferson 

County, this State. Mr. Kail was born March 

11, 1829, in German Township, Harrison Co., 

Ohio, a son of Jacob and Mary (Whitmore) 

Kail. Jacob Kail was a son of John and 

Catherine (Rouch) Kail, natives of eastern 

Pennsylvania, who migrated to Harrison Countv . 

Ohio, in 1800, and settled in German Township. 

near where our subject's brother, John Kail, 

died in September, 1890. Here John Kail, the 



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father, built a small cabin, turned the forest 
into tine pastures and meadow lands, and en- 
dured all the hardships of the early days. This 
couple were born in Pennsylvania about 1775, 
and Mrs. Kail departed this life in 1870. To 
this worthy couple were born eight children, 
named as follows: Henry, Frederick, John, 
Polly, Margaret, Nancy, Annie and Jacob. 

Jacob was born in Pennsylvania in 1798, but 
he was reared to manhood in the wilderness of 
German Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. Just 
before the War of 1812 closed he enlisted in the 
United States service, but before he was put 
into actual service peace was declared. He re- 
turned home, married and settled on the old 
farm. To this union were born nine children, 
as follows: Betsy, wife of Jacob Bosley, farmer 
in German Township; George, deceased; Lu- 
cinda, in a Western State; Samuel, deceased; 
John, deceased; Lovina, in Kansas; Hance W., 
our subject; Enoch, in Conrad Grove, Grundy 
Co., Iowa. Jacob Kail departed this life in 1874. 
His wife was born in 1798, and died in 1S52. 

Hance Wilson Kail grew to manhood in Ger- 
man Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and re- 
ceived his education in the common schools, 
but he could attend school only about, three 
months in the year; yet, being desirous of hav- 
ing a better education than the average boy of 
his day, he spent his leisure hours in study, 
thus obtaining a practical business education. 
August 24, 1854, he married Miss Elizabeth 
Bricker, born May 2, 1838, a daughter of Henry 
and Mary Ann (Smith) Bricker. After his 
marriage he remained on the old farm for two 
years, and then removed to Burnley Town- 
ship, in 1857; he purchased the farm he now 
owns of 101 acres, on which he settled in 1859. 
He has been very successful in farming, and has 
a comfortable home. His faithful wife departed 
this life October 1, 1889. For many years Mrs. 
Kail was an active member of the United Breth- 
ren Church, in early days, but in past years 
failed to attend, and she was highly respected 
by all who knew her. This couple were parents 
of six children, as follows: George W., in 



Rumley Township; William D., in Rumley 
Township; Mary H, wife of James Carpenter, 
of Scio, Ohio; Delilia A., Henry H. and John 
W. , reside at home. Of these children Henry 
H. was married October 2, 1890, to Miss Cora 
M. Burrier, of Harlem Springs, Ohio; Miss 
Delilia A. was married December 23, 1890, to 
Enoch J. Russell, of Gallia County, Ohio, Mr. 
Kail is an active worker in the United Brethren 
Church, which he joined in March, 1880, and is 
one of the leading men of his township. 




cott, 



EN JAMIN CALCOTT. Among the time- 
" honored early settlers of what is now 
Carroll County, Ohio, was the worthy 
couple, Robert and Ann (Heritage) Cal- 
who were industrious farmers. They were 
married in England, and some twenty years 
later came to America and to a farm in Carroll 
County, where they died, she in 18G0, and he in 
1865. They had a family of five children, as 
follows: Robert, a sketch of whom is given 
below; Edward (now deceased); Valentine, liv- 
ing in Iowa; Grace; and Ann, married to Peter 
Hendricks, and living in Iowa. Of these, Grace 
they left in England, she having married. 

Robert Calcott, son of Robert and Ann Cal- 
cott, was twenty years of age when he came 
from England, where he had been a baker and 
had also worked as a wool comber. After com- 
ing to America he became a farmer, which occu- 
pation he followed for a time in Carroll County, 
whence he moved to Tuscarawas County, where 
he secured a farm. He then married Miss 
Catherine, daughter of Benjamin Robinson, a 
farmer from Pennsylvania, who died in Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio, and the young couple 
then settled on a farm in that county, where 
Mr. Calcott died in July, 1885, at the age of 
seventy years, having been preceded to the 
grave by his wife who died of typhoid fever iD 
1804, at the early age of thirty-five years. 
They had born to them eight children, viz. : 
Benjamin, whose name appears at the head of 
this sketch; Edward, Ann, John, Orpha, Naomi 



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and Emma (all deceased, live of them having 
died of typhoid fever at the time of their 
mother's death), and James A., residing on the 
old home place in Tuscarawas County. 

Benjamin Calcott, the subject proper of 
these lines, received a good common-school edu- 
cation, and was reared to a thoroughly practical 
farm life. In 1869 he was united in marriage 
with Jenette, daughter of John and Ann Me 
Landsborough, and born in Harrison County. 
After their marriage they made their home on 
the farm in Tuscarawas County until April 4, 
1882, when they came to their present place, 
situated one and a half miles west of Scio. To 
this union were born seven children, as follows: 
William E. , Catherine Ann, John Robert and 
Alice, all at home, and Edward, an infant, and 
Mary, deceased. Mr. Calcott in his political 
preferments is a Republican. For four years he 
has been trustee of North Township, and is now 
serving the last year of his second term. He is 
associated with the K. of P. and he and his 
wife are members of the Lutheran Church in 
Tuscarawas County. His tine farm, consisting 
of 285 acres, less fourteen taken by the railroad 
company, is known as the old Peter Trushel 
Farm. Mr. Calcott is widely and favorably 
known as a thoroughly progressive man, always 
among the foremost to advance the interests of 
his township, county and State. 



It SRAEL RANKIN, the only representative 
of one of the oldest families in Harrison 
I County, was born November 20. 1830, and 
is a son of James and Hester (Earley) Ran- 
kin. His early life was spent in assisting in 
the duties of the home farm, and in attendance 
at the district schools of his neighborhood. Au- 
gust IS, 1870, he was married to Sarah, daugh- 
ter of Adam Dickerson, and settled on the place 
where he was born and still resides, and when'. 
until August 29, 1886, his wife shared his joys 
and sorrows. Her remains now rest quietly in 
Rankin Cemetery. His children axe named 
Elizabeth Jane, James Jamison and William 



Dickerson. From his early youth he has been 
an earnest supporter of the Democratic party, and 
has held various offices in the gift of the people, 
as trustee, land appraiser, etc. He has always 
taken an active part in the political movements 
of his township, and has never missed an election 
since he was of age. Like his ancestry he has 
been a member of the Uankin Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, and has held all the offices in that 
organization, and now occupies a prominent po- 
sition in its financial and temporal welfare. He 
is a member of the F. & A. M. at Flushing, No. 
298, in which he has been worshipful master for 
the past twenty live years. He was high priest 
of Cadiz, R. A. Chapter, No. ( .«. ami a Sir Knight 
at St. Clairsville Hope Commandery, No. 26. 
He is the only man in the township who has the 
order of high priesthood, which was conferred 
October 11, 1866, at Toledo. He is also a member 
of the Masonic Veterans of Ohio, organized at 
Columbus, Ohio, in 1870, by John D. Caldwell, 
of Cincinnati. Prominent in social, financial, 
religious and secret organizations, he is one of 
Harrison County's representative men. Follow- 
ing is a chronological sketch of the Rankin fam- 
ily, as represented by it in Harrison County. 
William Rankin, the progenitor of the 
family in this country, was born in Scotland 
about the year 1720, and emigrated in the eight- 
eenth year of his age to try his fortune in the 
New World. He settled in Virginia in the 
Shenandoah Valley, and was married to Mi 
Abigail Tassia; and the fruits of this marriage 
were nine sons and two daughters, as follows: 
William, David, Matthew, John, James, Zaccha, 
Thomas, Mary, Abigail, Samuel and Jesse. 
From there, with the exception of the son Will- 
iam, they moved to Washington County, IVnn.. 
where the father purchased a tract of 1,800 
acres, of Col. Crawford, and lived in a block 
house or fort on the waters of the Raccoon 
Creek, in what is now known as Mount Pleasant 
Township. James was subsequently killed by 
the Indians on his way to Pennsylvania from 
Kentucky, where he had purchased a large tract 
of land. Thomas, in after years, moved to 



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Harrison County, Ohio. Jesse Rankin, the 
youngest son of William, was also one of the 
early pioneers of Ohio, but did not remain here. 
Thomas Rankin was married to Miss Nancy 
Foreman, and by this marriage were born five 
children, as follows: James, William, David, 
Jane and Nancy. Thomas remained in Wash- 
ington County, and participated in many battles 
with the Indians, one of which was the Poe 
battle, at the mouth of Tomlinson Run, on the 
Ohio River, and in this right there were 
three Indians to one white man. Mr. Ran- 
kin had taken shelter behind a tree, and an 
Indian seeing him there, drew his gun to fire, 
but in cocking it he broke the main spring; one 
of his comrades seeing the situation, fired and 
killed the Indian, when Mr. Rankin picked up 
the Indian's gun and participated in the tight. 
In 1805 he came to Ohio and settled in Moore- 
field Township, Harrison County. The Rankin 
Methodist Episcopal Church was the third or- 
ganization of the kind in eastern Ohio; located 
in Moorefield Township, and organized in 1815, 
on land given as a donation by Thomas Rankin, 
by a deed, dated, 1819. This church was first 
organized by Rev. James Roberts and Thomas 
Dickerson about 1814. Among the names found 
enrolled at that time were Thomas Rankin, Sr. , 
Mary Rankin, James Rankin, Hester Rankin, 
Arthur Barrett, Sr. , Isaac Barrett, William 
Jones, Rachel Jones, Sarah Foreman, Martha 
White, Mary A. Moffit, Mary Love, John Porter, 
Samuel Jones, and others. Having no house 
in which to worship, this faithful band of pio- 
neer Christians was compelled to worship in the 
log cabin of Thomas Rankin. The first trustees 
of the church were Thomas Rankin, Leonard 
Barnes, Ephraim Sears and Edward Ruby. 

James Rankin, the eldest son of Thomas 
Rankin, was born in Mount Pleasant Township, 
Washington Co. , Penn., December 22, 1784, and 
was married to Miss Hester Earley, December 15, 
1809. Miss EarJey was born May 31, 1793, 
near Chartiers Creek, Washington County, 
Penn. They were surrounded by a family of 
eight children, as follows: Jane, Thomas, Mar- 



garet, Nancy, Sarah, William, Matilda and 
Israel, of whom three are dead, Jane, Thomas 
and William; they all became heads of families. 
During the War of 1812 Mr. James Rankin 
served a term as a minute-man, and in 1813 
settled in Harrison County, Ohio, on the farm 
where Israel Rankin now resides. 

Thomas Rankin died May 12, 1832, and his 
remains were followed to the cemetery adjoin- 
ing, and Rankin Church by a large concourse of 
mourning relatives and friends, their loss being 
deeply deplored. 



JjOHN HARRISON, one of the best known 
| citizens of North Township, Harrison 
I County, and ranking among the most pro- 
gressive agriculturists of Harrison County, 
was born July 10, 1830, on the farm where he 
now lives. 

The grandfather of our subject, also named 
John Harrison, first came fron England to this 
country in 1814, and traveled as far west as 
Pittsburgh, Penn. ; he then returned to the old 
country and in 1816 came back to America, and 
here became the pioneer of all the English fam- 
ilies that settled in North Township. John 
Harrison returned again to England in 1823, 
where he died ten years later at the age of sev- 
enty-five years. He had been a farmer ail his life, 
and owned in England 114 acres of prime land. 
His wife also died in that country. 

Joseph Harrison, father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born on a farm known as Stub 
bens' Farm, near Otley, Yorkshire, England, 
and was reared to agricultural pursuits. In 
1816, when sixteen years old (being the youngest 
son but one in the family), he came with his 
father to America, locating on land in Harrison 
County, some eighty acres in extent, where their 
first residence was a primitive log cabin, and 
here they commenced the labor of clearing a 
farm. In 1823 Joseph made a trip to England, 
and in 1826 returned to America. In 1828 
Joseph Harrison was married to Miss Ellen, 
daughter of Christopher Hartley, of Carlton, 



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237 



England, who was a pioneer of Harrison County, 
having left his family in England on the occasion 
of his first trip to America; afterward, in 1820, 
he brought out his family, all settling in North 
Township. He died in 1864, at the age of 
eighty six years, and his wife, Mary, in 1867, 
when aged seventy eight; they were the parents 
of seven children. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Har- 
rison settled on the place where their son John 
now lives, their first dwelling being the old log 
cabin, and in 1835 they built the house that is 
now standing on the property. They were the 
parents of three children, viz. : John and Will- 
iam, both in North Township, and Joseph, who 
died in 1847, at the age of seven years. The 
mother was called from earth in 1853, at the 
age of forty-seven years. Joseph Harrison went 
back to England in 1854, but returned to North 
Township the same summer, and in 1857 mar- 
ried, for his second wife, Sarah Herron, who 
died in 1890, aged seventy-seven years; he de- 
parted this life April 13, 1878. Mr. and Mis. 
Harrison were members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and in politics he was a Democrat 
up to the time of the anti-slavery movement, in 
1846, when he became a Free-Soiler, and after- 
ward he joined the Republicans; he was no as- 
pirant for office, but filled acceptably the posi- 
tion of township trustee. 

John Harrison, the subject proper of this 
sketch, attended the common schools of the dis- 
trict during the winter months, working on the 
farm, summers. On April 22, 1852, he was 
married to Miss Euphemia, daughter of John 
and Isabella (McMillan) Patterson, who were 
married in 1824, and are both now deceased, the 
mother in 1846, and the father in L859, his 
death being the result of an accident, he having 
been thrown from a cart. The Pattersons had 
come to Carroll County in the early part of the 
century. Mrs. Harrison's grandmother was Ro- 
benia McKelvey, and her great-grandmother was 
Ann Shearer, a native of Scotland. To our 
subject and wife were born twelve children, of 
whom the following is a brief record: Joseph 



T. is an attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio; James 
a farmer in the State of Washington; 
John P. lives at the parental home; Charles 8. 
is a resideni of Pratt County, Has. -. William 
and Isabella are twins, the former living in San 
Bernardino, Cal., and the latter at Elm Creek, 
Marshall Co., Kas.. married to Nelson Garter; 
Ellen is at home with her parents; Abraham L., 
born February 28, INtil, is deceased, and bnried 
at Gunnison, Colo.; Thaddeus, Euphemia. Mil 
ton and Virginia are all yet at home. 

Mr. Harrison's farm of 712 acres in North 
Township is situated a mile and a half north of 
Scio, and has been, for the most part, devoted 
to stock-raising, at one time exclusively to the 
breeding of sheep, but dairying is now the lead 
iug industry, Mr. Harrison shipping large quan- 
tities of milk to Pittsburgh, Penn., and else- 
where. Within two and a half years he paid 
to the railroad company for freight of milk 
alone $975. having shipped in 1888, 12,115 gal- 
lons: in 1889, 15.170, and in L890, 1 1,760. He 
is the largest land owner in his township, and 
also has property in Carroll County. After he 
had bought his farm the title was contp-.ted.the 
final result of which was that he had to pay for 
it a second time. Politically. Mr. Harrison has 
always been a Republican, and held strong anti- 
slavery sentiments. He filled the office of land 
appraiser, and at one time he was a member of 
the Grange. He introduced into his township 
the first mowing machine, in 1857. and had the 
first tile manufacturing concern in the vicinity, 
which he carried on eleven years, up to 1887, 
supplying much of the tiling in the township. 

William Harrison, brother of John, was born 
October 29, 1837, on the home farm, where he 
remained till twenty one years of age. In the 
fall of 1860 he was married to Elizabeth. daugh- 
ter of William and Ann (Wallace! Waddu 
and a native of Harrison County. Her father 
was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1815, and 
in 1835 came to America; her mother was born 
in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio, locating in 
Harrison County, where the two met and were 
married in February, 1839; they were residents 



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of Harrison County for a time, but subsequently 
settled, with their family, on a farm in Tuscara- 
was County, and are now deceased. They had 
ten children, as follows: James, in Christian 
County, 111.; Elizabeth, Mrs. William Harrison; 
John, William Henry and Mary Jane, all died 
when young; Sarah, Amos, Isaac and David 
Fillmore, near New Philadelphia, and Elmer, in 
Columbus, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. William Harri- 
son, for two and a half years after their mar- 
riage, resided on a farm adjoining their present 
place, to which they removed in 1863, and most 
of the improvements thereon were made by 
them, the dwelling having been erected in 1882; 
the farm, situated two miles from Scio, contains 
167 acres of excellent land. They have been 
blessed with a family of ten children, viz. : El- 
mer, died when one and a half years old; Mary, 
wife of Melvin Leggett, lives near Leesville, 
Carroll County; Annie is at home; Hannah 
died in infancy; Edgar, Laura, William, Grace, 
Joseph and Florence are all under the parental 
roof. Mr. Harrison is a Republican, and has 
twice served as township trustee; in his affilia- 
tions he is associated with the I. O. O. F. Mrs. 
Harrison is a member of the Lutheran Church. 



I OHN SMYLIE. The Revolutionary War 
V I was ended, America was declared the land 
SfJJ of liberty, and she offered her protection 
to the oppressed of all nationalities. 
Those who could no longer brook the tyranny 
of the effete monarchies of Europe, and were 
animated by an independent and resolute spirit, 
resolved to throw off the yoke, and, bidding a 
sad farewell to the home of their nativity, 
turned their faces to the western hemisphere, 
and, after landing on American soil, plunged 
into the heart of an unexplored country, there 
to make a new home. Brave indeed were these 
hardy adventurers, who formed the vanguard of 
advancing civilization, and among these none 
were more hardy, none more patriotic than those 
who came from the Emerald Isle, the land of 
Moore, Curran and many other brilliant men. 



Among the immigrants from Ireland was 
David Smylie, one of the early settlers of Wash- 
ington County, Penn., whither he removed in the 
latter part of the seventeenth century. In his 
early manhood, before leaving his native land, 
he had chosen as his life partner Miss Sarah 
Jane Coon, who accompanied him to the land 
of his adoption. Here he engaged in the tailor- 
ing trade, which he followed for about ten 
years, and soon he removed to Westmoreland 
County, and tbence, in 1815, to Cadiz, Harri- 
son Co. , Ohio, where the remainder of his life 
was spent. He occupied the residence recently 
owned by Rev. Grimes, deceased, on Wheeling 
Street. His family consisted of three sons and 
one daughter, all of whom are now deceased. 
On September 13. 1843, he died, and a few days 
later he was followed by his beloved wife. They 
were buried side by side in the Ridge Church 
Cemetery, Archer Township. 

Of the children born to David Smylie was 
William, born in Washington County, Penn., in 
1794. He received his education in the com- 
mon schools, and in early life learned the black- 
smith's trade, which he followed for about 
thirty-five years. Soon after abandoning that 
place he opened a shop in Hickory village, 
Washington Co., Penn., where he did a flourish- 
ing business until 1825, when he removed to 
Ohio. Here he purchased a small farm in Ar- 
cher Township, and also carried on a shop, re- 
maining about nine years; then sold out and 
purchased the farm <of about 180 acres, now 
known as the James Fisher Farm, in Archer 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. He remained 
on this place until 1855, in which year he re- 
moved to Washington County, Iowa, where he 
purchased 640 acres of land, and on which he 
remained until his death. In 1S20 Mr. Smylie 
was married to Rachel, daughter of James Bor- 
land, a prominent farmer of Butler County, Penn., 
and fourteen children were born to them: David, 
James, Margaret, John, Samuel, Robert, 
Matthew, Hugh, Thomas, Sarah Jane, Milliam, 
Joseph, Rachel, David, all now deceased 
except James, John, Robert, Samuel, Hugh, 



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Joseph and Rachel. In February, 1858, the 
father died and was buried in Iowa; in March, 
1875, his widow departed this life, and was 
laid beside him. He was a man of strong 
convictions and unimpeachable integrity, and 
was numbered among the progressive and sub 
stantial citizens of Harrison County. 

Of the sons born to William and Rachel 
(Borland) Smylie, none are more prominent in 
the history and progress of his county than 
John. Born November 9, 1826, in Archer 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, he has ever 
since been numbered among its representative 
citizens. His youth was spent at home, he 
having the entire charge of the home place as 
soon as he was old enough to do work, his two 
older brothers having gone to learn trades. 
His father carried on the trade of blacksmithing, 
and had but little oversight of his son, who, by 
his innate judgment and foresight, became one 
of the most successful farmers of any in his 
section. On May 1, 1849, he was united in 
marriage with his present wife, Julia A., 
daughter of George Cox, a resident of Archer 
Township, this county, and soon after his mar- 
riage Mr. Smylie purchased eighty acres of 
land at $20 per acre, which he purchased 
largely on credit, but by untiring energy and 
unabated zeal, united with prudence and econ- 
omy, he and his wife soon had the place paid 
for. most of the money coming from the sale of 
wheat which they made into flour and sold for 
*'-.' .50 per barrel. In 1857 he sold his farm at 
an advance, and purchased 121 acres also in 
Archer Township, which he kept for seven 
years, and then sold and purchased a large 
tract consisting of 205 acres. Here he remained 
seven years, and then removed to the place on 
which he now resides, which contains 1 59 acres 
of as excellent farming land as any in the 
county, and here he carries on general farming 
and raises all kinds of stock. His buildings 
are large, and exceedingly well adapted for the 
purposes for which they were erected. His 
house commands one of the prettiest views in 
eastern Archer. His family consisted of children 



named as follows: Mary M. , W. H., George 
W., Jennie, John M., Samantha (born July 1, 
1861, died in September, 1865), Flora, Hugh 
S. In politics .Mr. Smylie was educated a Dom- 
ocrat, but is not bound to party lines, and now 
votes according to his convictions. He is rigor- 
ous in his denunciation of what he considers 
wrong and unjust. Among the various posi- 
tions of trust in which the voters of his town 
ship have placed him may be mentioned that of 
trustee, which he held for some time. He has 
been director of his district for thirteen years. 
Mr. and Mrs. Smylie are among the most prom- 
inent members of the Presbyterian Church. 

Mrs. Julia A. Smylie' 8 grandfather, Richard 
Cox, with his wife, came from Holland in the 
latter part of the seventeenth century and landed 
in New Jersey, where he bought a farm, but 
sold it a few years later and came to Ohio, and 
bought a farm in Jefferson County, and on part 
of this farm, Steubenville, the county seat, oow 
stands. The cemetery at Steubenville now holds 
his remains. His son, George Cox (father of 
Mrs. Smylie), sold this farm to Bazaleal Wells, 
and in the early part of the eighteenth century 
bought a farm in Harrison County, about one and 
one-half miles west of Cadiz, at six dollars per 
acre. This place was all timberland, excepting 
a few acres around the cabin, but Mr. Cox 
soon had a field cleared for wheat and corn, and 
his sugar and molasses were obtained from the 
sugar trees on the place. He built a frame 
house, resided on the farm a few years, then 
sold out and bought another farm of two hun- 
dred acres in Archer Township. This place he 
put in charge of his eldest son for three years, 
while he had charge of the Harrison County In 
fixmary. 

George Cox was born in 17S1, and in 1808 
married Sarah Titus, who was born in 17^1. 
To this union were born eleven children: Mary, 
Hiram and Rachel, born in Steubenville; Jere- 
miah, George, Jonathan. Sarah, Obadiah, John, 
Judy A. and Martin — all now dead excepting 
Mary, George, Judy A. and Martin. George 
Cox died September 12, 1849, in the sixty fifth 



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year of his age, and his weight, just before 
death, was a fraction over 400 pounds. His 
widow lived until her ninety-first year, and her 
remains rest with those of her husband in Ridge 
Church Cemetery, Archer Township. They 
were members of the Presbyterian Church, she 
having joined that society in 1819. 

The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Smylie, 
Mr. and Mrs. Titus, came from Wales to Jeffer- 
son County, and after living there a few years 
moved to Harrison County, where Mr. Titus 
kept a hotel a few miles southwest of Cadiz, 
and was so engaged during the War of 1812. 
When the war ended, forty soldiers, on their 
homeward way afoot, poorly clad and hungry, 
were cheerfully furnished with a dinner by 
Jonathan Titus, without charge, and went on 
their way rejoicing. 



DAVID ALLISON, for over sixty-five years 
a resident of Harrison County, where he 
__ is widely known and universally re- 
spected, was born in Stark County, Ohio, 
April 20, 1820. His father, James Allison, was 
a native of Ireland, and in 1805, when fifteen 
years of age, came to America, settling in Phil- 
adelphia, where he had relatives, and where he 
was living at the time of the yellow fever epi- 
demic. James Allison served an apprenticeship 
of three years to the saddle and harness busi- 
ness, in Pittsburgh, Penn. , and then moved to 
Cadiz, Ohio, where he married Miss Margaret, 
daughter of William and Margaret Hervey. The 
•grandmother Hervey was a native of Ireland, 
whence she emigrated to this country, marrying 
here, and taking up her residence in Virginia, 
where she was living at the time of the Revolu- 
tionary War. Her husband died in that State, 
and she then moved, soon after, to Jefferson 
County, Ohio, settling on land now owned by 
the Young family. From Cadiz, after a resi- 
dence of about seven years, James Allison pro- 
ceeded to Stark County, whence, after a sojourn 
of seven years, they came, .in 1825, to Harrison 
County, and here purchased the farm in Green 



Township, which has since remained in posses- 
sion of the family. They were the parents of 
eleven children, a record of whom is as follows: 
Margaret was married to John Galbraith, and is 
now deceased; John Rea, David, Henry and 
Sarah reside in Green Township, Harrison 
County; James died in 1859; Mary Jane is now 
Mrs. John Hammond, with residence in Athens 
County, Ohio; Joseph is deceased; Elizabeth is 
married to Daniel Eaton, and lives in Jefferson 
County, Ohio; Belle lives in Green Township; 
Isabella died in 1830. The mother died in 1837, 
and the father in 1881, in his ninety-first year; 
until prevented by advancing age, he worked at 
his trade in connection with farming. 

David Allison was five years of age when he 
was brought by his parents from Stark County 
to Harrison, the journey being made in a wagon. 
He attended the old log school- house, which 
stood about one mile from where Hopedale now 
is, and in his boyhood learned the trade of a 
tanner, which for forty years he carried on in 
the same tannery where he served his appren- 
ticeship, portions of which are still extant. In 
lSi>4 he was married to Miss Mary, daughter 
of Levi Crouch, who lived in the house now 
owned and occupied by Mr. Allison, and which 
was built in 1817. Mr. Crouch was one of the 
pioneers of Green Township, and died in 1862, 
at an advanced age, his wife having preceded 
him to the grave. In 1865 Mrs. Allison passed 
from earth, leaving no children, and in 1867 
Mr. Allison chose, for his second wife, Martha 
E., daughter of Joel Smith, who died in Har- 
rison County when Martha was a child. Her 
mother is at present a resident of Stock Town- 
ship, Harrison County. By this union were 
born three children: Henry F., attending the 
University of Wooster, and Willard R. and 
Howard Smith, both at home. Politically Mr. 
Allison was originally a Whig, casting his first 
presidential vote for Henry Clay, and was among 
the number who, in the fall of 1844, raised a 
"liberty pole." 120 feet high, in the village of 
Greene, now Hopedale; on the formation of the 
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never missed an election. In 1840, when under 
age, lie participated in the Harrison procession, 
which was two miles in length, and was present 
at the political barbecue held on the premises 
of the father of John C. Jamison. For twelve 
years (from 1860 to 1872) he served as justice 
of the peace, and has been a notary public ever 
since; has been township trustee many years, 
and is at present serving in that position. Mr. 
Allison's farm of 220 acres adjoins the corpora 
tion of Hopedale, and here he is engaged prin- 
cipally in sheep-raising. On this farm there is 
abundance of coal to be found, which has been 
mined for twenty-four years. 

The Rev. John Rea, of Philadelphia, was 
a brother of our subject's grandmother, whose 
maiden name was Rea. This reverend gentle- 
man was licensed to preach in June, 1803, and 
his first sermon was preached the following Au- 
gust, in Welch's horse-mill, on the land owned 
by the late A. S. Simpson, Green Township, 
Harrison County. In the fall he returned to 
his family in Pennsylvania, but in 1804 was sent 
back to Harrison County, by the Ohio Presby 
tery, and, the church of Beech Springs being 
then organized, he preached therein continu- 
ously until 1848. 




F. CRAWFORD, a well-known, progres- 
sive agriculturist of Archer Township. 
Harrison County, is a native of Tuscara- 
was County, Ohio, having been born near 
Sherodsville, February 5, 1845, being the seventh 
in the family of Thomas and Eleanor (Guinea) 
Crawford. He was reared much in the manner 
of most farm boys, assisting and making his 
home with his parents until about twenty-three 
years of age, his educational training being con- 
fined to the schools of the neighborhood, which 
forty or fifty years ago were of a very primitive 
nature. On October 26, 1869, he was united in 
marriage with Miss Mary H. McFadden, daugh- 
ter of Nathaniel and Eliza (Green) McFadden, 
of whom mention is made elsewhere in this vol- 
ume. This union has been blessed with three 



sons, viz.: one born April 1, 1871. died in in- 
fancy, unnamed; Thomas N., born June 1, 
1874, and Lloyd P., born July 8, 1880. 

For three years after his marriage, Mr. 
Crawford operated his father's farm in Harri- 
son County, and then removed int.. the town of 
Cadiz, same county, where for six months 
he was the genial landlord of the hotel then 
known as the Cadi/. House, now as the Arcade 
Hotel. Our subject then permanently located 
on his present farm in Archer Township, com- 
prising 108 acres of prime land, all under culti 
vation and situated two and a half miles north 
of Cadiz. Mr. and Mrs. Crawl. ml are both 
members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz; 
in politics, he is, as was his father, a stanch 
and active Democrat. 



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NfATHANIEL McFADDEN. The hand 
of Death has been laid on most of the 
I early residents of Archer Township, 
Harrison County, and few are now left 
to tell the story of their pioneer hardships. Of 
the survivors none is more widely or favorably 
known than the subject of these few lines. Born 
in October, 1811, in what is now Cadiz 1 
ship, Harrison County, he has ever since made his 
home in Harrison County. His father. Samuel, 
was a native of Ireland, where he prepared him 
self for the practice of medicine, in which he 
achieved great success. In 1779, in company 
with a few others, he came to America, landing 
at Philadelphia. Remaining then, but a short 
time, he came to Middletown, Penn., when' he 
began the practice of his profession. He was 
an active politician, and held various oflic. s in 
his county, serving as sheriff for the full time 
allowed by law. His remains, together with 
those of his wife, rest in the cemetery at Cadi/. 
Dr. McFadden came to Harrison County among 
the earliest, and practiced his profession until 
his death. Before leaving his native country 
lie had been married to Nancy Logan, who, with 
their four children, accompanied him to A i . 
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was buried at sea. The other children of the 
family were as follows: Margaret, Mary, Thomas, 
Benjamin, William, Elizabeth, Sarah, Samuel, 
Jane, Nathaniel and Nancy, all deceased except 
the subject of this sketch. 

Nathaniel McFadden's early life was spent 
in farming. While yet a young man he was 
married to Eliza Green, daughter of John and 
Mary Green, natives of Pennsylvania, and mem- 
bers of the Society of Friends. Our subject 
and wife settled on a farm in Cadiz Township, 
and reared the following named children: Sam- 
uel (deceased), John (in Archer Township), 
William (in Kansas), Hezekiah (deceased), 
George (in Archer Township), Mary (Mrs. Rob- 
ert F. Crawford), Henry (in Kansas), Nancy J. 
(dead), and Elizabeth (dead). Mr. McFadden 
has been a life-long Democrat, and still takes a 
deep interest in politics. His family were mem- 
bers of the United Presbyterian Church at Ca- 
diz. Mr. McFadden justly enjoys the respect 
and esteem of a large circle of friends. 



IiOHN M. GREENLEES, a prominent and 
^ I representative business man of Franklin, 
\J) Harrison County, is a native of the coun- 
ty and is a son of William Greenlees, who 
was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1801. When 
but twelve years of age William Greenlees 
came to America and located at Pittsburgh, 
Penn., where he worked in a foundry. About 
1830 he married Miss Elizabeth McBeth, who 
was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., in 
1815, and who was of Irish descent. The 
young couple resided in Pittsburgh until five 
children had been born to them, one of whom 
died in infancy. About 1845 they came to 
Harrison County, Ohio, Mr. Greenlees having 
purchased a tract of land in Monroe Township, 
the previous year, from a Mr. Anderson, the 
deed to whom was signed by President Andrew 
Jackson. Here their family of children was 
increased to eleven in number, of whom all 
save William grew to maturity, viz. : Joseph 
E., Edward. Mary A., Elizabeth J., John M., 



David, William, James, Nancy M., Andrew and 
Martha B. Seven of these qualified for teach- 
ing school. 

Joseph E. Greenlees worked at clearing on 
the farm while a boy, then, when a man, he and 
Edward went to Illinois where they both taught 
school. Returning home in the early part of 
the war, Joseph enlisted and served three years 
in the One Hundred and Twenty- sixth O. V. I. 
He was criticized in camp for his observance of 
his Christian duties, and for organizing a 
prayer meeting. After recovering somewhat 
from a wound received in the battle of the 
Wilderness, he was appointed chief clerk in the 
hospital at Frederick, Md., where he changed 
from the study of theology to that of medicine, 
and while at the Eclectic Medical College in 
Cincinnati, to attend lectures in the fall of 
1866, took cholera and died the third day after 
leaving home. Edward Greenlees taught school 
for some years, then married Catharine Hamill, 
and engaged in carpenter work and stair build- 
ing; he took delight in the study of mechanics, 
and has worked on fine buildings in Kansas 
City, Collinwood, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. 
Mary A. died in 1863, aged twenty-one years, 
following her father from the ranks of the 
United Presbyterian Church on earth to the 
fold of the redeemed on high. Jennie E. is 
widow of Alvin V. Galbraith, late pastor of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Holliday'sCove, 
West Va. , where he died while in charge, his 
remains being interred at West Union, Ohio. 
Elisabeth J. (or Jennie) taught school when a 
girl, joined the United Presbyterian Church 
while young, and married Mr. Galbraith before 
he entered the ministry. She joined the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church with him, and has been 
a faithful worker for the Master ever since. 
She raised three daughters, the eldest of whom, 
Minnie, joined the church at ten years of age, and 
after thirteen years' faithful service for the 
Master died, after stating that she was ready 
and anxious to depart and go to her Father. 
John M., the subject of this sketch, is the next 
in order of birth. David, the next born, en 



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listed in the One Hundred and Seventieth Regi- 
ment, Ohio Infantry, in 186-4, served his term 
of one hundred days; but as he was but fifteen 
years old the exposure and marching brought 
on disease and he died in twelve days after his 
return home. In 1865 William died from 
bleeding at the nose, his sickness lasting but a 
week or ten days. Thus the widowed mother 
was called upon to part with four of her chil- 
dren in four years. The next child of the 
family, James, is a carpenter and builder at 
TJhrichsville, Ohio; Nancy M. and Martha B. 
are with their mother in Tennessee. Andrew is 
noted for his manliness, and at an early age 
united with the Plum Run Methodist Episcopal 
Church, of which he was soon made a class-leader 
and superintendent of the Sunday-school. In 
December, 1858, Mr. Greenlees, the father, 
departed this life, after having his children all 
promise to meet him in heaven. He was so 
strict that they had to black their shoes on 
Saturday for use on the Sabbath day, and as a 
result of this early training all the children 
joined church as they grew up. 

John M. Greenlees was born in a log cabin 
in Monroe Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, June 
14, 1846. Each winter he passed a few months 
at the old log school-house, wore homespun 
clothes, and for want of shoes in the frosty fall 
months ran to school to keep his feet from freez- 
ing. At the early age of fourteen years the 
management of the home farm fell upon him, 
but he conducted it in a manner that would 
have done credit to an experienced man. Dur- 
ing the dark days of the Rebellion he watched 
the struggle with anxious eye. He was patri- 
otic to the core, and his youthful years alone 
prevented his enlisting at the outbreak. When 
seventeen years of age, however, he put aside 
the plow, and in February. 1864, enlisted in 
Company I, Eleventh Ohio Cavalry. He was 
mustered in at Camp Chase and assigned to 
service in the Rocky Mountains, under Gen. 
Cook, and for two years and five months partic- 
ipated in contests with the Indians. May 28, 
1865, his company was attacked by an over 



whelming force of the redskins, who drove off 
all the mules ami horses, and left the little 
band sixty-five miles from Fort Laramie with- 
out rations or transportation. One horse, how- 
ever, picketed in the woods, was missed by the 
Indians, and on this a messenger was sent to 
the fort, and finally reinforcements came to 
their assistance. July 4, 1865, he was one of 
a party of eight who ascended to the top of 
Laramie Peak, an elevation of 11,000 feet. 
where they remained several hours and enjoyed 
a game of snow- ball. Near Fort Kearney, Mr. 
Greenlees for six weeks was laid up with the 
small-pox, and once, while lying on the wet 
banks of the Platte River, was attacked with 
asthma, from which he has never recovered. 
In July, 1866, he was honorably discharged 
from the service and returned home, where he 
attended school the following winter, and the 
following year attended New Hagerstown Acad- 
emy. In the fall he received a certificate as a 
teacher, and for twelve years followed the pro- 
fession. About 1870 Mr. Greenlees began 
reading law. and in 1871 he entered the Ohio 
State ainl Union Law College at Cleveland, 
from which he graduated in 1872, and was ad 
ruitted to practice in the United States Circuit 
Court at Cleveland, and in August, of the same 
year, he was admitted to practice in the courts 
of Ohio at Carrollton. He continued to prac- 
tice and teach school until his health failed him. 
when in August, 1879, he went into business 
with Frank Courtright, whom he later bought 
out. and continued in business on his sole ac- 
counl until 1885, when lie broke down. In 
]S7o Mr. Greenlees married Miss Mary J. 
Czatt, daughter of John Czatt. a representative 
and well to do farmer of Harrison County. 
From this union sprang Alvin. William Ellis 
and Bertha Edith. Mr. Greenlees and wife are 
members of the Methodist Protestant Church, 
and Lis walk through life shows the sincerity of 
his faith. In politics he was once a Repub 
lican, and under the auspices of that, party held 
various official positions, but afterward, without 
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Republicans, affiliated himself with the Prohi- 
bitionists, and was by this part}' nominated as 
their candidate for prosecuting attorney in 1888 
and 1890. Under the Republicans he had 
served for five years as township clerk, and six 
years as justice of the peace; at present he is 
notary public. 

The first-born son of Mr. Greenlees, Alvin, 
died in his fifth year. William Ellis Greenleos, 
the only grandson, is twelve years old, a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Protestant Church at 
Franklin with his parents, correct in his habits, 
of good disposition, and well advanced in his 
studies for his age, and it is to be hoped that 
he will perpetuate the memory of a family, who 
though not rich in this world's goods, took great 
pride in holding up the social and moral status 
of their community. 




i,ILLIA.MH. SCOTT,one of the honored 
and prominent old settlers of New 
Market (now Scio), in North Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, was born at Pigeon 
Creek, in Washington County, Penn. , January 
15, 1814, a son of Alexander and Gertrude 
(Kerr) Scott, the former a native of Ireland and 
the latter of Pigeon Creek, in Washington 
County, Pennsylvania. 

William Scott, the grandfather of William 
H. Scott, was also a native of Ireland, and was 
married in that country to Rebecca (maiden 
name not known), and emigrated to this coun- 
try at a very early day to try his fortune in the 
New World, and enjoy the principles of free 
institutions and freedom in all its varieties. He 
finally settled permanently near Pigeon Creek, 
in Washington County, Penn., where he engaged 
in the important duty of procuring for himself 
and family a comfortable home. 

He was a man of ability and energy, and of 
considerable influence among his fellow-men, 
and succeeded well in life. He filled some impor- 
tant positions in his township and in the Presby- 
terian Church, of which he and his wife were 



honored members for many years; and after 
having reared his family, and endured the hard- 
ships and privations incident to the early set- 
tlers, he and his wife died at their old homestead 
in Washington County, Penn., at greatly ad- 
vanced ages, having the respect and esteem of 
all who had known them. 

Samuel Kerr, also the grandfather of William 
H. Scott, was married to Rhoda Byshire, and 
was one of the early pioneer settlers of the Key- 
stone State, having permanently settled at what 
was then known as Pigeon Creek, in Washington 
County. Here they lived long and useful lives, 
and underwent many hardships and privations 
to establish a home, where they enjoyed the 
confidence, esteem and respect of all their neigh- 
bors. Here, surrounded with a comfortable 
home and pleasant family, having both lived to 
a ripe ohl age, they passed onward to the realms 
of happiness that await an honest Christian 
man and woman, in the land where the just and 
virtuous meet their sure reward. They were 
both members of th6 Presbyterian Church for a 
long number of years. 

Alexander Scott, father of our subject, came 
to America with his parents in his boyhood, and 
when a young man was sent to Kingston, Ja- 
maica, in the West Indies, to look after a cer- 
tain estate. He had a brother named Joseph, 
and a relative named Joseph Orr, who lived at 
or near the city of Kingston, in Jamaica, where 
he died, leaving an estate which consisted of a 
large plantation and other property, and who by 
the terms of his will left to each of his relations 
named "Joseph" a portion of his estate. Alex 
ander Scott was sent (as above stated) to investi- 
gate the matter and look after the interest of his 
brother Joseph, who was one of the legatees by 
the will of Joseph Orr (deceased), and he found 
that the report was correct. After considerable 
litigation and trouble, and passing through all the 
dangers incident to such a voyage on the seas, 
as well as enduring many hardships and priva- 
tions during his voyage, he by his energy and 
ability succeeded in securing the interest of his 
brother in his relative's estate, thus securing a 




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financial start in life for himself and brother 
Joseph. 

After an absence from home of six years in 
Jamaica, we find from the Royal Register and 
Jamaica Almanac for the year 1811, bound in 
leather and containing 230 pages, and printed 
by Alex Aikman, Jr., in Kingston, Jamaica, 
[two volumes, one of 1810, and one of: 181 1 are 
now in the possession of bis son William H.] in 
which he kept a memorandum of his voyage on 
his return from Jamaica, that he sailed for home 
from Morant Bay, Jamaica, on Monday, June L0, 
1811, at (') o'clock p. if., with a cargo of sugar, 
coffee, Jamaica spirits and wine, via Cape S. 
Antonio, west end of Cuba, and the Cox-Combs, 
and on Sunday, the 23d day of June, 1811, cast an- 
chor, before night, in the Bay of Matauzas. [sle 
of Cuba, where he remained until Tuesday. July 
2, then sailed at daylight, via Cape Florida and 
Nantucket Shoals, and on Tuesday, the L6th, in 
the evening made the Vineyard Island and cast 
anchor in four fathoms of water, and on Wed- 
nesday the 17th, sailed for Boston, where he ar 
rived on the 2.">th, following. Here he remained 
until the 19th day of August, when he took the 
stage for Providence, and then packet for New 
York on the 2 1 st, arriving in that city on the 24th, 
paying ten dollars for his passage. Thence he 
proceeded, on the 20th, by stage to Philadelphia, 
Penn.. and on the 8th day of September he left 
Philadelphia and proceeded to his home, arriving 
at his father's house in Washington County, 
Penn., on the 16th day of September, 181 1, after 
an absence from home of nearly seven years, 
amongst entire strangers. From his memoran- 
da we see that during the greater part of his 
voyage it was very hazardous and dangerous, 
having several severe storms, and nearly all the 
time heavy weather, fog and high winds. On 
several occasions they nearly lost the vessel and 
his entire cargo, a portion of which he disposed of 
by way of trade with the Spaniards at their vari 
oils ports where he landed for the purpose of 
trading with them. Five thousand dollars 
worth of the same he sold to a Boston merchant 
on sixty days' sight, which he lost by reason of 



the failure of the merchant; the balance of his 
cargo he sold to Philadelphia merchants. 

After returning to his home in Washington 
County. Penn.. he did not long remain inactive, 
but soon engaged in active life again, and 
opened out a general store; also operated a grist 
and carding mill, and for a number of years kept a 
hotel and owned and kept a six-horse team and 
driver on the road constantly, for a numl 
years, between his home and the city of Phila- 
delphia, which conveyed his produce and trade 
to the city and returned loaded with merchan- 
dise for his store. Having purchased what 
was then known as the Hazelett Farm, contain 
ing two hundred and thirty five acres, he 
erected on same the homestead, a grist and 
carding mill, which was operated by horse 
|iower, and a blacksmith shop, all of which he 
operated and controlled for a long number of 
years, employing several hands and workmen, 
renting the hotel in the meantime to a Mr. Key. 
hole. He also purchased and owned two other 
farms, containing about three hundred and ti ty 
acre--, near his homestead farm ; and at the same 
time owned a large dwelling-house in Washing- 
ton, Penn., a brick hotel in Hillsborough. Penn., 
and a stone hotel in Brownsville, Fayette Co.. 
Penn.. which he traded to Dr. Sweltzer Cor one 
thousand acres of land in Lower Sandusky, 
Ohio. In connection with his brother, Thomas, 
In' :ilso owned a farm and mill at Williamsport, 
Penn., where they were engaged in manufaotur 
ing flour, which they shipped to New Orleans 
by boat and sold, Alexander having made 
several trips with flour to New Orleans. He or- 
ganized a company for the purpose of building 
a pike, and was elected president of the same. 
and he built what was then known as the W ash 
ington and Williamsport Pike in Pennsylvania, 
and this position he held for a long muni 

and until his removal from the Keystone 
Stale. After his marriage lie u , is compelled, by 
reason of litigation in regard to the est: 
his deceased relative, Orr, to return to the city 
of Kingston, in Jamaica, where he remained 
for over two years, leaving his family and busi- 



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ness in charge of bis brother Joseph. Return- 
ing, he landed some time in the winter in Phila- 
delphia, where he purchased a horse and sleigh 
and drove to his home and family in Washing- 
ton County, Penn. , where he continued to re- 
side for a number of years. Finally he sold out 
everything he owned in Washington County and 
removed with his famity to near Zoar, in Tus- 
carawas Co., Ohio, where he purchased a large 
tract of land and engaged in farming and deal- 
ing in stock. Here he built and owned a large 
grist and saw mill at what is now known as 
Valley Junction, and owned a large warehouse 
at Bolivar, which was destroyed by fire, and a 
brick tavern in New Philadelphia. 

In 1813 Alexander Scott was married in 
Washington County, Penn., to Miss Gertrude, 
daughter of Samuel and Rhoda Kerr, who died 
in the Keystone State, and to this union were 
born the following named children: William 
H., the subject proper of this sketch; Samuel, 
in Uhrichsville, Ohio; Robert, who died in 
Uhrichsville; Albert, now living near New Cum- 
berland, in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio; Lewis L., in 
Waynesburgh, Stark Co., Ohio; Eliza, wife of 
Joseph Meek, of Washington, Iowa; Maria, 
deceased wife of the Rev. Moses M. Bartholo- 
mew, of Goshen, Ind. ; Sarah, deceased wife of 
John Ralston, of Spencer, Owen Co., Ind.; 
Caroline, wife of Dr. John C. McGregor, M. 
D., in Brazil, Clay Co., Ind., and Margaret, 
wife of Samuel G. Smith, Esq. , of Uhrichsville, 
Tuscarawas Co., Ohio. 

The father received his education in the or- 
dinary old log school-house of those days -in 
the Keystone State, and was a self-made man, 
one of more than ordinary ability — energetic 
and active all through life; a good financier, 
and a man of sound judgment, of great physical 
strength, and of considerable influence among 
his fellow-men. He was an active, honest and 
useful citizen, and his integrity was never 
questioned; his fairness was perfect and his 
active influence all through life was for good. 
He filled many important positions in life, and 
was a Whig in politics. Strict in his business 



affairs, he was most charitable and liberal toward 
others, and in his home he was hospitable and 
generous, loving the society of his friends; he 
was a good husband and kind father, was success- 
ful in his business, and left quite a large estate. 
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church 
from his boyhood, and had an abiding faith in 
the truth of the Christian religion, and his life 
was in accordance therewith. He died at his 
home near New Cumberland, in Tuscawaras Co. , 
Ohio, November 2, 1853, aged nearly seventy- 
eight years, loved and respected by those who 
knew him. The mother, who was also a life- 
long member of the Presbyterian Church, a 
noble and Christian woman, was called from 
earth April 5, 1868, when aged seventy-eight 
years. 

William H. Scott in his boyhood alternated 
according to the seasons between the farm and 
school, facing in summer the bright sunshine of 
heaven, and in winter the austere visage of the 
" dominie. ' ' He also worked in his father' s wool 
carding-mill, which was operated by horse- 
power, aud also worked about the store and hotel 
from time to time, and also taught school several 
winters in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, when a 
young man. Thus for the most part actively 
employed he remained at home until twenty six 
years of age, 1840, when, his father having pur- 
chased for him a grist-mill in New Market (now 
Scio) Harrison Co., Ohio, he proceeded thither 
in order to take charge of it. In 1854 he re 
tired from the milling business, having traded 
his mill for a farm in Tuscarawas County, sit- 
uated four miles from New Philadelphia, and 
then he engaged in mercantile business at New 
Market (now Scio), where he kept a general store 
and a good assortment of all kinds of goods for 
a number of years. He then moved to his pres- 
ent place in North Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, and in 1876 built the house in which he 
now resides, situated about one-half mile from 
Scio. He lived for a time on a farm where his 
son, James, now is, having bought the same in 
1861. His farm where he is calmly resting from 
his labors, once contained 300 acres, but he has 



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disposed of 171, so that only 129 acres are now 
left. In 1N42 Mr. Scott was married to Miss 
Jane, daughter of James and Arabell Whittaker, 
and by this union were born the following 
named children: Alexander, an attorney at law 
in Scio, Harrison Co., Ohio; James, a farmer 
in North Township; Maria, Christian and 
Thomas W. (twins) and William H.,h11 deceased; 
Mary Arabell, at home, and Caroline G., wife 
of Phillip C. Spiker, in Tippecanoe, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. The mother of these children died 
December 18, 1866, aged forty-eight years 
seven months and twelve days, leaving a large 
circle of friends and acquaintances to mourn her, 
and December 10, 1868, Mr. Scott was married 
to Mrs. Sarah J. Elder, daughter of Aaron Kerr, 
of Washington County, Penu. , and who died in 
Carroll County, Ohio. 

Alexander Scott, Esq., son of William H. 
Scott, was married to Miss Maggie A. Calhoon, 
and they have three children named as follows: 
Jennie, Ina Gertrude and Annie. 

Politically Mr. Scott was originally a Whig, 
his first presidential vote being cast for W. H. 
Harrison, and afterward, on the formation of 
the party, he became an ardent Republican, and 
he never sought office, but has held various po 
sitions of trust in his township, and has suc- 
ceeded well in life, having accumulated consid- 
erable wealth; and now at the advanced age of 
seventy-seven years, surrounded by all the com- 
forts of life, nature is blessing him with ex- 
tremely good health, and the respect and esteem 
of all who know him; and thus he is permitted 
to enjoy the fruits of a well-spent and useful 
life, which has been one of energy, activity, in- 
dustry and honesty, and he is a man of consid- 
erable influence among his neighbors. 

Mrs. Sarah J. Scott, present wife of W. H. 
Scott, was born in Washington County, Penn., 
May '24, 1827, and was married December 10, 
1868. She is a daughter of Aaron Kerr, who 
married Margaret Nevin, daughter of John Ne 
vin, a native of Ireland, who came to America 
when a boy. John Nevin was a member of a 
noble family, inherited a large amount of money. 



and at the proper age bought a farm in Beaver 
County, Penn. , which farm now holds within its 
boundaries some of the most valuable oil wells 
in the State. He died on this place, a member 
I of the Associate Reformed Church, and in poli 
tics a Whig. 

Aaron Kerrwas born in Washington County. 
Penn., and was a relative of Rev. Aaron Ken, 
of Scotland- the one who assisted in construct- 
ing the Westminster Confession of Faith. The 
uncle of Aaron, the younger Aaron Kerr, was 
a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, 
and served two terms. In 1831 Aaron, the 
younger, came to Carroll County, Ohio, and 
bought a farm, on which he died September 28, 
1856. He had served as township treasurer for 
a term or two, was a ruling elder in the Presby 
terian Church, and in politics was a Democrat. 
He was the father of nine children, born in the 
following order: Samuel Lewis, John Jackson. 
Sarah Jane, Joseph Alexander, Margaret Ann, 
Aaron Wylie, George Nevin, Robert Hervey and 
James McMillen. Of these, Samuel L. is a suc- 
cessful physician of El Paso. 111. ; he is a Free- 
mason, a Democrat, and a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. John J. is married to 
Cornelia E. Hutchinson; he kept a dry-goods 
store iu Washington, Iowa, for eight years, aDd 
thence moved to Wintersett, Iowa, and there 
kept a hardware store until his death, which oc- 
curred June 2, 1879. Joseph A. is a banker, 
living in Salem. Ohio, and is married to Carrie 
E. Grizzell. Margaret A., who died in 1869, 
was married to Uriah Coulson, an attorney at 
law, who served as captain in the Civil War. 
Aaron W. was married and went to Dallas, Tex., 
where he died of painter's colic. (ieorge N.. at 
the close of the Civil War, was appointed paj 
master,and sen! to New Mexico: In 'lived in Cotton 
wood Falls. Kas., until his death, November 14. 
1890. Robert H. married Alice Miller, and is 
now farming in Jefferson County, Ohio. James 
Mc\l. at the age of seventeen was one of the first 
brave volunteers from Carroll Count} to enter 
into the Civil War. joining the Ninety-eighth 
Regimeni (>. V. I. He took part in the battles 



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of Perry vine" (Ky.), Chattanooga, Chickamauga, 
Lookout Mountain and others, numbering in all 
twenty three battles and five skirmishes, and 
came out at the close of the war uninjured and 
uncaptured. He was discharged with the rank 
of captain, and later served one year five 
months and twenty days in fighting against the 
Indians — making a total service of five years 
five months and twenty days, having the longest 
record of any Union soldier in the late war. 
After his discharge he came back to Ohio, hav- 
ing saved $4,000 during his war service, with 
which he went to Washington, Iowa, where he 
entered into mercantile business. There he 
married Miss Mary, daughter of Judge Young, 
and several years later he removed to Cotton- 
wood Falls, Kas. Being afflicted with varicose 
veins, the result of his service in the army, he 
secured a pension and back pay, amounting to 
$3,500, and is now an extensive lumber and coal 
dealer, has also an interest in a feed store, and 
is, as well, a stockholder in and director of a bank 
at Cottonwood Falls. Sarah Jane, before mar- 
rying, was a school-teacher; she became the 
wife of John Elder, and had a family of five 
children named Gelina M. , John Sherman, Flora 
A., Laura Lissa and Clara Sieda. Of these, 
Gelina M. was married to James Scott; John 
Sherman studied medicine, and now keeps a 
drug store at Millersburg, Ohio, where he mar- 
ried Belle Voorhes, daughter of Judge Voorhes; 
Flora and Lissa are unmarried ; Clara Sieda 
died at the age of thirteen years. John Elder, 
the father of these, died February 22, 1866, 
leaving a large estate. His father, also named 
John, married Elizabeth McKinny, and died at 
the age of ninety- three years. The Elder family 
are adherents of the United Presbyterian faith. 



JAMES SCOTT, a progressive and prosper- 
ous farmer of North Township, Harrison 
County, is a worthy representative of one 
of the old families of the county. He is a 
son of W. H. Scott, of Scio, and was born in 
Harrison County, September 30, 1844. He 



grew to manhood on the farm, attending the 
common schools in the winter months. On May 
25, 1875, he was united in marriage with Miss 
Gelina M. Elder, a native of Carroll County, 
Ohio, and daughter of John Elder, Jr., and 
Sarah J. (Kerr) Elder, the latter of whom is now 
the wife of his (James Scott's) father. Mrs. 
Gelina M. Scott's parents were pioneers of Car- 
roll County, Ohio, from Washington County, 
Penn. Her great-grandfather (some time be- 
fore the Declaration of Independence) came to 
these shores from his native country, Ireland, 
and her grandfather was born the night they 
arrived in New York; the latter died in Carroll 
County, Ohio. Mrs. Scott' s father was married 
in that county, and there died in 1867, aged 
sixty years, eight months and seventeen days, 
having been a farmer all his life. His children 
were as follows: Gelina M. ; John S., in Holmes 
County; Flora A., Laura L. and Clara S. (de- 
ceased). Immediately after their marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. James Scott came to their present 
farm, which is situated half a mile from Scio, 
and where, in 1879, was erected their present 
pleasant home. 

To them have been born six children, a rec- 
ord of whom is as follows: Bertie died at the 
age of nineteen months; Lulu E., William E. and 
Irma E. are all at home; an infant is deceased, 
and Paul Whittaker is at home. Politically Mr. 
Scott is affiliated with the Republican party ; he 
has never sought office of any description, and 
has firmly declined nomination for various posi- 
tions of trust, as he prefers to devote his entire 
attention to the more lucrative task of managing 
and controlling his farm. 

Reverting to the Elder family, its genealogy 
can be traced for three generations in this coun- 
try, as follows: Grandfather John Elder, with 
his parents, settled in Washington County, Penn., 
near Buffalo, and was married to Elizabeth Mc- 
Kinney; eight children were born to them: 
Samuel, born January 24, 1791; Mary, born 
February 12, 1793; Jane, born October 13, 1794; 
Sarah, born May 28, 1797; Thomas, born June 23, 
1799; James, born October 4, 1803; David, born 



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October 23, 1805; John, born April 4, 1807. Po- 
litically Mr. Elder was a Whig; religiously he 
and family were Seceders. He died December 
16, 1840, was more than ninety years of age, 
and had spent his life clearing land and farming. 
Samuel, the eldest son, was a school teacher, 
and died November 13, 1826. Thomas, James 
and David were cabinet-makers. The daugh- 
ters were trained in the art of spinning and 
weaving, and some of the linen they wove is still 
to be seen in Mrs. Scott's house. James died 
October 12, 1829; Jane died January 6, 1830; 
Thomas, July 30, 1831; David, September 2, 
1831; all these died unmarried. Sarah was 
married to a Mr. Samuel McEJderry, on March 
4. 1831. Four children were born to them, one 
of whom, Mrs. Margaret A. (McElderry) Smith, 
is living near Carrollton. John Elder, Jr., mar- 
ried Sarah Jane Kerr, July 10, 1S57, and died 
on the old farm. Mary, the eldest daughter, 
lived unmarried, died August 6, 1877, near Car- 
rollton, in the eighty- fifth year of her age. The 
grandmother of Mrs. Scott died at the age of 
seventy-five, but there is no record of the date. 



V MITH FAMILY. The earliest history of 
the Smith family resident in Stock Town- 
ship, Harrison County, is traced back to 
that of Daniel Smith, who was born in 
1774, in Maryland. He there resided for many 
years and then moved to Pennsylvania and was 
principally engaged in agriculture. In his early 
manhood Daniel Smith married Elizabeth Perigo, 
and by her had the following-named children: 
William P., Job, Maria, Harriet, Millie, James, 
Joel, Jesse, Nathan and John. In 1818 Daniel 
Smith, with his family, came to Ohio and located 
in Jefferson County, where he remained until 
1821, when he moved to Stock Township, Har- 
rison County, and entered a section of land, 
which was subsequently improved by himself 
and family. Among the pioneers of the town 
ship, he was one of the earliest members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and took an active 
part in its organization and support. He was a 



life-long Democrat, and one of the most pro- 
gressive men of his section. On July 1 I, 1856, 
his spirit passed from earth, and his mortal 
remains were the first to be laid to rest in the 
cemetery at Pleasant Valley. 

William 1'. Smith was born September 20, 
ISO:',, in Huntingdon County, Penn., and his 
early life w T as spent in Pennsylvania and Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio. He came from the Keystone 
State to Bloomfield, Ohio, with his father, in 
1818, and three years later moved to Stock 
Township, Harrison County, to the farm now 
owned by his brother John. In 1824 he entered 
the farm on which he lived all his married life, 
and is now owned by Campbell Buxton, his 
grand-son-in-law. The educational advantages 
of William P. Smith were limited t « > fifteen days' 
attendance at school, but he was not discouraged 
by this condition of affairs, and applied himself 
diligently to a course of self- instruction, finally 
becoming one of the best informed men in his 
section. On August 31, 1826, he was married 
to Margaret, daughter of Richard Parker, an 
early settler of Stock Township, and the children 
born to this union were named as follows: James 
P., Harriet (Mrs. David Hines), Sina (Mr-. 
George W. Spiker), Richard P., Daniel, Mar- 
garet (Mrs. John Miller), David, Hannah (Mrs. 
Joseph E. Johnston), and Simeon, the last two 
named being twins. Of these, David died of 
typhoid fever, August 31, 1862, in the War of 
the Rebellion. 

In politics William P. Smith w.-is a strong 
Republican, although never an office seeker. He 
was a self-made man, and entered the last quar- 
ter of public land in Stock Township, and which 
is now the best one. for his farm. On April 2 1, 
L870, his wife passed away, and was buried in 
Pleasant Valley Cemetery, after which event Mr 
Smith passed the remainder of his days with his 
children, dying May 15, L890, and his remains 
were interred beside those of the companion of his 
life. The funeral services were conducted b) Rev. 
R. S. Strahl, and James Sines, W. D. Miller, 
Frank M. Smith, Dell P. Smith. Harry Johns- 
ton and W. J. Smith, his grandsons represent- 



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ing six different families, acted as pall bearers. 
There are forty two grandchildren and twenty- 
nine great-grandchildren, making seventy-nine 
descendants living. The following is taken from 
an obituary published in a Cadiz (Ohio) paper: 

"He joined the Methodist Church over sixty 
years ago, and was converted in 1841 at the old 
"Wright Church on the farm now owned by John 
W. McDivitt, soon after its erection. He was 
the last of the old members who founded that 
church. He was always attentive to the church 
duties, and when in good health was most in- 
variably found in his place at church on Sab- 
bath. His wife died in 1870, and since that 
time he has been living among his children, 
making his home at John Miller's, his son-in- 
law. In the prime of life he was a good farmer, 
an active citizen and an honest neighbor, on 
whom every one could rely. But for the past 
few years he had taken but little part in the af- 
fairs of this world. He has passed to rest, and 
his memory will be cherished by his children 
and all who knew him." 

James P. Smith was born June 23, 1827, in 
Stock Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and Sep- 
tember 30, 1847, he was married to Annie Cramb- 
let, daughter of John Cramblet, of Stock Town- 
ship, and the children born to this union were 
named Rachel J. (deceased), Amanda (deceased), 
Mary E. (Mrs. Campbell Buxton) and Eva A. 
On June 21, 1876, Mrs. Annie Smith passed 
away, her remains being interred in Deersville, 
and October 18, 1877, Mr. Smith was married 
to Nancy C. Rogers, of Nottingham Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat, and has served as trustee of his township 
several terms. The family are all members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant 
Valley, and are highly respected throughout 
the township. As a stock-raiser and general 
farmer, Mr. Smith is regarded as one of the 
best in his section. 

Richard P. Smith, farmer, was born July 
20, 1832. iu Stock Township, Harrison County, 
Ohio, where he has passed almost his entire 
life, engaged principally in farming. His early 



education was acquired at the common schools 
of his township, but he is a self-taught scholar, 
and is considered one of the best mathemati- 
cians in his section. On November 2, 1853, he 
married Miss Mary Jane, daughter of Samuel 
G. Miller, and for a short time resided in 
Franklin Township, Harrison County, whence 
he removed to Morgan County, same State, but 
soon returned to Harrison County, and bought 
the farm in Stock Township, Section No. 14, on 
which he now resides. The children born to 
his marriage were named Samantha E. (Mrs. 
Andrew J. Johnston); John M. , an M. D. ; Jason 
B. (deceased); Frank M. and Emmitt E.. at 
home. John M. Smith was educated at the 
common schools and at Scio College, and then 
entered the Cincinnati Medical College, from 
which he graduated in the class of 1880, and 
after serving one year in the Cincinnati Hospi- 
tal, began practice in New Philadelphia, where 
his abilities were at once recognized and where 
he has built up a lucrative practice. The 
Doctor married, November 11, 1885, Miss Emma, 
daughter of Judge O. P. Taylor, and this happy 
union has been blessed by the birth of one child 
— Helen. Unlike his father, Richard P. Smith, 
has always been a stanch supporter of the Dem- 
ocratic party, and has served his township in 
various offices of honor and trust, such as trus- 
tee, treasurer and assessor, and has ever dis- 
charged his duties faithfully and conscien- 
tiously, and to the full satisfaction of the towns- 
people. He and his family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Valley, 
and are among the most esteemed and respected 
of that congregation. 




ILLIAM DICKERSON, SR., was born 
October 17. 1815. in Athens Township, 
M| V[ Harrison Co. , Ohio, and is a son of 
Joshua Dickerson. At present he is 
the only living son of the family, and now, at 
the age of seventy- five, can look over long years 
filled with hardships and struggles, and have 
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life, and one which has merited and possessed 
the esteem of his friends and neighbors. Leav- 
ing at a very early age the common school, 
where he had obtained such training as was 
given in those days, he commenced farming, a 
pursuit he has ever since followed. Early in 
1838 he married Jane, a daughter of Samuel 
Lafferty, a resident of Moorefield Township, 
and the issue of their marriage were Samuel, 
deceased; Joshua and William, in Moorefield 
Township; John, in Illinois; Joseph B. , in 
Athens Township; Margaret (Mrs. John Dicker- 
son) in Kansas; Sarah (Mrs. Scott), at home; 
Mary (Mrs. John Lafferty), in Athens Town- 
ship, and Edward, deceased. Mrs. Dickerson 
died in 1864, and was buried in Nottingham 
Cemetery. Mr. Dickerson married, for his 
second wife, Alary McMillan, who survived but 
a short time, being buried also in Nottingham 
Cemetery, and in 1881 he married Margaret 
Bartow, who is yet living. A stanch Democrat. 
Mr. Dickerson was unfaltering in his support of 
that party, and is one of its most ardent sup- 
porters. In his youth he united with the Pres- 
byterian Church at Nottingham, and is still a 
member of that society. He has made a fair 
success of life, and now, with many of his chil- 
dren around him, is awaiting the summons to 
join the "silent majority." 

Joseph B. Dickerson, son of William Dicker- 
son, Sr., was born in Athens Township, October 
30, 1848. His life has thus far been spent in 
Athens Township, where he is widely known and 
universally respected. His youth was spent at 
the home of his father, and his winters, until 
the age of nineteen, at the district schools of his 
neighborhood. In 1874 he chose, as his life's 
partner, Mary Barrett, a daughter of Erasimuth 
Barrett, of Cadiz Township, and of this union 
the issue has been William Emmett, born May 
14, 1875, and Courtland B. , deceased. On 
April 7, 1878, Mrs. Dickerson died, and was 
buried in Nottingham Cemetery, and in 1 88 1 
Mr. Dickerson was married to Sarah L. Dun- 
lap, a daughter of Samuel Dunlap, of Notting- 
ham Township. Their children are as follows: 



Maudie, born April 7, 1883; Mary J., born 
December 13, 1885, and Clara B , born January 
21, 1889. Mr. Dickerson and family are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church at Nottingham, 
in which he has been a trustee for Beveral years. 
He is a leading Democrat in his section, and 
always supports that ticket. Since his birth, he 
has resided in Athens Township, and has ever 
had the respect of all. He is upright in char- 
acter, fearless in advocating what he considers 
just, and is honest in his convictions. 



f^ AMUEL THOMPSON. William Thomp- 
son, the grandfather of the man whose 
name heads this sketch, was of Scotch 
descent, and lived near Chamberslmrg, 
Franklin Co., Penn. At the beginning of the 
War of the Revolution he enlisted in defense of 
his country, and shared the dangers and hard 
ships of that war for three and one-half years. 
He was appointed to the commaud of a division 
train of thirty-two wagons and teams, and was 
with Washington during the cold winter of 1777 
-78; was at White Plains and Valley Forge, 
also in the battle of Brandywine, and escaped 
from that bloody field without harm. Soon 
after the close of the war he removed to West- 
moreland County, Perm., where he and his wife 
passed the remainder of their lives. On No- 
vember 6, 1781, was born to this couple Samuel 
Thompson, whose early life was spent in Frank- 
lin and AVestmoreland Counties. In 1810 he 
married Elizabeth, daughter of John Stewart 
(whose father also came from Scotland), a resi 
dent of Butler County, Penn, and in April. 
1813, the young couple removed to Ohio, where 
they purchased the farm in Harrison County. 
and where they lived until their death, the father 
living June 6, 1860, the mother August 29, 
ls~i:\; by profession they were Presbyterians. 
On September 18, 1822, was born Samuel 
Thompson, Jr., the subject of this sketch, who 
remained at home on the farm, and on Septem- 
ber 18, 1851, was married to Sarah Jane, a 
daughter of Judge Moorhead, of Archer Town- 



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ship, Harrison Co., Ohio. The family are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. 




J. FOSTER, a well-known citizen and 
the leading hardware merchant of 
North Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, 
was born in Scio, June 22, 1842. His 
father, George Foster, was born in England 
September 24, 1794; came to America when 
twenty-two years of age, and settled in Harrison 
County, Ohio, in 1816, a few miles from Scio. 
He married Jerusha Wort man, who died the 
mother of several children. In 1837 he mar- 
ried Jane ShouBe, of Pennsylvania, of German 
extraction. They made their home on the 
homestead until June 8, 1849, when, at the age 
of fifty-five years, George Foster passed away. 
In politics he was a Whig and afterward a Re- 
publican, and filled one or two township offices. 
He was an enthusiastic anti-slavery man, and 
was a station agent on the ' ' Underground Rail- 
road " system. He was a consistent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, of which church 
his wife was also a member. His widow sur- 
vived him until June 16, 1889, and after mak- 
king her home twenty-six or twenty-seven years 
with our subject, passed from earth in her sev- 
enty-ninth year, the mother of five children, 
viz.: Joseph B. , who died August 18, 1889; 
William, M. D., at Superior, Neb.; M. J., our 
subject; John, who died at three years of age, 
and D. C, in the hardware business at Uhrichs- 
ville, Ohio. 

M. J. Foster was reared on the home farm 
and assisted in the duties of the place until 
twenty-two years of age, attending the common 
schools in the meanwhile. In 1865 he formed 
a copartnership with a brother in the tinning 
business, and in 1867 opened a hardware store, 
which he still conducts with success and profit. 
His marriage took place July 9, 1863, with Miss 
Margaret J. Somerville, daughter of Chris, and 
Jane L. Somerville, the mother still living in 
Scio. To this union have been born four chil- 
dren, of whom are living Jennie V., born in 



1875, and Charles S., born in June, 1882. In 
politics Mr. Foster is a Republican, and has 
served as town trustee; he is now a member of 
the town council for the second term, and is 
treasurer of township; also treasurer of Scio 
Building & Loan Company. He declined to 
accept the office of justice of the peace. He is 
a Knight of Pythias, and a faithful member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which 
church his wife is also a devoted member. Mr. 
Foster first put up his business building in 1873, 
but it was destroyed by fire in 1876; he rebuilt 
it in 1877, and it is now the best of the kind in 
the township, being double, with a basement 



PnERCIVAL ADAMS, farmer, Stock Town- 
ship, Harrison County, is a native of 
Cadiz Township, same county, and was 
born September 10, 1820. His father, 
Thomas Adams, was born in Pennsylvania, about 
1790, and resided near Pittsburgh till 1815, 
when he came to Ohio. He married Miss Char- 
ity Blair, of Ohio, who was born about 1792, a 
daughter of John Blair, and to this happy union 
were born ten children, viz. : John, died in in- 
fancy; Maria Rogers, deceased; Percival, our 
subject; James, lived in Nottingham Township, 
and died October 8, 1888; Mathew, resides in 
Cadiz, Ohio; Albert, resides in Missouri; Isa- 
belle, wife of Thomas Rogers, Crawford County, 
Ohio; William, in Cadiz, Ohio; John, in Uh- 
richsville, Ohio; and Sarah E., deceased. Thomas 
Adams, after his marriage, resided in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County, till about 1834, 
when he removed to Stock Township, where he 
lived from April 1, 1834, till April 1, 1845, then 
moved to Washington Township, same county, 
where he lived one year; then bought land in 
Nottingham Township, same county, to which 
he moved in 1847, and there passed the rest of 
his days, dying in 1855, his widow surviving 
until 1866. Mr. Adams was a member, for 
many years, of the Presbyterian Church; his 
wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church from her childhood. Politically Mr. 



Adams was a Whig, and he was among the first 
in Harrison County to vote the Abolition ticket. 
Percival Adams, our subject, when fourteen 
years old, came to Stock Township, Harrison 
County, where he received a common school 
education. On March 27, 1845, he married 
Miss Mary J. Downs, who was born August 26, 
1822, a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Me- 
Kinney) Downs. Richard Downs was born in 
Carroll County, Ohio, in 1797, and Elizabeth 
McKinney was born in Lancaster County, Penn., 
January 22, 1797. Mr. and Mrs. Percival Adams 
are the parents of seven children, viz. : John F., 
born March 20, 184G, in Stock Township, Har- 
rison County; Albert B., born May 23, 1849, 
also in Stock Township; Eliza J., born March 
14, 1851, died November 14, 1887; Richard M ., 
born August 27, 1853, also in Stock Township; 
Thomas P., born December 3, 1857; James B. , 
born July 12, I860; and Maggie B., born De- 
cember 13, 1865, last three named being at 
home. Mr. Adams, soon after his marriage, 
purchased the farm he now owns, which con- 
tains 184 acres, where he has since resided, in 
Section No. 1, Stock Township. Politically he 
is a Republican, and he and his wife are active 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



JAMES GREEN, a representative of one of 
the oldest families of Harrison County, 
was born September 16, 1833, in Wash- 
ington Township. The family originated 
in Ireland, where for many centuries they re- 
sided. The earliest ancestor of whom any au- 
thentic history can be had is Alexander Green, 
grandfather of our subject. Alexander was a 
farmer, also by trade a weaver of fine linen and 
other fabrics both in Ireland and America, and in 
early life was married to Elenor Chambers, who 
bore him the following family : Thomas, John, 
Samuel, James, Elizabeth and Abbie. His wife 
dying, Mr. Green married, for his second wife, 
Mary Bell, by whom he had children as follows: 
Isaac, Alexander, Sampson, William, Sarah, 
Ellen, Mary Ann, Maria and Ruth. Soon after 



the death of her husband Mrs. Green married 
William Wright, and one child. Chatham, was 
born of this marriage. In 1808 Alexander 
Green came from Ireland to Ohio and settled in 
the wilderness of what is now Belmont County, 
where he remained until his death. He was 
one of the leading men of his county, and was 
prominently identified with the religious and 
social as well as political movements of the day. 
One of the organizers of the Friends Society, 
he was a steadfast supporter of that faith. 

His son Samuel was born in Ireland Decem- 
ber 5, 1799, and came to Ohio with his parents 
In the subscription schools he obtained the rudi- 
ments of an education, which was afterward 
added to by his home study. On October 29. 
IS'-! 1 .*, he was married to Ann Thompson, a 
daughter of Aaron Thompson, of Jefferson 
County. Aaron Thompson was born in Ireland, 
January 26, 1775; his father, William, was 
born March 26, 1747. and died in Chest, r 
County, Penn., July 7, 1806. His wife. Esther 
Chalfant, bore him a large family, many of 
whom came to America. In 1790 Aaron came 
to the United States and located in Chester 
County, Penn., remaining there until 1802, 
when he came to Jefferson County, Ohio; he 
was married in 1797 in Chester County, Penn., 
to Sarah Balderston, who was born March 5. 
1778. They reared the following named chil- 
dren: Esther, born November 19, 1798; Will 
iam, born January 3, 1801 : John, born June 28, 
1803; Aaron, born September 13, 1805: Ann. 
bom June 13, 1808: Ruth, Worn October 4, 
1810; Lewis, born November 21, 1813, and 
Israel, born January 4, 1818. After a long life 
of usefulness Aaron Thompson died June 22. 
L838, his widow surviving until September 26, 
1846. He was a member of the Friends Soci- 
ety, ami was also an active politician. Soon 
after his marriage Samuel Green purchased a 
farm in Washington Township, where he re- 
mained until his death. He was a self-made 
man. was eminently successful, and enjoyed the 
good-will and respect of all. 

Of the church he was a consistent member, 



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as well as an ardent supporter, and was ever 
ready to assist in any worthy enterprise, whether 
simply charitable or of material benefit to his 
section. His children were as follows: Will- 
iam, born October 29, 1830; James, born Sep- 
tember 16, 1833; Aaron, born May 6. 1836; 
Sarah, born October 31, 1838, died September 
16, 1844; Samuel H., born December 5, 1840, 
died February 2, 1869; Ruth T., born June 18, 
1843, and Israel J., born November 11, 1845. 
On June 2, 1879, Mr. Green died and was bur- 
ied at Green Mount; his widow, with her son 
James, is now living on the home place. 

James Green, second son of Samuel, has 
been from his earliest youth prominently identi- 
fied with the growth and prosperity of Wash- 
ington Township. His education was received 
solely within its limits, where for many years he 
was an attendant of the winter schools. He is 
a man of remarkable mental power, with a pre- 
disposition to mathematics. He is an expert 
surveyor and civil engineer, a profession which 
he has fully mastered by his own indefatigable 
efforts. He is, in fact, a natural-born mechanic 
and genius. In March, 1859, his father pur- 
chased and introduced the first portable saw- 
mill ever operated in that section, and our sub- 
ject, in connection with his brother William, 
took hold of the mill, doing all kinds of sawing, 
and driving quite a successful business in Har- 
rison County, extending also into Belmont and 
Guernsey Counties, for a period of years. Part- 
ing with the mill our subject retired from that 
business, except setting up and superintending 
other mills, occasionally, and in 1863 he em- 
barked in the Italian bee business, rearing 
queens, introducing extracting, etc. ; at the same 
time he manufactured hives for himself and 
neighbors. Having steam-power and planing 
machinery at that time, in connection with same 
he, from 1863 to 1867, worked at millwrighting to 
some extent, building dwelling-bouses, etc., but 
was more extensively engaged in the erection of 
heavier structures, such as span bridges, barns, 
etc. Since 1873 he has been employed somewhat 
with the compass, tracing old and new lines, plat- 



ting, etc., and at the present time, for a change, 
he is looking decidedly toward and after the pho- 
tographic arts, having no intention to retrograde, 
to use his own words, " as long as this frail struct- 
ure keeps apace." Mr. Green has also a strong 
liking and inclination for the study of phrenol- 
ogy, and is a great observer of the appearance of 
the heads of men. A Republican in politics, he 
has always been a strong supporter of that 
party. Like his family in general he is a mem- 
ber of the Friends Society. On March 20, 1881, 
he was married to Clara M. Pittis, daughter of 
George Pittis, of Harrison County, and then 
immediately settled on the home place, where 
he now resides, engaged in agriculture and 
stock-raising. His children are Annie R., born 
April 14, 1882; Lorena J., born February 11, 
1885, and James C, born September 21, 1888. 



*p=^ SPY DE LONG comes of French descent, 

I^J his ancestors having immigrated to Amer- 
^ 'i erica prior to the Revolutionary War, 
in which they gallantly took part, as well 
as in the War of 1812. One of the descend- 
ants, Jesse DeLong, was born in Short Creek 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, about the year 
1776, his parents having immigrated there when 
there was but a block-house where Wheeling, 
W. Va., now stands, and which they passed on 
their way hither. Jesse DeLong moved to Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio, where he married Nancy 
Wagner, and they then entered a tract of land 
near Dennison, locating thereon, and were 
among the very earliest settlers. Jesse was 
accidentally shot in a bear hunt and crippled for 
life, but he lived to the wonderful old age of one 
hundred and six years, and died May 8, 1882. He 
had always been well and active, had received his 
second eyesight, and even his hair, which had 
become silvered, was again turning black. To 
Jesse and Nancy DeLong were born twelve 
children, of whom Espy DeLong, our subject, 
is the tenth child in order of birth. 

Espy DeLong was born in a log cabin in 
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, May 11, 1832, wore 



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hoine-made clothes, and attended the subscrip- 
tion schools. After becoming of age he rented 
land of his father, and began life for himself. 
On March 6, 18(54, he married Sarah A. Car- 
mack, born in Canal Dover, Ohio, May 1, 1847, 
a daughter of Jacob and Clarissa Carmack, 
worthy people of Maryland. In April, 1862, 
Mr. DeLong enlisted in Company E, One 
Hundred and Sixty first O. V. I., and served in 
the battles of Harper's Ferry, Winchester, 
Maryland Heights, Frederick City and others. 
In 1872 Mr. DeLong purchased and moved upon 
their present farm of 117 acres in Monroe 
Township, near Philadelphia Roads. To his 
union with Miss Carmack have been born three 
children, viz.: Jessie B. (deceased in infancy),' 
George C. and Lou. On September 30, 1890, 
George C. DeLong was united in marriage wtth 
Miss Clara C. Brown, who was born July 6, 
1872, near Bowerston, Ohio, a daughter of Jere- 
miah and Anna Brown, worthy people of Ireland. 
The Brown family are attendants of the Plum 
Run Methodist Episcopal Church. The De Long 
family are all attendants at the Pleasant Valley 
Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. 
De Long is a Republican, and under the auspices 
of that party has served as supervisor. The 
De Long family, one of the oldest in the country, 
stands high in the esteem of the community. 



TjREEMAN M. COOPER, grocer, of New 
Athens, Ohio., was born in Franklin 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, September 
10, 1855, and is a son of Michael Cooper, 
also a native of Harrison County. William C. 
Cooper, grandfather of our subject, came from 
England to America, and first resided in Penn- 
sylvania, but after a number of years moved to 
the vicinity of Deersville, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where he ended his days. Subject's grand 
mother survived her husband several years, and 
died at the house of Mrs. Sarah Lafl'erty. her 
daughter, in Cadiz Township, the mother of 
eight children, viz. : Sarah, Mrs. Lafferty, Cadiz 



Township, Harrison Co., Ohio; William, har- 
ness-maker, Carrollton, Ohio; Benjamin, near 
Cadiz; Stephen, in Oregon; John, in Rising 
Sun, Ohio; Thomas, who died in the army after 
a service of almost three years; Mary, married, 
living in Indiana; Louisa, Mrs. John S. Cleven- 
der, in Dakota. 

Mary Cooper bore but one sun. our subject, 
and is still living in Indiana. Freeman M. re- 
mained in Franklin Township uutil eight years 
of age, when he was taken to Belmont County, 
where for years he worked on a farm to sup- 
port himself. Being to all intents an orphan 
boy, his success in life depended entirely upon 
himself, and he continued at farm labor until 
November 24, 1880, when he married Miss 
Annie Culbertson, daughter of Gillespie and 
Dorcas Culbertson. The young couple at once 
settled in New Athens, where Mr. Cooper be- 
gan business for himself, opening with a full 
stock of general groceries, queensware, glass- 
ware and fancy articles. But one child has 
blessed this union — Carl G., born July 7, 1882, 
Mrs. Cooper is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, of New Athens, and Mr. Cooper is a 
member of the United Presbyterian Church, 
each having been thus connected with these de- 
nominations before marriage. Politically Mr. 
Cooper is a Democrat. 

Mr. Cooper is a stirring business man, and is 
now doing the leading business in his line in 
New Athens. He thoroughly understands the 
principles of success, yet is guided by his con- 
victions of right and wrong, and never saeri 
fices his sense of justice for business profit. He 
has never been an office seeker, but is active in 
his aid to his party. He is one of the rising 
young men of the county, and is possessed of a 
wide circle of friends and acquaintances, and 
his straightforwardness in business transactions 
daily adds new ones. Mr. Cooper is domestic 
in his habits. His home is in the same build- 
ing with his store, and here his evenings are 
passed in domestic felicity. He is pleasant and 
hospitable, and deserves all the success it has 
been his fortune to meet. 



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»T=V EV. JAMES DAY, one of the best known 
L«\^ and most respected citizens of New 
1^ Athens, Harrison County, was born in 
•fj Washington, Guernsey Co., Ohio, Au- 

gust 21, 1821. The family sprung from two 
brothers, who came from England to America 
over 200 years ago, settling in New England; 
and Jeremiah Day, who for some time was presi- 
dent of Yale College, was descended from one 
of them. Amery Day, father of our subject, 
was a native of Virginia, a millwright and car- 
penter by trade, and was married at Winchester, 
Va. , to Elizabeth, daughter of Sylvanus Ben- 
nett, who was high sheriff of the State in those 
days. In 1814 Mr. and Mrs. Day came to 
Washington, Ohio, where he followed his trades, 
and some years thereafter they moved to Mon- 
roe County, Ohio. They had ten children born 
to them, as follows: Eleanor, born July 25, 
1814; William, November 3, 1816, and Tabitha, 
April 8, 1819, all deceased; James, the subject 
of this sketch; Henry (February 8, 1824), a 
bankei in Chariton, Iowa; Nancy Jane (June 2, 
1827), married to Lewis Yonley, and living in 
Monroe County, Ohio; Thomas B. (July 2, 
1829), retired and a resident of Senecaville, 
Guernsey Co. , Ohio; Sylvanus (August 2, 1832), 
deceased; Elizabeth (June 27, 1834), now de- 
ceased, and Louisa (December 18, 1836), now 
the wife of William McFadden, living in Mon- 
roe County, Ohio. The father died November 
25, 1853, at the age of sixty-six years, seven 
months and fifteen days. He was a stanch 
Democrat for many years, and then united him- 
self with the anti-slavery party. His widow 
followed him to the grave a few years later, 
when aged seventy-two years. They were both 
members of the Lutheran Church. 

James Day, whose names appears at the 
opening of this sketch, had but limited oppor- 
tunities in his boyhood of obtaining even a fair 
education, and four and a half years of his 
young life were spent in learning the tailor's 
trade in Guernsey County. In his twentieth 
year he came to New Athens, where he attended 
college some two years and a half, having to 



support himself entirely by his trade. While 
attending school he was married, October 5, 
1841, in New Athens, to Miss Isabella Crabb, a 
native of Jefferson County, Ohio, and daughter 
of Isaac and Isabella Crabb, of Harrison Coun- 
ty. To this union have been born eleven chil- 
dren, of whom the following is a brief record, 
giving dates of birth: Mary F. (July 30, 1842), 
is the wife of Dr. Peronies, in Steubenville, 
Ohio; Flora D. (May 22, 1844), is married to 
Dr. Palmer, ex-missionary to India and New 
Mexico, now in Trinidad, Cal. ; Elizabeth (April 
14, 1846), is the wife of John C. Adams, in the 
marble business at Cleveland, Ohio; Homer 
(January 27, 1848), served in the Civil War, in 
"the One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., and 
now lives in New Athens; James B. (October 
19, 1849), also served in that war, and is now 
deceased; Clara (July 30, 1851), is the wife of 
Rev. John C. Young, of Clinton, Penn. ; Horace 
G. (November 21, 1853), is a painter and paper 
hanger in New Athens; William (January 28, 
1855), is pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
Elmore, Ottawa Co., Ohio; Isabella (December 
3, 1857), is deceased; Alice (July 28, 1859), is 
at home; Emma (September 12, 1861), is the 
wife of Rev. William H. Major, of Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

During his college studies, Mr. Day being 
convinced that his work on earth was the salva- 
tion of souls, became a local preacher in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served 
the cause of Christ twenty- four years, the field 
of his labors being in Harrison County. In 
1871 he united himself with the Presbyterian 
Church, with which body he has since remained, 
having done preaching at Farmington, Belmont 
County, for the past fourteen years. Virtually, 
however, he has grown up with his trade. For 
some thirty years he carried on, in New Athens, 
a dry goods and merchant tailoring business, 
but in 1885 he sold his store, which he had 
built in 1865. Politically Mr. Day has always 
been a Republican, and represented his county 
two winters (1858-59 and 1860-61) in the State 
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offices have been numerous and ably given. 
At one time he belonged to the Know-nothing 
party, and he is a member of the Sons of Tem- 
perance and Good Templars. Mrs. Day is also 
a member of the Presbyterian Church. Our 
subject has, by his own individual efforts and 
perseverance, made a success of life, and had to 
begin in early boyhood. He learned his trade 
before he could read, but, determined to have 
an education, he fought for it and secured it, 
his motto being: "Mens omnia regit." 



di OHN E. KYSEE is a well-known and prom- 
inent citizen of Short Creek Township, 
' Harrison County, and is a son of Henry 
Kyser, who was of German descent and 
was born in Berks County, Penn., where the 
earlier years of his life were passed until his 
removal to Maryland, where he met and married 
Sarah A. McClenahan, a native of that State, 
but who died in Ohio, in 1885, at the age of 
seventy-six years. 

Henry Kyser, with his family, came to Ohio 
overland, the journey requiring many weeks. 
He first went as far north as the Maumee Eiver, 
but eventually, in the summer of 1849, settled 
on the farm where his son, John E., now resides, 
and here his death took place in 1884, at the 
age of seventy-seven years. Henry Kyser, was 
in politics originally a Whig, but on the disrup- 
tion of that party became a Democrat. He 
was a man of sterling integrity and unimpeach- 
able character, and was ever just in his dealings 
with his fellow-men, by whom he was deeplj 
esteemed and by whom his death was sincerely 
mourned. He had born to him a family of five 
children, two of whom died in infancy; Anne 
L. and George E. reached maturity, but are 
now deceased; John E., the eldest of the five, 
is the subject proper of this biographical sketch. 

John E. Kyser was born near Hagerstown, 
Washington Co., Md., in 1832, and with his 
parents came to Ohio, where he rendered his 
father valuable assistauce on the farm until the 
hitter's death, since which time he has managed 



the broad acres with success and profit, and is 
recognized as one of the leading and most skill- 
ful agriculturists of the township. In 1876 he 
married Ella M. Hunt, a native of Harrison 
County and a daughter of James H. and Mary 
(Silliman) Hunt. James H. Hunt was born 
near Winchester, Va., and was but a child when 
he came with his parents to Ohio, where he 
died, in Harrison County, in January. 1890. 
The union of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kyser has 
been blessed by the birth of one child, Ida S., 
who was born April 25, 1881. Too much credit 
can not be given to the Kysers, father and son, 
the sturdy pioneers, who rescued the county of 
Harrison from the wilderness and gave to the 
present generation the advantages it now enjoys. 



E 



LIJAH R. WALLACE, farmer, of Moore- 
H field Township, Harrison County, is a 

son of Allen and Mary (Brown) Wallace. 

Allen Wallace was a son of John and 
Margaret (Anderson) Wallace, natives of York 
County, Penn., who. about 1804, migrated to 
Washington County. Penn., where they remained 
until 1805, when they removed to Putney Town- 
ship. Belmont Co., Ohio., whence, in IN-!'-', they 
removed to Harrison County, and purchased 
160 acres of land on Section 5, Moorefield 
Township, now owned by William A. Wallace. 
John and Margaret Wallace were the parents 
of four children, named William. Allen, Nancy 
and Jane. 

Allen Wallace was born April 15, 1793, 
and, with his parents, came to Ohio, where he 
grew to manhood. He was married in Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, and in 1822 purchased the 
farm on which our subject now lives, and which 
contains 160 acres. In 1862 he erected the 
beautiful residence in which our subject now 
resides. Allen Wallace was an elder in the 
Presbyterian Church for a number of years. 
and in that faith he died February 21, L880; 
his wife died April 12, L874. Allen and his wife 
were parents of eight children, whose names 
are as follows: John (deceased), Andrew. Will- 



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iani, Mary, James, Elijah R. (our subject), An- 
derson, and Samuel (who resides in Wooster, 
Ohio). 

Elijah R. Wallace was born in Moorefield 
Township, March 16, 1828; there he grew to 
manhood and received a common-school educa- 
tion. January 23, 1868, he married Miss Liz- 
zie Brokaw, who was born March 25, 1842, a 
daughter of Abraham and Mary (Guthrie) Bro- 
kaw, natives of Ohio. To this union have been 
born six children, by name: Vincent S., Chal- 
mers A., Mary M. , Plummer W., Clara A. and 
Lena B., all residing at home. Elijah R. Wal- 
lace, since his marriage, has resided on the old 
farm. He and his wife are members of the Not- 
tingham Presbyterian Church. Politically, Mr. 
Wallace is Democratic. 



^MITH R. WATSON. An adventurous 
son of Scotland, named Robert S. Wat- 
son, in 1790 left his native hills for the 
then new Republic of America, to which 
young country the eyes of the enterprising and 
progressive citizens of the Old World were 
turned, as well as the longing gaze of the 
oppressed and wretched. Landing at Baltimore, 
Mr. Watson passed a short time in Maryland, but 
later went to Pennsylvania, where his son, Rob- 
ert, who was born March 3, 1786, met and mar- 
ried, October 25, 1810, Miss Rachel, a daughter 
of Robert Wilson. Settling upon a farm, Rob- 
ert Watson remained in Pennsylvania until 
1831, when, with his family, he came to Har- 
rison County, Ohio. The union of Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert Watson had been blessed, prior to 
their coming to Ohio, with the following named 
children: James, born March 2, 1812, died 
August 15, 1815; John W.. born February 7, 
1814, died July 22. 1859; Jane (Mrs. Anderson 
Wallace), born May 1, 1815, died February 9, 
1868; Alexander, born July 3, 1817, died No- 
vember 7, 1817; Rachel (Mrs. John Barricklow), 
born January 30, 1819, died March 30, 1839; 
Smith R., born October 12, 1821, died April 



30, 1877, and Nancy G. (Mrs. Joshua Dunlap) 
born January 30, 1823. 

Robert Watson was a man of quick percep- 
tions and keen foresight, ever held a front rank 
in the councils of the Democratic party, with 
which he affiliated on first coming to America, 
and by it was honored with several position of 
trust and honor, among others the offices of 
trustees and treasurer. He and his family were 
members of the Crab Apple Presbyterian Church, 
to the support of which they liberally contrib- 
uted, and their influence for good was felt 
throughout the community. May 18, 1866, 
Mrs. Rachel Watson passed away from earth, 
and November 19, 1872, Robert Watson closed 
his eyes in death, and the earthly remains of 
both lie interred in the Nottingham Cemetery. 
So passed away one who had made his mark in 
life, and left the impress of his character upon the 
community in which he had lived, as well as an 
example of virtue and industry worthy of the 
emulation of those he has left behind. 

Smith R. Watson, son of Robert and Rachel 
Watson, was born, as stated above, October 21, 
1821, in Maryland. His early life was spent in 
Pennsylvania, and his later days in Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio. He was a man of 
liberal education. In his youth he attended the 
common schools, but finding them inadequate to 
satisfy his taste for learning, he entered Frank- 
lin College, from which he graduated with high 
honors, at the age of twenty-two, receiving the 
degree of A. B. Then, determining to fit him- 
self for the ministry, he entered the Theological 
Seminary at Albany, lad., where he completed 
the course three years later. He soon after 
settled on a farm and engaged in the quiet and 
humanizing pursuit of agriculture. December 
9, 1847, Mr. Watson was married to Susan J., 
daughter of Samuel McDowell, of Athens Town- 
ship. After marriage they settled in Green 
Township, near Beech Spring, where they re- 
mained about five years, and then returned to 
Athens and purchased the place on which the 
family now reside. The children that blessed 
this marriage are Albert, Eugene, D. W. Oliver, 



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Jennie R. , and Mary B. In his politics Mr. Wat- 
son was a Democrat till 1856, when be united 
with tbe Republican party. In 1S64 he was elect- 
ed as a State representative, and served through 
his term to the full satisfaction of all. He was 
among those prominent in the politics of the coun- 
ty, and took a leading part in the active work of 
the Republican party. He was a member of the 
United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, and during 
his latter years that of New Athens, where the 
family still attend. For many years he was 
one of the most progressive citizens of the 
township and was always among the foremost 
in the furtherance of anything which he deemed 
beneficial to the county or people. Deeply 
mourned by all. Smith R. Watson passed away 
April 30, 1S77, and was buried in Nottingham 
Cemetery. His family still reside on the home 
place, and are highly respected by all. 



1 j OHN MORRIS. Among the successful and 
^. II enterprising citizens of Athens Township, 
\Jj Harrison County, who have by their own 
industr} 7 and economy achieved a remark- 
able success, none are more widely known for 
integrity and inherent honesty than the subject 
of this sketch. He was born May 4, 1S16, and 
from his earliest recollection his life has been 
one of continual hard work. His father, Morgan 
Morris, was born in Maryland, to which State 
the Morris family at a very early period emi- 
grated. The father of Morgan, James, was the 
head of the following family: Daniel. John, 
James, Morgan, Phcebe and Elizabeth. The 
family all emigrated to what is now West Vir- 
ginia, where the parents lived and died. 

In West Virginia Morgan met and married 
Elizabeth Wood. She was the daughter of Ed- 
ward Wood, who was among the earliest pio- 
neers that settled in the section in which he 
lived. The country was at that time infested 
by Indians, who compelled the residents to seek 
the protection of block houses during their 
raids. After his marriage Morgan Morris came 
to Ohio, and settled in Jefferson County, where 



he left his family — his wife and two children — to 
enlist in his country's defense, serving through 
the War of 1812. He reared the following fam- 
ily: Nancy, Mary, Phcebe, John, Elizabeth, 
Thomas, Hannah, William, Morgan, Eliza Jane. 
In 1837 Mrs. Morris died and was buried in 
New Athens Cemetery. For a second wife Mr. 
Morris married Ellen Smith, of Harrison County, 
and the issue of this marriage were Rebecca 
Ann and James S. June 4, 1864, Mr. Morris 
died and was laid to rest by the side of his wife 
at New Athens. He was a supporter of the 
Democratic party, and a member of the Presby- 
terian Church at Crab Apple. 

John Morris' early life was spent on the 
home place until he was of age, when he con- 
cluded to engage in business for himself. His 
education was limited to such instruction as 
was to be had at the common schools, which he 
attended as frequently as his work permitted. 
March 20. 1846, he was married to Elizabeth, 
daughter of James T. Porter. After marriage 
he and wife located on a farm in Cadiz Town- 
ship, where they remained about six years, when 
they purchased a farm in Athens Township, to 
which they removed, and in four months after 
their removal his wife died. After a sojourn of 
sixteen years he purchased his present residence 
in the same township. In financial matters Mr. 
Morris has made his own success, having com- 
menced life with only his own perseverance, 
determined will and ceaseless industry. His 
farm now consists of 261 acres, and is admirably 
suited for farming and stock raising. Mr. Mor- 
ris may well congratulate himself on his bui 
and also upon the high opinion in which he and 
his family are held. Five children were born 
of his first marriage: James, Elizabeth (Mrs. 
Johnson Hughes), Rebecca Jane, William, and 
Margaret (now deceased). The death of Mrs. 
Elizabeth Morris took place July 11. 1852, and 
, her remains were interred in the Crab Apple 
Cemetery. April 29, L859, Mr. Morris married 
Elizabeth Maxwell, a daughter of James Max- 
well. The issue of this union were Alonzo, 
John O., Thomas M., Mary Alice, Morgan, 



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Sarah J., and Charles (the last named now de- 
ceased). From his early manhood Mr. Morris 
has voted the Democratic ticket, and still renders 
efficient aid to his party when needed. He has 
served his township as trustee for five or six 
rears, and discharged his duties satisfactorily. 

Alonzo Morris was born January 12, 1800, 
and spent his youth at home. He received his 
education at the common schools, and afterward 
at Franklin College. June 13, 1881, he was 
married to Laura E., daughter of J. T. Dicker- 
son, of New Athens, and since his marriage he 
has resided in Athens Township. His children 
are Lizzie Olive and Bessie Leverne. He and 
family are members of the Presbyterian Church 
at Nottingham. He supports the Democratic 
ticket and is a worthy representative of his 
family. 

Thomas M. Morris was born February 21, 
1862, and was educated at the district schools. 
In 1888 he married Emma E. Monahan. and 
made his home in Athens until 1800, when he 
removed to Belmont County. Like his father he 
is a Democrat. His family, as well as himself, 
are members of the Presbyterian Church at Crab 
Apple. One child, John Howard, has been born 
to this marriage. 




,\ILLIAM MOORE, farmer, Mooretield 
Township, Harrison County, is one of 
the oldest citizens living in the town- 
ship named, and is a son of Robert 
and Mary (Armstrong) Moore, natives of Ire- 
land, who immigrated to New York City in 
1703; from there they made their way with a 
pack horse to eastern Pennsylvania, where they 
remained until 1795, then removed to Jefferson 
County, Ohio, and located ten miles west of 
Steubenville; there they purchased a small 
farm, on which they remained a few years, 
when they removed to Harrison County and 
purchased 160 acres on Section 13, Mooretield 
Township, where our subject now resides. Mr. 
Moore cleared this land and made many im- 
provements. He was born in 1771, and de- 



parted this life February 1, 1835; his wife was 
born the same year, and died March 22, 1851, 
They were parents of seven children named as 
follows: Samuel, Robert, John, William, Jane, 
Margaret and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Moore 
were members of the Union (or what is now 
known as the United Presbyterian) Church 
many years. 

AVilliam Moore, the subject of these lines, 
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, October 4, 
1811, but grew to manhood in Mooretield Town- 
ship, Harrisou County, where he received a 
limited education. On March 15, 1837, he 
married Miss Lydia Delaney, who was born 
June 7, 1820, a daughter of John and Rachel 
Delaney, natives of Delaware, who came to 
Harrison County, Ohio, among the earliest set- 
tlers. William Moore, after his marriage, took 
up his residence on the farm which his father 
first settled and on which he still lives. Mr. and 
Mrs. Moore are parents of eight children, as 
follows: Robert, who resides in Mooretield 
Township: Sophia, wife of Robert Moore, of 
Mooretield Township; Allen D., who resides on 
the old farm; Stewart, deceased; William, who 
lives in Missouri; Howard, residing in Cadiz, 
Ohio; Lucinda, deceased, and Lydia, wife of 
Linard Fulton, of Missouri. Mrs. Moore has 
been a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church for many years, and Mr. Moore, al- 
though he has never been connected with any 
church, has done much toward their advance- 
ment by contributing liberally to their support. 
A few years ago he erected a tine residence on 
his farm, where he and his wife are now enjoy- 
ing themselves in their old age, having given 
the care of the farm over to their son, Allen D. 



JAMES CANNON, the subject of this 
sketch, was born in Athens Township. Har- 
rison County, March 31, 1824. His father, 
Moses, was born October 15, 1794, in Har- 
ford County, Md., of which State his parents 
were also natives. Erasmus Cannon, grand- 
father of our subject, was born March 3, 1763, 




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and in his early life he was married to Mary 
Bowman, a resident of Maryland. His family 
consisted of five girls: Mary, Rachel, Maria, 
Effie and Harriet, and five boys: Moses, Ewell, 
John, Erasmus and Thomas. In 1815, with his 
family, Erasmus Cannon came to Harrison 
County and settled in Athens Township. He 
by trade was a blacksmith, and for many years 
followed it in connection with farming. Highly 
respected by all, he passed away and was buried 
in Crab Apple Cemetery, where his wife was 
laid beside him, she dying at the age of ninety. 
Moses Cannon grew to manhood on the farm 
on which his son James now resides. October 
15, 1819, he chose, as the sharer of his joys and 
sorrows, Rachel, a daughter of Joshua and Pris- 
cilla Turner, residents of Mooretield, Harrison 
County, and to this union were born the follow- 
ing named children: Sarah Ann, now Mrs. 
Joseph Dickerson of New Athens; William, of 
Cadiz, Ohio; James, of Athens; John, of Athens; 
Rachel Jane, deceased ; Thomas, deceased ; Moses, 
deceased; AIL \, deceased, and Caroline, now 
Mrs. Basil Bowers, of New Martinsville. W. Va. 
Mr. Cannon was a member of the Methodist 
Church at New Athens, was one of its most active 
supporters, and was a trustee for many years. 
His political proclivities were Republican, but 
he invariably used his own judgment in casting 
his vote for candidates for public office. His 
death occurred August 26, 1851, and his remains 
now rest beside those of his wife in New Athens 
Cemetery, to which she followed him December 
11, 1864. 

James Cannon from his youth has been en- 
gaged in agriculture, which he still follows. 
Reared on a farm he has always been observant, 
and, forming his own judgment as to the differ- 
ent methods pursued, has, by carefully follow- 
ing his conclusions, become one of the most 
successful farmers in his section. October '2 1 . 
1848, he was married to Mary Trimble. She 
was a daughter of John Trimble, whoso father 
was a soldier in the Revolution, in which he was 
killed. In 1806 Mrs. Trimble, nee Miss Eliza 
McCall, came to Belmont County with her son, 



John, father of Mrs. Cannon. After their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Cannon settled in Belmont 
County, where they remained some time, then 
removed to the farm where they now reside. 
Their children were named Mary E. , Sarah T., 
Rett A., John A., and Hayes, of Butte City, 
Montana; Jeanette (deceased), and A. A., at 
home. Mr. Canuon has been a life- long Re- 
publican, and has always taken a deep interest 
in politics. He and his family are members of 
the Methodist Church, at New Athens, and Mr. 
Cannon, as a representative of the Cannon fam- 
ily, is the embodiment of their virtues, and 
fully represents the progressive man of to-day. 
The family are well known in the financial and 
social circles of the county, and are counted 
among its worthy and respected citizens. 



It f | ENRY BARRICKLOW was born March 
pH| 2, 1837, in Athens Township, Harrison 

1[ Co. , Ohio, and is a son of John and 
■f/ Rachel (Watson) Barricklow. Reared 

on a farm and early engaged in its duties, he 
had little opportunity to acquire a liberal edu- 
cation. However, in addition to the instruction 
received at the common schools, he added a vast 
amount by after reading and study. In 1862 
he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty 
sixth O. V. I. , and participated in all the move- 
ments and engagements of that regiment until 
he was seized with sickness, when he was sent 
home to recuperate. Never fully recovering he 
did not return to the army, but devoted himself 
to the pursuit of farming, which he followed 
until his death. October 21, 1869, he was mar- 
ried to Rebecca J., a daughter of Samuel Mc- 
Fadden. Mr. and Mrs. Barricklow lived in 
Cadiz one year, and then removed to the place 
where Mrs. Barricklow now resides, in Athens 
Township. 

February 28, 1873, Mr. Barricklow died and 
was buried in the new cemetery, at Cadiz. He 
was a young man of excellent promise, univer- 
sally beloved and highly respected, and although 
a stnmg member of the Democratic party, he 



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never allowed prejudice to govern his action. 
He and his family were members of the United 
Presbyterian Church, at Cadiz. Earnest in his 
action, of unquestioned honesty, he never failed 
in doing what he considered his duty or what 
was right. 



' ALVIN ROGERS, farmer aud sheep-raiser 
of Nottingham Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, is a son of William and Susan (Car- 
son) Rogers. William Rogers was born 
in Maryland, November 30, 1798, and was a son 
of Joseph Rogers who came from Maryland to 
Ohio in 1808, and settled in Cadiz Township, 
Harrison County. Here William Rogers was 
educated at the common schools, and was reared 
to manhood. He married Miss Susan Carson, 
who was born August 14, 1803, and had born to 
him ten children, as follows: Syndonia, born 
November 5, 1823, and died March 12, 1855; 
John B., born May 18, 1825; Jesse B., April 
24, 1828; Hannah, born April 24, 1830, and 
died February 4, 1S71; Nancy O, September 
17, 1832; William F., October 28, 1834; Bar- 
rett, March 29, 1839; Susanna, born July 8, 
1842. died March 4, 1847; Lydia, born May 22, 
1844, died June 9, 1844, and Calvin, born Jan- 
uary 19, 1837. William Rogers, after his mar- 
riage, purchased a farm in Cadiz Township, 
Harrison County, on which he ' resided until 
1856, when he moved to Nottingham Township 
and purchased the farm now owned by his son, 
William F. Rogers, and here he died April 28, 
1863. His wife had passed away May 25, 1844, 
and both were members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. He was a Republican in politics, 
and was well known and highlj' esteemed by the 
people of HaiTison County. 

Calvin Rogers was born in Cadiz Township, 
Harrison Co. , Ohio, was reared a farmer and 
was educated at the public schools. September 
29, 1859, he married Miss Mary E. Finical, who 
was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, November 10, 1833, daughter of Isaac and 
Margaret (Anderson) Finical, of Cadiz Town- 



ship. To this happy union were born four 
children, viz.: William M. , born August 15, 
1860, and died April 20. 1875; Alexander, born 
November 29, 1863; Nancy M., September 13, 
1868, and Oscar C, born August 3, 1873. Mr. 
Rogers resided on the home farm until 1883, 
when he bought his present farm of 160 acres 
on Section 21, Nottingham Township. Mr. 
Rogers is a noted raiser of fine sheep, and was 
among the first to introduce into Harrison 
County the thoroughbred "Spanish Merinos." 
Politically he is a Republican, and has been 
many times urged to accept public office, but 
has always declined, preferring, rather, to attend 
to the interests of his farm. Although not a 
member of any religious denomination, he freely 
gives of his means to the support and spread of 
the gospel. His wife is a pious and consistent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



»p"\ EUBEN P. LYON. The earliest repre- 
U*C/ sentative in America of the Lyon family 
\^ was Samuel Lyon, a native of England, 
■f/ who came to this country about the be- 

ginning of the present century and settled in 
Maryland. There he was married, the result 
being a family consisting of three girls and 
seven boys. He came to Ohio in 1819, and lo- 
cated in Jefferson County, where he remained 
for some years, and then came to Harrison 
County, where the family remained until their 
death. One of his sons, Samuel Lyon, was 
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and spent most 
of his childhood there, enjoying the advantages 
of the schools in that section. In 1840 he was 
united in marriage to Catherine Hedges, of Jef- 
ferson County. They located on a farm near 
what is now known as Skit, and remained there 
a few years. They then came to Washington 
Township. Harrison County, where they pur- 
chased a farm aud where they resided until their 
death. In his politics Samuel Lyon was a 
Whig, and was always active in the support of 
his party. He was honored many times with 
office and served several years as trustee. His 



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children were Harriet (Mrs. Leander Crumb- 
lett), Aaron, John H. , Elizabeth (deceased), 
Reiiben P., Jemiuiah (Mrs. David Meeks) and 
Robert P. (deceased). Mr. Lyon was a self- 
made man, and was one who by his daily life 
commanded the respect and esteem of all. 
January 1, 1871, he died, aged fifty-three years, 
and was followed by his wife August 8, 1884, 
her age being seventy-three years. 

Reuben P. Lyon was born November 8, 
1847, in Washington Township, where he has 
since resided. Before the death of his father 
the management of the home place devolved 
upon him, and, although but a lad of seventeen, 
his management would have done credit to many 
older and more experienced. On February 10, 
1870, he chose as his life's partner Eliza Jane 
Wiley, of Coshocton County, Ohio. They re- 
removed immediately to the home place, where 
they remained one year, and then came to their 
present residence. The last years of his 
mother's life were spent with him and in the 
care of his faithful wife, who with loving 
hands made life's decline as pleasant as the 
condition of the suffering parent would allow. 
For the last few months she was confined to her 
bed, and was only removed by the funeral car. 
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Lyon are 
Ella Catherine and Hugh A. Mrs. Eliza Jane 
Lyon is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and is always found among those deeply inter- 
ested in the success of religious undertakings, 
as well as those of a charitable nature. From 
his majority Mr. Lyon has voted the Republican 
ticket, has always taken an active part in the 
canvasses of his party, and in 1890 was elected 
trustee of his township by more than the usual 
majority. He has always taken a lively inter- 
est in the educational development of his neigh- 
borhood, and has served as school director for 
many years. He carries on farming and stock- 
raising on his farm of about 200 acres, three 
miles from Tippecanoe. It is well improve. 1. 
and is admirably adapted for the use of its owner. 
In 1889 Mr. Lyon erected a large stock and 
grain barn 30x48 feet, with a basement for the 



express accommodation of stock. He is one 
of the enterprising farmers of his township, 
and has done much for the improvement and 
progress of his locality. 



If AMES N. BIRNEY. Among the repre- 
l. I sentatives of the old families of Harrison 
\Jj County, Ohio, none are better or more 
widely known than the subject of this 
sketch, who was born August 27, 1845, in Wash- 
ington Township. His father, John Birney, was 
born in Green Township, where his early life was 
spent. There he married Hannah McKee, daugh- 
ter of Robert McKee, and soon after his marriage 
came to Washington Township, where he pur- 
chased a small piece of land. He kept steadily 
at work, using every opportunity that presented 
itself for his advancement, and at his death 
found himself the possessor of 5f50 acres of the 
best farming lands in Washington Township. 
This is an example of what industry, united with 
frugality and economy, will accomplish. His 
children were named Rachel (Mrs. Henry Pit- 
tis), Nelson, Robert M. , James N. , Rebecca J. 
(Mrs. Matthew Simpson), and John T. Mrs. 
Birney died in 1872, and was buried at Deers- 
ville. Mr. Birney married, for his second wife, 
Sarah Eaton. He lived until September '.', 
18S5, when he was laid to rest by the side of his 
first wife. In his politics Mr. Birney was a Re- 
publican, and always was a prominent man in 
the councils and in the work of the party. He 
was trustee fur several years, and also held vari- 
ous other offices, which were thrust upon him. 
He was one of the leading supporters of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and was always a 
liberal contributor of time and money for its 
advancement. 

James N. Birney has fully sustained the 
family's reputation for enterprise, Liberality and 
business qualities. From his youth he has been 
identified with his native township, and lias al 
ways aided toward the success of any worthy 
public or private enterprise, which had for its 
aim the betterment of the people. In L869 he 



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was married to Anna R., daughter of Robert 
McFadden, of Harrison County. He imme- 
diately commenced housekeeping on the home 
place, where he has since remained, and there 
have been born to him the following children: 
Robert H., John M., Bertha V. and Harry M., all 
of whom are at the home residence. In his poli- 
tics Mr. Birney has supported the Republican 
party, and has ever taken and still takes an 
active interest in the party's success. How- 
ever, he has never accepted any nomination for 
public office, his private business being of such 
a nature as to entirely preclude any participation 
in public affairs. He and his family are mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tip- 
pecanoe, and are among its constant attendants 
and supporters. He now engages in general 
farming and stock-raising, principally the latter. 
His farm of 373 acres is exceptionally well lo- 
cated, and admirably adapted for stock growing. 



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Mi RS. ELIZABETH EASTER, of Moore- 
field Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, is 
a daughter of David and Elizabeth 
(Kissick) Barclay, natives of County 
Derry, Ireland. David was born in 1790; his 
wife was born in 1801. They were married in 
Ireland, and in 1826 immigrated to the United 
States and settled in Nottingham Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and purchased a farm where 
one of the sons now lives. They were parents 
of ten children. 

Miss Elizabeth Barclay was born February 
18, 1841, in Nottingham Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where she grew to womanhood and 
was educated at the common schools. March 6, 
1871, she married Joseph M. Easter, who was 
born February 12, 1841, in Cadiz Township, a 
few miles from Cadiz, Harrison County, a son 
of James and Sarah (Mehollen) Easter. To this 
union was born one daughter, Josephine M. , 
who now resides with her mother. Mr. Easter 
departed this life December 31, 1871, and after 
her husband's death our subject resided with 
friends in different parts of the county, chiefly 



making her home with a sister, Mrs. Thomas 
McAdam, until 1879, when she purchased the 
farm she now owns, and which contains sixty 
acres. Mrs. Easter is an active member of the 
United Presbyterian Church, of Cassville, Ohio, 
and is held in high esteem by her friends and 
neighbors. 



J/OSEPH C. KIRKPATRICK, Moorefield 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, is a suc- 
' cessful farmer, and a gentleman whose 
name is worthy of notice in this record. 
He is a son of William and Sarah (Guthrie) 
Kirkpatrick. William Kirkpatrick was a son of 
James and Mary (Cochran) Kirkpatrick, natives 
of Cecil County, Md. James Kirkpatrick was 
born June 14, 1770; Mary Cochran was born 
January 31. 1771. This couple, in 1801, 
migrated to Washington County, Penn., where 
they remained until 1821; they then came to 
Harrison County, Ohio, where James purchased 
a tract of land in the northwest corner of Athens 
Township, but in a few years removed to Moore- 
field Township, and purchased 160 acres of land 
on Section 6, in the southeast quarter, where 
his death occurred May 16, 1840; his wife pre- 
ceded him July 25, 1836. To this union were 
born seven children, namely: Hugh, September 
21, 1795 ; Robert, April 29, 1797; Elizabeth, 
July 26, 1799; William, December 11, 1801; 
Mary, March 4, 1S04 (the only one living, and 
now residing with her daughter, Mrs. Douglass, 
in Moorefield Township); James, born January 
10, 1807, and John, born June 11, 1809. The 
parents of these children were members of the 
Presbyterian Church for many years. 

William Kirkpatrick was born in Cecil 
County, Md., and in his infancy was taken to 
Washington County, Penn., where he grew to 
early manhood. December 25, 1823, he mar- 
ried, and remained for some years in Athens 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. In 1837 he 
purchased 160 acres of laud on Section 36. the 
southeast quarter in Moorefield Township, Har- 
rison County, where he remained till his death, 



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May 1, 1888, his wife having preceded him 
January 14, 1885. William Kirkpatrick was 
an elder in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church 
for forty years, and a member for sixty years. 
He was a man very highly esteemed by all 
who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He 
was the father of eleven children, named as 
follows: James, Kobert G. , Joseph C. (our 
subject), Hugh, Mary J., Adeline Kirk, Sarah 
Hays, Elizabeth Wallace, John (deceased), 
Nancy (deceased) and Margaret Hays. 

Joseph C. Kirkpatrick, our subject, was 
born January 6, 1828, in Athens Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. He grew to manhood in 
Harrison County, and received a practical busi- 
ness education at Franklin College, New Athens. 
March 7, 1854, he married Miss Margaret J. 
Wallace, who was born in Mooreiield Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, December 23, 1834, a 
daughter of Rev. William and Mary (McWill- 
iams) Wallace. After his marriage Mr. Kirk- 
patrick purchased one-third of the farm where 
his brother James now lives, on which he re- 
mained until 1870; he then removed to his 
present home, which he had purchased in 1868, 
and which contains eighty-seven acres. In 
1869 he erected the fine residence which he 
now occupies. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpat- 
rick are active members of the Nottingham 
Presbyterian Church, highly honored by their 
fellow citizens, Mr. Kirkpatrick having several 
times been placed in offices of public trust. 



TfOHN WEBB, SB., a thoroughly represent - 
^. I ative pioneer farmer of Athens Township, 
\yj Harrison Co. , Ohio, but now retired, was 
born February 5, 1806, in Bridgeport, 
Penn. His father, Jacob Webb, was a native 
of Maryland, where he learned the trade of a 
potter, and coming to Brownsville, Penn., he 
here married Hannah, daughter of Adam Kirk, 
a native of the Keystone State. In 1809 they 
migrated with their family of four children to 
Ohio, settling on land he had entered in what is 
now Athens Township, Harrison County, the 



original farm being at present owned by John 
Culbertson. Here they built a stone house, 
which yet stands, and passed the remainder of 
their lives rearing a large family. They had 
born to them twelve children, of whom the fol- 
lowing is a brief record: Sarah died unmarried; 
Esther was married to Joseph Huff, of Athens 
Township, both now deceased; Edith is the de- 
ceased wife of John Major, of Athens Township; 
Hannah is the wife of Cyrus Holt, formerly of 
Athens Township; John is the subject of this 
sketch; Mary is the wife of Robert Eanos, liv- 
ing five miles from Columbus, Ohio; Jacob died 
in western Illinois; Ann is the wife of John 
Perrego, in Athens Township; Ezekiel and Jo- 
seph both died in that township; Robert is a 
resident of Illinois; Phoebe died when seven 
years of age. The father passed from earth in 
1833, at the age of sixty years; after coming to 
Harrison County he followed farming exclu- 
sively; politically he was a Democrat, and has 
held various offices of trust. The mother sur- 
vived him twenty-five years, dying in 1858, aged 
eighty-three years. 

John Webb, Sr. , our subject, attended the 
primitive schools of his early time, and was 
trained to practical farming, learning also car- 
pentering, which he followed to some extent. 
On November 11, 1830, he was married to Mar- 
tha, daughter of Col. Joseph Holmes, of Short 
Creek Township, Harrison County, where she 
was born January 8, 1811, on the old farm, on 
which her brother Asa now lives. After their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Webb settled on a farm 
adjoining the home place of his family, and 
here lived until April, 1885, when, leaving the 
farm to the care of their son Jacob, they moved 
into the village of New Athens, here to rest 
from their labors. Of their union two children 
were born: Joseph, in 1833 (now deceased), and 
Jacob, in November, 1834, in charge of his 
father's farm, which consists of 333 acres of 
choice land, situated half a mile from New 
Athens, and largely devoted to sheep-raising. 
When Mr. Webb went to this farm, he found it 
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with that of his wife, made it one of the finest 
in the county. Politically Mr. Webb is a Dem- 
ocrat, his first presidential vote having been 
cast for Andrew Jackson. He served as super- 
visor of the count}', and he and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
New Athens, Mrs. Webb having been associated 
with the same sixty years. The Webb family 
were originally Quakers, or members of the 
Society of Friends. Our subject and wife both 
represent old pioneer families of this section, 
and are remarkably well preserved for their 
years, still doing their own work about the 
house. They are highly respected citizens, en- 
joying the esteem of a wide circle of friends. 



SCAR R. McFADDEN was born August 
14, 1852, in Athens Township, Harrison 
County, and is a son of Samuel R. and 
Martha (Robb) McFadden. His early 
life was characterized by integrity, and he was 
well known as an industrious, earnest and pro- 
gressive young man. His education was that 
of ordinary farmer boys, and his attendance at 
the district school of his neighborhood was 
limited to the winter sessions. On his father's 
farm he grew to manhood, and assisted in the 
work of the home place. November 2, 1876, 
he was united in marriage to Sarah S. , a daugh- 
ter of William Oglevee, a resident of Harrison 
County. Locating first in Athens Township, he 
remained two years, when he removed to the 
farm of Mr. Oglevee, which he managed for 
three years, when he again returned to Athens, 
and purchased the farm on which he now re- 
sides. Mr. Oglevee accompanied him, and the 
last years of his life were spent at the home of 
his daughter, who, with that gentleness which 
ever distinguishes a true woman, cared for her 
aged parent till his death. The children of 
Mr. McFadden were named W. Charles, born 
December 11, 1877; Mabel G. and Mattie E., 
twins, born November 1, 1883 (Mabel died 
August 30, 1884, and Mattie died September 4, 
1884); Ralph, born October 23, 18SC. A stanch 



Democrat in his principles, Mr McFadden has 
always been an active member of the party, and 
has rendered it efficient service many times. 
For the past three years he has been assessor of 
his township, and has discharged his duties to 
the full satisfaction of a large constituency. 
He and his family are members of the United 
Presbyterian Church at New Athens. Mr. Mc- 
Fadden engages in general farming and stock- 
raising, and is numbered among those who are 
making a success in his vocation, the result of 
his good judgment and keen business sagacity. 



QEORGE W. LYLE, M. D., who for over 
, thirty years has been a prominent physi- 
cian in Scio, Harrison County, and one of 
, ^ the most popular and successful practi- 
tioners in the county, is a native of the same, 
haviug been born in Rumley Township, January 
7, 1837. His grandfather Lyle was a native of 
Ireland, and came to America at an early day, 
dying in Vinton County, Ohio, where he had 
carried on farming operations. William Lyle, 
father of our subject, was born in Carroll Coun- 
ty, Ohio, where his parents settled on a farm for 
some time. He was brought up to farm life, 
and learned the trade of blacksmith, which he 
followed for a considerable time in Rumley 
Township, Harrison County, whither he had 
moved, and in later years he carried on farming 
as well as his trade. In 1834 Mr. Lyle was 
married to Miss Jane Lewis, who was born near 
Leeds, England, in 1817, daughter of George 
and Elizabeth Lewis, of Harrison County. 
George Lewis and his wife were also born near 
Leeds, England, where they were married ; he 
was a miller by occupation, but after coming to 
this country, which was in the year 1819, he 
commenced in his new home by keeping a store 
in the town of Hanover, Harrison County, where 
they had located. Selling this business out after 
a time, they removed to a small piece of land 
near Rumley, in Rumley Township, where an 
old log mill had been erected, and which still 
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in 1830, bis wife surviving him until 1850, when 
she, too, was called to her long home, at the age 
of seventy-four years. They had born to them 
four children of whom are yet living Thomas 
Lewis, now on the old place, and Mrs. Jane 
Lyle, our subject's mother. 

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. William 
Lyle continued to reside in Rumley Township, 
where they shared life's joys and sorrows until 
1850, in which year death claimed the husband 
who had almost reached the fifty-fifth milestone 
on the highway of life. In his political pro- 
clivities he was first a Whig, and afterward, on 
the formation of the party, a stanch Republican. 
His widow, now seventy- four years of age, has 
for the past twenty-seven years been a resident 
of the town of Rumley. They were the parents 
of nine children, of whom the following is a 
brief record: Rose Ann is the wife of George 
W. Shultz, and lives in Rumley; George W. is 
the subject proper of this sketch; Mary is the 
widow of James McNabb, and resides in Irving, 
Wis. ; Elizabeth is the wife of Thomas Channel, 
and lives in Kearney, Neb. ; Martha is a resident 
of New Rumley; Eliza Jane was killed by being 
thrown from a buggy; Sarah Ellen is married 
to A. D. Finnicum, of Jeff erson County ; Amanda 
is the wife of Edgar Moore, in Nebraska, and 
Emma is in Palestine, Tex. ; the last two named 
are twins. 

George W. Lyle, whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch, was reared on the farm in 
Rumley Township, and attended the common 
schools of the district. When about eleven or 
twelve years of age he went to live with his 
paternal grandparents, with whom he remained 
some twenty years. In 1857 he commenced the 
study of medicine in Scio under Dr. Custer and 
Dr. Beadle, finishing his course at the Eclectic 
School at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 
isOt. He commenced the practice of his pro- 
fession at Bellaire, Ohio, where he remained 
three years; then practiced in Rumley, two 
years, finally coming, in 1870, to Scio. where he 
has since continued, being the second oldest 
practitioner in the place. In 1880 he opened 



out, on Main Street, a store for the sale of flru^s. 
notions, books, etc., which does a flourishing 
business. On September 23, 1869, the Doctor 
was married to Miss Almeda Allensworth, of 
Jefferson County, by which union the following 
named children have been born: Jennie, Irma 
and Mary, all at home; Ella M. Kirkpatrick, a 
step daughter, is living with the family. Po- 
litically Mr. Lyle is a Republican, and in his 
affiliations a member of the F. & A. M. Mrs. 
Lyle is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. The Doctor is a busy man, in the en 
joyment of a wide and lucrative practice, and 
justly merits the confidence and esteem of his 
numerous patrons in the county. 



JOHN F. DOWNS, one of the representa- 
tive men of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, was born March 2. L832, in Stock 
Township, in same county. His father 
Richard Downs, was born in 1800 in Pennsyl- 
vania, and John Downs, the father of Richard, 
was a native of Ireland, who came to America 
in the latter part of the eighteenth century. 
The family of John Downs consisted of two 
sons and five daughters. He was by trade a 
stone-mason, which he followed many years, 
and he settled in Carroll County, Ohio, where 
he passed the remainder of his life. Richard 
Downs was born in Pennsylvania, where he 
grew to manhood. During his youth he was 
apprenticed to a blacksmith, learning the trade, 
which he continued after his arrival in Stock 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he mar- 
ried soon after his arrival, reared his family, 
and where he died. His wife, Elizabeth ( Mc- 
Kinney) Downs, was a daughter of George 
McKinney, of Harrison County, and a native of 
Ireland. Mr. McKinney' s children were named 
Elizabeth, John. Nancy, Jane, George. Fryer 
and James. He was a tailor by trade, follow- 
ing same in Stock Township. Harrison County, 
till his death, which occurred in 1*15. In 
politics he was a Democrat, and was a member of 
the Seceder Church. Mrs. McKinney preceded 



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her husband to the grave in 1841. After their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Downs settled in Stock 
Township, Harrison County, where they reared 
the following family: Mary J. (Mrs. Percival 
Adams), George M., John (deceased), James 
(deceased), John F., Richard and Margaret 
(deceased). In politics Mr. Downs was a 
stanch supporter of Democratic principles; he 
was early a member of the Seceder Church, but 
on the dissolution of that society he united with 
the Presbyterian faith. He died in 1860, and 
Mrs. Downs, after the death of her husband, 
made her home with her son, John F., until 
her death, which occurred January 19, 1886. 
She was laid to rest by the side of her husband 
in Feed Springs Cemetery. 

The early life of John F. Downs was spent in 
Stock Township, Harrison County, where he re- 
received his education at the district schools. On 
November 9, 1860, he was married to Sarah West, 
daughter of Amos West, and the children born to 
this union were named Mary M., Mrs. A. Q. 
Melaney; Naomi E., Mrs. Sherman Cramblett; 
James A., and Etta McClintick. Mrs. Downs, 
the mother of these children, died May 18, 
1879, and was buried at Feed Spring. In 
politics Mr. Downs has always been a follower 
of the Democratic party, and has at all times 
rendered efficient service to his party. For 
many years he has been a trustee of the Feed 
Spring Presbyterian Church, of which he is a 
constant attendant and a liberal supporter. 
Mr. Downs is a self-made man, one who has 
won the respect and esteem of all by the excel- 
lence of his actions and his integrity and honesty. 



d, OHN S. McBEAN, M. D. , and druggist, 
Cadiz, Ohio, was born in 1840 in that 
I town, a son of John and Belinda (John- 
son) McBean, former a native of Scotland, 
latter of Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of 
Henry and Catherine Johnson, descendants of 
early settlers of Pennsylvania. Henry Johnson 
died in Harrison County, and his wife, Catherine, 
died in Cadiz, same county. 



John McBean, father of the subject of this 
sketch, when a boy eight years of age went to 
the West India Islands to live with an uncle, his 
parents having both died. From there he came 
to the United States and to Ohio, where he 
made a settlement. To a considerable extent 
he educated himself, and by close study and a 
thorough course in the schools of Cannonsburg, 
Penn., he fitted himself for a teacher. For a 
term of years he taught the Greek and Latin 
languages. He then took up the study of med- 
icine, and for some fifty years he practiced his pro- 
fession in Cadiz, Harrison County. While in 
the practice he was the instructor of several 
students who have since become shining lights 
in their several vocations, among whom may be 
mentioned Bishop Simpson. At Moorefield, 
Ohio, Mr. McBean was married to Miss Belinda 
Johnson, and by her he had three sons and 
seven daughters, all the latter and one son (our 
subject) still living. On January 7, 1875, the 
father passed from earth at the age of seventy- 
seven years. He was originally a Whig, after- 
ward a Republican, and at one time, under the 
old law, was judge of the court of Harrison 
County. His widow yet lives in Cadiz, aged 
eighty-four years. 

John S. McBean, the subject proper of these 
lines, was brought up in his native city, attend- 
ing the common schools and studying under his 
father for some years. He then turned his atten- 
tion to the reading of law under the guidance of 
Jesse H. McMath, and was admitted to the bar 
at Carrollton, Ohio. Soon thereafter, his pre- 
ceptor having been appointed United States 
Consul to Tangier, Morocco, he accompanied him 
thither, passing, on their journey, through Eng- 
land, France and Spain to Gibraltar, thence to 
their destination. Aiter about a year's residence 
in Africa our subject returned alone to his native 
land and at once took up the study of medicine 
with his father, graduating at the Medical Col- 
lege of Ohio, at Cincinnati, with the class of 
1872, since when he has practiced his profession 
in Cadiz, having, in connection therewith a 
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his father at an early date, and doing the largest 
business in Harrison County. 

In 1876 Dr. McBean was united in marriage 
with Georgia, daughter of G. W. and Anna 
Scott, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Harrison 
County. She died in 1883, leaving a son, John 
G. , now at home, and in April, 1886, the Doctor 
married, for his second wife, Miss Alice, daugh- 
ter of Martin S. and Martha Kennedy, and a 
native of Harrison County, where her father still 
resides. In politics the Doctor is a Republican, 
and was coroner for several years. During the 
War of the Rebellion he was appointed lieuten- 
ant, and raised a company of volunteers, but 
just at that time he went to Africa. After his 
return he served as deputy provost -marshal till 
the close of the war. 



IRWIN PORTER, JR., one of the well- 
known farmers of Cadiz Township, Harrison 
I County, was born in 1854 on the farm now 

owned by John Mehollin, on which the old 
house still stands. His father, Smiley Porter, 
was a native of Harrison County, also, and first 
saw the light on the farm now owned by his 
brother, Irwin Porter, Sr. 

Samuel Porter, the grandfather of our sub- 
ject, was one of the pioneers of the county, 
coming from Pennsylvania. He had learned 
the tanner's trade when a boy and followed it 
throughout life. His wife, who bore the maiden 
name of Margaret Dugan, was a native of Penn- 
sylvania. After marriage they made their home 
on the farm where Irwin, Jr., was born. While 
the latter was yet a mere child his parents 
moved to Morgan County, where the father 
built another tannery and passed the remainder 
of his life, dying in 1865, at the age of fifty- 
eight. He had been a hard-working man, and 
the exposure necessary in his business caused 
his death. His widow survived him ten years, 
dying at the age of sixty-seven, the mother of 
eight children, viz.: Caroline, deceased; Mar- 
garet; who died in infaucy, and who was a twin 



of Mary, now living in Noble County; Catherine, 
now Mrs. Samuel Morquis, of Noble County; 
Sarah Jane, married to John Harper, of Morgan 
County; Samuel, in Cadiz Township; John, in 
Belmont County, and Irwin, our subject. 

The last named worked, while a boy, on his 
father's farm, and also assisted in the tannery. 
At the death of his father he went to live with 
his uncle Irwin, after whom he was named, and 
with whom he resided for nearly twenty years, 
aiding in the cultivation of the farm, south of 
Cadiz. In the spring of 1888 he purchased the 
farm on which he now lives, but the first sum- 
mer his home was cared for by the family from 
whom he had bought; during the four months 
following he did his own housekeeping himself, 
cooking for his hands as well as working in the 
field. In 1887 he went to Missouri and sold 
some land which he owned there, and after vis- 
iting some of the western cities returned and 
made a trip to the East, crossing the Allegha- 
nies. Again coming homeward, he was married 
on Christmas day, 1888, to Ida McFarland, 
daughter of Alexander and Matilda McFarland, 
and a native of Harrison County. By this 
union there is one child, Bessie, born Septem- 
ber 30, 1890. The farm which Mr. Porter 
owns, and on which he resides, is located about 
four miles from Cadiz, and contains 178 aires. 
chiefly devoted to the raising of stock. Mi. 
Porter handling, to a large extent, draft horses, 
cattle and sheep, and owning some of the besl 
four-year-olds in the county. Since locating 
here our subject has greatly improved his place, 
having renovated his dwelling, renewed his 
fences and rebuilt his barns. 

Politically Mr. Porter is a Democrat, but is 
no office-seeker, though widely and favorable 
known throughout the county. He is progres- 
sive and much interested in public affairs, be- 
ing ever ready to assist in all movements calcu- 
lated to advance the prosperity of his commu- 
nity. To such men as he, and to the family he 
represents, Harrison County is much indebted; 
and many a stranger remembers him with grati- 
tude, for his hospitality is unbounded. 



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THOMAS BAKER, the subject of this 
sketch, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, 
June 5, 1843, son of Abraham Baker, 
who was born in Harrison County, Ohio, 
September 8, 1808. The early life of Abraham 
was spent at home until, at the age of eighteen, 
he entered the service of a millwright to learn 
the trade. For many years he pursued that 
calling, but finally settled on a farm in Carroll 
County. He was married to Edna Brock, daugh- 
ter of Jesse Brock, a resident of Tuscarawas 
County, and to this union were born six chil- 
dren — one son and live daughters. In politics 
Mr. Baker was a Democrat, and was one of the 
active men of his party. 

Thomas Baker remained at home until 1868, 
his youth being spent in assisting in the duties 
of the farm and attending the common schools. 
On November 16, 1871, he chose, as his life's 
partner, Emily A. Robertson, daughter of Ed- 
mund Robertson, who resided in Carroll County. 
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Baker settled on 
the place which Mr. Baker had previously pur- 
chased, and where they now reside. Five chil- 
dren have been born to them in the following 
order: Charles B., August 16, 1872; Cylvettie 
J., November 15, 1873; Maud, January 20, 
1875; Perry, May 10, 1878, and Blanche, Au- 
gust 20, 1880. Mr. Baker, like his father, is a 
Democrat in politics, and while always ready to 
assist his party in all ways, still refuses to ac- 
cept any office. Financially Mr. Baker is a 
self-made man, having commenced life with only 
his own energy and push. To such men too 
much credit can not be given for their enterprise 
and success. 



f OHN W. GILLESPIE. The family of 
^. I Gillespie is one of the best known in 
\Jj Harrison County, the growth of which the 
several members have materially aided in 
promoting. Not the least conspicuous figure in 
this family is Mr. John W. Gillespie, who as a 
thorough business man has secured a well- 
merited popularity in the town of Cadiz, and in 



the county generally. He is a native of Cadiz, 
having been born here May 1, 1857. 

His father, John Wallace Gillespie, Sr. (who 
was a full cousin to Hon. James G. Blaine, and 
a native of Ohio), when a lad learned the trade 
of a cabinet-maker, and also the business of 
undertaker, with his uncle, Adam Junkins. Be- 
ing but a poor boy, he was in early life thrown 
upon his own responsibilities to make his way 
in the world as best he could, but, being pos- 
sessed of native energy and an inborn ambition 
to succeed, he gradually but surely rose in his 
chosen work. On November 29, 1842, he was 
united in marriage with Miss Cordelia Ander- 
son, a native of Wheeling, W. Va., and who 
had grown to womanhood at the home of Will- 
iam Lacey, in Cadiz, Ohio. After their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie, jointly toiled to 
build up a home for themselves and family. To 
them were born seven children, as follows: Al- 
bert, James and Nettie (all deceased); Elozia 
McFadden, residing in Cadiz; Laura, widow of 
the late John C. Spencer, in Chicago; John W. 
and Wayne, in Cadiz. On May 7. 1877, death 
carried off the mother, at the age of fifty years, 
she dying of that dread disease, cancer, and in 
1879 Mr. Gillespie took for his second wife a 
most estimable lady, Mrs. Jane Dallas, widow 
of Henry Dallas, formerly of Cadiz. In 1885 
the husband and father died, the disease which 
carried him off also being cancer, which for 
years had been slowl}' accomplishing its fatal 
work. Heroically Mr. Gillespie fought the ter- 
rible malady, but had finally to succumb, and 
was compelled to confine himself to the house 
only twelve days before the end came. He, how- 
ever, continued to attend to his business till 
within a day or two of his decease. He was an 
adherent of the Presbyterian Church, and, so- 
cially, a member of the I. O. O. F. His widow 
yet survives him. 

John W. Gillespie, the eldest living son of 
the deceased gentleman, a brief sketch of whose 
life we have just completed, successfully con- 
ducts the business of house furnishings, cabinet- 
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established, and enjoys the patronage of a large 
circle of friends. His education was obtained 
at the public schools of his native city, and at 
seventeen years of age he entered his father's 
store and workshop, where he acquired a thor- 
ough knowledge of his trade. Here he applied 
himself to his work with the industry and zeal 
which has characterized his entire life, and he 
soon mastered the various details of the busi- 
ness so that on the comparatively sudden death 
of his father, he was well qualified to success- 
fully assume the full responsibilities of the es- 
tablishment, which was becoming widely known 
and rapidly increasing in popularity. The build- 
ing, recently remodeled and enlarged by our sub- 
ject, is now a tine three-story brick edifice, with 
large plate glass windows, the whole enchancing 
his business and adding not a little to the beau- 
tifying of the town. Mr. Gillespie was married 
April 15, 1890, at Cadiz, Ohio, to Miss Agnes 
Sheriff, daughter of Adam N. Sheriff (deceased) 
and Mary V. Sheriff. Mr. Gillespie is identi- 
fied with the F. & A. M., the I. O. O. F. and 
the K. of P. In politics he is a Republican; 
he is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 



DAVID J. McBETH comes of that sturdy 
] line of ancestry who have made the his- 
____ ' tory of Scotland famous, and whose in- 
herent attributes of sterling integrity and 
sturdy determination of purpose have been 
handed down in the lore of " ye ancient time." 
The first of the family to leave their native land 
and seek a home in the New World were Joseph 
and Elizabeth McBeth (the grandparents of our 
subject), who located in Bolivar, Westmoreland 
Co., Penn., where they resided until their death. 
Joseph McBeth was a sturdy old Highlander, a 
typical Scotchman, an expert in the Scottish 
sport of curling, fencing and general athletics, 
and trained his sons in the same. Among the 
twelve children born to him was a son, John. He 
was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., Sep- 
tember 7, 1808, and grew to manhood with his 



parents, his boyhood days being spent amidst such 
privations and disadvantages as fell to the lot of 
pioneer boys. The early subscription schools 
affording but meager advantages for an educa- 
tion, the instruction of the family fell to the lot 
of the mother, and in many a pioneer's after 
life we may easily trace the effects of a careful 
mother's training in the integrity, industry and 
upright character that mark their live-,. After 
he became of age he started for Ohio on foot. 
He would travel a distance, and then work for 
.some settler for almost nothing. Then he would 
travel a little farther, and, finally, in 1829, he 
arrived in Harrison County, Ohio, and began life 
on a limited capital, which he had earned on his 
way out, and a suit of home-made clothes, a 
pair of linsey pants and a red wampus, which 
his mother had woven for him ere he left home. 
He purchased a tract of land in Monroe Town- 
ship, Harrison County, and, building a log- 
cabin thereon, located therein, and began the 
improvement of his farm. On April 18. 1833, 
he married Mary Webster, a native of Harrison 
County, Ohio, and a daughter of John and 
Katherine Webster, early pioneers and promi- 
nent citizens, they having originally emigrated 
from Pennsylvania. At the time of Mr. and 
Mrs. McBeth's settlement here the country was a 
wilderness, and the woods were full of wolves, 
bears and deer, and there is now a huge rock on 
the farm under which the bears congregated, and 
many a bruin has here met his death by the well- 
directed ball from the trusty rifle of some early 
settler. The privations endured by the pio 
neers were many and various. The settler 
would clear his patch and raise some wheat, and 
this, after it had been harvested with a sickle 
and threshed with a flail, would be hauled to 
Stenbenville, forty miles distant, and there sold 
for twenty-five cents per bushel, or exchanged 
for the necessaries of life. They would trade a 
bushel of wheat for a pound of coffee, and this ex- 
pensive luxury would be served about once a 
week, and that usually on Sunday mornings. 
They resided here until their deaths — Mrs. Mc- 
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and Mr. McBeth dying July 22, 1863. He was 
a progressive citizen, taking an active interest 
in the advancement of his country. He was 
particularly successful in life, and ere his death 
had amassed a handsome competence. Of his 
abundance he gave with a liberal hand, always 
supporting any and all public movements for the 
advancement of the country, and he was dis- 
tinguished for his charity. He was a consistent 
member of the Presbyterian Church for many 
years. He took an active interest in the polit- 
ical questions of the day, and was originally a 
Democrat. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
McBeth were nine in number, as follows: 
Nancy, wife of J. M. Ferrell, of Orrville, Ohio, 
an attorney; Mariah, now Mrs. Thomas E. Fow- 
ler, of Monroe Township, Harrison Co., Ohio; 
Robert O, a prominent attorney and past judge 
of the courts at Clinton, Henry Co., Mo.; 
David J., the subject of this sketch; William, 
who enlisted in the spring of 1862, in Company 
K, Sixty-ninth O. V. I., and, as a result of a 
forced march over the Cumberland Mount- 
ains in June, 1862, contracted typhoid fever, 
and died in the army hospital at Nashville, 
Tenn. , in November, 1862; Margaret Ann, mar- 
ried to Garrett Fowler, and residing at Dennison, 
Ohio; John, who resides in Monroe Township, 
Harrison County; Amanda, married to Thomas 
Bower, and residing in Bowerston, Ohio; Mary, 
married to William J. Albaugh, and residing in 
Monroe Township, Harrison County. 

David J. McBeth was born on the old 
homestead, in a log cabin June 10, 1841. His 
early life was spent at home, assisting his par- 
ents in the duties of the farm, and experiencing 
the usual events which fell to the lot of the 
average boy of the period. He recalls the old 
log cabin, dignified by the title of school-house, 
where he was first taught the rudiments of an 
education. The house was furnished with a 
puncheon floor, rude desk of split logs and a 
single desk around the side of the room on pegs 
driven into the wall. The scholars were expect- 
ed to cut the wood for the old-fashioned " ten- 
plate stove," which threw out a fierce heat. The 



slavery question had taken a firm hold upon 
him, and the fugitive slave law seemed particu- 
larly revolting to him, and he became an ardent 
anti slavery man, so that at last when the Civil 
War broke out upon the country he was ripe for 
a volunteer, and in February, 1862, he enlisted 
in Company K, Sixty-ninth O. V. I. He was 
mustered into the United States service at Ca- 
diz, and after a short stop at Camp Chase at 
Columbus, was sent to Tennessee, and there his 
regiment was attached to the Fourteenth Army 
Corps — a part of the Army of the Cumberland 
— under the command of Gens. Rosecrans and 
Sherman. He participated in the battles of 
Stone River, Lookout Mountain, Missionary 
Ridge, Chickamauga, Buzzard's Roost, and was 
with Sherman on his march to the sea. At the 
siege of Atlanta, in August, 1864, he was left 
on picket duty on the skirmish line, and was 
taken prisoner, and immediately sent by forced 
marches to the prison pen at Andersonville. 
He was suffering from sickness and fatigue at 
the time, but the heart of the rebel was noted 
for its lack of tenderness, and the inhuman 
generals compelled the prisoners to carry on a 
stretcher an old negro, making the remark that, 
" He is your brother; that's what you Yanks are 
fighting for. ' ' Once, when the guard had 
stopped to rest a few minutes, the women gath- 
ered around and began taunting the prisoners, 
and one deliberately spat in our subject's face, 
and when he raised his hand to wipe away the 
filth he was ordered by the guard to desist, the 
guard in the meantime leveling a gun at him. 
For nine long months he suffered all the infa- 
mous cruelties of that prison pen, whose horrors 
no pen can describe, and which stand as the 
foulest blot upon the dishonored scroll of the 
Southern Confederacy. When Mr. McBeth and 
his fellow prisoners reached Andersonville they 
were drawn up in a line before the tent of Wirtz, 
and after they had been ordered to remove their 
hats they were left standing in the boiling sun 
seven or eight hours. Able men have tried in 
vain to picture the horrors of the place, and the 
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gone forth to the defense of their country and 
their homes. D. J. McBeth was at Anderson- 
ville at the close of the war. They were taken 
out and marched under guard nearly to Jack- 
sonville, Fla., where they rejoined the Union 
forces, and for the first time learned of the fail- 
ure of the Confederacy. Then the poor, starved 
creatures were for the first time in many months 
among friends, and their joy was indescribable. 
D. J. McBeth was taken to Annapolis, Md., and 
soon after was taken to Columbus, where he was 
honorably discharged in May, 1865, after which 
he returned to his home. He then located on 
the farm where he now resides, and for the next 
few years tried to regain his shattered health. 

On June 22, 1871, he married Miss Elmira 
Criui, a native of Harrison County, Ohio, and a 
daughter of George and Catherine Crim, worthy 
people of Virginia, who located in Franklin 
Township at an early day, where Mr. Crim be- 
gan as an extensive farmer and miller. This 
union has been blessed with eight children, viz. : 
Katie B., born February 26, 1872; Robert O, 
June 14, 1874; Susan Amanda, born September 
22, 1875, and died March 19, 1890; Waldo D., 
born May 19, 1877; Mary Irena, June 24, 1880; 
Allie B., July 2, 1882; Amelia M., July 9, 
1884. and Ina Blanche, born May 23, 1887. 
Mr. and Mrs. McBeth are both members of the 
Regular Baptist Church at Beaver, one half 
mile from their home. Politically Mr. McBeth 
is a hearty supporter of the Republican party, 
and a firm believer in the protection of Amer- 
ican industries. The family reside on their 
farm in Monroe Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, 
where he has seventy-six acres of fine land, and 
are held in high esteem by their neighbors. 
Mr. McBeth has never recovered his health, and 
has been a constant sufferer since June, 1862 — 
the dregs of typhoid fever and exposure in An- 
dersonville Prison. He is a brave, patriotic 
man, one who has given his health and offered 
his life for the preservation of the Union. The 
soldiers, who with shattered health or maimed 
bodies are denied the enjoyments of lilt', share a 
worse fate then those who fell in battle. May 



the time be hastened when a grateful country 
will pension its preservers, and to every possible 
extent gladden their few remaining years, and 
smooth the path made rugged in its defense. 




ILLIAM L. MANSFIELD was born in 
November, 1810, a son of Thomas 

Mansfield, a native of England, who 
came to America prior to the Revolu- 
tion, settling in Maryland, where he was resid- 
ing during that historic period. Two older 
brothers served during that struggle, and another 
brother, Samuel, was in the War of IS 12. 
Thomas Mansfield married Mary Hill, and they 
afterward spent some time in Westmoreland 
County, Penn., coming in 1797 to what was known 
as the Dorsey Flats, disputed land in Jefferson 
County, Ohio. At the time of the opening of 
the land office (1801 ) those who had " squatted " 
the land by agreement drew lots for same, and 
Thomas Mansfield, losing, had to abandon what 
he had " squatted " on, of which some twenty 
acres had been cleared by him. He entered, 
however, and settled on a piece of land in the 
section smith, adjoining, whereon he lived until 
1844, in June of which year he died at the age 
of eighty-seven years; in 1854 his widow fol- 
lowed him to the grave, also aged eighty s< ren 
years. They were the parents of sixteen chil- 
dren, all of whom, save one, grew to maturity, 
and all were living so near the paternal home 
that they were enabled to be present at their 
father's death bed. except Jane. Of these chil- 
dren all are now deceased, save William L , the 
subject of this sketch. When the father died 
he had eighty grandchildren. The mother was 
for twenty -five years the only female physician 
ia the county. They were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and after coming 
to Jefferson County their nearest place of wor- 
ship was Wellsbnrg, some fourteen miles distant, 
whither they would go on horse-back, oharch 
services being held in a block-house. 

William L. Mansfield had to endure, in his 
boyhood, all the hardships of pioneer days in 



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farm life, and many a bushel of grain bad be to 
take on borseback to Boyd's Mill, near Steuben - 
ville, selling same for twenty-five cents per 
bushel. Salt was brought over the mountains 
on horseback once a year. The people of that 
day made their own clothing, in fact manufact- 
ured almost everything they used. Calico was 
thirty-seven cents to forty cents per yard ; coffee 
thirty-seven and a half cents per pound, and so 
on. Grain was threshed out on the barn floor 
with flails, and later with horses. Our subject 
attended the old log school-house with puncheon 
floor, greased paper windows and seats made of 
slabs. In one school-house a man had hanged 
himself, and so great was the superstition in 
connection with the affair that no child could be 
induced to enter that building again, so a new 
school-house had to be put up. In those semi- 
dark days witches were believed in, a man named 
"Billy" McConnell being what was known as 
" Witch Curer '' or "Witch Killer," and many 
interesting incidents could be narrated about 
them, did space permit. In 1832 Mr. Manstield 
began flat boating with his older brother, Samuel, 
which he followed fourteen years, carrying flour, 
butter and cheese to northern Ohio, selling his 
boat at his destination, lumber there being very 
high. In 1840 he was married to Harriet, 
daughter of James G. Harrah, and to this union 
were born sis children, viz. : Maggie J. (Mrs. A. 
Moore); Thomas Browning, a physician in Iowa; 
James Harvey, who died in 1876; Mary Ellis 
(Mrs. Alonzo Hoobler); Nettie (wife of John 
Manstield, probate judge, in Steubenville, Ohio), 
and Addie R. I Mrs. William Hall, in Green 
Township, Harrison County). The parents made 
their home in Wayne Township, Jefferson Coun- 
ty, and in the spring of 1841 moved to West 
Virginia, but returned the following year; then 
in 1866 they came to Green Township, Harrison 
County, where they resided until 1877, in which 
year they left the farm and came to their present 
home in Hopedale, same township. In 1840 
Mr. Mansfield built a log house where he was 
then living. For some years be was owner of a 
mill at Unionport. Ohio. In polities he was 



first a Whig, then a Bepublican, and a member 
of the Know-nothing party, and is now a Pro- 
hibitionist. He has never sought office, but has 
served as judge of election, and several times 
was township assessor. Many times had he 
visited the home of W. H. Harrison, first presi- 
dent of that name. Both he and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Thomas B. Mansfield, son of the above, when 
eighteen years of age, enlisted in the War of the 
Rebellion, serving three years. He was never 
wounded, although he had many narrow escapes, 
at one time his pen being shot out of his hand 
while he was writing a letter, and he had his 
clothing cut. At the battle of Perryville his feet 
were so badly cut in marching that his boots were 
full of blood and sand, and for forty-eight hours 
he was without food. At that time he was a 
young man of small size, and on this occasion he 
hid himself away in a com-sliock, where his com- 
rades found him sleeping, and one of them, by 
name William Crown, carried him to camp. 
" Little Brown," as he was called, was the only 
one of the boys of his neighborhood who went to 
the war and came home well or without a wound 
or hurt of some kind. 



T^LIJAH P. MANSFIELD was born in 
I/- 1 Jefferson County, Ohio, in August, 1840, 
1__^ a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Pum- 
phrey) Mansfield, former of whom was 
also a native of Jefferson County, born in 1803 
on land entered by his father in Section No. 1. 
The mother was a daughter of Elijah Pumphrey. 
who died when she was seven years of age. She 
was of Quaker ancestry, who settled in Maryland, 
coming from England at an early date. Her 
maternal grandmother was a Boone, of the old 
family of that name of Kentucky. Samuel 
Mansfield built the first brick house in Wayne 
Township, Jefferson County. The parents of 
our subject lived all their lives in Jefferson 
County, where the father died in 1880, on the 
place where he was born. He was a zealous Re- 
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time being devoted to agricultural pursuits. He 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
The widowed mother still lives, at the advanced 
age of seventy-eight years, calmly awaiting the 
summons to her long home. They were the par- 
ents of eleven children, viz. : Albert O. , pro- 
prietor of a cattle ranch in Maryville, Mo. ; H. 
O., in the wool business at Scio, Harrison Co., 
Ohio; J. B, , a farmer near the old home place; 
Elijah P., our subject; Thomas (deceased); 
William and Jacob (twins, former being general 
agent for the Champion Manufacturing Com- 
pany at Cincinnati, Ohio, the latter living on 
the old home farm); Mary Emily, now the wife 
of W. H. Wood, of Smithfield, Ohio; Wesley 

F. (deceased); Annie, now the wife of W. C. 
Ong, an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, and Katu- 
rah, at home. 

Elijah P. Mansfield received his primary edu- 
cation at the common schools, and at the age of 
sixteen went to college at Richmond, Ohio, where 
he studied live terms, which was supplemented 
by two terms at Hopedale, in Harrison County. 
He also had a term of instruction at the Pitts- 
burgh Commercial College, and then entered a 
store at Pittsburgh. While here the Civil War 
broke out, and, in 1864, he enlisted in Company 

G, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh O. N. G., 
and was promoted to corporal. The regiment 
was mustered in at Camp Chase, Ohio, and was 
then sent direct to the Baltimore Junction (then 
called the Relay House), where it guarded the 
bridge spanning the Patapsco River, where it 
whs encamped three weeks; was then ordered to 
Fort Delaware, where it remained the rest of 
term of enlistment, guarding rebel prisoners, and 
was mustered out at Camp Chase, Ohio. (Not 
being with his regiment at muster out, our 
subject did not get his discharge until 1890). 
On the way home Mr. Mansfield was so ill with 
typhoid fever as to necessitate his being left at 
a hotel in Altoona, to die, it was thought, but he 
recovered, and was then commissioned military 
storekeeper at Wheeling, W.Ya.. which position 
he filled until shortly after the assassination of 
President Lincoln. He was then placed in 



charge of the Commissary Department at Bell- 
aire, Ohio, to feed and issue rations to troops 
returning homeward; also acted as provost- 
marshal during his short stay at Bellaire. At 
the close of the war Mr. Mansfield took charge 
of a branch store in Bellaire for a Wheeling 
firm, and, they selling out, he came, in Febru- 
ary, 1S67. to Cadiz, where he went into the wool 
business with K. W. Kinsey, which firm was, in 
1869, consolidated with H. S. McFadden & Co., 
later becoming McFadden, Kinsey & Co., a 
partnership that lasted sis years. In 1S7T Kin- 
Bey & Mansfield bought out McFadden, Kinsey 
& Co., and in the following year Mr. Mansfield 
sold out to Kinsey. For three years thereafter 
he was entirely in the wool and wheat trade: 
then, in 1880, in company with M. J. Brown, 
lie went into the clothing and merchant tailoring 
business, selling out in the spring of 1887,since 
when he has been engaged exclusively in the 
wool trade in Cadiz. In September, 1874. Mr. 
Mansfield was united in marriage with Miss Cas 
sandria, daughter of George and Annie (Upde- 
groff) Kinsey, of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, the 
mother being of the old Updegroff family of 
Jefferson County, Ohio. Four children were the 
result of this union, viz. : Le Roy (died when 
an infant), Anna Myrtle, Frank K. and Clara 
E. , at home. Mr. Mansfield is a Republican, 
and has served as councilman; is a Freemason. 
a rnernber of the Mystic Circle, and of the Meth 
odist Episcopal Church: his wife is a member 
of the Society of Friends. The home of this 
estimable family is located at the head of Lin- 
imIh Avenue, in Cadiz, and is an ornament to 
the place; this house was the first school build 
iug. The Grandmother Mansfield would often 
walk from her home to that of her son John (one 
and one-half miles), thence to see anothei 
Samuel (three miles), knitting all the way. Her 
motto was '•Be always busy." 

Five of the sons of Samuel Mansfield were 
soldiers during the War of the Rebellion two 
in the regular service in Company B, < >ne Hun- 
dred and Fifty-second O. V. I., J. B. as orderly 
sergeant, and Henry O. , as recorded in his 



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sketch, which innriediately follows. J. B. was 
wounded at the battle of Missionary Eidge, be- 
ing struck by a musket ball,which passed through 
his boot-leg, pants and sock, fortunately, how- 
ever, striking him on the fleshy part of the leg, 
no bone being fractured. Elijah P. (as above 
narrated), Thomas and Jacob were in Company 
G, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh O. N. G., 
one hundred-days men, E. P. serving as cor- 
poral, the other two as privates. (William was 
determined to go to the war, also, but his 
brother, Elijah P., hired a substitute and sent 
his brother home). 

Henry Oliver Mansfield, of Scio, brother of 
Elijah P. , is also a native of Jefferson County, 
Ohio, born September 16, 1833, and was brought 
up on a farm, attending at the same time the 
common schools of his neighborhood, also taking 
a course in Richmond College. On August 11, 
1862, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred 
and Fifty-second Regiment, O. V. I., and at 
Camp Dennison was elected second lieutenant; 
then was promoted to first lieutenant, and final- 
ly to captain of his company. On June 27, 
1864, he was wounded in the right leg by the 
concussion of a shell at Kenesaw Mountain, on 
which account he received his discharge and 
returned home in November, same year. He 
participated in the battles of Perryville, Mur- 
freesboro, Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout 
Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, 
Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Nashville and in 
many skirmishes. On February 2, 1869, Mr. 
Mansfield was united in marriage with Amanda, 
daughter of Samuel Holmes of near Leesville, 
Carroll Co. , Ohio, and April 12, following, they 
located on a farm in North Township, Harrison 
County, four miles west of Scio, where they re- 
mained until 1884, in which year they moved 
into the town of Scio, and here made their home. 
By this union there are two children: Emily E., 
horn March 15, 1875, and Samuel Holmes, born 
October 12, 1879. In connection with farming 
Mr. Mansfield was for some time in the wool 
and grain trade, but of late years has abandoned 
agricultural pursuits, and now devotes all his 



time to wool and grain. He is a Republican in 
politics, and has held various minor offices; is a 
member of H. G. Hixon Post, G. A. R. , at 
Scio, and is a Freemason. He and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
which he joined when aged fourteen years, and 
of which he has been steward twenty- five years. 



QEORGE A. WEIGHT, the oldest living 
, resident of the town of Scio, in North 
Township, Harrison County, and one of 
, L the best known and most highly respected 
of its citizens, was born in Germany November 
25, 1823, about twenty-five miles from Frank- 
fort-on-the-Main. William Weight, his father, 
died in the Fatherland in 1831, and his widow 
then came to these shores, bringing her son, 
George A., who was then a boy of eight years. 
For a short time they took up their residence in 
Chambersburg, Penn., and in 1832 they moved 
to Wayne County, Ohio, finally, in 1842, coming 
to Scio, Harrison County, at that time a very 
small place. Our subject received but nine 
mouths' education, and when twelve years of 
age he was apprenticed to wagon-making, serving 
six years. This trade he followed in Scio till 
1867, in which year he opened a general store, 
which is still carried on under the firm name of 
Weight & Canaga. He is the oldest- established 
merchant in the town, and his first stand was 
not far from the present store, which is a hand- 
some brick building, erected in 1889, the finest 
in Scio. 

In 1844 Mr. Weight was united in marriage 
with Miss Biddy Gordon, a native of Harrison 
County, and daughter of Saul Gordon, of 
Ai-cher Township, Harrison County, who both 
died in the county. By this union there were 
five children, as follows: Minerva, now Mrs. 
Joseph R. Stephenson; Elizabeth, now Mrs. 
Canaga; John B. , an attorney at Mount Vernon, 
Ohio; Ida May, now the wife of Rev. J. S. Se- 
crest, of the Methodist Episcopal Church East 
Ohio Conference; and Alma, wife of Prof. Com- 
piler, of Scio College. On February 11, 1888, 





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the mother drifted into the ocean of eternity. 
Mr. Weight has been a Republican in his polit- 
ical preferments ever since the formation of the 
part)-, and has served as township treasurer sev- 
eral times; in his affiliations h<> is a member of 
the I. O. O. F. Mr. Weight has been a mem- 
ber of the Board of Trustees of Scio College 
from the establishment of the institution, in 
1867, and is the only member of the original 
board now acting. He has been aggressive in 
his action in the board, even in the severest 
struggles that the institution has known. He was 
the leading spirit in the erection of the new 
building begun in 1889, and to his earnest, self- 
sacrificing toil and liberality this institution 
owes much of its present prosperity and hope 
ful outlook for the future. He is one of the 
warmest friends and most liberal supporters 
Scio College has. 



If It USTON STAHL, one of the most pros- 
f~a| perous young farmers of Washington 

li Township, Harrison County, was born 
%/ in 1842, and is a son of Leonard and 

Nancy (Barns) Stahl, who are the parents of 
nine children, born in the following order: 
Huston, Phcebe, Mary Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth, 
•b.hn, Ellen, Leonard and Harriet. Leonard 
Stahl, now a resident of Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio, is a native of Harrison County, where he 
followed farming for many years, having suc- 
ceeded in accumulating some 500 acres of land. 
nearly all of which he earned through his own 
hard labor, assisted by his faithful wife. 

Huston Stahl was reared upon the farm of 
his father, and received a liberal education at the 
common schools. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War he enlisted in Company K, Seventy-fourth 
O. V. I., R. P. Findley commanding. After 
serving two years in the Seventy- fourth Mr, 
Stahl veteranized for three years' service, 
which carried him to the close of the war, it 
terminating one year, five months and twelve 
days after the time of his veteranizing; thus 
his total service covered a period of three years, 



five months and twelve days. He was on the 
skirmish line twenty days, and was on that 
service the night the news arrived of Lee's sur- 
render. He was never taken prisoner, but he 
captured, at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, 
two rebel soldiers at the risk of his own life, 
having to knock one man down with the butt 
end of his musket. He participated in seven- 
teen battles, and had many hair-breadth es- 
capes — was wounded at Goldsboro, at Stone 
River thirteen bullets pierced his clothing, and 
ho lost two haversacks and a canteen, but he 
escaped without injury. 

In 1867 Mr. Stahl was married to Elizabeth 
Smith, who was born in IMS in Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio, daughter of Rev. William Smith. 
a native (as is his wife) of Harford County, Md. 
(For over half a century he had been a minister 
of the gospel, and he is now in his eighty-sixth 
year, his wife being in her eighty -third.) Four 
sons and two daughters were born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Stahl, viz.: Charlie G. , Henry S., George 
H. (deceased), William H. , Bertha O. and 
Luella B. Mr. Stahl now owns 100 acres of 
land, formerly belonging to his father. He is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church: in 
politics he is a stanch Republican, has been 
school director and supervisor of his township, 
and is very popular with his neighbors, enjoy- 
ing the respect of all who know him. 



DAVID FIREBAUGH, one of the oldest 
farmers of North Township, Harrison 
County, was born March 11, 1825, not far 
from where he now resides. His father. 
John Firebaugh, was a native of Pennsylvania, 
and the father of John was born in Germany. 
John Firebaugh was a young man when he came 
to Ohio and entered a piece of wild laud. He 
married Elizabeth Friend, daughter of Jacob 

and (Bowers) Friend, who lived in Miami 

County, Ohio. This lady had 1 i left mother- 
less when but two years of age, and >he was 
reared at the home of her uncle. John Bowers. 
After his marriage John Firebaugh settled in 



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North Township, on the farm now known as 
the Overholtz place, in an old log cabin with 
no floor, and hardly large enough for shelter. 
This place he sold, and then entered the farm 
where B. Waddington now lives. Here Mrs. 
Elizabeth Firebaugh died February 19, 1872, 
aged seventy-eight years and nine months, and 
seven weeks later (April 8) John Firebaugh 
passed away at the age of eighty-six years and 
ten days. He was one of Harrison County's pio- 
neers, and by hard labor redeemed his home 
from the wilderness, in his day doing much for 
the advancement and betterment of the county. 
He was drafted in the War of 1812. 

The family of John Firebaugh comprised 
thirteen children, viz.: Mary, Mrs. John Shiltz; 
Jacob, married to Catherine McCarroll, and re- 
siding on Kanawah River, Va. ; John, deceased 
(he was hist married to Nancy Capper, of Ohio, 
and afterward to Mandy Rippeth, also of Ohio) ; 
Elizabeth, deceased ; Catherine, first married to 
Joseph Heaston and then to J. Overholtz; Mag- 
daline, Mrs. Isaac Heaston; David, whose name 
heads this sketch ; Samuel, in southern Kansas (he 
was first married to Julia True, of Ohio, afterward 
to Jemima Schooly, of Iowa, and lastly to 
Emily Tucker, of Kansas); Susan, Mrs. David 
Addleman; Frances, Mrs. John Heaston; Elias, 
in Nebraska (he married Mary Boor, of Ohio); 
Sarah, Mrs. Andrew Hale, of Carroll County, 
Ohio; Joseph, Jr., who died in Uhrichsville, Ohio, 
January 26, 1879, aged forty-one years, six 
months and fourteen days, and was husband of 
Serena Carroll. The grandchildren born to John 
Firebaugh are sixty-one living and twenty-eight 
deceased; total eighty-nine; the great-grand- 
children number one hundred. 

David Firebaugh was reared to hard work 
on a pioneer farm, and in 1S54 married Miss 
Christina, daughter of John and Christina 
Heaston, and a native of Monroe Township, 
Harrison County. The mother was born in 
what is now a part of Philadelphia, the father 
in Maryland, and they were pioneers of Harri- 
son County, Ohio, both dying in Monroe Town- 
ship, on the place where Isaac Heaston now 



lives. They were the parents of eleven chil- 
dren, all of whom grew to maturity, and. of 
these five are still living. In 1864 Mr. Fire 
baugh enlisted in Company H. , Seventy-eighth 
O. V. I., and was assigned to Tennessee, Geor- 
gia and South Carolinia. He accompanied 
Sherman on his march to the sea, and after re- 
ceiving an honorable discharge at Camp Denni- 
son, Ohio, returned to his present place in Har- 
rison County. He lost his health while in the 
service, the result of exposure and hardship, 
and has never fully recovered. To the mar- 
riage of Mr. and Mrs. Firebaugh have been 
born four children, viz.: Sarah A., at home; 
Lavina Catherine, wife of Stanton Bowers, of 
Monroe Township (their children's names are 
David, Ida, Carrie and Oscar); Joseph H. , still 
with his parents, and Emma Florence, wife of 
Andrew Boor, of Monroe Township (they have 
one child, Floyd). Politically Mr. Firebaugh 
is a Republican, and the family is well known 
and universally respected, it being one of the 
oldest in the county. His house, which is 
pleasant and commodious, is situated one mile 
from Counotton, three miles from Bowerston. 
and four miles from Scio; the farm, consisting 
of L59 acres, is chiefly devoted to stock-rais- 
ing, and all the improvements are of his own 
making. He has also provided liberally for 
his children. The Firebaugh family were all 
reared in the United Brethren faith. 



G CAMPBELL BUXTON is a well-known 
. farmer of Stock Township, Harrison Coun- 
rj ty. ami was born September 1, 1847, in 
Washington County, Penn., and there 
passed away bis infant years. His parents were 
Haddon and Juliann (McCrea) Buxton, former 
also a native of Pennsylvania, where he was 
engaged in farming until 1852, wheu he came 
to Ohio and purchased a farm in Stock Town- 
ship, Harrison County, on which he still resides. 
Campbell Buxton was reared to the life of a 
farmer after reaching Ohio with his father, and 
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of Stock Township, which he supplemented with 
an exhaustive course of reading at home. On 
December 21, 1874, Mr. Buxton married Mary 
E., daughter of James P. and Ann (Cramblett) 
Smith, and this union has been blessed with two 
children: Anna A. and Earl C. The family are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of 
which Mr. Buxton has been a class leader for 
the past ten years, and their bearing before 
their fellow-men is such as to show the sincerity 
of their faith. In politics Mr. Buxton has 
always given his support to the Democratic 
party, and has served two or three terms as 
township trustee, and in other official capacities. 
Mr. Buxton is a skillful and progressive farmer, 
as well as an industrious one. His farm of 215 
acres is well improved in all respects, and is 
under a high state of cultivation. Socially Mr. 
Buxton and family stand high in the esteem of 
the community, and his business integrity is 
without a flaw. 



JfACOB WARNER, an enterprising farmer 
i of Monroe Township, Harrison County, is 
I a native of the same, born March 13, 
1832, and is the second child and eldest 
son of Isaac and Tina (Weyandfc) Warner, who 
were among the early pioneers. He grew to 
manhood with his parents on the farm, wore 
home-made clothing, and walked two miles to a 
subscription school which was held in a log 
school-house, having slab benches, puncheon 
floor and other primitive furnishings. On Jan- 
uary 7, 1862, he married Elizabeth Crnmriue, 
a daughter of Henry and Mary Crumrine, and 
they began farming in Monroe Township. In 
May, 1804, Mr. Warner enlisted in Company B, 
One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., was 
taken sick and lay in hospital at Annapolis, 
and was honorably discharged in September, 
1864. In 18G5 he volunteered as a member of 
Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth 
O. V. I., and his regiment was attached to the 
Army of the Potomac, was in the Shenandoah 
Valley, at Appomattox at the surrender of Lee. 



Returning to his home, he resumed his business 
as a farmer in Monroe Township, and has met 
with every success. 

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Warner 
were seven in number, as follows: Mary C, 
born November 22, 1862, died November 14, 
1864; Emma J., born April 27, 1864; Clara M., 
born December 22, 1866; Lovina E., born Oc- 
tober 17, 1868; DoraO., born October 11. 1870, 
died October 22, 1871; Sarah E., born June 21, 
1873, and James H. , born June 8, 1878. In 
politics Mr. Warner is a stanch Republican, but 
has never been an office seeker. His industry 
and good management have made him a com- 
petence, and his walk through life has won for 
him the respect of all his neighbors. 



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EINARD ROWLAND, one of the farmer 
citizens of Cadiz Township, Harrison 
County, and a man who, although com- 
paratively young, is widely kuown for his 
enterprise, good nature and hospitality, is of 
Welsh extraction. The line of ancestry can be 
traced to one John Rowland, who came from 
Wales to America at an early date, and partici- 
pated in the Indian wars during the early part 
of this century. He married in Pennsylvania, 
and later brought his wife to Harrison County, 
Ohio, where they both died. James Rowland, 
son of John, and the father of our subject, grew 
to manhood a farmer, and in 1830 married Miss 
Elizabeth Leinard, daughter of Yost anil Eliza- 
beth Leinard. They made their home in Moore- 
field Township, Harrison County, where they 
reared their family and shared the vicissitudes 
of life until 1886, when the mother, at the age 
of seventy five years, closed her eyes to earth. 
Twelve children were the fruit of their married 
life: John, residing in Kansas: Matthew, resid- 
ing in Nottingham Township, Harrison County; 
Henry, deceased; James, deceased; Leinard, 
our subject; Jane, at the old homestead; Ann 
Christina, now Mrs. John Houser, of Mercer 
County. 111.; Elizabeth, now Mrs. EH Moore, 
ofFreeporl Township, Harrison Count] : Ba 



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wife of John Mitchell, of Knox County, 111. ; 
Mary, deceased; Margaret, wife of John F. 
Poulson, of Pittsburgh, Penn. ; Nancy Ellen, 
deceased. The father died July 28, 1890, in 
the eighty-sixth year of his age. 

Leinard Rowland, the subject of this brief 
sketch, is a typical farmer. He was born March 
1, 1848, and grew to manhood on a farm, 
acquiring a knowledge of its various duties and 
requirements. He acquired habits which ma- 
terially aid him in making his life work a suc- 
cess. His educational advantages were those 
which the common schools afforded. In 1873 
he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret 
Mehollin, daughter of John and Elizabeth Me- 
hollin, of Cadiz Township, Harrison County, 
where she was born and reared. For a brief 
period after their marriage they remained in 
Moorefield Township, Harrison County, on the 
old farm which the grandfather, John Rowland, 
had entered, and it was not until ISSOtbat they 
came to their present home, which is on the old 
place entered by the original Mehollin settlers — 
the grandparents of Mrs. Rowland. The farm, 
which consists of 160 acres, is situated live 
miles west of the town of Cadiz. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Rowland five children have been born: 
Estella Blanche, Claude, Joseph, Carrie and 
John M. On December 13, 1890, the mother 
was called from earth. Politically Mr. Rowland 
is a Democrat, and he is a member of the Cadiz 
Lodge, Knights of Pythias. 



/^r ARRET FOWLER (deceased) was one of 
- the pioneers of Harrison County. He 
\Jl\ was born in Maryland February 28, 1799, 
<ii and his parents, John and Mary (Huff) 
Fowler, were both worthy people of the same 
State. The Fowlers were an early family id 
Maryland, where they had located prior to the 
Revolutionary War, in which the grandfather of 
Garret Fowler served as a soldier under Wash- 
ington, and was killed. When Garret Fowler 
was a child one year old, his parents removed 
from Maryland to West Virginia and located 



just across the river from Steubenville, Ohio, 
and soon afterward migrated to Harrison County, 
locating on a farm near Hopedale, and ten years 
later purchased a quarter section near Hanover, 
settling thereon, and there residing until their 
deaths. The country was then a complete and 
unbroken wilderness, and wild animals roamed 
at will through the forest. Here, amidst all 
the dangers and privations of a frontier life, 
Garret Fowler grew to manhood. The early 
subscription schools afforded very poor facilities 
for an education; the settlers who could afford 
it subscribed a certain amount to educate their 
children, but Garret's parents were too poor to 
give their children much of an education, and 
he consequently attended school but a short 
time. His education fell to the charge of his 
mother, and she gave him a careful training. 
On April 23, 1819, he married Hannah H. 
Eagleson, who was born in Erie County, Penn., 
near Waterford, March 31, 1805. Her father, 
John Eagleson, was a native of Maryland, and 
there grew to maturity. He married Mary 
Simpson, a native of Ireland, who, when a 
young woman, had immigrated to America, lo- 
cating in Baltimore, where she followed the 
dressmaker's occupation. There she first met 
John Eagleson, whom she afterward married in 
a brick house where Allegheny City now is, 
she having removed thither with her parents. 
John Eagleson and his wife settled in Erie 
County, Penn., in its pioneer period. He en- 
listed and served in the War of 1812, but took 
sick in the service and was brought home sup- 
posedly to die; he recovered, however, and in 
1813 located in Harrison County, Ohio, on the 
Cambridge Road, near Cadiz, where he died. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fowler 
commenced life for their own account on a farm 
near Hanover, and February 15, 1828. they 
located on a farm in Monroe Township, Harrison 
County, which they purchased from the original 
patentee. They settled in a small log cabin 
and began to clear and improve the land, and 
although the privations endured by the pioneers 
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some wheat. This, after it had been harvested 
with a sickle and threshed with a flail, would he 
hauled to the nearest market place, which in 
those days was Steubenville, forty miles distant, 
and there disposed of for twenty-five cents per 
bushel, in exchange for the necessaries of life. 
Coffee sold for four dollars a pound, and was 
too great a luxury to be served every day in the 
pioneer family; tea sold at the same price. The 
pioneers drank parched rye coffee, and sassafras 
and herb tea. The nearest and most numerous 
neighbors were wolves and bears, which carried 
off the sheep and pigs of the settlers. One 
evening, just at dusk, as Mrs. Fowler was walk- 
ins along the road, two wolves came out of the 
bushes and passed within a few feet of her. 
She has husked corn until nearly dark when the 
wolves were howling in the woods near by, and 
in her girlhood she had a very narrow escape 
from a panther. The wild animals eyed with 
suspicion and distrust this encroachment upon 
their native wilds by the sturdy men and women 
who had braved the dangers of a frontier life, 
and with undaunted courage had pushed west- 
ward into this wilderness to hew out a home for 
themselves and family, and who claimed the 
virgin soil as their inheritance. Mr. Fowler 
erected a saw-mill on Beaver Dam Run in 1834, 
and ran this many years. The mill was first 
started on New Year's morning, 1835. This 
was one of the earliest mills of this region, and 
the settlers would come for miles around to get 
their sawing done here. Mr. Fowler died at 
his home on the homestead in Monroe Township. 
March 21, 1867. He took an active interest in 
the advancement and development of the conn 
try. He was a man of sterling worth, unswerv- 
ing integrity, and unimpeachable character, 
and won for himself the respect and esteem of 
his fellow-men. Politically he was a mi-mber 
of the old "Whig party, and took an active inter- 
est in the politics of the day. His widow, now 
in her eighty-sixth year, resides at her home on 
the homestead, and although time has silvered 
her hair, she is exceedingly active for one of her 
advanced years, and thinks nothing of walking 



a mile to some neighbor's house. Retaining in 
a remarkable degree her faculties, she relates 
many amusing incidents of the early days of 
settlement here, and the above few fart-, were 
gleaned from her interesting narrative. She 
is one of the few remaining pioneers who came 
to this country in its young days, and, rescuing 
it from wild beasts and still wilder savages, 
gave to the present generation the advantages 
they now enjoy. Their union was blessed by 
twelve children (ten of whom grew to maturity ) 
viz. : Mary Ann, now Mrs. Joel Cramblet, of 
Franklin Township, Harrison County; John E., 
residing at Columbus, Ohio; Asenath T., at 
home; Thomas E., of Monroe Township, Harri- 
son County; Richard P., now in California; 
Isaiah, residing in Brown County. Neb.; Jere- 
miah, residing at Scio, Ohio; Joseph C, of 
Monroe Township, Harrison County; Malachi, 
died in infancy; Joel C, deceased at four years: 
Garret H. , of Dennison, Ohio, and Clarissa, 
now Mrs. John Spray, of Franklin Township. 
Harrison Co., Ohio. Mrs. Fowler considers 
that she has done her share in defending the 
honor of the nation. Shi- had seven sons, two 
sons-in-law, one grandson and three nephews in 
the Civil War. Thus it has been shown that 
the family has been represented in every war of 
our nation from the struggle for Independence 
down. ilrs. Fowler is a consistent member of 
the Baptist Church, and was baptized June 4. 
1S34; Mr. Fowler was a member of the same 
church, and was a deacon at the time of his 
death. Mrs. Fowler remembers Cadiz when it 
consisted of two brick houses and a few frame 
and log buildings; the lot where the court-house 
stands was then vacant; on the top of the knoll 
grew- a large chestnut tree, and she has gathered 
bark from this same tree for fuel. The lot then 
gave little indication that it was destined to be 
the location of the county's temple of justice. 
But now the knoll has been graded down, and for 
pears the court-house has stood there, giving 
no idea of the early appearance of the place. 

Thomas E. Fowler was born on the old 
homestead, in a log cabin December 6, 1830, 



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and his parents were Garret and Hannah Fow- 
ler. His early life was spent amidst such scenes 
and privations as fell to the lot of the pioneer 
boys, and he recalls with pleasure the old log 
school-house with its rude furnishings. He re- 
mained with his parents, assisting them in the 
duties of the farm, until he had reached man's 
i^tate. On November 27, 1856, he married 
Maria McBeth, a native of Harrison County. 
and a daughter of John and Mary McBeth. 
Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fowler 
located on a farm near Hanover, and next year 
purchased the farm on which they now reside in 
Monroe Township, Harrison County, and settled 
thereon. In 1864 he enlisted in Company B, 
One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., par- 
ticipating in all its marches, campaigns and bat- 
tles — Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry, Mary- 
land Heights and Winchester. He was honora- 
bly discharged at Columbus (Camp Chase) in 
September, 1864, and returned to his home, and 
in October of same year he again entered the 
service as a member of Company H, Seventy- 
eighth O. V. I. He was mustered into service 
at Columbus, Ohio, and attached to the Four- 
teenth Army Corps, a part of the Army of the 
Cumberland, and sent to Atlanta, Ga. , where 
they joined Gen. Sherman's command, after 
which he participated in the famous march to 
the sea. He served until the close of the war, 
at which time he was lying sick in the hospital 
at Savannah. He was transferred to Fort 
Schuyler, N. Y. , and soon afterward to Camp 
Dennison, at Cincinnati, where he was mustered 
out of service in June, 1865. Beturning to his 
home he resumed the duties of the farm, and has 
since resided here. Politically Mr. Fowler is a 
hearty supporter of the Bepublican party, and 
a firm believer in its protective policy; he has 
served as trustee of the township, and as a mem- 
ber of the school board. Mrs. Fowler is a re- 
spected member of the Baptist Church. Mr. 
and Mrs. Fowler's union has been blessed with 
seven children. Mr. Fowler and family now 
reside in their pleasant home in Monroe Town- 
ship, aud are respected and esteemed by all. 



Joseph C. Fowler was born in Monroe Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, August 30, 1841. He 
grew to manhood with his parents, Garret and 
Hannah Fowler, and in August, 1862. he enlisted 
in Company F, Ninety-eighth O. V. I. ; his com- 
pany was sent to Covington, Ky., aud then at- 
tached to the Army of the Cumberland, under 
Gen. Bosecrans. He endured all the hardships 
of his regiment, and participated in all its battles 
— Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Bidge, 
the Atlanta campaign, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach 
Tree Creek, Jonesboro, Sherman's march to the 
sea, battle of Bentonville, S. C, March 19, 1865, 
the last his regiment was in. After the battle of 
Jonesboro he was promoted to corporal. He 
was in the service until the close of the war, and 
was discharged at Washington in June, 1865, 
and returned home. He then worked on the 
farm with his father until the latter' s death, 
after which he purchased a part of the home- 
stead farm, and in 1872 he bought the adjoin- 
ing farm, where he now resides. On October 
14, 1869, he married Miss Maria C. Simmons, 
a daughter of George and Sophia Simmons, 
and they have had children as follows: Sophia 
Hannah, born July 13, 1870, died April 12, 
1875; George Ambrose, born September 20, 
1871; Clifton Lawson, June 5, 1873; Jeptha, 
May 10, 1875; Asenath, March 9, 1877; Jacob 
P., August 31, 1879; Jeremiah, September 26, 
1881; Manda B., February 28, 1884, and Bell 
M., September 21, 1886. Politically Mr. Fow- 
ler is a Bepublican. 



THE McFADDEN FAMILY. Besides be- 
ing one of the most widely known and 
highly esteemed in Harrison County, the 
McFadden family is one of the very old- 
est in this section of the country, and deserves 
prominent place in this work. 

At a very early day Samuel McFadden, a 
native of Ireland, after immigrating to America, 
was married at the home of the bride's parents, 
near Middletown, Washington Co., Penn., to 
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Harrison County, Ohio, and a daughter of John 
and Sarah Jamison, natives of the Emerald 
Isle. Eight children were born to this union, 
two of whom are yet living, viz : Alexander in 
Kansas, and Mrs. Jane Dickerson (widow of 
Adam Dickerson), in Athens Township, Harrison 
County; those deceased are Elizabeth, who was 
married to John Dickerson, of Athens Town- 
ship; Margaret, who was married to Adam Dun- 
lap, living near School-house No. 10, in Athens 
Township: Sarah, who was married to Samuel 
Carnahan, of Cadiz Township, and James, John 
and Saimiel. The father of this family entered, on 
coming to Ohio, a wild piece of woodland, which 
is now the fine productive farm owned by James 
McFadden, in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, 
and here he passed from earth, the wife follow- 
ing him to the grave some years later. They 
had lived lives of honest toil and usefulness, 
enduring the many and varied hardships and 
trials incident to pioneer times, and left an 
honored name to their posterity. 

James McFadden, son of the pioneer couple, 
was born on the old home place above referred 
to, January 5, 1805, fully sharing with his par- 
ents the arduous labor of clearing the farm ; and 
many a day did he spend at "log rolling," be- 
ing occupied, on one occasion, twenty-six days 
thereat. His comparatively limited education 
was obtained in the old log school-house, which 
stood on a portion of the homestead of his par- 
ents. On May 26, 1829, Mr. McFadden was 
married in Washington County, Penn. , to Mary 
Law, a native of that county, and daughter of Rob- 
ert and Mary (Jamison) Law, also of Washing- 
ton County, the former a native of Scotland. 
The day following their wedding the couple rode 
on horse-back to Harrison County, Ohio, arriving 
at the farm where their son, James, lives at present 
time, whence, in August, they moved to where 
their son John now resides, anil in 1807 to 
where Samuel now lives. On this farm the 
father died June 15, 1874, at the agent' sixty- 
nine years, and was buried in Cadiz Cemetery. 
His widow, now at the advanced age of eighty- 
two years, having been born November lit, 



1808, is making her home among her children 
who live in the township. They were both 
originally members of the Union Church, but 
afterward united with the Presbyterians. To 
this honored couple were born seven children, 
viz.: Samuel, a farmer in Cadiz Township; 
Mary, deceased; Robert, a farmer in Logan 
County, Ohio; William, deceased; Janie-. a 
fanner in Cadiz Township; John, living on his 
parents' old place, and Jamison Law, who died 
November 18, 1887. 



AMI'EL McFADDEN, eldest son of 
James and Mary (Law) McFadden, was 
born on the old home place in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County, October 21. 
1830. He was reared to the pursuits of agri- 
culture, attending for a few weeks in winter 
time the common schools of his district, and 
being a hard-working boy, was as diligent in his 
studies as he was industrious in his farm work. 
In 1854 he was married to Miss Mary, daughter 
of John M. Richey, of Cadiz Township, and 
by her four children were born. viz. : Elizabeth, 
widow of Granville M. Dickerson; Anna Mary, 
now the wife of E. S. McFadden, in New 
Athens, Ohio; George Emerson, at home, and 
one that died in infancy. The mother of these 
children died February 21. 1S72. at the age of 
thirty seven years, and October 17, 1871), Mr. 
McFadden was united in marriage with Eliza 
J. Richey. sister of his first wife, and by her he 
has two children: Carl R, and Bertha L. 

After his first marriage Mr. McFadden 
rented, for nine years, a farm in Cadiz Town 
ship, then resided on his farm in Athens Town 
ship until 1870, in which year he sold this last 
named property and moved to hi-- present home 
in Cadiz Township, where he has since been 
successfully engaged in general farming and 
stock-raising. This property, which comprises 
158J acres of as well improved land as may be 
found in the township, and situated some three 
miles from the town of Cadiz, was originally 
entered by one McMillan, from whom the grand 



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father of our subject purchased it at $22 per 
acre. At the death of the grandfather it was 
inherited by his son John (uncle of Samuel), he 
(John) sold it to his brother James (the father 
of Samuel), who, dying, left it to his youngest 
son, who finally sold it to our subject. The 
house standing thereon was built by John Mc- 
Fadden (the uncle), who after selling the prop 
erty moved to the town of Cadiz, where he died 
a poor man, having lost all his possessions by 
going bail for others. Nearly all the home- 
stead farm was cleared by the father of our 
subject, and the present farm by the uncle, the 
orchard having been set out forty years ago. 
In the boyhood days of our subject, grain was 
ground at the old "sweep mill," which stood 
on the home farm, bolting being done by hand. 
In his political proclivities Mr. McFadden is 
a Democrat, and in their religious convictions 
both he and his wife are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church at Cadiz. All through his life 
he has been a hard-working man, and has done 
much toward benefiting his county and town- 
ship. Lately he aided materially in the grad- 
ing of the entire New Athens pike road, most 
of the plowing necessary in its construction 
having been done by himself and son, George 
Emerson. His daughter, Elizabeth, was united 
in marriage, December 29, 1880, with Granville 
M. Dickerson, of Short Creek Township, Harrison 
County, and they afterward resided in Scio, 
where he practiced dentistry up to the time of 
his decease. He died February 13, 1882, aged 
twenty -seven years, leaving a widow and one 
child, Anna Mary, to mourn their loss, and since 
his death his widow has resided with her father. 



J | AMES McFADDEN, fourth son of James 
and Mary (Law) McFadden, is one of the 
I well-known and influential farmers of 
Cadiz Township, where he was born Sep- 
tember 20, 1841. He grew to manhood on 
the homestead, assisting in the work of further 
improving the farm, and in attending the com- 
mon schools of the district. In 1860 he was 



united in marriage with Arabella, daughter of 
John M. and Ann Richey, of Cadiz Township, 
and they at once settled on the place where 
they have since resided, and on which many of 
the improvements have been made by them. 
Four children have blessed their union, viz.: 
Melvin, in Cadiz Township, and Craig, Frank 
and Law, at home. 

Politically Mr. McFadden is a stanch Demo- 
crat, and for nine years served most efficiently 
as school director. He is a consistent member 
and liberal supporter of the Presbyterian Church 
at Cadiz. His farm property comprises 136 
acres of valuable land, well provided with neat 
and commodious dwelling, barn, etc. , con- 
veniently situated about two miles from the 
town of Cadiz. 



ffOHN McFADDEN, youngest surviving son 
i I of James and Mary (Law) McFadden, was 
\j) born on the old homestead in Cadiz Town- 
ship, Harrison Co. , Ohio, March 18, 1845. 
He was reared to the pursuits of the farm, and 
received a good common-school training, in all 
respects being well fitted for his life vocation. 
From his boyhood up he has always been in- 
dustrious, and his success is due to his assidu- 
ous attention to business, careful husbandry and 
sound judgment. He aided his parents cheer- 
fully in their work of carrying on and improv- 
ing the farm, and to-day he is the happy owner 
of 160 acres of prime land, situated about three 
miles south of Cadiz, chiefly devoted to the 
raising of sheep aud other live stock. In 1870 
Mr. McFadden w;is united in marriage with 
Miss Margaret E. Morgan, of Harrison County, 
daughter of Marshall and Ellen Morgan, aud 
the young couple settled on the farm in Cadiz 
Township, where they have since made their 
home. The old improvements made on this 
farm have been remodeled by him, and it is car- 
ried on in the same careful manner as when he 
was a boy. To our subject and wife have been 
born three children: Flora B., Orville J. aud 
Wayne S., all at home with their parents. 



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Politically Mr. McFadden has always been 
a Democrat, but has never sought office. He 
and his wife are members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Cadiz. He has an extensive circle 
of friends, and is recognized as a progressive, 
wide-awake citizen. In the constructing of the 
Cadiz-Athens pike he was appointed over- 
seer of the grading, and he and a brother did 
more work on it than any other farmers along 
its route. All his life has been passed in Cadiz 
Township, save a few months spent in Logan 
County, Ohio, and two summers ( L869 and 1S70) 
in Wheeling, W. Va., when he was engaged in 
selling agricultural implements. 




present home of the family situated some three 
miles from Cadiz. Mrs. McFadden is a mem- 
ber, as was her husband, of the Presbyterian 
Church at. Cadiz. In his political convictions 
Mr. McFadden did not differ Erom the other 
members of Wis father's family, having always 
been an active Democrat. His remains lie at 
iest in Cadiz Cemetery. 



RS. MARTHA A. MeFADDEN, a resi- 
dent of Cadiz Township, Harrison 
County, is a daughter of Alexander J. 
and Elizabeth Barger. On August '20, 
1874, she was married to Jamison Law McFad- 
den, youngest son of James and Mary (Law) 
McFadden, and for two years thereafter they 
lived on the Cadiz- Athens pike, on the farm where 
Samuel McFadden now lives; then removed to the 
Moorerield road to the fine farm on which they 
built the elegant and comfortable dwelling which 
they commenced to occupy in 1881, making all 
the other substantial improvements. 

But not long were they fated to enjoy to- 
gether their beautiful new home, for death came 
in their midst and separated them, taking the 
loving young husband and father to his long 
home. Mr. McFadden had been ailing for some 
months with lung disease, and on November 18, 
1887, he peacefully passed away, deeply la- 
mented by all who knew him. He was bom 
July 16, 1851, on the home farm of his parents 
in Cadiz Township, and was consequently but 
thirty-six years of age at the time of his decease. 
He was very popular among his acquaintances, 
and succeeded in making many friends. To 
Mr. and Mrs. McFadden were born four chil- 
dren, viz.: Ola Jane, James Alexander, Joseph 
Barger and Jessie Pearl, all living with their 
widowed mother and aged grandmother, at the 



f^T/ AMUEL COCHKAN. a worthy represent- 
ative of the native-born, progressive agri- 
culturists of Harrison County, was born 
on the farm in Cadiz Township on which 
his brother, Robert Reid Cochran, now resides. 
His grandfather, Samuel Cochran, was born in 
Dauphin County, Penn., in 17:!S. In 1770 he 
married Mary Shearer, and they had a family of 
twelve children, all of whom have passed away. 
He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and 
at the close of that struggle settled ten miles 
above Pittsburgh, as it was then, on the Monon- 
gahelaRiver.onland secured by military service. 
A part of the farm is still owned by remote heirs, 
who have recently sold the remainder at a high 
figure to manufacturing companies who have 
built up the suburban town of Duquesne. Sam- 
uel Cochran died in L818,in liis eightieth year, 
his wife in 1805 in her fifty-first year. Their 
eldest son, Robert Cochran, was born in Dauphin 
County, Penn.. in September, 1771. He eauie 
to Allegheny County with his father's family 
wheu eighteen years of age. In 1800 he mar- 
ried Dorcas Neal who died in L801, leaving him 
a daughter, Dorcas, who married Isaac Whit- 
tacer, and died in L853 without family. Short- 
ly after his wife's death Mr. Cochran emigrated 
to Ohio, and bought in what is QOW Harrison 
Count} eighty acres of land, paying two dollars 
and a half per acre for it. We of the present 
generation cannot realize or appreciate the pri- 
vations and hardships of the pioneers. Imagine 
.■i young man buying eighty acre- of solid forest, 
and with his ax for his capital literally hewing 
out his fortune. What an immense amount of 
hard labor it represents! Mr. Cochrau built 



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himself a cabin of poles daubed within and with- 
out with mud, stick chimney, puncheon floor, 
clapboard roof and clapboard door hung on 
" poverty hinges." Here he was joined in the 
winter seasons by an old Pennsylvania friend, 
familiarly known as "Johnny Maholtn," and 
together they "bached," eating supper and 
breakfast in company, each working on his own 
farm during the day. At one time they grew 
hungry for a loaf of light bread. "Bob" 
mounted a horse and started to "Snyders," five 
miles away, to secure it, while "Johnny" took 
his rifle and started out in quest of game. After 
going a short distance he caught sight of a deer 
which he managed to shoot. Presently he heard 
another over the hill, and slipping around he 
succeeded in shooting it also. By the time " Bob" 
returned he had dragged his game to the cabin, 
and they had an abundance of fresh meat as well 
as bread to eat with it. Mr. Maholm possessed 
the merry heart that is a continual feast, and 
numerous amusing reminiscences are told show- 
ing his character. He was a good companion to 
keep away the demon of homesickness. On one 
occasion a young man applied to Mr. Maholm 
for an introduction to some young ladies who 
lived a few miles away. Yonng ladies were 
scarce articles at that time. Although Mr. 
Maholm was an entire stranger to the ones in 
question he pretended to be an acquaintance, 
made an 'engagement with the would-be caller, 
and on the evening appointed, they started 
through the woods to visit the ladies. After 
wandering around for some time, he concluded 
he must be lost, thought the moon had gotten 
out of its place somehow, and about the midnight 
hour brought his disappointed and tired-out 
young man safely back to the Cochran cabin. 
At another time one of his nephews, who had 
climbed to the second story of a log barn, came 
upon a large nest full of hens' eggs. Necessity 
then as now was the mother of invention; hav- 
ing no way of carrying them down, and not wish- 
ing to make another trip after them, the young 
man slipped them carefully within his shirt, de- 
pending upon his pants to keep them in their 



proper place. Uncle Johnny was below and 
understood the situation, though apparently as 
innocent as a lamb. As soon as his nephew 
struck the ground he challenged him for a 
wrestle, and forthwith began. "Wrestle he 
would and wrestle he did, nor did his sportive 
mood leave him until he had succeeded in break- 
ing every egg. Imagine the young man's con- 
dition! Mr. Maholm afterward married, and 
some of his grandchildren and great-grandchil- 
dren are among the most highly respected citi- 
zens of Cadiz to-day. 

During the fall and winter of 1804-05 Mr. 
Cochran secured the services of a man cook, 
hired a millwright and several axmen and erect- 
ed a two story grist-mill, worked by horse- 
power. It would be a laughable looking struct- 
ure now, but it was a tremendous undertaking 
then, and was of untold value to the early set- 
tlers. Think of it, young men of to-day, and 
give reverence to the stout hearts who bravely 
shouldered the ax and went out into the forest 
to hew out a grist-mill. There was no iron in 
it. excepting some strengthening bands around 
the trundle-head and spindle; wheels and all 
were of wood, and all made by hand, as saw- 
mills were unknown. The mill-stones were 
brought down the Ohio to Steubenville, and 
hauled across the country, the trip occupying 
four days. Unwieldy as it was, the mill was kept 
constantly going, night and day, Sabbaths ex- 
cepted, the farmers coming for miles to do their 
grinding. It was a common sight to see men 
occupying the time, while waiting their turn, in 
throwing the tomahawk; standing a certain 
distance from a tree they would throw it in such 
a way as to make it cleave the bark and remain 
sticking in the tree. As time passed this mill 
was superseded by the water-mills, but, in dry 
seasons, when water failed, the neighbors were 
glad to again return to "Bob Cochran's old 
mill." It was the first in the country, and was 
a great public benefit. 

In 1807 Mr. Cochran returned to Pennsylva- 
nia and brought back with him, as a helpmeet, 
Miss Sarah Calhoon, who was a helper indeed, 



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but what bride of the present day would be will- 
ing to begin her married life in so humble a 
home ? Mrs. Cochran was born in Allegheny 
County, Perm., in January, 1787. She was an 
unusually energetic woman, doing thoroughly 
whatever came into her hands to be done. 
Skilled in the domestic arts, her spinning, weav- 
ing, sewing, cooking — everything she did was 
done in the most perfect and painstaking way. 
As time went on another room was added to the 
cabin home, and this was followed by a two 
story house of hewn logs, and this, as years 
went on, by a brick house, which, in turn gave 
place to the large, handsome residence occupied 
by Reid Cochran; the farm had also grown to 
300 acres. In politics Mr. Cochran was a Demo- 
crat, and for a time was justice of the peace and 
township trustee, besides filling various other 
offices of trust in the county. The family con- 
sisted of six children: Eleanor, who died in 
1867; Samuel, living in Cadiz- Township; Da- 
vid, also deceased; Mary, wife of \V. H. Cald- 
well, of Cadiz Township; Robert Reid and Sa- 
rah Jane, also of Cadiz Township. David be- 
came a minister in the United Presbyterian 
Church, and died in Leavenworth County, Kas., 
in 1883, leaving a wife and nine children. The 
widow, William and Mattie are now in San 
Jose, Cal. ; James is in Oregon ; Mrs. Shearer, 
in Kansas City, Mo. : Mrs. Bissett. in Leaven- 
worth, Kas. ; George, in Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. 
Pierson, in Tonganoxie, Kas. : Mrs. Monks, in 
Chicago, 111., and Libbie, in Lawrence, Kas. 
Robert Cochran died in 1861, in his ninetieth 
year; his wife, Sarah Cochran, in 1867, in her 
eightieth year. Of each of them it could be 
truthfully said: '"Well done good and faithful 
servant." 

Their eldest son, Samuel Cochran, the sub- 
ject proper of this sketch, was born in the cabin 
home March 31, 1811. He was trained in his 
boyhood to farm life, and in the winter mouths 
attended the primitive schools in the neighbor- 
hood. In 1839 he married Sarah J. Hedges, 
who, with her little son, was taken away by 
death in 1841. In 1847 he bought the farm 



which has since been his home, two miles south 
of Cadiz, and in 1849 married Margaret, daugh- 
ter of Samuel Thompson, of Green Township. 
Harrison County. Mrs. Cochran was born July 
11. 1820. Her parents emigrated from Penrj 
sylvania at an early day, locating on the farm 
on which they died. She had one brother and 
six sisters, viz.: Samuel, on the home farm; 
Mrs. Jane Black, of Green Township; Mrs. 
Eliza Gray and Mrs. Ellen Moorhead, both of 
Delaware County, Ohio; Mrs. Martha Craig, 
Mrs. Maria Gray and Mrs. Isabel Rea, all of 
Harrison County, have gone to their reward. 
Mr. and Mrs. Cochran have expended a great 
deal of energy on their home in the forty \ ears 
they have occupied it, and have succeeded in 
making it one of the most attractive and home- 
like places in the county. They have vastly im- 
proved it; have erected all the buildings now on 
it. with the exception of the old barn; they 
planted the fine orchard and shade trees, and 
have spared no pains in their efforts to beautify 
their home. The farm now contains almost 500 
acres. Mr. Cochran has in his possession the 
deed for the original '25(1 acres of the farm, 
given by the Government to Samuel Gilmore, 
and signed by the President. Thomas Jefferson. 
Mr. Gilmore died from injuries received in the 
War of 1812, and from his son, Nathaniel, the 
farm was bought in 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Coch- 
ran have four children: Clara, who became Mrs. 
Oliver Clark and died in ISTN. leaving two chil 
dren, Frank and Bertha; Byron, on the home 
farm; Belle, now Mrs. William Morgan, of Ca- 
diz Township (she has a family of two, Ralph 
and Clarence), and Mattie, at home. Mr. Coch- 
ran cast his first presidential vote for Andrew 
Jackson, and has always adhered to the same 
political party, although not afraid to " scratch " 
his ballot. For years he was identified with 
the Union Church, but transferred his member- 
ship to the Presbyterian body, and has been a 
member of Session since 1844; his wife and 
family are also members of that church. He 
has always enjoyed good health, has not Bpenl 
an entire day in bed since he can remember. 



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Of all the sturdy lads of bis own age, who at- 
tended school with him, but one is living, John 
Thompson, of Green Township. An unusual 
circumstance in the family history is, that his 
father, himself, his brother, Reid, his son and 
his two sons-in-law, are all total abstainers from 
tobacco in every form, and, it need scarcely be 
added, are teetotalers. 

Robert Byron Cochran, the son, is worthily 
following the calling of his father, in the pa- 
tient, industrious life of a farmer who endeav- 
ors to keep abreast of the times. He married, 
in 1886, Flora, daughter of Mr. M. Morgan, of 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and 
has two children, named respectively, Samuel 
Craig and Nellie Whan. 



L 



UKENS FAMILY. The authentic history 
of this branch of the Lukens family is 
I rather meager, but sufficient is known to 
connect it with the family of that name 
whose first settlement in America was made in 
Philadelphia late in the seventeenth century, the 
emigration being from Holland. John Lenckens 
(as the name was spelled) was the architect of In- 
dependence Hall, and the intimate associate of 
David Rittenhouse. 

Jacob Lukons, to whom this branch is direct- 
ly traceable, left Philadelphia with his family 
somewhere about 1780, and settled in Little 
York County, Penn., where several of his chil- 
dren were born, among these being Eli, who was 
born in 1783. From this place he started one 
winter with sleds, intending to reach Baltimore 
with his family and chattels, whither some of 
his Philadelphia relations had preceded him, 
but the snow becoming less as he journeyed he 
abandoned his plan, and settled near Havre de 
Grace, where he lived the remainder of his life. 
Eli his son was a delicate boy, afflicted with a 
hip disease, which prevented his taking part 
in hard labor; hence he was apprenticed to a 
hatter in Baltimore to learn his trade. Here he 
met and in 1804 married Juliana Tollinger 
(born in 1765, of Holland parentage) who bore 



him the following named children: Jacob, Nao- 
mi, Elizabeth, Eli. George, William, Alex and 
Nathaniel. For some years they lived in the 
small town of Bellaire, Harford Co., Md., on the 
stage road from Philadelphia to Baltimore, where 
they kept a tavern, he working also at the busi- 
ness of hatter. Here and in this county their 
children were born. 

The eldest son, Jacob Cadwallader was born 
in 1805. When he was eighteen years old he 
left home to try his fortunes alone, meaning 
eventually to seek the ' ' western country. ' ' He 
went to Baltimore, working at whatever he found 
profitable, till hearing that men were wanted to 
work on the great Government enterprise known 
as the National Pike, which was to extend from 
Baltimore to St. Louis, he offered his services, 
and went to work. He was soon made a section 
boss and remained at work, following the line of 
road as it moved westward, happy in the thought 
that his desires were being carried out, and at 
the same time he was gathering money which 
would be of so much help when he came to set- 
tle. When near Fairview, Guernsey County, 
he heard of a settler, a few miles north, who 
wished to sell his land and improvements, so left 
the road and went to investigate. He felt satis- 
fied and made the purchase, paying two hundred 
dollars for the land and log buildings. Here he 
was soon joined by his father and the remainder 
of the family. They added more acres and did 
valiant work in those days in clearing the land 
of the heavy timber and breaking the virgin soil. 
This was in 18'28. The father lived until 1842, 
working at his trade of hatter, and doing some 
farming. His wife survived him twenty-four 
years, dying at the house of her son Eli, in 
Franklin, Ohio, in 1866, at the great age of 
one hundred and one years. In 1830 Jacob 
married Sarah C. Bliss, daughter of Zadoc Bliss, 
of Hartford, Conn. , who emigrated with his fam- 
ily to Ohio in 1816. Here, where he paid for 
his first acre of land (what is now in Franklin 
Township near the line of Stock, and one-half 
mile from the village of Deersville), these two 
spent forty-six years of usefulness and labor. 



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Their union was blessed with children — eight 
boys, six of whom are living and engaged as 
follows: Joseph G., farmer Tippecanoe, Ohio; 
Merriken B., physician, Dalton, Ga. ; Benjamin 
F.. physician, Philadelphia, Penn., William H., 
merchant, Deersville, Ohio; Charles M., physi- 
cian, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Thomas J., farmer, 
Deersville, Ohio. 

In 1876 they removed to Deersville village, 
leasing their farm. Here, in 18S0, they gathered 
their descendants to celebrate their golden wed- 
ding. Just four years later, May 27, 1884, the 
father was borne to his grave by his six sons; 
his age was eighty years. On February 21, 
1880, his wife followed him, and was laid by 
his side; she was in her seventy-sixth year. In 
religion Mr. Lukens was for several years a 
member of the Methodist Protestant Church, 
hut later dissolved his connection therewith and 
became, with his wife, a member of the Wesleyan 
Methodist Church in Deersville. He was a man 
of strong convictions and good judgment. His 
advice was sought on almost all topics. He was 
in early life a Whig in politics, but when the 
' ' battle cry of freedom ' ' began to be heard he 
was in the ranks for "free soil and free men." 

William H. Lukens, merchant, Deersville, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, the fifth son of Jacob C. 
and Sarah C. Lukens, was born October 22, 1838. 
He lived on the home place till he grew to man- 
hood. In 1857 he engaged in the mercantile 
business with J. T. Clark in Deersville village, 
remaining with him one year, when he embarked 
in the general mercantile business for himself, 
which he continued for about twenty years. In 
September, 1807, he married Rosa McKinney, 
daughter of William and Louisa Clark, and this 
union has been blessed with four children, viz. : 
Clara L., Ada V., Olive L. and Edwin. In 
politics Mr. Lukens has always been a Repub- 
lican, and has ever taken an active part in the 
work of the party. He and his family are mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which he has been a trustee for several years. 

Thomas J. Lukens is the seventh son of 
Jacob C. and Sarah C. Lukens. and was burn 



May 1. 1843, near Deersville, on the old home 
stead wbicb he now owns. During his boyhood 
he attended the village schools, but supplemented 
his course at New Hagerstown Academy, where 
he remained one year. After serving some time 
in the Union Army he went to Montgomery 
County, Ohio, where he engaged in mercantile 
business for three years. On October I. 1873, 
he was married to Jennie, (laughter of Hon. 
James F. Thompson, of Montgomery County. 

James F, Thompson was born in 1811, and 
came to Ohio with his parents at a very early 
age. He was a Democrat in politics, and was 
always among the leaders in the politics in his 
section. He served in various capacities in his 
township, such as laud appraiser, justice of the 
peace, etc. In 1S73 he was nominated to rep- 
resent his county in the State Legislature, was 
elected and served his term with great credit to 
himself. While young he was married to Mary 
A. Riley, who bore him the following family: 
Elihu, Levi H. .Franklin. Wilbur R. ami Jennie. 
After the death of his wife Mr. Thompson made 
his home with his daughter Jennie, in Deers 
ville, where he passed his last days in peace and 
serenity, departing this life December 10. 1890. 
His remains were taken back to Dayton, Ohio, 
and deposited beside those of his wile, in Wood- 
land Cemetery. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
J. Lukens settled in Franklin Township, where 
they have since remained. Three children have 
blessed their union, of whom only one survives. 
Lulu F., born June 12, 1S77. Mr. Lukens is a 
Republican, and always supports that party. 
He and his family are members of the Wesleyan 
Methodist Church, in which he takes an active 
and prominent part. 



JOSHUA P. WATSON was born near \\ esi 
Liberty, W. Va.. March 21, L802, and 
died in Harrisville, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
.Inly 27, 1SS2. He was the eldest of 
eleven children born to Aaron and Nancy Wat 
son, and was the only survivor of this family for 



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several years before his death. His parents, who 
were of Scotch-Welsh descent, started in life 
for themselves in that region where " Great Nat- 
ure dwelt in awful solitude," in West Virginia, 
about the beginning of the century, and there 
they endured all the hardships of those primi- 
tive times in the rearing of a family. 

Joshua P. received his education in the log- 
cabin school-house of those times, and was com- 
pelled to walk three miles to reach it, but was 
permitted to enjoy this poor privilege only dur- 
ing the winter season. He would take with him 
to school his little sister on a sled, thus showing 
at that early age his energy, perseverance and 
invincible patience, characteristics of his afterlife. 
He aided his father in the maintenance of his 
family until he had attained his maturity. He 
had an ardent mind to do something for him- 
self and get away from and above the poverty 
of those early times. He began business for 
himself as a cooper, which trade he followed 
for about ten years, and by his industry, hon- 
esty and economy accumulated a sufficiency to 
enable him to remove from West Virginia to 
New Athens, Ohio, where he purchased an in- 
terest in a dry-goods and general store. He re- 
mained there a few years, and, in 1835, re- 
moved to Harrisville, Ohio, where he purchased 
property and continued in the same business 
about twenty years. In 1856 he opened a bank- 
ing house and brokerage business there. This 
business he managed very successfully, and was 
engaged in it until a short time prior to his 
death. He had been identified with the town of 
Harrisville for nearly one-half of a century, and 
may justly be called ; ' the father of the place." 
He was a pioneer, self-taught and self-reliant. 
His affairs were conducted with directness and 
that integrity of purpose, the formation for 
which was laid in the struggles of his early 
life. He was an exemplary man. In society 
he was dignified and amiable; in religion he was 
not loud in his profession, but very consistent 
in his walk. In all matters, commercial, social, 
church or State, he was cool, calm and col- 
lected, never mixing in with excited or disap- 



pointed factions, but always thoughtful and 
earnest. Though wealthy, he was unostentatious, 
and whatever had for its object the improve- 
ment and advancement of the country, and the 
general welfare of his fellow-men, found in 
him an earnest, faithful advocate, and received 
bountifully of his means. He was withal a 
kind friend and respected citizen, and in his 
death the country lost one of those grand and 
noble men who endured untold privations, but 
who gave the present generation the advantages 
they now enjoy. 

His domestic affairs were particularly happy. 
He was thrice married: At the age of twenty- 
one years he was united in marriage with Martha 
Humes, of West Liberty, W. Va. , who was 
born May 29, 1804, and died February 27, 1836. 
By this union were born nine children, two of 
whom are now living, viz. : Samuel H. Watson, 
of Vinton, Iowa, and Mrs. Martha Ann Collins, 
of Vacaville, Cal. By his union with Sarah M. 
I McMillan, of Harrisville, Ohio, who died August 
j 8, 1844, Mr. Watson became the father of three 
children, of whom the only survivor is James 
M. Watson, of Vinton, Iowa. The fruits of our 
: subject's union with Louise M. Rimby, who 
still survives him, were seven children, and of 
these there are remaining five, viz. : Mrs. Dr. 
R. D. Wilkin, in Atlantic, Iowa; Charles N., 
George \Y., Frank, and Harvey Watson, in 
Chicago, 111. 

One of the sons by the first marriage, Louis 
W. Watson, was born March 2, 1827. He grew 
to manhood, and March 16, 1848, he was united 
in marriage with Julia Carver, a native of Har- 
risville, Ohio, born November 14, 1830. She 
was a daughter of Thomas Carver, a native of 
Bucks County, Penn. , who had settled in Har- 
risville in 1815, while her mother was a daughter 
of Thomas Gray, one of the earliest pioneers of 
Harrison County, who had settled in Harrisville 
In L803, when the country was a dense and un- 
broken wilderness. He had emigrated from 
Downingstown, Penn., where he kept the first 
public tavern of the place. The ancient hostel- 
ry was known as "The Seven Stars," its name 



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being derived from the sign-board which swung 
lazily from the overspreading branch of a large 
tree growing in front of the house. Thomas 
Carver died October 13, 1855, aged sixty-seven 
years, and his wife died February 4, 1843, aged 
forty-six years. Louis W. Watson, with his es- 
timable wife, resided at Harrisville until his 
death, which occurred May 25, 1861. The 
fruits of this union were three sons and two 
daughters, as follows: William, born June 29, 
1848, died when aged one year; Albert, born 
July 30, 1849, died at the age of three months; 
Thomas W r esley, born September 21, 1850; 
Florence, born July 11, 1853, died October 10, 
1873; Mary Narcissa, bom March 25. 1856, 
and August 30, 1875, married to J. W. Adams, 
of Short Creek Township, and to them have been 
born four children. 

Thomas Wesley Watson was a lad of ten 
years, when his father died, and he remained with 
his mother until he became old enough to shift 
for himself, when he started out to make his 
success in the world. On November 22, 1876, 
he married Nancy J. King, and their union has 
been blessed by two children, viz. : Louis Clif- 
ford and Florence Ethel. In 1880 they located 
in Harrisville, where Mr. Watson established 
himself in the grocery business, becoming the 
first dealer to handle an exclusive line of gro- 
ceries in the place. By houesty and fair deal- 
ing he has built himself up a large and lucra- 
tive trade, and enjoys the confidence and 
patronage of his fellow-citizens. His worthy 
and estimable wife has for the past three years 
successfully conducted the American Hotel at 
that place. Mrs. Watson was born at Mount 
Pleasant, Jefferson Co., Ohio, August 28, 1848, 
and is a daughter of Charles Edward King, who 
was born near Baltimore, Md., in 1808. His 
parents were wealthy planters and slave holders 
of that region, and when Charles became of age 
they presented him with two slaves, which he 
immediately set at liberty. This act of human- 
ity so angered his father that he disinherited 
Charles, who soon after went to Virginia, where 
he met and married Hannah Mary Hanna, a 



native of Loudoun County, born September 17. 
1815. They removed to Ohio, settling first in 
St. Clairsville, and later in Mount Pleasant, 
where he followed the trade of a saddler. Here 
they resided until their death, Mr. King dyiDg 
March 27, 1857, and Mrs. King January 8, 
1872. Julia Carver Watson, widow of Louis 
Watson, was united in marriage, March 31, 1 sl '>•'>. 
with Ephraim Kibble, and their union has been 
blessed with two children: William H, born 
January 8, 1865, died February 22, 1889, and 
Addie G., born October 10, 1872. 



JAMES B. JAMISON, the eldest son of 
Walter and Martha (Beatty) Jamison, was 
born in Cadiz Township. Harrison Co., 
Ohio, August 3, 1830. He possessed a 
strong desire to "drink deep of the Pierian 
spring," but his early advantages in that respect 
were restricted to the common schools, which 
in those days were very crude and inadequate, 
and until the year 1852 he shared the duties of 
the homestead farm. In 1855 he was married 
to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Cyrus Gilmore, 
and grand-daughter of Hon. William Moore, who 
for seven or eight terms represented his district 
in the State Legislature. To James B. and 
Elizabeth (Gilmore) Jamison were born four 
children, as follows: Wilbur G. (deceased); 
Laura E., wife of L. H. Law. of Cadiz; Annie 
E., being educated at Columbus, Ohio; James 
B. (deceased). Politically James B. Jamison 
adheres to the principles of his father, and is a 
prominent Democrat. In 1867 he was elected 
on that ticket to the State Senate, being re-elected 
in 1869, thus serving two terms; and. on ac- 
count of his zealous interest in the cause of 
agriculture, he was elected a member of the 
Ohio State Board of Agriculture, being re-elected 
four successive terms, when he retired after serv- 
ing as president of the board. He was appointed 
by Gov. Bishop trustee of the Ohio State Uni- 
versity, formerly called the "Ohio Agricultural 
and Mechanical College." and in this capacit] 
he served eight years, throughout Gov. Bishop's 



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and Gov. Foster's administrations. Since retir- 
ing from office he has given his time to his pri- 
vate business, attending to the duties of his farm 
of 200 acres, located near Cadiz. Mr. Jamison 
is a progressive and enterprising man. ever hav- 
ing at heart tbe progress and welfare of his 
countv, State and nation. 



d.OHN E. McPECK. Among the represent- 
l ative citizens of Archer Township, Har- 
I rison County, none hold a more prominent 
place in the esteem of the people, general- 
ly, than the gentleman whose name heads this 
sketch. Bom August 1, 1832, in the village of 
Hanover, Harrison Co., Ohio, his career has been 
one of ceaseless toil and industry in the various 
phases of life, which he has so acceptably filled 
from time to time. His grandfather McPeck 
came in 1844 from Westmoreland County, Penn., 
to Harrison County, where, April 20, 1858, when 
aged eighty years and eighteen days, he was 
called to his rest; he is buried in Ridge Ceme- 
tery. On April 27, 1869, the spirit of his aged 
widow joined his on the other shore, she having 
died aged eighty-three years, seven months 
and two days, and was laid in the grave beside 
him. They were married September C>, 1803, 
and reared a family of nine children — six sons 
and three daughters — all now deceased except 
William, who is living in Union County, Ohio. 
The maternal grandfather of John E. McPeck 
was John Endsley, who married Jane Blaine, a 
native of Ireland, and who, a young girl of only 
twelve summers, braving the dangers and perils 
of an ocean voyage in the slow-going sailing ves- 
sels of those days, in company with her brother, 
David Blaine, who was then two years her sen- 
ior, came to America. She made her home with 
her uncle, David Heed, in Cumberland County, 
Penn. Here she ultimately met and married 
John Endsley, by whom she had six children, 
two of whom still live in Coshocton County, Ohio. 
Mr. Endsley came by himself (leaving his fam- 
ily near Pittsburgh, Penn.) to Harrison County, 
Ohio, late in the fall of 1808, and secured land 



in Section No. 17. Range No. 5, Archer Town- 
ship. He completed a hewed-log dwelling-house 
through the winter, and in April, following, 
moved his wife and four small children to their 
new home in the then almost unbroken forest, 
where they endured all the hardships, privations 
and dangers incident to pioneer life. Mr. End- 
sley died April 29, 1835, in the fifty-ninth year 
of his age leaving a widow to mourn his loss 
and wait for the summons to join him. and Jan- 
uary 29, 1848, she too passed away in her 
seventy-fifth -year, and was buried beside him 
who had been her life companion, and to whom 
she had been a faithful help-meet. The dust 
of both lies buried in the Ridge Cemetery. The 
farm entered by Mr. Endsley- has been in the 
possession of the family connection ever since, 
with the exception of some twenty years when 
it was owned by Samuel Moorhead, who, in 
1870, sold it to its present owner, John E. Mc- 
Peck. 

George McPeck, father of the subject proper 
of these lines, was born October 24, 1S08, and 
remained at home in Westmoreland County, 
Penn., until about eighteen years of age, when 
he engaged in brick-laying, and in November, 
1829, he came to Ohio, where he followed his 
trade fourteen years, being employed in the 
erection of some of the best buildings in Harri- 
son County. On October 6, 1831, he was united 
in marriage with Jane Endsley, a native of Ar- 
cher Township, and a daughter of John End- 
sley. For some time the young couple resided 
in Hanover, this county, and then moved to the 
John Endsley Farm, where they remained eleven 
years, finally purchasing a farm of 137 acres in 
Archer Township. Here they lived a life of peace 
until August 22, 1852, when death separated 
them bv taking the beloved wife, seven small 
children being left to mourn the mother's death. 
October 6, 1853, Mr. McPeck married Mrs. 
Barbara Endsley, who departed this life Novem- 
ber 1, 1854, leaving one small child, and in 
April. 1857, the bereaved husband took for his 
third wife Mrs. Catherine A. Caldwell, who was 
called from this worljl July 10, 1883. This 




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unioQ was blessed with one child. On March 
'24, 1886, the aged pioneer passed quietly and 
suddenly over the mystic river, being seventy- 
seven years and five months old. 

John E. McPeck, his son, remained with his 
parents until he was twenty one years of age, 
attending in his boyhood the common schools of 
his native county, and afterward the academy at 
New Hagerstown, which was supplemented by a 
course of instruction at Bichmond College, Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio. By working on the farm, 
summers, at times teaching school, winters, and 
by other occasional employments, he earned 
enough to pay his own expenses at school; and 
so by industry in his youth he laid the founda- 
tion of a future successful life. On September 8, 
1858, Mr. McPeck was married to Mary, daugh- 
ter of Bev. Lewis H. Davidson, a resident of 
Washington Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 
to this union were born five children, viz. : Jane, 
born July 21, 1859; Mattie, born February 11, 
1861 (both at home); Elmer E., born February 
10, 1863 (this child was not seen by his father 
until he was six months old); James (now de- 
ceased), born November 2, 1865, and Lewis, born 
November 29, 1868 (at present attending New 
Athens College). Of these, Elmer E. supple- 
mented his common-school education with a 
thorough course at Hopedale Normal School; 
then engaged in teaching, after which he studied 
medicine at Starling Medical College, Columbus, 
Ohio, graduating therefrom in March, 1889. He 
is now successfully practicing his chosen pro- 
fession at Bowerston, Harrison County. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. John E. Mc- 
Peck remained in Washington Township until 
the following spring, when they purchased a 
small place near Jewett, same county, where, 
for a time, he taught the village school and 
carried on farming. In the hour of his coun- 
try's peril, when the call for volunteers was 
urgent, he left his wife, two children and partly 
ungathered crops, and enrolled himself among 
other heroes in the defense of the Union. On 
August 11, 1862, he joined, as lirst lieutenant. 
Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 



O. V. I., which regiment was ordered to Vir- 
ginia, where it was soon after assigned t<< the 
Third Corps, and afterward to the Sixth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. Mr. McPeck was present 
at the battle of the Wilderness, and here, his 
captain being killed, he was promoted to the 
command of his company. Besides several 
skirmishes with the rebels, he also participated 
in the battles of Spottsylvania Court House and 
Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, Va., and 
lie was with Bicketts' division of the Sixth Corps 
that was ordered to Harper's Ferry to "head 
off" Gen. Early, who was advancing north- 
ward with a large rebel force to invade Maryland 
and threaten the cities of Baltimore and Wash- 
ington; and in the battle of Monocacy, in 
Maryland, when the Union forces were exerting 
every effort to save the National capital from 
ashes on July 9, 1864, Capt. McPeck fell into 
the hands of the enemy, severely wounded in 
left leg. It was thought at the time by his 
comrades that he was mortally wounded, and it 
was so published in the county papers at home. 
The chaplain and lieutenant-colonel of the reg- 
iment each wrote a letter of sympathy and 
condolence to his bereaved wife i as they thought), 
stating that he was mortally wounded and in the 
hands of the enemy. He was robbed of his 
sword and belt, watch, silk handkerchief, and a 
needy and brazen- faced rebel even took the 
boots on his feet. He was conveyed by the 
enemy to the United States Hospital at Freder- 
ick (three miles from the battle-field), where he 
was recaptured the next day. Here he remained 
two months when he received a "leave of ab- 
sence" to come home. On November IS, fol- 
lowing, he reported in person to the officers' 
hospital at Annapolis, where, after careful exam- 
ination, he was adjudged disqualified from 
further service through disability occasioned by 
his wound. Accordingly lie was honorably dis- 
charged December 12, 1864; then went t<> 
Washington and settled his accounts with the 
Government, after which, about Christmas time. 
he returned home, where he was welcomed by 
wife, friends and neighbors. Mr. McPeck was 



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incapacitated for any manual labor, but the 
citizens of the county, in recognition of his 
gallant services and his honorable wound, and 
as an expression of their respect for him as a 
man, unanimously elected him to the office of 
sheriff of his county. His hist term he so sat- 
isfactorily filled that his constituents re-elected 
him to a second, and no doubt he would have 
served a third term did the law not forbid the 
holding of that office for more than two terms. 
After retirement from office Mr. McPeck visited 
many of the western States (his trip extending 
through Illinois, Missouri and Kansas), pros- 
pecting for some suitable place where to locate, 
but failing to find any better than his native 
county, he returned home and immediately pur- 
chased the farm on which he still resides in 
Archer Township. He is a member of the G. 
A. R. at Cadiz, Ohio, and he and wife are mem- 
bers of the Ridge Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
McPeck has made all he owns by his own indi- 
vidual efforts, and his prosperity and the esteem 
in which he is held are due to his honesty, in- 
tegrity and industry. 



DECKER FAMILY. Joseph Decker, the 
grandfather of the Deckers now resident 
' in Harrison County, was born January 25, 
1 7 TV), in Maryland. He married Miss 
Kate Hartman, in Washington, Penn., where 
he carried on farming until 1815, when, with 
his family, he came to Ohio and settled in 
Guernsey County, purchasing a farm in the 
wilderness. The journey was made in a wagon, 
which served as a dwelling place, both on the 
road as well as while their cabin was being 
erected. The family consisted of John, Lewis, 
Henry, Sarah Ann, Kate, Mary, Delilah and 
Elizabeth. In his politics Joseph Decker was 
a Democrat, and he took a prominent part in 
the organization of his newly adopted county. 
Here, after a long and useful life, he and his 
helpmeet passed away. The first two years of 
the life of John Decker, son of Joseph, were 
spent in Washington, Penn., where he was born 



April 29, 1S13. He was educated at the early 
rate schools of Ohio, which at that time were 
quite common, and in his early manhood he 
married Ruenna Shipley (who was born Sep- 
tember 17, 1814), his married life commencing 
and ending on a farm, which he purchased im- 
mediately after marriage, and which comprised 
eighty acres of entirely wild land, on which he 
erected a cabin. His children, of whom the 
following is a brief record, were all natives of 
Guernsey County, Ohio: Eliza J., born Septem- 
ber 26, 1834, was married, February 28, 1854, 
to William Hide; Joseph, born December 7, 
1836, was married, October 14, 1858, to Rachel 
Shynock; Hily Ann, born August 2, 1839, was 
married January 29, 1859, to George M. Hard- 
ing; Sarah C, born December 22, 1841, was 
married, November 5, 1863, to Bazil Harding; 
Ruenna J., born March 28, 1844, was married 
November 17, 1866, to William Steffey; John 
H., born February 20, 1847 (special mention of 
him is made farther on); Mary M., born July 
29, 1850, was married September 13, 1866, to 
Lorenzo Steffey; Louis W., born October 20, 
1852, and Delilah, born February 1, 1855. 
Mrs. John Decker died March 21, 1855, and 
August 15, same year, John Decker married 
Anna Grey, who bore him two children, Henry 
and Stephen. On April 15, 1885, John Decker 
passed away, mourned by a large concourse of 
friends and relatives. 

John H. Decked, a well-known and progres- 
sive farmer, of Freeport Township, Harrison 
County, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, Feb- 
ruary 20, 1847 (as already stated inpart), and is 
a son of John and Ruenna (Shipley) Decker. 
Owing to the advanced age of his father, he early 
in life took upon himself the management of the 
home farm, and February 28, 1867, he was mar- 
ried to Mary E., daughter of John R. Robison. 
In Guernsey County he remained three years, and 
then moved to Harrison Count}', purchasing his 
present place of residence. To his first pur- 
chase he has added others, until at present his 
farm consists of 100 acres of land, in a good 
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the aid of bis family, as he commenced life with 
comparatively no financial assistance. He is a 
good manager, always progressive in his views, 
and is engaged in general farming and stock- 
raising, at both of which he has attained suc- 
cess. Mr. Decker is widely read, and polit- 
ically he advocates the principles advanced by the 
Democratic party, in whose ranks he was a sturdy 
aad zealous worker. On December 1, 1882, Mrs. 
Decker died, leaving the follqwing family: Will- 
iam, Flora J., Lewis A., Henry W., SophrouiaA., 
John O., Calvin I., and Alvin C. On Novem- 
ber 26, 1884, Mr. Decker was married to Mrs. 
McCave, daughter of Henry K. Martin, who 
was born in 1811, in Culpeper County, Va., 
where the family had long been residents, but 
were of Irish extraction; he was a slave-holder 
while he lived in Virginia, and when he came 
to Ohio he followed milling; he died July 14, 
1855. Charles R. Martin, father of Henry K., 
was married in Virginia to Mary Fishback, and 
reared the following named children: William, 
Mary Ann, Catherine, Delilah, Henry K. and 
Thomas. Here he and his wife lived and died. 
Henry K. Martin came to Ohio in 1820, and set- 
tled in Tuscarawas County, where for many years 
he was one of the leading citizens. He was 
married to Mary Jane Simmes, who bore him 
the following named children: Frances, Charles 
R. , Delilah C. , William H. , Mary L. and Elmira 
J. In 1850 Mrs. Martin died, and Mr. Martin 
married Ann Tucker, and the children by this 
union were Diana, Leander, Louisa, Rebecca 
and Thomas J. In June, 1867, Mr. Martin 
died, and was buried by the side of the com- 
panion of his youth. The family were Demo- 
cratic, and were prominent in the councils of the 
party. Delilah C. Martin was born in 1840, and 
was married October 2, L866, to Levi McCave, 
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and their children 
were named Clara Viola (married in 1881 to 
William Lewis Rowland), Sarah E., James A., 
Jane A., Benjamin, Jeanette B., Tena M., 
Frederick and Ella. On December 28, 1879, 
Mr. McCave died, and November 26, 1884, Mrs. 
McCave was married to John H. Decker, as 



stated above. Mr. and Mrs. Decker have no 
issue. They are highly esteemed and respect- 
ed, and rank among the intelligent and pro- 
gressive families in this section. The name of 
the great-grandmother of Mrs. John H. Deckel 
was Martin, her maiden name was Kidwell. 



^Y OBERT W. SCOTT, a respected young 
^ farmer of Moorefield Township, Harri- 
1^ son County, is a son of Thomas and 
Sarah (Hogg) Scott, natives of County 
Down, Ireland, the former of whom was born 
in 1793 and the latter in 1802. In their youth 
they made a profession of religion under the 
exhortation of Dr. Cook (professor of theology 
in Belfast), and united with the Presbyterian 
Church. In 1822 they immigrated to the 
United States and came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, where they purchased a farm in Athens 
Township. Thomas Scott departed this life 
January 16, 1875, and his wife followed him 
August 26 of the same year. 

Robert W. Scott was born in Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, December 28, 1846. 
When a small boy he came, with his parents, 
to Moorefield Township, where his father pur 
chased the farm our subject now owns, and 
which contains 194 acres, on Section 30. Our 
subject, since his father's death, has purchased 
what is known as the old Crawford Farm, which 
contains eighty acres, located on Section 25. 
On May 17. 1877, Mr. Scott marred Miss 
Mary A. Wallace, who was born February 23, 
1849, a daughter of Nathaniel and Julia (Ful- 
ton) Wallace. Nathaniel Wallace died March 
25, 1855, and his widow then married Will- 
iam Pickering, of Moorefield Township. Rob 
erl W. Scott and wife are the parents of two 
children named Floyd C. , born June 26, 1879, 
and Pearl L. M., born July 6, l*N:S. Mr. and 
Mrs. Scott are active members of the Notting- 
ham Presbyterian Church, of which church 
Mrs. Scott served twelve years as organist. Po- 
litically, Mr. Scott is Democratic. 



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I OHN ALVIN CRAIG was born on the farm 
^ I where he now resides, in Green Township, 
% J) Harrison Connty, and his ancestral line 
will be found in the sketch of his uncle, 
Walter Craig. Johnson Craig, his father, was 
born in Green Township, December 19. 1803, 
and died in 1888. Johnson Craig was twenty- 
two years of age when his father died, and, be- 
ing the eldest son at home, at once took charge 
of the farm. In 1834 he married Miss Martha 
Thompson, daughter of Samuel Thompson, of 
Green Township. They built a house on a 
part of the old home farm, moved therein in 
1837, and here they reared their family, and 
from its doors they were carried to their long, 
last sleep. This original farm, the patent for 
which was signed by President Thomas Jeffer- 
son, is yet in the family possession, and com- 
prises 345 acres. Throughout his life Johnson 
Craig was a farmer, and in the early days held 
a major's commission in the militia, being 
known during his later years far and near as 
Maj. Craig. His widow survived until July 
16, 1890, when, after a long period of almost 
total helplessness, she closed her eyes to earth 
at the age of eighty years. She was the 
mother of the following named children: John, 
who died at one year of age; Thompson, now 
in Nebraska; Rachel A., wife of George W. 
Brown, formerly of Harrison County, but now 
of Nebraska; Eliza J., wife of M. K. Turner, 
also in Nebraska; William S., of the same State, 
and Johu A., our subject. 

John A. Craig was born May 16, 1852. On 
October 20, 1881, he married Miss Lizzie J. 
Mills, daughter of James and Nancy (Davis) 
Mills, of Jefferson County," Ohio. James Mills 
was born on the farm where he now resides; his 
parents emigrated from Scotland to Pennsylva- 
nia, where they resided a while before removing 
to Ohio. The father of Mrs. Nancy (Davis) 
Mills was English; her mother Irish. To the 
union of our subject and wife have been born 
the following named children: Cora M. , Ada 
Myrtle and May R. Politically, Alvin Craig 
(as he is known) is an Independent, and he and 



his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church 
of Cadiz. Socially, Mr. and Mrs. Craig stand 
in the front rank of their community. 



1 (OSEPH WALKER, an old-time farmer of 
t. I Stock Township, Harrison County, was 
\Jl born June 24, 1836, on the farm where he 
now resides, a son of William Walker, who 
is a son of Joseph Walker, a native of County 
Derry Ireland, born in 1757. In Ireland, the 
grandfather of our subject married Miss Con- 
stancia Stewart, who was born in 1755. In 
1813 Joseph and his wife came to the United 
States and landed in New York City, where they 
remained a short time, when they went to 
Greensburg, Penn., and there resided until 1822, 
in which year they came to Ohio, and settled in 
Stock Township, near Laceyville, Harrison 
County. About 1829 Mr. Walker purchased the 
farm now owned by our subject, which contains. 
180 acres, on Section 32, Stock Township, and 
here the grandparents remained until their 
death, Mr. Walker dying in 1842 and his wife 
in 1846. They were parents of six children, viz. : 
John, James, George, William, Mary and 
Elizabeth. 

William Walker was born August 20, 1806, 
grew to manhood in Ohio, and received his edu- 
cation at the common schools. The old log- 
cabin school-house which he attended was lo- 
cated near Laceyville, but he went to school only 
about six weeks during his life, being obliged to 
help support the family. The privilege of these 
six weeks, however, was granted him because he 
had a broken arm, and was unable to work. On 
June 10, 1834, Mr. Walker married Miss Jane 
McKinney, who was born July 14, 1802, in 
Washington County, Penn., a daughter of 
George and Mary McKinney. To this union 
were born two children, viz.: Joseph, our sub- 
ject, and Mary Anderson, now in Auglaize 
County, Ohio. William Walker resided on this 
farm until his death, which occurred April 27, 
1886; his wife died July 5, 1878. Politically 
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ship offices. In the performance of other pub- 
lic duties he marked out and drove the stakes 
for the State road that runs through Stock 
Township. Both he and his wife were mem- 
bers of the Seceder Church till 1858, when they 
joined the United Presbyterian. 

Joseph Walker, whose name opens this 
sketch, grew to manhood on the farm which he 
now owns, and received his education in Stock 
Township. On February 12, 1863, he married 
Miss Agnes Gibson, who was born January 4, 
1843, a daughter of James B. and Lillian (Max- 
well) Gibson, natives of Pennsylvania. To this 
union have been born two children, viz. : Will- 
iam, born December 9, 1863, and James, born 
October 7, 1875. Of these William married 
Miss Annie Campbell, and is blessed with one 
child, Joseph, born November 22, 1886. Po- 
litically Mr. Walker is Democratic, and has 
held various township offices. 



rii DAM McCONNELL, a life-long resident 
// | \ and well-known farmer of Athens Town- 
IHI^ ship, Harrison County, was born June 
w/ 3, 1842. He is one of the sons of John 

and Jane (Robinson) McConnell, and grew to 
manhood on the home place, where he worked 
at the various duties pertaining to the farm. 
His education was received at the common 
schools of his neighborhood, where he laid the 
foundation of his present excellent education. 
His youth was much the same as that of his fel- 
lows, but at home he was at all times sur- 
rounded by those influences for that good which 
has ever characterized the family. On October 
3, 1865, he was married to Mary McFadden, a 
daughter of John J. and Esther (Clifford) Mc- 
Fadden, early settlers of Harrison County. 
After marriage he removed to the place on which 
he still resides, and which ninety years ago was 
entered by his grandfather, the farm having 
ever since been in the possession of the family. 
The farm is pleasantly situated one- half mile 
west of New Athens, overlooking the town as 
well as a large extent of surrounding country. 



The buildings are neat and tasty, the surround- 
ings also being indicative of taste and culture. 
His family are as follows: Minnie M. . Wilfred 
\ Stanton, John M., Paul V. and George C. In 
politics Mr. McConnell has been an advocate of 
the Democratic party, and has held various offices 
in his township. He was clerk for fifteen con- 
secutive years, thus showing that he discharged 
the duties of the office in a manner satisf aet< try 1 1 1 
his constituents. Like his father, he is a keen 
audshrewd business man, and has made a marked 
success in life, both financially and socially. 
He and family are members of the Presbyterian 
Church at New Athens, at which they are regu 
lar attendants, and he is rightly numbered 
among the progressive and enterprising men of 
his township, as well as among those wtmse 
honesty and truth are never doubted. His 
family are among the best known in the town 
ship, and are the representatives of the oldest 
stock, fully retaining the respect paid their an- 
cestry by their own integrity and conduct. 

The McConnell family made their first ap- 
pearance about the middle of the eighteenth 
century, in the person of John, a native of Scut 
land, who settled in Pennsylvania. His chil- 
dren were John, grandfather of our subject 
proper; James, who settled in Louisville, Ky.. 
and Elizabeth. John McConnell, the son of 
John, the younger, was born in Pennsylvania, 
married Mary Morton, daughter of Edward 
Morton, and subsequently settled in Athens 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he en- 
tered a large tract of land, far away from any hu- 
man habitation. The children born to John and 
Mary (Morton) McConnell were named James, 
William, Margaret, Elizabeth, John and Jane. 
The last named John McConnell married •Ian.', 
daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Koliins.in, 
who resided near Willmington, Del. To this 
last named union were bom the following named 
children: Robert, who resides in Guernsey 
County, Ohio: William, deceased; James, de- 
ceased; Margaret, now Mrs. William Howell, 
and living in New Athens; Mary, now Mrs. Jo- 
seph Holmes, and living in Athens Township; 



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John, deceased; Edward M. S., of New Athens; 
Elizabeth, married to Mr. John Cook, and resid- 
ing in Bridgeport, Ohio; Francis M., deceased; 
Adam, the subject of this sketch; LaFayette, 
deceased, and Martha, deceased. 

At the time John and Mary (Morton) Mc- 
Connell came to Ohio (1801) the forests were 
teeming with wild beasts dangerous alike to hu- 
man beings and domestic animals, and many a 
thrilling encounter took place between them and 
the hardy pioneers. At one time Elizabeth, 
sister of John, while returning from a visit to 
her brother James at Louisville,- on horseback, 
was pursued by a pack of wolves and barely es- 
caped by hard riding. As Mr. McConnell was 
the first settler in Athens Township, his house was 
naturally the headquarters of the families seek- 
ing homes in the then wilderness, and they were 
ever entertained with that true hospitality which 
is so prominent a characteristic of the McCon- 
nell family. Little does the present generation 
know of the hardships and privations undergone 
by those who first hewed the forests and turned 
the wilds into the prosperous farms that now over- 
spread the land. There were no mills in the 
neighborhood in those days, and to remedy this 
Mr. McConnell put up a horse mill, the first 
convenience of the kind, and he met his rich re- 
ward in the gratitude of the new comers. The 
descendants of this good and noble man, who 
died in 1831, are all worthy of their sire, and a 
more detailed account of their career will be 
found in the sketch of Mr. E. M. S. McConnell, 
on another page. 



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Hi ARRISON KIRKPATRICK, a prosper- 
ous and highly respected farmer, of 
| Mooretield Township, Harrison County, 
was born October 27, 1822, in Athens 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and afterward 
removed to Mooretield Township, same county, 
where he grew to manhood, receiving a practi- 
cal business education at the common schools, 
and here he still resides. On November 3, 
1853, he married Miss Esther A. Ramage, who 



was born July 24, 1837, a daughter of William 
and Rebecca (Smith) Ramage. Rebecca (Smith) 
Ramage has one sister, Sarah (Smith) Ramage, 
and had eight brothers: John, Joseph, James, 
William, Robert, Steel, Washington and Smiley, 
of whom James, Washington and Smiley are 
still living. 

William Smith, Sr. , and Rebecca Smith, Sr., 
father and mother of Rebecca (Smith) Ramage, 
came from Allegheny County, Penn., to Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, in 1805. William Ramage 
was a son of John and Esther (Bell) Ramage, 
and John was a son of William Ramage, Sr. , 
a native of Scotland. William Ramage, Sr. , 
came to America in an early day, and about 
1787 settled on Wheeling Creek, Wheeling 
Township, Belmont Co., Ohio, near St. Clairs- 
ville. Here he erected a large stone house, 
where he passed the remainder of his life, and 
which house is still standing. He had one 
brother, but it was never known what became of 
him. William Ramage, Sr. , reared a family of 
eleven children — sis sons: William, John, James, 
Joseph, Samuel and Hon. Archibald O, and 
five daughters: Lizzie, Jane, Mary, Letitia and 
Margaret. Of these children, Joseph was a 
prominent lawyer at the bar of St. Clairsville, 
Belmont Co., Ohio; Hon. Archibald C. was one 
of the prominent men of his day, a native of 
Belmont County, born in Wheeling Township, 
October 12, 1808, but was a resident of Smith 
Township for more than fifty years; he served 
the county as representative in the forty-ninth 
and fiftieth General Assemblies; in 18C50 he was 
elected and served one term as member of the 
Board of Equalization. Though a practical 
farmer he took great interest in the events of 
the times, and had a high conception of the 
duties of citizenship. John Ramage was born 
in Belmont County, Ohio, April 7, 1788, where 
he grew to manhood. In an early day his father 
had entered 353 acres of land in Mooretield 
Township, Harrison County, Section 4, after- 
ward purchasing for his son, William, 207 acres 
in the same section, now known as the Maple 
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as the old Warden Farm (a Mr. Warden hav- 
ing erected it). John Ramage owned the 
farm of 183 acres now known as the James 
Bethel Farm, also 180 acres in the adjoin- 
ing county (Belmont) now owned by Dillon 
Pickering and James Parks; and James Ram- 
age owned the farm now known as the Joseph 
Lafferty Farm, which contained 170 acres. 
William and James Ramage were ruling elders 
in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church for 
many years. John Ramage was an active mem- 
ber of the Baptist Church, and an excellent 
Bible scholar. He was twice wedded, and by 
his first wife (nee Esther Bell) had one son, by 
name, William (the father of our subject's wife). 
When this son was two and a half years of age 
his mother died, and in a few years Mr. Ramage 
married Miss Elizabeth Lafferty, who was born 
about 1808. To this union were born three 
children, Samuel, Louisa and John, all now de- 
ceased. James Ramage died March 11, 1849. 

His son, William, was born January 8, 1813, 
in Mooretield Township, where he grew to man- 
hood and received such an education as the 
schools of the early days afforded. He was a 
man of extraordinary talent, a great Bible 
scholar and also a zealous politician, being a 
stanch supporter of the Democratic party till 
1864, when he changed his political views, and 
cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln, from which 
time until his death he served the Republican 
party as faithfully as he had the Democratic. 
He departed this life July 29, 1888. His widow 
who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, April 
1, 1816, is .still living on the old homestead in 
that county. To them were born nine children, 
viz.: Thomas L. ; Esther A., our subject's wife; 
John C. ; William S. ; Sarah R. ; Mary M. Jack- 
son, in Jackson, Mich. ; James O. ; Robert B. 
and Joseph B. , all deceased except Esther A., 
Mary M. and Joseph B. 

Harrison Kirkpatrick, after his marriage, 
resided four years on his father-in-law's farm 
in Belmont County. In 1858 he purchased the 
farm he now owns, which contains 120.} acres, 
in the northeast corner of Section No. 4, Moore- 



field Township, and on this farm he has erected 
a fine residence. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick are 
parents of two children: William R., born 
August 11, 1854, who received a good business 
education at Franklin College, New Athens, 
Ohio, also a thorough education in music, and 
is residing at home: Mary E.,born February 19, 
1857, the wife of William Corey, owner of a 
flouring-mill in Union Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio. The family are active members of the 
Nottingham Presbyterian Church, and politic- 
ally Mr. Kirkpatrick is Democratic. The early 
part of bis life he spent working at the joiner's 
trade, and has erected many residences through- 
out the country, which will stand as monuments 
to his memory for many years to come. 




ILLIAM N. DICKERSON is a de- 
scendant of one of the earliest pioneer 
M[ families of Harrison County, Ohio. 
His grandfather, Joshua Dickerson, 
was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., and 
was a son of Thomas and Mary (Carry) Dicker- 
son, the former a native of England. Joshua 
came to Harrison County with his father, and 
spent nearly all of his youth at the home place, 
assisting in clearing the same and attending 
such schools as the settlement afforded. Soon 
after he left home he chose, as his life's partner, 
Sarah Dunlap, and they immediately commenced 
farming, a vocation they followed during their 
lives, which they passed almost entirely in 
Athens Township. The farm on which they 
Bettled was wild land, and much of their lives 
was spent in rendering it tit for cultivation, 
The children born to this union were as follows: 
Rebecca (Mrs. Samuel Porter), in Cadiz Town- 
ship; Joshua, Adam, John, Susan and Sarah, 
all five being deceased; William, in Athens 
Township; Mary and Jane, twins (of the Last 
two Mary is now the wife of William Knee; 
Jane is deceased). Unlike his lather. Mr. Dick- 
erson espoused the Democracy, and was always 
faithful to it; while not an office holder, still he 
was regarded as one of its leaders and promi- 



nent members. He was among those who 
founded and maintained the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, now known as the Rankin Church. 
On April 23, 1850, after a long life of useful- 
ness and respect, he passed away and was bur- 
ied in Nottingham Cemetery; his wife, also 
dying, was laid to rest by him whose weary 
hours she had comforted, and whose pleasures 
she had shared. He was in every respect, finan- 
cially, socially and mentally, a self-made man. 
Removed from centers of learning, compelled to 
labor from the earliest dawn to the twilight 
hour, he found time, however, to add much to 
the meager knowledge acquired in his earlier 
days. His struggles and successes will stimu- 
late many of his descendants. 

John Dickerson, son of Joshua, was born 
August 10, 1S10, in Athens Township, where 
he spent his youth and grew to manhood. 
From early childhood he was accustomed to 
farm work, and throughout life he followed 
agricultural pursuits. Soon after he left the 
common school he was married to Elizabeth 
McFadden, a daughter of Samuel McFadden, of 
Cadiz Township, and immediately purchased 
the farm on which his son, William N., now re- 
sides, and which was largely cleared by Samuel 
Jones. Here he reared the following named 
children: Joshua, born December 15, 1832; 
Elizabeth (Mrs. Thompson McFadden), born 
March 2, 1831; Sarah (Mrs. Jacob Webb), born 
September 24, 1836; Jane (Mrs. Hiram Laf- 
ferty), born April 24, 1838; Samuel C, born 
May 19, 1840; John J., born April 29, 1842; 
Rebecca (Mrs. Joshua Dickerson), born Novem- 
ber 16, 1843; Margaret (Mrs. Samuel B. Porter), 
born March 20, 1845; William N., born Decem- 
ber 3, 1846; James M. , born December 2, 1848; 
Susan C. (Mrs. Gilmer Ritchey), born Decem- 
ber 26, 1851; Mary A. (Mrs. Watson Dunlap), 
born May 2, 1853. Mr. Dickerson was an act- 
ive Democrat, and was man)' times honored by 
his party, holding at various times all the offices 
of his township. From early youth he was a 
member of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and one of its supporters and leaders. 



Early trained in the school of hardship and 
penury, he became one of the successful men in 
his locality, financially, aod achieved his success 
by his own efforts. His death occurred Febru- 
ary 20, 1878; Mrs. Dickerson died March 21, 
1887, and was laid to rest by his side in Not- 
tingham Cemetery. 

William N. Dickerson, the subject proper of 
this sketch, was born on the place where he now 
resides. His youth was spent on the home 
place, where he was initiated into the principles 
of agriculture, and the lessons of economy and 
industry were inculcated both by example and 
precept of his parents. The district schools 
furnished him the educational advantages he 
eu joyed, and much benefit did he derive from 
them. On October 14, 1880, he married Mary 
B. , daughter of Robert McFadden, and who was 
a resident of Logan County, Ohio. Robert Mc- 
Fadden was born April 4, 1834, in Cadiz Town- 
ship, Harrison County, and in early life married 
Rebecca Dunlap, a daughter of Robert Dunlap. 
They located in Cadiz Township, where they re- 
mained until 1864. when they removed to Logan 
County, Ohio, where they have since resided. 
Their family are as follows: Mary B., born July 
19,1857; Tallie, born October 8, 1S62; Braddie 
L., born May 3. 1870; Rebecca, born Novem- 
ber 8, 1873; and Charles, born January 6, 1879. 
Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson, after their marriage, 
removed to their present place, where they have 
since resided, and which they purchased from 
the heirs. The issue of their marriage are John 
F., born September 26, 1881; Emily Grace, 
born October 21, 1883; Cora E., born February 
18, 1886; and Clyde, born August 3, 1888, died 
November 6, 1SSS. Mr. Dickerson has been a 
life-long Democrat, and, while taking an active 
interest in party work, still has never accepted 
office. From his youth he has been one of the 
active members and supporters of the Rankin 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many years 
he has had charge of the musical department in 
the same, in which capacity he has given general 
satisfaction. His farm of 135 acres, situated 
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adapted to general farming and stock raising, 
in which he engages, and the acquisition of it 
is largely due to his own efforts. 



1 OSEPH BERNHARD (deceased) was a 
w. I native of Harrison County, Ohio, born on 
%Ji the old homestead in Short Creek Town- 
ship, December 2, 1834, and was the 
youngest child of Joseph and Sarah (Wood) 
Bernhard. He grew to maturity in his boyhood 
home, and was schooled in the struggles of those 
early times, for an education enjoying only the 
limited advantages afforded by the district 
schools. On March 7, 1878, he married Mar- 
garet Furbay, a native of Harrison County, and 
a daughter of James and Beulah (Stephens) 
Purbay. James Furbay was born June 23, 
1805, near Winchester, Va., and about the year 
1814 came to Short Creek Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, with his parents, and they were 
known among the early settlers there. In 1837 
he married Beulah Stephens who was born in 
Pennsylvania June 2, 1814, and who came with 
her parents to Ohio when she was but nine 
years of age. James Furbay died July u, 1883, 
and his worthy wife January 19, 1889, both 
consistent members of the Methodist, Episcopal 
Church. Following their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Bernhard located on a farm which was a 
part of the old Bernhard homestead, and there 
they resided until his death, the sad event oc- 
curring October 19, 1888. He had always been 
active in public works tending toward the ad- 
vancement of the country. Through his own 
efforts he had acquired a good education, and 
was a leader in educational affairs in his dis- 
trict. A consistent member of the Presbyterian 
Church, he was respected and esteemed by all. 
In the spring of 1889 Mrs. Bernhard removed 
to Harrisville, where she now resides with her 
two children, Elva Leata and Georgia Etta. 
She is a respected member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and is generally beloved by her neigh- 
bors and acquaintances for her charitable acts 
and devout demeanor. 



It Mi ARY E. MIKESELL, of Jewett, Harri- 
I Y I; son County, was born in Tuscarawas 
I] County, Ohio, in 1823, a daughter of 
■fj John H. and Sophia Roby, both natives 

of Maryland, the former of whom was born 
April 27, 1800, in Prince George's County, a 
son of John Ecton Roby, of English descent; 
Mrs. Sophia Roby was born in Charles County. 
March 4. 1800. They were married in 1822, 
and same year came to Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio, where he purchased a piece of land, upon 
which they resided for about six years, when he 
and his family removed to Leesville, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, where he engaged at his trade, that 
of a shoemaker, which found him a very poor 
man in this world's goods; but with his industry 
and the help of his faithful wife and his hard 
working children, they got them a good home 
and a comfortable living, and at their death 
they had plenty to live on and some to spare 
for their children to enjoy. Their home was a 
home for everybody to enjoy, both young and 
old, who came there. On October 10. 1872, 
was celebrated their "golden wedding." an ac- 
count of which appeared at the time in a local 
newspaper, and is here given verbatim: 

Qoijdkn Wedding. — The golden weddingof John 
II. and Sopbia Roby, father an. I mother or Mrs. D. 
II. Harmnn mid John A. Roby, of this city, was cele- 
brated at their home in Leesville, Carroll Co., Ohm. on 
Thursday. October 10, 1872. It occurred en the same 
day of the week upon which they were married just 
fifty years before. The children were all present, the 

first time thai they had mel togetherai theoldl le 

for eight years. They an- six in number— three sons 
and three daughters— named as follows: Mary E., wife 
of .lesse Mikesell; Malvina 8., wife of Daniel W. Kde- 
erly; John A.. James J., George W., and Elizabeth A., 
wifeof David II. Barman. The husbands of thedaugh 
ters were also present, ami three children of John A. 
Roby Eva T., James M. and Maw s.. the only grand 
children of theaged pair. Added to these wasa goodly 
number of invited guests. After the usual compliments 
and presentation of presents. dinner was announced, 
which had been fixed for 1 o'clock. Thisover the com- 
pany returned to the parlor; the daughters, sons and 
sons in-law taking one side, in range according to age, 

and the invited quests the other. The father and 
mother occupied seal^ in the center. The lather then 

gave a brief account of his early life, marriage, married 
fife and raising of his family of si\ children, four of 
whom the three daughters and one sun. having mar- 
,.j,.,l After the conclusion of the address he presented 
( , hr children ■■> $10 gold piece. Including sons- 
in-law and daughter in law there were ten m number, 
hut death having severed the daughter-in law(thewife 



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of John A.), the aged sire said her children should 
receive her portion; hut as there were three of them 
he would give each a five dollar greenback in lieu of 
the gold pine. The occasion was one of great pleas- 
ure and happiness to all concerned, and will long be 
remembered. The aged couple came to Ohio in 1822 
from Charles ( lounty, Mil., and have lived at the above 
place ever since, being among the oldest settlers. Tiny 
are nearly seventy-three years of age, but are hale and 
hearty, and bid fair to live for years to come. 

Mrs. Sophia Roby died February 5, 1884, 
John H. Roby in April, 188S, having worked 
at his trade up to within a short time of his 
death. They were a cheerful couple, and 
always seemed bappy when they had good com- 
pany around them. Mrs. Roby was an active, 
conscientious member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church for about sixty years, when she 
heard the welcome summons: "Come up high- 
er." The following obituary notice of her is 
taken from a local paper: 

Died. — At the family residence on West Market 
Street, Sophia Roby.wifeof John H. Roby, at8.30 a. w., 
February 5, 1884 On Tuesday morning our community 

was startled by the announcement of the sudden death 
of our old and highly respected friend and citizen. Aunt 
Sophia Roby, who lias been so familiarly known by 
many in this community, for more than half a century. 
She was born in Charles County, Md., March 4. 1800, dy- 
ing on.Tuesdjiy morning, February 5, 8:30 A. M., having 
reached the advanced age of eighty four years. She 
was united in marriage to John H. Roby who still sur- 
vives, on Thursday, October 10, I*'-'-, and the two have 
journeyed most happily together as husband and wife 
for over sixty-one years. All their lives they have 
been a remarkably strong and healthy couple, having 
never known but little sickness. On the morning of 
her death she arose and dressed herself as usual, about 
7 o'clock, not feeling very well, she laid down for a 
few minutes; after a little while she arose and ex- 
pressed herself as feeling better, but in a very short 
time became quite sick, and had to be assisted to her 
bed by Mr. Roby and his son James, where she lay 
down again and in a very few moments breathed her 
last, never having spoken a word or apparently being 
conscious of a moment of suffering. So ends the life 
and history of one of the noblest and best of women. 

She was a daughter of Caleb and Mary Roby, both 
of whom lived to beover eighty-five years of age. She 
had three sisters and one brother. Her brother having 
died at an early age. the sisters. Julia Ridgeway, Sallie 
Grimes and Mary Swan, resided for many years in 
Prince George's County, Mil. The first one. Aunt 
Julia, is now the only one living, being about seventy- 
five years of age. But little is known of them here 
except by those who emigrated from the same county, 
who have always spoken of them as a very highly re- 
spectable family. Of Aunt Sophia, as we have al- 
ways known her and shall still call her, too much 
could not be said in her praise. At a very early age 
she became identified with the Episcopal Church in 
Maryland. After coming to Ohio, and having no op- 
portunity of attending the church of her first choice, 
she then united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 



of this place.whereshehas si nee been a true and faithful 
member for nearly sixty years. As far back as many 
of our citizens can remember have they known Aunt 
Sophia to be in her accustomed seat, and but few times 
during all that lapse of years was she ever known to 
be absent during the various services of the church. 
she was of a hospitable and social disposition, aud 
having a very large acquaintance was universally 
loved and respected by all who knew her. She was 
remarkably fond of children, and seemed to have a 
happy faculty of gaining their confidence, and during 
her long residence near the school building she has 
always been treated with the greatest respect, having 
.a kind word for all; she was loved and respected, and 
many generations may pass away before her name 
will be forgotten. Her bereaved husband. John H. 
Roby, who survives her, is nearly eighty four years of 
age, and is perhaps, as well preserved in mind and 
body at that age as one ever sees in a lifetime. 

During their companionship there were born to 
them seven children — four sous and three daughters — 
live of whom are now living. The eldest Mary, now 
sixty year- past, iu 1847 married Jesse Mikesell. a 
resident of Harrison County, near Fairview. where 
they have since resided. 

The next is Melvina, who has passed her fifty- 
eighth year. In 185") she was married to David X. 
Edgerly a resident of New Philadelphia. Shortly 
afler marriage they moved to Louisville, Ky. ; living 
there a few years they returned to Leesville aud after 
remaining here about ten years they moved to New 
Philadelphia where they have since resided. Mr. Ed- 
gerly was :i soldier in the Mexican War. was mustered 
out in New Orleans, after war was ended. Shortly 
after his return home he went to California with a few 
Philadelphia friends, when- he engaged in mining two 
years, after which he returned home and soon after 
was married. 

John Acton, the eldest son, lived to be fifty-three 
years of aire. He was married to Elizabeth Price, 
daughter of James aud Mary Price in the fall of 1849. 
After living a few years very pleasantly in Leesburg, 
they concluded to try their future in the West and 
shortly after moved to Christian County, 111. After 
remaining there about ten years the}' moved to Min- 
nesota, where they remained about five. years. During 
Ibis time three children had been born to them. Eva, 
Merrit and Maud. About this time Mrs. Roby sick- 
ened and died in November. 1872, and her remains were 
laid away in Minnesota. Mr. Roby then feeling very 
lonely with his little family around him concluded to 
remove to South Bend, Ind., and join other friends. 
After living there for about ten years, lie. too, was taken 
down with sickness and died Oclober li, 1880, and by 
request of the little family, the remains were taken to 
Minnesota and laid by the side of their mother. The 
little children, then quite young, were kindly cared 
for by many friends. The oldest. Eva. now about 
thirty years of age, having since married a very 
worthy aud highly respected gentleman, Charlie 
Whea'ton, lo whom two little girls, Maude and Gracie. 
have been born, who are the only great-grandchildren 
of .Mr. and Mrs. Roby. Merrit, the second child, is 
now twenty-seven years old, and is well established in 
South Bend, Ind.. as a thoroughly reliable business 
man. Maude, the youngest, now resides iu Columbus, 
having about two years ago married a very clever and 
worthy young man, M. W. Herron, of this place. 

The second son. James J., to whom too much 
praise can not be given for having ever been the help 
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years, though he was married December 13. 1877, to 
Miss Violetta Spence, a very estimable lady, daughter 
of Thomas and Mary Spence, has never left the parental 
roof, and was ever ready to extend to them all the help 
and kindness in his power, having mauy times been 
heard to say: " I will never leave home while mother 
lives." Such devotion we have scarcely ever known 
before. 

George the next son is now past fifty, and having 
never married has always been for many years the 
help and companion of his parents to whom he also was 
very much devoted. At the early age of two years he 
lost his hearing from the effects of a disease in I lie head. 
At the age of thirteen he was sent to the Columbus 
Deaf and Dumb School. After remaining there five 
years he returned home and has since remained wit h 
his parents. He has a remarkably bright and active 
mind, and is loved and respected by all vvhoknow him. 
Elizabeth A., the youngest daughter is now forty- 
eight years past. She was married on February 28, 
lSli-l, to Mr. D. H. Harmon, of Uniontown, Penn., a 
very excellent gentleman who is well known in this 
community. They resided for a number of years in 
Canton, Ohio, then moved to South Bend, where they 
remained until 1S79. Since that time they have re- 
sided in New Philadelphia. For some months past, 
Mrs. Harmon has been known to be cpiite delicate, and 
as she is now in Michigan taking treatment, it is to be 
deeply regretted that she can not be present at the fu- 
neral services, as she is the only one living that is absent 
from the circle. 

The youngest child. Isaac Horatio, died in 1838, 
when five months old. 

As a family of children they are remarkable for 
their peculiar regard and attachment for each other, 
and the great, care and kindness they have ever shown 
toward their parents. Though widely separated, and 
some very distant, they have always made it a rule to 
visit their old home as often as possible, and many a 
reunion have they enjoyed around their old home fire- 
side. Mr. Roby is also a native of Maryland, his 
father, John Acton Roby, having been a soldier in the 
Revolutionary War. He died in 1818, his mother, 
Eleanor, dying two years later. He had one brother, 
Theodore. "and three sisters. Seny. Valina and Nancy, 
all of whom remained in Maryland, excepting Seny, 
wlio married Mankin Roby and emigrated to Ohio, lo- 
cating near Roxford, in Tuscarawas County, in the 
year 1820. They had five children — two sons and 
three, daughters: Richard, who is now living in 
Holmes County, Ohio; John, who died shortly after 
moving to Indiana; Emily, wife of Samuel YV. Rippeth, 
living near Lcosville. and mother of our well known 
citizens, Charles and Albert Rippeth; Calesta, awidow 
lady, living with her family near Dell Roy, who mar- 
ried William Davis, son (if Judge Davis, of Carroll 
County; Isabel. who married Thomas Mowels and now 
resides near New Cumberland, Ohio. 

Mr. Roby moved his family from Maryland to this 
county in a two-horse wagon, starting there on the 
morning of October 15, 1832, a few days after his mar- 
riage, in company with twenty-one persons consisting 
of Samuel Griffin and family. Ban irk Roby and fam- 
ily, Andrew Beavers and family and others, all of 
whom have since passed away. After sixteen days of 
trial and hardship, being compelled to walk nearly all 
the road, they at last arrived and Located near Roxford 
where they resided for five years, since which time they 
have resided in Lcesville. They began life in very 
limited circumstances, but by honesty, integrity ami 
industry they have acquired a competence far in 



advance of their highest expectations. Mr. Roby has 
long been known as "Honest John Roby," and In- 
takes a just pride in his record as a citizen, lie is 
well known as a broad-minded philanthropist, always 
taking a deep interest in the welfare of the comma 
nity. socially ami politically, having been a strong Re 
publican for a number of years. He is also a radical 

temperance man. his treatment of that question being 

unique and original to "neither buy of or sell any thing 

to a man who sells liquor." He has ever been a kind 
and indulgent father and loving and devoted husband. 
ami now. while he feels most keenly the cold hand of 
death that has taken away his companion, he reasons 
in a Very philosophical manner, knowing that by strict 
Conformity to every natural law she had been enabled 
to live out the full term of years allotted to mankind; 
and now. as her lite has passed away peacefully, with- 
out a moment's suffering— as the taper bums and at 
last extinguishes itself be can ask no more, knowing 

that his own time will soon follow, when he can hope 
to meet her on the oilier shore. It is ho we ver I he sun- 
dering of a dear. long, loving companionship, and we 
sympathize mosl deeply with our aged friend in the 
great loss be has sustained. 

The subject of this sketch. Mrs. Mikesell, 
was reared to womanhood in Leesville, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, and received her education tit a sub- 
scription school. In February, IS 17, she was 
married to Jesse Mikesell, who was born Decem- 
ber 11, 1819, in Eumley Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, a son of John P. and Mary (Long) 
Mikesell. After the marriage of this worthy 
couple they settled upon the old homestead farm 
in Section 35, now owned by Dauiel Mikesell, 
and here remained until 1849, when they re- 
moved to Jefferson, Harrison Co., Ohio, where 
they remained one year, and from there they 
came to Rumley Towuship, Harrison County, 
and purchased a farm in Section 2, which our 
subject still owns. Mr. Mikesell was a member 
of the Lutheran Church for more than fifty years, 
was well known throughout the entire county, 
and they were highly respected by all who knew 
them. Their house was always open to rich and 
poor, young and old. especially to preachers. 
Jesse Mikesell died February 23, 1887, and his 
remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at New 
Rumley. After the death of her husband, Mi's. 
Mikesell removed to Jewett, where she still re- 
sides in peace ami plenty, the just reward of a 
well-ordered life. She has been an earnest ami 
consistent member of the Lutheran Church since 
1S4S; is a lady held in the deepest respect l>\ 
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She tries to make everybody happy about her, 
and her house is open to welcome all her friends 
■who wish to visit her. She truly exemplifies 
the old adage: " Those who would have friends | 
must show themselves friendly. " " Blessed are 
they who never grow old." 



BR. ELMER ELLSWORTH McPECK, 
|| a popular physician and surgeon of 
) Bowerston, Harrison County, was born 
in Jewett, Ohio, February 10, 1863, the 
eldest son and third child in a family of two 
daughters — Jennie and Mattie — and two sons — 
Elmer E. and Lewis. His father, Oapt. John E. 
McPeck, who was a member of the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., and is ex-sheriff 
of Harrison County, was born near Han- 
over, Harrison Co., Ohio, August 1, 1832. The 
mother of our subject, Mary (Davidson ) McPeck, 
was born near Freeport, Ohio, February 4, 1834, 
a daughter of Rev. L. H. Davidson. They are 
yet living on the farm where our subject was 
reared and where he passed the greater part of 
his youth. 

Elmer E. McPeck was taught the rudi- 
ments of an education in the neighboring dis- 
trict school, and he then entered Hopedale 
Normal College, in which he pursued his lit- 
erary studies three years, partly paying for 
his tuition with money earned by teaching in the 
public schools. His boyhood's ambition, how- 
ever, bad been to achieve success and prominence 
as a physician, and he therefore began the study 
of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. W. 
L. England, of Jewett, Ohio. In the fall of 
1886 he entered Starling Medical College, 
Columbus, Ohio, from which he graduated in 
March, 1889, and in the following summer he 
located at Bowerston, Harrison County, where 
his abilities were at once recognized, and where 
he has since enjoyed a large and lucrative prac- 
tice. His success here is but the just reward of 
years of arduous and assiduous study and applica- 
tion to the acquirement of his profession, as well 
as to the skillful and scientific manner in which 



he practices it. The Doctor was united in mar- 
riage October 22, 1890, with Miss Lillie S., 
daughter of Rev. N. K. Crowe, a Presbyterian 
minister, of Wellsville, Ohio. Dr. McPeck is a 
hearty supporter of the Republican party and 
its principles. He is a member of and phy- 
sician to Tent No. 76, K. O. T. M. , at Bowerston. 




ALAAM LOWMILLER, one of the 

oldest and mostly highly respected cit- 
izens of German Township, Harrison 
County, is a son of John and Mary M. 
(Harner) Lowmiller, and was born in Riimley 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, November 5, 
1S24. John Lowmiller was born in Pennsyl- 
vania in 1773, came to Harrison County, Ohio, 
in 1808, and settled in Rumley Township, 
where he entered Section 33, in the northeast 
corner; here he built a small cabin, in which 
he lived for some years, afterward erecting 
a fine house. He was twice married, and by 
his first wife he had five children, viz. : Henry, 
Susan, Catherine, Fannie and Mary M. By 
his second wife he became the father of seven 
children Elias, Elizabeth, Menasah and Mary 
M. , all deceased; Joshua, a farmer in Mis- 
souri; John, a farmer in Rumley Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio; and Balaam, our subject. 
John Lowmiller died in 1857 on the old home- 
stead in Rumley Township, Harrison County. 
He was one of the leading members of the 
Lutheran Church of Germano for many years. 
Balaam Lowmiller remained on the home 
farm until he was thirty-two years of age, and 
in company with his brother John worked their 
father's farm for several years. In November, 
1856, he married Miss Elizabeth Angel, who was 
born January 4, 1838, a daughter of Israel and 
Mary (Stonebrook) Angel, who settled in Car- 
roll County, Ohio, among the early comers in 
1810. After our subject's marriage he moved 
to German Township, Harrison County, and set- 
tled on a farm of 102£ acres given him by his 
father; he then bought seventy acres of a 
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Mr. and Mrs. Lowmiller have bad born to them 
eleven children, viz. : Matthew J. , born Septem- 
ber 17, 1857, married and living near his father 
on his father's farm'; Edward, S., born April '20, 
1859, deceased; Mary E., born February 18, 1862, 
Jackson V., born November 9, 1863, at home; 
William H., born January 4, I860, deceased; 
Rosanna E., born April 10, 1868, wife of Elmer 
Arbaugh, farmer, Burnley Township; Chancy 
H., born August 1, 1869; Burtis M., born May 
4. 1872; Augusta F., born March 2, 1874; Jes- 
sie C. , born July 5, 1876, and John W. , born 
April 14, 1880, all at home. The parents are 
both members of the Lutheran Church at Ger- 
mano. Mr. Lowmiller is one of the largest 
growers of sheep in German Township, keep- 
ing 300 on his farm, besides some very tine 
horses and cattle, and he has one of the finest 
stock farms in Harrison County; has also thirty 
acres of the best timber land to be found in 
Harrison County, it being covered chiefly with 
oak and hard maple. Mr. Lowmiller hired a 
substitute to serve for him during the Civil War, 
to whom he paid two hundred and seventy five 
dollars. 




BBAHAM B. CREAL (deceased), who in 
1\ his lifetime was a well-known citizen of 
North Township, Harrison County, was 
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, January 
N. 1818, a son of John Creal, a native of Mary- 
land. The father of John, Phillip Creal, was of 
Irish descent, while the mother, Margaret (Spen- 
cer) Creal, was of German extraction. They had 
a family of nine children. John Creal was mar- 
ried in Maryland to Annie Baker, and together 
they came to Ohio, and located in Jefferson 
County. He was a blacksmith and a farmer, and 
in 1820 moved to Harrison County, where he en- 
tered 160 acres of wild land, on which he 
erected a hewed-log cabin. Here the grand- 
father died at the age of forty years, the grand- 
mother at the age of seventy years. John and 
Anna (Baker) Creal were the parents of seven 
children, viz: Joseph, Dr., moved to Arkansas 



and died: Mary married Jacob Jones, and moved 
to Kansas; John; David died in the Civil War: 
Abraham B. and Wakman B. are both deceased; 
Wesley is a resident, of Pittsburgh, Penn., all 
being deceased except Mary and Wesley. 

Abraham B. Creal at the age of eighteen lie 
gan learning the trade of brick-mason in Jeffer- 
son County. In 1840, in Carroll County, he 
married Lydia A. Chase, daughter of Benjamin 
and Hannah (Manchester) Chase, and horn in 
New York. In 1825 her parents came to Car- 
roll County, Ohio, and they, too, settled in the 
woods, not a stick of timber ever having been cut 
upon the place. Their first cabin was of logs, 
with puncheon floor and open fireplace, and 
around this primitive dwelling the wolves and 
panthers howled at night, and bears prowled 
in unwelcome numbers. Mrs. Hannah (Man 
Chester) Chase died in her new brick house, 
built by Abraham B. Creal, when he was 
eighteen years of age. She was the mother 
of ten children, of whom eight are still living: 
Phoebe, Mrs. Samuel Winings; Mary. Mrs. Ja- 
cob Winings; Sarah, on the old farm: Harvey. 
Garradus, Elisha, Elizabeth and Lydia A. The 
father of these children died in 1877, at the age 
of seventy -seven years. After the marriage of 
Mr. and Mrs. Creal they at once settled on 
their farm in North Township, where, with the 
exception of eleven years spent in Scio, he made 
his home until his death, which occurred De 
cember 12, 1885, when he was aged nearly sixty- 
eight years. Politically, he was a Republican, 
and he had tilled several township offices, such 
as trustee, etc. After his marriage he taught 
school many years in the county, and in his own 
cabin for a long time. He was a hardworking 
man, and built up his own success in life. Since 
his death his widow has resided on the old 
place. She is the mother of six children, viz.: 
Stephenson, of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas Co . 
Ohio: Alfred, deceased: Emma, Mrs. Leonidas 
Davidson, of Scio, Ohio; Annie, deceased: Jo- 
seph M.. at home, and Minnie S. , Mrs. Creal. 
All the children are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Creal also was 



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a member. Stephenson Creal enlisted in 1864 
in the one hundred-days service, but served six 
months in the O. V. I., and was slightly 
wounded. 

Joseph M. Creal was born in North Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1854. He is a 
bricklayer, having learned the trade from his 
father. In 1880 he was married to Mary C. 
Tipton, daughter of James and Hannah Tipton, 
and a native of Carroll County, Ohio. To this 
union have been born four children: Clara 
Belle, Charles Edson, Minnie Estabrook and 
Lena Fern. The homestead is situated one and 
a half miles from Scio, and comprises 155 acres 
of rich farming land. \ 



En ENJAMIN GUYTON, a farmer of Not- 
k, tingham Township, Harrison County, was 
_J) born in Maryland, June 7, 1820. His 
father, Elisha Guyton, was born about 
eighteen miles from Baltimore, in 17S6, learned 
the shoemaker's trade, and in 1812 enlisted in the 
defense of his country against the invading En- 
glish, serving until near the close of the conflict. 
On his return home he married Miss Catherine 
Sehultz, who was born in Germany about the 
year 1796. In 1825 this couple came to Ohio, 
for one year residing in West Chester, Tus- 
carawas County; then moved to Harrison County. 
and entered the farm on which our subject now 
lives and which he owns. On this place Elisha 
and his wife remained several years, and then 
removed to Deer svi lie, where Elisha died in 
1875, and his widow in 1877, both being mem- 
bers of the Episcopal Church. They were the 
parents of eight children, named as follows: 
John (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), Benja- 
min, Margaret (who died in infancy), Augustus 
(deceased). Elisha (deceased), Catherine Crab- 
tree and Mary Crabtree (the last two being resi- 
dents of Columbus, Ohio). 

Benjamin Guyton was reared on the farm 
which he now owns, and was educated at the 
subscription schools, which were taught in his 
township in his early days. On October 2, 



1845, he married Miss Ellen Fitzgerald, who 
was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, May 23, 1824. She is the daughter 
of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Fitzgerald, Thom- 
as born in Chester County, Penn., his wife, Mary 
(Smith), a native of Ireland. He came to 
Ohio many years ago, and entered the farm now 
owned by W. B. McFadden. Thomas Fitz- 
gerald served his adopted country in the War of 
1812, against Great Britain, and died at his 
peaceful home in Harrison County, Ohio, in 
1853, Mrs. Fitzgerald, however, having departed 
this life in 1827. To Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald 
were born the following children: Angeline, 
Maria and Caroline Auld, all being deceased; 
Amanda, living in Guernsey County, Ohio; 
Harriet Guthrie, a resident of Uhrichsville, 
Ohio; Ellen, wife of Mr. Guyton; William, a 
twin brother of Ellen, but now deceased, and 
John, also dead. Mr. and Mrs. Guyton are 
members of the Presbyterian Church, and their 
walk through life indicates the sincerity of their 
faith. Politically Mr. Guyton is a Democrat. 



JjOHN FINICAL, one of the well-known 
residents of Harrison County, was born in 
Washington County, Penn., April 4, 1829. 
His father, Isaac, was a native of the 
same State, to which the family came from Ger- 
many at an early period in its settlement. 
The grandfathers of this family, on both sides, 
were soldiers of the Revolution. Isaac Fini- 
cal' s early youth was spent at the home of his 
parents, where those precepts of honesty and 
economy were inculcated, which have made the 
family so highly respected. Soon after attain- 
ing his majority he was united in marriage with 
Margaret, youngest daughter of Robert Ander- 
son, of Washington County, Penn. The An- 
derson family originally came from Ireland, ar- 
riving here about the commencement of the 
Revolutionary War. The father immediately 
enlisted in the defense of his adopted country, 
and served with distinction through the entire 
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entitled honestly to a pension, be refused to ac- 
cept, on account of the shattered finances of his 
country. After his marriage Isaac Finical re- 
mained in Pennsylvania until 1831, when he re- 
moved to Cadiz Township, Harrison County, 
thence to Short Creek Township, where he re- 
mained a short time, and finally purchased the 
farm now occupied by his son, John. In 1854, 
at the advanced age of seventy five years, he 
passed away, his death being caused by hemor- 
rhage of the bowels, resulting from a kick by a 
colt; his widow passed away in 1885, at the age 
of eighty-eight years. They were the parents 
of nine children, viz.: Eliza May, deceased wife 
of William Spiker; Margaret, wife of Alexan- 
der Henderson; Jane, Mrs. William Miller; 
Frances O, Mrs. David Steward; Mary E.. 
Mrs. Calvin Eodgers; Rachel A, who died when 
a child; Robert, John and Thomas. 

John Finical grew to manhood in the county 
where he now resides, and with whose growth 
and prosperity he has long been identified. He 
atteuded the common schools in his section, and 
so industrious and naturally apt was he that at 
the age of eighteen he was fitted as a teacher, a 
profession which he followed a long time with 
eminent success. In April, 1856, he chose for 
his helpmeet, Martha, daughter of William Ir- 
win. Her mother was a native of Ireland, com- 
ing to this country at the age of six years. The 
family came to Harrison County, where they re- 
mained until 1856, when they removed to Iowa, 
where their deaths occurred. Mr. and Mis. 
Finical, after marriage, settled on the place 
where they still reside. Ten children have 
blessed their union, viz. : Milton Beecher, in 
Kansas: Lizzie Margaret, Mrs. J. P. Ross; Will- 
iam H. , in Pittsburgh; Thomas A., at Fort 
Scott, Kas. ; James I., Alvin O. , Mattie V. , 
John and Nellie V., at home, and one that died 
in infancy. In his political views Mr. Finical 
has been a firm supporter of the Republican 
party, and he was a strong Abolitionist. While 
not a strong man, physically, being a constant 
sufferer from asthma, Mr. Finical, mentally, is 
among the most active of men. His home is 



situated about five miles northwest of Cadiz, 
and consists of 173 acres of excellent land. 



AMUEL H. BIRNEY. a farmer of Frank- 
lin Township, Harrison County, was born 
October 24, 1838, in Nottingham Town- 
ship Harrison Co., Ohiu. His father Is- 
rael, was born in German Township, same coun- 
ty, where his early life was spent. At the age 
of sixteen he came to Franklin Township, where 
he remained until he was married to Martha 
Hedges, a daughter of Samuel Hedges, of Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County. They immediate- 
ly located in Nottingham Township, where 
Israel Birney purchased a farm, and where they 
made their residence until their death, that of 
Mr. Birney occurring May 11, 1862, and that (if 
Mrs. Birney, August 30, 1870. Their children 
were named as follows: Samuel H., Prudence 
(Mrs. Slemmons Welsh), William, Elizabeth and 
Israel. In his business Mr. Birney was engaged 
in farming and stock dealing, and his prosperity 
was due to his own efforts, assisted by his wife. 
He was a Democrat, and took quite an active in- 
terest in politics; was a member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, in which he was class- 
leader for many years. Mr. Birney was always 
an enterprising and liberal man, and was heart 
ily in favor of any enterprise tending to the 
improvement or advancement of his county or 
township, either in educational, religious or 
moral enterprise. To such men is largely due 
the present prosperity of Harrison County, and 
too much can not be said in their praise. 

Samuel H. Birney spent his youth in Not- 
tingham Township, where he assisted in the da 
ties of the farm, and attended the common 
schools. On March 3, 1863, he was married to 
Cynthia Johnson, daughter of Nathan Johnson, 
of Nottingham Township, and they commenced 
their married life on a farm in that township, 
where they resided until 1S71. when the\ re 
moved to Deersville, and have here since re- 
sided. Their children are Martha E. and Orville 
F. For many years Mr. Birney has been en- 



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gaged in stock buying in connection with farm- 
ing, and for the past ten years has been actively 
employed as veterinary surgeon. He has always 
been a Democrat, being one of the prominent 
members of the party, and while not seeking 
office, he has efficiently served his township in 
various capacities. He and his family are mem- 
bers of tbe Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which be Las been class-leader for several years. 
He is actively engaged in Sunday-school work 
and is a liberal supporter of his society. Fi- 
nancially Mr. Birney is a self made man, and 
has by his own efforts succeeded in all his mon- 
etary matters. His family are well known in 
the county, and everywhere held in the highest 
respect and esteem. 




\ILLIAM BOYCE PENN, a leading 
merchant, Bowerston, Harrison County, 
Ifj' was born in Cadiz, Ohio, April 9, 1S49. 
His father, Joseph H. Penn, was born 
in England, April 25, 1813, and when a young 
man came to America with bis parents, Thomas 
and Hannah Penn, who located at Cadiz, Ohio, 
where, November 6, 1834, Joseph H. Penn mar- 
ried Jane Hamilton, who was born June 28, 
1813, a daughter of Francis and Buth Hamilton. 
Until the spring of 1850 Mr. Penn resided at 
Cadiz, engaged in business, when he moved up- 
on a farm near Cadiz Junction. On February 
8, 1878, Mrs. Jane Penn departed this life, and 
September 21, 1881, Joseph H. Penn passed 
away. They were the parents of ten children, 
of whom seven grew to maturity, viz. : Florella, 
Thomas, Francis Hamilton, Hannah Mary, Jo- 
seph Rollins, William Boyce and Chastina Ann. 
William Boyce Penn was reared on the home 
farm, and educated a few weeks during each 
winter at the common school, until fourteen 
years of age, when he came to Bowerston to 
reside with a brother-in-law, O. H. P. Long, 
who was a prominent merchant and a station 
agent at that point. Here he worked as a clerk 
until July, 1877, when, in partnership with D. 
R. Phillips, be purchased the stock, and the 



two young men together carried on the business 
for one year, when Mr. Penn withdrew. In the 
fall of 1878 he decided to enter the mercantile 
business on his own account, and erected bis 
present store, tbe finest business structure in 
Bowerston, in which he carries the largest Mock 
and does the most business in this part of the 
country. He has also erected many other tine 
buildings in the place, and has done more 
toward the advancement of the town than any 
other citizen. For a number of years, also, Mr. 
Penn was in business with John H. Bell, under 
the firm name of Penn & Bell, at Dennison, 
Ohio. In 1875 he erected the Commercial 
Hotel, known at the time as the " William Penn 
Hotel," and for six years retained tbe proprie- 
torship. 

On May 29, 1870, Mr. Penn was united in 
marriage with Martha Ann Weyandt, a daughter 
of Abraham Weyandt, tbe result being rive chil- 
dren, viz.: Jane Florence, born July 27, 1871; 
Oliver William, born September 18, 1872; Mary 
Emma, born August 13, 1875, and died July 17, 
1877; Harry Ward, born September 30, 1878, 
and Dolletta May, born September 26, 1881). In 
politics Mr. Penn is a Republican; he is active 
in public affairs, and for live years has served 
as postmaster at Bowerston. He has served 
two terms as senior warden of Orange Lodge 
No. 406, F. & A. M., at Leesville, Ohio, and is 
a charter member of Bowerston Council No. 67, 
Jr. O. U. A. M. , in which he is junior past coun- 
cilor, was elected representative to State coun- 
cil in 1890, and was appointed by tbe State 
councilor, E. E. Hungerford, a member of the 
State financial committee. He is a charter mem- 
ber of the Centennial lodge, No. 94, K. of P., 
at Bowerston, has held various official positions 
in the lodge, and has been master of finance for 
nine years; be is past chancellor, and in 1887- 
88 was the representative to the State lodge, 
and served three years as D. D. G. C. The 
rise in life of Mr. Penn has been little less than 
marvelous, but it has been owing almost entire- 
ly to his own upright methods of doing busi- 
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in pursuing a straight and unswerving course of 
justice; bis invariably courteous demeanor and 
affable treatment of all with whom he comes in 
contact constitute another factor toward that 
success, and his example is one worthy the 
emulation of any business man, especially that 
of a young merchant. 



THE FIERBAUGH FAMILY originally 
came from Germany, the first of the 
name to arrive on these shores having 
settled in Pennsylvania soon after the 
Revolutionary War. Daniel Fierbaugh, great- 
grandfather of Michael B. Fierbaugh, of North 
Township, Harrison County, came from the 
Keystone State to what is now North Town- 
ship, just mentioned, and here entered a farm 
where E. H. Kennedy now resides; returning 
to Pennsylvania, he died there, and his widow 
came out to Ohio with her family, settling on 
this farm. Her son, David, born either in 
Pennsylvania or Maryland, in 1787, was a 
grown man when they came to Ohio, and he in- 
vested all his savings in the land entered by his 
father, which was afterward lost to the estate. 
He entered the land on which Michael B. is 
living, at that time wholly unimproved, and on 
it he erected a log cabin. Soon thereafter he 
married Magdalena Gundy, who is supposed to 
have been the first white woman to cross Conot- 
ton Creek westward, her parents, Rev. Joseph 
Gundy (a Mennonite minister), and Fannie 
(Coffman) Gundy, having been pioneers of 
1804, at which time there were no neighbors 
nearer than New Rumley, and many advent 
ures met with by the members of the family 
might be recounted here did space permit. 
Mr. and Mrs. David Fierbaugh had two chil- 
dren, Fannie (now Mrs. John Weimer, of Aus- 
tin, Neb.), and Daniel. The father died June 
I 4. 1804, when aged seventy-seven years, and 
the mother in 1878, at the patriarchial age of 
ninety-one years. 

Daniel Fierbaugh was born April 27, I SI 7, 
in North Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where 

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he was brought up to farm life, his education 
being limited to the old log Bchoolhouse of the 
neighborhood. In 1841 he was united in mar 
riage with Elizabeth, daughter of Michael and 
Caroline L. (Barence) Boor. The Boor family 
came west from Pennsylvania at an early date, 
the father of Mrs. Fierbaugh locating in Har- 
rison County in L838, but dying in Defiance 
County, Ohio, and hero her mother yet lives, 
aged about ninety years. Daniel Fierbaugh 
and his wife settled on the old home place 
and carried on general farming. Here their 
five children were born, a record of whom is as 
follows: Caroline L. was married to Rev. B. 
F. Rinehart, and died January 26, 1866; Mary 
M., is the wife of Ebeuezer W. Laughridge, of 
North Township. Harrison County: Michael B. 
is the subject proper of this sketch, whose 
record follows this; David (i. died April 13, 
1870; Clara E. died < >cto her 27, 1879. The 
father was born April 27, 1817, and died Octo- 
ber 14, 1885, at the age of sixty-eight years; the 
mother is yet living, now sixty-nine years old. 

Michael B. Fierbaugh was born August 7, 
1 s 4 T> , in North Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
on the farm where he now lives, the representa- 
tive of the third generation. His education was 
received at the common schools of his district, 
afterward at New Hagerstown Academy, and 
the college at Scio. In April, 1864, he enlisted 
in Compauv 15, One Hundred and Seventieth O. 
N. G., serving four months; he was in the 
Shenandoah Valley, participated in the battle of 
Snicker's Gap, and was on skirmishing duty at 
Winchester; was also present at Martinsburg, 
and in various other engagements. Having 
received an honorable discharge, he returned 
home, and it was then he attended the academy 
at, New Hagerstown. one year, and later the col 
lege at Scio, in 1866-67. On November 18 
(Thanksgiving day), L869, Mr. Fierbaugh was 
married to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Thomas 
and Mary Smith (both now deceased), who for 
merlj lived in Freeport. Ohio, where he was a 
merchant. He came to the United States when 
eight years of age, and, revisiting his native 



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country, there married Miss Mary Hopkins. 
He was educated in Cadiz, Harrison County, 
where he assisted on one of the early county 
papers, and in 1865 he came to North Town- 
ship, where he purchased a farm. Here he 
died in February, 1881, at the age of seventy- 
two years, his widow the following year, aged 
sixty-nine years; they were the parents of six 
children. Our subject and wife after marriage 
settled down to farm life, sharing life's joys 
and sorrows until February 10, 1890, when death 
carried off the faithful wife, at the early age of 
thirty-eight years and six months, she having 
been a victim of " la grippe. ' ' She was the 
mother of seven children, named as follows: 
Thomas S., Daniel E., Clara A., Lorin D., 
Pearl, Dwight and Frank, all at school. 

Politically Mr. Fierbaugh is a Republican, 
and has served his county six years as commis- 
sioner, and his township two years as trustee. 
In religion he is a member of the United Brethren 
Church at Connotton. His farm lies partly in 
North Township and partly in Monroe, and com- 
prises 227 acres of prime land; the dwelling 
was burned April 24, 1889. Mr. Fierbaugh is 
a thoroughly progressive man, a representative 
practical farmer, always interested in whatever 
might conduce to the advancement of his town- 
ship and county; it may be said of him that he 
was the prime mover in getting the " Children's 
Home" built in Cadiz in 1889, and he was ap- 
pointed director of the same in June, 1890. 



diOHN C. HENDERSON was born July 21, 
1839, in Hanover, North Township, Har- 
) rison Co., Ohio. His grandfather, John 
Henderson, at the age of sixteen came 
with his parents from Ireland, and upon arriving 
in this country ran away; the parents, after 
vainly searching for him, were compelled to re- 
turn with no tidings of the lost child. Many 
years afterward, one of his brothers, while on a 
visit to this country, found him, and together 
they passed many pleasant hours in conversing 
about their parents, brothers and sisters, and 



mutual friends. Soon after the lad ran away 
from his father he made his way to Maryland, 
whence, after working at anything he could find 
employment at, he finally drifted to Hagerstown, 
in that State, where he met the lady whom he 
afterward married. She was the daughter of 
George Henderson, and was of Scotch descent. 
Her parents died while she was quite young, 
leaving her a large amount of property. She 
made her home with her uncle until she was 
married, after which the young couple removed 
to Indiana County, Penn., where they resided 
a short time, and then removed to Rumley 
Township, Harrison County, Ohio, purchasing a 
large farm, where they resided until their death. 
Mr. Henderson died in February 1862, and was 
buried in Ridge Cemetery, where on her death, 
which occurred May 13, 1877, his widow was 
buried also. Four sons and seven daughters 
were born to their union, ten of whom survive, 
and nearly all reside in Harrison County. The 
father of our subject, James Henderson, was 
born September 10, 1813, in Indiana County, 
Penn., where he lived until four years of age, 
when bis parents removed to Harrison County, 
Ohio. He remained with them until October 
1838, when he married Susanna McClintock, of 
Monroe Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 
took up their residence in Hanover. Harrison 
County, until 1S57, following his trade of cab- 
inet-maker and carpenter. He then purchased 
a farm near Hanover, where he died November 
1, 1889. He was, as is his widow, a member of 
the Ridge Presbyterian Church, which they 
y lined many years ago. He was a Democrat in 
politics, and had held various township offices, 
although not desirous of them. Mrs. Hender- 
son's father, Thomas McClintock, came from 
Cork, Ireland, to the United States at an early 
age. He married, while quite young, Miss 
Elizabeth Fisher, a resident of Harrison County, 
and they immediately located on a farm, bat 
soon removed to Monroe Township, where they 
passed the remainder of their lives. They were 
both buried on the farm, where they had lived 
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from this union, eight of whom survive, and 
nearly all are residing in Harrison County. 

John C: Henderson lived with his parents 
until he was twenty-three years of age, when he 
was married to Hester Fisher, who was a resi- 
dent of North Township. On January 4, 1865, 
Mrs. Henderson died, leaving one child. She 
was from early life a member of the Baptist 
Church. On November 5, 1865, the little child 
whom she left joined her in the spirit land, and 
they were buried in Hanover. On April 2, 1866, 
Mr. Henderson was married to MahalaP. Fisher, 
a sister of his former wife. Mr. Henderson fol- 
lowed the profession of teaching for twenty-eight 
consecutive years, nearly all in Harrison County, 
thus showing that his services were highly val- 
ued by the patrons of the schools of the county, 
and also the high esteem in which he was held 
by all. Five children came to his second mar- 
riage, viz.: Hester, born January 17, 1867; 
James H., born July 1, 1868; Walter J., born 
July 13, 1870; Susie R., born July 15, 1873, 
and Robert Heron, born April 11. 1877. This 
wife died October 8, 1877, and was buried by 
the side of her sister in Hanover. She was a 
constant attendant at the Presbyterian Church. 
On March 27, 1879, Mr. Henderson was united 
in marriage with Miss Sarah McPeck, a daugh- 
ter of George McPeck, a resident of Archer 
Township,"and since marriage they have resided 
on the old Schaffer Farm. No children have been 
born to this marriage. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
Henderson are members of the Ridge Presbyter- 
ian Church. In politics Mr. Henderson is a 
stanch Democrat, his ancestors having been 
members of that party since its organization. 
He is also a member of the F. & A. M. , Orange 
Lodge, Leesville, Carroll County. Mr. Hender- 
son received his education for teacher and survey- 
or in New Hagerstown Academy, Carroll Coun- 
ty. Ohio, and he has followed both professions 
with eminent success: but lately, owing to duties 
at home, he has relinquished that of teaching, 
though he still continues surveying in all its 
branches, of which he is proficient. Mr. Hender- 
son has attained his present enviable position in 



his community without effort on his part, and 
has the respect and confidence of his neighbors. 



*jTVOBERT KENNEDY, a wealthy farmer 
L<<^ of Moorefield Township, Harrison Conn- 
ie ty, is a son of Return Matthew and 
■f/ Jane (Moore) Kennedy, and was born 

in Moorefield Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
November 111. 1824 When five years of age 
his parents removed to Tuscarawas County, 
where Robert grew to manhood and received a 
common-school education. In 1845 the family 
returned to Harrison County, and August 1*1. 
1848, he married Miss Jane McCullough. who 
was born April '.), 1 S 2 2 , a daughter of William 
and Julia A. (Laizure) McCullough. 

After his marriage Robert Kennedy re- 
mained on the old homestead till 1S72, when he 
removed to the farm which he now owns, which 
farm is known as the old "Apple Pie Ridge 
Farm." because on it were the first apples 
grown in the township, and the neighbors gath- 
ered at the home of Mr. Johnson (at that time) 
to eat apple pies. The farm contains 320 acres 
on Section 19, in Moorefield Township. Politic- 
ally Mr. Kennedy is Democratic, and has held 
several offices of trust in the township. He is 
well known in the county and highly esteemed 
by all. 



THE BERNHARD FAMILY. In the 
spring of 1814, Joseph Bernhard emi- 
grated from Chester County, Perm., to 
Harrison County, Ohio, and settled in 
Short Creek Township. He was a native of 
eastern Pennsylvania, and was horn August 28, 
1785. His father. Matthias Bernhard. a native 
of Germany, and in his native land a manufact- 
uring optician, had immigrated to America and 
located in eastern Pennsylvania many years 
previous. There is nothing connected with 
Joseph's early life to attract particular notice. 
except that he grew to manhood, schooled in 
such privations and disadvantages as fell to the 



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lot of pioneer boys. He learned the wagon- 
maker's trade in Chester County, Penn. , and 
then soon after erected a shop of his own, and 
worked at his trade six years, during which time 
he saved some money, and from there he came 
to Ohio, as before stated, in the spring of 1814. 
After coming to Ohio he located in Short Creek 
Township, Harrison County, making his home 
with Matthias Bernhard, a brother, who had 
preceded him to this country, and who was then 
proprietor of a grist-mill on the creek. Here 
Joseph remained, assisting in conducting the 
business in his brother's interest, also keeping a 
small store in connection with the mill, often 
taking the wheat the settlers brought him in 
exchange for merchandise. In those early times 
money was an article noted for its scarcity, and 
the exchange system was about the only plan 
on which business was conducted for many 
years. The coarse clothes worn by the settlers 
were mostly home-made. The busy housewife 
would card and spin the wool into yarn, which 
she would knit into stockings or weave into 
cloth or blankets, as the occasion or necessity 
demanded. Common calico was a luxury not 
to be dreamed of, except for the best occasions, 
and it is interesting to note that the entries made 
by Mr. Bernhard in his journal make known 
the price of calico in those early times to have 
been sixty-two and a half cents per yard. 
About 1820 he purchased a tract of land in the 
northeast corner of Short Creek Township, and, 
locating thereon, began its improvement, erect- 
ing, in 18'27, a grist mill on the creek there. 
This mill was afterward added to and enlarged 
until it became the principal flouring mill in 
this section of the State, and did a thriving bus- 
iness in the "forties," when the flour would be 
hauled to Wheeling and the river, and shipped 
by boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers 
as far as New Orleans. This mill, therefore, be- 
came one of the most important factors in the 
development of the country, and though now 
much changed, it is still standing on the old 
homestead. Mr. Bernhard, in speaking after- 
ward to his children about those early times, 



has often told them how wheat, after having 
been threshed with a flail (the only available 
way), would sell at the market for twenty-live 
cents per bushel; and at one time flour was so 
cheap that, taking a barrel of the choicest prod- 
uct of his mill to Harrisville, he traded it for 
a straw hat and a few trifles. In 1821 Mr. 
Bernhard married Sarah Wood, a daughter of 
Robert and Mary Wood, who went to Canada 
when she was but an infant. They soon re- 
turned, however, to the United States and be- 
came early pioneers of Harrison County, from 
which they removed in 1827 to Morgan County, 
where they died. Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard lived 
happily together on the farm in Short Creek 
Township until his death, which occurred in 
1853. He was a self-made man in every respect, 
having begun a poor lad at the foot of the ladder. 
He was a man whose public spirit manifested 
itself in all movements for the good of the 
country. Politically, he was first identified with 
the Whig party, and then became a stanch 
Free-soil man, remaining so until his death. 
His worthy wife survived him until 1871. Six 
children were born to them, of whom but two 
are now living: Lewis and William. 

Lewis Bernhard was born on the old home- 
stead March 20, 1823, and grew to manhood 
with his parents, assisting them in the duties of 
the farm and the maintenance of the family, his 
educational advantages being limited to the dis- 
trict school. In the fall of 1809 he married 
Ann Eliza McLaughlin, a daughter of James M. 
and Sarah J. (Kerr) McLaughlin, and in the 
following spring located on their present farm 
adjoining the homestead. The farm of 100 
acres is well improved, and has a handsome 
residence. Five children have been born to 
them, of whom four still survive. 

William Bernhard was born on the old 
homestead (where he now resides) May 8, 1825, 
and his early life was spent at home amidst the 
privations of the pioneer times. He was edu- 
cated in the district schools, and, like his brother, 
he recalls the old log school-house where he was 
taught the rudiments of an education. While 



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Lewis devoted his attention to the farm, Will- 
iam was assisting bis father in the mill, and 
learning the trade of miller. In 1849 he mar- 
rien Jane Williams, a native of Short Creek 
Township, Harrison County, and a daughter of 
Nathan and Sarah Williams, and this union was 
blessed with five children, of whom two still 
survive. This wife dying in 1803, Mr. Bern- 
hard married, in 1866, Nancy Johnson, and live 
children have been born to them. Mrs. Bernhard 
is a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, and a 
daughter of Richard and Mary (Smith) Johnson. 
Richard Johnson was a native of Washington 
County, Penn., and died in 1845; his widow 
survived him until 1875. The Bernhard family 
have long been identified with the progress and 
advancement of the country, and are highly re- 
spected and esteemed. The industry and en- 
terprise of both Lewis and William are univer- 
sally recognized, and are the frequent subjects 
of commendation by their neighbors. 




RS. JAMES B. JENKINS. The Jen- 
kins family history can be traced to 
Nova Scotia, where William Jenkins 
was born. His early life was mostly 
passed in farming and attending the schools of 
his native place. In his twenty-third year he 
was married to Nora Morris, with whom he 
came to Ohio, and in 1814 they arrived in Wash- 
ington Township, Harrison County, where they 
purchased a farm, which they set to work to 
clear and render habitable. Here they reared 
their family, consisting of seven children. 
In 1849, in company with his son and several 
others, Mr. Jenkins started for California, but 
while in transit was seized with cholera and 
died almost immediately; Mrs. Jenkins died 
November 8, 1842. 

James B. Jenkins, one of the best known 
citizens of Harrison County, was born Decem- 
ber 5, 1819, in Washington Township, and his 
youth was spent in the home duties which he 
assisted in performing. In 1S4U. thinking to 
better his fortune, he went to California, where 



he remained two years, making a remarkable 
success. He then returned home and engaged 
in business, but, one misfortune after another 
happening, he soon lost all he had made. 
Nothing daunted, however, he started again for 
California, this time remaining four years, and 
was successful. Returning, he purchased a 
large tract of land, which he greatly improved. 
He was a self-made man, and one whose many 
excellent qualities endeared him to his fellow 
citizens. Of irreproachable character and hon- 
esty, he was highly respected and esteemed. 
From his earliest youth he was a Republican, 
and took a prominent part in the success and 
acts of his party. His good judgment and keen 
foresight rendered him an invaluable aid in the 
councils of his party, and although always ready 
to support a proper candidate, he was never 
persuaded to accept a nomination himself. In 
religious matters, no less than in others to 
which he turned his attention, he was an en- 
thusiastic worker. His membership was in the 
Tippecanoe Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which faith he died November <i. ISS.j. On 
February 13, 1845, he was married to Nancy 
Wright, of Tuscarawas County. Ohio, and the 
issue of their marriage were children, as fol- 
lows: Luira, Margaret J., Alice E. . Sarah, 
Hannah, James, John A. B. and Emma L. 

James Jenkins was born February 4, 1858, 
and has spent his whole life in Washington 
Township. On October 28, 18S8, he was mar- 
ried to Emma, daughter of Bartlett Davidson, 
of Guernsey County. To this union was born, 
October 13, 1889, one child, Frank. 

John A. B. Jenkins was born November 7, 
1863, and married December Tl, 1887, to Mag- 
gie, daughter of Richard Watson, of Tuscara- 
was County, and to this marriage was born. 
March 13, 188*.). one child, named Harrison. 

The above mentioned young men have the 
management of the home place, and, like their 
father, are energetic and progressive, destined 
to make a success in life. Both are stanch 
members of the Republican party, and have 
always supported it. The family are among the 



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best known in this section, and rank among the 
leading citizens. 



d(OHN NEWTON HANNA is descended 
| from one of the earliest families who set- 
' tied in Harrison County, Ohio, and is of 
Scotch-Irish extraction, his ancestors hav- 
ing immigrated to America in an early day, 
some of whom came to Harrison County when 
the country was a wilderness. About the year 
1800 one of their descendants, Samuel Hanna, 
came to and entered a tract of land in Short 
Creek Township, where he located and passed 
the remainder of his days, and at his death the 
farm became the property of his son, James 
Hanna, who was born upon the place in the year 
1803. In 1824 he married Miss Margaret Ful- 
ton, a native of Fayette County, Penn.. born 
there in 1803. They resided on the farm in 
Short Creek Township until 1S59, when they 
both fell victims to typhoid fever, then epi- 
demic, and died, the mother on August 10, 
and the father August 25 of that year. Their 
union had been blessed with eleven children, rive 
of whom are now living, and tbe second eldest 
survivor is the gentleman of whom this sketch 
is given. 

John Newton Hanna was born on the orig- 
inal homestead and grew to maturity with his 
parents, receiving the advantages of the common 
schools and a thorough education at Franklin 
College, New Athens, Ohio. In 18G1 he mar- 
ried Margaret A. Finley, a daughter of Dr. 
Robert Finley, a leading physician and surgeon 
of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. In 1867 they re- 
moved from their farm to Cadiz, where Mr. 
Hanna engaged in mercantile business, and was 
also interested in the machine shops of that 
place. It was during their residence there that 
Mrs. Hanna died, the sad event occurring in 
March, 1871. She was a consistent member of 
the Presbyterian Church. By that marriage 
three children were born, as follows: Flora 
Evangeline (deceased when aged sixteen years), 
James F. and Angie Gertrude. In 1878 Mr. 



Hanna was united in marriage with Miss Mahala 
Narragon, a native of Ohio, and this union has 
been blessed with one child, "William Grimes, 
born in 1880. Since 1873 Mr. Hanna has re- 
sided on the original homestead, which now 
consists of 290 acres of finely improved land. 
He is one of the leading farmers of his section, 
and is very popular and highly respected; polit- 
ically he is a Republican. 



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Mr EGA W FAMILY. John Megaw, the 
original founder in this country, of this 
well-known and highly respected fam- 
ily, came from Ireland about the com- 
mencement of the Revolutionary War, and im- 
mediately entered the service, fighting valiantly 
in the cause of liberty to the close of the strug- 
gle. He was under Washington and LaFay- 
ette, and was present at all the engagements 
fought under their command, among which may 
be mentioned the battle of Brandywine, and he 
was among the famous number who wintered at 
Valley Forge. At the close of the war he be- 
came united in marriage with Jane Hamilton, 
who came to this country from County Tyrone, 
Ireland. After marriage he was successfully 
engaged as a traveling salesman many years, 
and then purchased a farm in Westmoreland 
County, Penn. His family were named as fol- 
lows: John, Rebecca, Jane, Samuel, Sarah and 
James. In 1816 he moved with his family to 
North Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, but ex- 
changed his place there for one in Archer Town- 
ship, same county, where he passed the re- 
mainder of his days; he lies buried in the Ridge 
Cemetery, and his wife in the old cemetery at 
Cadiz. They were both members of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and in his political convictions 
he was a Democrat. 

John Megaw, the eldest of his children, and 
the founder proper of the present family in 
Harrison County, was born in Pennsylvania, 
February 18, 1784, and during his early life 
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farm. In 1812 he was united in marriage with 
Catherine, daughter of James Best, and in IS Id 
they came to North Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, where Mr. Megaw entered a farm of 160 
acres. Here they remained six years, and then 
exchanged this farm for one in Archer Town- 
ship, where he died March 9, 1865, his remains 
being interred in the Ridge Cemetery at Han- 
over; his wife had preceded him to the grave 
September 9, 1847, and is also buried in the 
Ridge Cemetery. They were both members of 
th,e Presbyterian Church at Cadiz; in politics 
Mr. Megaw was a Democrat, and held many 
offices of honor and trust in his township. The 
names of their children are as follows: Samuel, 
Jane, Sarah, John, James, John and Jacob. 

Samuel Megaw, the eldest of these, was born 
February 25, 1813, in Westmoreland County. 
Penn., where he passed his early childhood. 
After coming with his parents to this county, 
in 1816, he attended the district school during 
the season, the school-house of that day con- 
sisting of a small log cabin with slab floor, 
greased-paper windows, and furnished with 
common slab benches, the only books used be- 
ing the New Testament and spelling books. On 
October 13, 1834, Mr. Megaw was united in 
marriage with Jane, daughter of James Mc- 
Combs, a resident of Pennsylvania, and to this 
union the following named children were born, 
the dates of births and deaths being given: 
Catherine A., October 9, 1835; Margaret M., 
February 26, 1837; John C, May 20, 1838, 
died May 30, 1864; James R., May 1. 1840; 
Samuel, November 10, 1841, and died Septem- 
ber 30, 1845; Mary Jane, August 19, 1843; 
Eleanor, December 24, 1845; Sarah E., October 
31, 1848. The mother of these children de- 
parted this life July 2, 1885, and is buried at 
Cadiz. The family are all members of the Pres- 
byterian Church. Politically Mr. Megaw is a 
Democrat, and has held the office of trustee of 
of his township several years: has also been 
justice of the peace and land appraiser, also 
assessor seven consecutive years. 

Sarah Megaw was born October 17, 1817, 



in Harrison County, Ohio, and passed her child- 
hood with her parents on the farm in Archer 
Township. On December 31, 1843, she was 
united in marriage with William Maxwell, of 
the same township, and they located mi a 
farm in that township until 1 S48, when they 
removed to Washington County, Iowa, where 
they have since resided. The following six 
children were born to Mr. and Mis. Maxwell, 
viz.: Robert, John. William James. Catharine 
Jane, Nathaniel McDowell, and an infant still- 
born. Of these, Robert died at or near Hanover; 
John was killed by the cars on the occasion of 
his parents' lirst visit after they removed to 
Iowa: both are buried in Ridge Cemetery. Han- 
over. In politics Mr. Maxwell is a Republican, 
and he and his wife are members of the United 
Presbyterian Church of Crawfordsville, Iowa. 

James Megaw, third sou of John and Cath- 
erine (Best) Megaw. was born November 11, 
1823, in Archer Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
He remained on his father's farm until the age 
of twenty six years, when he commenced for 
his own account, and has since, by his own ef- 
forts, made life a success, both financially and 
socially. He is now recognized as one of the 
leading citizens of his township. On October 
5, L851, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter 
of John Mitchell, a prominent farmer of Arch- 
er Township. After marriage they settled on a 
farm in that township, consisting of fifty acres, 
to which Mr. Megaw has since added until he 
now has 170 acres of well-cleared land, located 
about two miles from Cadiz, on which stand neat 
and commodious buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Me 
gaw had one child. J. M., born March 9, 1857. 
The wife and mother died April 7. 1SS(>. and is 
buried in the cemetery at Cadiz. On October 
30, 1SN4. Mr. Megaw married, for his second 
wife, Eliza Haverfield. daughter of Alexander 
Havei field, of Cadiz Township. In politics Mr. 
Megaw is a Republican, and, while not an office 
seeker, is not stinting in time and money for the 
advancement of the principles of his party. He 
and his wife are members of the Qnited Pres 
byterian Church at Cadiz. His son, J. M. , who 



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is a young man of excellent character, has the 
management of the home place. 

John Megaw, fourth son of John and Cath- 
erine (Best) Megaw, is also a native of Archer 
Township, born August 14, 1826. He grew to 
manhood ou the home place, in the meanwhile 
attending the common schools of his neighbor- 
hood. In 1852 he married Sarah Jane, daugh- 
ter of William Christy, her parents being among 
the early settlers of this county. For a few 
years after their marriage they remained at the 
home of Mr. Megaw's parents, and in 1856 they 
purchased the place where they now reside in 
Cadiz Township, the improvements on which 
were all made by them. The farm is situated 
about one and a half miles from Cadiz, and con- 
sists of finely cultivated land, equipped with 
elegant and commodious buildings. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Megaw have been born the following named 
children: John, Martha Ann and Maggie Jane, 
who all died in 1866; and Clara Catherine and 
Everett Grimes. Mr. and Mrs. Megaw are promi 
nent members of the Presbyterian Church; in 
politics he is a Democrat. 

Jacob Megaw, youngest son of John and 
Catherine (Best) Megaw, was born August 21, 
1829, in Archer Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
and, like his brothers, passed his early life on 
the farm, assisting in the care and management 
of the same. His education, which he has since 
more or less improved, was limited to the primi- 
tive institutions of learning of his day. On 
June 22, 1867, Mr. Megaw became united in 
marriage with Elenor, daughter of James Rob- 
inson, and they settled on his present farm in 
Archer Township, where they reared the follow- 
ing named children: James R., born May 4, 
1865; Minnie R., born February 6, 1868; John 
B. , born May 17, 1871; Catharine, born August 
9, 1873; Lawson E., born December 24, 1880. 
On May 21, 18S2, the mother of these children 
died, and on February 15, 1S88, the father fol- 
lowed her to the grave, both being interred side 
by side in the Ridge Cemetery at Hanover. 
Though not an active politician, Mr. Megaw 
always voted the Democratic ticket, using all 



honorable means to further the interests of his 
party. Mr. Megaw died a member of the First 
Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, Ohio. The farm 
is under the efficient management of his eldest 
son, James R. 



J. OHN C. REA, now a resident of Freeport, 
' Ohio, was born January 17, 1837, in 
■ Athens Township, Harrison County. He 
has always been a progressive man of his 
village. Having but common-school advantages, 
his training in his youth was somewhat limited, 
but, being a keen observer, a close reasoner and 
extensive reader, he has largely made up any 
deficiencies in his education, and is now one of 
the well-posted men of his section. In his youth 
he began the shoemaker's trade, and has since 
followed it, working in various places. In 1862 
he was married to Annie, daughter of Nathan 
Fisher, a resident of Moorefield Township, Har- 
rison Co. , Ohio, and to this union were born the 
following named children: Lulu, George, Laura, 
Charles. Harry, Mary Etta, Franklin, Maud and 
Carl. In politics Mr. Rea exercises his judg- 
ment, although he leans toward Republican 
principles; he and his family are attendants of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. In April, 
1861, Mr. Rea enlisted in the first company that 
was raised in Harrison County — Company I, 
Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, it being 
the first company to leave Cadiz. After campaign- 
ing in West Virginia until the fall of 1861, they 
were assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, 
afterward to the Army of the Tennessee. The 
battles in which Mr. Rea participated were Car- 
nifax Ferry, Cotton Mountain, Shiloh, Stone 
River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Dalton, 
Resaca and New Hope Church. He was 
wounded at the battle of New Hope Church and 
sent to field hospital, and after the battle of Kene- 
saw Mountain he was sent to Chattanooga, then 
to Nashville, and finally to Jeffersonville, Ind. 
In September he was discharged from the hos- 
pital, joined his regiment at Pulaski, Tenn., and 
participated in the battles of Franklin and Nash- 



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villc. remaining with the old company until the 
close of the war. His regiment was one of 
those sent to Texas, where it remained until De- 
cember, 1865, when it was discharged, Decem- 
ber 5, at Sau Antoni". Tex., and marched from 
there to Indianola, on Matagorda Bay, and was 
shipped from there by way of the gulf to New 
Orleans, thence by steamboat to Cairo, 111., and 
from there by rail to Columbus, where our 
subject arrived in January, 1866, concluding a 
service of four years and eight months, a record 
rarely equaled. 




RS. RACHEL COLLINS, of Moore- 
field Township, Harrison Countj . is a 
daughter of Henry and Maria (Fur- 
nice) Willoughby, the former of whom, 
a native of England, was born in 1800. a son of 
William Willoughby. Henry Willoughby, at 
the age of fourteen years, ran away from home 
and came to America, enlisted in the army of 
the United States, and served in the latter part 
of the War of 1812, continuing his service in 
the regular army for seven years, six months and 
eighteen days. After he left the service he made 
two visits to England. He was the father of ten 
children, named Thomas, William, Elizabeth, 
Sarah A. (deceased); Mary A. Davis, residing in 
Morrow County, Ohio; John, in Kansas; Susan 
Davis, in Knox County, Ohio; Samuel, in Free 
port Township, Harrison Co., Ohio: Henry, in 
Kansas, and Rachel, our subject. Mr. Will 
oughby settled in Knox County, Ohio, where 
he remained till his death in 1882. He was a 
life long member of the Church of England, 
and his wife was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

Mrs. Rachel Collins was born in Knox 
County. Ohio, October 14, 1831, but soon after 
her birth her parents removed to Morrow 
County, Ohio, where she received a common- 
school education. On August 16, 1849, she was 
married to Zachariah Collins, who was born 
April 7. 1828, a son of George and Eliza 
(Johnson) Collins, natives of Maryland, and by 



this anion there were six children, as follows: 
George H. a merchant in Piedmont, Ohio; 

Nicholas B.. attorney at law, residing in Pied- 
mont, Ohio; Elizabeth, deceased: Annie I'.. Rej 
nolds, in Sewellsville. Belmont Co.. Ohio; Parley 
A. Mead, in Flushing, Belmont Co., Ohio, and 
William, who resides at home. The father of 
Zachariah Collins migrated to Ohio in L831, 
and settled in Moorefield Township, on the farm 
now owned by James Wilson. He was the 
father of fourteen children, by name Elizabeth. 
Israel. William. Amanda, Mary, Zachariah, 
Catharine, George I'.. Nicholas, Battelle, John 
W., Cyrena, Eliza and Thomas L. In 1850 
Zachariah Collins purchased three acres of land 
where our subject now resides, and afterward 
added until the farm now contains 130 acres. 
In 1879 he erected the tine residence where his 
widow now lives. He departed this life Novem- 
ber 12, 1884, a member of the Protestant 
Methodist Church. Mis. Collins is a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their son, 
William, who resides with his mother, was born 
March 1, 18">8. He attended the Hupedale 
College and also the Ada College, where he 
received a practical business education. In 
July, 1883, he married Miss Nancy Whitehead, 
of Indiana. To this union were burn two sons: 
Arthur D., June 23, 1884, and Ernest W.. Jan- 
uary 3, 1888. 'The mother of these buys 
departed this life April 18, 1889. 



* 



MRS. MART I>1 N'LAP, a highly respect 
ed resident of Nottingham Township. 
Harrison County, is a daughter of 
Joseph and Jane (McCono ell) Rea, and 
born in Green Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, December 1 1. 1821. Her father moved 
with his family to Moorefield Township, in 
April, 1S24. thence, a few years thereafter, to 
Cadiz Township. On October 22, 1844, -he 
was married to Samuel Duulap. a native of 
Alliens Township, Harrison County, burn May 
20, L820, b bod of Joseph and Sarah (Gilmer) 
Dunlap. [Fuller details of Mrs. Mary Duulap' s 



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family record will be found in the sketches of 
A. J. Rea and Adam Dunlap, elsewhere in this 
volume.] In 1849 Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap pur- 
chased the farm on which Mrs. Dunlap resides 
at the present time, and which comprised 160 
acres; in addition to this Mr. Dunlap also 
bought forty-five acres in Moorefield Township 
and ninety -five acres in Athens Township, ad- 
joining. This land was under the careful care 
of Mr. Dunlap until his death, which occurred 
October 19, 1889, since when Mrs. Dunlap has 
successfully managed the estate. The children 
born to Samuel and Mary Dunlap are as follows: 
Martha J. McKibben, of Moorefield Township, 
Harrison County; Sarah Dickerson, of Athens 
Township; Mary H. Dunlap, also of Athens 
Township; and Clara B., who makes her home 
with her mother. In politics Samuel Dunlap 
was a Democrat. He was well known to and 
highly esteemed by the entire community, and 
his death was regarded as bringing a great loss. 
Mrs. Dunlap and her daughter, Clara B., are 
members of the Nottingham Presbyterian 
Church, and none are more respected by the 
community in which they live than they. 




ORRISON NICHOL GIFFIN, one of 

the best known farmers of Short Creek 
Township, Harrison County, was born 
in Belmont County, Ohio, April 5, 1839. 
His father, John Giffin, was a native of Brooke 
Count}', W. Ya. , and was a son of John Giffin, 
who was born in Scotland, but who, when an 
infant, was brought to America by his parents, 
who settled in West Virginia. The grandfather 
married Elizabeth Morrison, and in 1827 came 
to Belmont County, Ohio, settling on a farm 
two and one-half miles northeast of St. Clairs- 
ville, where he died in 1855, at the age of 
seventy-five years, having lost his wife a few 
years previously. Of the five sons and three 
daughters born to John and Elizabeth (Morri- 
son) Giffin, Elizabeth Denham, of Belmont 
County, is the only one now surviving. 



John Giffin, the father of the subject of this 
sketch, was married in Belmont County, Ohio, 
to Jane Gordon, daughter of James and Martha 
(Nichol) Gordon, who were of Scotch nativity, 
and who died at the age of ninety-three and 
eighty- sis years, respectively. To the union of 
John and Jane (Gordon) Giffin were born twelve 
children, in the following order: John (de 
ceased), James (deceased), Martha (Mrs. James 
Henderson, in Jefferson County), Elizabeth (de- 
ceased), Morrison N., Jane A., Nancy I., William 
G. , Samuel F. (deceased), Mary E. (wife of 
James Hinkle, of Belmont County), Sally N. 
and Emma A. (deceased). The father of this 
family died in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1881, 
at the age of seventy -five years; the mother, 
now at the age of seventy-nine years, and still 
in good health, resides with her son, William 
G., in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, 
and is, as was her husband, a consistent member 
of the United Presbyterian Church. 

Morrison N. Giffin was reared to agricult- 
ure, and at the age of twenty -four commenced 
farming on his own account. In September, 
1874, he married in Belmont County, Miss Lu- 
cinda Neff, a native of that county, of which 
her parents, now both deceased, were early 
settlers. In 1878 Mr. Giffin came to Harrison 
County and settled on his present farm, which 
he had purchased the previous year. This farm 
comprises 190 acres, is well watered and highly 
improved. Mr. Giffin, who is recognized as one 
of the most skillful agriculturists of the county, 
gives much attention to live stock, owning a 
number of National Delaine sheep, of which 
he is a breeder; he has several well-stocked fish- 
ponds, and his barns and other outbuildings are 
commodious and conveniently arranged. To 
the marriage of Morrison N. and Lucinda Giffin 
have been born four children, named Harry E., 
Jennie M., Leslie D. and Alta B. In politics 
Mr. Giffin is a Prohibitionist, but in casting his 
ballot he permits his judgment to guide him 
rather than be influenced by party dictation. 
With his wife he is a member of the United 
Presbyterian Church of Cadiz. Mr. Giffin is a 



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man of sound judgment, and has made bis own 
way through the world. 



D N AVID CHRISTY ranks among the self- 
| made men, and is among the most favor- 
/ ably known of Stock Township, Harrison 
County. He was born in Nottingham 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, November 12, 
1832, a son of Robert Christy, a native of Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, and born in 1799. The grand- 
father of our subject, also named Robert, was a 
native of Scotland, and possessed of all the 
shrewdness for which that people are so well 
known, and which has descended in a large de- 
gree upon his grandson David. During their 
younger clays Robert and his brother determined 
to come to America; so, after finishing their 
trades (Robert being a builder and his brother 
a ship carpenter) they started for the Mecca of 
all poor but ambitious young men, but soon af- 
ter lauding in New York they were separated, 
and never saw each other again. Soon after his 
arrival in America, which was in 1776, while 
the people were firing their guns and rejoic- 
ing over the independence of the United States, 
Robert Christy married Margaret Marshall, a 
resident of New York, and to this union were 
born the following named children: George 
(who served in the Indian War of 1812), Will- 
iam, Robert, David (who was an advocate and 
lecturer for the colonization of the Southern col- 
ored people, also a printer), John (a printer), 
Sarah, Nancy and Margaret. In the early part 
of the present century the family came to Ohio, 
and settled on a farm in Jefferson County, which 
Mr. Christy conducted in con junction with his 
traile, and on which he resided for many years. 
During the Indian invasion of Ohio, Mr. Christy 
eulisted in the defense of the frontier against 
the savage foe, and served until peace was de- 
clared. Later ou, he became prominent in the 
settlement of Archer Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, and was a resident of that township at the 
time of his death, which occurred in 1830, when 
he was (so it is thought) ninety-eight years old. 



In politics he was a Whig, and always took a 
deep interest in the development of his adopted 
country. 

Robert Christy, son of the above and father 
of David Christy, our subject, was reared a 
farmer and was educated at the subscription 
schools of his day, but his attendance at these 
was limited to three months in the year, and 
very few years at that. In 1 S3 1 he married 
Jane M. McCleary, born in 1812, daughter of 
Andrew McCleary, of Jefferson County, where 
he died of cold plague in 1812. One brother of 
Mrs. Jane M. Christy, James McCleary, born in 
1809, is yet living. Soon after marriage Mr. 
Christy settled in Nottingham Township, Harri- 
son Co., Ohio, where he resided until his death. 
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Christy were 
as follows: David; Elizabeth, Mrs. John R. 
Hines, mother of the present recorder of Har- 
rison County; Margaret, deceased; James, de- 
ceased; Sarah A., Mis. Meredith Barrett; 
George, who enlisted in the Ninety- eighth O. 
V. I., was wounded while in the gunboat 
service, having his left thumb shot, off by a 
shell thrown by the rebels (be served twenty 
eight months); Jane Anne, who was a school 
teacher, but is now deceased; Mary, Mrs. George 
Garner; Lydia C, Mrs. Elias Hinds; and Jo- 
anna Matilda, Mrs. Pickney Moore. Mr. 
Christy was a self-made man, having com- 
menced life with no aid, but made a success. 
He was a Whig in politics, and in religion he 
affiliated with the United Presbyterian Church. 
On October 9, 1853, Robert Christy passed from 
earth, and his remains were laid to rest amid 
the scenes of his early youth. His widow, on 
December 28, 1890, reached the advanced age 
of seventy eight years, and she at present re- 
sides with her daughter, Mrs. Pickney Moore. 
George, a brother of Robert, was eighty lour 
years old when he died: a sister, Sarah, was 
eighty-three, and another sister. Nancy, was 
over eighty when she died. 

David Christy, the subject proper of this 
sketch, passed his boyhood life in Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County, and was initiated 



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into the mysteries of farming. At an early age 
his penchant for trading made itself manifest, 
and this was gratified by his parents. From 
boyhood he has engaged in buying all kinds of 
stock and selling in the eastern markets. In 
this traffic the inherent shrewdness of his Scotch 
ancestry displayed itself, and he soon became 
one of the most successful dealers in his section. 
He still carries on the trade, and conducts a 
farm of 350 acres, situated in Stock Township, 
about two miles east of Deersville, Franklin 
Township, Harrison County. Here the improve- 
ments were all made by himself, and consist of 
a large, well-finished dwelling, and a finely ar- 
ranged stock barn. On April 7, 1864, Mr. 
Christy married Miss Elizabeth Spiker, daugh- 
ter of Christopher Spiker: this union has not 
been blessed by the birth of children, their home, 
however, is made bright and happy by the pres- 
ence of E. C. Christy and two nieces, Lizzie 
Hines and Bertha J. Christy, who have every 
comfort they can desire. Mr. and Mrs. Christy 
reared Elmer C. Christy, who remained with 
them till he was twenty years old when he mar- 
ried Miss Laura B. Hines, who died one year 
later; E. C. Christy then returned home and 
lived there three years, when he married Miss 
Nettie Spiker; they still live on the farm. 



ip^ EORGE SHIVERS, one of the represent- 
_ atives of the earliest settlers of Harri- 
\*A son County, was born November 24, 1826, 
^ in Cadiz Township. His paternal an- 
cestors were Germans, while his maternal an- 
cestors were Scotch. His grandfather, Shivers, 
came from Middletown, Penn., to Harrison 
County, Ohio, over a century ago, and entered 
a farm in Nottingham Township. After a life of 
unremitting toil he died on the farm which was 
the scene of so many hardships and pleasures. 
He was the father of eight children, all of whom 
are now dead, and he and wife now sleep in one 
of the cemeteries of Cadiz Township. Mr. Shiv- 
ers' maternal grandparents came from Scotland 



at a very early date, and settled in Maryland, 
where they reared a family of nine children. In 
1790 they came to Harrison County, and en- 
tered 160 acres of land in Stock Township, 
where they remained until death. He and wife 
were both buried on the farm which they worked 
so hard to reclaim. 

John Shivers, father of the subject of our 
sketch, was born in Pennsylvania, and remained 
at home until the age of twenty-two, when he 
was married to Elizabeth Moore, daughter of 
M'illiam Moore. After marriage they settled 
in Cadiz Township. Eleven children were born 
to them, one dying in infancy. In politics Mr. 
Shivers was a Democrat. He was one of the 
hard-working men of his section, and won and 
retained the respect of all. At his death he 
was mourned by all who knew him. 

George Shivers remained at home until the 
age of ten years, when, seeing his father with 
great difficulty maintained his large family, he 
determined to make a living for himself, and en- 
gaged to work for a small sum for one of the 
neighboring farmers. By his courage and in- 
dustry he succeeded in the undertaking, and the 
various vicissitudes he has undergone have 
tended to make him the self-reliant and inde- 
pendent man which he now is. Mr. Shivers 
received his education at a "rate" school in 
Cadiz Township, where he imbibed such rudi- 
ments as have stood him, in good stead since. 
On March 4, 1852, he was married to Mary 
Ann, daughter of John and Eleanor (Haver- 
field) Blair. About 1850 he commenced work- 
ing at the carpenter's trade, which he followed 
about eight years. He then came to Archer 
Township and purchased the farm on which he 
now resides. Nine children were the result of 
his marriage: Amanda, John F., James, Will- 
iam, Mattie, Alexander, La Fayette, Mary and 
Anna. Politically Mr. Shivers differs from his 
ancestry, who were, without exception, Demo- 
crats. He has been a school director for three 
years, and has declined re-election. Mr. Shiv- 
ers is a self-made man, having, by hard work, 
industry, and good management, amassed valua- 



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bio property. He is held in high esteem by bis 
neighbors and fellow-citizens. 




i, ICHARD PHILLIPS was born August 
14, 1832, in Washington Township, Har- 
rison County, where he grew to man- 
hood and received the education af- 
forded by the common schools. This he sup 
plemented by a course of study at Hopedale 
Normal School, where he fitted himself for 
teaching, teaching his first school in Marion 
County, Iowa, in 1850, a profession which he 
followed for many years in Tuscarawas, Guern- 
sey and Harrison Counties, meeting with un- 
varying success. October 1, 1802, he was mar 
ried to Sarah Jane Jenkins, of West Chester, 
Tuscarawas County, who bore him two children: 
Ella J. and Belle. She lived until June 10, 
1878, and September 18, 1879, Mr. Phillips was 
wed to Nancy Carruthers, of Harrison County, 
who lived until April 10, 1888. 

Mr. Phillips is one of the enterprising and 
intelligent men of his section, and has always 
taken an active and leading part in the educa- 
tional and political movements in his locality. 
In his political sentiments he is a Democrat, 
and has ever taken an active part in the vari- 
ous canvasses and conventions of his section. In 
1804 he was a candidate for county surveyor, run- 
ning ahead of the ticket, and in 1889 he was nom- 
inated as representative of his county in the Leg- 
islature, but owing to his county being an over- 
whelmingly Republican one, he was not elected, 
although he ran over 200 votes ahead of his 
ticket. In his township he has held various 
offices, including school board clerk, and others 
of minor importance. Mi* Phillips is a Univer- 
salist, and is exceedingly liberal in religious mat- 
ters. He believes in a good God or no God. 

The Phillips family originally came from 
England to this country about the commence- 
ment of the War of the Revolution and made 
their home in Pennsylvania. Richard Phillips, 
grandfather of Richard, the subject proper of 
this sketch, came to Ohio in 1803, resided in 



Jeffers.n, County until 1813, and then settled in 
Washington Township. Harrison County, where 
he purchased and improved a large tract of 
land. In his early manhood lie had married 
Comfort Davidson, who bore him the following 
children: Joseph, John, Margaret, Hannah, 
Lewis and Eleanor Ann. He was 'an enthusi- 
astic Democrat in politics, and was many times 
elected by his party to positions of honor and 
trust in his township. With his family he was 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and always cheerfully gave pecuniary and other 

aid toward its support. His wife died in IS:;.".; 

he in December, 1856, aged eighty-four, After 
the death of his wife he left the Methodist Epis 
copal Church and held more liberal views. 

John Phillips, father of Richard Phillips, 
was born near Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio. 
December 19, 1804, removing with his parents 
to Washington Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
in 1815, where he resided until his death. July 
1, 1880. His wife, Eleanor Johnson was born 
in Wheeling, W.Va., September 5, 1M »1, her par- 
ents moving the next spring to near Tippecanoe, 
Ohio, and in the fall of 1831 she was married to 
John Phillips. 

Mrs. Eleanor Phillips was of a real pioneer 
family, which had always followed the frontier. 
Her grandfather, .lames Johnson, was once 
captured by the Indians some time previous to 
1800. In the month of June he with two of 
his neighbors (Mclntyre and Layporte) crossed 
the Ohio River from Virginia, and camped on 
a creek now called Mclntire, in Jefferson Conn 
ty, where they were surprised by a part] of 
Indians. Mclntire and Layporte were both 
killed, and Johnson was taken prisoner to San 
dusky and kept there until the fall, when, by the 
assistance of some English traders, he wa 
leased and wandered his wav back home to his 
family in safety, and died at the good old age 
of one hundred and four. He was the father 
of those two boys, Henry and John, who at the 
ages of eleven and nine, while gathering nuts 
in the Mingo bottoms, were captured by two 
Indians and wandered about with them all day 



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but made their escape at night by killing their 
captors. 

James Johnson had a large family. His 
son, Griffin, father of Eleanor, had twelve chil- 
dren of whom seven are yet alive. Of the five 
who died all were over seventy except one; 
of the seven living are all past seventy except 
two. They all emigrated West except Eleanor, 
Jemima and Nancy. Nancy and her husband, 
Zera Davidson, reside in Washington Township; 
Jemima, the wife of Joseph Phillips, died in 
1888, aged seventy. eight years. 



II ll VILLI AM REYNARD, one of the enter- 
Y/\\// prising and successful farmers of Frank- 
Ml V( lin Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, was 
born August 14, 1842, in the township 
named. His father, John Reynard, was born in 
Yorkshire, England, in 1806, and was a son of 
Marmaduke Reynard, who was also a native of 
England, where he was married to Mary Shaw, 
a native of Scotland. Their children were John, 
William, Marmaduke, James, Thomas, Joseph. 
Mary and Hannah. In 1S17 Marmaduke Rey- 
nard came to America from Yorkshire, England, 
and, proceeding immediately to Ohio, settled in 
Jefferson County, where he remained until his 
death. He was a Whig in politics, and in 
religion was a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. 

The early life of John Reynard was spent in 
England, where he remained until eleven years 
of age, when his parents came to America. His 
education was received in the schools of his 
native land, and also at the schools of Jefferson 
County, Ohio. Reaching maturity he came to 
Harrison County, and was married to Julia Pittis, 
daughter of John and Mary Pittis. She was 
born in 1817 on the Isle of Wight, England. 
The young couple located in Franklin Township, 
where they remained one year, when they re- 
moved to Meigs County, Ohio, where they pur- 
chased a farm of 320 acres of entirely wild land. 
Erecting their log cabin, they commenced the 
life of the pioneer, surrounded by the woods, 



which were teeming with game of all kinds, and 
also with such animals as wolves, bears, panthers 
and deer. For seven years they remained there 
and then removed to Jefferson County, Ohio, 
but finally settled in Franklin Township, Harri- 
son County, where they remained until the death 
of Mr. Reynard, which occurred February 4, 
1804. His widow now resides in Kansas with 
her daughter, Mrs. Marion Hefling, near Ottawa, 
Franklin County. Mr. Reynard was first a 
Whig, then a Republican, and he and his family 
were members of the Presbyterian Church. His 
children were named William; Marmaduke; 
Mary D., Mrs. Oeorge Moore; Jane, Mrs. Wes- 
ley Cox; Alice E., Mrs. Marion Hefling; Julia 
.Tom -phine (deceased); John W. ; Hannah, Mrs. 
Worthington McFadden; Nancy T L. , Mrs. John 
M. Smylie, and Thomas deceased. 

William Reynard, at the age of four years, 
moved to Meigs County, Ohio, with his parents, 
where they resided seven years, then returned to 
Little York, Jefferson Co. , Ohio. Staying there 
one year, they purchased a farm in Franklin 
Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, where they finally 
settled. In the summer of 1864 Mr. Reynard 
became a member of the One Hundred and 
Seventieth Regiment, Company D, O. V. I., 
being called out for the space of 100 days, but 
it was nearly- 150 days before they returned. 

William Reynard was married, December 
27, 18(56, to Margaret J., daughter of Robert 
Walker. Robert Walker was born in Ireland, 
and at the age of seventeen came to America 
and settled in Washington County, Penn., 
where he was engaged in farming. At the age 
of twenty-five he was married to Jane McCul- 
lough, of Washington County, Penn., whose 
parents were natives of Ireland and Scotland. 
In 1S:{7 Mr. and Mrs. Walker came to Ohio and 
settled in Washington Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, where Mr. Walker died December 3, 1859. 
Subsequently Mrs. Walker was married to Asa 
Miller. She died March 9, 1880, in Tippeca- 
noe, Harrison Co., Ohio. In politics Mr. 
Walker was a Democrat, and he and family 
were members of the Methodist Episcopal 



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Church at Tippecanoe. The children born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Walker were as follows: James 
A., Charles M., David P., John W., Margaret 
J. (Mrs. William Reynard), Mary E. (de- 
ceased), William N. and Robert A. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Reynard 
purchased the farm on which they now reside, 
but went largely in debt for it, yet by steady 
application and economy, and good manage- 
ment, they have paid for it and increased the 
original farm to 225 acres, which they have 
largely improved. In politics Mr. Reynard has 
always identified himself with the Republican 
party, and has served in various township offices, 
in which he has always given complete satis 
faction. He takes a leading part in the educa- 
tional matters of his township, and has for sev- 
eral years served as a member of the township 
board of education. A Presbyterian in church 
matters, he has taken an active interest in all 
church work, holding the positions of elder, 
treasurer, and, for the past twelve years, super- 
intendent of the Sabbath- school. His family 
are as follows: Mary D. (Mrs. John L. Clark), 
Horace W., Robert W. and Evalena. 



||OSHUA P. WHITE, one of the repre- 

k I sentatives of the early settlers of Franklin 
\j) Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, was born 
here November 15, 1840. His father, Jo- 
seph White, was born in Maryland, September 
L2, 1798. His father, Joseph White, was a 
private soldier serving in the Revolutionary 
War. He (Joseph White, Sr.) was married to 
Mary Fulton, and they resided in Frederick 
County, Md., until about 1818. They were of 
Scotch and Irish descent, and became the par- 
ents of the following named children: Catharine, 
Williain (deceased), Joseph and Charles. 

Soon after the death of her husband in Mary- 
land, Mary White (widow of the soldier) came 
with her three children and settled in Harrison 
County, Ohio. Joseph White, her son, was 
married April 12, 1828, to Hannah, daughter of 
Joseph and Pamalah Rodgers, who also came 



from Maryland, and was of English descent. 
After their marriage they settled on a small 
tract of land in Nottingham Township, Harrison 
County, where they lived for a few years, when 
they sold out and purchased a part of the farm 
at present occupied by his son, -Joshua P. White. 
Joseph's mother, Mary White, made her home 
with him the most of the time until her death, 
which took place February 20, 1856. She drew 
a pension a few years before her death. On 
account of her family record being lost, her ex- 
act age was not known, but she was supposed 
to be about one hundred years old at her death. 
At the time of the settlement of the White 
family in Franklin Township, the land was in 
its primeval state, and the woods were filled 
with game of various kinds. Building their log 
cabin, with its small windows and rudely con- 
structed doors, they took possession of their 
new home, and commenced to render the place 
habitable and profitable. There they lived and 
toiled, that succeeding generations might reap 
the benefits. After many years of unremitting 
toil and economical living, they were enabled 
to build a more comfortable dwelling, with out- 
buildings of various kinds for the accommoda- 
tion of their stock and produce. To Joseph 
White and wife were born the following named 
children: Jackson R., William P., Pamalah 
(deceased), Joseph T. (deceased). Benjamin F., 
Warner R., Mary Ann, Joshua P., Charles \Y. 
(deceased) and Hannah E., four of whom were 
soldiers in the late Rebellion. 

Joseph White was a Whig, politically, and 
also a Republican. He served his township in 
various capacities, and was one of its enterpris- 
ing and energetic citizens. He was one of the 
founders of the Methodist Episcopal society at 
Mount Zion appointment, and was class leader 
in the society for nearly one-half a century, and 
previous to the building of the church services 
were held in his house. While a man who had 
only the advantages of the common schools. still 
he was of exceedingly strong and well balanced 
mind. September 29, L877, Mr. White died, 
and was laid to rest by the side of his wife, in 



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the cemetery at Feed Springs, she Laving died 
May 17, 1866. 

During his minority, Joshua P. White was 
employed in the duties of the farm, and also in 
attending the common schools, where he laid the 
foundation of his present education. November 
7, 1861, he enlisted with the Forty-third O. V. I., 
Company C, as a private soldier, was sent to the 
Army of the Cumberland, and shared the fortune 
of his regiment until he was taken sick in 
camp on Big Bear Creek, near Iuka, Miss., some 
time in the month of September, 1862, when he 
was sent to the general hospital at Jackson, 
Tenn., where he remained in quite feeble 
health until discharged by surgeon's certificate 
of disability November 14, 1862. He then 
returned home, and, owing to delicate health, 
he was unable to do anything of importance 
until the fall of 1863, when he went to In- 
diana to take charge of a flock of sheep for 
Richard Gregg, then a prominent lawyer of 
Lawrenceburg, Dearborn Co., Ind. He re- 
mained with Mr. Gregg for two years, when, 
by request of his mother, he returned home just 
in time to administer to her last wants. In the 
spring of 1869 he went to Kansas to look after 
the title of some laud owned by his father; 
soon after he returned to Christian County, 111., 
where he purchased a small farm on Buckeye 
Prairie, and on September 29, 1870, was married 
to Agnes C, daughter of William and Mary M. 
Glandou, who were also early settlers of Harrison 
County, Ohio. Joshua P. White and wife enjoyed 
their home on Buckeye Prairie, 111., until the 
death of his younger brother, Charles, March 3, 
1874, made it necessary for him to return home 
and take care of his father in his declining years. 
After three years and over of feeble health his 
father died, and Joshua was appointed executor 
of his will, and through the solicitations of 
the other heirs he purchased the home farm, 
where he and wife and family of seven children 
now reside. Mr. White has always supported 
the Republican party, and has taken an active 
part in the advancement of its interests. His 
children are named Charley Elmer, Lura Grace, 



Sue Ann, Joseph Ross, Harry Semmons, Bertha 
Olive and Leotis A., all living and enjoying the 
hospitalities of the parental roof. Mr. White 
and family indorse the religion of his parents, 
and are consistent members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He is at present engaged in 
general farming and stock-raising on his place 
about two and one-half miles west of Franklin. 
He and family have ever been identified with the 
leading people of their section, and deservedly 
merit the respect they command. 




ALTER CRAIG. As an example of 
what may be accomplished by tireless 
M[ energy, coupled with good judgment, 
the record of Walter Craig, of Green 
Township, Harrison County, is probably without 
an equal in the county, and, although now a 
man past the seven decades of life's allotted 
time, he is still to be found in the army of busy 
toilers, daily overseeing the multitudinous af- 
fairs of his extensive business; aiming not only 
to benefit himself, but to advance and beautify 
his township and county; and long after his busy 
brain shall have ceased to plan, and his willing 
hands to execute, his name will be remembered 
as a synonym of success in life. 

Mr. Craig was born in Green Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, July 4, 1819. His an- 
cestors were originally Scottish Covenanters, 
who, owing to the persecution of that sect un- 
der King James, left their native land, and 
sought, with many others, safety in Ireland. 
This couple had three children, one of whom, 
by name Walter Craig, by occupation a weaver, 
married Jane McCleon. In 1791 Walter Craig 
and family came to America and settled at \\\-st 
Middletown, Penn. Their children were named 
as follows: David, Thomas, Ann, Beckie, Will- 
iam, John, Walter, Jane and Susan. Of the.-o 
children John, born August 1, 1775 (who after- 
ward became the father of our subject), was 
some sixteen years of age when he came with 
his parents to America. He grew to manhood in 
Pennsylvania, and married Elizabeth Johnson, 




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who was born on June '23, 1781. They made 
their home at Hardscrabble (now West Alexan- 
dria), that State, until October, 1803, when they 
came to Green Township, Harrison County, 
(then Jefferson), and, settling on the farm now 
owned by Mrs. Col. Welch, built part of the 
house in August, 1803, which still stands on the 
place. He had entered a section of land at $2 
per acre, and here they spent the remainder of 
their lives and reared their family, and here it 
was that the subject of this sketch was born. 
On August 22, 1825, John Craig died, aged 
fifty years. He had ever been an active man, 
and succeeded in increasing his original farm 
to a large tract. Politically he was a Whig, and 
served as county commissioner. His widow 
survived until February 28, 1804, when, at the 
age of eighty-three years, she followed him to 
the grave. She was the mother of the follow- 
ing named children: Jane, born June 14, 1802, 
was married to Joshua Hamilton, and died in 
1890, aged eighty-seven years; Johnson, born 
December 19, 1803, and died July 14, ISSN, in 
Harrison County, at the age of eighty-four 
years; Rachel, born September 16, 1805, died 
August 22, 1825, aged twenty years; Polly, born 
July 16, 1808, married Nathaniel Gilmore, of 
Pord County, 111., and is now deceased; Ann, 
born February 22, 1811, married James Tag- 
gart, and died February 27, 1887; Rebecca, 
born July 27, 1813, married Andrew Patterson, 
of Pickaway County, Ohio, and is now deceased; 
William, born March 15, 1810, luided in Ful- 
ton County, 111., and died February 8, 1872; 
Walter (our subject); John, born July 31, 
L822, and died September 16, 1825, at the age 
of three years. The life of the father and 
mother had been full of the dangers incident to 
the early settlement of a wooded country, where 
not only the wild beasts threatened the settler, 
luit the prowling, uncivilized Indian made ex- 
istence a constant vigil. John Craig, aside 
from his farming, used, in the early days, to go 
with produce to New Orleans, proceeding thither 
by river, and returning overland. At this time 
the route was infested by robbers, one of whom, 



named Mason, was especially daring, and it re- 
quired both dispatch and skill to avoid him and 
return with the money obtained for the pi 
ions; and this Mr. Craig succeeded in doing, 
which was thought to have shortened his days. 

Walter Craig, our subject, grew to manhood 
on his native farm. The old-time subscription 
schools, with their meager instruction, furnished 
his education, and, as soon as his strength would 
allow, he began to bear his portion of the farm 
duties. In 1844 he was married to Miss .lane 
Moore, of Green Township, and daught. 
William and Sarah Moore, who had come to 
Harrison County the same year the Craig family 
came. Until 1S-MS Walter Craig and his wife 
remained at the old Craig homestead, and then 
erected and moved to his present home, which, 
although much improved and modernized. is the 
same domicile. The children born to their 
union were four in number, and named as fol- 
lows: Sarah Jane, who died at the age of thir- 
teen years; Amanda, the widow of Cassius M. 
Nichols; John, now living in Nebraska, and 
Lizzie, married to W. H. Oglevee, of Illinois. 
In 1859, at the age of thirty-five, the mother 
of these children died, and in 1800 Mr. Craig 
married Hannah Henderson, who lived until 
1879, when she died, leaving one child, a son. 
named William; another son had been born, bat 
died in infancy. before the mother; also a daugh- 
ter named Nannie, who died when one year old. 

Mr. Craig owns about 900 acres of land in 
Harrison County, which is widely known as 
the Walnut Grove Stock Farm, it being de- 
voted to the breeding and raising of fine horses, 
for both draft and speed; and now in his pos 
session Mr. Craig has some of the finest horses 
in Harrison County, some of them inheriting 
thirty seven and a half per cent of the blood of 
Axtell. Harrison County had long been need- 
ing suitable grounds for the holding of its an- 
nual fairs, the old grounds being too limited in 
extent and too deficient in buildings. Mr. 
Craig's active brain foresaw a way to benefit 
both the county and himself, and he began pre- 
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one mile from Cadiz, which have resulted in 
giving Harrison County one of the finest en- 
closures for such purposes in the State. The 
half-mile track thereon is of mathematical ex- 
actness and artistic finish, while the numerous 
and excellent stables invite horsemen from far 
and near to send their horses to the Walnut 
Grove track for training, the excellent water 
and good climate insuring the greatest devel- 
opment of speed. The buildings are commo- 
dious and modern, and. all in all, the ground 
is a credit to the county, and the people thereof 
unite in praise for the maker, a man who, while 
living on ' ' borrowed time, ' ' had still the mind 
and energy to plan and complete a task so ar- 
duous, and the liberality to expend for his 
county and posterity thousands of dollars which 
he could never expect to regain during his re- 
maining years. Now, in partnership with his 
son William, his business is conducted under 
the name of Craig & Son. Politically, Mr. 
Craig is a Republican, and, while not a strict 
partisan, yet generally adheres to the principles 
of his party. He has held in his county the 
office of commissioner one term, which office he 
filled simply from a sense of public duty, not 
from desire. He is a man of progressive and 
liberal ideas, and it is needless to state that his 
friends are innumerable. 



EORGE M. PATTON. The Patton 
family, of which our subject is the only 
representative in Harrison County, is one 
ranking high, in intelligence, thrift and 
progressiveness. The family originated in the 
"Emerald Isle," from whose green shores so 
many of America's best citizens have come. 
Samuel Patton, the grandfather o& George 
M. Patton, was by birth a Scotch-Irishman, 
by occupation a sea-trader, being owner in part 
of a vessel which traded between Dublin and 
New York. In early manhood he became a cit- 
izen of the United States, and received a certifi- 
cate of citizenship signed by President Wash- 
ington. He invested his money in flax-seed, 



and sailed for Ireland, but the vessel was 
wrecked on the coast of Ireland in the year 
1798. Both the vessel and cargo were lost, 
but Samuel saved his life by swimming to shore. 
He remaiued a few years in County Down, Ire- 
land, where he married a Scotch girl, Jane 
Friar. On May 3, 1803, he and his family 
sailed for America. They landed at Phila- 
delphia on August 1, being almost three months 
on the water, during which time many of the 
passengers died of small-pox. They at once 
proceeded to Wheeling, W. Va., where they re- 
mained during the winter. In the spring of 
1804 they moved to their farm in Belmont 
County, Ohio, near the junction of Wheeling 
and Crab Apple Creeks, then an almost unbroken 
wilderness. They were the parents of three 
children: James, William and John. James 
died in infancy in Ireland, John died in the 
seventeenth year of his age, while attending col- 
lege in Cambridge, Ohio, in preparation for the 
gospel ministry. 

William Patton, the father of the subject of 
these lines, was born in Ireland and was yet a 
young lad when he came with his parents to 
Ohio, where, experiencing the hardships and 
privations of the pioneer days, he grew to man- 
hood, a farmer on the old homestead. His ad- 
vantages for acquiring an education were of 
necessity very limited, but nature had done 
much for him, by giving him an active brain, 
which made the most of every circumstance. 
Throughout his entire life, every social, polit- 
ical or moral question that came to him he sub- 
mitted to the crucial test of reason, and it mat- 
tered not whether his decision placed him with 
the majority or with the minority, he hesitated 
not to fearlessly declare what his conscience 
told him was right. He took a marked interest 
in the politics of his day, believing that the 
progress of a people depends upon political 
status, and he never failed to do his duty at the 
polls until it was declared that, since he had 
been born in Ireland (even though at the time his 
father was a naturalized American citizen), he 
could not exercise the right of franchise without 



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himself being naturalized. At this time the curse 
of African slavery still stained the fair name of 
America; and the deplorable condition of the 
poor serf touched a sympathetic chord in the 
heart of Mr. Patton, who, since he had been 
debarred from the rights of a citizen, refused to 
take the oath of allegiance, while the so-called 
*' land of the free " tolerated slaver}'; but when 
the war-cloud had gathered and burst, and Lin- 
coln's emancipation proclamation had gone 
forth, he at once took the prescribed oath, and 
identified himself with the Republican party, 
remaining in its ranks until his death, which oc- 
curred in 1874. 

For a life partner Mr. Patton had chosen 
Miss Anna, a daughter of Alexander Clark, of 
Belmont County, Ohio, and she survived him 
until 1885. They were both members of the 
United Presbyterian Church. She was the 
mother of twelve children, named as follows: 
Samuel (deceased), who was pastor of the United 
Presbyterian Church at Detroit, Mich.; Mar- 
garet, wife of Rev. J. P. Robb, of Iberia, Mor- 
row Co., Ohio; John, a resident of Arkansas City, 
Kas. ; Ellen, wife of Rev. Josiah Stephenson, in 
Olathe, Kas.; Alexander O, at Springfield, 
Ohio; Carrie, deceased wife of Addison Lyle, 
of Pittsburgh, Penn. ; James B., in Shepherds- 
town, Belmont Co., Ohio; George M., our sub- 
ject; Calvin \V., in St. Clairsville, Ohio; Will- 
iam L., in Fairpoint, Belmont Co., Ohio.; 
Sylvauus (deceased), and Thomas L. , also in 
Fairpoint, Belmont Co., Ohio. 

George M. Patton. born April 9, 1844, re- 
mained at the home of his parents, sharing in 
the general duties of the farm, and receiving 
the advantages of the common schools until 
August 5, 1862, when but a boy of eighteen he 
enlisted in Company B, Ninety-eighth, O. V. I., 
and went to the service of his country. He 
participated in the various battles and skirmishes 
of his regiment, and at Perryville, Ky. , he was 
wounded in the right shoulder, which necessi- 
tated his being sent back to New Albany, I ml., 
the journey of eighty miles being made in a 
wagon in one day. Three months later ho re- 



turned to the ranks and fought under Steedman 
in the battle of Chickamauga, under Sherman 
at Mission Ridge, and followed the flag of Sher- 
man through the Atlanta campaign, the march 
to the sea, and up through the Carolinas to 
Richmond. At the battle of Atlanta he was 
wounded in the thigh and carried to the hos- 
pital in the city, where he remained until the 
city was burned and Sherman had started on 
his famous march. Previous to this time all 
the wounded in the hospital had been sent North, 
except Mr. Patton and one Richard Ankrim, of 
Carroll County, Ohio, who were retained to . 
gratify a spirit of revenge entertained by a 
rebel-sympathizing ward master toward these 
boys, for having menacingly displayed a pair of 
crutches while insisting upon their right to have 
their clothing changed at least one-half as often 
as the wounded rebel soldiers, who occupied a 
part of the tent. Mr. Patton and Ankrim 
started on the march to the sea on crutches, but 
completed it by riding in supply wagons and on 
horses and mules picked up along the route. 
On reaching Savannah he rejoined the regiment 
and remained in the ranks until the close of the 
war. when he again resumed the peaceful occu- 
pation of the farm. 

On January 1, 1S<VS, Mr. Patton was mar- 
ried to Miss M. Louise, daughter of Dr. John 
Campbell, of Uniontown, Ohio. Dr. Campbell 
was the sou of James Campbell (a captain in 
the War of 1812), who had come from Wash 
ington County, Penn., to Ohio in 1803, enter 
ing a farm in Belmont County, where Dr. John 
Campbell was born November 21, 1804. He 
received his education at Franklin College, New 
Athens, Ohio, and began the practice of medi- 
cine in Woodstield. Monroe Co., Ohio. On 
March 5, 1828, he removed to Uniontown. Bel- 
mont County. On May 11, 1830, he was united 
in marriage with Miss Jane Irwin, who bore 
him the following named children: Mary. Mar 
garet A., James B., Rachel J.. M. Louise and 
Martha E. Dr. Campbell was for forty-two 
pears a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. 
In political matters he was a Democrat, and in 



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1S40 was nominated by bis party for the Legis- 
lature in opposition to Judge Cowen, but his 
party being in the minority he was defeated. In 
September, 1882, at the home of our subject, 
where he and his wife were then visiting, he 
passed from earth, at the age of seveuty-eight 
years. His faithful wife surrived him until the 
following June, when, at the age of seventy- 
five years, she followed him to the grave. 

In the spring following their marriage, Mr. 
and Mrs. George M. Patton left Belmont County 
and came to their present home in Harrison 
County, situated on the Cadiz and St. Clairs- 
ville road, some two miles distant from New 
Athens. His farm of 100 acres of choice land 
is well improved, and is equipped with modern 
and commodious buildings, all attesting to the 
careful husbandry, good judgment and general 
thrift of their owner. Mr. and Mrs. Patton 
have been blessed with six children, as follows: 
Mary Olive, born January 16, 1S69; Carrie 
Downing, March 20, 1870; Albert Belmont, 
June 8, 1872; Jay B., July 4, 1874; Margaret 
Keoka, October 24, 1876; Clark Campbell, No- 
vember 22, 1883. Politically Mr. Patton is a 
Republican, and in 1886 and 1887 he repre- 
sented his party in the State Legislature. He 
and his wife are members of the United Presby- 
terian Church of Unity, Belmont Co., Ohio. 



JAMES PILLEKS, dealer in lumber, sash 
doors and blinds, etc., at Bowerston, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, is a descendant from an 
early family of this region. About 1819 
Daniel Pillers emigrated with his family from 
Washington County, Penn., to Carroll County, 
Ohio, where they took up a tract of Government 
land and located thereon. Like other pioneers 
they lived in their little log cabin and endured 
all the privations and dangers of those early 
days. Ten children made up this family, and 
the fourth child was a son, Albert, born in 1817, 
before his parents had left Pennsylvania. He 
grew to manhood, and in 1837 he married Sarah 
Buck, a native of Carroll County, Ohio, and 



whose parents, Thomas and Ann Buck, had emi- 
grated from Washington County, Penn., about 
1819. Mr. and Mrs. Pillers began life on a 
very limited capital, and resided in Ohio until 
1857, when they moved to Missouri, where they 
died, Mrs. Pillers January 11, 1872, aged fifty- 
eight years, and Mr. Pillers, January 9, 1877. 

James Pillers. son of Albert and Sarah, and 
of whom this sketch is given, was born in a log 
cabin on his father's farm in Carroll County, 
Ohio, January 13, 1843. When a lad of four 
years his parents removed to Tuscarawas County, 
whpre he resided with them, receiving such edu- 
cational advantages as the early schools afforded, 
until he went with them to Missouri in 1857. 
In 1862 James Pillers enlisted in Company B, 
Sixty-second Regiment, Missouri State Guards, 
and participated in the guerrilla warfare of that 
State until the close of the war, when he was 
honorably discharged. Returning to his home 
he engaged at the carpenter's trade, and fol- 
lowed it until 1869, when, after a short stay in 
Christian County, 111., he returned to his native 
State, where, in 1872, he married Mary Marga- 
ret Tripp, a native of Carroll County, Ohio, and 
a daughter of Joseph and Malinda Tripp, early 
pioneers there. 

In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. Pillers located at 
Bowerston, where he has engaged at his trade, 
has been quite an extensive contractor and 
builder, and has erected some of the principal 
buildings of the place, among which are the 
Methodist Episcopal Church building and the 
Hotel Erie. In 1885 he established his lumber 
yard there, and handles a large line of general 
building supplies. The union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Pillers has been blessed with five children, of 
whom three are living: Lola Dell, William Ed- 
win and Sarali Malinda. Both parents are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which Mr. Pillers is a trustee and steward. He 
is a Republican, politically, and for the past sev- 
eral years has officiated as councilman. He is 
a member, also, of Centennial Lodge, No. 94, 
K. of P. Mr. Pillers began life in very limited 
circumstances, but has the satisfaction of know- 



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ing that his success is due to bis own personal 
efforts and industry. The family is highly es- 
teemed and deservedly so. 



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f ILLIAM A. WELCH was born April 
5, 1835, in Archer Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. His father, John Welch, 
was a native of Ireland, and at a very 
early age accompanied his parents to America. 
They settled in Pennsylvania, where they en- 
gaged in farming until 1S04, when they came 
to Harrison County and entered a tract of land 
now occupied by his grandson, David Welch. 
Here they toiled incessantly, undergoing hard- 
ships of which we know but little, striving in 
various ways and in all sorts of weather to clear 
up their farm and rear their family. Here they 
remained until death called them and they re- 
turned to mother earth. 

John Welch spent his early life in Pennsyl 
vania, but his manhood and later life in Archer 
Township, Harrison County. He married Jane 
McClelland, who became the mother of the fol- 
lowing children: Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Samuel, 
John, Matthew, Jane, James, David and Will- 
iam A. Theirs was a busy life, tilled up with 
hard work and frugality, and care for their 
family. John Welch was an honest man, an 
enterprising citizen and a universal favorite. 
His political convictions coincided with those of 
the Republican party. He was among the 
founders of the Ridge Presbyterian Church, in 
which he was an elder for many years, and in 
that faith he passed away, and was soon fol- 
lowed by his faithful wife. Their remains now 
quietly rest in the cemetery of their church, 
where, "after life's fitful fever they sleep well." 
William A. Welch spent his youth in the 
township were he was born, and where his edu- 
cation was received, which, although of a primi- 
tive character, was thorough, and served as a 
foundation on which to lay his future culture 
and mental discipline. April 7, 1859, he was 
married to Margaret McFaddeu, daughter of 
Robert McFadden, of Harrison County. After 



marriage they settled in Washington Township. 
where they have since lived. The following 
named children have Messed this union: 
Amanda (now Mrs. Frank Forsythe), Sadie A., 
Robert J., William W. and Mary V. In poli- 
tics Mr. Welch still clings to the Republicans, 
the party of his youth, and takes as lively an 
interesi as ever in their welfare. In his town- 
ship he has held various offices, having been 
treasurer for eight consecutive years. Since 
his coming to Washington Township he has 
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, of 
which he and his family are constant attendants 
and sincere workers. He has been class leader 
for several years, and has always given of his 
time and finances liberally to the success of the 
organization. His farm consists of 150 acres, 
about two miles from Tippecanoe, where he car- 
ries on general farming and stock raising. The 
improvements are his own, the buildings being 
exceptionally good and tasty. 




[( MASA PHILLIPS was born September 
i\ 22. 1838, in Washington Township. Har- 
|^ rison Co., Ohio, and is a son of Joseph 
Phillips, who was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, January 14, 1803. At the age 
of twelve years Joseph Phillips came with- his 
parents to Washington Township, where his 
subsequent life was spent. While the educa- 
tional advantages were extremely meager, still 
he succeeded in obtaining a fair education, and 
was, while quite young, employed as teacher in 
his own neighborhood. This he continued for 
several years, meeting with more than ordinal y 
success. His summers he employed in farming 
and clearing his farm, and by so doing was soon 
enabled to abandon his professsion. which was 
slowly undermining his health. May '•». 1833, 
he was married to Jemima Johnson, and im- 
mediately settled on the farm now occupied by 
his son Amasa. Here he reared his family, con- 
sisting of Comfort Ann (Mis. Warner Rogere), 
born August 24, 1834; Sophia, born September 
10, 1836; Amasa, born September 22, 1838; 



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Alnieda, born May 9, 1841, died September 9, 
1844; John, born June 14, 1843; Elihu, born 
September 26, 1846; Margaret, born June 11, 
1849, died April 12, 1878; Joseph, born August 
19, 1851, died December 31, 1875; Jemima, 
born March 23, 1858. Mr. Phillips died April 
19, 1886, and Mrs. Phillips died September 3, 
1888. In politics Mr. Phillips was a Democrat, 
and was widely read on all political and kindred 
subjects. While not an active politician, he was 
always among the counselors and advisers of 
his party. In church matters he was a liberal 
believer, and founded his belief more on reason 
than credulity. Intellectually well developed, 
he exercised a beneficent and extensive influ- 
ence on the educational matters of his section. 
To such meu is due much of the progress of 
which America is so proud, and the loss of such 
as he is ever irretrievable. 

Amasa Phillips received his training, both 
mentally and physically, on the home place. 
From his parents he inherited an investigating 
turn of mind, and has permitted no opportunity 
to gratify his intellectual taste to escape him. 
While his facilities for study have been limited, 
still he has done much toward laying a broad 
and deep foundation upon which he is rearing 
his castle of the mind. June 5, 1862, he was 
married to Elizabeth Hogue, a daughter of Mark 
Hogue, and the children born to this union were 
named George, born December 15, 1863; War- 
ner, born June 15, 1868; Joseph, born May 10, 
1872; Mark, born January 19 : 1876; Elizabeth, 
born May 3, 1880. Mrs. Phillips died May 30, 
1880. Mr. Phillips was next married to Mary 
Ellen Crouch, February 19, 1885, but she died 
August 30, 1885, and May 26. 1886. Mr. Phillips 
was married to Elizabeth, daughter of William 
Mears. Mr. Phillips resides on the home place, 
which consists of 166 acres, about one and one- 
half miles from West Chester, where he carries 
on general farming and stock-raising. For 
many years he has been trustee in his township, 
although his political sentiments are Democratic. 
He has also served for the past fifteen years on 
the school board, and has done much to raise the 



grade of instruction in his district. A repre- 
sentative of a well-known and influential family, 
Mr. Phillips is fully maintaining the high stand- 
ard set by his ancestry. 



Ill JfrATTHEW W. SIMPSON. From the 
ll^^i earliest settlement of Harrison County 
I || the Simpson family have taken an 
■fj active part in the development of the 

section in which they resided. John Simpson 
was a native of Ireland, but was married in 
Washington County, Penn., to Mary McElroy. 
In 1798 he left his native land and came to 
America, reaching Harrison County, Ohio, about 
1800, and leasing a farm near what is now Ca- 
diz, he afterward pre-empted 160 acres in Stock 
Township, which at that time was entirely cov- 
ered with the huge forests that bade defiance 
alike to the elements and to man. As an evi- 
dence of the endurance of our hardy pioneers, 
female as well as male, it may be mentioned 
that Grandmother Simpson rode horsback on 
one occasion from Harrison County, Ohio, to 
Washington County, Penn., and forded three 
rivers, carrying a child on her lap all the way. 
The family was a large one, and all settled 
within the limits of the county. 

His sou, John, was born in 1814 in Stock 
Township, where Mr. Simpson, the father, had 
purchased a residence, and where he remained 
until his death, in 1836. John here grew to 
manhood, and was early initiated into the hard 
work that occupied so much of the time of the 
early settlers. The schools were of the sort 
whose sessions extended over only a short period 
of the winter. In his twenty-sixth year he was 
united in marriage to Margaret Law, a resident 
of Monroe Township, and the children born to 
this union comprise the following: Mary Ann, 
Mrs. Joseph Patterson, in Stock Township; 
Martha, Mrs. Robert Birney (deceased); Mar- 
garet, widow of Frank Welch; Matthew; Will- 
iam, in AVashington Township; Frank, in Stock 
Township, and Ella (deceased). In his youth 
he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 



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;iud was always a worker, both in its moral as 
well as the financial interests. At various times 
he held the offices of that society, whose duties 
he ever discharged conscientiously. While not 
active as a politician, he evinced a strong desire 
for the success of the principles advocated by 
the Republican party, and always cast his in- 
fluence on that side. Financially, he was a self- 
made man. In 1877 he passed away, deeply 
mourned by all. 

Matthew Simpson, son of John and Margaret 
(Law) Simpson, was born August 20, 1846, in 
Stock Township, Harrison County, where nearly 
his whole life was spent until his marriage, which 
occurred September 16, I860. His wife, Re- 
becca Birney, of Tippecanoe, was a daughter 
of John Birney. In March, 1871, they removed 
to their present residence in the eastern part of 
Washington Township. Their farm is one of 
the best located in that section, and is under a 
good state of cultivation and improvement. It 
consists of 240 acres, on which they carry on 
general farming and stock-raising. In 1887 Mr. 
Simpson commenced the construction of his resi- 
dence, which, in many ways, is probably the 
finest in the county. It is situated on a level 
tract of about one hundred acres, and com- 
mands an extensive as well as pleasant view on 
all sides. It was planned entirely by Mr. Simp- 
son, and shows consummate architectural skill 
and excellent taste. It is built entirely of brick, 
in the form of a Greek cross, with large bow 
windows extending to the roof. It is two sto- 
ries in height, and is crowned with a magnifi- 
cent slate roof, on which appear the initials of 
the owner. The inside is all that a connoisseur 
could ask. The rooms are finished in native 
woods — chestnut, black walnut and oak. The 
stairway is a marvel of beauty, and was con- 
structed by one of the best builders of Ohio. 
The walls are in hard finish, delicately tinted to 
correspond with the prevailing hues of each 
room. Mr. Simpson's children were as follows: 
Nelson B., at home; John, deceased; Vincent, 
at home. Like his ancestry, Mr. Simpson has 
always been a Republican, and has always 



strongly advocated the interests of the party, 
and has also done his share of the party work. 
He and wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which he has held various 
offices, May 10, L864, at the age of seventeen, Mr. 
Simpson enlisted in the One Hundred and Sev- 
entieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. was sent to the 
Army of the Potomac, and participated in sev- 
eral skirmishes, some of which were exceedingly 
sanguinary. He was discharged September 1", 
1864, and returned home. For many years he 
has been engaged in stock dealing, shipping 
east and west. In this line he has been uni- 
formly successful. In his finances he has been 
largely a self-made man. He is representative, 
progressive and enterprising, and is a worthy 
representative of his family. 



d ANDERSON. Prior to the year L800 
one Thomas Anderson came to Ohio and 
settled in the wilderness near where the 
village of Harrisville now stands, and here 
married Rachel Stiers, a daughter of another 
pioneer. They continued to reside here until 
death. Mr. Anderson dying in 1845 and his 
widow three years later. The fourth child in a 
family of ten children born to them was a son, 
Samuel. He was born in Belmont County, 
Ohio, September 5, 1815, and grew to maturity 
surrounded by all the privations ami disadvan- 
tages of the pioneer days, His education was 
such as the subscription schools of the period 
afforded, but he could attend only a few weeks 
during the winter season. He married Ara- 
minta Stevens, whose father, Joshua Sti 
had immigrated at an early day from Maryland, 
and died in his adopted State at the advanced 
age of ninety years. 

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson located on a farm 
not far from the old homestead and began life 
for themselves on a capital of pluck, energy 
and perseverance, and Mr. Anderson has often 
related, as an illustration of the hard times en- 
dured by the settlers, that after he and his wife 
had toiled for eight years, they did not own as 



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much as eight dollars. The nearest market 
places in those early times were Mt. Pleasant 
and Wheeling, and after threshing their grain 
with a flail and hauling it to market, they would 
dispose of it at twelve and one-half cents per 
bushel for oats, and from twenty-five cents to 
fifty cents for wheat. In 1844 Mrs. Anderson 
died, leaving four children, three of whom are 
now living. At the time of her death the chil- 
dren were small, and they for some time made 
their home with their uncle and maternal grand- 
father. About 1846 Mr. Anderson took his two 
boys, and, locating on the original homestead, 
resided there until the time of his death, which 
occurred January 11, 1875, he being then sixty 
years of age. He had in the meantime married 
again, his second wife being Elizabeth Ferrell, 
and three children were the result of this union. 
Two of these children died during infancy. 
Mr. Anderson was known as a progressive, pub- 
lic spirited citizen, who was active and interested 
in the support and furtherance of all public im- 
provements. He was, however, a quiet, unas- 
suming man, and so unostentatious in his 
benevolence that his right hand knew not where 
his left hand gave, and in his death the country- 
lost one of those brave, generous and unselfish 
men, who, having passed through the pioneer 
period, have shaped the destiny and grandeur 
of their country. 

The two sons by the first marriage, Owen 
and Joshua, were born . near Harrisville, Ohio, 
in 1840 and 1842, respectively. They now own 
jointly and conduct the homestead in Short 
Creek Township. This farm of 168 acres of 
fertile land is all under a high state of cultiva- 
tion and gives ample evidence of careful man- 
agement. Both brothers grew to manhood 
surrounded by the privations that fell to the lot 
of all pioneer boys, and were taught the rudi- 
ments of an education in the log school-houses 
of the times, when they were able to attend 
school a few weeks during the winter season. 
In 1870 Joshua married Susanna Elliott, a 
native of Harrison County, and a daughter of 
Samuel Elliott, one of the county's pioneers, 



and their union has been blessed by four chil- 
dren. Owen and Joshua Anderson are respected 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Shepherdstown, Ohio, in which Joshua is a 
steward. Both brothers are Republicans. 



AMUEL A. MOORE, treasurer of Har- 
rison County, was born in Mt. Pleasant, 
Jefferson County, Ohio, September 22, 
1843. His father, Andrew Moore, a na- 
tive of Ireland, came to America and settled in 
Ohio. He was married to Miss Sarah McCor- 
mack, a native of Harrison County, Ohio, and they 
made their home in Jefferson County, where he 
followed the business of engineer; he died in 
Wheeling, W. Va., in 1848. at the age of thirty- 
seven years, and she in 1857, aged thirty-six 
years. They were the parents of seven children, 
of whom only two are now living: Samuel A., 
and Annie, wife of John A. Pittis, of Harrison 
County. Andrew Moore and his wife had both 
lived in Harrison County prior to marriage. 

Samuel A Moore was five years old at the 
time of his father's death, and for some time he 
lived among strangers on a farm in Jefferson 
County. In 1858 he went to Wheeling. W. Va., 
where he learned the trade of nailer, which he 
followed until the breaking out of the War of 
the Rebellion, when, at the first call for troops, 
he enlisted in Company K, First West Virginia 
Infantry, which was sent to the Shenandoah 
Valley. He participated in the battles of Win- 
chester, Second Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, 
Cross Keys, and New Market, at which latter he 
was taken prisoner June 15, 1864. After con- 
finement in Danville and Libby prisons till Feb- 
ruary 22, 1865, he was paroled and returned to 
the Union lines, and was then appointed to a posi- 
tion in the quartermaster's department, in which 
he served until the close of the war. He was 
never wounded, but came near death by drink- 
ing from a spring (which, it is alleged, the 
rebels had poisoned) at the Paw Paw tunnel, ne- 
cessitating a stay for some time in the hospital at 
Cumberland, Md. In July, 1865, receiving an 



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honorable discharge, he returned to Ohio, tak- 
ing np his residence in Harrison County, where 
for several years he attended to the work of a 
farm, and then went into the produce business. 
In October, 1885, he was elected treasurer of 
Harrison County, which incumbency he is at 
present tilling, having been re-elected in 1887. 
Mr. Moore is a Republican, and has, for some 
fifteen years, taken an active part in political 
affairs. Since his appointment to the county 
treasuryskip he has resided in the town of 
Cadiz, consequently has been unable to attend 
personally to his farm in Nottingham Township, 
which he rents. 

In August, 1806. Mr. Moore was married to 
Miss Louisa, daughter of George and Sarah 
Pittis, of Harrison County, who came here, the 
mother in 1821, and the father in 1830, and to 
this union have been born seven children, viz. : 
James J., (in Morgan County, Ind.,) and Sarah 
A., Eva M., Bertha, Josephine, George and 
Thomas Scott at home. The entire family are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Cadiz. Mr. Moore is a member of the G. 
A. R. and of the Fraternal Mystic Circle. He 
is a representative self-made man, having had 
to rely entirely on his own resources, and to- 
day he stands in the ranks of the most esteemed 
citizens of the count}' of his adoption. 




)\ILLIAM H. BARRETT was born in 
' Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
June 10, 1812, and is a son of Arthur 
and Mary (Huff) Barrett. Arthur 
Barrett, the grandfather of William H. , was 
born in Virginia in 1743, and was the father 
of ten children, viz. : Nancy, Susan, Hannah, 
Rachel, Sarah, Thomas, Arthur, David, Enos 
and Isaac. In 1803 Arthur Barrett, the elder, 
came to Ohio, passing through the section on 
which the town of Cadiz now stands, and on 
which at that time there stood a solitary log cabin. 
Following an Indian trail and cutting his road 
through the forests, he reached the forks of 
Brushy Fork, and here, in Cadiz Township, he 



entered 640 acres of land in one tract and :>'-!H 
acres in another. Here he erected a log cabin, 
and on this land he passed the balance of his 
days, dying in 1828, a niemberof the Methodist 
Episcopal ( 'liurch. 

Arthur Barrett, son of Arthur above named, 
and father of YVilliain H. Barrett, was born in 
Virginia in 1780, and came to Ohio with his 
father. He married Miss Mary HutT. daughter 
of William Huff, a pioneer of Ohio, aud a famous 
scout and Indian tighter. To Arthur and Mary 
Barrett were born four children, viz. : Meredith, 
now a resident of Cadi/. Township, Harrison 
County; Lewis, deceased; William H., whose 
name heads this sketch, and Mary (deceased). 
Mrs. Mary Barrett departed this life in 1814, 
and Mr. Barrett, later, married Miss Elizabeth 
Wolf, who bore him four children, viz. : Louisa, 
Enos, John and David. In 1845 Arthur Barrett 
was called to his final rest, his widow surviving 
him until 1887, both dying in the Methodist 
Episcopal faith. 

William H. Barrett, the subject proper of 
this sketch, grew to manhood on the homestead 
on which he was bom in Cadiz Township. Har- 
rison County. He received a good practical 
business education, ami in his youth learned the 
hatter's trade, which for a number of years he 
followed in Cadiz aud in Salem. Relinquishing 
this business, however, he commenced dealing 
in live-stock, which he bought from his neigh- 
bors and drove to Pittsburgh, Penn., where be 
found a ready and profitable market. On May 
25, 1887. Mr. Barrett married Miss Eliza V. 
Betz, of Jefferson County, daughter of William 
and Elizabeth Betz, who was born in 1817, and 
this union has been blessed with eight children, 
viz.: Meredith Me., a resident of Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County: Marion B. , at 
home; Brioe W., a Methodist Episcopal preacher, 
and died in L866, three weeks before graduation, 
at Mount Union, Ohio; Mary E., wife of Henry 
Saverfield, of Cadi/.: Margaret E . wife of Will- 
iam Birney, in Nottingham Township: Emma 
E., wife of Samuel Crawford, in Cadiz; Will- 
iam F., at Martin's Perry, and Flora M., at 



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borne. After his marriage Mr. Barrett lived 
on tbe old bomestead until 1845, wben be pur- 
chased the farm on wbicb be now resides in 
Nottingham Townsbip, on tbe Brusby fork of 
Stillwater, and wbicb comprises 334 acres. 
Tbis farm was paid for witb means acquired by 
Mr. Barrett's own industry, and is one of tbe 
best cultivated in tbe townsbip. Mr. Barrett is 
one of tbe oldest citizens of tbe township, and 
bis life has been spent in doing good to bis fel- 
low-men. He and bis wife are members of tbe 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and his high moral 
character is duly appreciated by bis fellow-citi- 
zens. Mr. Barrett is a self-made, bard-working 
man. Punctuality has been one of the rules of 
his life, and integrity in all things one of his 
life principles. As a man he stands amongst 
the most highly respected in the community. 




,\ILLIAM HARVEY CALDWELL, a 
prominent farmer of Cadiz Township, 
is well and favorably known through- 
out Harrison County, in wbicb bis life 
has been thus far spent. His ancestry were 
Irish, but tbe exact time of their coming to 
America has not been preserved. He was born 
on a farm in Green Townsbip. Harrison Co., 
Ohio, August 22, 1825. His father, John 
Caldwell, was born in Pennsylvania, near what 
is called Redstone, and in his native State 
learned tbe trade of blacksmith. He was mar- 
ried to Miss Elizabeth Birney, who, some few 
years later, died in Ohio, to which State the family 
had removed. She left one child. Robert Reed 
Caldwell, who lived to the age of seventy-five 
years and died in Wood County. Ohio. In 1808 
the father came to Ohio aud settled iD Green 
Townsbip, Harrison County, making a home in 
the woods, where he erected a shop and con- 
tinued working at his trade. Here he toiled, 
using the time he could spare from his trade to 
clear his few acres which he first possessed, and 
which he acquired by his own bard toil. His 
first settlement in the county was on the Wells- 
burg Road, but he removed to near Hopedale in 



1828. His second marriage was with Miss Sarah, 
daughter of Robert Reed, and a native of Har- 
rison County, her father having been among the 
early pioneers. By this union ten children were 
born, viz. : Samuel Mitchell Caldwell, of Clarke 
County, Ohio; Elizabeth Ray (Mrs. James 
Davidson), deceased; Ankrum (deceased), late of 
Green Township, Harrison County; William H., 
our subject; John, in Marshall, Kas. ; Isaac 
Shannon (deceased): Martha McCrea (Mrs. 
James English), deceased; James, in Fort 
Wayne, Iud. ; David Hilbert and Albert Hamil- 
ton, both in Guernsey County, Ohio. The 
father died December 10, 1859, on his farm 
near Hopedale at the age of seventy-eight years; 
the mother died February 16, 1871, aged eighty 
years. From boyhood to the grave the life of 
John Caldwell had been one of toil. He ear- 
nestly sought to raise his family above want, and 
in so doing contributed to the growth of the 
county in general. No man can spend a life- 
time in any honest vocation without being a de- 
cided factor in the progress of bis locality or 
county. Politically Mr. Caldwell identified 
himself with the Democrat party, and for years 
held the office of justice of the peace, and vari- 
ous other positions, among which were those of 
trustee and county commissioner. He was a 
member of the Union Church. 

William H. Caldwell remained at home until 
he was twenty one years of age, when he engaged 
to work for a farmer at nine dollars per month, and 
for nine or ten years continued as a farm laborer. 
In the meantime, in 1856, he was married to 
Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Robert aud Sarah 
Cochran, of Harrison County, Ohio. After mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell resided in Green 
Township, Harrison County, for several years. 
then, selling the property he had therein accumu- 
lated, they came to Cadiz Township, and for a 
year he worked for his brother-in-law, Robert 
Cochran, after which, for some five or six years, 
they made their residence in Archer Township, 
Harrison County. It was in 1869 Mr. Caldwell 
came to the farm which he now possesses, and 
on which his home has since been made. To 



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their union no children have been born, but they 
opened their home to the child of others, and a 
foster daughter, Miss Jenette B. Quillen, now 
grown to womanhood, resides with them, having 
come to them at the age of seven years. Polit- 
ically Mr. Caldwell is a Democrat, and has for 
a number of terms filled the positions of trustee, 
supervisor, and school director. On May 20, 
1889, his home was destroyed by fire, but he 
began at once to build his present pleasant and 
commodious home, situated one mile and a 
quarter from Cadiz, Harrison County. Mr. and 
Mrs. Caldwell are members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Cadiz. 



J [AMES STEAN BLACK, one of the rising 
young farmers of Green Township, Har- 
I rison County, was born November '20, 1 S44. 
on the farm in the northeastern corner of 
Green Township, that was entered by his great 
grandfather, James Black, Sr. His early youth 
was spent largely in attending the schools of his 
neighborhood, and at the age of sixteen he en- 
tered Hopedale Normal School, where he re- 
mained in attendance about four years; he then 
entered Duff's Commercial College, at Pitts- 
burgh, completing the course there. After his 
school life he returned to the farm, where he 
has since been engaged in general agriculture 
and dealing in stock. Desiring to locate, he 
took an extended tour through several of the 
western States, including Iowa and Nebraska, 
in 1872, but finding no place satisfactory, be re 
turned to Harrison County, where lie has since 
resided. On June 6, 1878. he was united in 
marriage with Mattie. daughter of William 
Robertson, of Westmoreland County, Penn., and 
after marriage he settled on his present farm. 
One child has blessed their union, Raymond 
Hervey, born October 6, 1886. Owing ti 
ing health of his wife Mr. Black and she started, 
May 2, 1888, on an extended tour through several 
of the western States, including Missouri, Kansas 
and Colorado, spending a year and a half at Colo- 
rado Springs, Colo. They returned home through 



Nebraska and Iowa, and again settled on their 

farm near Union Vale, in the spring of 1885. 
Like his ancestry Mr. Black is a member of the 
Republican party; he and his wife are also 
members of the Presbyterian Church at Beech 
Spring. He is a young man of sterling quali 
ties, and fully retains the respect and esteem in 
which the family have universally been held. 



J 



AMES B. MORRISON, Among those fam 
ilies who by their exemplary lives have not 
only won the esteem, but have also per- 
formed an important part in the mold- 
ing of the lives and characters of their neigh- 
bors, none are more prominently known than 
the Morrisons, of whom this sketch is written. 
The earliest known record of this family is thai of 
one John Morrison, who was a native of County 
Antrim, Ireland, where lie was engaged in farm- 
ing, and was also a stonemason by trade. 
There he married Nancy Taggart, and reared 
the following-named children: James. .Mary. 
John, Nancy and Rachel. Soon after the death 
of their parents. Mary and John came to Amer- 
ica. In about the year 1838 James Morrison 
was united in marriage with Mary Krvin. also 
of County Antrim, Ireland. Her parents were 
John and .lane (Wallace) Ervin, who were 
among the best families in the community, were 
Seceders, and were by occupation farmers. The 
family consisted of thirteen children two sons 
and eleven daughters. In the year 1S4i James 
Morrison, accompanied by his family ami also 
his sister. Nancy, and her husband, Adam Bar- 
bison, came to Washington County, Penn., hie 
sister Rachel, with her husband, William Pea- 
coming soon after. Here he (James Mor 
rison) engaged in farming, and was also a stone- 
mason, ami here he remained until September 
1. L864, when he removed to Freeporl Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio. He purchased the 
farm now occupied by his son. James E. The 
family consisted of nine children, four of whom 
are living, viz.: Samuel W.. Nannie C, Jennie 
A. and James E. (the subject proper of this 



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sketch). He (James Morrison) from early 
youth was a member of the Covenanter Church, 
of which he was a constant attendant, a liberal 
supporter and a consistent member. While ab- 
staining from voting, his principles were those of 
the Republican party. On October 19, 1886, he 
passed from earth, and his remains were interred 
at Londonderry; his wife died December 13, 
1889, and her remains were placed beside those 
of her husband. 

The eldest son, S. W. Morrison, was born in 
May, 1841, in Ballemany, County Antrim, Ire- 
land, and came, with his parents, to Pennsyl- 
vania in the year 1847. In early manhood he 
engaged in farming and school teaching, in 
later years he was in mercantile business. Dur- 
ing the Rebellion he served his country in 
Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-third 
regiment. P. V. I. In 1864 he came to Ohio, 
and was married. November 27, 1867, to Eliza 
Logan, of Londonderry, Guernsey Co., Ohio. 
To them was born one son, William E. They 
are all members of the Covenanter Congrega- 
tion of Evans, Weld Co., Colo., to which place 
they went on account of his health, in August, 

1SVJ. 

The eldest daughter, Nannie O, was born in 
October, 1844, in Ballemany, County Antrim, 
Ireland, and came to Pennsylvania with her 
parents in the year 1847; removed to Ohio in 
1864; was a school-teacher by profession, and 
was married to W J. Blakwood in December, 
1864; to them were born sixteen children — 
seven sons and nine daughters, viz. : Robert M. , 
Mary E., Ervin A., Lizzie J., Ida M., Calmers 
S., M. Rachel, elames M., Annie M. , Clara, 
Maggie A., Samuel W, Thomas L., Nettie B., 
Glen and Nannie, thirteen of whom are living, 
three dead. The parents, together with all the 
children of suitable age, are members of the 
Covenanter Congregation of Londonderry. 

Jennie A. Morrison was born in Washington 
County, Penn., July 25, 1852; removed with 
her parents to Ohio in 1864; was married to 
Marshal McCall, May 20, 18(59, and to them 
were born seven children, two of whom are dead, 



five living — two sons and three daughters, viz. : 
William W., James H, Mollie J., Mattie A. 
and Nannie E. Are members of the United 
Presbyterian congregation of Londonderry. 

James E. Morrison was born August 30, 
1856, in Washington County, Penn., where he 
remained till nine years of age. He received 
the advantages of a liberal education, and has 
not failed to profit by it. He came to Freeport, 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1864, and is 
a farmer by occupation, residing on the old 
home place. He was married November 11, 
1887, to Miss Jennie M. Forsythe, of Freeport 
Township, and to them were born two sons: 
Samuel W. and James R. They are members 
of the Covenanter Church of Londonderry, Ohio. 

William Forsythe was born in March, 1824, 
in Allegheny County, Penn., and in 1861 mar- 
ried Rose A. McKeown, daughter of Alexander 
McKeown an early settler of Harrison County, 
to which union were born the following: Jennie 
M., September 20, 1863, Arthur M., June 13, 
1865; Nannie M., March 26, 1867, and William 
A., January 29, 1869. Nannie M. , was married 
May 9, 1889, to D. C. Sleeth, of Londonderry, 
Ohio, and is, with her husband, a resident of 
New Philadelphia, Ohio. Arthur M. resides 
near Antrim, Ohio, and is a farmer by profes- 
sion; William A. is a resident of Freeport 
Township, Harrison County, and is engaged in 
the profession of school teaching. Arthur, Nan- 
nie and William are members of the United 
Presbyterian Church. Mr. William Forsythe 
was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian 
Church, being elected elder soon after his mar- 
riage. He died in August, 1871, his wife in 
February, 1872, and both are laid to rest in the 
cemetery at Londonderry. 

Matthew Forsythe, the father of AVilliam, 
was born in County Antrim, Ireland, but emi- 
grated to America, and was married in Penn- 
sylvania to Margaret Glenn, also of Ireland, 
County Derry. They came to Ohio in October, 
1840, and were parents of the following chil- 
dren: William, Jane (Mrs. Jesse Alexander), 
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thew Forsythe was also a member of the Re- 
formed Presbyterian Church. He died in 1874, 
hi* wife having preceded him in 1872, and both 
are buried at Londonderry, Ohio. 




jILLIAM KIMMEL, farmer, Rumley 
l\// Township, Harrison County, is a son 
Mj of Frederick and Elizabeth (Yingling) 
Kimmel, former of whom is a son of 
Leonard Kimmel, a native of Germany, who 
was born in 1741 and came to Pennsylvania in 
1 7T)S. Leonard had two brothers, who started 
with him from their inland home, but on reach- 
ing the place of embarkation they were deterred 
at the sight of the boundless ocean, and turned 
back; Leonard, however, said he was tired of 
being under the king's tyranny, and was coming, 
even if he were to be drowned. On arriving in 
America he settled at Glade, Somerset Co., 
Penn. He married Susanna Zimmerman, of 
Glade, where she was born in 1748, and to this 
union were born eight children: John, Henry. 
Adam, Leonard, Frederick, Nancy, Mary and 
Susanna. In 1800 Leonard Kimmel and his 
family moved to West Virginia, where John, 
Henry and Adam engaged in the manufacture of 
millstones, which they put on rafts built of logs, 
and ran down the Ohio River. They sold the 
millstones at different points, and the money 
was used in buying land in Rumley Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. John being the foreman 
of the company, the land was bought in his 
name, and included the farm of 100 acres 
where Thomas Crab!) now lives, 1(50 acres where 
M. R. McNary lives, 100 acres in Section No. 
20, and 320 acres in Section No. 19. In 1802 
Leonard Kimmel, with his family, came to 
Rumley Township, and settled on the farm now 
owned by M. R. McNary. He died in 1825, his 
wife in 1828. 

Frederick Kimmel was born in West Virginia 
in 1800, and came to Rumley Township, Hani 
son Co., Ohio, with his parents at the age of 
two years (in 1802). When he married he set- 
tled on the farm where his widow now lives in 



tin' southwest corner of Section No. 1'.'. Rumley 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and engaged in 
farming and raising stock, at which business he 
was very successful, accumulating quite a huge 
estate, owning at the time of his death 450 acres 
of land and a great deal of other property and 
money. He was a man of considerable ability 
and influence; held the office of justice of tint 
peace for eighteen years in his township, and 
I'm iin whose decisions and judgments there never 
was an appeal taken to a higher court. He also 
held other important civil positions in his town- 
ship, and in the Lutheran Church, of which he 

was an honored member from his boy! I. He 

died March 24, 1885, at his old homestead, Bur- 
rounded by the comforts of life and his family. 
loved, honored and respected by all who had 
known him. To him and his wife were born 
thirteen children, as follows: Sarah, wife of 
John Knoff, of North Township, Harrison 
County; Mary Ann and Rebecca, both dec-e 
Joseph, who lives in North Township; Lvdia 
Ann, wife of Jacob Binker, also in North Town- 
ship; Henry, a farmer in Rumley Township; 
William, our subject; John, Barbara and Ma- 
hala, all three deceased: Delilia, wife of Samuel 
Welib. a policeman in Cleveland, Ohio; Amos, 
farmer in Rumley Township; Joshua, deceased. 
William Kimmel. our subject, was horn Feb- 
ruary 11, 183S, in Burnley Township. Harrison 
Co., Ohio, on Section No. 19, was reared to 
manhood on the old farm, and received his edu 
cation at the common schools. On February 
10, 1860, ho married Bliss Louisa Sneary. born 
in May, 1844, a daughter of Jacob and Polly 
(Tumey) Sneary, and to this union were horn 
live children, viz. : Mary Elizabeth, wife of John 
Ross, of Mercer County. Ohio; Orpha Florence, 
wife of Jacob Epley, of Perry County, Ohio: 
Amanda Jane, wife of Anson Fife, and living 
with William Kimmel: Ida Corinda, wife of J. 
P. Dutton, of Rumley Township, and Walter 
S.. at home. Mr. and Mrs. Kimmel are mem 
bers of the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Kimmel 
has held the office of school director for nine 
years. His farm contains 101 acres, situated on 



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the P. C. & St. L. R. R., one and a half miles 
east of Scio. 




JILLIAM JAMISON was one of the 
most widely-known citizens of Cadiz 
Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio. He 
was a native of Ireland, and in his 
early youth emigrated to Canada, where for 
several years he remained. His father was An- 
drew Jamison, who in early manhood married 
Mary McFadden. They came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, from Canada (where they re- 
mained several years after their arrival from 
Ireland), and purchased and resided on the farm 
now occupied by Joseph Hamilton. At the age 
of sixty rive years the father passed away, his 
wife surviving him about ten years. Their 
family consisted of ten children: James, An- 
drew (in Canada), William, Jane, Samuel, John, 
Nancy, Sarah, Mary Ann and Margaret. In 
politics Mr. Jamison was a strong Democrat, 
and both he and his wife were members of the 
United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. 

William Jamison's early life was spent on 
the farm, receiving the advantages of the com- 
mon schools, and becoming proficient in farm- 
ing, an occupation which he followed during 
life. On February 5. 1849, he was united in mar- 
riage with Mrs. James Easter (formerly Sallie 
Mehollin), a daughter of Joseph and Margaret 
Mehollin, residents of Harrison County, Ohio. 
Mrs. Jamison was the mother of two children 
by her first Kuarriage: Joseph, now deceased, 
and Margaret, now Mrs. John Nash. Some 
time after their marriage they came to the place 
where the family now reside, and where they 
shared life's joys and sorrows until 1803, when 
the husband died at the age of forty-three 
years. He was away from home at the time 
of his death, receiving medical treatment at 
Grandville. Since her husband's death Mrs. 
Jamison has resided on the home place, which 
she, in connection with her children, has man- 
aged with eminent success. Her family are as 
follows: John, at home; Andrew, deceased; 



Mary (Mrs. James B. Clark); Martha, deceased; 
Elizabeth (Mrs. McFadden); Sarah (married in 
1884 to Lee Dunlap, of Archer Township, Har- 
rison County, who died in 1888, leaving two 
children: Elizabeth and Fannie), and Eva 
(married in 1884 to Joseph McFadden, of Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County). 

John Jamison at present manages the farm. 
He was born October 26, 1849, and grew to 
manhood on the home place, where he remained 
until 1871, when he went west and remained 
until 1874, then returned to the home place, 
where he has since resided. The farm is situ- 
ated about five miles from Cadiz, and consists 
of 168 acres, under excellent cultivation. On 
February 28, 1881, he was married to Jennie 
Martin, a daughter of John Martin, a resident 
of Harrison County, Ohio, and to this union two 
children have been born: Carrie Ethel and 
Hugh McFadden. Mr. Jamison is a Democrat, 
but he is a man who uses his own judgment and 
votes according to his own convictions. 



JOHN ADAMS, Moorefield, was born in 
Moorefield Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
January 17, 1831. He is a son of Sam- 
uel and Elizabeth (Johnson) Adams, and 
Samuel was a son of John and Rachel (Asher) 
Adams, natives of Pennsylvania, who migrated 
to Jefferson County from Erie, Penn., about 
1807. They remained in Jefferson County a 
short time only, when they came to Harrison 
County, and entered 100 a"cres of land in the 
eastern part of Freeport Township, but shortly 
afterward removed to the southern part of the 
township, near Smyrna, and purchased 100 
acres of land. Here Mr. Adams erected a log 
hotel, which he conducted for many years. He 
remained on this farm during the remainder of 
his life, dying in 1835; he was born November 
13, 1774; his wife was born May 16, 1776, and 
died August 25, 1851. They were married May 
2, 1799, and became the parents of seven chil- 
dren, namely: Rebecca, born February 29, 1800; 
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December 18, 1803; Samuel, born January 16, 
1806; John, born June 20, 1808; Julia A., born 
December 13, 1811; Anthony, born October 4, 
1815. Samuel Adams was born in Erie County, 
Penu., and when an infant, came with his par- 
ents to Ohio, where he grew to manhood and 
received his education, spending most of his 
youthful days, however, as hostler at his fa- 
ther's hotel. He went into the woods three 
times, and helped to clear out three farms; also 
hewed out logs enough in the woods to build 
two double barns; built two frame houses, one 
frame stable, and all other buildings that were 
considered necessary. He helped to make 20,000 
pounds (or more) of maple sugar, besides many 
hundred gallons of molasses. On January 24, 
1828, he married Elizabeth Johnson, a daughter 
of William and Nancy (Stalson) Johnson, who 
were among the early settlers of Moorefield 
Township. To this union were born six chil- 
dren, named as follows: John, our subject; 
Rachel A. Romans, of Freeport Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio; Mary Johnson, of Washington, 
Davis Co., Ind. ; William, a farmer in Moore- 
field Township; Samuel, deceased at the age of 
nineteen years; and Rebecca J. Moore, of Moore- 
field Township. Mr. Adams, after his marriage, 
purchased eighty acres of land in Section No. 
29, Moorefield Township, where he remained 
until 1860, when he bought the farm our sub- 
ject now owns, which contains 178 acres, 101 
of which he owns, in Sections Nos. 19 and 24, 
Moorefield Township, which was entered by 
Henry Johnson. Mr. Adams departed this life 
November 17, 1880. His wife followed him 
May 19, 1883, the latter having been an active 
member of the Baptist Church for many years. 
Although Mr. Adams was never a professed 
Christian, he attended all religious meetings, 
and gave freely to the support of the gospel. 

John Adams, our subject, was reared to man- 
hood on the farm, and was educated at the com- 
mon schools. On January 13, 1853, he was 
united in the holy bonds of matrimony with 
Miss Mary E. Swearingen, who was born De- 
cember 30, 1835, a daughter of John and Nancy 



(Pumphery) Swearingen, natives of Virginia. 
To this union have been born seven children, viz. : 
Henry T., now in Moorefield Township; Annie 
E., at home; Albert D., clerk in the freight 
office of the C. B. & Q. R. R.. at Chicago, 111. ; 
W. S., at home; Emma V., deceased; Sadie, at 
home; and Mary A., deceased. Mr. and Mrs. 
Adams are members of the Nottingham Presby- 
terian Church, and politically, Mr. Adams is a 
Prohibitionist. He is well known throughout 
the county, and highly esteemed by all. 



JM 



RS. SARAH J. ADAMS, widow of 
John S. Adams, was born August 2, 
1844, in Archer Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. Her ancestry were of Irish 
origin, and came to this country at an early date. 
She is the daughter of John Welsh, one of the 
most prominent farmers of his section, who. after 
a life spent in well doing, died at the age of 
seventy two years, sincerely mourned by all. On 
May 8, 1866, she was united in marriage with 
John S. Adams, one of the most extensive farm- 
ers in Archer Township, Harrison County, and 
who for a number of years was oue of the larg- 
est dealers in, and shippers of fat stock in the 
county. He was also for many years a director 
of the First National Bank of Cadiz. With him 
she lived most happily until August 10, 1884, 
when death claimed him, leaving her with rive 
small children to care for, named, respectively: 
Etta M., Samuel F., Charlie W., Zella E. and 
Mary A. That she has performed, and is still 
performing, this duty admirably, is attested by 
all who know her. 

Mrs. Adams with the help of her two older 
boys, and the hired services of others, carries on 
the farm, a large and valuable property consist- 
ing of 330 acres, of which about 2511 are im- 
proved. She has given a remarkable example of 
what a woman can do when it becomes neces-aiy 
for her to take the helm of family affairs. The 
farm is under a good state of cultivation, and 
the condition of the fences and outbuildings 
would put many a man to shame should he com- 



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pare his own with theni. Her house is one of 
the most pleasantly situated in the township, as 
well as being conveniently arranged, and pre- 
sents a most delightful spectacle as it appears to 
the traveler who has just emerged from the wood- 
covered hills which surround it. Mrs. Adams 
is a member of the Presbyterian Church, a noble) 
Christian woman, a fond and loving mother, and 
enjoying the respect and esteem of all her friends 
and neighbors. 



NATHANIEL EDWAED CLENDEN- 
NIN, treasurer of Harrison County, 
Ohio, and one of its well-known and 
f/ popular citizens, was born May 24, 1840, 

in Jefferson County, Ohio. The ancestry on his 
father's side were Scotch-Irish people, who 
came to America and settled in Maryland about 
the year 1800. His mother (Miss Jerusha Sa- 
ner), who was of Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry, 
was married in 1844 to John Irvin; she moved 
to Gallia County, Ohio, in 1851, thence to Vir- 
ginia, where she died June 22, 1883. By her 
second marriage she had eight children, of 
whom the following is a record: Isaiah is in 
Mason County, W. Va. ; Margaret Ann is the 
wife of Moses Hanlin, and lives in Gallia 
County, Ohio; Eachel is the wife of John Shoe- 
maker, also in Gallia County, Ohio; Rebecca is 
deceased; Samuel, Mary and John are in Mason 
County, W. Va., and Hester is living with our 
subject. 

Nathaniel E. Clendennin, whose name stands 
at the head of this sketch, at seven years of 
age went to live with T. W. Barr, in Rumley 
Township, Harrison County, with whom he 
grew to manhood, working on a farm and at- 
tending the common school. Afterward he 
taught school until December 9, 1801, when he 
enlisted in Company F, Eightieth O. V. V. I., 
which was attached to the Army of the Tennes- 
see, Fifteenth Army Corps. He participated in 
nineteen regular engagements, was present at 
the surrender of Vicksburg, and was with Sher- 
man in his march to the sea; then went through 



Carolina to Richmond, thence to Washington 
City, thence to Louisville, Ky., and finally to 
Little Rock, Ark., where, August 25, 1865, he 
was mustered out after a service of nearly four 
years. He was twice wounded, at Iuka and 
Corinth, respectively, hist time in the face with 
buckshot, which he carried twenty years, and 
the second time in the head with the fragment 
of a shell. Having received an honorable dis- 
charge, he returned to Rumley Township and 
renewed the profession of school teaching; then, 
after two years, he carried on mercantile busi- 
ness for six months at Scio; thence moved to 
Scroggsriekl, Carroll County, and from there, in 
1870, to Connotton, Harrison County, where he 
once more embarked in business. There he 
continued until the spring of 1890, when, hav- 
ing been chosen by his party in the fall of 1889 
to the responsible position of county treasurer, 
he sold his stock preparatory to entering on the 
duties of the office, and September 1, 189(1, lie 
moved to the town of Cadiz. Mr. Clendennin 
in politics has always been a stanch Republican, 
ever taking a leading part. In 1870, under 
Grant's administration, he was appointed post- 
master at Connotton, a position he held until 
1880, when, Cleveland having become President, 
he was superseded; he had been assistant post- 
master at Scio and Scroggsfield — six months at 
the former place and two years at the latter. 
He served two terms as township treasurer, and 
was elected trustee. In 1870 he was appointed 
agent at Connotton for the Panhandle Railroad 
Company, also Adams Express Company, which 
positions he held until he resigned to take his 
position as county treasurer. 

On October 14, 1873, Mr. Clendennin was 
married at Connotton to Libbie McGavran, who 
was born June 22, 1850, daughter of W. H. and 
Elizabeth McGavran. of North Township, aud 
sister to Dr. S. B. McGavran, of Cadiz, Ohio. 
She was the mother of two children that died in 
infancy, and was herself called from earth De- 
cember 9, 1884, at the early age of thirty-four 
years. She was well educated, was bright and 
intelligent, and winning in her manner; was a 




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teacher for several years, and was dear to all — 
loved, trusted and lamented by all who knew 
her. Mr. Clendennin's home is now cared for 
by his half sister, Miss Hester Irvin. 



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B. LAMB was born in Short Creek Town- 
ship, Harrison Co. , Ohio, January 27, 
1833. His father, Sylvanus Lamb, emi- 
grated from Pittsburgh, Penn. , to Ohio, 
about the year 1800. He was a native of Mas- 
sachusetts, and had emigrated from his native 
State to Pennsylvania with a comrade named 
John Chaney, locating in Pittsburgh. The 
object of their settlement there was for the pur- 
pose of introducing and perfecting a nail cutter 
which they had invented, and which was the 
first nail machine ever used. There Mr. Lamb 
married Isabella White, a native of Pittsburgh, 
whose father, Samuel White, afterward became 
a resident of Short Creek Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. He was a native of Ireland, and had 
immigrated to America at an early day. 

Sylvanus Lamb was a miller and distiller by 
occupation, and after coming to Ohio located 
near Georgetown, where he purchased a mill 
and conducted it for many years. In those 
early times there were hundreds of still-houses 
in the land, and one of these was at the mill 
which Mr. Lamb purchased. He was among 
the earliest pioneers, and his milling industry 
was one of the principal factors in the develop- 
ment of this region. He was a man of more 
than ordinary attainments, for several years 
serving as justice of the peace, and many of 
the old pioneers remember the time when 
" Squire Lamb " was the legal light and most im- 
portant personage of the district. He was act- 
ive in all public movements tending toward the 
county's development, and took a particular in- 
terest in its early political struggles, being a 
strong and firm believer in the principles of the 
old Whig party. He resided here until about 
L843, when he removed to Athens County, Ohio. 
where he became engaged in one of the largest 
milling operations of the time. His death oc- 



curred in 1848, ho being then a man of about 
sixty-five years of age. Of a family of six sons 
and four daughters born to him, two sons be 
sides the subject of this sketch are now living, 
as follows: Leonard, connected with the rail- 
road interests at Adalissa, Iowa, and Sylvanus. 
a farmer and stock-raiser at Shickley, Neb. 

In this family our subject is the eighth child 
in the order of birth. At the age of fifteen 
years he migrated from Athens County to 
Georgetown, and made his home with an uncle, 
John Chaney, before mentioned. He had an 
early inclination toward mechanics, and served 
an apprenticeship at Georgetown with Joshua 
Adams, learning the trade of a cabinet maker. 
After having served his time, he went to Mar- 
tin's Ferry, Ohio, where he engaged as a pat 
tern-maker; previously he had been engaged 
with Henry Heberling, a manufacturer of 
threshing machines. In 1801, in response to a 
call for troops, he enlisted among the first, 
three-years' men, and was mustered into the 
service of the United States at Wheeling, W. Va. , 
as a member of Company C, First Regiment, 
West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He was at- 
tached to the Eighth Army Corps, under the 
command of Gen. Buell, and participated in 
the battles of Piedmont and New Market; was 
with Gen. Hunter on his memorable raid 
through Virginia, and at the battle of Snicker's 
Gap was shot through the left arm by a rifle ball, 
from which wound he has never recovered. He 
was first taken to the hospital at Harper's Fer- 
ry, and from there to Annapolis, Md.; thence to 
Little York, Penn., and thence to Grafton, 
West Va., where he remained some time previ 
ous to his removal to Wheeling. West Va., 
where he was honorably discharged in 1863. 
Immediately following his discharge he returned 
td Georgetown and engaged in mercantile pur- 
suits, which he followed for the succeeding 
twenty six years, when he retired, during six- 
teen years of which time he had officiated as 
postmaster. Politically lie has always been a 
hearty supporter of the Republican party and 
its principles, and in 1886 he was elected treas 



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urer of Short Creek Township, which office he 
now ably fills. 

In 1854 Mr. Lamb married Miss Catherine 
Brooke, a native of Martin's Ferry, Ohio, and a 
daughter of Benjamin and Martha Brooke, who 
had located there in the young days of the city, 
having emigrated there from Pennsylvania; 
Benjamin Brooke was a soldier in the War of 
1S12. To Mr. and Mrs. Lamb were born two 
sons and four daughters, of whom but two, 
Ella Dora, now Mrs. William F. Martin, and 
Charles B. , of Wheeling, W. Va. , are living. On 
March 15, 1887, Mrs. Lamb passed to her last 
long sleep, a respected member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Lamb is also 
a member, and trustee. The Lamb family are 
of Puritan stock, and the principles of indus- 
try and economy of those hardy people have 
been prominent characteristics of the family. 



yilLLIAM WHEELER. The Wheeler 
' family are placed on record among the 
pioneers of eastern Ohio. Nicholas 
Wheeler was born near Baltimore, Md., 
and emigrated with his family to Harrison 
County, Ohio, about the year 1801 or 1802. 
They located in German Township, where they 
took and entered a tract of land. Here they 
cleared their patch and erected a log cabin, like 
the other pioneers who pushed into an unbroken 
wilderness and claimed the virgin soil as their 
inheritance, and here resided until their deaths, 
Mr. Wheeler dying at the age of about sixty 
years; his wife survived him and attained the 
advanced age of ninety years. Among the chil- 
dren born to them was a son named Mordecai, 
who was born on the original homestead in Ger- 
man Township, November 11, 1803. He grew 
to manhood with his parents, assisting them in 
the duties of the farm and in the support of the 
family; and the training received in those 
pioneer struggles manifested itself in his after 
life. In 1825 he came to Short Creek Town- 
ship, and, same year, he married Miss Sarah 
Roberts; then locating on a farm, began its im- 



provement. Sarah Roberts was a daughter of 
James and Rachel Roberts, and was born at 
Redstone, Penn., in 1799. In 1803 her parents 
immigrated to Ohio, and settled in Short Creek 
Township. The}' were among the very early 
pioneers of this section, and located here when 
this country was a wilderness, cleared their 
farm and built up for themselves a home. 
James Roberts was a minister in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and was one of the pioneer 
preachers. In 1830 Mr. Wheeler purchased a 
farm on Section 7, a part of the David Carrick 
purchase, and, locating thereon, began its im- 
provement. Here they resided until their 
deaths, always active in public advancement 
and the improvement of the country; Mr. 
Wheeler died in 1842, and his widow in 1876. 
He was an active and energetic worker in the 
religious development of the country; was a 
member of the Methodist Protestant Church, in 
which for many years he officiated as class 
leader. Their union was blessed with five sons 
and one daughter, of whom but three are now 
living, as follows: Nicholas J., in Short Creek 
Township; William, our subject; and Joseph, 
now in Oklahoma. 

William Wheeler, the subject proper of these 
lines, is the fourth child in order of birth in 
this family of six children. He was born on 
the place where he now resides near George- 
town, May 25, 1833, and his early life was spent 
at home, receiving the limited advantages for 
an education afforded by the early schools of 
the period, when the long split benches and 
desks were the furnishings, and where "tare 
and tret," and the "single rule of three" 
were the limit to the educational scale. In 
September, 1S55, he married Miss Judith D. 
Johnson, a native of Virginia, born in Charles 
City County, and who came, when but a child, to 
Ohio with her parents, Micaja and Edna John- 
son. Followiug their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Wheeler located on their present farm, which 
is also the homestead in Harrison County. It 
consists of one hundred acres, well improved, 
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home. Six children have been born to them, 
four of whom are now living: Sarah R. , Flor- 
ence N., Winfield S. and Nellie E. Mr. Wheeler's 
success in life has been due to his own personal 
efforts, and he has been the architect of his own 
fortune. Politically he is a hearty supporter of 
the Republican party, and has served as town- 
ship trustee for seven years. 



f/AMES McAFEE, JR., a retired farmer, 
^. I New Rumley, Harrison County, is a son 
\Jj of James McAfee (second) and Mary ( Wy- 
bel) McAfee. James McAfee (second) is 
also a son of James McAfee, a native of Ireland, 
who came to Washington County, Peun., among 
the very earliest settlers. He was the father of 
seven children, namely: Matthew, James, John, 
Mary. Martha, Jane and one daughter, whose 
name is not known. He died about 1795. James 
McAfee (second), the father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born in Washington County, 
Penu., in 1785. He was reared to manhood in 
Washington Comity, Penn. , and received his 
education in the public schools of his native 
county, although his education was much better 
than that of most of the young people of his 
day. He was married in Washington County, 
Penn., and in 1823 came to Rumley Township, 
Harrison Co. , Ohio, settling upon the northwest 
quarter of Section 24, now owned by the heirs 
of Samuel Snyder. In 1832 he sold that farm 
and purchased a farm in Ninth Township, same 
county. About 1853 he sold this farm and re- 
moved to Rumley, where he purchased the old 
Custer property, upon which stands the old 
house in which the late Gen. Custer was born, 
one of the few old houses left standing in Rum 
ley. Here he continued to reside until the time of 
his death in 1876. He taught school in Rum- 
ley Township for some time, and was much bet- 
ter informed than the generality of people of 
his day. He was an active and influential mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was 
very much respected by his fellow- men, one 
whose opinions were much sought in all matters 



of public interest; politically he was a Repub- 
lican. His wife was born in 1790, a daughter of 
George and Polly (Rummel) Wybel, natives of 
Germany, who emigrated to Pennsylvania bo- 
fore coming to Ohio. 

Our subject, James McAfee, Jr., was born 
in Washington County, Penn.. in 1S17, and 
came to Rumley Township, Harrison County, 
with his parents. He was reared to manhood 
upon the old homestead, and in 1840 married 
Miss Letta, daughter of David and Libbie 
(Archibald) Gordon. To the union of James 
and Letta McAfee were born three children, 
viz.: Mary, wife of Martin Kail, of Warren 
Count}', Iowa; Elisabeth, wife of John W. Fin 
nicum, of Dallas County, Iowa, and Lerta Man 
beck, who died in March, 18S2. Mrs. Letta 
McAfee died in IS Pi. and in 1849 Mr. .Mc- 
Afee married Miss Margaret Hendricks, born 
August 6, 1823, a daughter of Peter and Cath- 
erine (Webster) Hendricks. To this union 
were burn three children: Andrew, who died 
in 1889; James, a farmer in Rumley Township, 
Harrison County, and John A., also a fanner 
in Rumley Township. The second Mrs. Mo 
Afee died in September, 1878, and in October, 
1880, Mr. McAfee married Miss Sarah Jane, 
daughter of William and Susanna (Gatschall) 
Gumh . 

After his first marriage Mr. McAfee re- 
mained upon his father's farm in North Town 
ship until 1844, and after his second marriage 
he located upon the farm now owned by Jacob 
Pittenger. Here he remained until about 1855, 
when he purchased the farm which he now 
owns in Section 19. He remained on this farm 
until 1889, when he removed to the village of 
New Rumley, where he is now living the quiet 
life of a retired farmer, and where he has inn- 
chased a tine home, in which he hopes to end 
his days. He has made a success of farming, 
has been a very industrious and hard working 
man, and is looked upon as one of the leading 
citizens of his town. Both he and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
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publican party until within a few years, since 
which time, having been brought to see the evil 
effects of liquor upon those growing up around 
him, he has voted the Prohibition ticket. He has 
in this, as in all matters, a deep conviction of the 
right, and is in every sense a representative man. 




JACOB BOSLEY, an old and successful 
farmer of German Township. Harrison 
County, is a son of Samuel and Mary 
(Roberts) Bosley. Samuel Bosley was a 
son of Thomas, a native of Maryland, who was 
the father of six children: Greenburg, John, 
Caleb, Nancy. Samuel and Thomas, Jr. Samuel 
Bosley was born in Maryland in 1767, aud was 
a veteran in the War of 1812. His children 
numbered eight, and were named Catherine, 
Elizabeth, Rachel. Mary, Sarah, Thomas, Jacob 
and Samuel. Jr. Samuel Bosley came to Ohio 
in 1834, settling in Green Township, Harrison 
County, and was killed by the cars in 1854, be- 
tween Steubenville and Bridgeport, Ohio. 

Jacob Bosley was born November 14, 1808, 
in Maryland, and was reared to farming under 
the skillful instruction of his father, for whom 
he worked a number of years after reaching 
maturity. On June 25, 1835, he married Miss 
Elizabeth Kail, a daughter of Jacob and Mary 
(Whitmore) Kail, who, about the year 1800, 
came to Harrison County, Ohio, from the State 
of Pennsylvania. After his marriage Jacob 
Bosley removed to German Township, Harrison 
County, where he worked first for Jacob Win- 
ing, a hotel keeper, distilling whisky. He re- 
tained this position but a short time, however, 
when he returned to Green Township where 
he farmed for several years. He then came 
to German Township and bought a farm of 
ninety-one and a half acres, on which he now 
resides. Our subject and wife are parents of 
two children: Lavina and Jacob, Jr., both liv- 
ing with their parents. The family, as will be 
seen, is an old one and of good stock, and its 
members have always stood high in the regard 
of their neighbors, wherever they have resided. 



ACOB W. WEBB, the subject of this 
sketch, the only surviving son of John 
Webb, Sr. , was born November 8, 1833, 
in Athens Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
on the farm on which he still resides, and where 
nearly his whole life has been spent. Early 
taught farming, he has followed it ever since, 
and with marked success. His instruction was 
received at the district schools, in which he took 
front rank and was considered one of the most 
intelligent young men of his section. He was 
united in marriage October 8, 1860, to Sarah 
Dickerson, daughter of John Dickerson, of his 
native township, and the children born to this 
union were in the following order: John (de- 
ceased), George (in Colorado), Emmet (at home), 
Sherman, Clayton, Mattie, Samuel, Mary (de- 
ceased) and Grace. 

Like his ancestry, Jacob W. Webb has always 
supported the Democratic ticket, and has occu- 
pied a prominent position in the party. Ever 
numbered among the progressive men of his 
section in educational and industrial movements, 
he has been an invaluable aid to his township. 
Emmet Webb, son of Jacob W. Webb, was born 
March 10, 1865, and was early initiated into the 
duties of farming; he, however, took a deep in- 
terest in educational matters and was enabled to 
gratify his desire for knowledge in Franklin Col- 
lege, which he attended several terms. He then 
entered Hopedale Business College, from which 
he graduated with honor. He has traveled quite 
extensively through the West, and now has re- 
turned to the home place, where he resides. 



1 , ACOB J. McMANUS was born near Centre- 
. I ville, Belmont Co., Ohio, October 24, 1827. 
\^J) His grandfather came to America from 
Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War. 
in which he fought for the independence of his 
adopted couutry. His son, James McManus, 
who was born in Berkeley County, Va. , came, 
when a young man, to Ohio, locating in Belmont 
County, where he afterward married Esther S. 
Calvert, a native thereof. She died in the sum- 






HARRISOX COUNTY. 






mer of 1888, aged eighty- four years. James 
McManus is still living in Belmont County, aged 
eighty-six years. Seven sons and one daugh- 
ter were the fruits of their union, and of this 
family the subject of this sketch is the eldest. 

Jacob J. McManus grew to maturity in his 
native county, receiving the limited educational 
advantages of the period, and in 1845 came to 
Harrison County. He began life for himself, 
working as a farm hand, and on the place where 
he now resides he has worked in the hay and 
harvest field for the sum of fifty and seventy -five 
cents per day. He finally rented a farm, and in- 
vested the proceeds of his labor in live stock, 
toward which he had a particular leaning. 
Possessed of a keen eye for stock and a natural 
liking for the same, he soon became the largest 
and most successful sheep and wool grower of 
the neighborhood. In 1870 he purchased his 
present farm of 107 well-improved and fertile 
acres in Short Creek Township, where he and 
his family have since resided. In 1854 he mar- 
ried Miss Martha E. Fisher, a native of Ross 
County, Ohio, and their union has been blessed 
by seven children, four of whom still survive, as 
follows: Addie M. , married to Oliver Glazner, 
who died in 1889, leaving her with one child; 
Maggie Lora, now Mrs. Elwood Beightler, of 
Union County, Ohio; John G. and Bertha E. at 
home. Mr. McManus has only himself to thank 
for his success in life, for he has achieved it 
through his own unaided endeavors. Politically 
he is a Democrat. 



fjOHN M. OURANT, farmer, Nottingham 
w. I| Township, Harrison County, is a son of 
\J Washington Ourant, who is a son of John, 
who was among the first pioneers of Co- 
lumbiana County, Ohio. His wife was Rachel 
Hewett, and to them were born four children, 
viz. : Obediah, Matilda. Harriet and Washing- 
ton. Washington Ourant, the father of our 
subject, was born in Columbiana County. Ohio, 
September 15, 1808. When a small boy his 
father died, and he went to live with his uncle, 



Rudolph Hines, who soon removed to Harrison 
County. Washington Ourant, at the age of 
fourteen, engaged with William Kennedy, of 
Moorefield, Ohio, as an apprentice to learn the 
hatter's trade; he remained with Mr. Kennedy 
some time, but soon grew tired of him and ran 
away and engaged with Charles Kinsey (a hat- 
ter), with whom he remained until the date of 
his marriage, January 22, 1830, with Miss Mary 
Martin, who was born April 5, 1808, a daughter 
of Arthur Martin. By this union there were 
eight children, viz.: John M., born June 27, 
1831; James K., born December 19, 1833, a 
resident of Cadiz Township: Eliza A., born 
February 20, 1836, residing with our subject; 
William G., born October 11, 1839, living in 
Cadiz Township; George W., born June 10, 
1S42, deceased; Enos B., born September •">. 
1844, residing in Omaha, Neb.; Joseph R. T., 
born October 5, 1847, a hotel-keeper at Free- 
port, Ohio, and Mary M., born October 24, 1851, 
residing in Minnesota. Washington Ourant, 
after his marriage, resided in the village of 
Moorefield, Harrison County, some time, where 
he worked at his trade. When he left Moore- 
field he removed to Nottingham Township, and 
purchased five acres of land in the northern part, 
on the Moravian road ; here he spent his time 
in clearing his land and working at his trade, 
and soon after he purchased twenty live acres 
more land in Stock Township, near the first 
purchase; in a short time he also purchased 
forty acres of Jesse Robison, for which he paid 
one hundred dollars, and forty acres from Aaron 
Robison, paying him one hundred and twenty- 
five dollars, and forty acres from Reuben Lee, 
on which our subject now resides, for which he 
paid six hundred dollars; he then purchased 
thirty acres from Thomas Wood, and ten acres 
from Hugh Wood. In 1845 he sold the first 
thirty acres he purchased, and removed to where 
our subject now reside-, where the rest of the 
land was located. His wife died March 20. 
L866, and he married Miss Ann Horn, who was 
horn March 21, 1813. Mr. Ourant departed 
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Ourant were members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church; politically he was a Republican. 

John M. Ourant was born in Nottingham 
Township, June 27, 1831, where he grew to 
manhood and received a common-school educa- 
tion. He remained on the farm with his par- 
ents till April 18, 1852, when he married Miss 
Harriet Kennedy, who was born June 1, 1834, a 
daughter of John L. and Matilda (Ourant) Ken- 
nedy. This union has been blessed with nine chil- 
dren, viz. : Alexander K, born July 8, 1853, died 
June 29, 1867; George W., born May 2, 1856, 
resides in Nottingham Township; Mary M., 
born March 16, 1858, wife of William H. Dunlap, 
of Moorefield Township; Charlotte E., born Feb- 
ruary 14, 1861, wife of John W. Jackson, of 
Nottingham Township; Citizens J. K. , born 
September 2, 1862, died November 4, 1864; 
Rachel J., born August 4, 1864, died October 
9, 1865; Hattie O., born May 17, 1866, died 
June 19, 1885; Obediah R. K.,born July 4, 
1868, and Angie V., born August 16, 1873, re- 
side at home. Our subject, after his marriage, 
remained on the old farm till 1854, when he re- 
moved to Wyandot County, Ohio, where he 
remained till 1859, and then went to Tuscara- 
was County, Ohio. He spent his time till 1881 
in different parts of Ohio, when he returned to 
the old farm where he has since resided. Po- 
litically he is a Republican. 



1/ I ( ENRY FERGUSON STRINGER, one of 
P— I the well-known farmers of Harrison 
1 County, was born in Jefferson Cbunty, 
•/J ' Ohio, March 30, 1840. The Stringer 
family were originally Quakers, and one, Will- 
iam, came to America in company with William 
Penn. For several generations they have re- 
sided in Jefferson County, Ohio. John Stringer, 
grandfather of our subject, and who was a 
farmer, died in Smithtield Township, Jefferson 
County, when Henry F. was a boy. The father 
of the latter, William Stringer, was also born 
in Ohio. George, an uncle of the grandfather, 
was in the War of the Revolution, where he was 



stricken with small pox. His wife through grief 
over this event lost her mind. John Stringer 
married a Scotch Irish woman named McCor- 
mack, and they both died in Jefferson County. 
They were the parents of eight children, of 
whom but one is now living, Mrs. Mary Scott, 
and one of them was William, the father of 
Henry F. He grew to manhood as a farmer's 
son, remaining at home until his marriage, in 
1827, with Miss Jane Johnston, daughter of 
Richard Johnston. She died in 1838, leaving 
five children, viz.: Jane and John (both now 
deceased); Johnston, in Green Township, Har- 
rison County, and Ann and William (both now 
deceased). In 1839, in Jefferson County, Mr. 
Stringer chose, for his second wife, Isabella, 
daughter of Henry Ferguson, of Harrison 
County; both her parents died in Harrison 
County. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Stringer settled in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
where they lived until 1859, when, at the age of 
fifty-six years, Mr. Stringer passed from earth. 
In politics he was a Republican, and in religion 
a member of the Presbyterian Church from 
early manhood. He was a man of great 
strength, one who by his own individual efforts 
carved his way to success. In his lifetime he 
had given much time to the study of religious 
topics, and was a prominent member of the 
Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder 
and a member of the presbytery. His widow 
resided on the old farm until October, 1888, 
when she followed to the grave at the age of 
seventy-four, having been born in 1814; she 
was a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
They were the parents of eight children, viz. : 
Henry F. (our subject); Jefferson, killed in the 
battle of Champion Hills; Joseph, on the old 
home place; Sarah, now Mrs. John Kyle, in 
Hopedale; Maria and Magness, on the old farm; 
Rebecca Essa and Mary died in childhood. 

Henry F. Stringer, the subject proper of 
these lines, was reared to farming, attending 
the common schools, winters, and afterward a 
number of terms at Franklin College. In 1870 
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Asa and Mary Holmes, of Short, Creel; Town- 
ship. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stringer 
made their borne for some eight years at Tiltons- 
ville in Jefferson County, on a farm; then, rent- 
ing his place there, they moved to Short Creek 
Township, where he bought tbe farm on which 
he has since resided, the improvements having 
been made entirely by his own industry. His 
dwelling is large and handsome, and finely situ- 
ated, built in 1SS5 with commodious barn and 
other outhouses. The property is located about 
two miles from New Athens, Georgetown and 
Shepherdstown, and is part of the old Harriman 
property. Mr. and Mrs. Stringer are the par- 
ents of eight children, as follows: Asa Holmes, 
Albert Ferguson, Oscar Worthington, Annetta, 
Paul Herman, William Ross, Carl Raymond and 
Oliver Earnest. Mr. and Mrs. Stringer are 
members of the Presbyterian Church at New 
Athens; politically he is a Prohibitionist, and 
has never sought office, as his farm duties oc- 
cupy his time closely. He carries on general 
farming and stock-raising, and is a progressive, 
intelligent citizen. 



f/OHN W. OSBURN, son of Samuel and 
^. I Elizabeth Osburn, of Archer Township, 
S^j Harrison County, was born in that town- 
ship October 3, 1840. He spent his early 
life in much the same manner as do farm boys 
generally, receiving the advantages of the com- 
mon schools of his native township. In 1871 
he was united in marriage with Miss Lyra B. 
Thompson (then nineteen years of age), a native 
of Green Township, Harrison County, and for 
some two years they made their home on the 
farm of his parents in Archer Township, and in 
March, 1871, they came to where they how 
reside in Cadiz Township. The farm consists 
of 12C>! acres, and is situated one mile south- 
west of the town of Cadiz. Mr. and Mrs. Os- 
burn are the parents of two children. Gertrude 
and Alice, now (1890) aged, respectively, eight- 
een and thirteen years. 

Politically Mr. Osburn is a Republican, and 



has never been an aspirant to office. On An 
gust 9, 1862, in Company F. Ninety-eighth O. 
V. I., he enlisted, serving eight months, and 
received an honorable discharge on account of 
disability. Recovering his health. In- then re- 
sponded to the call for one-hundred-days men, 
and in the One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. 
G., he served four months more, remaining 
with his regiment the entire time. He was 
made sergeant of his company, and participated 
in the engagements at Winchester, Snicker's 
Ferry, and the various other fights and skir- 
mishes in which his regiment took part. Upon 
receiving his second discharge, he returned 
home to his farm. He is a member of the (i. 
A. R. Mr. Osburn has many friends, and is 
known as a thrifty and progressive farmer. He 
and his wife and eldest daughter are members 
of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, and the 
family is one of the most highly respected in 
Harrison County. 




^ILLIAM LISLE, farmer on Section 29, 

Short Creek Township, Harrison Coun- 
M[ ty, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, 

May 6, L833, a son of John Lisle, also 
a native of Jefferson County, and now a resi- 
dent of Archer Township, Harrison County. 
From Jefferson County the family came, in 
1837, to Cadiz Township, Harrison County, and, 
in 1839, to Archer Township. 

The subject of these lines grew to manhood 
on the farm, and attended the common schools 
of his neighborhood. In the fall of 1861 he 
enlisted in Company G, Port) third O. V. I., 
serving three years, seven months and fifteen 
days. He was under Pope, and participated in 
the various engagements of the regiment, but 
was neither wounded nor captured; he was. how- 
ever, prostrated by typhoid fever, and was laid 
up in cam]', resolutely refusing to leave the 
field and go to the hospital. In July. L8l 
was honorably discharged, and returned to his 
old peaceful boTiie in Harrison County. In 
1878 Mr. Lisle chose as his life's partner Mi>-s 



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Rachel, daughter of Arter Beatty, of Archer 
Township, Harrison County, and in the follow- 
ing spring he purchased his farm comprising 171i 
acres, and located about one and a half miles east 
of New Athens. Mr. and Mrs. Lisle were the 
parents of four children, as follows: CoraE., 
Pearl Amanda, Bertha S. and John Arter. On 
June 24, 1889, the mother succumbed to that 
dread disease, consumption, at the early age of 
thirty seven years; she was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church at New Athens. Thus 
was a faithful wife and devoted mother taken 
away, leaving the bereaved father to mourn her 
loss and care for his home and family alone. 
Mr. Lisle, politically, is a Republican, strong 
and true, but has never been in office, as his 
time has been fully occupied with his farm duties. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church at 
New Athens. His home is a very pleasant one, 
situated on the Moorefield and Wheeling road. 
The family our subject represents is one of the 
best known and most highly esteemed in the 
county, well deserving a prominent place in the 
Commemorative Record. 



FH. SIMPSON is a native farmer of Stock 
Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, born in the 
year 1860. Here he has spent the most 
of his life, and here he received his edu- 
cation, which, although that of the common 
schools, was excellent. On December 17, 1883, 
Mr. Simpson married Miss Phcebe Taylor, who 
was born iu Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1865, 
a daughter of Samuel Taylor, of that coun- 
ty. Samuel Taylor is of English descent, 
the family having been engaged in acriculture 
for the last century. He married Melissa La- 
ken, who bore him three children, viz. : Edwin 
(deceased), Phcebe and James. In politics Mr. 
Taylor is a Democrat, and the family are mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which Mr. Taylor is a class-leader and trustee. 
After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson settled 
down to the serious business of life in Stock 
Township, and there have been born to them 



three children, viz. : Erwin, born in 18S5; Nora, 
born in 1886, and Mary, bom in 1889. Mr. 
Simpson has always been a stanch member of 
the Republican party, and is also a strong sup- 
porter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
is the only representative of the Simpson fam- 
ily in Stock Township, and fully sustains the 
reputation for progressiveness and enterprise, 
as well as integrity, possessed by his father. 

F. H. Simpson's father, John Simpson, was 
born in the year 1814 in Stock Township, Har- 
rison Co. , Ohio, and in the year 1839 was married 
to Margaret Law, who bore him nine children, of 
whom the following is a record: Mary (who is 
now married to J. C. Patterson) was born in the 
year 1841; Martha (who is deceased) was born in 
the year 1842; Maggie (who is deceased) was 
born in the year 1844; Matthew (who is living 
in Washington Township) was born in the year 
1846; James (deceased) was born in the year 
1850; Henry and William (twins — Henry, de- 
ceased, William still living) were born in the 
year 1851; Ella (deceased) was born in the year 
1857; Homer was born in the year 1860. John 
Simpson was a Methodist, as were all his family, 
from youth until death called him, which was iu 
the year 1877; in politics he was a Republi- 
can. He spent all his life on the farm except 
nine years which he spent in the mercantile 
business in Scio. He was a very energetic man. 

His father (John Simpson) was born in 
County Tyrone, Ireland, and came to this coun- 
try in the year 1790, locating in Washington 
County, Penn. , where he was married to Mar 
garet McElroy, afterward coming to Har- 
rison County, Ohio, in the year 1800. There 
were born to them nine children — six boys and 
three girls. He and his brother James (Bishop 
Simpson's father) was the first to start a store 
in Cadiz, and from thence he came to Stock 
Township and settled on the farm which his son 
(John Simpson) owned until within a few years 
of his death. John Simpson bought the farm 
which F. H. Simpson now owns and lives on, in 
the year 1858. 

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born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in the year 
1820, and she came to this country in the year 
1830 with all her father's family. Her father, 
whose name was John Law, was married to 
Bessie Linn, who bore him nine children — seven 
girls and two boys — all of whom lived to be mar- 
ried and have families of their own. 



d|OHN WALKER PATTON. In 1816 there 
came to Harrison County, Ohio, a soldier 
_J of the War of 1812, who located in Short 
Creek Township, and there became known 
as one of those hardy pioneers who, pushing 
undauntedly into the trackless wilderness, 
claimed the virgin soil as their heritage. There, 
in their little cabin, bnilt from the logs fur- 
nished by the timber which he had cleared, 
struggling bravely against the privations and 
dangers which surrounded them, never once 
murmuring at their hard lot, but happy in the 
thought that those possessions were theirs, lived 
James Patton and his faithful wife, Jane 
(Walker) Patton, who, like himself, was a na- 
tive of Pennsylvania. Time passed on, but the 
struggles grew lighter. Twelve children came 
to bless their home, and they lived to see their 
labors crowned with success. They died at the 
advanced ages of seventy-four and ninety-one 
years, respectively . 

Their fourth child, named John Walker 
Patton, was born on the old homestead June 30, 
1818, and was reared among the privations of 
pioneer life, receiving the rudiments of an edu- 
cation in the subscription schools of the period, 
in which was laid the foundation of his subse- 
quent success. On December 30, 1846, he was 
united in marriage with Miss Anna Braden, 
whose parents were also pioneers of this region. 
They devoted their attention to agricultural 
pursuits, beginning with a capital which con- 
sisted of determination, pluck and energy, and 
soon achieved a competence. Their original farm 
of sixty acres, by numerous additions, has been 
increased to 250 acres, which includes the old 
homestead on which Mr. Patton now resides. On 



February 10. 1883, after a lingering illness. Mrs. 
Patton passed to her last long sleep, and her re- 
mains now lie at rest in Olive Branch Cemetery, 
at Harrisville. She was born near Cadiz, Ohio, 
July 25, 1820. From early childhood she 
manifested a devout Christian spirit, and at an 
early age united with the Associate { now the Tint- 
ed) Presbyterian Church, and never faltered in 
her faith. Two children, Robert B. and Esther 
M., were left to mourn her loss, and, of these, 
Robert B. graduated from Wooster University, 
took a post-graduate and theological course at 
Princeton College and Theological Seminary, 
and spent the year L885-86at Berlin. Germany, 
perfecting himself for the work of the ministry; 
he is now pastor of the First United Presbyter- 
ian Church, at Columbus, Ohio. Esther M. (the 
younger) remains at home, and is a member of 
the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville. 
John W. Patton departed this life in the full 
assurance of the faith, September 7, 1890, 
while this sketch was in course of preparation. 
In early life he united with the Associate Pres- 
byterian Congregation of Unity, then under the 
pastorate of his namesake and uncle, Rev. Dr. 
John Walker. Mr. Patton was a ruling elder 
in the Harrisville United Presbyterian Church 
from its organization, and was highly respected 
and justly esteemed by all. 



JOHN R. KAIL, a native-born and highly 
respected farmer of German Township, 
Harrison County, is a son of Jacob and 
Mary (Wbitmore) Kail. Jacob was a son 

of John Kail, Jr., who was a son of John Kail, 
Sr., and was a native of Pennsylvania; his fa- 
ther came from England in 170(1. John Kail, 
Jr., came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1800, 
two years before the admission of the State 
into the Union, and purchased 135 acres of 
land, on which he endured all the hardships of 
pioneer life. He was the father of ten children, 
of whom Jacob, father of John R. Kail, was 
born in Pennsylvania. 

Jacob Kail was the father of nine children, 



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of whom our subject is tbe third son, born in 
German Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, January 
13, 1820, aud here he spent his boyhood days 
on tbe farm. On November 1, 1853, he mar- 
ried Miss Elizabeth Tedrow, of Ruinley Town- 
ship, Harrison County, daughter of George and 
Elizabeth ( Hardsock) Tedrow, former of whom 
is still living with our subject, at the age of 
eighty-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. John R. 
Kail are the parents of four children, viz. : De- 
lanson, George T., Austin (telegraph operator 
for the P., C. & St. L. R. R., at Cadiz Junction), 
and J. M. (operator for the same company at 
Miller Station). Mr. and Mrs. Kail are both 
members of the Presbvterian Church. 



AMUEL SMITH, one of the oldest citi- 
zens of Germau Township, Harrison 
County, is a son of Jacob and Christina 
(Wirts) Smith, former of whom was a na- 
tive of Loudoun County, Va. , born in 1787, lat- 
ter a native of Maryland, born in 1791. Jacob, 
who was the second son of a family of three 
boys, was a wagon and plow maker by trade, and 
in 1809 moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, where 
he entered 100 acres of land in Township 11, 
Section 22, Range 4. Here he built a small log 
cabin, in which he lived for some time, afterward 
erecting a more comfortable and larger house, 
also of logs. There he toiled hard, clearing 
land, and making plows and repairing wagons 
for his neighbors. The plows were all made en- 
tirely of wood, with the exception of a few bolts 
to bold them together. He was always a very 
active member of the Lutheran Church, and, 
politically, he was known as a Democrat, but in 
1840 he voted for William Henry Harrison. He 
died on his farm in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 
1859, the father of eleven children: Elias, an 
undertaker in Bladinsburg, Knox Co., Ohio; 
William and George, both deceased: Samuel, our 
subject; Susanna, Drusilla, Elizabeth and John 
J., all four deceased; Aaron, a farmer of Carroll 
County, Ohio; Cyrus, deceased, and Malinda C, 
who lives in Indiana. 



Samuel Smith, our subject, was born in Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio, February 10, 1815, and re- 
ceived his education at the common schools. 
He worked for his father, helping to clear the 
land, and in the general duties of the farm, until 
January 26, 1837, when he married Miss Polly, 
a daughter of John Wagnor. who was an early 
settler in Harrison County. Ohio. After marriage 
Mr. Smith remained on the farm and learned 
plow-making, it taking him one day, only, to learn 
the trade. He worked in the fall and spring 
making plows, and the balance of his time on the 
farm, receiving for his pay a share of the profits. 
In 1S39 he bought one hundred acres of land 
in Springfield Township, Jefferson County, in 
Section 22; the land was cleared, but the build- 
ings were very poor, which, however, he re- 
placed with new ones. Mr. Smith was wedded 
twice, aud by his hist wife was the father of 
five children, viz. : J. H. , a blacksmith in Ger- 
mano; Rachel, wife of Jacob Miller, a carpenter 
in Germano; Harvey, deceased; Malinda C, 
deceased, and Sarah A., wife of A. M. Spear, a 
blacksmith in Jewett. Mrs. Polly Smith died 
March 9, 1866, and July 2, 1867, Mr. Smith 
married Mrs. Mary A. Slates, widow of Adam 
Slates, born November 10, 1823, in Maryland, 
a daughter of Michael and Sarah (Warner) 
Sawvel, natives of Maryland, who came to 
Harrison County, Ohio, among the early settlers. 
This union brought forth one child, Louella A., 
living at home, and now aged eighteen years. 

In 1854 Samuel Smith sold his farm in Jef- 
ferson County, and moved to Harrison County, 
near Germano, where he bought five acres of 
land, but in a short time sold it and bought six 
acres near the same place. In 1864 he moved 
into Germano, where he worked for A. V. Ry- 
der, making wagons and rakes, for seven years. 
He then commenced working for himself in a 
shop owned by his wife, which business he fol- 
lowed until 18S8, but on account of lung trouble 
he has not done any work since. Both he aud 
wife are members of the Lutheran Church. 
The first vote Mr. Smith cast for president of 
the United States was for William H. Harrison, 



HA ERISON CO UX TV. 






in 1840, hut since that time he has been a faith- 
ful Democrat. 



JjOHN SPRAY, one of the representative 
citizens of Franklin Township, Harrison 
' Count}', was born in Meigs County, Ohio, 
January 15, 1834. His father, John Spray, 
was born in Maryland about 1780, came to Ohio 
when a young man, and settled near Hanover, 
Harrison County. Here he married Elizabeth 
Fowler, a sister of Garret Fowler, and they lo- 
cated on a farm near Hanover, but, a few years 
later, removed to Meigs County, where they 
ended their days. Mr. Spray had been twice 
married, and, to his first union, as above, were 
born five daughters and one son, the last be- 
ing the subject of this sketch. His second mar- 
riage was with Betsey Ryan, and to this mar- 
riage were born three children, of whom two are 
still living, both being girls. 

John Spray, the subject proper of this 
sketch, who was but an infant when his mother 
died, and only eight years of age when he lost 
his father, soon after the death of his parents 
came with his sisters to this section of the State, 
where he received the rudiments of an educa- 
tion in a log school-house. Early thrown upon 
his own resources, he began when a boy to work 
at anything he could find to do, and, for a time, 
worked for an uncle, Robert Simpson, near 
Scio, Ohio. In 1855, when twenty one years of 
age, he went to Iowa and entered a tract of land. 
where he resided until the following spring, 
when he traded his land for a farm in "Washing- 
ton Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. In 1850 
Mr. Spray married Clarissa Fowler, and took 
up his residence on this farm. but. a year later, 
sold, and purchased a farm in Monroe Town- 
ship, lived there a year and then purchased 180 
acres in Franklin Township, his present place of 
residence. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Spray have been born ten children, of whom 
the following named are now living, viz.: Sum 
ner. Paulina, Joseph, Jehu, Hannah and Clarke 
B. The family worship at the Advent Church, 



and are highly respected by the entire commu- 
nity. Politically Mr. Spray is a Republican, and 
he is a firm believer in the protection of Ameri- 
can industry. 

In May. IS04. .Mr. Spray enlisted in the One 
Hundred and Seventieth O. N. C, took part in 
all its marches and campaigns, and, although 
suffering from the measles, which ho contracted 
while on duty, bravely stood at his post in the 
front. He was honorably discharged in Sep- 
tember, 1864, at Camp Chase, and, returning 
home, he resumed his business duties. He had 
engaged in the saw mill business after settling 
in Franklin Township, and at one time owned 
four mills, doing the most extensive business of 
any one in his region, and, that he did speedy 
work, is verified by the fact that he sawed over 
18,000 feet with a single saw in one day. He now 
owns two mills, one at his home and one at Big 
Run, Pike County. Lumber contracting atone 
time also occupied his attention, and for a long 
time he was busy, night and day. tilling con- 
tracts from the Pan Handle Railroad Company 
for bridge timber, etc. At present Mr. Spray 
owns 380 acres of land in Harrison County, 
Ohio, and his residence is near Franklin. His 
principal occupation, now, is the breeding of 
registered sheep, of which he has at pi 
600, including three different bleeds, viz. : Dick- 
insons, Blacktops and Delaines, all carefully 
bred and kept pure, and he has on hand both 
sexes for sale. 



and 



ALATHIEL KENNEDY, farmer and 

dealer in stock, Moorefield Township, 

Harrison County, is a son of Return 

Matthew and Jane (Moore) Kennedy, 

was bom in Tuscarawas County. Ohio. 

March 8, 1837. Wli light years old his par 

ents came to Moorefield Township, Harrison 
County, where he grew to manhood and received 
a practical business education at the common 
schools. On December 1. 1858, he married 
Miss Mary L. McCollough, who was born 



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December 27, 1832, a daughter of William and 
Julia A. (Laizure) McCollough. 

After his marriage Mr. Kennedy engaged 
in mercantile business where J. M. Willison 
now is, at Cross Roads, aud here remained till 
1875. In 1876 he removed to Cadiz, Harrison 
County, where he was engaged in the sale of 
dry goods and notions and ready-made clothing. 
In the spring of 1880 he sold his stock and 
moved to southern California, where he remained 
sixteen months, for the benefit of his health. 
In 1S87 be returned home and settled on his 
farm, where he has since been dealing quite ex- 
tensively in stock. He is the owner of the old 
Kennedy homestead, which contains 300 acres 
in Section 13, Moorefield Township; this farm 
is one of the best and most productive in Harri- 
son County. Politically Mr. Kennedy is Demo- 
cratic, but never has been an active politician, 
and he and his wife are members of the Presby- 
terian Church of Cadiz. Mr. Kennedy is well 
known throughout the county, and is very highly 
esteemed by his friends and neighbors. 



JfOSEPH MORRIS. Among the well-known 
farmers of German Township, Harrison 
I County, stands in the foremost ranks this 
gentleman, a native of Athens Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, born March 10, 1822, of 
English ancestry, his great-grandparents hav- 
ing come from England about the year 1725, 
settling in Virginia. Here James Morris, grand- 
father of our subject, came into the world, and 
in early manhood married, and reared a family 
of children, as follows: Daniel, Thomas, James, 
Zachariah, John, Lizzie, Morgan and Phoebe. 
He died in 1800, a pronounced Democrat, and 
was buried at his native place. Of his children, 
John was born in Virginia (opposite the city of 
Marietta), April 4, 1785, and early in life en- 
gaged in the carpenter's trade. In 1813 he 
came to Ohio, settling in Harrison County, and 
locating in Cadiz, at that time a village consist- 
ing of but a few houses. Here he entered into 



partnership with Adam Jenkins, as contractors 
and builders, and the first house built by them 
was the residence of John Jamieson, a short 
distance from Cadiz. After remaining in this 
town about three years, Mr. Morris removed to 
New Athens, where he continued his trade. 
Here he was united in marriage, January 28, 
1816, with Charlotte, daughter of Joseph Huff, 
whose mother, before her marriage, was Miss 
Doddridge, of the celebrated Doddridge family, 
of Virginia, and she assisted in molding bullets 
at the block-house. Joseph Huff was a widely- 
known scout and Indian fighter, during and 
after the Revolution. Mr. Huff was one of the 
first to settle in Short Creek Township, Harri- 
son County, leaving the block-houses where the 
settlers had come for safety. He was an in- 
trepid man, one who rendered valuable service 
to the Government in its sorest need, as well as 
to the hardy and adventurous settler, who, but 
for his timely assistance, would have been the 
victim of the wily and revengeful Indians, and 
the Government gave him a section of land in 
Athens Township for his services. After his 
marriage Mr. Morris settled in Athens Town- 
ship, where he died. The following children 
were born to him: A daughter, who died in in- 
fancy, November 20, 1817; Alexander, born 
July 14, 1819, died May 18,1824; Joseph, born 
March 16, 1822; Margaret, born March 21, 1824, 
died September 25, 1840; John, born May 10, 
1820; Mary Ann, born May 20, 1828; Prudence, 
born July 23, 1830, died March 2, 1838; Philip 
D. born May 21, 1833, died October 28, 1805; 
Charlotte, born May 16, 1835, died March 9, 
1838; Elizabeth, born January 12, 1S40, died 
January 1, 1866. Mr. Morris was at first a 
Democrat, but on the organization of the Re- 
publican party, he united with them, and ever 
after supported their principles. He, as well as 
his family, were members of the Presbyterian 
Church. On April 4, 1865, he died, and was 
buried in the New Athens Cemetery. His widow 
spent her declining years with her son Joseph, 
who, assisted by his wife, tenderly cared for . 
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decease occurring December 8, 1884; she was 
buried by the side of her husband. 

Joseph Morris, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was engaged in boyhood and youth in 
the various farm duties, attending the com- 
mon schools of his neighborhood, and when yet 
young, on account of his father's failing health, 
he was given the management of the home 
place. At the age of twenty-one, on March 9, 
1843, he was married to Mary, daughter of 
George S. Brock, a well-known resident of Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, and after marriage the young 
couple remained in Athens Township for eight 
years, then removed to Belmont, where they 
made their home until January 20, 1879, when 
he removed to his present residence, in German 
Township. The record of his children is as 
follows: John A. was born January 11, 1844; 
Mary E. C. was bom June 27, 1847; George 
S. was born October 21, 1850; L. V. was born 
June 12, 1854, and died February 2, 1885. 
Mrs. Morris died October 28, 1873, and was 
buried at Flushing. On February 17, 1875, 
Mr. Morris was married to Emma, daughter of 
Cyrus Moore, one of the wealthiest farmers of 
Jefferson County, Ohio. Mr. Morris has from 
his youth been an ardent Republican, and while 
a resident of Belmont County was elected 
justice of the peace. Himself and family are 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Hopedale, in which they are numbered among 
the leaders. His son, John A., also his son-in- 
law, Hugh Oglevee, each served three years in 
the late war and both were wounded. 



EjZRA L. CARRICK. In the year 1811 
James Carrick removed with his family 
y from Adams County, Penn., to Ohio, and 

settled in Harrison County. The country 
at that time was an unbroken wilderness, and 
they were among those brave and sturdy pio- 
neers who suffered the privations and endured 
the dangers incident to frontier life. In the 
spring of 1812 they located on the north half 



of Section 7, Short Creek Township. James 

Carrick had visited this country the year pie 
vious, and purchased the land, having made the 
journey on horseback. Returning, lie brought 
out his family in a wagon, and resided on the 
place until his death; he died in l^2u, his wife 
in 1833. They were married in L775, and to 
them were born eleven children, and the tenth 
child in the order of birth was a son, James 
W., who was born in Adams County, Penn., 
October 14. 1799. He came with his parents 
to Ohio, and was schooled in the pioneer period 
of the State. His early life was spent with his 
parents, assisting in clearing the land, and in 
those early struggles were laid the foundation 
for the resolute character and unswerving in- 
tegrity which characterized his after life. He 
received the limited advantages for an education 
which the schools of those early times afforded, 
and he acquired his education mostly through 
his own personal efforts. His father died while 
he was yet a young man. and for some years 
after he made his home with his mother. The 
original property was divided between the three 
sous. In 1825 James W. married Miss Martha 
Penuel, and three children— two sons and one 
daughter — were the fruits of this union, two of 
whom are now living. Mrs. Carrick died Jau- 
uary 7, 1833, and in L834 Mr. Carrick married 
Mrs. Sarah Boggs, a daughter of William Gamp- 
bell, one of the early pioneer families of Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, where the lady was born. 
To this union were born eight children, three of 
whom are now living. In 187(1, after a linger- 
ing illness, Mrs. Carrick passed to her last 
long sleep; she was a devote. 1 member of the 
Presbyterian Church, kind and charitable to- 
ward all. and her death was a loss to many. Mr. 
Carrick lived to a ripe old nee. .lying March 10, 
1885, in his eighty-sixth year, having outlived 
all his family, and, being the last representative 
of his generation, he attained a more advanced 
age than any of them. As a citizen, lie had 
taken an active interest in all public works tend- 
ing toward the advancement and improvement 
of the country. He Was of a quiet, unassuming 



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disposition, yet firm and unswerving in his opin- 
ions of right and wrong, and was respected and 
esteemed by all. He was well posted on the 
topics of the day, and spoke fluently and intelli- 
gently of them. Politically, he was a member 
of the Whig party, and at its disrupture became 
a Republican. His first presidential vote was 
for John Quincy Adams, and his last presiden- 
tial ballot was cast for Blaine and Logan. 

His son, whose name stands at the beginning 
of this sketch, was born December 15, 1843, on 
the old homestead, where he now resides, and 
grew to manhood with his parents, receiving a 
practical education in the district schools of his 
neighborhood. He had control of the farm 
prior to his father's death, and resided with 
him. In 18G4 he went out as one of the ''hun- 
dred-days men," boing mustered into the service 
May 10, and participated in the engagements at 
Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry and Winchester. 
At the end of his term of enlistment he was honor- 
ably discharged at Columbus, Ohio, and returned 
to his home. In 1872 he married Miss Mar- 
tha, daughter of Andrew Jamison, and two 
children have been born to them, one now living, 
Oliver J. Mr. Carrick devotes much of his 
time to the raising and breeding of thorough- 
bred Short-horn cattle, and is one of the lead- 
ing stock-raisers of the county. He has a fine 
farm, fitted up with a commodious barn and all 
modern improvements. " Pleasant Hill " stock 
farm, with its herd of line cattle, is known 
extensively throughout this region. Politically 
Mr. Carrick adheres to the faith of his father, 
and has served as supervisor of his district. He 
chooses, however, to devote his attention to his 
business at home, and has never sought political 
honors. He has, however, been active in edu- 
cational matters, and has served as a member of 
the board of education. The family worship at 
the Presbyterian Church at Adena, of which 
they are members. The Carricks are descended 
from a line of Scotch- Irish ancestry, and the 
principles of integrity and industry, which are 
the attributes of those people, are characteristics 
of the family to-day. 




,ILEY JAMISON was born August 26, 
1856, in Green Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. His father, Joseph Jami- 
son, was one of the early residents of 
that township, and in early youth chose as his 
wife Clarissa Wiley, daughter of William Wiley, 
of Short Creek Township, Harrison County. He 
settled in Green Township, where he remained 
until his death. He was an earnest worker in 
the Republican ranks, and an honored associate 
of the leaders of the party. His children were 
as follows: Wiley. Mary (deceased), Lizzie (Mrs. 
Bentley Kerr), Annie (deceased), and Jessie 
(Mrs. Charles Clark). In 1872 the father died 
and was buried in Cadiz Cemetery. 

Wiley Jamison spent his entire youth on the 
home place, which, since the death of his father, 
he has managed. On February 3, 1880, he was 
married to Mary, daughter of S. S. Campbell, 
of Cadiz Township, Harrison County, and they 
have had the following named children: Bessie, 
born October 8, 1880; Barclay, born May 1, 
1883, and Bentley, born June 3, 1888. In his 
political affiliations Mr. Jamison has been a life- 
long Republican, and has always taken an active 
interest in party work. Himself and family are 
members of the United Presbyterian Church at 
Cadiz, where they reside. He is engaged in 
farming and stock-raising mainly. 



ItOHN MILLS. In every section there are 
w. I to be found those who by their persisting 
\^J will, as well as mode of character, impress 
their individuality upon the entire com- 
munity, and also make a success of whatever 
they undertake. Such a man was John Mills, 
who first saw light in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
February 23, 1816. His father, George Mills, 
was a native of Scotland, and in early life came 
to this country, locating in Pennsylvania, where 
he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Cald- 
well, a native of Ireland. They remained there 
but a short time, and then thinking to make a 
home in the Far West, removed to Jefferson 
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entered they remained until their death. Mr. 
Mills ha<l, by hard work through the greater 
part, of his life, succeeded in overcoming the 
wilderness as it then existed, and by careful 
management and industry made his farm one of 
the best producing in his section. His children 
were George, William, John, James, Jane, 
Nancy and Eliza. He was a member of the 
Democratic party, and he and his family were 
members of Beech Spring Presbyterian Church, 
in whose cemetery now rest their remains. 

John Mills, whose name heads this sketch, 
was trained in those principles of honesty and 
truth which were marked characteristics of his 
life, and .all through it did he practice them. 
His early education was confined to the com- 
mon school, but this education was completed 
in the lessons taught by the industrious pur- 
suits of the world, in which he became remark- 
ably proficient. He was a self-made man. On 
March 21, 1850, he chose, as his life's partner, 
Eliza J. Henderson, who was born August 28, 
1827. a daughter of John Henderson, a resident 
of Jefferson County, Ohio. Soon after their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mills located on a farm 
in Jefferson County, where they remained about 
two years, and then removed to the farm on 
which his family have since resided. The chil 
dren born to John and Eliza J. (Henderson) 
Mills were as follows: Jennie N., born March 
2, 1851, died October 11, 1882; Alexander 
Hamilton, born February 18, 1853; Lizzie A., 
born April 1, 1855, died April 22. 1883; Mary 
Ella, born September 25, 1857, died May 6, 
1883; George C, born August 8, 1860, "died 
August 29, 1890; John D., born August 8, 
1860; Mattie A., born April 1, 1863, died No- 
vember 24, 1883; R. Henderson, born June 29, 
1865. Of these, Hamilton was married Sep- 
tember 8, 1886, to Miss Maggie E. Cochran, of 
Washington County, Penn. , and resides in 
Jefferson County, adjoining Harrison: John 
D. was married December 31, 1889, to Miss 
Julia A. Sixsmith, of Jefferson County, Ohio, 
and now resides on part of the home farm. R. 
Henderson and Miss Mary E. Birney, daughter 



of William J. Birney, of Nottingham Township, 
Harrison County, were married May '-'■». 1890, 
and now reside on the old homestead. In his 
political views Mr. Mills was a Democrat, and 
while not active as a politician, still took a deep 
interest in the party of his choice. He was 
among the members of the Beech Spring Pres- 
byterian Church, in which he was a trustee for 
many years. 

Since the death of Mr. Mills, which occurred 
October 19, 18S.~> (his remains being buried in 
Beech Spring Cemetery), the farm has been 
managed by his sons, who reside on the home 
place with their mother. They are known as 
''Mills Brothers," proprietors of the well- 
known Beech Spring Stock Farm, and are rapid- 
ly coming to the front as breeders of high- 
grade horses and thoroughbred sheep, cattle and 
swine. The brothers are energetic and enter- 
prising, and are destined to fully take the place 
made vacant by the death of their father. The 
family is exceedingly well known in eastern 
Harrison and western Jefferson Counties, and 
are recognized as among the leaders in the social, 
financial and religious circles of their section. 



THOMA.S A. NEWELL, druggist and 
pharmacist at Bowerston, Harrison Coun- 
ty, is one of the county's energetic bus- 
iness men, and one whose success has 
been achieved through his own endeavor. He 
is a native of Ohio, and was born in Leavitts- 
ville. Carroll County, in 1851. His father. 
John Newell, was a son of one of the early pio- 
neers of this region, his parents having emi 
grated at an early day from New Jersey, locat 
ing in Carroll County, Ohio. He was a oarpen- 
ter by trade and also engaged in farming and 
mercantile business. 

Thomas A. Newell is the sixth in a familj "f 
seven children. The father died when Thomas 
A. was but a child of three years, and the sup- 
port of the family being thrown upon the 
mother, she could not give her children the beat 
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received the rudiments of an education in the 
log school-house, furnished with split-log bench- 
es and desks. He wore home-made clothing, 
and often he watched his mother as she wove 
the cloth, and he has now at his home the old 
spinning wheel upon which his mother spun 
man}' a pound of yarn. This wheel he values 
highly as a keepsake — a memento of those early 
times. He was early thrown upon his own re- 
sources, and with his meager earnings assisted 
his mother hi the support of the family. When 
sixteen years of age he engaged as a clerk in 
the store and post-office with Charles McKean 
at Bowerston, and here about five years of his 
life were spent; then embarking for himself in 
the sewing-machine trade, he followed this prof- 
itably for ten years. In 1882 he established 
himself in his present line, and is now one of 
Bowerston' s leading business men. In 1871 
Mr. Newell married Charlotte, daughter of Dan- 
iel Weyandt, an early settler of Bowerston, and 
this union has resulted in the birth of four sons 
and three daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Newell are 
both members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church; politically he is a stanch Republican. 
He is a charter member of Bowerston Council, 
No. 07, J. O. A. W. , in which lodge be is a 
councilor; he is a charter and efficient member 
of Centennial Lodge, No. 94, K. of P., at Bow- 
erston, and was chosen representative to the 
grand lodge two years. Mr. Newell is a public- 
spirited gentleman, and is highly respected. 



^ AMUEL B. McGAVRAN, M. D. Among 
the able physicians of Harrison County 
whose lives are devoted to the benevolent 
work of alleviating the sufferings of hu- 
manity, none stands more prominent than Dr. 
McGavran. He was born near the town of Con- 
otton, Harrison County, November 25, 1847, 
a son of William H. and Elizabeth (Brown) Mc- 
Gavran. His mother was a native of the Key- 
stone State, of Irish descent. His father is a 
native of Maryland, whither his ancestry had 
come at an early day. He removed to Harrison 



County, Ohio, about 1840, and carried on cabi- 
net making, and to some extent farming. In 
1859 he was elected to the Ohio Legislature, 
from Harrison County, as a Republican, and 
was a member of that body at the opening of 
the great Rebellion of the South; he was also, 
for many years, a justice of the peace. To Mr. 
and Mrs. W. H. McGavran were born six chil- 
dren, viz. : James B. , deceased; Henrietta, now 
Mrs. W. H. Masters, residing at Scio, Harri- 
son County; George W., deceased; Samuel B. ; 
Elizabeth, deceased wife of N. E. Clendennin; 
and William Thomas, now residing on the old 
home place, in North Township, Harrison 
County. 

Samuel B. McGavran, from early boyhood, 
had to rely very much upon his own resources. 
Until the age of fourteen he attended the com- 
mon schools, and later, for two years, New 
Hagerstown Academy, after which he taught 
school for five years, to obtain funds with which 
to take a collegiate course. He entered college 
at Scio, in Harrison County, reaching his senior 
year in 1869, when he commenced the study of 
medicine with Dr. William Beadle, at Scio, and 
continued his studies with him after his removal 
to Green Township. In 1870 he entered the 
Cleveland (Ohio) Medical College, graduating 
from there February 29, 1872. On account of 
his high standing in his examinations he was 
made valedictorian of a class of twenty-nine, 
and delivered the address. In June, 1874, he 
commenced the practice of his profession at 
Bowerston, Harrison County, where he was emi- 
nently successful, but being desirous of estab- 
lishing himself in the chief town of the county, 
he removed to Cadiz, December 1, 1882, where 
he has since resided, and where he has built up 
a practice second to none in the county. The 
Doctor is a public-spirited citizen, always fore- 
most in any enterprise for the benefit of town or 
county, whose interests and welfare are dear to 
his heart. In his practice he does a large 
amount of charitable work, and is a liberal man 
to the poor. 

In August, 1872, Dr. McGavran was mar- 






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ried to Miss Jennie E. Johnston, of Carroll 
County, Ohio, who has borne him four children, 
viz.: Mary Brown, Charles "William, Francis 
Johnston and George Clark. The parents are 
members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, 
the Doctor being clerk of the session and a rul- 
ing elder. Politically, he is a Republican, and, 
while at Bowerston, was elected to represent the 
county in the State Legislature, running far 
ahead of his ticket in his township, and having 
in the county as large a majority as was ever 
cast in the county for that office. He was on 
many committees, and his work at all times was 
pronounced to be most satisfactory to his con- 
stituents, and highly creditable to himself. The 
Doctor is examining surgeon for the county 
pension board. In the positions which he has 
held, and as an experienced physiciau. Dr. Mc- 
Gavran enjoys the esteem, the respect and the 
confidence of all. 



' If ENRY PETTY. The Petty family came 
'5^1 west from the State of Virginia, where 
1 the ancestors settled about 1750, having 
come from England. There they en- 
gaged in agriculture, generally, though some 
took up various trades and professions. The 
head of the now resident family of Washington 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, was Leroy 
Petty, who, with his wife (Keziah Tipton), 
came to the county at its earliest settlement. 
They entered a quarter-section, on which they 
built their log cabin, and immediately set about 
clearing enough space to furnish a living. Here 
they struggled together until the death of Mrs. 
Petty, which occurred in 1853. She was the 
mother of five children: Henry, John, Mary 
Ann, Elizabeth and Martha. For his second 
wife Mr. Petty married Hannah Hogue, who 
bore him two children, Levi and Harriet. Mr. 
Petty was a Republican in politics, and took an 
active interest in the success of his principles 
as well as party. He was a prominent member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over 
forty years, and was one of its most enthusiastic 



workers. His influence on the community in 
which he resided was wonderfully beneficial, and 
every one felt proud of his acquaintance. Au- 
gust 31, 1882, he passed away; his widow still 
resides at West Chester, Ohio. 

Henry Petty, the eldest son of Leroy Petty, 
was born November 11, 1835, in "Washington 
Township, whose interests he was always seek- 
ing to advance during his residence there. 
Although deprived of an opportunity of receiv- 
ing the advantages of an educational training, 
still, by his own efforts, he largely overcame 
those difficulties which so often are insurmount- 
able to those who endeavor to attain learning by 
themselves. His was a diversified training, 
though running chiefly to economics and political 
questions. A Republican by birth, he soon was 
convinced by his own investigations that their 
principles were in accordance with reason, and 
for the best interests of the masses. In his na- 
tive township he was ever active in the advance- 
ment of his party, and his advice in political 
matters was much sought after. On November 

23, 1858, he was united in marriage with Sarah 
J., daughter of James Cree, and they imme- 
diately thereafter removed to the home place, 
where the family have since resided, and which 
they, by their own endeavors, purchased. Their 
children were as follows: James, born October 

24, 1859, died December 26, I860; Martha, born 
March 6, 1861, now Mrs. Addison Chandler; 
Leroy, born March 23, 1863, died October 5, 
1864; Nancy, born September 1, 1865, married 
Patrick Owens, and who died October 19, 1886, 
leaving one child, Sadie, born September 22, 
1883; William, born November 23, 1867. died 
June 1, 1888; Caroline, born December 15, 
1870, died August 2, 1889; Joshua, born Sep- 
tember 8, 1874; Carrie, born April 28, 1876. 
died May 15, 1878; Mary J., born October 12. 
L878, died April 28, 1889. On February 27, 
1881, Mr. Petty died, and was buried at West 
Cheater. He was a man of sterling integrity, 
of irreproachable honesty, and one who by his 
daily life had endeared himself to a large circle 
of acquaintances. Like his family, he was a 



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member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
West Chester, and had been one of the leaders 
in the congregation for many years. 




\ILLIAM W. HOLLETT. TheHollett 
family have long been numbered among 
lf[ the leading citizens of Harrison Coun- 
ty. The present representative of the 
family, William W., was born January 31, 
1831, on the farm on which he still resides, 
and here he spent his boyhood days in the vari- 
ous farm duties, and attended the neighboring 
schools. The first school building was erected 
on the farm owned by his father, and was of the 
old- log style, into whose huge fireplace, that 
seemed insatiate in its greed for fuel, but was 
miserly in its distribution of heat, were rolled 
logs, whose crackle and blaze lent a cheer if not 
comfort to the room. 

John Hollett, the father of William \V., 
was born August 7, 1780, in Maryland, to 
which State his grandfather had emigrated from 
England at an early date. John's father assist- 
ed in the contest for freedom as one of that 
band whose skill and bravery achieved for 
us our independence. After the Revolution he 
and his wife, Elizabeth Burgess, remained in 
Maryland until they came to Ohio, arriving 
here about the year 1800, and purchased a 
farm, which is the present site of Mount Pleas- 
ant. The family were Episcopalians, and their 
children were John, Hannah and Rachel. Until 
twenty-five years of age John remained on the 
home place in Jefferson County, where he was 
married to Elizabeth Worrall, and soon after 
his marriage he settled in Freeport, where, some 
time previous, he had entered a tract of land, 
and where he remained until his death. The 
land has never passed out of the family, and has 
never been conveyed by deed. The children 
born to John and Elizabeth Hollett were as fol- 
lows: George (deceased), Joseph, Benjamin, 
John, Jonathan, William W., Sarah (deceased), 
Rachel (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), Lydia 
and Hannah. On September 25, 1859, John 



Hollett died, his widow surviving him until 
October 11, 1866, when she too passed away. 

On January 2(1, 1856. William W. Hollett 
was wedded to Caroline Hukill, daughter of 
Joseph Hukill, a resident of Belmont County, 
Ohio. They took up their residence on the 
home place, where they have since resided, a^id 
here have been born to them the following 
named children: Charles M., Elizabeth (de- 
ceased), Mary A., Alice C. , Ida L. and Walter 
E. The family are all members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church; the sons, Charles and 
Walter, both being ministers of that denomina- 
tion. The Hollett family have always taken an 
active part in political matters, and have uni- 
versally been members of the Whig and Repub- 
lican parties. 




ATTHEW CLARKE, a leading farmer 
of Washington Township, Harrison 
County, was born in the township 
named in 1833, and is a son of Robert 
and Jane (Clemens) Clarke, who were the par- 
ents of nine children — five sons and four daugh- 
ters. Robert and Jane Clarke were natives of 
Ireland, but at an early day came to Ohio and 
settled on a farm near Cadiz, the county seat of 
Harrison County, and here Robert Clarke en- 
gaged in the cultivation of his rented land, and 
also followed his trade, that of weaver. By 
perseverance and industry he accumulated a 
sum of money sufficient to pay for a tract of 
land in Washington Township. This tract was 
nearly all in timber, but Mr. Clarke went man- 
fully to work and succeeded in clearing off the 
greater portion and in utilizing it for cultiva- 
tion. On this place Robert and his wife re- 
sided the remainder of their days, dying about 
the year 1860. 

Matthew Clarke was born and reared on this 
farm, and was educated in the common schools 
of the township. At the death of his parents 
he inherited the farm, 158 acres, after which he 
bought seventy-four acres, to which, by purchase, 
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looked upon as being one of the best and most 
successful agriculturists in tbe township. In 
1861 Matthew Clarke married Miss Mary, 
daughter of Samuel Stewart, and this union 
Las been blessed in the birth of six children, 
viz. : Sarah Jane, Marie Edie, Samuel, John C. , 
Robert James and Maxwell. The sons are at 
home, and assist their father in the cultivation 
of the farm. The family are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, to the support of which 
Mr. Clarke liberally contributes financially and 
otherwise. Politically Mr. Clarke was former- 
ly a Democrat, but he now votes with the Pro- 
hibition party, and he has never sought public 
office. In 1871 Mr. Clarke's house was de- 
stroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at one 
thousand five hundred dollars, the contents be- 
ing also destroyed. The family are held in 
high esteem, and their upright walk through life 
entitles them to such regard. 



di H. COVERT, one of the well-known and 
1 prosperous farmers of Harrison County, 
/ was born June 31, 1827, in Athens Town- 
ship, that county. His youth was occu- 
pied with hard work, as has been his whole life. 
He remained at home after the death of his 
father, Joseph, and had the management of the 
home place in the interest of his mother and 
heirs. While the knowledge he received at the 
common schools was limited, owing to his in- 
ability to attend regularly, still his natural 
shrewdness and keen observation have given him 
a wide range of information. 

On August 29, 1855, he was married to 
Elizabeth Singer, a daughter of John Singer, 
who at that time was a resident of Athens 
Township, but the family were natives of Vir- 
ginia. Mr. Covert brought his wife to tbe home 
place, where he remained until the death of his 
mother, whose latter years were cheered and 
whose comfort was seen to by Mr. and Mrs. 
Covert. Upon division of the estate he pur- 
chased the interest of the other heirs, and re- 
tained the home place for some time. He has 



dealt largely in farm property, and has been ex- 
ceedingly fortunate in his transactions. He 
now possesses a farm of over 300 acres, situated 
in Athens Township, and engages in general 
farming and stock raising. Though residing in 
a Democratic township, Mr. Covert is an un- 
flinching Republican, and always supports that 
party. He and his family are numbered among 
the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at New Athens, of which they are liberal sup- 
porters. Mr. Covert's children are named John, 
Joseph, Clementine, Morris E., Hannah, Abbie 
J., Anderson, James H. and Dora P. Mr. 
Covert's success has been of his own achieving, 
and he may well look with pride to his career. 
His family are well known, and rank among 
those who have ever taken an active interest in 
all public or private benefits. 



THOMAS HAMILTON KERR. In the 
spring of 1805 James Kerr emigrated 
with his family from Westmoreland 
County, Penn., and located in Short 
Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. They 
were among the early pioneers of Harrison 
County, and among those sturdy men and women 
who braved untold dangers, and gave to the 
present generation the advantages of the smil- 
ing region we now behold. They located in the 
midst of a wilderness and cleared their patch, 
erected a log cabin, and began to build np for 
themselves a home in their newly adopted coun- 
try, and here they resided until they died. 
Eight children had been born to them, and of 
this family the youngest child was named Sam- 
uel. He was born in York, now Adams, County, 
Penn., Octolier 25, 1792, and came to Ohio with 
his parents, lie being then a lad of thirteen 
years. He grew to manhood with liis parents, 
assisting them in the duties of the farm, receiv 
ing only those meager educational advantages 
afforded by the subscription schools of tbe 
period. However, in those days the education 
of the family was mostly acquired at home, and 
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easily trace the influence of a fond and careful 
mother's teachings. Samuel Kerr was brought 
up by Christian parents, and received a strictly 
religious home training; this, with the work of 
overcoming the difficulties of those early days, 
formed a trait which afterward manifested itself 
in the sterling integrity and unimpeachable 
character of his life. On September 8, 1815, 
he married Miss Anne Smyth, and to them were 
born seven children, of whom three still survive. 
Mrs. Kerr died in 1833, and in September, 
1835, Mr. Kerr married Miss Agnes Hamilton, 
which union was blessed by five children, two of 
whom died during infancy, those yet living be- 
ing Thomas H. , Samuel C. and Margaret A. 
Calderhead. Mrs. Agnes Kerr was a native of 
Ohio, but early lost her father who was shot 
from ambush when she was an infant. She 
died March 28, 1885, having survived her hus- 
band who died February 27, 1882, in the nine- 
tieth year of his age, a member of the Presbyte- 
rian Church, which denomination he had joined 
in 1816. He was instrumental in the establish- 
ment of the Short Creek Presbyterian Church 
of Adena, in which church he was ordained and 
installed as a ruling elder at its organization in 
1849, and remained so till death. During his 
life he took a very active part in everything per- 
taining to the welfare of the church, and repre- 
sented it both in the presbytery, where he was 
well known and highly appreciated, and in the 
General Assembly. Mr. Kerr was also promi- 
nent in public improvements tending toward the 
general advancement of the country. He was 
kind and charitable toward all, and was uni- 
versally respected and esteemed. 

Of the five children born to Samuel Kerr's 
second marriage our subject is the eldest child, 
and was born on the original homestead August 
15, 1836. He grew to maturity with his par- 
ents, and was educated in the district schools of 
his neighborhood. Although the school has 
vastly improved since the time of the first set- 
tlement, he vividly recalls the old log building 
with its rude desk and benches, where he was 
taught the rudiments of an education. On No- 



vember 7, 1861, he married Miss Letitia A. Cal- 
derhead, a native of Harrison County, and a 
daughter of" William and Nancy (McLaughlin) 
Calderhead, both worthy people of Ohio. Will- 
iam Calderhead was born in Belmont County in 
1808, his parents coming from Scotland about 
1802 and locating in the county named. Will- 
iam Calderhead came to Harrison County about 
1839, and the following spring married Miss 
Nancy McLaughlin. He died December 20, 
1872, his wife died April 6, 1883, both worthy 
members of the United Presbyterian Church, of 
which Mr. Calderhead was an elder. Of five 
children born to them Mrs. Kerr is the eldest. 
Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kerr 
located on the old homestead, where they now 
reside, the farm of 115 acres being well im- 
proved. A handsome brick residence stands 
beside a never-failing spring of clear, coo] 
water, flowing millions of gallons annually. 
Three children have been born to them, viz. : 
Anna Belle (deceased), born December 29, 1862; 
Ella May, born January 14, 1865, and William 
Clayton, born July 23, 1869, now living. The 
family are highly esteemed, and are devoted 
members of the Short Creek Presbyterian 
Church, in which Mr. Kerr is an elder. He 
takes an active interest in educational matters, 
and has served as a member of the school board. 
Samuel Kerr enlisted in the War of 1812, and 
served until its close, and for his services was 
afterward pensioned by a grateful country. 



It SAAC N. KEEPERS (deceased) was one of 
the most prominent merchants and energetic 
_[ residents of Scio, Harrison County, and his 
recent death has produced a void that will 
long be unfilled in the community in which he 
passed his latter years. He was born in 
Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, September 
9, 1849, and was a son of William and Sarah 
(Pritchard) Keepers. On December 23, 1869, 
he married Miss Christina Ball, a daughter 
of Henry and Mary (Carter) Ball, natives of 
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were born six children, as follows: Gertrude, 
wife of Prof. Bell, of Scio College; Nellie, Henry, 
Maurice, Chester and Mary. The life of Mr. 
Keepers was an active one, and his patriotism 
was without bounds. At the early age of four- 
teen he enlisted in the cause of the Union in the 
Civil War, and served two years, or until the 
close of the struggle. At the time of his death, 
which occurred April 7, 1890, he was an hon- 
ored member of the Knights of Pythias, and was 
equally honored by his fellow citizens of Scio, 
to which place he had removed from Leesville 
about six years ago. He was one of the most 
prominent marble dealers of Eastern Ohio. A 
local newspaper, the Scio Weekly Herald of 
April 9, in announcing tbe death of Mr. Keepers, 
has the following: " From the first he took a live- 
ly interest in the prosperity of every enterprise 
calculated to promote the general good of the 
community. He was a man of liberal views in 
all matters calculated to enhance the prosperity 
and happiness of those around him, and there- 
fore was energetic in his support and generous 
in his patronage of all public enterprises. Such 
men are of incalculable worth to any community, 
not alone for what they themselves do, but for 
what they encourage others to do, and their loss 
in this sense is a double one. He was a mem- 
ber of the board of trustees of Scio College, and 
his earnest interest therein could not have been 
otherwise than beneficial in the working out of 
the success of that educational institution. 

" In the conduct of business Mr. Keepers 
was successful beyond the average, having by 
his own exertions acquired a competency that 
placed him in comparatively independent cir- 
cumstances. He had also established a reputa- 
tion in business transactions that in itself was a 
handsome capital in trade, and together with 
other advantages would have continued to en- 
large and increase his ability to respond to the 
promptings of his nature, finally crowning his 
life work in a halo of glorious deeds. Death 
has cut short this good man's noble aspirations 
and stilled the pulse of a warm heart. In his 
death the community suffer an irreparable loss, 



but within the home circle we find only a true 
realization of the bereavement. There all is iu 
deepest mourning and anguish; there only can 
the enormity of the calamity lie realized in its 
depths of bitterness. A pleasant household is 
bereft of its greatest blessing — a faithful and 
confiding husband, a kind and indulgent father. 
In this their darkest hour they should be re- 
membered, consoled and comforted so far as is 
within human actions and attentions." 




ILLIAM SCOTT. The Scott family 
originated in Ireland, County Antrim, 
where William, the grandfather of 
the subject of this sketch, was born. 
There the family were engaged in agriculture, 
a calling which nearly all their descendants have 
followed since. The family of William consisted 
of Thomas, John, William, Mary and Eleanor, 
all of whom came to America. Thomas was 
born in 1793, and grew to manhood in Ireland, 
where he received the education of the ordinary 
schools. Soon after reaching manhood's estate 
he married Sarah Hogg, and about three years 
later came to America. Upon arrival here he 
proceeded to Harrison County, Ohio, and pur- 
chased a farm iu Athens Township, near where 
his son William now resides. Remaining here 
until 1854, he removed to Mooretield Township, 
where he purchased another farm, upon which 
he resided until his decease. His wife bore him 
the following children: Jane, an infant that died 
unnamed, Susan, William, Eleanor, Mary, an- 
other unnamed infant that died, James, John, 
Martha, and Robert W. and Sarah (twins). 
Coming to Harrison County at a comparatively 
early period of its settlement, Thomas Scott was 
closely identified with its growth and prosperity. 
He early espoused the principles of the Dem- 
ocratic party, and remained one of its stanchest 
supporters. He never was an office holder of 
any kind, although he rendered valuable and 
efficient aid at all times when needed. He was 
a member of the Nottingham Presbyterian 
Church, which numbered among its congrega- 



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tion so many of the early settlers, and which 
has done so much to advance the cause of relig- 
ion in this section. He was a self-made man, 
one who won and retained the respect of all his 
associates, whether of a business or of a social 
character. Such men leave behind them influ- 
ences which are a benefit to all succeeding gen- 
erations, and whose example ia ever worthy of 
emulation. On January 16, 1876, he passed 
away, and was buried at Nottingham, and his 
wife shortly afterward followed him to the grave, 
dying August 7, same year. 

William Scott, the subject of this sketch, 
was born March 7, 1833, in Athens Township, 
near the place where he now resides. His early 
youth was not unlike that of the ordinary farm 
boy's, and was made up largely of assistance in 
the duties which farm life always imposes, and 
attending the schools of his neighborhood dur- 
ing the winter season. Continuing his attend- 
ance at the common schools until about seven- 
teen years of age, he perceived that they were 
not suited to give the higher instruction which 
he desired, so, entering Madison College, in 
Guernsey County, he remained some time. He 
then engaged in teaching in his native county, 
at the early age of nineteen, and met with most 
flattering success. For eleven consecutive years 
he was a teacher at Moorefield, and on the es- 
tablishment of the graded schools, he was elected 
principal, and to his energy much of the effi- 
ciency of that school is due. On April 9, 1859, 
he married Ann Eliza Sloan, daughter of John 
Sloan, one of the earliest settlers of Moorefield 
Township, and, locating in Moorefield soon after 
his marriage, Mr. Scott there remained until 
1877, when he purchased his present farm, 
where he has confined his attention chiefly to 
farming. His children were as follows: John 
S., by profession a stenographer; Thomas C, in 
Indiana; Ella S. (Mrs. Dr. J. A. Howell), re- 
siding in Findlay, Ohio; one, a son, died in in- 
fancy; William K. and Talmage, at home. For 
many years Mr. Scott was a Democrat, but since 
the fruitless efforts to interest the older parties 
in the " Prohibition question," he has been an 



earnest and enthusiastic worker in the latter 
party. During his residence in Moorefield he 
held the office of clerk for three years, in which 
position he gave universal satisfaction. A mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church at Nottingham, 
in which he has been an elder for the past eight- 
een years, he has led a genuine Christian life. 
He is a well-known and representative man, and 
is highly honored in his county. 



DAVID WEBSTER, one of the well-known 
citizens of Archer Township, was born 
' October 3, 1836, in Rumley Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and his life has been 
wholly spent in Harrison County. His father, 
John, was born in Maryland in 1809, and while 
quite young his parents came to Ohio and set- 
tled in Rumley Township, Harrison County. 
Here they purchased a farm of unimproved 
land, and, by their industry and perseverance, 
brought it to a high state of productiveness. 
Six children were born to them, only one of 
whom is now living, Mrs. George Shiltz. Soon 
after settling here the father died, leaving his 
widow with a family of small children, whom 
she brought up with great credit to herself. In 
1856, after battling with the world many years, 
she was called to rest, and was buried by the 
side of her husband in Ridge Cemetery. Upon 
the death of his father, John Webster took up 
the management of the farm, and remained with 
his mother, caring for her and making her de- 
clining years as pleasant as possible. In 1832 
he married Margaret Buchanan, a resident of 
Rumley Township, who died in 1841, leaving 
three small children; Maria, David and Sarah. 
In 1847 Mr. Webster was married to Ann Pat- 
ton, daughter of Joseph Patton, a resident of 
Rumley Township, and by this marriage the 
following named children resulted: John, Jo- 
seph, Mary M., Catherine Jane, Matthew, Flor- 
ence, Robert, Mansfield, Cora and Ira B. , all of 
whom are living except Florence. John Web- 
ster was numbered among the Democratic ranks, 
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still be was a fearless advocate of the principles 
wbich seemed to hirn just. He and his wife 
were members of the Presbyterian (Jhnrch at 
Ridge, in wbicb tbey were prominent and active 
workers. In 1S76 Mr. Webster died and was 
buried in the Ridge Cemetery; bis widow still 
survives. 

David Webster remained at home until the 
age of thirty-four (1870), when he was mar- 
ried to Susanna Devore, who died February 20, 
1875, and was buried at Bethel. Only one 
child, Clara, was born to their marriage. On 
April 15, 1884, Mr. Webster was married to 
Rosella Work, daughter of Alexander Work, 
who resides in German Towusbip, and to this 
union there have been children as follows: John, 
born December 13, 1885; Floyd, born May 6, 
1887, and Esta, born July 28, 1888. A Demo- 
crat in politics, Mr. Webster still believes in 
supporting those best fitted for the offices they 
aspire to. He and his family are members of 
the Buchanan Chapel at Jewett. Mr. Webster 
has, by his own efforts, seconded by his wife, 
attained his present high and desirable position, 
financially and socially. His farm of 125 
acres, is under good cultivation, and is furnished 
with commodious and substantial buildings. 




EV. SAMUEL C. KERR, a record of 
whose parents will be found in the 
sketch of Thomas H. Kerr, was born on 
the old homestead in Short Creek Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, September 9, 1838. 
His early life was spent on the farm and in at- 
tending the early school in the traditional old 
log school-house. In the spring of 1859 he 
entered the New Hagerstown Academy, and 
during the winter of 1860-61 he taught school 
at Feed Springs, being there when Fort Sumter 
was being fired on. In the fall of the latter 
year Mr. Kerr entered Washington College, from 
which he graduated in September, 1864. He 
then entered the Western Theological Seminary 
at Allegheny City, Penn., and was graduated 
therefrom in 1867. He was licensed to preach 



by the St. Clairaville Presbytery in April; 1867, 
and was ordained by the same body October 7, 
1868. After many years' work in Ohio as pastor 
at various places, Mr. Kerr, in August, 1889, 
removed with his family to Princeton, Kas., and 
he is now pastor of the Princeton and Richmond 
Churches of Franklin County, that State. On 
May 11, 1871, Mr. Kerr was united in marriage 
with Elizabeth N., youngest daughter of Hon. 
Luther Rowley, of Bowerston, Ohio, and this 
union has been blessed with three children, the 
eldest of whom died in infancy. Those living 
are Mary Agnes and Howard Ickis, aged ( 1890) 
thirteen years and nine years, respectively. 




RS. SARAH JANE MARKLEY, of 
Rumley Township, Harrison County, 
is a daughter of George and Matilda 
(Hazlitt) Shambaugh, former of whom 
was a son of George, Sr., and Elizabeth (Brown) 
Shambaugh. George and Matilda Shambaugh 
were parents of nine children, namely: Sarah 
Jane (our subject), Jacob.I-aac. Susanna, George, 
Mary C, Michael. Andrew and Daniel. Our 
subject was bom in Rumlev Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, December 24, 1839, and here grew to 
womanhood. On October 11. 1864, she married 
Mathias Markley, who was born April 30, 1830, 
a son of Daniel and Catherine (Everhart) Mark- 
ley, and to this union were born children, named 
as follows: George A., Clara ML, Maggie E., 
John, William, Satie V., Myrtle V., at home; 
Daisy R., James K.. and three unnamed daugh- 
ters died in infancy. Mrs. Sarah Jane Mark 
ley, after her marriage, came to the farm where 
she now resides, which Mr. Markley had pur- 
chased some years before. Mr. Markley had 
been married, previous to his union with our 
subject, to Miss Rebecca Stevens, of Short 
Creek Township. Harrison Co., Ohio, and to 
this union were born four daughters, as follows: 
Catherine E., deceased wife of Emery Dutton; 
Mary E., wife of Jerry Arbaugh, in Carroll 
County, Ohio; Jane, wife of Levi Shawver. in 
Carroll County, and Lide A. Roberts. Mr. 



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Markley died October 22, 1887; he was an act- 
ive member of the Lutheran Church for many 
years, and was well known to the people of 
Rum ley Township, and highly respected. 

Mathias Markley was a son of Daniel and 
Catherine (Everhart) Markley. Daniel Markley 
was a son of Mathias and Catherine (Arnold) 
Markley, natives of Glade, Somerset Co., Penn., 
who migrated to German Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, in 1S06, and entered 320 acres of 
land. To them were born eight children, named 
as follows: Mathias, John, Joseph, Catherine, 
Nancy, Susan, Eva and Daniel. Mathias Mark- 
ley, Sr. , resided a number of years in German 
Township, Harrison County, then removed to 
Holmes County, same State, where he departed 
this life about the year 1845. His son Daniel 
was born in Glade, Somerset County, Penn. , in 
1796, but grew to manhood in German Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio. On September 20, 
1823, he entered eighty acres of land in Eumley 
Township, Harrison County, on Section 15, in 
the southeast corner. He departed this life in 
1842. He was the father of seven children, by 
name: David, John, Mathias, Mary, Eva A., 
Sarah and Elizabeth. 

August 24, 18S9, Mrs. Sarah J. Markley 
purchased the old homestead where she now re- 
sides. She has in her possession the original 
deed given by James Monroe to Daniel Markley 
for the eighty acres he purchased on Section 15. 
The deed is drawn up on sheepskin, which is 
very fine and resembles fine linen paper. Mrs. 
Markley is an active member of the United 
Brethren Church at New Rumley. 




LBERT BRINDLEY (deceased) was a 
son of John Brindley, and wfks born 
September 5, 1836. His early life was 
spent in the ordinary pursuits of youth, 
attending the schools of his district. At the age 
of twenty, September 16, 1856, he was married 
to Malinda, daughter of Ivan Baker, who was 
one of the prominent farmers of Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison County. After marriage Mr. and 



Mrs. Brindley located in Freeport Township, 
Harrison County, where they remained one year, 
and then moved to Green Township. After a 
short stay here they proceeded to Archer Town- 
ship, where they remained twelve years. Here 
Mr. Brindley died June 24, 1869, and was 
buried in Bethel Cemetery. The record of the 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Brindley is as follows: 
Thomas Franklin was born July 17, 1857; 
Melancthon Vernon was born July 2, 1858, and 
May 12, 1887, was married to Edith Press, of 
Marion County, Kas., and is now a resident of 
that county and State; Ann Jane (Mrs. Scott Mor- 
gan) was born March 5, 1860; Leander Nathan- 
iel was born October 6, 1861, and died August 
20, 1862; Ida Sue (Mrs. Louis Barkers) was 
born April 3, 1863, and Albert Rawson was born 
July 2, 1868, died April 19, 1869. In politics 
Mr. Brindley was a Democrat, and in religion a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Shortly after his death the family came to Green 
Township, where his widow and son, Thomas 
Franklin, now reside. 

On November 20, 1884, Thomas Franklin 
Brindley was married to Maggie E., a daughter 
of Robert and Catherine Breem, of Freeport 
Township, Harrison County, and the result of 
this union is two children, viz. : Lelia Belle, 
born October 18, 1885, and Albert Vernon, born 
June 28, 1888. The entire family are highly 
respected in the township in which they reside, 
and are consistent members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 



AMUEL PITTENGER. Among the ear- 
liest settlers of Archer Township, Harri- 
son County, none were more highly es- 
teemed, or did more to make the town- 
ship a leading one in Harrison County, than the 
well-known Pittenger family. Samuel Pittenger, 
the subject of this sketch, was born August 15, 
1830. His father, also named Samuel, was born 
in Archer Township in 1798. He was married 
January 10, 1820, to Jane Lemasters, daughter 
of Isaac Lemasters, a well-known resident of 



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the same township, and they immediately settled 
on the farm on which they ended their days. 
The land was in a wild state when they pur- 
chased it, but by industry and energy they suc- 
ceeded in making it one of the best farms in 
that section. Here they raised a family of seven 
children — five daughters and two sons. Mr. 
Pittenger was a Whig in politics, and he and his 
wife were leading members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church for many years, their lives be- 
ing in perfect consonance with their religious 
convictions. On August 26, 1875, Mr. Pitten- 
ger died, and was interred in Bethel Cemetery, 
beside his wife, who had preceded him to the 
grave, having died February 14, 1874. 

Samuel Pittenger, Jr., remained at home, 
assisting in the farm duties, meanwhile attend 
ing the district schools in pursuit of an educa- 
tion. On October 11, 1849, he was married to 
Antoinette Thompson, daughter of Gabriel 
Thompson, of Carroll County. They com- 
menced housekeeping on the farm on which 
MrB. Pittenger resides, in a small log cabin, in 
which they remained until they constructed the 
present commodious and substantial dwelling, 
which occupies a most pleasant place on the side 
of one of the beautiful hills which abound in 
that vicinity. Their family consisted of twelve 
children: Rev. Albert A., born August 3, 1850, 
married, November 7, 1882, to Delia Buckmas- 
ter (he graduated at Scio College in the year 
1875, after which he joined the Northern Indi- 
ana Conference, in which he still remains a suc- 
cessful Methodist preacher); William H. , born 
February 22, 1852, married September 11, 1873, 
to Charlotte Lineord; John W., born June 11, 
1854, married April 2, 1874, to Emma Reed; 
Sarah J., born July 19, 1856, married January 
7, 1875, to Brice Reed; Amanda M., born No- 
vember 27, 1858, married February 14, 1878, to 
William D. Stahl; Martha E., born June 20, 
1863, married February 9, 1881, to David 
Walton; Mary E., born October 20, 1865; Har- 
vey E.,born January 17, 1868, married Septem- 
ber 8, 1889, to Emma R. McMannis, who died 
July 7, 1890, her remains being interred in 



Bethel Cemetery; Belinda E., born April 4, 
J870; Ida M., born April 13, 1872, died March 
23, 1878; Laura B., born March 2, 1874, died 
April 8, 1878; Eva E., born August 19, 1876. 
Mr. Pittenger was a Republican, and freely gave 
his time and money to assist in the advancement 
of the principles advocated by that party. He 
and his wife were members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and were the foremost in all 
benevolent and charitable enterprises. On 
January 30, 1880. he died, and was buried at 
Bethel. His widow remains on the farm, and, 
with the assistance of her children, carries it on 
in a highly creditable manner. The family are 
among the progressive and enterprising citizens 
of Archer Township. 



DAVID D. MILLER, the subject of this 
sketch, was born January 30, 1843, in 
_^ ' Harrison County, Ohio, near the line 
between Archer and Stock Townships. 
His father, R. D. Miller, was, at an early age, 
married to Jane Curry; he soon after settled in 
Archer Township, where he reared a family of 
five children, three of whom are still living. 
After a happy life of a few short years his wife 
died, leaving him alone with his family of little 
ones. That they might receive a mother's 
care, he was married again, this time to Mrs. 
Jane Robinson, and removed to North Town- 
ship. After residing there some time they re- 
moved to Gallia County, where they still reside. 
At eleven years of age David D. Miller left 
home, determined to win for himself a living 
and to gain a competency for old age. He early 
learned the carpenter's trade, and followed it 
for many years with profit. In February, 1862, 
he responded to the call of his country for vol- 
unteers, enlisting in Company G, Seventy fourth 
O. V. I., and went with his command to Camp 
Chase, and was then sent to Nashville, Tenn., 
to join the Army of the Cumberland. He served 
with distinction through the war, participating 
in all the battles of his regiment, never flinch- 
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himself. At the expiration of his time he, Tike 
many other brave and loyal soldiers, re-enlisted 
for the remainder of the war. He was mustered 
out in 1865, when he returned home and took 
up his trade again. On November 25, 1880, he 
was married to Martha Easliek, who was one of 
the descendants of the earliest settlers of the 
county, and a most estimable woman. In poli- 
tics Mr. Miller is a Republican, and, although 
not desiring any office, still works for the inter- 
ests of his party in every way that is honorable. 
He and his wife are members of the Ridge 
Presbyterian Church, and are among the fore- 
most in all works of benevolence and charity. 
Mr. Miller, by his own unaided efforts, has ac- 
quired a splendid farm, which is under excel- 
lent cultivation and highly improved. Since 
early life Mr. Miller has struggled earnestly, 
bravely and persistently, and his is a life that 
might well be emulated by the young men 
of the present day. 



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li JI/ICHAEL V. GUNDY is another of 'the 
\f/\ representative self-made agriculturists 
lj of North Township, Harrison County, 
whither he had come in 1S56. He was 
born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, March 25, 
1822, a son of Benjamin and Mary (Bowers) 
Gundy, the former a native of Pennsylvania, the 
latter of Maryland. Peter Gundy, great-grand- 
father of Michael V., was a native of Switzer- 
land. Joseph Gundy, the grandfather of Mi- 
chael V. Gundy, was born in Lancaster County, 
Penn., whence he came to Westmoreland County, 
same State, and was married to Frances Coff- 
man. To them were born eight children, all 
now passed away. He and his daughter Mag- 
dalena came to Ohio, she being a young maiden 
nine or ten years old. History states that she 
was the first white female that came to the 
Conotton Valley. Their conveyance was a single 
horse, which they rode alternately. After re- 
maining here about six months, they returned 
to their home in Pennsylvania, and soon after 
moved to Ohio with the family. He was reared 



in the faith of what is known aB the Mennonites, 
and was a minister of that denomination; but 
after he came to Ohio he preached for the United 
Brethren in Christ. This pioneer couple both 
died in the year 1822. and side by side they 
sleep in the Conotton Cemetery. 

Benjamin Gundy came to Ohio with his par- 
ents when ten or twelve years of age. The 
country was then infested with all manner of 
wild animals, bears being numerous. He and 
his father killed one on a Sunday morning; they 
had two dogs, and they ran it on a plum sap- 
ling, near where the Conotton Station now 
stands. The grandfather, having a good rifle, 
shot it dead. He was a farmer throughout life, 
and for five yeais carried on milling. Mr. Gundy 
was married to Miss Mary Bowers, daughter of 
Barnhart and Mary Bowers, and they then set- 
tled near Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, where 
all their children, numbering twelve, were born, 
as follows: John, now in Wood County, Ohio; 
Joseph and William (both deceased, but their 
widows are still living); Catharine, Mrs. Daniel 
Weyandt, in Monroe Township, Harrison County; 
David and Jacob, also in Wood County, Ohio; 
Michael V., whose name appears at the opening 
of this sketch; Mary, Mrs. William Johnston, 
is living in the village of Conotton, where 
Mr. Johnston is engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ness; Christiana died when eighteen years old, 
and three died in infancy. The mother died in 
1829, aged thirty-eight years, leaving nine chil- 
dren, all young, and the father, with these chil- 
dren, moved back to Harrison County, where 
they all grew up to womanhood and manhood. 
The children found homes with the uncles and 
aunts on father's and mother's sides: all lived 
within a radius of three miles. Benjamin Gundy 
was married three times, but no children were 
born to the latter. He died near Uhricbsville, 
Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, in 1871, aged seventy- 
six years, and was interred in the Conotton 
Cemetery. Politically, he was a Whig, and he 
was a prominent citizen of Monroe Township, 
often holding the office of school director and 
that of township trustee. In his religious con- 



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victions he was a member of the United Breth- 
ren in Christ. In the old home, near Bowers- 
ton, preaching and prayer- meetings were held 
in an early day. 

Michael V. Gundy, the subject proper of 
this sketch, was seven years old when his mother 
died; he and his sister Mary (now Mrs. John- 
ston) were taken to their uncle, Joseph Nafkser, 
near the village of Conotton, where they were 
kindly cared for, until their father was married 
the second time, when they were then taken 
home, with two other sisters, who were also liv- 
ing with relatives. These three girls, and the 
subject of this narrative, remained with their 
father until arriving at maturity. Some of the 
other boys would be at home, alternately, be- 
cause the farm contained only eighty acres. 
Our subject received his education at the com- 
mon schools and the academy at New Hagers- 
town, after which he followed teaching for some 
fourteen or fifteen terms. In 1848 he was mar- 
ried to Miss Christiana Overholt, and then 
moved to Wood County, Ohio, where they re- 
mained eighteen months, after which they re- 
turned to Harrison County, and in 1856 they 
came to their present farm in North Township. 
He received license to exhort, in 1861, and at 
the city of Marietta, Ohio, in 1867, he joined the 
Muskingum Annual Conference of the United 
Brethren in Christ. In 1880 he was ordained 
to elder's orders at the annual conference held at 
Conotton, and has been an indefatigable local 
preacher ever since. In 1872-73_ he traveled 
Coshocton Circuit, and he has disseminated the 
gospel (while local) for a long time, without 
money and without price. He traveled Crooked 
Run Circuit in 1890. This he did by the ear- 
nest request of his Conference. Eight children 
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gundy, viz. : Frances 
Jane, married to Mr. Jesse Forsythe, Jr., of 
Uhrichsville, Ohio; John Larence, deceased; 
Benjamin Franklin, in North Township, Harri 
son County; Martha Eldora, at home; Joseph 
Overholt, deceased; Martin Albert, James Ed- 
ward, and Mary Lillias, at home. Politically 
Mr. Gundy was originally a Republican, but for 



the past eight years has been a Prohibitionist; 
has been township assessor, trustee and school 
director for many years. In church matters he 
has held nearly all the offices except presiding 
elder and bishop. His farm, containing 208 
acres of well-improved land, is situated about 
two miles from Conotton, and the improve- 
ments thereon are all his own making. In L858 
fire destroyed the barn with all its contents; in- 
cluding three horses, wagons, grain, farming 
implements, etc. Mr. Gundy' S success in life 
is due entirely to his economy, individual efforts. 
and the blessing of an all wise Providence, who 
is the Giver of every good and perfect gift. 



W. SAMPSON. Charles Sampson, of 
daughter, Ireland, was born about the 
year 1730. He was a land owner, fore- 
man of the giand jury, etc. He married 
in the family of Lord Blaney, having one son, 
John, and several daughters. John Sampson 
came to this country, residing for a while in New 
York City, and in 1827 he removed to Harrison 
County. Ohio, where he died April 28, 1841. 
Francis Sampson, sou of the preceding, was 
born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in September, 
1804, and was married in New York, August 
30, 1827, to Margaret Evans, a native of Wales. 
They came with their parents to Ohio in L827, 
settling in Stock Township. Harrison Couuty, 
on the farm which is still in the family's pos- 
session. They were active members in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He died March 
15, 1870, and his widow November 9, 1884. 
William Sampson, the well-known Irish exile, 
was of the same family as the above. 

Francis Sampson was the father of six chil- 
dren, of whom John G., born July I. 1828, was 
married February 14, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth 
Birney (resided some years in Stock Township. 
then moved to Missouri, where he was actively 
engaged in the nursery business; thence went to 
Kansas, where he engaged in farming and fruit 
raising; during the excitement at Wichita, he 
moved thither and engaged in the real estate 



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business; he served actively during the Civil 
War); William E., born March 20, 1833, was 
married October 25, 1866, to Miss Matilda 
Welch (he is now residing on the old home- 
stead farm); Charles W., born March 12, 1836, 
received a practical business education, and spent 
his boyhood days on the home farm. In Oc- 
tober, 1862, he enlisted in the First Ohio Vol- 
unteer Sharpshooters, who held the honorable 
position of headquarter guards for Gens. Grant, 
Sherman and Rosecrans, guarding headquar- 
ters, wagon trains, ammunition, rations, etc. He 
served until the close of the war in 1865, and 
was married May 21, 1867, to Miss Rachel A. 
Paulson, daughter of Jehu and Elizabeth (Cox) 
Paulson, natives of Maryland, who came to Ohio 
in 1802. After his marriage Mr. Sampson set- 
tled on the old homestead, where he remained 
several years, then moved to Jefferson County, 
whence he returned to Harrison County, where 
he now resides. He and his wife are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are the 
parents of three children: Lester P., Frank L. 
and Gretta E. 

Archibald J. Sampson, United States con- 
sul, Paso del Norte, Mexico, was born near Ca- 
diz, Ohio, June 21, 1839, of Welsh-Irish par- 
entage. He was reared on the farm, and re- 
ceived his early education in the log-house 
county school, subsequently attending the New 
Hagerstown Academy, and later entering the 
Mt. Union College, meanwhile teaching several 
terms in county schools; he graduated on his 
twenty-second birthday. The Civil War having 
then broken out, he volunteered in the army, 
and served at the front for a year, when he was 
elected superintendent of the union schools at 
Uhrichsville, Ohio. After serving in that ca- 
pacity for a year he declined a re-election, and 
again entered the army as private, serving un- 
til the close of the war, rising through the vari- 
ous grades to that of captain, which last pro- 
motion was awarded him for "brave and 
meritorious services in battle." For years, 
even when in camp as a soldier, he had pursued 
the study of the law, and, on his return home, 



having passed the requisite examination, he was 
admitted to practice, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, on 
his twenty-fifth birthday. He was subsequently 
graduated at the Cleveland Law School, and, in 
1865, located in the practice of the law at Se- 
dalia, Mo. 

While living at Sedalia, he served as county 
superintendent of schools, as attorney for the 
State board of education for the Fifth Congres- 
sional District, and as city and county attorney. 
In 1872 he declined a unanimous nomination 
for representative to the State Legislature, but 
accepted that of presidential elector for the 
Fifth Congressional District. In 1872 he declined 
the appointment of United States consul to Pal- 
estine, to which he had been nominated and con- 
tinued. In 1873 he removed to Colorado, and 
located at Canon City, resuming the practice of 
law; served one term as county attorney, and, 
in 1876 was nominated and elected attorney- 
general of Colorado, receiving one of the larg- 
est majorities on the ticket. He tilled this office 
with great credit to himself, and with the strong 
commendation of the people. Mr. Sampson 
has been for many years a prominent and popu- 
lar campaign speaker, having accepted invita- 
tions from a number of State central commit- 
tees other than his own, and, during the last 
presidential election, from the national Repub- 
lican committee, speaking in five different States, 
and always being in demand in his own State. 
Early in President Harrison's administration he 
was nominated United States consul to Paso del 
Norte, Mexico, where he now resides. This is 
the most important United States consulate in 
Mexico, as is shown by its records, and also by 
the Mexican record of exports from that coun- 
try. In the short time which he has filled the 
position he has learned to read and speak the 
Spanish language, and is making a most effi- 
cient and popular consul. Gen. Sampson has 
been very active in the Loyal Legion and G. A. 
R. , having served as judge-advocate two terms 
in his department, as delegate to the national 
encampments, and aide-de-camp on the staffs of 
the last six national commanders-in-chief. He 



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is also an active Knight Templar Mason, mem- 
ber of the A. 0. U. W. , Knights of Honor, and 
other organizations, having held prominent 
offices in all. He is an active member of the 
Methodist Church, and has made quite a repu- 
tation as a Sunday-school superintendent. He 
has acquired prominence in literary circles 
through various lectures which he has delivered 
upon "Music of the "War," "Music and 
Musicians," "Lincoln" and other subjects, 
and also as a writer for various journals and 
magazines. 

A local authority says of him: " Gen. Samp- 
son is a gentleman of affable manner and high 
moral character. As a lawyer he has deserved- 
ly attained high standing in the profession; as 
an advocate and orator he has few equals in 
Colorado; as a political speaker he is possessed 
in a high degree of the power of swaying, en- 
tertaining and convincing an audience, which is 
the supreme gift and art of the true orator. If 
his life and health be spared he has undoubt- 
edly before him many years of usefulness and 
honor in his adopted State." He has recently 
received from Mt. Union College the degree of 
LL. D. , being the eighth title so honored by that 
institution in thirty-two years, while he is the 
first of 710 graduates of the college to receive 
this degree, all showing the conservative course 
of the college, hence making the honor so much 
greater. Gen. Sampson married, in 1866, Kate 
Turner, daughter of Judge A. C. Turner, of 
Cadiz, Ohio. She was universally loved and 
honored, no one more so in the city of Denver, 
Colo., her home, where she died December 15, 
1886. Three children survive her: Gretta A. 
(Mrs. A. W. Chamberlin) and Lucie B., of 
Denver, and Anderson J., of Fort Worth, Tex. 
One of the preeminent and distinguishing 
traits of character of Gen. Sampson is. and 
always has been, his constant devotion to home 
and family, a fact we are glad to be able to re- 
cord of one so well known in the political and 
literary world, in this permanent and prominent 
manner. 

Frank A. Sampson, born February 6, 1842, 



was married July 21, 1869, to Mrs. Hattie 
Laeey, an English lady. He moved to Sedalia, 
Mo., where he is engaged in the practice of law, 
also holding positions of honor and trust. 



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M/RS. SUSANNA RAMSOUEIt, Jewett, 
Harrison County, a daughter of John 
J and Margaret Miller, was born Octo- 
ber 11, 1828, in Rumley Township, 
Harrison County, Ohio, on Section 31, upon a 
the farm now owned by George Crabs. John 
Miller, the father of our subject was a son 
of John Miller; Margaret Lowrailler, the mother 
of our subject, was a daughter of John and 
Susanna (Ulerich) Lowmiller. To these par- 
ents was born six children, viz. : Mary Ann (de- 
ceased), Susanna, our subject; Isabelle, wife of 
William Manbeck; Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Mc- 
Cloud, of Kansas; Jacob, who resides in Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio, and Daniel, deceased. 
John Miller, the father of this family, died in 
1836, aged about thirty-five years. His wife 
was born in 1805, and died in 1876, having 
been a very active member of the Lutheran 
Church for many years. Our subject was reared 
to womanhood upon the old homestead, and re- 
ceived a common-school education within the 
walls of the schools of her native township. 
In May, 1S47, she married Thomas W. Ram- 
souer, a son of John and Catherine H. Ramsouer, 
who. were among the earliest settlers of Rum- 
ley Township. 

Thomas W. Ramsouer was born in 1820, in 
Rumley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 
died in July, 1880. Soon after his marriage 
Mr. Ramsouer purchased a farm in Rumley 
Township, now owned by Carl MeGow, and 
here he and his wife resided for about six years. 
In 1866 Mr. Ramsouer came to Jewett, and was 
here employed as an engineer for several years. 
In 1872 they purchased the hotel property which 
Mrs. Ranisouer now owns, from which time it 
has been kept as a thoroughly first class house 
for the entertainment of travelers. Since the 
death of Mr. Ramsouer, his widow has kept on 



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in a quiet way at ber old place of business, and 
bas shown by her efficient management that a 
woman can conduct business in a profitable way, 
and succeed, if she only possesses the will to do 
so. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsouer were the parents 
of nine children, viz. : Josiah A. , a conductor 
on the Topeka & Kansas Railroad; John Will- 
iam, Margaret C. and Sabella J., all three de- 
ceased; Harden Miller, a yardmaster at Mas- 
sillon, Ohio; Daniel D., a conductor on the 
Pan Handle Railroad; Hester A., wife of Will- 
iam Custer Edwards, in Dennison, Ohio; Lau- 
retta F., still at home, and Susan Maria, wife of 
Ricbey Osborn. Mr. Ramsouer was an active 
member of the Lutheran Church up to his 
death, and Mrs. Ramsouer has been one of the 
most influential members of the same denom- 
ination since 1842. 



politics Mr. Law has ever been identified with 
the Republican party, and, while not seeking 
office, has always done much for the success of 
its principles. He and his family are members 
of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has 
been treasurer several years. An enterprising 
citizen, Mr. Law has at all times been identified 
with the interests of his county and town, and 
he has freely lent his aid toward the success of 
any worthy enterprise. 



I' T/ARVEY B. LAW, druggist, Deersville, 
f"4 Harrison County, and son of Henry and 
1 Eliza (McMillin) Law, was born October 
yj/ 17, 1852, in Monroe Township, Harrison 

Co. ,Ohio, where his early life was spent, and 
where he received a common-school education. 
At the age of sixteen he entered Franklin Col- 
lege, where he attended several terms, and after- 
ward entered the business college of Bryant 
& Stratton, of Cleveland, Ohio, where he com- 
pleted the course. He then took a short busi- 
ness trip to California, remaining there three 
months, when he returned to Ohio and attend 
ed the National Normal School, at Lebanon, 
where he spent two years pursuing a select 
course. He then accepted a position in the drug 
business with AVilliam A. Bovey, at Uhrichs- 
ville, where he remained two years. 

In 1877 he came to Deersville and com- 
menced business for himself in the line of drugs, 
which he has continued since. On March 6, 
1879, he was married to Mary J., daughter of 
Dr. R. H. Simmons, of Deersville, and the 
children born to this union are Henry B. , born 
February 24, 1880; Mary G., born April 6, 
1882, and Mabel V., born October 11, 1889. In 



OHN HITCHCOCK, one of the oldest 
farmers of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, was born March 12, 1812, in 
Cadiz Township, same county. His father, 
Samuel Hitchcock, was born in 1787, in Mary- 
land. Thomas Hitchcock, father of Samuel, 
also a native of Maryland, came to Jefferson 
County, Ohio, about 1792, but eventually set- 
tled in Archer Township, Harrison County, in 
1800. The early life of Samuel Hitchcock was 
spent in Maryland and in Jefferson County, 
Ohio. At the age of thirteen he came, with his 
parents, to Harrison County, with which he was 
identified until his death. He, early in life, 
married Isabelle Moore, who bore him the fol- 
lowing named family: Margaret, Jane, Isabelle, 
Harriet, Maria. Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, John 
and Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hitchcock 
settled in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, 
where they shared life's joys and sorrows the 
remainder of their lives. Their experiences 
were those of the early settler, who was com- 
pelled to work day and night, almost, to clear 
his land, and at the same time wrest a living 
from the unwilling soil. In politics Mr. Hitch- 
cock was a Democrat, always taking an active 
interest in the party, and served his county as a 
commissioner for several years, also as a jus- 
tice of the peace; he was elected colonel of the 
home militia. He and his family were members 
of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was 
an elder and liberal supporter for many years; 
a man who, by the force of his business habits, 
rose from comparative poverty to affluence, he 



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was also well known for his honesty and up- 
rightness. By his death, which occurred Feb 
ruary 3, 1879, a sad loss befell the entire com- 
munity. 

The early life of John Hitchcock was spent 
in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, in the 
performance of the various duties, and in the 
indulgence of the very few pleasures of the 
farmer hoy. On January 8, 1835, he was mar- 
ried to .Sarah Kelly, daughter of Hugh and 
Mary Kelly, of Short Creek Township, Har- 
rison County, and she bore him the following 
named children: Isabelle (deceased), was mar- 
ried September 24, 1862, to S. M. Birney, and 
they had two children, John A., practicing 
medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and Mary E., 
married to A. J. Lever, a Christian preacher, 
having charge of a congregation near Cleve- 
land, Ohio; all belong to the Christian Church; 
Johnson (in Washington Township, Harrison 
County) and Mary and Samuel (twins). In 
politics Mr. Hitchcock was originally a Whig, 
but on the organization of the Republican party 
became at once one of its faithful allies, and 
under its auspices was for a number of years a 
justice of the peace. He and family are mem- 
bers of the Christian Church, in which he is an 
elder, and of which he is one of the liberal and 
zealous supporters. In 1841 he came to his 
present residence, and since that time has im- 
proved the farm and constructed some of the 
most serviceable and handsome farm buildings 
in his township. His landed estate consists of 
about 600 acres in Harrison County (on which 
he and his sons carry on a general farming and 
stock-raising business), also two valuable houses 
in Uhrichsville, Ohio, and his financial success is 
due to his own good management and hard 
work. Mrs. Hitchcock died September 10, 18S9. 

In 1875 Samuel Hitchcock, son of John 
Hitchcock, was married to Nancy, daughter of 
John McGill, of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, and to this union were born the follow- 
ing named children: John S., Garfield S., Olga, 
Mabel and Earnest. Mr. Hitchcock is a Re- 
publican, and a member of the Christian Church. 



He is engaged in the breeding of Poland-China 
swim., of which he has some of the best in the 
State of Ohio, and he is recognized as an intel- 
ligent and unusually enterprising young man. 



JOHN CONDO, one of the oldest and most 
highly respected citizens of German Town 
ship, Harrison County, and one of the 
most successful farmers, was born Novem- 
ber 22, 1839, on the farm where he now lives. 
on Section 25, and is a son of Jeremiah and 
Lydia (Stall) Condo. He received his educa- 
tion at the common schools of German Town 
ship, going to school about four months in the 
winter, and passing his summers on the farm 
helping his father. He never has left the old 
farm, but remained true to his parents in their 
old age. June 11, 1868, he married Miss Mary, 
a daughter of Michael and Catherine (Flick- 
inger) Harmon, and born August 15, L838. 
Michael Harmon is a son of John and Matilda 
Harmon, natives of Maryland. John Harmon 
came to Rumley Township. Harrison Co., Ohio, 
about the time the Condos came to German 
Township. John was the father of four chil- 
dren, by name. Michael, George, Jacob and 
Sarah. Michael moved to Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio, soon after his parents' settlement in 
Rumley Township, where he bought a farm. 
He died on the same farm in lSSo, and his wife 
died the same year. They were (lie parents of 
ten children, by name: William, Elizabeth, 
Margaret, John, Jacob, Mahala, Mary. Andrew. 
Sarah and Malinda, all being born in Tuscara- 
was County. 

John Condo and wife are the parents of 
three children: William EL, born March 8, 1869; 
Jennie B., born May 6, 1S72; Charles I-:., born 
November 14, 1^76; all living at home at .1 
writing, November 1,"., 188'J. Our subject has 
made many improvements on the old farm, in- 
cluding a fine barn, 10x60 feet, with basement; 
he is also one half owner in a farm of 1211 acres, 
which ranks among the best land in Harrisou 
County. John Condo and his two brothers, 



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Jacob and Jeremiah, work their three farms in 
company. They keep about 350 line sheep, and 
about fifteen fine Clydesdale horses, besides 
many hogs and cattle. Politically our subject is 
Democratic, having voted the first time for 
James Buchanan in 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Con- 
do are both members of the Lutheran Church at 
Germano, Ohio. 



his keen insight of human nature rendering him 
invaluable to his party. 



d/OSEPH HOLMES was born October 24, 
1825, in Short Creek Township, Harrison 
/ Co., Ohio, where his youth was spent, on the 
home farm. He early showed those traits 
of character and desire for knowledge which 
afterward made him one of the most intelligent 
men of his section. He nominally engaged in 
agriculture, but was interested in other enter- 
prises which engaged his time and attention 
largely, and in which he was eminently success- 
ful. For many years he was one of the chief fact - 
ors in all progressive movements of his county, 
and was deeply interested in religious and edu- 
cational work. From his youth he was a constant 
attendant of the Dickerson Methodist Episcopal 
Church (which also his family attended), and 
was numbered among the strong defenders and 
liberal supporters. On January 7, 1850, he was 
married to Mary McConnell, a daughter of John 
McConnell, a sketch of which family is given 
elsewhere. Settling on a farm immediately, 
there they afterward remained. Their children 
are as follows: George, born January 3, 1851 
(was married to Julia McClerie, and became 
the father of the following named children: El- 
dora, Ephraham, Bessie May, Mamie and Jo- 
seph, the last named being now deceased); John 
W., born March 16, 1852; Clarissa J., born Oc- 
tober 16, 1853, and now Mrs. Clarissa J. Bond; 
Eezin E., born March 8, 1855; Emma E., born 
August 18, 1858, and married to James King; 
Seward L., born January 31, 1861. On No- 
vember 26, 1889, Joseph Holmes died, and was 
laid to rest in Dickerson Cemetery. A stanch 
Republican, he always took a deep interest as 
well as an active part in the success of his party, 



\ESLEY BROWNING HEARN was 

born on a farm in Jefferson County, 
Mj ll( Ohio, October 6, 1840. When nine 

years of age he moved with his parents 
to Cadiz, the county seat of Harrison County, 
and has been a citizen of Cadiz since that time. 
His ancestors, who on his father's side were 
English, on his mother's side Scotch, emigrated 
to America about the year 1765, and his par- 
ents were among the first settlers of eastern 
Ohio. His father, Lancelot Hearn, was born 
in Baltimore, Md. , in 1794, but settled in east- 
ern Ohio in 1815, and engaged in the business 
of a farmer, a miller, and, in the early years 
of the State, in the business of the manufacture 
of woolen goods. His mother, Barbara Suther- 
land (Urquhart) Hearn, was a daughter of Alex- 
ander and Frances (Tucker) Urquhart, the for- 
mer a native of Scotland, but an American 
soldier in the Revolutionary War, the latter born 
in Charleston, W. Va. ; they settled in Harrison 
County, Ohio, in 1813, locating on a farm three 
miles south of Cadiz. 

Wesley B. Hearn, the subject of this sketch, 
was born, as above stated, on a farm in Jeffer- 
son County Ohio, but moved with his parents to 
Cadiz when nine years of age. Receiving a 
good common-school education, he entered the 
office of the Cadiz Sentinel, at the age of fifteen 
years; but, after learning the printing business, 
and engaging in its pursuit for a short time in 
Cadiz, and in a book-printing establishment in 
Boston, Mass., he turned his attention to school 
teaching, a profession he followed for a number 
of years. He bought the office of the Cadiz 
Republican in April, 1869, and has been engaged 
in the publication of that paper since that time. 
He was married in 1868 to Jennie C. Beall, 
daughter of the late Dr. John Beall, of Cadiz. 
Mr. Hearn was elected in November, 1889, a 
member of the House of Representatives of the 
Sixty- ninth General Assembly of the State of 
Ohio, for Harrison County. 







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Jl( BRAHAM OLIPHANT, who has for many 
l\ years been one of the leading business 
1\ men of Deersville, Harrison County, 
was born April 28, 1841, in Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio. He spent his youth on the home 
farm, assisting and sharing in its duties. When 
of suitable age he entered an apprenticeship at 
the carpenter's trade, which he followed many 
years, also adding wagon-making. In 1876 he 
commenced the undertaking business in Deers- 
ville, where by close application to business, as 
well as honesty in dealing, he established a large 
and lucrative business. In 1884, not feeling 
competent to embalm as well as the improve- 
ments in that branch of business warranted, he 
attended a course of lectures at the embalming 
school of Cincinnati, one of the recognized cen- 
ters of that branch. He is now probably the 
only one having a certificate from a leading 
school as a voucher of his competency. He 
has embalmed over 300 bodies, and lias always 
met with the most flattering success. In 1890 
he purchased the undertaking business of M. 
If. Knox at Freeport, where he is doing busi- 
ness. He has shown a vast amount of enter- 
prise in his line, and now has the facilities of 
doing as good work as can be procured in any 
citv. He is a Republican in principle and sup- 
ports that party; his family are members of the 
Disciples Church. On January 21, 1857, he 
was married to Sarah Turner, a daughter of 
James Turner, of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, but she died in 1866, leaving two chil- 
dren: Charles M. and Harvey A. Mr. Oliphant 
was next married to Sarah Jane Cecil, of Frank 
lin Township, by whom there are no children. 
Charles M. Oliphant was born November I '1, 
1857. His education was received at the com- 
mon schools of his section, and afterward at 
Bethany College, from which he graduated in 
1883, taking the highest honors of his class. 
Immediately on his graduation he was called to 
Lock Haven, Penn., where he remained a short 
time; he then accepted a call to Courtland, 
remained in charge four years, and then accepted 
a call to Niles, where he now is Harvey 



A. Oliphant is a resident of Deersville, where 
he is engaged in the building trade. He mar- 
ried Maggie Spiker. a resident of the same 
place. 

The Oliphant family were natives of Penn- 
sylvania, where Duncan, the father of Abraham, 

was born. Here his early life was a] 1. attend 

ing the common schools, and in the duties that 
usually fall to the lot of the average boy. 
While still a resident of Pennsylvania he was 
married to Sarah Beemer, and they then came 
to Ohio, and settled in Franklin Township, 
where they reared the following family: James, 
Andrew. Elizabeth. John. Samuel, Jane. Mary, 
Abraham. Alexander, Catherine. George and 
Eliza. His settlement was in the midst of the 
wilderness thai I ben was the scene of so much 
hardship, necessitating much labor to bring it 
to its present state of cultivation. He was a 
self-made man, enjoying the esteem of all. In 
politics he was a Whig, until the organization 
of the Republican party, when he became 
united with them. He and his family have I"ii^' 
and favorably been known over a large section, 
and have been among the progressive men 
where they resided. 



d( )HX SPROULL, farmer, Mooretield Town 
ship. Harrison County, is a son of 
Thomas and Elizabeth (Colwell) Sproull, 
natives of Ireland, former of whom, a son 
of Robert Sproull. was born in 1799, ami grew 
to voung manhood in his native country. He 
there married Mary Hastings, and to them was 
born one son. William, who now resides m 
Coshocton County, Ohio. In L819 Thomas im- 
migrated to the United States and came to Har- 
ris,.!! County. Ohio, where, .luring the first 
three years, he worked for John Conley. of 
Short Creek Township. In 1823 he purchased 
the farm "our subject now owns, which In' paid 
for by threshing grain in the winter time for 
every tenth bushel. Wheat at that time was 
worth only 25 cents per bushel, so he left his 
wheat with Mr. Conley. of Short Creek Town- 



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ship, till it advanced to 33 cents. He threshed 
only about ten bushels per day, so, at the 
end of each week he had earned about $1.50. 
His wife did not come to Ohio till after the pur- 
chase of the farm. Here this faithful couple 
worked early and late to pay for a home in a free 
country, but in a few years the wife was called 
from earth, and a few years thereafter Mr. 
SprouJl married Elizabeth Colwell. This union 
was blessed with five children, namely: Andrew, 
residing with our subject; Robert, deceased; 
John; Hugh and Thomas, both deceased. Mrs. 
Sproull died February 15, 1882, a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Sproull died 
April IV). 1ST'.!, a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. 

John Sproull, our subject, was born in 
Mooretield Township. Harrison Co., Ohio. Sep 
teruber 23. 1842. in the house where he now re- 
sides, and where he grew to manhood. He was 
married to Miss Amanda White, who was born 
July 26, 1854, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah 
(Lee) White, of Nottingham Township, and by 
this union there are three children, viz. : Eliza- 
beth. Thomas and Allen. Mr. Sproull' s farm 
contains one hundred acres, situated on Section 
No. 13, in the northeast corner of Moorefield 
Township, and is under a high state of cultiva- 
tion. In politics Mr. Sproull is a Democrat. 



AMUEL ADAMS, one of the oldest resi- 
dents of Green Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, was born in Short Creek Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, December 1, 1809. 
His father, John Adams, was a native of Ireland. 
atid at the commencement of the present cent- 
ury came with his family to America, soon 
after his arrival proceeding to Harrison County, 
Ohio, which he reached in the spring of 1805. 
Here, in the wilderness, he established a home 
and reared a family, the several members of 
which have been among the most highly re- 
spected in their section. Their names are as 
follows: 'William, James, Samuel, Hannah, 
Joshua and John, all of whom are now deceased 



except Samuel. In 1812 the father was called 
to his reward, and was buried in West Grove 
Cemetery, in Short Creek Township; the mother 
died in 1846, and her remains were placed be- 
side those of her husband. In religion they 
were members of the Society of Friends. 

Samuel Adams, at the age of sixteen, started 
out in life for himself, and engaged in farming 
for several years. At the age of thirty-three 
he was united in marriage with Sarah, daughter 
of David Chambers, of Green Township, and by 
this union there were three children, viz. : 
Joshua, born August 2, 1842; Rachel, born 
September 3, ]844, and John, born December 
11, 1850, died April 27, 1882. The mother of 
these children dying February 7, 1851, Mr. 
Adams, for his second wife, became united in 
marriage April 2, 1S57, with Mary, daughter 
of James Clark, of Athens Township, Harrison 
County, and by her he has two children, namely. 
Clark and Sarah Elizabeth. The family are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church. In politics Mir. 
Adams has always been an ardent supporter of 
the Republican party, although never an office 
seeker. He is truly a self made man, having 
commenced life with no capital save a good con- 
stitution, willing heart and hands, coupled with 
energy, perseverance and a determination to 
succeed. He is now the owner of the finest 
farm in his section, consisting of 192 acres of 
land in a high state of cultivation. 

Clark Adams, his son. has the management 
of the home place on which he lives. On No- 
vember 26, 1884, he was married to Dora, 
daughter of Henry Copeland, of Green Town- 
ship, and to them have been born three children, 
viz. : Mary, born October 31, 1885; Wylie, born 
February 29, 1SS7, and Leroy, born November 
24. 1889. Mr. Adams has always supported 
the Republican party, and has been school 
director in his district for a term of years. 
He is a young man of good native intelligence, 
which he has fortified with a thorough course of 
study. He and his father are now the only 
representatives living in Green Township, of the 
Adams family, so closely identified with the 



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early settlement, development and progress, 
socially and financially, of Harrison Comity. 



ri( LEXANDER C. DAVIS was horn May 8, 
f\\ 1838. His father, Elijah Davis, was 
I V\ horn in Washington County, Penn., in 
■// 1808, and his early youth was spent at 

home, assisting in the management of the home 
place. He acquired, at the common schools, a 
good general education, which, added to his 
natural ability, made him one of the successful 
teachers of his section. At the age of twenty- 
one years he was married to Sarah Carr, of 
Washington County, Penn., and soon thereafter 
he entered the employ of the Government, and 
for six years gave his attention to the National 
Pike which was in operation in his vicinity. In 
1836 he removed to Morgan County, Ohio, where 
he purchased a farm, and by industry added to 
it until it had increased to 180 acres. His fam- 
ily were named as follows: Emeline, Elesine, 
Nancy, Editha, Elizabeth, Sarah, Rebecca, Alex- 
ander C, David, Thomas and Seabqrn. Elijah 
Davis in politics was a Democrat, and he was a 
member of the Christian Church; his wife was a 
Congregationalist. In January, ISM*, Mr. Davis 
passed away, and was buried at Ranersville, 
Morgan County. Ohio, by the side of his wife 
who had preceded him to the grave in 1NN'_\ 

Our subject spent his early youth at home, 
and at the age of nineteen began to learn the 
carriage-maker's trade, which he followed until 
coming on the farm. At the call for troops 
Mr. Davis was one of the tirst to enlist, becom- 
ing a member of the First Ohio Cavalry, August 
17, 1861. The regiment was sent to Camp 
Chase immediately, where they remained but a 
short time, being ordered to Cincinnati. They 
then were sent to eastern Kentucky, where they 
were engaged in several skirmishes. They soon 
returned to Cincinnati, and then moved to Louis 
ville, from which place they were ordered against 
the rebel raider, Morgan, who was in the 
vicinity of Bardstown. Then, returning to Louis- 
ville, they were taken by boat to Fort Douelson, 



and finally to Nashville, remaining there some 
time. The regiment was engaged in the battle 

of Sbiloh. in which Mr. Davis' brother, David, 
was killed. Al'ier the battle of Shiloh the com- 
mand was sent through by the way of Tuscum- 
bia and Huntsville, Ala., to McMinnville, Tenu., 
and as they neared Huntsville Gen. McCook 
was killed by bushwhackers. On arriving at 
McMinnville the commander receiving a message 
that Gen. Bragg was in Kentucky, the command 
then marched through to Louisville, that State. 
where the army was reorganized and ordered to 
Perryville, at which place the enemy was ready 
to give battle. Here Gen. Rosecrans took com- 
mand, and they marched through by way of 
Nashville to the battle.,!' Stone River, where 
Col. Milliken was killed; from there they 
marched to Tullahoma. and from this place to 
the battle of Chickamauga, where Lieut. Col. 
Cupp was killed. They then fell back to Chat- 
tanooga, to find that the rebel cavalry had capt- 
ured their supply trains, and consequently 
Union cavalry had to be sent back after them. 
On returning from this raid the command was 
sent to the battle of .Mission Ridge, thence to 
Knoxville. and from there to a little town in 
South Carolina. They then returned to Charles- 
ton, Tenn.. where the regiment re enlisted and 
returned to Nashville, Tenn. Our subject being 
taken sick, he was sent to the hospital, where 
he remained about three months, and then went 
to Franklin. Tenn. In a short time thereafter 
he was discharged, after serving three years 
and two months, soon returning to his native 
place, and after a short visit again went to 
Nashville, where he entered the employ of the 
Government, working at his old trade. Hen- 
he remained about two years, then returned to 
Ohio, locating at Steubeuville. where he spent 
two years. He was then offered a position in 
the carriage works situated at Dnionport, Ohio, 
ami. accepting, remained there for seven con- 
secutive years. He pursued his calling in 
Cadiz, also New Comerstown. In 1877 he pur- 
chased a farm in Wayne Township. Jefferson 
County, on which he remained a short time only. 



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selling out and buying the place on which he 
now resides in Green Township. On November 
28, 1S72, Mr. Davis was united in marriage 
with Mattie, daughter of Thomas Carman, a 
resident of Jefferson County, Ohio, and their 
children were as follows: Ray, born August 7, 
1873, died August II, 1874; May, born August 
7, 1873, died October 15, 1873; Oella, born 
November 27, 1879. In politics Mr. Davis is 
one of the strongest supporters of the Repub- 
lican party 7 , and although his services entitle 
him to the various positions in the gift of his 
party, he has always refused to accept any. He 
and his family are members of the Christian 
Church at Fnionport. 



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It n RS. CAROLINE TANNEHILL. a 
\/| highly respected resident of New 
I] Athens Harrison County, was born 
December 18, 1818. Her father, John 
Campbell, a farmer by occupation, was a native 
of Pennsylvania, born of Scotch-Irish descent, 
and in that State was married to Miss Mary 
Lyle, daughter of Hon. Aaron and Eleanor 
Lyle (of whom further mention is made at the 
close of this sketch). Some time after marriage 
Mr. Campbell came to Ohio, and settled on a 
farm in Belmont County, on which he resided 
until his death, which occurred July 23, 1845, 
when he was sixty-six years of age; his widow 
survived him ten years, dying also at the age of 
sixty six. He was highly esteemed in the com- 
munity, and for thirty years had served as justice 
of the peace; both were devout members of the 
Presbyterian Church. They were the parents 
of fifteen children, born in the following order: 
Eleanor (deceased), Polly (deceased), Margaret 
(deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), Jane (de- 
ceased), Maria (deceased), Lyle, Caroline (Mrs. 
Tannehill), John (deceased), Amanda (de- 
ceased), Ann, Clarissa, Lucinda (deceased), Isa- 
bella, and an infant that died unnamed. 

Caroline Campbell resided with her parents 
until she was twenty years of age, when, in 
April, 1838, she was married to Isaiah Tanne- 



hill, a native of Pennsylvania, and a sou of 
James T. and Jane (Marshall) Tannehill. The 
father of James T. was William T., a native of 
Scotland, who settled in Trumbull County, Ohio, 
where James T. was born, and Jane (Marshall) 
Tanuenill's father was Thomas Marshall, who 
died in Belmont County, Ohio, at the age of 
ninety-four years. For over forty years James 
T. Tannehill was an elder in the Crabapple 
Presbyterian Church, in Belmont County, Ohio. 
Isaiah Tannehill, an only child, born in 1817. 
was reared on the home farm, and was educated 
in the rudiments at the public schools, finishing 
at the college at New Athens. After his mar- 
riage he made his home on the farm in Belmont 
County, Ohio, but he was not long spared to 
his young wife, for he passed away July 29, 
1 S4:'». aged but twenty- six years, six months and 
three days. Two children blessed the union of 
Mr. and Mrs. Tannehill, viz. : Mary Jane, born 
August 15. 1840, and Louisa Ann, born Feb 
ruary 15, 1842. 

Mary Jane Tannehill was married, February 
14, 1860, to Dr. William D. Plummer, a native 
of Westmoreland County, Penn. , and a son of 
William and Sarah Plummer. who were parents 
of twelve children. William Plummer died in 
Pennsylvania, and Sarah Plummer near Steu- 
benville, Ohio. The Plummers trace their an- 
cestry to the Mayflower Puritans. Dr. William 
D. Plummer was educated at New Athens, and 
finished his medical studies at the Chicago Uni- 
versity. He then, at the age of twenty eight 
years, entered the service of his country as first 
assistant surgeon in Yates' Illinois Sharpshoot- 
ers. His company went to Atlanta, Ga. , where 
the Doctor was seized with camp dysentery, and 
died July 10, 18*34, having been in the service 
but a few months. One child, Ophelia Lulu, 
was born to the Doctor and his wife. Mrs. Car- 
oline Tannehill is now making her home with 
her daughter, Mrs. Plummer, at New Athens. 
Ohio. The Doctor had been a member of the 
Presbyterian Church from his eighteenth year, 
and for a time was an elder. He was a man of 
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whatever he undertook. Miss Lulu Plummer 
has for the past rive years been connected with 
the musical department of the college at New 
Athens (from which she graduated in 1881), 
teaching vocal music as well as piano and organ. 
The family is one of the most highly respected 
in the township, and has a wide circle of friends. 

Louisa Ann Tannehill was married, May 12> 
1864, to Rev. T. P. Dysart, son of John and 
Maria (Grimes) Dysart, the former a farmer, 
residing in Belmont County. Ohio, now aged 
nearly ninety years. Mrs. Dysart, however, 
lived but a short time after marriage, dying 
February 3, 1871. Rev. T. P. Dysart was born 
September 6, 1836, in Belmont County, Ohio, 
and at the age of seventeen entered Franklin 
College, New Athens, graduating in September, 
1857. He then attended the Theological Semi- 
nary of Allegheny, Penn., and was licensed to 
preach April 10, 1861, by the presbytery of 
Wheeling. He was the father of two children: 
John, who graduated from Monmouth College 
in 1890, and Carrie, who graduated from Lake 
Erie Seminary, Paynesville, Ohio. Mr. Dysart 
died at Olathe, Kas., August 23, 1882. 

To revert to the Lyle family: About 1681, 
in the time of Charles II., a Scotchman, named 
John Lyle, on account of religious persecution, 
sought refuge in Ireland, and settled on a farm 
in County Antrim. He reared a family of chil- 
dren, one of whom was Robert Lyle, born in 
L698. John Lyle, going to pay his rent one 
day, stood bareheaded in waiting on the steward 
of his landlord, caught cold and died. This so 
incensed Robert that lie left home with his 
younger brother, John, in 1741, for America, 
and landed in New York in the spring of 1742. 
Having but little money, he purchased a small 
tract of laud in New Jersey, near where New 
Brunswick now stands. Here John Lyle died, 
but many of his descendants still live in New 
Jersey. In 1747. when forty nine years of age. 
Robert Lyle married Mary Gilleland, and moved 
to Northampton County, Penn., where he bought 
a farm, upon which he resided until his death, 
which occurred December 9, 1765. He left five 



sous and five daughters, and of these, one son, 
Aaron Lyle, with his wife, accompanied by two 
brothers and their families, removed to Wash 
ington County, Penn., in 1784, entering 400 
acres of land, and in 1786 Aaron took out a 
warrant for land lying west of the first entry. 

Aaron Lyle was born November 17, 1759, 
and entered the patriot army at sixteen years of 
age; he also took part in the whisky insurrec- 
tion in Pennsylvania in 171)4. He served in the 
Pennsylvania Legislature in 1797, 1 T'.»s. 1799, 
1800 and 1801. In 1802 he was elected to fill 
the place of associate judge, and in 1802, 1804 
and 1805 was again elected to the Legislature. 
In 1806 he was elected county commissioner; 
his enemies thought he would refuse to serve, 
but he filled the office from 1806 to 1809. In 
180S he was elected to Congress, and served four 
terms. In 1782 Aaron Lyle married Eleanor 
Moore, daughter of John Moore, of Northamp- 
ton County, Penn., and became the father of ten 
children. His death took place September 24. 
1825, when he was aged sixty-six years. 




,\ILLIAM SPICER FOX is one of the 
most widely known, respected, ener- 
getic and prominent farmers of Short 
Creek Township, Harrison County. He 
is the son of Charles J. and Esther Fox, and was 
born September 22, 1839, on the farm where 
the aged parents now reside-. ( iharles ames Fox, 
the father, was born in Washington City. The 
grandfather, Josiah Fox, a native England, was 
a mariner, and in IT'.tO made his first voyage, 
which was to Mediterranean ports; and on one 
of his subsequent voyages he landed in Amer- 
ica where he resided one year, reluming to 
England. In 17'.to he again came to America 
and located in Philadelphia, where he was en- 
gaged by the Govern nt as navy constructor; 

was afterward transferred to the Norfolk and 
Portsmouth Navy Yards, and then to that at 
Washington. He was married, while in Phila- 
delphia, to Miss Anna Miller, daughter of Peter 



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Miller, a native of Philadelphia, and of German 
ancestry. [See sketch of Charles J. Fox. | 

William S. Fox spent his boyhood and young 
manhood on his father's farm, but from youth 
he was of a studious nature, constantly in pur- 
suit of knowledge, and after finishing his course 
of study at the common district school of his 
native township entered Hopedale College, and 
graduated therefrom in 1860. He then returned 
to his father's residence, and was for a short 
time engaged as a teacher, but. his health failed 
him somewhat, which obliged him to give it up. 
In search of health, he went, in 1863, to the 
Granville Water Cure, and in 1804 spent six 
months in Minnesota, receiving much benefit 
from the trip, and then returned to Harrison 
County. In 1S70 he chose, as his life's com- 
panion, Miss Esther J. Moore, daughter of Jer- 
emiah and Sarah (Evans) Moore, of Clearfield 
County, Penn., who died at Grampian Hills, 
Penn. William S. Fox and his bride came to Har- 
rison County, and in the spring following their 
marriage, made their home five miles and a half 
from Cadiz, on the Cadiz and Harrisville pike, 
where they have since resided. The house into 
which they moved was an old one, having been 
erected in 1845, but in 1882 it was remodeled, 
and now, with the addition of a new barn, their 
home is one of the pleasautest in Short Creek 
Township. The farm consists of ninety-four 
acres, and is in a high state of cultivation. 
Here Mr. Fox has for the last few years given 
special attention to the culture of fish, possess- 
ing now one of the best ponds in the county, 
well stocked with carp. The pond itself is a 
perfect oval in shape, arranged with mathemat- 
ical precision. Three children have been born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Fox: Mary Moore, John Fran- 
cis and Erie Esther. In political affairs Mr. 
Fox has always taken an active part in the in- 
terest of the Republican party, with which he 
has ever in his politics been identified, and of 
which he is likely to remain a strong supporter. 
Those who represent, the party in his community 
have never failed to look to him as the pro- 
moter of measures calculated to insure its 



success. Religiously he is a member of the 
Hicksite Friends. 

The confidence that the people of Short 
Creek Township repose in Mr. Fox, and the es- 
teem in which he is held by the community, are 
shewn by the fact that he has held nearly every 
position in the gift of the people in his township, 
having served as township trustee seven years; 
was elected justice of the peace, and continu- 
ously re-elected until he had served six years in 
that office; in 1880 he was land appraiser; he has 
served in the capacity of surveyor and engineer 
for fifteen years, having done the surveying and 
computing the work of the Cadiz & Harrisville 
Pike; he also for six years has been notary pub- 
lic, and is now serving his third term. For many 
years Mr. Fox has been one of the directors of 
the First National Bank of Cadiz. In addition 
to having won the confidence and respect of his 
fellow-citizens in more than an ordinary degree, 
Mr. Fox is in all respects a thoroughly-representa- 
tive citizen of the county. 



T,HEODORE W. SMITH, an enterprising 
young farmer of North Township, Harri- 
son County, was born in Freeport, Harri- 
son Co., Ohio, March 17, 1846, and is a 
son of Thomas Smith, a native of Ireland. John 
Smith, the father of Thomas, brought his family 
to America in ISIS, and entered a tract of land 
from Gov. Hare, in Nottingham Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, where he passed from earth; his 
widow died at Deersville. Ohio, at the advanced 
age of ninety years. They were the parents of 
the following children: Thomas (the father of 
our subject), Robert, William and John, all de- 
ceased; Sarah, Mrs. F. T. Simonton, of Deers- 
ville, deceased, and an infant that died unnamed. 
Thomas Smith passed the earlier part of his 
life on the home farm, sharing in the general du- 
ties pertaining to its care. As he approached 
his majority he went to Cadiz, Ohio, and entered 
the office of the Republican, where he learned 
the printing business, after which, in 1838. he 
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his bride, Miss Mary Hopkins, whom he mar- 
ried in Bride Street Church, Dublin, in con- 
formity with an arrangement previously made by 
the parents on both sides. Returning to Cadiz, 
Mr. Smith entered into mercantile business, and 
thence he moved to Freeport, Ohio, where for 
twenty rive years he carried on a genera] store. 
This he sold in 1863 to James Clendenning, and 
removed to Leesville, Carroll Co.. Ohio. He next 
bought the farm in North Township, Harrison 
County, where his son, Theodore \\\, now lives. 
Here he died on February 23, L881, aged 
seventy- two years, having been born May 6, 
1809; his widow was born August 27, 1813, and 
died June 5, 1882. They were the parents of 
six children, as follows: Joseph J., in Cleve- 
land, Ohio; Robert H, who died in Pittsburgh, 
December 12, 1885; Edward A., killed by 
lightning on the farm of our subject; Theodore 
W. .whose name heads this sketch; Alice J., who 
died in Leesville, unmarried, and Sarah E. , de- 
ceased wife of M. Friesbaugh. Mrs. Mary 
(Hopkins) Smith, a lady of marked characteris- 
tics, sociable and possessing tine conversational 
] lowers, was educated in Dublin, Ireland. Just 
before her death she had made arrangements to 
visit her only brother, Abraui Hopkins, a prac- 
ticing physician in Canada, and the only mem- 
ber of the family besides herself that had come 
to America. He died in 1882, leaving a family, 
who are residents of Canada. 

Theodore W. Smith was educated in the 
common schools of Harrison County, and assisted 
his father on the farm and in the mercantile 
business, but since coming to North Township 
he has followed agriculture. December 8, 1870, 
he married Miss Malila, daughter of James and 
Ann (McCarroll) English, and born in North 
Township, one and one-half miles from her 
present home. Here they resided one year, 
and then moved to Leesville, Carroll County, 
where, in company with his brother, Robert H, 
Mr. Smith was for four years engaged in mer- 
cantile pursuits; he then returned to his farm, 
which has ever since been his home. To the 
union of Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born 



three children: Alice ft, Charles S. and Anna 
L.. all at home with their parents. This home 
was also shared by James Wilfred Smith, son 
of our snhject's In-other. Edward A., and born 
July 31, 1870. The mother of tliis young man 
died when he was but two years of age, and he 
was only nine years old when his father was 
killed by lightning. .lames Wilfred was a 
bright, intelligent young man, loved and re- 
sperted by all, for his many virtues. After a 
lingering illness of three mouths he. died. June 
25, 1890, in the twentieth year of his age. 

In politics Theodore W. Smith has always 
been a Republican. He has lived a temperate 
life, but is charitable almost beyond his ability. 
His wife is a member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, toward the support of which Mr. 
Smith also contributes liberally. Mr. Smith is 
a strong advocate for the education of the young, 
and believes that every man should think for 
himself. During the Civil War he was a mem- 
ber of the home organization formed for the 
checking of the John Morgan raid, and lost a 
horse while in Shackleford's army. He is a 
member of the Knights of Pythias, and enjoys 
the esteem of a wide circle of friends. His 
farm comprises 160 acres situated on the edge 
of Connotton, and his pleasant dwelling was 
erected in IS')"'. 



JESSE B. CREW (deceased) was descended 
from an English family of Friends, his 
ancestors coming to America at an early 
day, and locating in Virginia. He was 
born in Charles City County, Va., where his 
parents, Robert and Nancy (Terrell ) Crew, be 
longed to Wayne Oak Meeting. The father, be 
ing a man of tine intelligence, was clerk of the 
Yearly Meeting, also superintendent and in- 
structor in a boarding school. The subject of 
this sketch was the sixth child in a family of 
twelve children, ten of whom grew to maturity. 
About 1831 there occurred a negro insurrection 
in their neighborhood, and the worthy Quakers, 



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whose religious belief prohibited them from 
using violence, were forced to secrete themselves 
in barns and outbuildings to save their lives. 
Selling their property at a great sacrifice, they 
emigrated to Ohio. So great was the sacrifice 
that aside-board, which, at its original purchase, 
cost several hundred dollars, was sold at public 
auction and brought but six and three-quarter 
cents. Thus was their Eastern home, with all its 
comforts and luxuries, exchanged for one scarcely 
yet past the dangers and privations of a frontier 
settlement. The family first located in Jeffer- 
son County. On the twenty-eighth day of the 
twelfth month, 1837, at the Short Creek Monthly 
Meeting, Jesse B. Crew was united in marriage 
with Elizabeth H. Jenkins, and the young 
couple resided at Emerson, Ohio, where he fol- 
lowed the trade of a pump-maker. Late in the 
autumn of 1855 they removed to a farm near 
West Grove, Harrison County, where his death 
occurred on the thirtieth day of the seventh 
month, 1865, 

Elizabeth H. Jenkins was born near Mount 
Pleasant, Jefferson Co., Ohio, the seventh day 
of the first month, 1821, and is the youngest 
daughter of Israel Jenkins, a native of Virginia, 
who was born near Winchester the eleventh day 
of the eleventh month, 1779, he being a son of 
Jonathan and Ann (Hoge) Jenkins. He came 
to Ohio in the year 1800, and, locating in Jeffer- 
son County, took up a tract of land, and after 
having cleared a small patch and started a 
log cabin thereon, he returned to his boy- 
hood home, and there, in the year 1801, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Horseman, who was born in Vir- 
ginia the twenty-second day of the sixth month, 
1785, daughter of David and Ruth (Wright) 
Horseman. They at once returned to Ohio, to 
find that the man whom Mr. Jenkins had en- 
gaged to finish the cabin had failed to do BO, 
and but a partially-built structure awaited them. 
Hanging shawls and blankets over the doors and 
windows, however, they lay down to rest, lulled 
to slumber sweet by the howling of the wolves 
and the cries of other wild animals, with which 
the woods were infested. Israel Jenkins died 



the seventeenth day of the fifth month, 1863. 
He had been particularly interested in the re- 
ligious and educational advancement of the 
country, and was one of the founders of the 
Short Creek and Mount Pleasant Churches. 
The children of this union were Ruth, who 
taught school several years, and died at home 
at the age of thirty-four; Esther, wife of Jo- 
seph Hill, of Washington County, Penn., but 
recently of Fulton County, Ind. ; Ann, wife 
of Aaron Thompson, of Mount Pleasant, Ohio; 
Jonathan, a self-taught man of good business 
capacity, and for many years a very successful 
merchant of Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio; Mary, 
wife of Alexander White, of Portland, Jay Co., 
Ind. ; Hannah, wife of Samuel Custer, of Lo- 
gansport, Ind. ; Elizabeth, subject of this sketch 
(youngest daughter); David P. (youngest son), 
received a liberal education at Mount Pleasant 
Boarding School, after which he studied law at 
Steubenville and Cincinnati, engaging in his 
chosen profession first at Cincinnati, but after- 
ward changing place of residence as business 
seemed to require; he is familiarly known as 
Col. D. P. Jenkins, having served his country's 
cause as colonel of Illinois cavalry during the 
war; some years later he settled in (then) Wash- 
ington Territory, and, manifesting a deep interest 
in its welfare, has done much toward its prog- 
ress as a new State, where he now enjoys the 
fruits of his labors in a pleasant home in afflu- 
ent circumstances. Since the spring of 1886 
Mrs. Crew has resided in Georgetown. Her 
union with Mr. Crew was blessed by three chil- 
dren: Theophilus, who died at the age of two 
years; Ruth Anna, now Mrs. Asa Hoge, of Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, and Robert Terrell, of 
Washington County, Kas. Mrs. Crew was edu- 
cated in part at Brownsville, Penn, and then 
attended the first term of the new Friends 
Boarding School at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, 
where afterward each of her surviving children 
attended the same school a number of terms, 
after which the daughter attended Hopedale 
Normal College, of Harrison County, and the 
son, Oberlin College, of Northern Ohio. 



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fit ARON CONAWAY. In what is now 
// \\ Stock Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
f/§\ was born October 13, 1807, Aaron Con- 
■f/ away, one of the oldest residents of that 

connty. His ancestry were of the famous Con- 
away family of Ireland. The great-grandfather 
was Irish, and his wife was Scotch-Irish; they 
were married and lived in the State of Mary- 
land, where their eldest son, Michael, was born 
in 1737. He grew to manhood on the eastern 
shore of Chesapeake Bay, became a successful 
sportsman, winning prizes in contests, shooting 
duck on the wing, etc. He was also a sailor, 
commanding a small boat on the bay. One 
day, while crossing, his boat was struck by a 
cyclone that carried a waterspout, sinking the 
frail craft, and the passengers all went down 
with her, except Conaway and one other man, 
who rose and commenced to swim. They 
secured one oar to ride on, but Conaway gave 
it to the other man, and told him to save his 
life, as he had a family to support. This hap- 
pened at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and they 
swam till 3 o'clock the nest morning, when they 
heard a fiddle playing on a passing ship. Hav- 
ing shouted for help, there was a yawl with two 
men in her sent to their assistance, but these 
men told them they could not take them in, 
whereupon Conaway grabbed the craft and told 
them to take in the other man or he would sink 
them. They did so, leaving him, but a long 
rope hung from the ship, which he got hold of, 
and the swift motion of the ship made him skip 
upon the water until he was taken in. Both 
were so badly exhausted that they could not 
stand when rescued. This adventure caused 
Mr. Conaway to leave the water. 

He was married to Miss Elizabeth Davis 
[Scotch] in 1779, and their eldest son, Michael, 
was born in 1780; was raised fourteen miles 
from Baltimore, and became a "market boy," 
riding twice a week and carrying game. He 
had to start at midnight in order to get to his 
destination in time, and he soon got so used to 
his horse that he slept od his back, seldom wak- 
ing unless there was a stop. He came to Penn- 



sylvania at manhood, and was married to Mart ha 
Hoagland, and then moved to Harrison Connty, 
J Ohio, with his parents and wife, in 1805. They 
reared nine children on the farm: The eldest 
son, Eli, lived till twenty-seven years of age, 
dying from a wound in his side (he was a suc- 
cessful teacher). The second son, Aaron, was 
born in 1807, has always been a farmer, also 
held numerous public offices. He was married 
March 28, 1833, to Dorcas Busby, by whom he 
had fourteen children, six of whom still survive: 
The eldest son, Michael, is a farmer; one son 
fell in battle; one was killed by the cars; three 
sons are eminent and successfid physicians in 
the West, viz. : John B., living in York, Neb. ; 
Henry O., in Omaha, Neb., president of the 
Omaha Medical Institute; and Alpheus B., in 
New Sharon, Iowa (of these three sons it may 
well be said that in making their life work a 
success they never fail to attribute the same to 
the kindly influence and good counsel of their 
father); two daughters, It. M. Welch and C. B. 
Burner, both of whom were successful teachers. 
One sister of Aaron, named Betsy, married 
G. McKinny, and reared five daughters; one 
brother, Henry, who was a good teacher and 
doctor, married Rosanna Mosholder, and by her 
had two daughters and one son; one sister, 
Susanna, married Joel Smith, and had two sons 
and one daughter (she still lives, now seventy- 
seven years old); one sister, Rachel, married 
Alexander Picken, and they reared five daughters 
and two sons; one brother, Enoch, who was a 
good doctor, was twice married, and left two 
daughters; one sister, Mary, died single; one 
brother, Moses, lived on the old farm, and died 
in October. 1890 (he was twice married, first to 
M. J. Crozier, by whom he had three sons, the 
eldest of whom, Willie, died at the age of five 
years: the second, Horace Mann, is a scholar 
and preacher; the third son, John Crozier, is a 
teacher and law student; the second wife of 
Moses Conaway, by name, Kate Gallaher. has 
one daughter, now five years old, Martha Stella). 
The ancestor on our subject's mother's side 
was named Hoagland. He married Mary Hooey 



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[Irish], and they reared a large family. James 
Hoagland was a farmer, and lived in Harrison 
County, Ohio, where he reared a large family. 
Aaron reared a family in Ashland County, Ohio; 
Moses lived in Holmes County, Ohio, was a 
strong-minded man. Martha Hoagland, mother 
of our subject, was the youngest; her sisters 
were Mary (who married Harvey Tumbleson), 
Jane (who went South and married) and Anna 
(wife of Piatt Martin). 

One of Grandfather Conaway's brothers is 
Samuel, a Methodist preacher, and another 
brother, Charles, was a great Methodist preach- 
er, the first to preach on the soil of Ohio, and 
the first to preach in Pittsburgh; he died at the 
age of ninety-six years, leaving no posterity. 
Now, in all the history of these generations we 
have no knowledge of a single member who was 
a criminal, an imbecile, or a drunkard, while 
many left bright records of statesmanship or 
piety; several were soldiers in the Revolution- 
ary War, or in the War of 1812-15, while a 
number fought on the Union side in the great 
Rebellion. 

Aaron Conaway, the subject proper of this 
sketch, remained at home until about nineteen 
years of age, when he engaged in the public 
works, following this for some time. After his 
marriage with Dorcas Busby, daughter of 
John Busby, a resident and prominent farmer 
of Archer Township, he settled on a farm near 
his father's, and remained there for about 
twenty years, when he sold out and located on 
a farm near Laceyville, which consisted of 176 
acres, and here lived about twelve years. He 
then went to North Township, and after twelve 
years' sojourn there, removed to Archer Town- 
ship, where he and his aged wife now reside, 
being cared for in their declining years by their 
youngest daughter and her husband. They are 
remarkably well preserved people, and have 
prospects of a much longer life. In politics 
Mr. Conaway is a Republican, and has repeat- 
edly held offices of trust and honor in his town- 
ship and county, among which may be mentioned 
overseer of the poor, justice of the peace (thirty- 



one years), appraiser of the county, district and 
infirmary director. These offices fully show 
in what esteem Mr. Conaway is held by his neigh- 
bors and fellow-citizens. His children regard 
him with the deepest affection — very rarely in- 
deed is such love manifested by children for 
parents. They look upon their father as every- 
thing that is good, true' and noble in man, and 
their mother as the kindest of women. 

Mr. and Mrs. Conaway are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and were active in 
the advancement of the interests of that society, 
as long as their age would permit; and now, at 
the sunset of their lives, they look forward to 
the future with pleasant hopes and perfect 
trust, and to the past with a full knowledge of 
having so lived as to be a benefit to mankind 
and an example to all. 



TAMES AIKEN, JR., farmer and wool 
^ I buyer, Rumley Township, Harrison Coun- 
\&J ty, is a son of James and Jane (Scott) 
Aiken, the latter of whom was born in 
Washington County, Penn., in 1806, a daughter 
of Josiah Scott, a native of Scotland. James 
Aiken was born in Ireland in 1802, and is a son 
of James Aiken, Sr. , a native of Ireland, who 
came to Washington County, Penn., in 1803, 
and located at a place called Hickory, where he 
entered 160 acres of land, and with his faithful 
wife endured the hardships and privations of 
pioneer life. Both he and his wife were mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church; he served 
many years in Washington County, Penn., as 
justice of the peace. He was the father of six 
children, viz.: James, deceased; John, a farmer 
in Chester County, Penn. ; William, a merchant 
in Baltimore, Md. ; Alexander, a merchant in 
Pittsburgh, Penn. ; David, a general insurance 
agent, in Washington, D. C.,and Margaret, wife 
of a Mr. Agnew, in Washington County, Penn. 
James Aiken, father of our subject, was reared 
on the old farm in Washington County, 
Penn., and went to school about two months 
each winter, working on the farm in summer 



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time. In 1820 he came to Jefferson, in German 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. Here he en- 
tered the cabinet shop of Josiah Scott as an 
apprentice, and served three years, receiving for 
his pay his hoard and part of his clothes: he 
also had the privilege of working two weeks in 
the harvest held each year, and for this work he 
received twenty-five cents per day. In 1829 he 
married his employer's daughter, and remained 
in the shop for some time, getting fifty cents 
per day, and boarding himself. He afterward 
started a shop of his own, and turned bis atten- 
tion to carpenter work, which he followed sum 
mers, working in his shop winters till 1860, 
when he retired on account of his health failing 
him. In 1870 he moved to Jewett, where he 
spent the remainder of bis days, dying in 1885; 
his wife died in 1867. They were the parents 
of twelve children, viz. : Elizabeth, deceased; 
John, a preacher in Wayne County, Ind. ; Mar- 
tha, deceased; Jane, wife of John Roberts, clerk 
in Arbaugh Bros.' store, Jewett. Ohio: Annie, 
wife of James Dennis, in Wellsville, Ohio; Rob- 
ert, a miller in Amsterdam. Jefferson Co., Ohio; 
James, our subject; Samuel B. , killed by the 
cars; Josiah, a stone mason in Jewett, Ohio; 
Alexander, who was wounded at Dalton, Ga., in 
the Civil War, and never recovered; Benjamin, 
killed by the cars, and George, also deceased. 

James Aiken, our subject, was born in Ger- 
mane, Ohio, June 19, 1840, and received a 
practical business education at the graded school 
of Germano (or Jefferson). When nine years 
old he commenced work on the farm of his 
uncle in the summer, attending school in the 
winter. At seventeen years of age he com- 
menced as an apprentice to learn the trade of 
wagon and carriage making, at which be served 
three years. He then entered the store of 
Jacob Hoobler, of Jefferson, as clerk, and here 
he worked two years. In 1861 be engaged in 
the buying of produce in company with Philip 
Jolly, of Jefferson, which he followed till 1864, 
when he settled in Jewett, Ohio, and, in com- 
pany with B. P. Scott, went into the dry- 
goods business at the old depot of the P. 0. A 



St. L. R. R. ; they remained together till 1867, 
when they dissolved partnership, and onr sub- 
ject continued the business alone till L870, after 
which he was engaged in the raising of 
and buying wool: he is now breeding and rais- 
ing fine-bred horses, Jersey cattle, as well as 
sheep. On March 11. 1865, Mr. Aiken mar- 
ried Miss Maria, daughter of Joseph and* Mag - 
daline (Hoobler) Mikesell, and the result of this 
union are two children: Joseph M. . born Sep 
tember 4. 1867, and Laura A., bom July 5, 
[878. Our subject and wife are both members 
of the Lutheran Church. He is a meml 
the borough council of Jewett. Mr. Aiken has 
125 acres of land in Burnley Township and I 13 
in Archer. In 187C> he built one of the finest 
brick houses to be found in Rumley Township. 



THOMAS MADDOX. one of the well 
known citizen farmers of Harrison Coun- 
ty, was born in Short Creek Township. 
Harrison Co., Ohio, on June 22, 1841, a 
son of Wilson and Mary (Ladd) Maddox. His 
great-grandfather, Wilson Maddox, was a na- 
tive of Virginia, and bis grandfather, Thomas 
Maddox, also a Virginian, married Jane Free 
man, and in 1825 they came to Harrison County, 
settling in the southeast quarter of Section 15. 
Short Creek Township, purchasing I lie land of 
Ellis Hoopes, which was partly improved. Here 
they remained until death separated them, the 
grandfather dying on January 5, 1838, at the 
age of sixty years. He was a tanner by trade 
until coming to Harrison County, when be took 
up farming. On December 30, L858, Hie grand- 
mother followed to the grave at the patriarchal 
age of eighty four years. They were the par- 
ents of two children: Eliza, who died in Vir- 
ginia, March 11. 1824, and Wilson, the father 
of our subject, who was born July 21. 1813, in 
Caroline County. Va. When he was some twelve 
years of age he came to Harrison County, Ohio, 
and here grew to manhood, attending the com- 
mon school* of those days. On November 30, 
1836, he was married to Miss Mary, daughter of 



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Robert and Mary T. Ladd, and a native of Vir- 
ginia, and settled on the southeast quarter 
of Section 15. Her parents came to Harrison 
County about 1831-32, and both died here.each 
at the age of eighty- five years; they were mem- 
bers of the Society of Friends. After the death 
of Thomas Maddox the parents of our subject 
returned to the home place, lately occupied by 
him, and here remained until 1859, when they 
removed to Section 14, Short Creek Township, 
where they spent the remainder of their lives. 
The same year, shortly after removing, the 
father died at the age of forty-five years, having 
been an industrious farmer all his days; he was 
one of the largest growers of fine wool in the 
county. He was a great enthusiast in all things 
pertaining to the public good, and was never 
backward in movements tending to the advance- 
ment of his county, giving largely of his means. 
In politics he was a Whig, and on the formation 
of the party became a Republican; he was a 
member of the Society of Friends. His widow 
survived him fifteen years, dying in 1874, on her 
fifty-sixth birthday, also a member of the Society 
of Friends. They had a family of four chil- 
dren, viz. : Eliza, now Mrs. G. B. Coutant, in 
Huron County, Ohio; Thomas (our subject); 
Mary Jaue, now Mrs. Benjamin Chambers, of 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and 
Virginia W., now Mrs. Buchanan, of Hopedale, 
Harrison County. 

Thomas Maddox. the subject proper of this 
commemorative sketch, was reared to the gen- 
eral duties of farm life, attending in winters the 
common schools of his native county. In 1869, 
when twenty-eight years of age, he was united in 
marriage with Henrietta T. Hague, daughter of 
Henry and Sarah A. (Thompson) (Hague) Wood- 
ward, of Short Creek Township. They lived 
on the old home place until the death of Mrs. 
Maddox, which occurred January 13, 1886; she 
was the mother of three children, viz. : Wilson 
1L, Annie M. and Carrie E. Selling out his 
portion of the home place, Mr. Maddox bought 
the old Isaac Thomas farm, and some three 
years ago he moved thereon, having made it his 



home ever since, being cared for by his children. 
Politically he was formerly a Republican, and 
is now a Prohibitionist; in religion he is, as was 
his wife, a member of the Society of Friends. 
His farm comprises eight}' acres, located on the 
Harrisville and Cadiz Pike, in Section 19, some 
five miles from the county seat, and is devoted 
to Jersey dairy work, chiefly the manufacture of 
butter, and the breeding of thoroughbred cat- 
tle. Mr. Maddox is one of the progressive men 
of his township, a member of a family who 
have contributed largely to the growth of the 
county. He has an aunt living near George- 
town, Mrs. Edna Johnston, a sister of his mother, 
now in her eighty-first year, the only surviving 
blood relation of the former generation. 



It SAAC HOLMES, a son of Obadiah and Mary 
(Clum) Holmes, was born April 29, 1764, in 
J the State of New Jersey. When he was a 
boy of not over four years of age, his par- 
ents moved with their family from New Jersey 
to Pennsylvania, locating for a short time near 
a town named Little Washington, and thence 
went to Virginia, settling near Wellsburg. 
Isaac, before marriage, filled the dangerous and 
responsible position of a spy, and in 1791 he 
was married in Virginia to Elizabeth McNabb, 
daughter of George and Martha McNabb, and 
born July 24, 1772, in the State of Maryland, 
in Shepherdstown, situated on the Potomac. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Holmes were born ten 
children, of whom the following is a brief 
record: Martha was twice married — first to 
Joseph Wilson, and after his death to William 
Leaper, whom she survived, dying at Kenton, 
Ohio, at the age of eighty-seven years; Clum 
died at the age of twenty-three years; Sarah 
married Jacob Millisack, and died, when aged 
eighty-five, at her home in Ottumwa, Iowa, 
where Jacob Millisack is yet living at the age of 
ninety-one years; Nancy died when about one 
year old; Mary married James Price, and they 
resided at Leesville, Ohio (her death occurred 
twenty-five years ago, but he is still living, now 



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407 



aged about ninety-one years); Susannah was 
married to Joseph Masters, and is at present 
living at Connotton, Ohio, at the age of eighty- 
five years, seemingly in good health, quite bright 
and very entertaining, being gifted with an un- 
usually good memory; George Washington has 
special mention made farther on in this sketch; 
Samuel and his wife are still living, their resi- 
dence being near Leesville, Ohio; Elizabeth is 
the widow of Sampson Jenkins, and is at pres- 
ent living in good circumstances, near Salem, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio; John McNabb, who was a 
farmer by occupation, with residence near Con- 
notton, Ohio, died at the age of sixty-five years 
(he was a man of fine social qualities, nice look- 
ing, genial and generous, appreciated by all 
who knew him, and his death was lamented by 
a large circle of friends; his widow, Mrs. Emily 
Holmes, lives on her homestead near Des Moines, 
Iowa). As a family, the above named were all 
strong-minded, industrious people, ranking well, 
and deservedly highly esteemed, in the respect- 
ive neighborhoods where they live or had lived. 
Their father had been a farmer all his life, and 
in IS 14 he left his Virginia home, coming to 
Ohio and settling in the woods of what is now 
Carrol] County, where he died June 9, 1851. 
In politics he was a Whig. 

George Washington Holmes, the seventh in 
order of birth of the above-named family, was 
born December 30, 1807, in Short Creek Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, and from there he 
moved to Leesville, Carroll County, same State, 
where he grew to manhood, on the home farm. 
At the age of seventeen, however, he was stricken 
with rheumatism, which incapacitated him for 
the fatiguing labor of the farm, and he secured 
a position in a store. Later on he established 
himself in a general store at Mastersville (now 
called Connotton), North Township. Harrison 
Co., Ohio, and while there was married, in 1837, 
to Mary Cripliver, and for some years continued 
to conduct his store; he then moved to Leesville, 
Carroll County, and finally, in 1843, came to 
the farm in North Township, Harrison County, 
where the family now reside, the change having 



been made for the benefit of his health. On 
this farm he lived until June 26, 1887, when he 
passed away, when almost eighty years of age, 
after an illness of eight years. His life had 
been a busy one, and by his own exertions and 
those of his faithful wife, had been a successful 
one, and at the time of his death he was the 
owner of about 500 acres of land; he loved the 
open air of the farm, and was a great admirer 
of fine horses. In polities he was a Republican, 
but was no office seeker. He was first married 
to Amanda Jenkins, and after her death to 
Emily Stratton. His widow, now a Ladj of 
seventy years, surrounded by her children, still 
resides upon the homestead. The marriage of 
Mr. and Mrs. Holmes was blessed with eleven 
children (all but three born on the home farm). 
viz.: Jacob M., deceased; Isaac C, in Colum- 
bus, Ohio; Samuel W., in Kansas: John D., 
Luther L., Edward S. and Mattie E. , at home; 
Phcebe A., deceased: Mary Alice, at home: Ora 
A., Mrs. J. M. Harrison, in the State of Wash 
ington; and Emma. Mrs. Charles Crawford, in 
New Philadelphia, Ohio. The family are much 
respected in the township, and Mrs. Holmes 
enjoys the affection of all who know her. The 
home, which is comfortable and elegant, is sit- 
uated about three miles from Scio. 



d JONATHAN SAWVEL, a well known farm- 
er of Rumley Township, Harrison County. 
J is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Epley) 
Sawvel, former of whom was a son oi 
Adam Sawvel, whose father came from Germany 
and was among the early settlers of Pennsylva- 
nia. Adam Sawvel served in the Revolutionary 
War for seven years, came to Rumley Township 
in 181o, and settled on 1<>'-! acres in Section 33— 
land now owned by Jacob Colar. He was the 
father of four children. Mary, Christina. Mi- 
ohael and Jacob. Jacob Sawvel was born in *> ork 
County, Penn., in 1780. When be married he 
moved to Adams County. Penn.. where he farmed 
till 1S27, when he came to Rumley Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. He rented a farm for one 



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year, and in L828 bought a place of 102 acres 
in Section 18, Rumley Township, now owned 
by John Trushel. He remained on the farm 
till 1839, and then moved to the village of 
Burnley, where he conducted a hotel till 1850, 
when he moved to Van Buren County, Iowa, 
where his wife died in 1853. In the fall of 
1857 he went to Texas, and at Hillsboro, Hill 
County, was taken sick and died. He was the 
father of thirteen children, as follows: Michael, 
a farmer in Arkansas; John, deceased; Jacob, 
who died in infancy; Jonathan, our subject: 
Emanuel, a farmer in Iowa; Jeremiah, deceased; 
Johanna, who lives in Iowa; Rebecca, who lives 
in Vinton County, Ohio, wife of Joseph Martin; 
Amy, wife of Isaac Kimmel, Darke County. Ohio: 
Elizabeth, wife of Adam Arbaugh, a farmer in 
Iowa; Lydia Dillin, who lives in Iowa; Sarah 
Ann Mai row, who lives in Iowa, and Mary A. 
Eeniker, who also lives in Iowa. 

Jonathan Sawvel, our subject, was born in 
Adams County, Perm.., December 17, 1820, and 
was brought by his parents to Rumley Town- 
ship, Harrison County, in 1827. He was edu 
cated at the common schools of Rumley Town 
ship, and at seventeen years of age commenced 
to work out for his neighbors on their farms, 
driving team. etc. On January 16, 1851, he 
married Miss Lydia A., a daughter of John and 
Rosanna (Wentz) Arbaugh, and to this union 
were born four children, as follows: John D., a 
farmer in Rumley Township, Harrison County; 
Eliza J., wife of William Wood; a farmer in 
Carroll County; Emanuel L., a farmer in Rum- 
ley Township; Saniantha J. deceased. Mr. 
Sawvel has always lived in Rumley Township, 
with the exception of one year spent in Iowa. 
Here his wife died in 1803, aged thirty-live 
years, and same year he married Miss Sarah, a 
daughter of Philip and Catherine (Arbaugh) 
Sbatubaugb. To this union have been born sis 
children, as follows: William L., deceased; 
Homer, in Kansas City, Mo. ; Margaret, wife of 
Elmer R. Hoobler. Jewett, Ohio; Mary E., at 
home; Gracie L. and Floyd J., deceased. Our 
subject and wife are active members of the Meth- 



odist Episcopal Church at Jewett. Mr. Sawvel 
is the owner of 125 acres of land, but in 1885 
he moved to where he now lives on the farm of 
Philip Shambaugh, on Section 12, Rumley 
Township, Harrison County. 



r*T\ OBERT G. SCOTT, proprietor of the 
y\( planing- mill at Germano, German Town- 
;j\ ship, Harrison County, is a son of 
■f/ Robert and Elizabeth (Munuel) Scott. 

Robert Scott, Sr., was a son of Josiali Scott. who 
was a native of Pennsylvania, and one of the 
early settlers of Washington County, that State, 
and in that county Robert Scott, Sr. , was born, 
about two miles from Little Washington. He 
grew to manhood in his native county, where he 
received his education in the common schools. 
Two of his elder brothers, James and Abraham, 
had been better educated, however, and became 
Presbyterian ministers. Robert Scott, Sr. , was 
married in 1804, came to Ohio in 1827. settling 
in that part of Harrison County which now com- 
prises a part of Carroll County, and there he 
die.l in 1830. 

On September 18, 1813, Robert G. Scott was 
born in Washington County, Penn. He re- 
ceived a practical business education in the pub- 
lic schools of his native State, and in 1827 came 
with his parents to Ohio, where he grew toman- 
hood. In April, 1835, he married Miss Eliza- 
beth Steeves, who was born in the Province of 
New Brunswick, Canada, in April, 1814, a daugh- 
ter of Christian and Olive (Lutz) Steeves, also 
natives of New Brunswick, who came to Ohio in 
1 V.i, and settled in Scio, North Township, Har- 
rison County. Our subject and wife, after their 
marriage, resided in various parts of Jefferson 
and Carroll Counties. Ohio, Mr. Scott being en- 
gaged in working at his trade, that of a carpen- 
ter, but about four years after his marriage he 
embarked in the milling business. He followed 
the army about one year during the Civil War, 
in the capacity of suttler,and was with Sherman 
in his " march to the sea." In 1872 he located 
in German Township, Harrison County, and 



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commenced in the planing- in ill business In 
1886 he met with a serious accident while at 
work in the mill, his hand being caught in the 
machinery and taken off. Mr. and Mrs. Scott 
arc* the parents of eleven children, viz.: Isabelle, 
wife of Jesse Campbell, of Carroll County, Ohio; 
Eliza, wife of Henry Spence, of Germano (or 
Jefferson), Harrison County, Ohio; Margaret, 
who died in infancy; Josiah R. , who died in 
Jackson, Tenn., in the army; Dorinda, twin 
sister of Josiah R., and wife of James McGeary, 
of Carroll County, Ohio; James, at one time 
county auditor, but now deceased; Mary Jane, 
wife of the late H. H. Meiser; Robert O, who 
lives in Carroll County, Ohio; Olive A., at home; 
Martha, who died in infancy; William \\\, in 
Germano, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are both 
active aud influential members of the Presbyte- 
rian Church at Kilgore, Ohio. Politically Mr. 
Scott is a Republican, and cast his first presiden- 
tial vote for William Henry Harrison in 1836. 
Mr. Scott has been successful in his business 
pursuits, is highly respected and honored beyond 
the lot of most men, and will reap the reward 
of a well-ordered life by spending his last days 
in peace, plenty and quietude. 



fiAMES STAHL, JR.. is a son of William 
w. I and Susanna (Canaga) Stahl, and William 
%J) is a son of Jacob, a native of Maryland. 
Jacob Stahl was born August 13, 1784, and 
was the father of eight children, by name, Will 
iam, born in Charles County, Md, in 1810; James 
J., residing in Jewett, Ohio; Catherine, wife of 
Abram Gutschall, in Meigs County, Ohio; 
Margaret, wife of Peter Maubeek, in New Rum- 
ley, Ohio; Mary, wife of Daniel Hilbert, in I)e- 
liance County, Ohio; Susanna, in Jewett, Ohio; 
Lydia, wife of Jerry Condo, in German Town- 
ship. Harrison Co., Ohio, and John. dec 
Jacob came to Rumley Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, in 1816, and settled on Section 36. Will- 
iam Stahl married in Rumley Township, and 
settled Oil the farm our subject now owns; to 
him were born four children, namely, Sarah, 



wife of Abram Pushy, farmer in Rumley Town- 
ship; Maria, wife of James Shambaugh, a 
farmer in Rumley Township; Elizabeth, wife of 
A. L. Ridenaur, a fanner in Defiance County, 
Ohio, aud James, Jr. William Stahl cleared 
nearly all his farm, and since his death bis son, 
our subject, has added to and improved the old 
house, and now has one of the finest residences 
in Rumley Township. William was an active 
member of the Lutheran Church for many 
years, and was a charter member of the Lutheran 
Church at Jewett. He served several years as 
trustee of the township, also as captain, of 
militia at all the general trainings of the early 
days, our subject having now in his possession 
a sword which his father used. William Stahl 
died in 1S7C>, his wife, who was born in 1M1. 
having preceded him to the grave, in 1872. 

James Stahl, Jr., was born October 6, L845, 
in Harrison County, Ohio, in the house where 
he now lives in Rumley Township, and received 
his education in the common schools of his na- 
tive township. On October 1 1. 1866, he married 
Miss Sarah Jane Braden, born February 2, 1844, 
a daughter of Gettys and Rachel (Cox) Braden. 
Gettys Braden was the son of Thomas and Jane 
Braden. of Gettysburg, Penu. (Gettys being so 
called after the man who laid out the city of 
Gettysburg). He married. .Ma\ 2, 1842, Rachel 
Cox, a daughter of George and Sarah Cox. aud 
to this union were born four children, viz.; 
Sarah Jane, the wife of our subject; I. 
Ann, who died in 1867, aged twenty one years; 
George Thomas, a merchant in Caney, Has . 
and William Wilson, now living in Conneaut, 
Ohio, working in the employ of the Nickel 
Plate Railroad Company. Gettys Braden died 
in Crawford County. Ohio, April 13, 1851, his 
wife, Rachel Braden. dying in Baxter Springs, 
Cherokee Co., Kas.. February 7. 1883. Sarah 
Braden, the wife of our subject, taught in 
the public schools for five years prior to their 
marriage. To James and Sarah Jane (Braden) 
Stahl have been born four children, viz.: Will- 
iam Ira. Jesse Irvin, George Gettys and Price 
Ewing. The two eldest are now in Wooster, 



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taking a classical course in the university, and 
the two youngest are residing at home with 
their parents. 



IfNGRAM CLARK (deceased), who in his 
lifetime was one of the well-known resi- 
[ dents of Green Township, Harrison County, 
was horn September 21, 1816, in Green 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, his father, Jo- 
seph Clark, being a native of Westmoreland 
County, Penn. Tbe ancestry came from Eng- 
land, the head of the family being Roger Clark, 
who was born in 1 7 26, and who early in life 
came to America, settling in Pennsylvania, where 
the family remained for many generations, 
chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits. James 
('lark was born in Cumberland County, Penn., 
in 1751, where he married, in 177"), Jane Jack- 
son, a resident of the same county, and born in 
L753. Soon after their marriage they removed 
to Westmoreland County, Penn., which was 
then in a wild state, and here underwent the 
hardships and privations of the early settlers. 
In addition to the various dangers which sur- 
rounded them, they were in that portion of the 
country where the Indian War of the Revolu- 
tion was carried on. Here they remained until 
their removal to Jefferson County, in 1810, re- 
siding there until 1833, when he died. He was 
engaged in the Indian War, and served through 
the entire Revolutionary War with great credit 
to himself. 

Joseph Clark, the father of Ingram, was 
born February 12, 1778, in Westmoreland 
County, Penn., and in 1808 he came to Harri- 
son County, where he had entered a large tract 
of land in 1802. On November 14, 1811, he 
was married to Rachel Johnson, and their chil- 
dren were as follows: James, born January 28, 
1812; Mary, born August 22. 1813; Johnson, 
born August 31, 1814; Ingram, born September 
21, IS Hi; Jane, born September 26, ISIS; Ra- 
chel, bum March 4, 1824; Ephraim, born Feb- 
ruary 19, 1826; Jos,. ph. born June 4, 1830; Os- 
car, born March 10, 1833, and Albert, born 



January 16, 1836. The mother of this family 
died at the age of sixty years, and the father 
October 20, 1862. In his early life Joseph Clark 
was engaged in river traffic, running a boat on 
the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, 
which occupation he followed for many years. 
He then retired to his farm, on which he spent 
the remainder of his days. 

Ingram Clark, the subject proper of these 
lines, grew to manhood on the home place, en- 
gaged in the duties of the same, and attended 
the common schools, where he laid the founda- 
tion of his intellectual career. On February 16, 
1842, he became united in marriage with Sarah, 
daughter of William Moore, a resident of Green 
Township, and soon after their marriage they 
settled on their present home farm, where Mr. 
Clark died and where the widow still resides 
with her daughter. The record of the chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Ingram Clark is as 
follows: Rachel, born November 10, 1842, died 
April 22, 1865; Alfred W., born August 27, 
1845, is now in Nebraska; John, born April 12, 
1849, died April 12, 1871; Joseph A., born No- 
vember 16, 1852, is now in Nebraska; Clara J., 
born February 27. 1855, was married to Lee 
Johnson, and died April 22, LSSI); Charles G., 
born July 10, 1860, is now in Nebraska; Ella 
B . , born December 5, 1862, is now Mrs. George 
Mills, and lives in Green Township. On Feb- 
ruary IS, 1^170, Mr. Clark died, and he now 
sleeps in the cemetery at Cadiz. In his polit- 
ical life he was always an ardent Republican, 
being closely identified with all matters tending 
to the benefit of his county, State or nation. 
Among his party in his township and county ho 
was regarded as a leader, and was well known 
for his political sagacity and foresight. He was 
very active in politics, taking a leading part. In 
his township he held many offices of honor and 
trust, among which may be named clerk and 
trustee. So well and satisfactorily did he dis- 
charge the duties of his office that, in 1866, he 
was nominated by the Republican party as their 
representative in the State Legislature, and was 
elected by a strong majority. He served through 



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his term of two years with eminent success, and 
after bis term be retired to tbe farm, which he 
caiiied on till death. He was engaged for many 
years in tbe provision trade, buying farm prod 
nee in tbe West and shipping East where be dis- 
posed of it. He was, as is his family, a member 
of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, of which 
for twelve years he was an elder. He was es- 
sentially a self-made man, making bis success in 
life entirely by his own efforts. He united busi- 
ness sagacity with unquestioned honesty and un- 
impeachable integrity, and, while eminently 
successful in life, be did not confine himself en 
tirely to his own business, but lent his assist 
ance in the promotion of religious and material 
progressive movements in his county. 



B 



ENJAMIN COVERT, who stands in the 
front rank of the goodly array of repre- 
sentative, self- made and successful agri- 
culturists of Harrison County, is a na- 
tive of the same, having been born December 
20, 1821, in Athens Township. His grand- 
father, Morris Covert, came from Germany to 
New York. His father, Joseph Covert, was a 
native of either New Jersey or Pennsylvania, 
and by occupation was a farmer. In the latter 
State, near Uniontown, he was united in mar- 
riage, in 1813, with Miss Nancy Boyer, who 
bad come to this country from Holland. Some 
time prior to tbe War of 1812, Joseph Covert 
visited Ohio, and bought 160 acres of land in 
what is now Harrison County, and then went to 
the war. After marriage, August 17, 1813, the 
young couple settled in their new home here, 
where they spent the remainder of their days. 
They were tbe parents of seven children, as fol- 
lows: Morris, who died May 14, 1875, aged 
sixty years, eight months and twenty four days; 
Abraham, who died May 14, 1885; Joseph, a 
wealthy farmer in Cumberland, Guernsey Co.. 
Ohio; Benjamin is spoken of more fully farther 
on; James Harvey, is a,farmerin Athens Town 
ship; Mary died in May. 1852; Catherine is 
the widow of Alfred Davidson, and lives in 



Monroe County. The father was born March 
15, 1780, and died of palsy in 1843; a few years 
after he lost bis property be got badly crippled, 
and was never able afterward to walk without 
crutches; in politics he was a. Whig; the mother 
followed him to the grave April S, 1858, when 
aged over sixty years. 

Benjamin Covert, the subject proper of these 
lines, was reared in Athens Township, and was 
hut live years of age when he first commenced 
working on the farm, hoeing corn, etc. His 
father had sold the original farm, and hought 
another, paying six hundred dollars to a person 
who had no title, therein losing nearly his all. 
He dying, the widowed mother, aided by her 
children, struggled on, living on the plainest of 
food. They did their own weaving and made 
their own clothes. During the winter months. 
for a few years, our subject attended the old log 
school-bouse of the neighborhood, and had to 
work hard the rest of the year. He is a natural 
mechanic, being able to frame and put up barns 
and other buildings. For a time he worked in 
the fields by the day, at from thirty live to fifty 
cents per day wages, and for a short period by 
the month, cutting the grain down with the old- 
time sickle or scythe. On May 15, 1845, Mr. 
Covert, was married to Catherine Brokaw, horn 
April 18, 1S24. daughter of John and Sarah 
(Burwell) Brokaw, who were married Mai in, 
L823, the former of whom was born December 
2:1. 1793, and latter September L9, 1802; her 
father hought a farm in 1832 in Harrison Coun- 
ty, to which he moved with his family, and here 
he died March 25, 1876, followed, in 1885, by 
his widow. Mrs. Covert's grandfather, George 
Brokaw, married, in 1777, Jane Custard, who 
died in 1 S48. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mis. Covert removed to an old sheep-bouse, 
about a mile and a half west of New Athens, 
which stood on a farm he worked for another 
party, and some time later he purchased tifteen 
acres of land to which they removed, taking up 
their residence in tbe old log house, in which 
she had been born, and where School house No. 
If) now stands. Here they remained three 



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years, when he sold the place and bought forty 
acres elsewhere, on which there was no building; 
but in midwinter he put up a house, into which 
they moved when it was but half finished, and 
the floor of which was made of puncheons. By 
and by, he commenced trading in live-stock, 
buying and selling, in which also he made a suc- 
cess; he often drove stock a considerable dis- 
tance, on one occasion sixty miles. In 1886 
Mr. and Mrs. Covert moved into New Athens, 
and here built the house in which they now 
dwell, and about two years later, they revisited 
the farm, remaining only a year, however, when 
they returned to their new home in New Athens. 
Nine children have been born to this honored 
couple, of whom the following is a brief record: 
Sarah Lovina. born November 19, 1S46, mar- 
ried when twenty-one years old, Jesse Fox, and 
lives in Green Township, Harrison County; 
Nancy Jane, born June 6, 1848, is the wife of 
Lorenzo D. Spech, of Athens Township; Mary 
R. , born January 19, 1852, is married to 
Joseph Doltou (a Canadian), and lives in Kan- 
sas; Katherine Emily, bom September 9, 1854, 
is the wife of John Dean, in Crawford County; 
Margaret Elizabeth, born September 11, 1856, 
was married to Gustave Peterson, of Liverpool, 
and died August 15, 1885, in Harrison County; 
Frances Louise, born March 1, 1858, married 
September 22, 1881, George Williams, of New 
Athens; William Dallas, born July 15, 1860, 
died February 8, 1867; Ora Elma, born April 
21, 1862, married in 1880, Cyrus Able, and 
died in 1886, leaving one daughter, Minnie May, 
now living with Mr. and Mrs. Covert; Addie 
Zilla, born January 2, 1866, died March 11, 
1866. Our subject and wife have thirty-eight 
grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. 
In politics Mr. Covert has been a Whig, then a 
Democrat and finally a Republican. Some time 
ago, while trimming an apple tree, he fell to the 
ground, whereby he has totally lost the senses of 
smell and hearing. He has traveled consider- 
ably, having visited the Far West four times, 
besides Pennsylvania. He is now the owner of 
five farms, viz. : Three in Harrison County, one 



in Crawford County (Ohio) and one in Kansas. 
Mrs. Covert is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. 



GRAIG HAMILTON (deceased), who in his 
lifetime was one of the highly respected 
farmers and progressive citizens of Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County, was born 
April 16, 1825, in that county, on the farm now 
known as the Campbell Farm. Joshua Hamil- 
ton, his father, by occupation a farmer, was a 
native of Pennsylvania, born of Irish extraction 
(the ancestry having come to America prior to 
the Revolutionary War), and he was married, in 
Harrison County, to Miss Jane, daughter of 
John and Elizabeth Craig. Joshua Hamilton 
died in Springfield, Clarke Co., Ohio, December 
17, 1870, and his wife, Jane (Craig) Hamilton, 
November 0, 1889. They were the parents of 
eleven children, nine of whom grew to maturity, 
and of these Craig, the subject of this sketch, 
grew to manhood in Harrison County. On Feb- 
ruary 21, 1 850, he was united in marriage with 
Miss Margaret, daughter of the late Joseph Mc- 
Fadden, of Harrison County. 

Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Craig Hamilton removed to McLean County. 
111., where, in 1853, she died at the age of 
twenty-eight years, an infant son, Joshua, soon 
following the mother to the grave. One other 
child survived, Joseph McFadden Hamilton, now 
of Cadiz Township, Harrison County. Soon 
after his wife's decease Mr. Hamilton returned 
to Ohio, where he resumed farming, and on Jan- 
uary 28, 1858, was married to a distant relative 
of his first wife, in the person of Miss Elizabeth, 
daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Rankin) Mc- 
Fadden, of Cadiz Township, and born October 
29, 1836. Her paternal grandfather. Samuel 
McFadden, was born in Ireland, and emigrating 
to America spent the remainder of his life in 
Harrison County, where he died in 1837, when 
Mrs. Hamilton was but six months old. Her 
maternal grandfather was Robert Rankin, a na- 
tive and resident of Pennsylvania. Her father 



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died in 1863 at the age of forty-eight years; 
her mother died July 25, 1890, in her seventy- 
sixth year. Their family consisted of six chil 
dren, viz.: Robert, deceased; Rebecca J., widow 
of H. Barricklow, in Harrison County, Athens 
Township; Elizabeth, Mrs. Craig Hamilton; 
Sarah, Mrs. Albert Moore, in Moorefield, Harri- 
son County; Margaret, Mrs. Thomas Richey, in 
Cadiz Township, and Samuel, on the old home 
farm. 

In 1864 Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton came to 
their farm, situated about two and a half miles 
west of the town of Cadiz. The house had been 
erected in 1837, and still remains, a commodious 
and substantial structure. Here they shared 
life's joys and sorrows until October 5, 1880, 
when death claimed the husband and father, 
then aged fifty -five years. He was a progressive 
man, whose life was one of earnest toil. He 
was a him supporter of the Republican party, 
and had held the positions of laud appraiser and 
township assessor. At the time of his death his 
farm contained some 200 acres of choice land. 
Since the death of her husband Mrs. Hamilton, 
with her sons, has remained on the home farm. 
She is the mother of three children, viz. : Marga- 
ret Jane, born March 5, 1859, now the wife of 
Eugene Watson, in Belmont County, Ohio; Sam- 
uel Rankin, born March 17, 1863, and William 
Sherman, born September 1, 1865. Samuel 
and Sherman have never removed from the old 
home, and September 1, 1886, Samuel was 
united in marriage with Miss Georgiana, daugh- 
ter of John and Catherine (Lowe) Dickerson 
(both deceased), and a native of Noble County, 
Ohio. 

Joseph McFadden Hamilton was born March 
8, 1851, and is the only living child of Craig ami 
Margaret Hamilton, as stated in the preceding 
sketch. He has given his attention to farm work, 
and is among the best known young farmers of 
Cadiz Township. He was but a mere child when 
his mother died, and from that time until the 
second marriage of his father, he remained at 
the home of his grandparents. He then re- 
turned to his father, and with him lived until his 



marriage, December 25, 1S73, with Miss Rebecca 
Caroline Dickerson, a native of Harrison Cain 
ty. Her parents, Asa and .lane (Dunlap) Dick- 
erson, were natives, respectively, of Washington 
County, Penn., and Harrison County, Ohio. 
The father when a young man came to Ohio. 
where he married, and both himself and wife 
passed to their long home in that State, he 
dying in 1864, at the age of fifty years, and 
she in 1873, aged fifty-nine years. Asa Dick- 
erson was a stock-raiser and farmer, and was 
much respected by those who knew him. He 
had by his wife eight children, viz. : Samuel D., 
in Peabody, Kas. ; William H. deceased: Sarah 
J., deceased wife of Adam Dunlap, who is liv- 
ing near New Athens, Harrison County; Lydia 
| E., Mrs. J. E. Carnahan, in Pawnee County, 
Neb.; Dunlap, who died from exposure in the 
one-hundred-days service during the Rebellion; 
Granville, in Maryville, Mo.; Rebecca O, Mrs. 
Joseph McFadden Hamilton, and Adam J., in 
Lyons, Kas. For some two years after their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton remained with 
his father on the old farm, in the meantime 
erecting the house in which they now reside. 
and into which they moved in 1S75. Of their 
union there is one child, Craig Dickerson. born 
July 7, 1889. Politically, Mr. Hamilton is a 
stanch Republican, and both he and his wife 
are members of the United Presbyterian Church 
at Cadiz. 



l! T( UGH B. DUNLAP. In all communities 
IpH are to be found men who have by their 
1 own exertions made a success of every 
■fj undertaking, whether financial, social, 

religious or political, and of this class Hugh B. 
Dunlap is a member. 

Adam Dunlap, Sr. , was born in Ireland, and 
came to Lancaster County, Penn., when ten 
years of age. He was married to Rebecca 
Work, of the same county, a daughter of 
Samuel Work, and after . marriage they moved 
to Fayette County. Penn., where their family 
were all born, consisting of twelve children as 



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follows: Samuel, Sarah, William, Hester, John, 
Rebecca,Mary, Adam, Joseph, Robert, Rachel, and 
Jane (who died at the age of two years), all of 
whom married and raised families except the 
last named. Adam Dunlap, Sr. , moved in 
1812 to Harrison County, Ohio. His children 
were all farmers, and farmers and farmers' 
wives settled around him. In the early settle- 
ment of Harrison County, he did his part to- 
ward making it what it is to-day, and where 
now are the fields on which graze sheep and cat- 
tle, there was the home of the deer, the bear, and 
other wild animals, and covered with trees that 
seemed to defy the woodman's ax. But gradu- 
ally these gave way, and little by little were the 
fields made productive of crops, till, at the 
present time, their produce is rarely equaled. 
Mr. Dunlap was one of the active men of his 
community, and was foremost in what he con- 
sidered his duty. He hauled the logs for the 
first church erected in Nottingham, and in this 
church he worshiped many years. In his 
political views he was Democratic, and brought 
the same good judgment to his party matters as 
to the other affairs of life. While not active as 
a politician, he was ever a strong supporter of 
the party. He died January 1, 1830, his wife 
March 9, 1846, and they now sleep side by side 
in Nottingham Cemetery. 

Adam Dunlap, Jr., was born in Fayette 
County, Penn. , in October, 1788, and was the 
eighth child in order of birth, as above recorded. 
He married Jane Pattison, of Athens Township, 
Harrison County, Ohio, and they were blessed 
with twelve children as follows: Joseph, Hugh 
B., Rebecca (who died in infancy), Nancy (de- 
ceased), Mary J., Sarah A., Adam, Pattison, 
Samuel, John (deceased), Robert (who died in 
infancy), and William. Adam Dunlap, Jr., 
died in I860, his wife, Jane, in 1862. 

Hugh B. Dunlap, the subject proper of this 
memoir, was born February 15, 1820, and has 
been a farmer all his days. His life has been 
one of continual honest toil, and his efforts 
have been crowned with success. On February 
15, 1844, he was married to Miss Elizabeth, 



daughter of Joseph Dunlap, and to them were 
born five children, viz. : Sarah J. (who is the 
wife of Samuel Clemens), Joseph G.. Mary E., 
William A. and John P. Joseph Dunlap, the 
father of Elizabeth, was born October 12, 17'Jt, 
and was married at the age of twenty -four 
years to Miss Sarah, daughter of Samuel Gil- 
more, and their family consisted of six children, 
as follows: Samuel, Adam, Elizabeth, William, 
Hester J. and Joseph. Sarah Dunlap died 
May 30, 1837, and Joseph Dunlap married 
in 1840, for his second wife, Mary A. Roberts, 
who died in 1856. Joseph Dunlap was again 
married, this time, in 1859, to Susan Webb. 
He died March 23. 1.878. and his wife in August 
of the same year. Joseph Dunlap was buried 
at Nottingham, his first wife at Cadiz, his sec- 
ond at Athens, and his third at Dickerson's 
Church. Joseph Dunlap was a life-long member 
of the Presbyterian Church at Nottingham; was 
for many years trustee of his township, and took 
much interest in the political questions of the 
day. Politically Mr. Hugh B. Dunlap is a 
Democrat, and has always stood high in his 
party, but, though often solicited, would never 
accept nomination. He and his family are 
among the leading members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Nottingham. 



THOMAS D. DICKERSON was born in 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, 
April 20, 1850, and is a son of Joshna 
Dickerson. Much of Mr. Dickerson's 
youth was spent on the farm of his parents, 
where his life was much the same as that of 
other country boys. He attended the district 
schools of his neighborhood, and received the 
usual amount of instruction. He has, however, 
since leaving school, been a deep and accurate 
thinker, and forms his opinions only after he 
has exhausted all sources of information. A 
stanch Republican, he can clearly state why he 
is so. Althoiigh yet a young man, still he is re- 
garded as one of those intelligent ones who are 
sure to succeed. 



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On December 18, 1879, Mr. Diekerson was 
married to Martha, a daughter of Naomi Ely, a 
resident of Short Creek Township, Harrison 
Comity, and soon after their marriage they lo- 
cated in Wetzel County, West Va., where they 
remained eight years; they then came to Ath- 
ens, where they have since remained. They 
have no family. Mr. and Mrs. Diekerson are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
They are favorites among a large circle of neigh- 
bors and acquaintances, and are well known for 
their hospitality and generosity. While always 
engaged in the duties of life, they still find time 
to take much enjoyment themselves and to con- 
tribute to that of others. 



EORGE W. SIMMONS. About the year 
1808 six brothers — John, Peter, Adam 
and Jacob (twins), Daniel and William 
Simmons — emigrated from Maryland to 
Ohio, and Adam and Jacob took up a section of 
Government land in Harrison (afterward Carroll) 
County, being among the earliest pioneers of 
that region. The two brothers served in the 
War of 1812, under Gen. W. H. Harrison. Car- 
roll County was formed from Columbiana, Stark, 
Tuscarawas, Harrison and Jefferson Counties, 
in 1833, and the Simmons' land was then in 
Loudon Township, Carroll County. George 
W. Simmons, our subject, is the son of Jacob 
and Ann (Harding) Simmons, whose marriage 
in Maryland was a romantic one. Ann Harding 
was of a wealthy and influential family, who 
objected to Jacob's suit on account of his pov- 
erty, but to the maiden love's attractions were 
stronger than the golden inducement of riches, 
and an elopement followed. The young couple 
sought their humble home in the wilds of Ohio, 
and there lived happily many years, removing 
thence to Iowa, where they died at a ripe old 
age. Fourteen children were born to them, and 
of this number eleven grew to maturity. 

George W., who is the seventh child, was 
born iu Loudon Township, Harrison (afterward 
Carroll) Co., Ohio, March 15, 1815, and was 



reared as all other pioneer children, wearing 
home-made clothes and shoes, and attending 
subscription schools in log school houses. On 
April 12, 183S, he married Sophia Beadle, a 
native of Brownsville, Penn., who came to Ohio 
with her parents, John and Elizabeth Bead;.', 
when seven years old. To this union have been 
born fourteen children, seven of whom are now 
living. Mr. Simmons served seven years in the 
militia — two as lieutenant and live as captain of 
First Company, First Regiment, Carroll County, 
Ohio. He was called out four days in the war. 
two days for officers', one day for privates' and 
one day for general muster. At the age of 
eighteen he was elected lieutenant, at the age 
of twenty-one, captain, and at the completion 
of his service he received an honorable dis- 
charge from all military duty in time of 
peace. During the late war he drilled a largo 
company at home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sim- 
mons have been life-long members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, and active in Sabbath- 
schopl and church work. In 1865 they re- 
moved to Harrison County, where they have 
since resided in Monroe Township. In politics 
Mr. Simmons is a stanch Republican, but lias 
never been an office-seeker. 



E 



LDRED G. HOLLIDAY, one of the 
substantial. progressive agriculturists 
j and stock-raisers of Harrison County, 
was born in Freeport Township, that 
count)', January 19, 1S22. His great-grand- 
father, Arthur Holliday. was a native of Scot- 
land; his grandfather, Robert Holliday, Sr., and 
his father. Robert Holliday, Jr., were born in 
Ireland. 

Robert Holliday, Sr.. was married in Ireland 
to Rebecca Ramsey, who bore him nine chil- 
dren — five in Ireland (two of them living there) 
and four iu America — and of these nine only 
one survive-. Mrs. Nancy Cooper, of Henry 
County, Ind. Iu 1793 Robert Holliday. Sr., 
came to America with the family he then had, 
and for some years lived iu Cumberland Coun 



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by, Peon., and thence moved to Westmoreland 
County, in the same State. In 1805 he came to 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and located about, four 
miles from Steubenville, and from there, in 
1815, to the western part of Harrison County, 
Ohio, which, at that time, was little better thau 
a wilderness, abounding with wolves, bears, 
deer and other wild animals. Here they ex- 
perienced all the hardships of the pioneer, liv- 
ing in a primitive log shanty in the dense woods, 
and subsisting chiefly on potatoes, at one time 
having to live on that esculent for six weeks. 
Flour was scarcely to be had, and on one occa- 
sion, after having gone forty-two miles on horse- 
back for one hundred pounds, Mr. Holliday's 
horse shied at some object in the road, causing 
the loss of about one-half of the coveted and 
needful breadstuff. Robert Holliday, Sr.. was 
a weaver by trade, which he followed while his 
sons carried on the farm toward the close of his 
business life. He died in 1851 at the patri- 
archal age of ninety-three years, his wife hav- 
ing preceded him to the grave in 182(1. 

His son, Robert, born August 1, 1792, in Ire- 
land, as will be seen, was one year old when his 
parents brought him to America. Remaining un- 
der the parental roof, he assisted in the duties of 
the home farm until he was twenty-five years of 
age, when he removed to a house of his own on 
the same property. In the meantime, how- 
ever he had enlisted for the War of 1812, but 
was not called into active seryice, and one of his 
epaulettes is still in the family possession. On 
March 25, 1817, he married Fannie Melton, 
who was born November 22, 17'.*5, and died De- 
cember 22, 1818, leaving one child, Fannie M. , 
born November 28, 1818. Mr. Holliday then 
married, March 29, 1821, Miss Eliza White, born 
December 25, 1800. the fruit of which union 
was thirteen children — seven sons and six 
daughters — of whom eleven grew to maturity, 
ten marrying and having issue, and one, who was 
an officer ou Gen. Sherman's staff, being killed 
at Pittsburg Landing, during the War of the 
Rebellion. Five of these children are yet liv- 
ing, two in Harrison County, viz.: Eldred Gr., 



in Cadiz, and Theodore Oscar, in Freeport 
Township. The parents remained on the farm 
until 1830, in which year they removed to Free- 
port, where the father commenced merchandis- 
ing, keeping, in connection with his store, a 
hotel. Here they died, he on July 5, 1855, and 
she on August 16, 1872, aged seventy-one years, 
seven months twenty-one days. They were 
members of the Calvanistic Baptist Church, 
and in his political preferments he was a Demo- 
crat until 1828, when he went over to the 
Whigs, becoming, on the formation of the party, 
a Republican. 

Eldred G. remained at home until he was six- 
teen years of age, when he turned his attention 
to the tanning business, but this not agreeing 
with his health, he took up the trade of plas- 
terer, which he followed several years in Har- 
rison and Belmont Counties. He resided one 
year in Martin's Ferry, then, in 1851, moved to 
a farm in Harrison County, where he remained 
till 1883, in which year he moved to Cadiz, 
still retaining his farm. On January 10, 1850, 
in Moorelield Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
Mr. Holliday was married to Miss Mary, daugh- 
ter of John and Nancy (Sharp) Cunningham, 
and a native of Harrison County, her grandpar- 
ents having come to this part of Ohio in 1810, 
the grandfather walking from Fayette County, 
Penn., while his wife rode on horseback, carry- 
ing all their effects and her son, John. John 
Cunningham's father, David, died in Moorelield 
Township; John's grandmother's name was 
McLaughlin. Seven children were born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Holliday — five sons and two 
daughters — of whom the following is a record: 
John, a minister of the First Presbyterian 
Church, at Zanesville, Ohio (he graduated at 
Monmouth, 111., also at the Western Theolog- 
ical Seminary at Allegheny City, Penn., and 
attended one term at the Theological College at 
Edinburgh, Scotland); Robert, residing on the 
farm in Harrison County which his great grand- 
father had settled; George, a farmer in Harri- 
son County; David, State's attorney, Kansas, 
with residence at Newton (he is a graduate of 



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419 



Franklin College and of the Law School of Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio); Thomas E., a missionary in 
India (lie is a graduate of Franklin College and 
the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary 
at Allegheny City, Penn.); Laura May, attend 
ing college at Monmouth, 111. ; Nancy Bell, at 
home. The entire family are members of the 
Presbyterian and United Presbyterian Churches; 
politically Mr. Holliday was a Whig, and after- 
ward a Republican. When Morgan made his 
celebrated raid during ihe Civil War, Mr. Hol- 
liday was one of the pursuing party. Mr. Hol- 
liday has a wide circle of friends, and has the 
respect and esteem of all who know him. 



Charles R., a minister in New Philadelphia, 
Ohio, and Maria 11. wife of Goliah Tedrow, a 
farmer in German Township, Mr. Birney is 
an active member of the Methodist Church. 



aey. 

and 



1/ S. BIRNEY, farmer, German Township, 
^ I Harrison County, was born May 23, 1824, 
V,^ on the farm where he now lives, a son of 
Robert and Margaret (Northhammer) Bir- 
Robert Birney was a native of Ireland, 
in 1S01 immigrated to Chester County. 
Penn., where he married. In 1807 he moved 
with his family to Harrison County (coming all 
the way with one horse and cart), and bought 
of Richard Kelley the 163 acres where our sub- 
ject now lives. There was a small log cabin on 
the land, and here he worked all his life, clear- 
ing the land and making a home for his family. 
He was born about 1787, and died in 1874, hav- 
ing been an active member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church for many years; his wife was 
born in 1795, and died in 1871. They were the 
parents of nine children, as follows: Mary, 
Zilla, Wesley. John, Asbury, all dead; Lot, a 
farmer in Washington County, Iowa; Elizabeth, 
living in Jewett, Rumley Township; Rebecca, 
living in Washington County, Iowa, and our sub- 
ject, who has always lived on the farm. On 
March 10. 1 S 47, .). S. Birney was married to 
Miss Susan Mummey.a daughter of Charles and 
Rebecca (Hedges) Mummey, of Cadiz Township, 
and to this union have been born six children, 
viz.: Margaret, deceased; Mary, married to 
John B. Busby; William Asbury, a farmer and 
stock-dealer in Cadiz; Robert M. deceased; 



f\[ LEXANDKi; B. KERR. The Kerr fam- 
f/l\ ily trace their genealogy to Scotland. 
fT|\ whence the grandfather of our subject, 
4/ one James Kerr, emigrated to Ireland. 

He had married a Scotch wife, who accompanied 
him to the "Emerald Isle,** and there died, 
leaving a son named Alexander Ken-, who was 
born in County Tyrone. Ireland, and who ac- 
companied his father, James, to America during 
the early years of the present century. They 
settled first near West Liberty, Ohio Co.. W. 
Va., where the father remained until 1850, when 
he removed to Harrison County. Ohio, to make 
his home in his declining years with his son, 
who had come in 1828 to Harrison County and 
settled upon the farm where our subject now 
resides. Here, in 1856, at the advanced age of 
eighty-eight years, the grandfather, James, 
died. Alexander Kerr, Sr., upon reaching 
manhood, married in West Virginia, Miss Mary 
Blair, daughter of Rannel and Annie Blair, of 
West Virginia. In 1828, as before mentioned, 
they came to Ohio to make a home, and settled 
upon a piece of land which had been entered 
by the wife's father. The Blair family had 
come early to America, and Raunel Blair was a 
Revolutionary soldier, who, after entering land 
in Ohio County, Va., passed from earth, in the 
State of Vermont. The land upon which Alex 
ander Kerr and his young wife settled was en- 
tirely unimproved, and after erecting a cabin, in 
which to find shelter, they resolutely enl 
upon the work of improvement, that those who 
in their turn would follow them might 
advantages surpassing their own. They en- 
dured all the privations of those primitive days 
and shared together life's varied phases until 
L838, when the wife was called to her reward, 
at the age of forty years. She had borne five 
children, as follows: Elizabeth, deceased; Mary, 



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deceased; Jane, unmarried, living with our sub- 
ject; Alexander B. , Jr., and Evaline, deceased. 
The father survived until about 1800, when, at 
the age of seventy-four, be also passed away. 
His life had been strong in its purpose, and he 
evinced a zeal worthy of emulation in whatever 
he undertook. He identified himself with the 
old Abolition party, and was an active partici- 
pant in the old "Underground Railroad," which 
was working in anti-slavery days throughout 
Ohio and the other States bordering the Mason 
& Dixon line. For several years he held the 
office of township trustee. For most of his life 
he was a member of the Presbyterian faith, and 
when the question of freeing the slaves began 
to agitate religious circles, he was among the 
first to "split off" from the parent stem of 
Presbyteriauism, and help in founding the so- 
called Free Presbyterian Church. 

Alexander B. Kerr, Jr., had but limited 
opportunities for acquiring an education, and 
poor as was the old log school-house of that 
time, he had but little time to attend it. In 
1857 he was married to Miss Lucy Smith, the 
daughter of William and Mary Smith, and a 
native of Harrison County, and at once brought 
his bride to the homestead farm. Her father 
died in Washington Township, Harrison County, 
but her mother still resides in Steubenville, 
Ohio. In 1863, Mr. Kerr, responding to the 
call of his country for troops, enlisted in Com- 
pany K, One Hundred and Seventieth O. V. I., 
and went with said company to the vicinity of 
Washington, later to the Shenandoah Valley, 
where he participated in all the various engage- 
ments. He received no wounds, but being pros- 
trated with fever was for some weeks in one of 
the army hospitals. Upon his recovery and 
the expiration of his term of enlistment he re- 
turned to Cadiz Township, and has since resided 
on his farm, which is situated some three and 
a half miles west of Cadiz, and consists of 140 
acres. On September 19, 1881, the wife closed 
her eyes to earth at the age of forty-two years. 
Of their, union five children were born, viz. : 
Horace, residing in Pittsburgh, Penn. ; Mary, at 



home, unmarried; William, who is married, and 
works on the home place; and two that died in 
infancy, unnamed. Since the taking of the 
wife and mother, the home has been cared for 
by the sister and daughter of our subject. 
Politically Mr. Kerr is a Republican, and he is 
a member of the G. A. R. He is universally 
respected. 

William Kerr was born July 25, 1857, and 
in 1881 married Miss Maria Poulson, daughter of 
Samuel and Sarah Poulson, of Harrison County, 
both of her parents being deceased. Her mother, 
Sarah Harrison, came to Harrison County from 
Ireland when fourteen years old, and upon 
reaching womanhood was married to Samuel 
Poulson. To the union of William Kerr and 
his wife three children have been born, namely: 
Henry. Clyde and William. Politically Mr. 
Kerr is identified with the Republican party, 
and is also a member of the I. O. O. F. of Cadiz. 



TfpV OBERT L. TIMMONS, of Cadiz, Har- 
Yf\ rison County, was born in Cadiz Town- 
\\ ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, in January, 
■f) 1850, and is a son of Forney and Eliza- 

beth (Lacey) Timmons. The grandfather of our 
subject, Charles Timmons, was American born, 
and did good service for his country in the War 
of 1812. He was a distiller, and died soon after 
coming from Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., W. 
Va. , to Ohio. Forney Timmons was born in 
Cadiz in 1817, and was reared a farmer, but later 
learned pump-making, and in partnership with 
a brother, supplied all the country round about 
with the products of their labor. This industry 
Forney Timmons followed until about 1869, 
when he relinquished the business, and, in part- 
nership with his son, built the Union Vale pike ; 
he followed pike contracting and building until 
his death, which occurred in 1885, when he was 
aged sixty-nine years. In 1839 Forney Timmons 
married Miss Elizabeth Lacey, a native of Har- 
rison Count)', Ohio, who bore him four children, 
viz. : Caroline, now wife of Charles Allen, a 
justice of the peace at Columbus, Ohio; Benja- 



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min and Milton, in Peabody, Kas., and Robert 
L., our subject. Since tbe death of her husband 
Mrs. Elizabeth Tirnmons, now seventy years of 
age, has resided in Cadiz; she is a consistent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Robert L. Tiinrnons attended the common 
schools until eleven years of age, at which time 
the Civil War broke out, and, his brothers hav- 
ing entered the army, Robert began working in 
a stone quarry. Later he opened a hardware 
store and tin shop in Cadiz, which he carried on 
thirteen years, and then became engaged as con- 
tractor and builder of pike roads, an occupation 
which he still follows. In 1879 Robert L. Tim- 
mons married Miss Isabella A. Howard, daugh- 
ter of John M. and Elizabeth Eduey Howard, 
of Barnesville, Belmont Co., Ohio, where her 
father still lives, her mother being deceased. To 
Mr. and Mrs. Timmous have been born eight 
children, viz. : Bessie (deceased), Harry Howard, 
Florence, Forney Wellington, Berenice, Lillian, 
Frances and Robert Clifton. Mr. Timmons in 
politics is Democratic. He is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, also of the Masonic frater- 
nity, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He has made his success in life through his own 
unaided exertions, and is deservedly esteemed 
by the citizens of Cadiz. 




[( LLEN MAXWELL, now the sole repre- 
sentative in Harrison County of the orig- 
inal Maxwell family, who were at one 
time so well known in this section of the 
country, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio. 
May 7, 1817. 

Lord James Maxwell, of Scotland, ancestor 
of the Maxwell family, had two sons. James and 
John. Of these, James (the great-grandfather 
of our subject) self-banished himself during the 
Scottish rebellion, and came to Maryland, set- 
tling near Baltimore. He married, and had a 
family consisting of five sons, viz.: John, James, 
Hugh, George and Robert, and, of these. James 
(grandfather of our subject), removed to Perm 
sylvania, where he was married and had two 



sons and three daughters, as follows: John, 
Robert, Mary, Margaret and -lane. Of the-.-. 
Robert (father of oursubject) was born July 30, 
1769, was married at an earl] age to Deborah 
Wierman, and came to Ohio in 1 70S, settling 
near Bloomtield, Jefferson County; he entered 
200 acres of land in that county and 200 in 
Coshocton County; he was a carpenter by trade, 
an Episcopalian in religion. He had sixteen 
children (twoof whom are living): Robert, born 
January 20, 1794, married June 18, 1823, died 
JanuaryS, 1866; Susannah, born August 5, IT'.to. 
married October L3, 1813, died November 7, 
L840; James, born April 5, 1797, married June 
27, 1S22, died January 13, I860; William, born 
March 14, 1799, married September 10, 1828, 
died October 5, 1884; John, bom November 5, 
1800, died October 3, 1821; Mary, born June 28, 
1802, died March 3, 1864; Harmon, born Feb- 
ruary 1, 1804, married May 23, 1833, and is 
still living; Thomas, born May 20, 1805, mar- 
ried August 14, 1828; Archibald, born Decem- 
ber 2, 1806, married February 7. 1832, died 
October 27. 1882; David, born November 19, 
1808, married April 27, 1837, died October 20, 
1842; Isabelle, born September 15, 1S10, mar- 
ried July 10, 1835, died June 21. L872; Ma- 
tilda, born June 15, 1*12. died July 5, 1813; 
Hiram, born November 13, 1813, married No- 
vember 13, 1834, died August 8, 1852; Heze- 
kiah. born August 21, 1815, married October 5, 
1843, died October 4, 1885; Allen (our subject ), 
born May 7, LSI 7. married December 27, 1843; 
Margaret, born July 5, L819, died June 28, 

1841. 

Allen Maxwell resided with his parents till 
1843, when he was married to Mary Ann Bell, 
and they remained in Jefferson County till 
moving, in 1852, to Fairfield, Jefferson Co., 
Iowa; here they remained about six months, 
then returned to Jefferson County. Ohio, and in 
1856 they moved to Harrison County, where 
they now reside. The children born to them 
were as follows: Francis B,, born April 25, 
L845, died June 26, 1845; Martha J., born May 
i:;, L846, was married to Henry Copdand 



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December I". 1864, and died December 21, 
1870, Jackson B., born September 4, 1849, was 
married, September 22, 1875, to Esther Devore; 
Elizabeth D.. bom July 13, 1852, died Febru- 
ary 14. 1855; Nancy A., born July 10, 1855, 
was married to Emanuel Howard, September 28, 
1876; Mary Belle, born December 2, 1857, was 
married. September 23, 1887, to J. F. Mattern, 
and died August 15, 1888; Caroline S., born 
May 25, I860, died January 21. 1863; Vail A., 
born April 22, 1863, died November 27, 1886; 
an infant, born and died December 11. 1805; 
Orpha. born January 22, 1873. 

Mrs. Martha J. Copeland had four children, 
all yet living: Dora N., born December 13, 
1865, married, November 25, 1884, to Clark 
Adams (they have three children: Mary V., born 
November 1. 1885; Samuel W., born February 
29, 1888; and Henry Leroy, born November 23, 
1889); Mary Elsie, born in 1867. married, Feb- 
ruary 10, 1887, to E. W. Mattern (they have two 
children: Wesley Lloyd, born November 9, 
1887, and George Clinton, born September 23, 
1889); Katie B., born May 0. 1869, married, 
March 15, 1888, to C. E. Kent (they have one 
child. Montford Howard, born August 25, 1888); 
Ira H, born November 15, 1870, was but an in- 
fant rive weeks old when his mother died, and 
was raised by his grandparents. 

Jackson B. Maxwell had live children, two 
of which are living: Iua G., born September 21, 
1876, and James A., born April 2. 1878. 

Mrs. Nancy A. Howard has two children: 
Albert O., born June 27, 1877, and Madie P., 
born June 3, 18711. Allen Maxwell, in politics, 
is a Prohibitionist. 




JLLIAM A. LIVINGSTON, one of the 
leading and most progressive farmers 
in Short Creek Township, Harrison 
Connty, was born in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, May 22. 1838. William Livingston, his 
grandfather, was a native of New Jersey, 
whither his ancestry had come from Europe at 
an early day. He (William) was a captain in 



the War of 1812. He was married to Jane Mc- 
Cantz. and they then moved to Jefferson Coun- 
ty, which county he had visited when a young 
man. By profession he was a school teacher, 
and he had an interest in certain salt works. 
They both died in Jefferson County, the grand- 
mother first, and the grandfather in 1870, at the 
age of eighty-six years. George W. Livingston, 
father of our subject, was born in Smithtield, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio, and learned the carpenter- 
ing trade, which he followed through life. In 
1835 he married Nancy Manson, and they 
settled in Jefferson County, where, in 1840, the 
mother of William A. died, leaving two chil- 
dren, James M. . in Warren Township, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio, and William A. For his second wife 
the father married Sarah Long, who survives 
him. In 1863 Mr. Livingston enlisted for the 
Civil War, and his death resulted from expos- 
ure in the service, although he lived two years 
after the war, dying al the age of seventy years. 
In politics he was a Republican. 

William A. Livingston, the subject proper of 
this memoir, grew to manhood in Jefferson 
County, and was reared to agricultural pursuits, 
receiving his education at the common schools. 
In 1865 he was married to Hannah, daughter of 
John and Malinda Daugherty, Pennsylvanians 
by birth, who located after marriage in Wash- 
ington County, that State, where Mrs. Living- 
ston was born. When the latter was a child the 
mother died, and the father followed her to the 
grave in April, 1885. To Mr. and Mrs. Living 
ston were born four children, viz. : Cora A. (a 
teacher in Harrison County), John Howard, 
Lizzie Maud and William Frank, all at home. 
The parents are members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Adena, Jefferson County; politically 
Mr. Livingston is a Republican, and at one time 
belonged to the Know-nothing party; he has 
never sought office. In 1879 he came to Har 
rison County with his wife, and in 1887 he pur- 
chased the old Braden Farm, in Short Creek 
Township, where they have since resided. The 
first improvements were made by Mr. Braden, 
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considered the best in the county; Mr. Living 
stun, since getting possession, lias still further 
improved the place, which is now both elegant 
and commodious. He is a representative self- 
made man, one who started in life poor, and, bv 
Lis own individual efforts, coupled with sound 
judgment and economy, has accumulated acom- 
fortable competency. 



|V,yr RS - JANE LYLE, of New Rumley, 
I Y I Ohio, is a daughter of George and 
I| Elizabeth (Powell) Lewis, natives of 
■W/ England. George Lewis was horn in 

1789, and was married in 1816 to Miss Eliza- 
beth Powell, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth 
(Smith) Powell, who were parents of four chil- 
dren, viz. : James, born March 17, 1785; Jane, 
born May 20, 1786; Elizabeth, bom August 2, 
1788; and Richard, born December 30, 1789. 
George Lewis came to the United States in 18 18, 
and purchased a piece of land upon which his son, 
Thomas Lewis, now resides, in Rumley Town- 
ship. Harrison Co., Ohio. There was a grist- 
mill upon this land, which is still (December, 
]NND) standing, the machinery remaining just 
as it was when last used in 1825. It is 18x25 
feet, is one and a half stories in height, 
was erected by a man named Thomas Hen- 
dricks, and is, without doubt one of the 
oldest mills in the State of Ohio. Mr. 
Lewis operated this mill until 1825, as stated, 
when he engaged in mercantile pursuits, estab- 
lishing a store in each of the following places: 
Rumley, Hanover, Mastersville and Demin, in 
which business he continued until 1830. He 
was well known and highly respected for his 
many sterling qualities of mind and heart. Mrs. 
Lewis was a member of the Church of Eng- 
land, but before her death, in 1863, she became 
a member of the Society of the United Brethren. 
To this worthy couple were born children as fol- 
lows: Jane, the subject of this sketch: Eliza, de- 
ceased; Thomas, who resides in Rumley; and 
William, deceased. Mr. Lewis died about the 
rear 1830. 



Mrs. Jane Lyle was born near Manchester, 

England. March I, 1817, and was brought to 
Rumley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, by ber 
parents in ISIS. She received a common-school 
education in the old log school-house of Rumley 
Township, in which fence rails were used for 
seats, and was reared to womanhood on the old 
farm. In July, 183(5, she was married to Will- 
iam Lyle. Jr., who was born January 15, 1812, 
a son of William and Mary (Maholm) Lyle. 
The Lyles were of Irish descent. To this union 
were born eight children, viz. : Rosanna, wife of 
George Shultz, of Rumley; George, M. D., in 
Scio, Ohio: Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Me 
Channel, in Kearney. Neb.; Mary, wife of the 
late James McNab, in Jackson County, Mis.; 
Martha, still at home: Sarah E., wife of Albert 
D. Finnicum; Amanda, wife of Edward L. 
Moore, in Cheyenne County, Neb., and her 
twin sister, Emma M. ; in Palestine, Tex. Mr. 
and Mrs. Lyle after their marriage settled near 
Rumley, and here Mr. Lyle departed this 
life in March, 1861, leaving to his family the 
legacy of a good name — a name untainted by 
the breath of suspicion or malice. Both Mr. 
and Mrs. Lyle were members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Rumley. She resides in the 
village of New Rumley, and owns a farm situated 
about one mile distant, given her by her mother. 
Mrs. Lyle and one daughter. Miss Mattie Lyle, 
live alone amid all the comforts and peace that 
can be enjoyed by people whose lives are pure, 
and whose days have been spent in doing L r ""d. 



JACOB DENNIS, SR, was born October 
24, 1847, in Green Township. Harrison 
County, Ohio. A son of Jacob D' 
who was a native of New Jersey, born Jan 
nary 24, 1805. Aaron Dennis, father of Jacob 
Dennis, was also a native of New Jersey, to 
which State their ancestors had come many gen- 
erations before. In his early youth Aaron Pen 
nis married Elizabeth Breuer, Be remained 
some time in New Jersey and then removed to 
Pennsylvania, and soon afterward came to Har- 



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rison County, Ohio, whore the remainder of his 
life was speut. He was a builder by trade, 
which he followed most of his life. His polit- 
ical convictions were those of the Whig party, 
and he and his family were members of the So- 
ciety of Friends, in which belief they died. 

Jacob Dennis was, during his early manhood, 
employed with his father in the carpenter's trade, 
which he followed for many years. On Janu- 
ary 9, 1827, he was married to Rebecca Lyons, 
who was born March 3, 1805, daughter of Sam- 
uel and Belinda Lyons, residents of Maryland. 
Settling in Green Township. Harrison County, 
soon after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis 
spent the remainder of their lives there. The 
names and dates of birth of their children are as 
follows: Aaron, February 1-t, 1828; Eachel 
February 23, 1830; Belinda, December 6, 1831; 
Samuel, March 19, 1834; John, August 15, 
1836; William, November 6, 1838; Elizabeth, 
October 14, 1840; Abraham, February 8, 1843; 
Rebecca, July 27, 1845; and Jacob, October 24, 
IS 17. In politics Mr. Dennis, unlike his father, 
was a believer in the principles advocated by 
Jefferson and Jackson. He was one of the lead- 
ers in the Democratic party and among the of- 
fices which he held for many years may be 
named justice of the peace and township treas- 
urer. He was a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church at Bethel for several years, and on 
his death, which occurred .July 9, 1880. he was 
laid to rest m its cemetery. His wife survived 
him but a short time, dyiug in September, 1881, 
and was placed by his side. 

Jacob Dennis, our subject, remained at home 
and spent much of his time in the schools of his 
neighborhood. He early showed considerable 
aptitude for learning and also for trading with 
his playmates. As soon as he was old enough 
he was made assistant to his father in the car- 
penter's trade, which he learned and followed 
until 1880. On April 22, 1869, he was united 
in marriage to Susanna West, a daughter of A. 
B. West, a resident of Harrison County, and 
they immediately settled in Green Township. 
where they have since remained. The children 



of this union were Stella, born February 16, 
1870, died March 13, 1870; Minnie Alice, born 
April 9; 1871, died September 22, 1872; Re- 
becca Etta, born March 11, 1874, died Decem- 
ber 1, 187'.); Samuel Everitt, born December 
It'. 1S76; Clara Olive, born November 15, 1878; 
Harvey Alonzo, born September 11, 1881; Jes- 
sie Steward, born October 1, 1883; Charles 
Victor, born January 2, 1887: aud Jacob Loyd, 
born March 27, 1880. Mr. Dennis is engaged 
in general farming, but for the past few years 
has given his attention chiefly to stock-raising, 
especially to horses. Politically he is identified 
with the Republicans, and is one of the workers 
of that party. He and his family are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bethel, 
in which Mr. Dennis has been trustee for sev- 
eral years. The family are well known in the 
county, aud are highly respected. 



ff ¥/• A. MILLER, one of the young aud 
f "J most successful farmers of German 

|| Township, Harrison County, is a son 
■f/ of John and Susan (Mikesell) Miller. 

He was born in German Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, March 8, 1851, and received a prac- 
tical business education at the common schools. 
He remained on the farm with his parents till 
March 5, 1874, when he married Miss Sarah C. 
Wood, who was born in Loudon Township, Car- 
roll Co. , Ohio, September 22, 1852, a daughter 
of Ellis and Elizabeth (Shearer) Wood, also 
natives of Carroll County. Joseph Wood, the 
father of Ellis, came from Pennsylvania, and 
was among the early settlers of Carroll County. 
Mr. Shearer, father of Elizabeth Shearer, was 
of German origin, and was also among the 
early settlers of Carroll County, Ohio. 

On June 20, 1875, H. A. Miller came to 
where he now lives, in Section No. 15, German 
Township. He bought the farm, containing 
one hundred acres, of his father, which is 
considered by competent judges to be one of 
the best farms in Harrison County. He takes 
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Las sis of the finest in German Township. On 
April 12, 1889, bis buildings were all destroyed 
by a cyclone, excepting a portion of bis bouse, 
and tbe damage to him by this storm would 
reach two thousand dollars. Among the stock 
killed were fine sheep, valued at two hundred 
dollars, one horse, valued at two hundred dol- 
lars, cattle and poultry, etc. He rebuilt at 
once, having now, without doubt, the best barn 
in German Township, it being 40x60 feet, hav- 
ing a fine basement, and being finished com- 
plete in every respect. No similar example of 
pluck and energy is on record in the township. 
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Miller are both active 
members of the Lutheran Church, and are par- 
ents of five children: John E., Chester O., 
Etta B. , Homer L. and Welta E. 



FjRE PATTON, son of M. M. Patton. was 
born April 12, 1862, in Burnley Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and is the next 
youngest in a family of twelve children. 
His early life was as the usual run of farmers' 
children, most of the time, until he was seven- 
teen years old, being spent in the district school. 
His father, believing that an education would be 
no detriment to his children, spared no pains to 
train their minds, and the result has perfectly 
justified the parent's opinion, as to-day his son 
is one of the intelligent, active and leading citi- 
zens in his neighborhood. Soon after attaining 
bis majority, in company with his brother, Fre 
Patton leased the paternal farm and continued 
thereon until February, 1888, when he removed 
to tbe place where he now resides, one and a 
quarter miles southwest of Jewett, on a farm of 
sixty-five acres, which he purchased in 1887. He 
has steadily continued to improve it. and to-day 
has so far succeeded that no place in its vicinity 
is more productive. 

On March 11, 1881), Mr. Patton was married 
to Anncttie V. Patterson, daughter of Capt. J. 
C. Patterson, one of the residents and promi- 
nent farmers of Stock Township, Harrison 
County. They took up their residence on tbe 



home place, where they remained until Febra 
ary 1, 1888, when they removed to their present 
home. Both himself and wife are members of 
the Presbyterian Church at Ridge. Mr. Patton 
is a Republican, and one who uses his judgment 
in political matters. He is widely read in mat 
ters of political economy and matters of State, 
and is regarded by those in his vicinity as the 
rising young man of his township. His library 
is a well selected one, and upon its shelves may 
be found the leading poets, novelists and histo 
rians — Bancroft, Addison, Mill, and many others 
of kindred character, including the best works 
on agriculture, floriculture, gardening, botany, 
sporting, domestic animals, household economy, 
rural architecture and kindred subjects. 



JKUEMIAH WARNER, farmer ami stock- 
raiser. Monroe Township. Harrison Coun- 
ty, was born in Monroe Township. Harri- 
son Co., Ohio. December 15, 1833. His 
father, Isaac Warner, was a native of Maryland, 
and came when a boy with his parents to Ohio, 
and they were among the pioneers of Monroe 
Township, which at that time was a part of Tus 
carawas County. Isaac grew to manhood there, 
and married Tena Weyandt, and resided in 
Monroe Township until his death, which oc- 
curred September 1 1, ISM'; Mrs. Warner is DOW 
living in her seventy seventh year. Twelve 
children were born to them, ten of whom grew 
to maturity, and one son, Simon, who enlisted 
in the Forty-third O. Y. I., died in the service. 
Jeremiah Warner, the third child in the 
order of birth born to Isaac and Tena (Wey- 
andt I Warner, grew up on the farm, and W! 
two miles through the woo, Is to attend school, 
dressed in homespun clothing. On February 9, 
1854, he married Annie Orumrine, a daughter 
of John and Catherine (Bowers) Crumrine, early 
pioneers of Monroe Township. They began 
farming on a small scale, but now own 130 
of fine land. Of the two children born to this 
union one died in infancy; the surviving child. 
Simon Henry, was married September 3, l ss b 






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to Tbursy Florence Firebaugh, and they have 
one child, John Elmer, born February 17, 1888. 
Mr. Warner was trustee of his township for a 
number of years, also school director, and he 
was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion. The 
family are prominent in the neighborhood, hav- 
ing early settled in the township, and deservedly 
command the respect of all. 



;HE PRICE FAMILY. Steward Price, 
the first merchant, the first postmaster 
and the first railroad agent at the town of 
Bowerston. Harrison County, was born 
in Harrison County, Ohio, on a farm on Plum 
Run, July 26, 1S2'2, and was a son of Benjamin 
and Mary Price. He grew to manhood on the 
home farm, assisting in the maintenance of the 
family, while his educational advantages were 
limited to the subscription schools of the vicinity. 
On December 14, 1848, he married Miranda D., 
a daughter of Luther Rowley, who was a na- 
tive of Pennsylvania, and an early settler of 
Ohio, and who kept a hotel at New Hagerstown, 
later engaging in farming. Mr. Price, after his 
marriage, resided on the Plum Run Farm for a 
short time, and then began mercantile business 
at Feed Spring, a small hamlet in Harrison 
County. From there, in 1851, he moved to 
Bowerston, the site of the village being then an 
almost unbroken wilderness. ami used as a sugar 
and water camp. Here he erected a log build- 
ing, which served not only as a dwelling for his 
family, but was the first store in the place, and 
remained standing until 1SSS). Here, for many 
years, he served as postmaster, and when the 
railroad was run through he was appointed sta- 
tion agent. After doing business for about ten 
cutive years at this place, he removed to 
Tappan, Ohio, where, under the firm name of 
Price & Rowley, he carried on business for 
eight years. He then sold out, and for one year 
resided in New Hagerstown, whence he moved 
to Salem Township. Jefferson County, where he 
again engaged in business, continuing eighteen 
years. In 1882 he returned to Bowerston and 



founded the firm of S. Price & Sons, of which 
he remained the senior member until his death, 
which occurred September 14, 1887. Mr. Price 
was a lifelong and consistent member of the 
Presbyterian Church, in which he was a ruling 
elder for twenty-five years immediately preced- 
ing his death, and he had also represented the 
church in the general assembly and the presby- 
tery. An earnest worker iu the Sabbath-school, 
and many years its superintendent, his great 
delight seemed to rest in instructing and guiding 
aright the youth under his charge. He was so 
consistent in his observance of church discipline 
that every Wednesday evening he closed his 
store in respect to the weekly prayer-meeting. 
Politically. Mr. Price was first a Whig, then a 
Republican, and always an Abolitionist. He 
was a quiet and unassuming man, and sought no 
political prominence. He was very benevolent 
in his disposition; his heart went out to the sol- 
diers of the Civil War, and many were the 
charities he extended to their families. 

Mrs. Miranda Deborah (Rowley) Price was 
born in Harrison County, Ohio, June 30, 1824, 
and is now a resident of Bowerston, the mother 
of the following children: Luther Rowley 
Price, born June 29, 1845, now a merchant at 
Salem, Jefferson County. Ohio; Benjamin and 
Ira Price, born December 1, 1853, and died 
February 2:1, ISol. and March 3, 1854, respect- 
ively; Leonard Douglass Price, born June 3D, 
1S">4; Oscar and Clarence Price (twins) born 
July 21. 1860. 

Leonard D. Price, was born iu Bowerston, 
in the old log cabin, and at the age of fifteen 
years entered Richmond (Ohio) College, with the 
intention of studying for the ministry, but ill 
health compelled him to abandon the idea and 
also to leave school. In 1872 he went to Meu- 
dota, 111., where be began to learn the jeweler's 
trade; then entered the Elgin Watch Factory; re- 
turning to Mendota he remained there until 
1S7">, when he went to Salem, Jefferson Co., 
Ohio, and engaged at his trade. In 1877, he 
came to Bowerston and established himself in 
business, and in 1882 he became a member of 



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the firm of S. Price & Sods, of which business 
he is still the general manager. Mr. Price has 
also been clerk of Monroe Township for seven 
consecutive years. On August 25, 18S0, Leon- 
ard D. Price married Ollie O. Wyandt. daugh- 
ter of Abraham Wyandt, and two children have 
blessed this union, Lloyd C. and Eulah B. Mr. 
and Mrs. Price are members of the Presby- 
terian Church, and Mr. Price is a trustee in the 
same at New Hagerstowu; the family, however, 
worship at the United Brethren Church, in 
which Mr. Price is a chorister, and very promi- 
nent in Sabbath-school work. In politics he is 
a Republican, and has represented his district 
in county and congressional conventions. 

Oscar Price whs born in New Hagerstowu. 
Carroll Co., Ohio, and was educated at the 
common schools. He became a member of the 
firm of S. Price & Sons in 1882, and Decern 
ber 29, 1886, married Amelia Wyandt. Both 
are members of the Lutheran Church, of which 
Mr. Price is a trustee. From a business point 
of view the firm of S. Price & Sons stand among 
the best in the county, and the individual mem 
bers, as well as the members of their families, 
are esteemed throughout their whole section. 




ETHEL FAMILY. Among the people 
who have by their own individuality and 
force of genius made a lasting impres- 
sion on the community where they lived, 
whose influence for good will long be felt, whose 
name is and ever will be mentioned with respect 
and veneration, none have been more marked 
than John Bethel. He was born June 29, 1806, 
in Loudoun County, Ya. , of which county his 
father, Simpson Bethel, was also a native. The 
latter followed agricultural pursuits, and was 
married to Nancy Holloway. They remained 
some time in Virginia, but in 1810 came to Ohio 
and settled in Athens Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, where the family still remain, their journey 
being made in the covered wagon so common in 
those days, and over roads that can little be ap- 
preciated now. The neighborhood was unset- 





tied, anil the nearest town was St. Clairsville. 
Their family consisted of the following named 
children: John, Mary, .lames. Caroline and 
Hiram. During his long and laborious life Mr. 
Bethel discharged his duties socially and relig- 
iously according to his own judgment. His 
family were members of the Methodist Epis 
copal Church at Flushing, and his remaii 
gether with those of his beloved wife, now rest 
in the cemetery at Flushing. 

John Bethel in his youth showed those char 
acteristics which afterward made him one of the 
leaders in his section. His educational ad 
tages were exceedingly limited, but he managed 
to extract from them much that was of benefit 
to him. He supplemented his early training by 
a thorough course of reading and study, which, 
united to his unusual powers of observation, gave 
him an extensive knowledge of men and facts, 
lb' engaged in teaching many years during his 
early life, and was eminently successful. He 
was married to Elizabeth Oglevee, a resident of 
Harrison County, born February I. 1804. He 
commenced farming and general stock-raising, 
which he continued until his death, which oc 
curled April 4. 1SS7; his wife died December 
5, 1881, and their remains now rest in the 
cemetery at Nottingham. Their children were 
as follows: Simpson, in Athens Township; kg 
nes, married to John Price; JohnH., deceased; 
Surah .lane, now Mrs. Monroe Dunn; Mary E.. 
wife of Samuel Dunlap: Caroline, wife of Sam 
uel Compha; Hiram, deceased; Isaac 11.. at 
home, ami Elizabeth, now Mrs. W. J. Dunlap. 
Mr. Bethel, from his tirst vote, which lie cast 
for Andrew Jackson, to his last, was a leading 
member of his party, a position for which his 
excellent mental qualities eminently fitted him. 
He was justice of the peace for man] years, and 
so just and sensible were his decisions that there 
was rarely an appeal taken. During what is 
known as " general training " he was elected, 
by the regiment to which he belonged, to act as 
colonel, a position which he held until the regi- 
ment was disbanded. He was a man of great 
force of character and strong convictions, and 



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did much for the advancement of the interests 
of his section. A self-made man, he, by his own 
shrewd business qualities and economy, suc- 
ceeded in amassing considerable property, which 
consisted of about 300 acres, on which his sons, 
Simpson and Isaac H. , now live. 

Simpson Bethel was born December 29, 
1828, and passed most of his early life on the 
home place. On September 23,1858, he was mar- 
ried to Frances Clemens, a daughter of James 
Clemens, a resident of Athens Township. He 
settled in Belmont County, where he lived for 
thirty years, and then removed to Athens, where 
he has since resided. His children are named 
as follnws: John, Mary and Luella. Mrs. 
Bethel died October 20, 1884, and her remains 
rest in Nottingham Cemetery. 

Isaac H. Bethel was born in Athens Town- 
ship, where he has since been a resident. To his 
education, which was 'received at the common 
schools, he has added a vast store of informa- 
tion gathered by home reading and study. He 
is one of the progressive, rising young men of 
his section; he and his brother are members of 
the Democratic party, and, although not office 
hungry, still do much to assist the party. They 
are the representatives of the family which was 
among the earliest settlers here. 




\ILLIAM GLENN WADDLE, D. D. 

Perhaps no worthier member of the 
ministry, or one enjoying a wider repu- 
tation for earnestness and good works, 
could be fouud in this section of Ohio than he 
whose name heads this sketch, and who was 
born at. Rushville, Fairfield Co. , Ohio, February 
12, 1835. His father, Dr. Benjamin Waddle, 
who devoted over fifty years of his life in the 
service of his Master, and who became one of the 
leading ministers of Ohio, was born near the 
city of Wheeling, W. Va., June 2, 1802. He 
was classically educated at Wheeling Academy, 
having himself earned the funds necessary to 
defray his expenses there. He studied theology 
at the Associate Reformed Seminary, at Alle 



gheny, and was licensed to preach April 28, 
1828. He was pastor at Johnathan's Creek, 
Ohio, 1829-36; at New Concord, Ohio, 1836-58, 
and at Kenton, Ohio, 1859-79. He took great 
interest in educational work, and was a prime 
mover in securing the establishment, of Mus- 
kingum College, New Concord, Ohio. He rep- 
resented Hardin County in the Ohio State Legis- 
lature in the sessions of 1871-73, winning the 
race on a moral issue. His death occurred May 
16, L879. In 1829 he had chosen, as his life's 
partner, Martha A. Glenn, a native of Alle- 
gheny County, Penn., and a descendant of a 
pioneer family of Scotch-Irish extraction. To 
this union were horn two sons and three daugh- 
ters. 

William G. Waddle, our subject, who is the 
second child in order of birth, received the 
rudiments of an education in the public schools, 
and at the age of twelve years he entered Mus- 
kingum College. Here he graduated in the 
class of 1855. Following in the footsteps of 
his father, he entered Allegheny Seminary, 
where he pursued the study of theology. He was 
licensed by the Second Ohio Presbytery, Octo- 
ber 13, 1857, and was ordained by the Wheeling 
United Presbyterian Presbytery, November 16, 
1859. At ordination he was installed over Cass- 
ville, Tippecanoe and Franklin, in Harrison 
County, and November 30, 1809, was installed 
over Unity, and still serves it and Cassville. 
With the consent of his congregation he was 
elected and served as a member of the Ohio 
Constitutional Convention of 1873-74. On 
June 5, 1860, Dr. Waddle was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Janette S. Easton, a daughter 
of John S. Easton, D. D., who was a native of 
Ancrum, Scotland, and who came to America 
about the year 1813. He was licensed by the 
Philadelphia Associate Presbytery, June 24, 
1834, and entered upon his first pastorate at 
Kishocoquillas, Penn. ; after eighteen years of 
faithful service he removed to Scroggsfield, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio, where, for eleven years, he worked 
in the cause of the Master, and in the spring of 
1806 moved to Allegheny City, Penn., where he 



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united with Dr. D. R. Kerr in the publication 
of the United Presbyterian, at the same time 
doing pastoral work, serving the congregation 
of Braddock as pastor seven years. He died in 
Allegheny City, Penn., from paralysis, July 25, 
1879, aged seventy three years. 

Dr. and Mrs. Waddle reside on their farm in 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County, on 
which they located in 1872. Their beautiful 
home, surrounded by the pleasures and evidences 
of a handsome competence, is located in a little 
valley, while on every hand the hills, whose 
peaks are the first to catch and the last to hold 
the coming splendor of the dawn and the fading 
glory of the day, are mute but eloquent wit- 
nesses of the power, majesty and wisdom of the 
great Creator. The surrounding fields give evi- 
dence of a careful husbandry, and plainly show 
that it is there that the Doctor seeks recreation 
from the fatigue of his labors and close confine- 
ment of his study. Dr. Waddle has been prom- 
inently identified with the educational develop- 
ment of the country, and has been for some 
twenty years a member of the board of trustees 
of Franklin College, at New Athens. Ohio. 



JOSEPH McFADDEN was born August 9, 
1843, on the John Osburn farm, and was 
but a boy of fifteen years when the death 
of his father, Joseph McFadden. Sr., re- 
quired him to find a home with his elder brother, 
Thompson, with whom he remained until 1866, 
when he began a home of his own by marrying 
Miss Margaret J. Dickerson, the daughter of 
Adam and Jane Dickerson. of Harrison County, 
Ohio. Her parents had lived for years in that 
county, and here it was the father closed his 
eyes to earth; the aged widowed mother still 
survives and makes her home in Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison County. 

Until 1878 Joseph and his brother Thomp- 
son remained upon and worked the same farm, 
and then Joseph purchased and moved upon the 
farm where he now resides, and on which he 
has either made new or remodeled all the build 
■a 



ings. His farm consists of 114 acres, and is situ- 
ated two and a half miles from the town of 
Cadiz, Harrison County. Nine children have 
come to brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
McFadden, viz. : Mary Ida. now Mrs. Melvin G. 
McFadden, of Harrison County, and Martha J., 
Henderson J., Verner, Adam J., Alfred T., 
Ralph E., Ross ami Margaret Erfee, all still at 
home. Politically Mr. McFadden is a Repub 
lican, as were his father and brother, and he 
and his wife are members of the Presbyterian 
Church of Cadiz. 




ILLIAM S. BETHEL. Among the 
families who have exerted a beneficial 
influence on the growth of Harrison 
County, and have left their impress on 
the social, financial and moral life of the com- 
munity, the Bethel family are prominent. In 
1815 Henry Bethel, with his family, came from 
Loudoun County, Ya.. to Belmont County, Ohio, 
where he purchased a farm and where he re- 
mained until his death. His family consisted 

Of live sons and three daughters. His son. 

Broudus, was born in Loudoun County, Ya.. and 
came with his parents to Belmont County. where 
he remained until 1837, when lie removed to 
Harrison County. Ohio, and purchased the farm 
now occupied by W. A. Niblock. His oppor- 
tunity for an education was limited to the com- 
mon schools, which be attended as his Work 

would permit. On June It. 1827, he was mar- 
ried to Sarah, daughter of William Smith, and 
to this union were born the following named 
children: -lames and Anna, both deceased; 
Mary E.; Henry Matthess, in Mborefield; Will- 
iam S., in Freeporl Township: Louis B. , in 
Mooretield; Sarah E., Mrs. \Y. C. Smith; Bar- 
nett, deceased; David R., in Freeport; Ruth 
Ann. deceased, and Celinda, Mrs. Niblock. Mi. 
Bethel was a sell' made man and one who by his 
enterprise and honesty won the respect and ad 

miration of all. Energetic in everything he un- 
dertook, he was of invaluable assistance In the 
political and religious movements of his section. 



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While a Whig and a Republican, he was of a 
conservative nature, and used his influence in 
furthering what he considered right and just. 
He died March 17, 1870, and was followed by 
his wife November 28, 1876. 

William S. Bethel was born September 3, 
1834, and his entire life has been spent in farm- 
ing and stock raising, in which he has attained 
a marked success. On October 19, 1858, he was 
married to Phebe Ann, daughter of Reynolds 
K. Price, a prominent citizen of Harrison Coun- 
ty, who was many times honored by political 
preferment, being elected county auditor two 
terms and, in 1854, representative of the county. 
He married Mary Michnur, a resident of Jeffer- 
son county, and his family were Jonathan, 
George, Phebe Ann, Martha J. , Rebecca, 
Rachel, Mary, Reynolds, Caroline, William and 
David. In March, 1887, Mr. Price died and 
was laid beside his wife, who had passed from 
earth in November, 1876. After marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Bethel settled on the farm on which 
he now resides. Their children were as follows: 
Angeline and Charles (both deceased), Ells- 
worth, a teacher in Denver, Colo., and Sarah 
A., also a teacher. Mrs. Bethel was stricken 
with paralysis on the evening of December 2, 
1890, and died on the evening of December 11, 
following. Mr. Bethel has always been identi- 
fied with the Republican party, and has been 
among its workers in his section. He and his 
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Smyrna, and he is among the enter- 
prising and successful men in his section, merit- 
ing the esteem in which he has so long been held. 



J/ACOB CONDO, farmer, German Township, 
Harrison County, is a son of Jeremiah and 
' Lydia (Stahl) Condo. Jacob Condo, grand- 
father of our subject, was among the early 
settlers of York County, Penn., was a black- 
smith by trade, and in 1814 came to German 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he worked 
at his trade during his lifetime. Jeremiah 



Condo. father of our subject, was born in York 
County, Penn., in 1812, but received his educa 
tion in German Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
His father had purchased a farm of 120 acres, 
and as soon as the son was old enough the farm 
was placed in charge of the latter. In 1836 
Jeremiah Condo married Miss Lydia Stahl, 
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Shilling) 
Stahl, to whom were born nine children, as fol- 
lows: William, Elizabeth, John, Margaret, Mary, 
Catharine. Lydia, Susanna and James — all born 
in the State of Maryland. To Jeremiah and 
Lydia (Stahl) Condo were born six children, viz.: 
Jacob, Samuel, John, Margaret, Jeremiah and 
Benjamin, of whom Samuel was a soldier in the 
War of the Rebellion, was wounded, losing an 
arm, and now lives in Iowa; Benjamin died in 
youth. Jeremiah Condo died in 1884 at his old 
home in German Township, on the farm where 
our subject now lives. , 

Jacob Condo, our subject, was born on the 
old homestead in Harrison County, Ohio, Jan- 
uary 14, 1837, received a practical business edu- 
cation in Green and German Townships, and 
taught school some nine years in the county. 
On March 15, 1860, he married Miss Sarah 
Jane Kimmel, who was born May 18, 1837, a 
daughter of Jonathan and Christiana (Nopp) 
Kimmel, natives of Adams County, Penn., and 
who were the parents of ten children, viz. : 
Sarah Jane, Elizabeth, Nimrod, Christena. Ti- 
tus, Simon, George, Jonathan, Isaac, Magda- 
lena and Martin, all born in Harrison County, 
Ohio. Grandmother Kimmel is still living, hale 
and hearty, at the patriarchal age of ninety- 
seven years. To Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Condo 
two children have been born: Nimrod (deceased) 
and Rebecca E., who is living with her parents. 
After marriage our subject settled on part of his 
father's farm, where he has built a fine brick 
house and a commodious barn. He is one of 
the best farmers of the county, and raises some 
of the finest stock. Mr. and Mrs. Condo and 
daughter are members of the Lutheran Church, 
of which congregation the daughter is organist. 
Mr. Congo enjoys the full confidence of his 



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fellow- citizens, ami has efficiently served as 
township treasurer for a period of eight years. 



J | F. McMATH is one of the leading young 
men of Freeport, Harrison County, and 
) is always identified with the progressive 
citizens. The family are of Irish de- 
scent, John, his grandfather, having come from 
Ireland with his parents to America many years 
ago, settling iu Pennsylvania. He was early 
apprenticed to a stone and brick mason, with 
whom he remained until his knowledge of the 
trade was thoroughly acquired, and which he 
followed the most of his life. He was a Demo- 
crat, and invariably supported that party. In 
early life he was married to Elizabeth Eooney, 
a resident of Kentucky, locating first in Cler- 
mont County, Ohio, but soon after removing to 
Harrison County, where he spent the remainder 
of his life. He reared the following family: 
Hannah (deceased), Belinda (deceased), Ruth 
(Mrs. I. Barrett), Jane, William, Simeon and 
David. In 1880 he died, his wife surviving him 
till 1884. William McMath spent his early life 
iu Freeport, where he learned the miller's 
trade, which he followed until 1878, when he 
engaged in agriculture. In 1857 he was mar- 
ried to Lydia, daughter of James and Susan 
(Delany) Ford, residents of Freeport, and his 
children are named Sarah J. and J. F. 

J. F. McMath was born June 14, 1802, in 
Freeport, where he has ever since resided. His 
business life was commenced as publisher of the 
Freeport Press, in which he is now associated 
with W. A. Williams. The office is large and 
completely fitted for all kinds of job work, in 
which they have a large trade. On July lit, 
L889, he was united in marriage with Rosa E. , 
daughter of E. M. Knox, a resident of Free 
port, and she has borne one child, Edward K. 
Like the family iu general, Mr. McMath has 
been a Democrat and takes an active part in the 
politics of his section. He is among the well- 
known and popular young men of his town, as 
is evinced by his repeated election to various 



offices, such as town clerk and justice* of the 
peace, although the town is Republican, For 
several terms he has been secretary of the (air 
held at Smyrna, the duties of which, tit 
difficult and onerous, have been discharged with 
satisfaction to all. The family are leading mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



TIPTON HALL was born November 1(1. 
L822, in Archer Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio. His father. W. P. Hall, was born 
in eastern Ohio on the banks of the Ohio 
River, and his parents dying when lie was quite 
young he was thrown on his own resources, early 
manifesting those qualities which have endeared 
him to the citizens of Harrison County. After 
the death of his parents he resided with Otho 
French, ami was engaged in farming, but soon 
after he became of age he learned the carpen- 
ter's trade, which hi' followed during the re- 
mainder of his life. About the year L815 lie 
was married to Hannah Tipton, daughter of 
John Tipton (who was one of the earliest settlers 
of Harrison County), and after marriage he 
located in Archer Township, where he resided a 
short time; then removed to Green Township, 
where he purchased a farm, on which he died. 
His family consisted of nine children: Louis. 
Tipton, John O.. Johnson, B. S., Elizabeth, 
Sarah Jane. Earriet and Rachel, all of whom 
reached maturity ami became highly respected 
and eminent citizens of Harrison County. In 
politics Mr. Hall was a Republican, and among 
the offices he held in his township may lie men- 
tioned that of supervisor. Early joining the 
Methodist Chinch both himself and wife were 
stanch supporters of that faith. In 1868 his 
wife died and was laid to rest in Conaway Cem- 
etery, and ten years later he himself followed 
her he had so dearly cherished, and was placed 
beside her. The} were estimable people, fully 
meriting the respect in which they were held. 

Tipton Hall remained at. home assisting in 
the duties of the farm until in March, 1847, he 
was married to Rachel Fife, daughter of John 



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Fife, a resident of Green Township. They set- 
tled on a farm in Archer Township, and have 
ever since been among its leading people. The 
following children have been born to them: D. 
W., in March, 1848; Eliza Jane, born January 
21, 1850, now Mrs. Thomas Snyder; Hannah 
Matilda, born March 9, L853, died December 25, 
1850; Caroline, born February 3, 1858, now 
Mrs. Charles McClain; Emma R., born August 
23, 1864, and John E., born May 20, 1867. In 
politics Mr. Hall is an ardent Democrat, and 
takes a lively interest in the affairs of the coun- 
try at large, as well as those of his own imme- 
diate vicinity. For two terms he held the office 
of trustee, discharging its duties to the best pos- 
sible interests of his township. He is a man of 
deep convictions, a lively imagination, and one 
whom it is a pleasure to meet. His farm com- 
prises forty-eight acres, is under excellent culti- 
vation, and is one of the best producing in his 
neighborhood. The buildings are neat and sub- 
stantial, giving evidence of the taste and skill 
of the owner. 



I, SEAEL J. GEEEN, the well-kuown banker, 
of Freeport, Harrison County, was born 
[ November 11. 1S45. in the village of that 
name.' His father, Samuel, who was born 
in Ireland, when quite young came to Amer- 
ica with his parents, in 1808, and the fam- 
ily located in Belmont County, Ohio, where 
the youth of Samuel was spent. His educa- 
tional advantages were of a limited nature, be- 
ing those of the common schools alone. In his 
early manhood he chose, as his life's partner, 
Ann Thompson, and, settling in Freeport soon 
after his marriage, he engaged in mercantile 
business with his brother John, [until 1832, when 
he closed out his interest and purchased a farm. 
To this he removed and afterward followed agri- 
cultural pursuits until his death. His children 
were William, James, Aaron, Sarah, Samuel H. , 
Euth T. and Israel J. From youth Mr. Green 
took an absorbing interest in the political ques- 
tions of the day, was a strong Abolitionist and 



also an advocate of the Whig principles; he was 
a devoted member and liberal supporter of the 
Friends Society. On June 6, 1809, he passed 
away, and was buried in Greenmont Cemetery; 
Mrs. Green still survives him and resides on the 
home place. 

Israel J. Green passed his youth partly on 
the farm, and also in various educational insti- 
tutions, where he received a liberal education. 
On June 1, 1870, he was married to Almeda, 
daughter of John D. and Michel Snellinjr, of 
Columbiana County, Ohio, but in 1879 Mrs. 
Green passed from earth, leaving the following 
named family: Michel Emma, Joseph John. 
Samuel Willis and Sarah Ann. On January 
18, 1883, Mr. Green was married to Eleanor 
Pickard, of Jefferson County, Iowa. Previous 
to 1885 Mr. Green was engaged in agriculture, 
at which he was successful. He then com- 
menced in the banking business, which he has 
continued since. He is an energetic business 
man, and is thoroughly acquainted with the de- 
tails of his present vocation. Formerly an ad- 
herent of the Eepublican party, he has, since 
the organization of the Prohibition party, been 
one of its valued leaders. He and his family 
are members of the Friends Society, at Free- 
port, and none stand higher in the esteem of 
their fellow-townsmen than they. 



If SAAC ALLEN. In every hamlet we find 
: those hardy old settlers who have from their 
| earliest age been engaged in the improve- 
ment of the section in which they have 
lived, and have, after many years of toil, removed 
to the town that they might enjoy the pleasures 
and comforts of life. Isaac Allen was born in 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, Septem- 
ber 16, 1813. His father, Eeuben, was born 
in 1783 in Maryland, where for many genera- 
tions the family had resided. James Allen, 
father of Eeuben, was a farmer, and in his 
early life married Eebecca Miller, by whom he 
had nine children, all of whom reached adult 
age. In L792 James Allen died, and Eeuben 



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Allen remained in Maryland many years after 
tbe death of his father; in 1S12 he removed to 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, thence to 
Belmont County, and finally again came to 
Harrison County, where he remained until his 
death. In 1812 he was married to Johanna, 
daughter of John McMillan, a resident of Har- 
rison County, and the issue of their marriage 
was the following named children: Isaac (our 
subject), Rebecca (deceased), Esther (deceased), 
Amos (deceased), Mary Jane (deceased), Ruthann, 
Johanna (deceased) and James. In his poli- 
tics Mr. Allen was a firm and strong supporter 
of the Republican party, and was earnest in the 
advancement of its interests. He died July 8, 
1875, a member of the Society of Friends, and 
was laid to rest by the side of his wife, who had 
preceded him to the grave in 1869. An honest, 
industrious man, he won his way unaided, save 
by his wife, to an enviable position in the finan- 
cial and social circles of his county. 

Isaac Allen, the subject, proper of this 
memoir, attended the common schools of his 
section, and there acquired much valuable 
knowledge of the fundamental principles. On 
Juno 24, 1841, he was married to Sarah, daugh- 
ter of David Barrett, of Cadiz Township, and 
they immediately settled in Freeport Township, 
where they spent years of toil and sorrow and 
pleasure together, until 1888, when they re- 
moved to the town of Freeport. Their chil- 
dren are Reuben, Rebecca J. (Mrs. R. M. 
Black), Albert and Winifred. Like his ancestry, 
Mr. Allen has supported the Republican patty, 
and has ever been numbered among the workers 
for its advancement. He and family are well 
and favorably known, and have always been 
among the progressive of the county. 



JAMES WHITE (deceased), late a resident 
of New Athens, Ohio, was born in County 
Tyrone, Ireland, May 15, 1819. His 
father, also named James, was a farmer who 
made a preliminary trip to America, entered a 
tract of land in Kentucky, ami resided upon it 



ten years. He then returned to Ireland, where 
he married Elizabeth McDowell, but after many 
years came back to America, with the intention 
of settling at Newvale, Cumberland Co., Penn., 
oar subject being then two years old. But his 
father was ill when they landed, and three days 
after reaching Pennsylvania he died, aged 
about seventy live years. The family being 
left in poor circumstances, Mrs. White con- 
cluded to push on to Shepherd8town, Belmont 
Co., Ohio, where she had friends. Mrs. White 
died at the residence of one of her sons in Vir- 
ginia at the age of eighty-seven years. She was 
the mother of eight children, viz.: Mary, Jane, 
Charles, William, Margaret, Sarah, Ann and 
James (our subject), all born in Ireland and all 
deceased excepting James. 

James White remained with his widowed 
mother until he was fourteen years of age, and 
then began learning a trade, deciding eventually 
to become a tailor, which trade he completed at 
Wheeling, W. Va., not being then quite of age. 
He moved about from place to place for some 
ten years until April 25, 1839, when, in Bealls- 
ville, Monroe Co., Ohio, he was married to Miss 
Sarah, daughter of William and Rebecca (Whit- 
stone) Frost, and a native of Winchester. Va. 
For a short time the young couple resided in 
Jacobsburg, Belmont Co.,Ohio, but eventually, in 
1841, came to New Athens, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
Here this couple shared life's joys and sorrows 
until August, 1889, when Mis. White departed 
this life, aged sixty seven years ami eleven 
months, the mother of sixteen children, viz. : 
Elizabeth R. , Sarah Ann (deceased), William 
F., John Love (deceased), Charles, Ellen C. 
(deceased), Martha .1.. Man II.. Maggie F., 
Harriet V. , Viola B. , Sarah A. (second). Joseph 
V. (deceased), Dora 13., Daniel V., and an in 
fant that died unnamed. After the death of 
his wife Mr. White lived at the home place in 
New Athens, where lie died April 19. 1890, hav- 
ing been for a number of years retired from act- 
ive business. He was one of the well known 
citizens of New Athens, ami had held a number 
of positions of trust in the township under the 



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Democratic party, of which he was a faithful 
member. In 1864 Mr. White enlisted in Com- 
pany H, One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., 
and was stationed near Washington and in the 
Shenandoah Valley, and he also took part in 
various engagements, but was never wounded. 




ATTHEW R* McNARY, a well-known 
and wealthy farmer of Rumley Town 
i ship, Harrison County, was born Feb- 
ruary 14, 1831, in Washington County, 
Penn., a son of James and Jane ( Welch) McNary. 
He was reared on the old homestead, received 
a practical education at the common schools of 
his township, and assisted his father on the 
home place until November 8, 1854, when he 
married Miss Margaret A. Anderson, who was 
born April 7, 1831, a daughter of James and M. 
(Howard) Anderson, natives of Ireland. Five 
children have been born to this union, viz. : 
James W., Alice J., Thomas McCorkle and 
Maggie O. A. (twins) and Addie Z. In 1858 
Mr. McNary moved to Washington County, 
Penn., where he resided until 1867, when here- 
turned to Rumley Township aud bought the 
farm of 182 acres in Sections 2 and 32, where 
he now resides. He has served as township 
trustee fifteen years, and the whole family are 
members of the United Presbyterian Church. 

The McNary family are of Scotch descent, 
their ancestry being traced back to Greenock, 
from which place several of the name went to 
Ireland, and it is thought that four brothers 
came to America as early as 1700, from whom 
have descended all those of the name residing in 
the United States. 



THOMAS CRAWFORD, one of the oldest 
and most prominent of the citizens of east- 
ern Archer Township, Harrison County, 
was born in Brooke County, Va. , December 
3, 1804. His father, Edward Crawford (as were 
also his grandfather and his wife), was a native 
of Virginia, and from him our subject imbibed 



those sterling qualities which have made his 
name the synonym of honesty', integrity and 
justice. The mother's parents were also natives 
of Virginia, and were among the representative 
people of that section in which they lived. In 
early youth Edward Crawford married Mary 
Wiggins, who lived in Brooke County, Va., and 
soon after marriage they came to Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison County, where, in 1806, he erected 
a log cabin. Here he and his family endured the 
usual hardships of the early settlers, and by 
his own industry and energy he succeeded in 
clearing a large tract. Six children were born 
to Edward Crawford and his wife in Virginia, 
and six in Harrison County, Ohio. He was a 
stanch Democrat in politics and always strove 
to advance the interests of his party, although 
he would not accept any political preferment. 
He aud his wife were members of the Presby- 
terian Church from early youth, and continued 
their membership until death. He died in 1831, 
and was buried at Cadiz, leaving a loving wife 
and affectionate children to mourn his decease. 
His widow survived him until 1864, when she, 
too, passed away, and was buried by his side. 

Thomas Crawford remained at home with 
his parents, assisting in the management of the 
farm until he was about nineteen years of age, 
when he went to Cadiz to learn the blacksmith's 
trade. In education he had the advantages of 
the common schools, which were very primitive 
in their character. After continuing black- 
smithing for some time, he lost his health and 
was compelled to abandon the trade. He then 
engaged in agricultural pursuits, and in 1840 
he purchased a farm. In 1829 he was married 
to Miss Jane, daughter of Hugh and Mary 
Kelly, who resided in Cadiz, Harrison County. 
His wife died, leaving four children: Hugh, 
Edward, Isabella and Thomas, and March 5, 
1839, he was married to his present wife, Mrs. 
Eleanor Forbes, the widow of Joseph Forbes, a 
former resident of Harrison County, Ohio. Of 
this marriage were born children as follows: 
John A. (whois assisting in the carrying on of the 
home farm, and with his wife renders the old 



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age of his parents as pleasant as possible), Eliz 
abeth, Jane, Robert, James F. and Jason. Mr. 
Crawford has been a life-long Democrat, and 
has always taken a great Interest in the 
political affairs of his country. He has, by his 
own efforts amassed a largo property, and won 
for himself an enviable position in the respect 
and esteem of his fellow citizens. To such men 
as Mr. Crawford is due the present prosperity 
of Harrison County. 



EORGE HINES, son of Jacob and Su- 
,. sanna (Brugh) Hines was born October 
lit. 1822. He remained at home until 
he was married. May 13, 1851, to Tem- 
perance Fisher, who lived only ten months after 
the ceremony. She was buried at the Ridge 
Cemetery. November 10, 1853, Mr. Hines was 
married to Elizabeth E. Ferguson, of Green 
Township. Harrison County, at the home of her 
parents, Henry and Elizabeth Ferguson, who re- 
sided on a part of a section of land entered about 
the year 1800 by Elizabeth E.'s grandfather, 
Henry Ferguson, who was a survivor of the Rev- 
olutionary War, and came from Washington 
County, Penn. , when Henry, father of Eizabeth 
E., was a small boy. Henry Ferguson, Sr. .mar- 
ried Eleanor Parmer, and they became parents 
of eleven children. Eleanor Ferguson lived to be 
ninety-nine years of age. These parents were 
Covenanters in faith, and in politics Henry was 
a Whig. Henry Ferguson, Jr., father of Mrs. 
Elizabeth E. Hines, was born November 23, 
178S, and was married January 2, 1810, to 
Elizabeth Johnston. He died May 27, 1863, 
his wife having preceded him by two or three 
years, both members of the Presbyterian 
Church. Of their six children — three sons and 
three daughters — Elizabeth E. Hines is the 
youngest. 

After their marriage George Hines and wife 
settled on the farm on which his widow now 
resides. The issue of this marriage was O. C. 
Hines, born February 4, 1855 mow at home), 



and Samuel F. Hines, born April 17. 1858 
(now of Kansas City). Mr. Hines died May 18, 
L864, and was buried at the Ridge Cemetery. 
He was a Democrat in politics, and always 
strove to advance the party's interests. He never 
sought office, and, though often s ilicited to ac- 
cept, invariably refused. He was a representa- 
tive of one of the oldest and most highly re- 
spected families in Archer Township. The farm 
on which he died consists of one hundred acres, 
under good cultivation and ably managed by 
his oldest son. (). C. who was married to .Miss 
Carrie Havertield. of Cadiz, December 26, 1889, 
and who remains with his mother on the home 
place. He is a young man of excellent charac- 
ter and good habits, ami has the respect of all. 
He is a Republican in politics, a member of the 
Presbyterian Church at Ridge, and is one of 
those most prominent in all worthy enterprises. 
He has been an elder since 1S~7, a position 
which he tills acceptably. Mrs. Hines belonged 
to a highly respected Johnston family of Scot- 
land, of which the following poetry is a history, 
written May 24, 1842, by David Johnston, of 
Amsterdam, Ohio (uncle of Mrs. E. E. Hines), 
to his son. Dr. Samuel P. Johnston, of Eddy- 
ville, Iowa: 

old Scotland was the very place, 
Tlie first wc knew of fathers race, 

( >r any of I be name. 
Lord Arcbey Johnston there was found 
Opposed, in faith to him they crowned 

A man of DOble lame. 

The persecution ran so high, 
The faithful ones must fight or die. 
< >r else renounce t be faith; 

They fought, ami. awful to relate. 

The foil i it i>io\ ed bo verj great, 
Yet still upheld by mace 

Some fell and bled, yet not a few 

To other lands For safety Mew. 
A scattered, broken Bock; 
Y«t hunted there [ike beasts of prey 

They brought them in from day to day 

To gibbet or the block. 

Methinka I see my ancient friend 

By faith supported to the end, 
Submitting to his fate; 

His head was placed upon the hlock, 
I shudder at tin- dire stroke 

That killed the good ami great. 



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The father dead, the children dear 
Had then do lands nor mansions here — 

All forfeited and none; 
The mother took them by the hand 
And Hew for life to Ireland 

To find a safer home. 


The company not far away 
They did not much fear to stay 

On such a rainy night; 
They shut the door, they made a fire. 
On beds of hay they did retire. 

Until the morning light. 


The name here spread both far and wide; 
The offspring of the man who died 
Got homes and peace again; 

What generations I can't tell 
They did the north of Ireland fill 
With honor to his name. 


The parents rose by dawn of day, 
And left the children on the hay, 

Without a thought of fear; 
They stepped quite out to view the skies, 
The children woke by awful cries 

From both their parents dear. 


The next we knew three brothers here, 
They left their homes aud friends all dear, 

To try Columbus' soil; 
They mounted on the ocean wide, 
They faced the storms, they braved the tide, 

Their hearts did not recoil. 


They all sprang up. and peeping out 
They saw the Indians all about, 

Some distance from the door. 
A gun presented, aimed too well. 
They saw the flash, their father fell 

All bleeding in his gore. 


They landed on Columbus' shore, 
Ami searched the forest o'er and o'er 

A handsome home to find; 
Where Philadelphia now since stands 
They found the richest, choicest lands. 

And homes to please the mind. 


The mother ran aud screamed and cried. 
She sought some ambush where to hide, 

But Indians followed on; 
They heard wild screams, they knew it well 
The Indians did their mother kill. 

The work of death was done! 


Thev settled down and took them wives. 
And hoped to give them happy lives, 

But all their hopes were vain; 
The western forests did abound 
With savage tribes who claimed the ground. 

They durst not here remain. 


The scalping knife was next applied, 
This gave the children time to hide 

Like rats within a mow; 
The Indians hunted them all round. 
But not a one of five was found. 

They escaped they can't tell how. 


At Shippeiisburg. or near that ground, 
The father of my father found 

Another handsome home; 
The settlement did fast increase. 
And they as neighbors lived in peace 

And welcomed all who come. 


With bloody hands and scalps and knives 
They now made off to save their lives, 

They feared the harvest men; 
The children saw the scalps quite clear, 
Their parents' bloody dangling hair — 

An awful sight for them! 


Yet here the wolves and beasts of prey. 
And savage man. more fierce than they, 

Annoyed and did them grieve; 
The\ r battled them from year to year, 
At length the homes they loved so dear 

They had to fly and leave. 


They now crept out aud counted five. 
Their sisters, brothers, all alive, 

But parents dear were gone; 
Their shirts and shifts were only on 
When they were frightened to the barn 

Thus naked they did run. 


Now Shippensburg they built a fort 
Where all the neighbors did resort 

For safety ol their lives; 
Their harvest fields were ripening dead, 
They feared a scant and lack of bread 

For children and their wives. 


And as they scampered o'er the road. 
They passed their father pale in death, 

Their little hearts did bleed, 
They ran themselves almost to death, 
The youngest it got out of breath. 

They hasted with such speed. 


The noble braves of these new lands, 
With, guns and sickles in their hands, 

By companies went out. 
From farm to farm they went around. 
Some guarding while they rept and bound 

From field to field about. 


At length they met one in the road 

Who found them clothes, and gave them food 

And sent them to the fort; 
When here they found some pious men 
Who truly proved the orphans' friend 

By comforts and support. 


Grandfather, mother, children too. 
Had gone this day to take a view 

And see some things at home; 
While all were pulling at some flax. 
All around by rain with thunder cracks, 

They 1" their homes did run. 


My father Samuel, oldest son 

Of Nathan dead, here grown a man 

lie entered bis career; 
He took my mother by the hand, 
The mountains crossed in search of land 

They came to Ligonier. 



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They hunted out the best of grounds, 
With tomahawk they marked their bounds 

And chose a site to build; 
No neighbor found, nor mills, nor roads. 
Near thirty miles unbroken woods. 

Nor garden, house or fields. 

They built, they cleared, they tilled the ground; 
Borne neighbors came and settled round. 

All lived like brothers here; 
The Indian wars broke out again. 
This caused them live in dread and pain. 

The}' watched and stayed in fear. 

My parents often in such dread. 

They each took guns and knives to bed, 
Prepared to meet the foe; 

But when some scalping bail been done 

They thought it safer far to run- 
To Palmer's fort they go. 

Still here the Indians did resort 

To watch for scalps outside the fort, 

Until they had got one; 
Now fired with vengeance for their deed. 
The fort-men turned out with speed, 

The Indians having run. 

They followed them both night and day. 
Until one hundred miles away, 

The Indians felt secure; 
They found them six. all lying down, 
Twelve miles above Kittanniug town, 

As loudly they did snore. 

Six men with tomahawks and knives 
Now volunteered to lake their lives, 

My father, he was one; 
Like lightning's flash, you may believe, 
Each man an Indian's head did cleave, 

The work of death was done. 

They left their dead upon the ground 
And all the booty they had found 

They bore it safe away; 
Blanket, shot-pouch, horn and gun, 
My father got for what he done. 

His booty of the day. 

The winter now was coming on. 
The Indian tribes were fled and gone, 

The neighborhood had peace; 
They happy lived for many years. 
Oft talking Of their tods and' fears. 

Until they did decease. 

Our generations still beat west. 
And I. myself, like all the rest. 

Still farther west did cho 
The history of my life you know. 
Or I would give il here below, 

1 hope you will excuse. 

And you, my only son. now gone 
Far to the weal to make your home, 

As all our fathers done. 
Now may the I. old prolong your ds 
Direct your course by wisdom's ways. 

Until your race is run. 




ILLIAM CKOSKKY. Among those 
most closely identified with the early 
history, organization and settlement of 

Green Township, Harrison Count \. up 
t.. the present time, none are more prominently 
so than the Croskey family. Originating in 
Ireland they have all the energy and posh for 
which the natives of the Emerald Isle are noted, 
and those who represent Harrison County to 
day are no exception to the general rule. Among 
the leaders and the most prominent of them is 
William, who was horn October 11, 1817, on 
the farm on which he now resides, and which he 
has seen transformed from an almost impene- 
trable wilderness to one of the finest and best 
producing in his section. His father, John 
Croskey. was horn August 7, 1775, in New Jer- 
Bey, soon after the arrival of the family from 
Ireland. The founder of the family in this 
country was Robert, who. soon after coming 
here, located in Pennsylvania, and there re 
mained until 1802, when he came to Ohio, set- 
tling in Green Township, Harrison County, on 
a section which was entered the year previous 
by his son, John, and Jacob Sheplar. There he 
remained until he had reached an advanced age, 
when death claimed him. He was buried in 
Covenanter Church Cemetery. a short distance 
east of Hopedale; his wife had preceded him to 
the grave but a short time, and was buried at the 
same place. At his death his son, William, took 
the management of the farm on which he re. 
sided. On February 9, 1801, John Croskey 
was married to Catherine Fry, who was born 
June 25, L781, and was the daughter of Sam- 
uel Fry, a resident of Pennsylvania, and soon 
after his marriage removed to Green Township. 
Harrison County, where the year previous he 
had entered a section of land. It was with 
much difficulty that they arrived at their place 
of residence, all the roads having to be cut 
through the forest, and all their supplies having 
to 1». brought from Steubenville on horse back. 
The record of their family is as follows: John, 
was bom April I'd. 1802; Christina, was born 
Februarj 13, 1804; Rachel, was born February 



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22, 1806; Samuel F.. was bom December 11, 
1808; Sarah, was born January 12,1811; Jack- 
son, was born February 6, 1815; William, was 
born October 11, 1817; Abraham, was born 
January 24, 1820. In politics Mr. Croskey was 
a Democrat, and was closely identified with the 
improvements of that day; his family and him- 
self were members of the Christian Church at 
Hopedale. On March 16, 1862, he died in 
that faith, and was laid to rest in the township 
cemetery; his wife survived him but a short 
time, dying in Iowa January 22, 1863, while on 
a visit to her daughter; she rests by the side of 
her husband. Mr. Croskey was a self-made 
man. having made all his wealth by his own in- 
dividual labor, and at his death he left a hand- 
some property. He was a well-known citizeu, 
and occupied a front rank in the financial and 
social circles of his county. 

William Croskey, the subject proper of this 
sketch, spent much of his early life in farm work, 
and his education was confined to the common 
schools. At the age of eighteen, he drove oxen 
to tramp out the clay for the brick out of which 
his present residence was built. On January 
16, 1840, he chose as his life's partner Susan 
Baxter, who was born May 11, 1822, a daugh- 
ter of Samuel P. Baxter, one of the representa- 
tives of the earliest settlers and prominent farm- 
ers of Green Township, and soon after marriage 
Mr. Croskey settled on the place where he now 
resides. The following named children were 
born to him: Nancy Jane (now Mrs Edward 
Hall), born June 25, 1S41 ; Clarinda (now Mrs. 
Eezin B. Mansfield), born October 9, 1846; 
Louisa Caroline, born September 9, 1848, died 
June 28, 1869; Susan Amanda (now Mrs. Will- 
iam F. Houser), born February 7, 1856. In 
politics Mr. Croskey is one of the leading Dem- 
ocrats of his section, and has held many of the 
offices of the township. He has been a justice of 
the peace for many years, and has discharged 
the duties of that office with great credit to him- 
self and to the full satisfaction of the people. 
So just and unerring were his decisions, that in 
all appeals to a higher court none were reversed. 



In 1879 he was elected land appraiser, to which 
office be was re-elected in 1889, with a majority 
of 286 over the Republican opponent. This is 
a slight indication of the popularity in which he 
is held by the residents of his section. He and 
his family are members of the Christian Church 
at Hopedale. Mr. Croskey is now the sole rep- 
resentative of the Croskey family, who have, 
since the early settlement of this county, been so 
prominently identified with its progress, and who 
always have been among the supporters of every 
movement for its advancement. To such men 
as these does any county owe its progress and 
prosperity. 



J| ESSE MARTIN, a resident of Green Town- 
I ship, Harrison County, was born July 29, 
_) 1819, in Virginia. His father, Peter Mar- 
tin, was also a native of that State, where 
he followed farming, and where in early life he 
was married to Elizabeth Heberling, a resident 
of the State mentioned. In 1822 they came to 
i Harrison County, Ohio, and settled in Short 
Creek Township, where they remained until 
death called them. Their family consisted of 
ten children: Luther, Jacob, John, William, 
George, Jesse, Sally, Betsy, Susan and Nancy, 
all now deceased, excepting John, George and 
Jesse. Peter Martin was a Republican, though 
not a very active politician, and was a member 
of the Presbyterian Church, his wife being a 
member of the Disciples Church. He departed 
this life in 1837, and was buried in West Grove 
Cemetery, his wife following him in 1854, and 
buried in the same cemetery. 

Jesse Martin, our subject, remained at home 
until he was of age, and engaged in the duties 
of the farm, having the advantages of the dis- 
trict schools. On October 18, 1853, he was 
married to Elizabeth Scarborough, daughter of 
Thomas Scarborough, a resident of Green Town- 
ship, and after marriage they located in Short 
Creek Township, where they remained a short 
time, and then removed to Belmont County. 



HARBISON COUNTY. 



Ill 



After nine years' sojourn there they returned 
to Short Creek Township, and finally removed 
to Green Township, to the place where they 
now reside. Their children are as follows: 
Sally, born January 26, 1855; John C, born 
August 1, 1856; William B.. born October 5, 
1858: Sumner T., bom March 16, 1862; Geo 
A., born January 10, 1865; Lorena M., born 
January 6, 1868; Jesse L. , born December L5, 
1871, and Hayden H., born September 26, 1874 
Politically Mr. Martin is a Republican, and 
always supports his party in measures of county. 
State, and National interest. He and his wife 
are members of the Disciples Church, and are 
always found in the front rank of the workers 
in that faith. Mr. Martin has by his own efforts 
made what property he possesses, and is to-day 
solid, financially; in the social circle his family 
are among the most prominent. 

Mrs. Martin's father, Thomas Scarborough, 
was born February 1, 1700, in Pennsylvania, 
of which State his parents were also natives. 
For many years he followed the stone-mason's 
trade, but later settled on a farm. He was 
married to Sarah Harris, and the children born 
to this union consisted of Charles, born October 
5, 1824; Mary E., born February 5, 1828; 
Elizabeth, born October 22, 1830; Margaret, 
born November 21, 1832; William, born July 4, 
1835; Thomas, born December 12, 1839; As 
bury, born October 24. 1841. In 1834 Mr. 
Scarborough came to Ohio and settled on a farm 
in Green Township. In politics he was a Dem- 
ocrat of the old line, and he and his wife were 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to 
which faith they steadfastly adhered. On Sep- 
tember 4, 1807, he died, and was buried near 
Hopedale, having been preceded to the grave 
by his wife, who died July 6, L855, and was 
buried at the same place. 

John C. Martin, son of Jesse and Elizabeth 
Martin, was born in Belmont County. Ohio. An 
gust 1, 1850. He grew to manhood on the farm, 
attending school, and for a time the Hopedale 
Normal College. He was eight years old when 
he came with his parents to Harrison County 



In February, 1884, Mr. Martin married Miss 
Mary, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Havnar. 
and a native of Harrison County, and after mar 
riage the young couple came at onee to the farm 
in Cadiz Township, where they now reside, and 
which .Mr. Martin had purchased the year pre- 
vious. Two children have been born to them: 
Mary Elsie and Sumner Leroy. Mr. Martin was 
formerly a Republican, and of late years has 
been a Prohibitionist; be has not held any office 
in his county. In religion he is a member of the 
Disciples Church, while his wife is an adherent 
of the Presbyterian Church. He i-, emphatically 
a self-made man. and is recognized as one of the 
solid, progressive fanners of the county. 

William Benton Martin, son of Jesse and 
Elizabeth Martin, was born in Belmont County, 
Ohio, October -"}, 1858. He was brought up to 
farm life, attending the common schools, and for 
two years the academy at Hopedale, remaining 
at home until January 1. 1884, when he mar- 
ried Josephine Pittis. who was born in Harrison 
County, a daughter of George and Sarah Pittis, 
former a resident of Scio, Harrison County, lat- 
ter now deceased, both natives of England. Mr. 
and Mrs. Martin settled on the farm where 
they now reside, and* made all the improve- 
ments. They have one child, George Harle. now 
four years of age. Politically. Mr. Martin is a 
Prohibitionist, and he and his wife are members 
of the Disciples Church. Their farm of seventy 
acres is located in Short Creek Township, two 
and a half miles from Cadiz. Mr Martin is 
one of the well-known enterprising farmers of 
the county. 

Sumner T. Martin, son of Jesse and Eliza- 
beth Martin, was born March 16, 1862. Till 
about the age of eighteen lie stayed on the farm 
with his father, attending school in the winter. 
Having an insatiable desire lor a fuller equip- 
ment for life's duties and responsibilities than 
(lie common schools could furnish, he hired 
himself out to a neighboring farmer for twelve 
dollars and fifty cents per month, in order to 
earn a little money to enter Hopedale Normal 
College that winter. He remained there for the 



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winter and spring terms of 18S0-81. Having 
become a member of the Christian Church in 
June. 1880, he at once determined to prepare 
himself for the ministry. This had been his 
purpose and ambition from childhood, growing 
into a very passion in his early manhood, in 
spite of poverty and many discouragements. 
So, in the spring of 1883, after two years of 
teaching near Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio, he 
entered Bethany College, West Va., to begin his 
classical and theological training. After re- 
maining one year, his money gave out, and some 
kind friends and a kinder Providence helped 
him to the charge of a most excellent church, 
small in numbers and in financial strength, but 
large in faith and zeal, and warmest sympathy, 
and extraordinary in intelligence and real cult- 
ure, on the Western Reserve, in Ashland Coun- 
ty, Ohio. Here he remained, studying and 
laboring hard for twenty-one months, till Sep- 
tember, 1884. His pastorate was wonderfully 
fruitful, and entirely satisfactory to his people. 
He then re-entered Bethany College, preaching 
each Sunday to earn his expenses, and graduat- 
ed with the first honors of his class in June, 
1887. He had already accepted a call to Marion, 
Kas., whence he went immediately. There he 
staid one year, adding 110 persons to the 
church by God's blessing. His next charge 
was Leavenworth, Kas. From here he was 
called into evangelistic work for three months, 
in which time he saw 106 persons obey Christ 
and enter the church. Leaving this special 
work he took charge of the Christian Churches 
at Valley Falls and Nortonville, Kas., his pres- 
ent charge. In the past eighteen mouths he 
has preached an average of rive sermons a week, 
and about 350 persons have been in that time 
added to the church under his labors. He 
found his wife in Kansas in the person of Miss 
LeOta Sheridan, to whom he was married in 
Mav, 1887. He has two bright and interesting 
children. Elder Martin's work in the gospel 
ministry is but fairly begun, but he gives 
promise of great usefulness in this work, to 
which he has consecrated body, soul and spirit. 



JjOSHUA DICKERSON is one of the well- 
known farmers and stock dealers of Moore- 
1 field Township, Harrison County, and is a 
son of William and Jane (Lafferty) Dick- 
erson. He was born in Athens Township, Har- 
rison County, Ohio, September 2, 1842, on the 
old Dickerson homestead, where he grew to 
manhood and received a practical business edu- 
cation at the common schools. March 10, 1864, 
he married Miss Rebecca Dickerson, who was 
born October 16, 1843, a daughter of John and 
Elizabeth (McFadden) Dickerson, of Athens 
Township. 

After his marriage Mr. Dickerson purchased 
the farm he now owns, which contains 158 
acres in the northwest quarter of Section 10, in 
Moorefield Township, and has since purchased 
forty acres on Section 16, on the western side, 
adjoining his first purchase. He has erected a 
fine residence on this farm, which was completed 
in 1875. Here Mr. Dickerson has been en- 
gaged for some years dealing in live stock. 
Mrs. Dickerson departed this life December 22, 
1888, a member of the Nottingham Presbyterian 
Church, and the mother of five children, named 
as follows: Clara J., deceased; JohnE., Mary 
E., William and Sarah E., residing at home. 
Politically Mr. Dickerson is a Democrat, and has 
held several offices of trust in Moorefield Town- 
ship. He is well known throughout the county, 
is highly esteemed by all, and for many years 
has been a devout and consistent member of the 
Nottingham Presbyterian Church. 



JOHN W. BLAIR, farmer, of Stock Town- 
ship, Harrison County, was born in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. May 15, 
1831, a son of William Blair. John Blair, 
father of William Blair, was a native of Ireland, 
who, in an early day, immigrated to the United 
States, coming to Harrison County, Ohio, and 
entered 160 acres of land in Cadiz Township, 
which he industriously cultivated until his death, 
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of five children, named as follows: John, 
Daniel, James, Charity and William. 

Willianp Blair was born March 14, 1804, in 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he 
was reared to manhood and received a com- 
mon school education. He married Miss Sarah 
Day. who was horn April '2I>. 1808, a daughter 
of George and Margaret (Moore) Day, natives 
of eastern Pennsylvania, and early settlers of 
Cadiz Township, Harrison County. To William 
Blair and his wife were horn four children, viz. : 
George, who resides in Cadiz Township, Harri- 
son County; John W. ; Albert and Mary, both 
deceased. William Blair, after his marriage, 
purchased a farm in Cadiz Township, where he 
remained during his life, his death occurring 
January 29, 1867. They were both active 
members of the Presbyterian Church. 

John W. Blair grew to manhood in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County, and received a 
common-school education. He remained at 
home until January 19, 1853, when he married 
Miss Malissa A. Carson, who was born June 19, 
1831, a daughter of Elijah and Catherine (Night) 
Carson, and this union has been blessed with 
three children, viz.: Albert N., who resides 
near his father; Mary L., wife of Prof. J. M. 
Adams, of Scio, Ohio, and Emma M. , who died 
at the age of nine years. Johu W. Blair, after 
his marriage, purchased 100 acres of laud in 
Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where 
he remained till 18(51), when he purchased the 
farm he now owns, which contains 240 acres, 
located on the Standing Stone Fork, seven miles 
northwest of the village of Cadiz, in Stock 
Township, Harrison County. Our subject and 
wife are members of the Disciples Church, and 
politically he is a Republican. 

Albert N. Blair, farmer and printer, son of 
John W. Blair, was born in Cadiz Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, February 3, 1854, and 
was educated at the common schools of the 
county. On October 25, 1877, he married Miss 
Elizabeth Merriman, who was born January 1, 
1856, a daughter of John Merriman, of Archer 
Township, Harrison County, and to this union 



have been born two sons: Roy Garfield and 
Chester Craig. After his marriage Mr. Blair 

came to the farm in Stock Township where he 
now resides, and where he has erected a fine 
dwelling. In lssi he embarked in the card and 
novelty business, which has proved very success 
i'ul to him. 



diOHN CLIFFORD. Prominent ami 
I the residents of Harrison County, is the 
1 subject of this sketch, who was born in 
County Cavan. Ireland, August 12. 1N1<>. 
His father, John Clifford, also a native of the 
Emerald Isle, was in early life married to Mary, 
daughter of John Byas, a resident of the same 
county. He was a farmer by occupation, which 
he followed until his death. His family were 
named as follows: Margaret. Edward. John. Es- 
ther and Mary. In 1822 the father died, leaving 
his wife and family to depend on their own 
efforts, and they continued to live in Ireland 
until 1839, when Esther and Edward left for 
America. In 1841 John, accompanied by the 
remainder of the family, came here also, im- 
mediately proceeding to Harrison County, < >hio, 
and here located a new home in the vicinity of 
Cadiz. On March 4. 1804. the mother died: 
she had passed the last years of her life at the 

residence of her son, John, who with true, filial 
love, made her declining years cheerful and com- 
Portable. 

On John Clifford's arrival in this country 
he immediately engaged in farming, which he 
has followed ever since On December 29, 
1852, he was married to Mary Ann, daughter of 
Andrew Jamison, a prominent resident of Cadiz, 
but September 2. 1863, she passed away, and 
was buried at Cadiz. Sin- left the Following 

children: Mary, born March 24, l s: >'">. died 

Julj 27. 1875; Edward, horn December 16, 
1856, a farmer in Green Township: Andrew. 
horn November 20, 1858, at home; John Riohey, 
born February 17. I860, died September 2. 
1863; Sarah Jane, horn June 1. 1861, died 
September 1. 1863. In L866 Mr. Clifford was 



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married to Anna, a daughter of William Crosky, 
of Green Township, and by her had the follow- 
ing named children: Anna, bom August 17, 
1867, still at home; William, born June 4, 1871, 
also at home. 

Mr. Clifford may truly be called a self-made 
man. He commenced life without any outside 
assistance, and by his integrity, honesty and 
industry has acquired an enviable position in 
the financial and social circles of his conuty. 
In politics he is a Democrat, and has held the 
trusteeship of the township several years. He 
and his wife are members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Cadiz. Mr. Clifford's farm of 347 
acres, situated partly in Green Township and 
partly in Short Creek, is in an excellent state of 
cultivation. The buildings are neat, and ex- 
hibit good architectural taste. The residence, a 
large two story brick building, is finely situated 
on a prominent place, commanding an extensive 
view on all sides. He and his family are justly 
numbered among the best respected and most 
esteemed citizens of Harrison County. 



LYLE MeDIYITT, a well-known farmer of 
North Township, Harrison County, was 
| born in October, 184f>, on the farm where 
he now lives. His father, George Mc- 
Divitt, a native of Pennsylvania, entered t Lie land 
on which Lyle now lives, when it was in the 
forest and infested with wild animals of every 
deselection native to the section. Here his first 
wife died, the mother of eight children, of whom 
three are still living. For his second wife he 
married Mrs. Susan Scott (nee Butler), a native 
of Leesville. Ohio. In February. 1 8< H), George 
MeDivitt passed from earth, in his seventy-third 
year, and the father, by his second marriage, 
of eight children, named as follows: Mary and 
Martha, deceased: Eliza, Mrs. Isaiah English; 
Thursy, Mrs. John Miner, of Pittsburgh, Penn.; 
John, in Stock Township, Harrison Co., Ohio; 
Thomas R. , in North Township; Samuel, de- 
ceased; and Lyle, our subject. Mr. MeDivitt 
was a Republican in politics. In 1872 Mrs. 



Susan MeDivitt passed away, at the age of sixty- 
two years. 

Lyle MeDivitt grew to manhood ou the home 
farm, on which he acquired his knowledge of 
husbandry, and in April, 1869, he married Miss 
Elizabeth Buxton, daughter of Haddon Buxton. 
This lady lived until May 22. 1887, when, at 
the age of forty years, she departed this life, 
the mother of three children, viz. : Harvey (de- 
ceased), Emma Florence and Annie. For his 
second wife Mr. MeDivitt chose Miss Ella, 
daughter of C. C. Beall, of Nottingham Town- 
ship. Harrison County. Mr. MeDivitt has prob- 
ably the finest farm residecne in North Town- 
ship, same having been erected in 1881, and is 
located about four miles southwest of Seio: his 
outbuildings are of the most modern device, and 
are commodious and substantial. The farm eon- 
tains 280 acres, mostly improved, but largely 
devoted to stock raising, in which specialty Mr. 
MeDivitt has met with more than ordinary suc- 
cess. He is a strong Republican, and during 
the Civil War he made an effort to enter the 
Union army, but, was rejected on account of his 
youth. He and his wife are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Mount Hope, 
lie is one of the progressive men of the county, 
and has ever been ready to identify himself with 
every movement having a tendency to improve 
the condition of the township or county, and so- 
cially, he and his family stand in the front rank. 

Thomas R. MeDivitt was born ou the old 
homestead in North Township December 8, 
1837, and here he was trained to the duties of 
the farm. In 1862 lie enlisted in Company A, 
One Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., and 
served his country three years. At the battle 
of the Wilderness he received a gunshot wound 
which cut away the first linger of the left hand, 
but with this exception escaped unscathed. After 
his wound had healed he returned to the ranks, 
and at the expiration of his term of service was 
honorably discharged at Washington, June 28, 
1805. He then returned to his home, and in 
the fall married Miss Sarah, daughter of Robert 
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purchased the farm where his father in law 
now resides, but in 1883 came to his present 

home, where mosl of the improvements have 
been made by himself. Six children blessed his 
home, named as follows: Mattie, Ella (de- 
ceased), Jennie, Bernhard, Charles and Robert. 
In politics Mr. McDivitt is a Republican, and 
has served as treasurer of North Township; he 
and wife are members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church at Mount Hope. His home is some 
three miles from Scio, and his dwelling, which 
he erected in 1888, is a pleasant modern struct- 
ure. Mr. McDivitt is a representative of one 
of the pioneer families of North Township, and 
is a progressive farmer, one who keeps fully 
abreast of the times. 



TH. ARNOLD, merchant. Means, Hani 
son Co., Ohio, is one of the most pros- 
perous business men in German Town 
ship. He owes his success to being hon- 
est and upright with all men, and has made 
himself what he is. He graduated in 1888 from 
the Buchanan Business College of Hopedale, 
where he educated himself, having no parents to 
help him, and same year embarked in business 
where he is now located. 

Mr. Arnold was born in German Township. 
Harrison Co., Ohio, May 13, 1805, and is a son 
of W. W. and Catherine (Burlier) Arnold; His 
mother died in 1868 and his father in 1882. 
W. W. Arnold was a son of J. \V. ami Eliza- 
beth (Davis) Arnold; J. \V. Arnold was a SOD 
of David, a native of West Virginia, and David's 
father was a Dunkard preacher, who came to 
Ohio in L790. J. W. Arnold reared a Family of 
eight children, W. W. being the first 
Mrs. Elizabeth ( Davis i Arnold was a daughter 
of John and Polly (Welling) Davis, former of 
whom served all through the Revolutionary 
War. They were among the early settlers of 
Maryland. In 1888 T. H. Arnold was ap 
pointed postmaster at Means, and he enjoys the 
respect and confidence of the entire community. 



CHARLES ( 'UNA WAY. an old and experi- 
enced farmer, was born in Stock Town 
) ship, Harrison Co., Ohio. September 12, 
1819. His father. John Conaway, was 
born in Kent County, Md.. in 1790. When a 
small boy his parents migrated to Ohio, and for 
some time resided near Warren. Jefferson 
County, but later removed to Harrison County, 
where John Conaway grew to manhood, and en- 
listed for six months in the War of 1812 under 
William H. Harrison. He married Miss Betty 
Hoagland.who was born in Pennsylvaniain 1797, 
being of German descent. To this union were 
bom ten children, all of whom are still living. 
John Conaway, after his marriage, purchased a 
part of Sections Hi :l nd 17. in Stock Township, 
which was then a wilderness, but had resided on 
this land fifteen years In-fore he purchased it. He 
spent his life on this place, dying in 1861; his 
wife followed him to the grave in lSSti. Po- 
litically Mr. Conaway was a Whig and a Repub- 
lican. He served for twenty years ae justice of 
the peace of Stock Township, and was highly 
respected by all. Both he and his wife were 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 
many years. 

Charles Conaway grew to manhood in Slock 
Township, and received his education at the 
common schools. April I, 1 "S IT. he married 
.Mis.. Mary Given, born in September, L822, a 
daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Evans) Given, 
who were among the early settlers of Harrison 
County, Ohio. Our subject and wife have been 
blessed with five children, viz.: Rebecca J., who 
ijied al the age of fourteen years; Robert, at 
Conneaut, Ohio; John W.. at home; Ella E., 
wife of Samuel Millikin, of Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio, and Mary Martha, who resides al home. 
Our subject lias reside.! in Stock Township all 
his life, and aboul I s -"'-"' he purchased the farm 
he now owns, which contains Hid acres. Both 
he and his wife have been active member- of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church from their 
youth, and both are well known throughout the 
county, and very highly esteemed by all who 
know them; politically, he is a Republican. Mr. 



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Conaway is ever ready to render his moral and 
financial aid to any project for the promotion of 
the public good, both of township and county. 



LEWIS H. DAVIDSON. The following 
sketch from the pen of Rev. Lewis H 
| Davidson, of Washington Township, Har- 
rison County, with the exception of a few 
additions, appeared in the Freeport Press, of 
April 16, 1890. It shows some of the many 
hardships endured by the pioneers in general, 
and this truly representative family in par- 
ticular: 

" My great-grandfather, William Davidson, 
was born in Ireland, and emigrated to the United 
States in very early days, and after being mar- 
ried, and having four sons, was captured by 
the Indians before the Revolutionary War, and 
was lost to all knowledge of his friends. My 
grandfather, William Davidson (second), on my 
father's side, was born November 20, 17-17. He 
was married, first to Rosanna Hutchinson, who 
was horn in Wales. This union resulted in five 
children — three sons and two daughters. His 
second marriage was with Barbara McDale; re- 
sult, eight children — five sons and three daugh- 
ters. My father, Lewis Davidson, was of the 
rii>l set of children, and was born in Fayette 
County. Penn., March 23, 1773. My mother, 
Mary Davidson, daughter of Lewis Davidson, 
full brother of William (second), was born in 
Allegany County, Md., September 23, 1778. 
Her mother's name was Nancy Todd, and she 
was born in England. My mother was one of 
fourteen children, all full brothers and sisters. 
My father and mother were married in Fayette 
County, Penn., in July 1798, by Rev. James 
Roberts. The result of this union was twelve chil- 
dren — eight sons and four daughters — namely: 
William, Nancy, Rosanna, John S. , Mordecai 
W., Lewis H., Susanna, Mary. Jesse, Thomas 
L., Joseph C. and Jonathan S. In 1801 my 
father and mother, with a number of other fam- 
ilies, moved down the Ohio river in large canoes 
fastened together, and landed on the west side 



of the Ohio river opposite where Catlettsburg 
is now located. After remaining there about 
one year, my father bought land in the French 
grant, in Scioto County. Ohio, where they re- 
mained until March, 1809. I was born at that 
place February 23, 1809. This location proved 
to be sickly — chills and fever. Here two of 
their children died: Nancy and Rosanna. My 
parents proposed to move back to Pennsylvania, 
and having sold their land, and the weather be- 
ing fine, in the last week in March, they com- 
menced their tedious journey, packing all they 
intended to move on two large mares. My 
mother carried me in her arms on horseback, 
and an older brother, John S., behind her, and 
Mordecai W. was in father's arms on the other 
mare, and William, who was in his tenth year, 
walked. They came to the Muskingum River 
at Zanesville, April 2, 1809, and my mother 
forded that river with me in her arms. They 
had fine weather to travel in. and all went well 
until they reached the big Stillwater Creek, be- 
tween where now is Smyrna and Moorefield. 
One of their mares, being very warm, drank too 
much water, and by the time they reached the 
John Lamb Farm, one miles east of Moorefield, 
she was so sick they stopped, and there she died. 
This stopped them in their journey to Penn- 
sylvania. 

" My father rented a small cabin near by, and 
remained there that summer and next winter. 
During that time he entered the quarter section 
of land which L. D. Latham now occupies, 
three miles west of Freeport. On March 1<>, 
1810, my father moved his family down on the 
east hide of Big Stillwater, and stopped with 
Daniel McGloughlin, who then lived where the 
widow Bevans now lives. In a few days he 
erected a cabin on his own land, and soon moved 
into it. It had a " cat-and-elay " chimney, 
split puncheons for a floor, clapboards pinned 
together with wooden pins for a door to keep 
out wolves, as well as everything else, but which 
did not prevent us from hearing the wolves 
howling a few yards from the door. We were 
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bears, deer, turkeys and smaller game, which 
were much used for food by families, the hiiles 
of the deer being dressed for clothing. Those 
were trying times, indeed! Daniel Esley had a 
little mill at that time, built of small logs, stand 
ing where the Hess mill is now located. The 
dam was built of brush and dirt, and very 
leaky at that, and when it was very dry weather 
we often had to pound our corn into meal in a 
hominy block, and live on potatoes, squashes, 
pumpkins, roasting ears and beans. In 1812 
my father erected the first hewed-log and shingle- 
roofed house that was ever built in the valley of 
Crab Orchard, carrying the nails for the roof 
from Newellstown (now St. Clairsville) in a sack 
on horseback, and paying a high price for them. 
But just when the few inhabitants had cleared 
a few patches to raise corn and potatoes, the 
distressing War of 1812 called out all the able- 
bodied men in Ohio to arms; as it is well known 
that Ohio and the western frontier suffered more 
than any other part of the United States, on 
account of the alliance between the British and 
Indians, the British offering the Indians a high 
price for every white scalp they would produce. 
At this time my father was suffering so badly 
from rheumatism as to be unable to work, hav- 
ing lost the entire use of his legs, yet he did 
not escape the ' draft,' and I remember well 
his being carried from the house by two strong 
men to be put on horseback to ride to New 
Philadelphia to answer to his name, and prove 
bis inability to go to the front. lean now recol- 
lect the excitement when the word reached this 
part of the State that Shipley and Warnock 
were killed by the Indians about forty miles 
west of this place. Immediately following this 
report the entire neighborhood about Freeport 
was alarmed over a rumor that an Indian attack 
was to be made upon them; and from far and 
near the families flocked to the village for safety. 
which was found in a house of huge round logs 
that had been erected for the very purpose it 
was called to serve. Our family was among 
those who hastily sought this shelter, and while 
en route on horseback, riding behind my father, 



I remember falling from the horse and rolling 
downa steep embankment, which so hurt me as 
to cause me to cry aloud. My outcry was only 
hushed when warned that unless 1 would cease 
the Indians would hear me and come and mas 
sacre us all. Some two days in doubt and ex- 
pectancy were passed in the village, when, the 
fears of the settlers subsiding, they returned to 
their homes. When the war closed, this part of 
the State settled up rapidly, and soon the people 
became prosperous in their undertakings. 

•■ We soon had church houses in Freeport. and 
church organizations, good preachers and good 
congregations. In early life I became inter 
ested in the Christian religion, my father and 
mother being members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. On April 15, 1827, 1 united with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Freeport, 
Ohio, two sisters. Susanna and Mary, uniting 
at the same time. Thus we joined hands that 
we would walk with God during our natural 
lives, long or short. My sister. Mary, has 
to the spirit land, dying in the faith of the Son 
of God. My sister. Susanna Latham, is still 
lingering on the stage of action, hut very frail 
and almost blind, but with good hope of eternal 
life beyond the grave. She is greatly bli 
with a good daughter and son-in law to take 
care of her in her declining years. In 1829 I 
bought KH) acres of land in Washington Town- 
ship. Tuscarawas Co., Ohio. On January 7, 
ls: J ,o. I was united in marriage to Miss Lu- 
cinda Latham, near Moorelield, Ohio: she was 
bom in Fauquier County, Va., September L8, 
1810. The resull of this union was seven chil- 
dren — four sons and three daughters namely: 
Isaiah. Mary, Lucy, .lames M.. Latham A.. 

Sarah E. and Alexander ,1. Thr f these, 

Isaiah, Lucy and Sarah, died in infancy : .lames 
M. volunteered in the United States service 
August '.), 1862, and became a member of Com 
pany F, Ninety eighth Regiment, ( >. V. I. (he 
was mortally wounded September 20, 181 
that memorable battle at Chickamauga, and was 
lost to all knowledge of his friends). My 
daughter. Mary MoPeck, lives near Jewett. 






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Ohio. Latham A. is living in West Milford, 
Harrison Co., W. Va. Alexander J. is living 
near Tucson, Ariz. 

"In September, 1830, my wife and I went 
to that wild woodland that I had purchased in 
Tuscarawas County, to fix upon a location for a 
cabin, and after wading through the high weeds 
and brush for awhile, we located the site near a 
spring. I had my ax in hand, ready to cut 
down the large oaks that stood all around. I 
looked at my better half, and asked her if she 
thought we could make a living in that place. 
Her eyes began to fill with tears, and turning 
her back to me, she walked off to a large oak 
tree and stood there awhile. I soon had a large 
oak tree down, the one I had intended for the 
foundation of my house, this being the first 
break on those 100 acres. I soon had my cabin 
up, and chimney to the square. On November 
9, 1830, we moved into our cabin, and I soon 
finished my chimney, then commenced grubbing 
for my next summer corn field. When there 
was snow on the ground I would chop rail tim- 
ber, and when there was no snow I either split 
rails or grubbed, so when the time came for 
planting corn I had three and a quarter acres 
cleared and well fenced; also in the meantime 
had made 2,000 rails for my neighbors. I will 
also say my wife was often seen picking the small 
brush on the clearing after working the little 
garden that I had prepared soon after we had 
moved to that place. We continued on this 
place until December 1, 1835. During our stay 
there, I cleared and fenced about twenty- five 
acres of land, and made about 8,000 rails for 
my neighbors. I made oak rails at twenty -five 
cents, and chestnut rails at twenty cents per 
hundred. 

" In the fall of 1835 my health failed, and 
during much of the time I was prostrated. 
This was the cause of our selling our land at 
that place and moving to Freeport on the first 
day of December, 1835. In April, 1830, I 
bought some goods and went into the mercan- 
tile business on a small scale. In the summer 
of 1837 I changed my business, and moved 



out on the Crab Orchard Creek. In October, 
1837, I, in company with a brother, went to 
Blackford County, Ind., and bought eighty acres 
of land. In November I rented what was called 
the Dewey Farm, on Crab Orchard Creek. 
Here we remained for seventeen months. In 
1839, having bought the interest of some of the 
heirs of the old farm on which I was reared, 
I erected a house, where L. D. Latham now 
lives, and moved to that place. On May 8, 
1842, I received, from the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, license to exhort, and on February 8, 1845, 
to preach the gospel. On June 23, 1850, I re- 
ceived deacon's orders by the hand of Bishop 
Janes, an elder's orders on March 20, 1804, 
by the hand of Bishop Scott. In December, 
\X4'\ I rented the mill property belonging to 
Nelson Driggs, moved to that place, and re- 
mained there until the 7th day of April, IS IT, 
when we moved to what was known as the Bar- 
rett Mill, having bought an interest in that 
property. 

" Here we remained until the first of April, 
1851, when, having sold my interest in the 
mill property, we moved back to the mill and 
farm property of Nelson Driggs. About the 
time we had our corn planted Driggs sold his 
mill and farm to Andrew Stewart, and came to 
me and requested that I release the rent on the 
farm, and he would pay the damage. Stewart 
wished to repair the mill, but wished me to 
continue on the farm and cut the hay and tend 
the corn. In December, 1S51, Driggs put a 
very nice lot of goods in the house where Turner 
now keeps his meat- shop, and requested me to 
move into that house and take charge of his 
goods and sell them for him, and he would pay 
me fair wages. We moved into his house on 
the 8th of December, 1851, and took charge of 
his goods. In March, 1852, Driggs sold all 
his store goods on both sides of the street to 
Isaac Holloway and Benjamin Parsons, and they 
placed all the goods in the brick house where 
Peairs Bros, now have their store, employing 
me to sell their goods for one year. About one 
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Sheriff Boyd, of Cadiz, came and demanded 
the key of the store-house in favor of Driggs' 
Eastern creditors. I bad then the privilege of 
being idle awhile. The owners of the goods 
replevined them, it soon passed through the 
court, and the goods passed back to Holloway 
& Parsons, and I began in my former business. 
We remained in the store until April, 1853. 
For the past two years we had been receiving 
rent from a farm of eighty acres near Tippeca- 
noe, which I had bought in 1851. In 1853 I 
rented a small farm from Samuel Green, and 
moved there in April. On January 1. ]$">4, I 
bought from John Vaudota the farm we now oc- 
cupy, and moved upon it March 15, 1854. On 
the 4th of January, that year, I was appointed, 
by Presiding Elder J. G. Samson, to take charge, 
as pastor, of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Sewellsville and Salem, and there I labored nearly 
six months, and received into the church over fifty 
members. Soon after I finished my labors there 
we attached ourselves to the Tippecanoe Class, 
Deersville Circuit; I was called upon to preach 
to that people. In 1855, in a quarterly confer- 
ence at the Valley Church, a resolution was 
offered and unanimously passed that my family 
and I should be exempt from paying quarterage. 
This exemption continued for a while, and I 
thought, lest there be some jealous feeling 
toward me by me brethren, I would propose a 
change in that matter. I addressed the follow- 
ing letter to the quarterly conference, I being 
sick and not able to attend: 

Tippecanoe, August 27, 1858. 
Dnir Brethren of the Quarterly Conference of Deere- 
nlh Circuit, 1'Utxliii rijh Confereiiri : 

Whereas, at the quarterly conference, held at 
Pleasant Valley, there was a resolution unanimously 
adopted that myself and family be exempt from pay 
ing quarterage, and while 1 highly appreciate and 
shall ever feel bound to appreciate the act of my 
brethren in passing this resolution unanimously as a 
compliment to me, I move thai the above resolution 
be rescinded, and the names of myself arid family be 
placed among the paying members of the circuit. 
Yours fraternally, 

L. II. Davidson. 

"On September 16, L857, I was appointed 

agent of the American Bible Society forGuern 
sey County, Ohio, commencing the Kith day of 



September and ending the 29th day of January, 
1858. Number of families visited. 894; num- 
ber of days engaged, 104; whole amount of 
cash received, $402.19; number of addresses 
delivered, 28; value of Bibles and Testaments 
given to destitute families, $17.66. A few 
years ago we attached onrselves to a class in 
Freeport on account of the convenience, as we 
are in our declining years. I have been ap 
pointed executor or administrator of the estate 
of the following persons: My Father, Susanna 
Buffington, Robert A. Latham. Mary L. Hill, 
Asa Miller, John McCormick, Amanda Bargar. 
Reuben Allen, James B. Jenkins, and guardian 
for Ham Hogue's heirs and William McCormick. 
Up to date, January 18, 1891, I have solemnized 
marriage contracts between ninety-eight couples. 
My work is now almost finished. There are 
a few of my early acquaintances with me living 
on the stage of action: Elijah Carver. Samuel 
Wilson, James Kerr, widow of John Phillips, 
Zera Davidson and wife. Robert Mears, Bazil 
Steel, John Miller, William Perdue, Robert 
Wilkin, Robert Tedrick, Mary A. Stewart. 
widow of Andrew Stewart: all these in our 
youth met each other with warm hearts and 
friendly hands, but very soon these hands and 
hearts will be cold in death. But if we believe 
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them 
also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with 
Him, and shall change our vile bodies that they 
may be alike fashioned unto His glorious body." 



JOHN WEBB, JR. Prominent among the 
leading farmers and successful business 
men of At hen- Township, Barrisi >n County, 
is the subject, of this biography, who is the 
son of Ezekial Webb. Ezekial passed his early 
life in the performance of the duties of the 
farm, with a few months in the district schools 
to add to his knowledge of books. He was but 
young when he was married to Mar\ Corbin, by 
whom he had two children: John. Jr., and Re 
becca (the latter now Mrs. Joseph Pigley, of In- 



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diana). He survived his marriage but a short 
time, his body being interred at Flushing. 

Our subject spent his life under the care 
and guidance of his mother until he had 
reached the age of twenty-one, when he com- 
menced the management of the farm, which he 
has since purchased, and which, by his efforts 
and industry, is one of the best improved in his 
section. The buildings, which are large and 
commodious, are situated on a gently-sloping 
hill, sheltered from storms, and commanding a 
fine view of the adjacent country. Mr. Webb 
is chiefly engaged in general farming and stock- 
raising, in which he has been eminently success- 
ful. His home was brightened by his mother's 
presence until a few years ago, when she, too, 
passed away, and was buried in Stires Cemetery. 
Mr. Webb has always been a Democrat, and has 
invariably supported that ticket, although he 
does not take an active part in politics. A 
man of irreproachable integrity, of unquestioned 
honesty, his name has long been held in the 
highest respect. 



dfOEL PRICE, one of the oldest and most 
, prominent of the residents of Franklin 
Township, Harrison County, was born 
January 9, 1805, in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, where his early life was spent, and where 
he grew to manhood and May 24, 1836, married 
Sophia Leas, of Jefferson County. Joel Price's 
grandfather, Josiah Price, came with his broth- 
ers from Wales, and, while on their way over, 
their third brother fell overboard and swam for 
half a day, hoping to get on board through his 
own and his brothers' pleadings »vith the captain, 
but all in vain. Josiah Price married Mary 
Frazier, and the children born to this union were 
James, Benjamin, Josiah, Mary, Margaret, 
Phebe and Jennie. Benjamin Price, the father 
of the subject of this sketch, was born in New 
Jersey December 12, 1708, and died September 
18, 1853; his wife, Catherine (Beebout), was 
born September 5, 1766. 

The grandfather of Sophia Leas, wife of 



Joel Price, came from Germany at a very early , 
day, and settled in Adams County, Penn., where 
he reared a family of six sons and six daughters. 
Jacob, the eldest, married Elizabeth Zimmer- 
man, and came to Jefferson County, Ohio. By 
this marriage were born to them Leonard, Maria 
(Miser), Sophia (Price), Jacob, Margaret (Fin- 
nicum;, Eliza (Reukeubrod) and William. Im- 
mediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Joel Price located on the home place, where 
they remained until 1850, when they came to 
Franklin Township, Harrison County, settling 
on a farm which had been entered by his father, 
and where their lives were spent in clearing and 
rendering it habitable. Their children were 
Jacob L., born September 13, 1S37; Catherine, 
born September 30, 1839; William H. H. , born 
October 14, 1841 ; Elizabeth, born November 4, 
1843; Sarah J., born October 29, 1845; Benja- 
min F., born October 20, 1847; George W., 
born December 3, 1849, died October 28, 1864; 
Leonard, born August 23, 1852; John L. , born 
December 30, 1854, and Mary M., born Decem- 
ber 28, 1859. In politics Mr. Price was a 
Whig; was one of the trustees and treasurer of 
the Feed Springs Presbyterian Church, and was 
always among the prominent members and sup- 
porters of it. He was a self-made man, and 
was ever active in any beneficial enterprise. 

Benjamin F. Price was born in Franklin 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he has 
since resided. Receiving a good common-school 
education he has ever since kept well abreast of 
the times by reading and discussion. He has 
always been engaged in farming, at which he 
has made a success. Like the family, he is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church, in which 
for many years he has taken an active part. A 
Republican in politics, he has ever been among 
those endeavoring to make the principles of the 
party successful. On February 7, 1S77. he was 
married to Mary Barkley, daughter of Andrew 
and Rebecca (Welch) Barkley, to which union 
have been born two children: Eddie K. , born De- 
cember 7, 1879, and Lura, born March 29, 18S4. 

John L. Pkice was born in Franklin Town- 



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ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, and grew to manhood 
there. He was educated at the common schools, 
afterward at Scio College, and also at Park 
College, Missouri. He engaged in teaching for 
several years, both in his native county and 
adjacent ones. On April 7, 1887, he was mar- 
ried to Alice Cummings, daughter of Stephen 
Cummings, of Green Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio., and after their marriage the}' settled 
down on the home place, where they have since 
resided. Their children are Eva, born February 
18, 1888, and Dean L., born December 21,1889. 
Mr. Price was a Republican, but is now num- 
bered among the Prohibitionists. He takes an 
active interest in politics, and is regarded by all 
as one of the leading young men in his section. 
For many years he has been united with the 
Presbyterian Church, in which he is a zealous 
worker, being a trustee, and taking an active 
part in Sunday-school matters. 




ISS ANN HANNA, Jewett, Harrison 
County, is a daughter of James and 
Mary (McCleary) Hanna, the former of 
whom was born in Washington County 
Penn., in 1792, and died January 14, 1S77. aged 
eighty-five years, and the latter was born in 
1793, and died October 31, 1872, aged seventy- 
nine years. They were married in 1810, ami 
came to German Township, Harrison County, 
Ohio, among the very earliest settlers of that 
old township, and settled on the farm upon 
which Samuel Mack now resides. To this union 
were born nine children, viz. : Mary, widow of 
Rev. Robert Her#on, and who is now living in 
Scio; Esther, wife of Robert Smiley, farmer, of 
Archer Township, Harrison County: Tabitha 
Jane, widow of James Lawthers, formerly of 
Bowerston, Ohio, she is now living in German 
Township, Harrison County, near the old home- 
stead; Jerusha Elizabeth, widow of Wesley 
Brindley, now lives in Green Township, Har- 
rison County, near the old homestead; Ann; 
Alexander, William J., Sarah and Dorcas, the 
last four all deceased. The mother of this large 



family departed this life in 1N72, and the 
father in 1Si7. They were active and i 
respected members of the Presbyterian Church. 
The subject of our sketch, Miss Ann Hanna, 
was born upon the old homestead August "J7. 
1818, and received the rudiments of her educa- 
tion in the common schools of German Town- 
ship, completing the same at Bopedale College. 
She resided with her parents until their death, 
after which she came to Jewett, and purchased 
a fine residence, where she now resides. She is 
an active and influential member of the Presby- 
terian Church of Jewett. Ohio, and is a valued 
factor in the best society of the town in which 
she resides. 




RS. JOHN G. ADAMS, bora January 
12. 1851, was in her girlhood know 
^ I] Mary E. Chaney, and is a daughter of 
Thomas Chaney. On March 9, 1876, 
she was married to John G. Adams, a son of 
Samuel and Sarah Adams, of Green Township, 
Harrison County. Ohio. After she had been 
married some two weeks, she and her husband 
located on a farm in Green Township, where 

bared the sweets and bitters of li! 
seven years, or until April 27. l^vJ. when Mr. 
Adams was called from earth at the age of thir- 
ty-one years, he having been born December 1 1, 
1850. He was reared in the faith of the Society 
of Friends, always attending their meetings at 
Westgrove, and was buried in Westgrove Quaker 
Cemetery, near Georgetown, Short Creek Town- 
ship. The children born to the union of Mr. 
and Mrs. Adams were three in number, viz. : 
Arrietta Francis, born July 31, 1^77: Iva Nora, 
born July 26, 1879, and Letha Josephine, born 
June 22, 1881. For about a year after the death 
of her husband Mrs. A. lams and her children 
resided on the farm, but April 3, 1883, she 
moved to New Athens, to make a home not far 
from the scenes of her childhood. Mrs. Adams 
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
of New Athens, as are her two elder children, 
and she is a member of the Women's Foreign 



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Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church of New Athens. Her farm she still 
manages, it being situated in Green Township 
on the line of the W. & L. E. R. R. , about three 
and one-half miles from Cadiz, Ohio. The fam- 
ily are widely known and universally esteemed. 
The father of Mrs. Adams was one of the early 
comers of the county, and was a self-made 
man; his family sketch appears elsewhere in 
this volume. 



LOVE FAMILY. The genealogy of the 
, Love family can be traced to George 
] Love, a native of Ireland, who was the 
greatgrandfather of the present Love 
family of Harrison County, Ohio. From what 
tradition remains they were of the progres- 
sive and sturdy race that has furnished America 
with many of her best-class of citizens, as well 
as earnest and zealous defenders; for to no 
country does America owe more than to Ireland 
for her present prospects and stability of govern- 
ment. The Love family, while residents of 
Ireland, were engaged in agriculture, which the 
present generation also carry on. George 
Love, in the early part of his life, wooed and 
won for his life's companion Isabelle Smith, 
who became the mother of the following family: 
John, who was a farmer; Thomas, who engaged 
in the river traffic on the Mississippi, carrying 
goods to New Orleans and returning on foot, and 
who, while on one of these trips, was taken sick 
and died, his remains being buried where he 
passed away; George, who engaged in agricult- 
ure until the commencement of the War of 1812, 
when he enlisted in defense of his adopted 
country, serving as an officer through the entire 
period, and greatly beloved by his men, owing 
to his kind treatment of them; William, who, 
while engaged in farming, still devoted much 
time to private study and research, and was 
accounted as one of the intelligent men of his 
section; Jane, Mrs. Thomas Gillespie; Cather- 
ine, Mrs. Joseph Havertield; Mary, Mrs. Jacob 
Morgan. The families of each child were large 



except that of Thomas. Early in the year 
1791 Mr. Love and family came to America, 
crossing in a sailing vessel, which at that time 
was the only means of conveyance. After a 
stormy and dangerous passage they were landed 
in New York, where they remained only a 
brief time. They soon set out for their more 
western home, and in a few weeks arrived safely 
in Washington County, Penn., where they re- 
mained until 1800, when they removed to Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, where they remained until 
their deaths. Of the early struggles, hardships 
and dangers of the early settlers the present 
generation know but little, and realize less. How 
they strove to wrest a livelihood from among 
the blackened stumps and logs of their early 
clearings, felling the huge trees that crowned 
every hill and graced every dale, and stood, 
giant- like, waving their branches in vain de- 
fiance to the axman; keeping nightly vigil lest 
some carnivorous animal, the prowling wolf or 
the swarthy bear, might destroy their domestic 
animals; working and watching with ready gun 
for some sa~age beast of prey, or a still more 
savage and revenge/ul Indian, who many times 
in that early history marked their progress 
through a settlement in footsteps of blood. 
These are some of the dangers and hardships 
under which the early settler labored, and which 
gave that steady self reliance and courage 
which now is found in their descendants. Their 
spiritual life was almost as difficult as their 
temporal, as they must needs carry their arms 
to church, and some stand on guard while oth- 
ers worshiped. Under these vicissitudes the 
Love family, in company with others, labored, 
and in time beheld as the result of their labors 
the entire banishment of the Indian, the ex- 
tinction of the wild beast and the disappear- 
ance of the forests. In the early organization 
of the township and county Mr. Love took a 
deep interest, as well as a prominent part. An 
ardent believer in the principles of the Demo- 
cratic party, he never departed from them. He 
was a member of the Presbyterian Church, his 
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they both passed away, and now lie among the 
scenes of their early settlement. 

John Love, son of George, arrived in Amer- 
ica at the age of twenty-one. and remained with 
his father's family until he was married to Mary 
Cooke, a daughter of James Cooke, one of the 
earliest settlers of Harrison County, Ohio. A 
short time subsequent to his marriage he settled 
in Belmont County, where he remained until 
1808, when he moved to Harrison County, 
where his descendants have since lived. He 
purchased a large tract of land in Athens Town- 
ship, most of which still remains in the family. 
His children were George, James, Thomas, 
John, Nancy and Mary. Of these Thomas was 
born January 31, 1820, was married to Agnes 
Henderson, and is now a retired farmer residing 
at Aledo, 111. ; Mary was born February 15, 
1825, was married to Joseph Wallace, and died 
October 27, 1886; John was born July 22, 1827, 
was married to Nancy Downing, and is now a 
farmer at Arkansas City, Kas. Here, in the 
midst of the wilderness, the father erected a 
home, where he remained until he was called from 
his labors. He early identified himself with the 
Democratic party, in which he was a zealous 
worker and leader. By nature endowed with 
native judgment and shrewd business qualifica- 
tions, to which in mature years he added a wide 
range of experience and knowledge of men, he 
was well qualified to fili satisfactorily the many 
offices of honor and trust to which he was called. 
From early age he was a member of the United 
Presbyterian Church, in which faith he died. 
In March, 1860, he passed away and was buried 
by the side of his wife, to whose memory he had 
been true. She died December 1(3, 1880, and 
was buried in Unity Cemetery. 

George Love was born March 29, 1810, in 
Athens Township, Harrison County, where he 
grew to manhood. His early life was spent 
chiefly on the farm, although he attended the 
common schools during the winters. To this 
was his education confined, but he afterward, by 
private study, acquired an excellent knowledge 
of the English branches, and which served to 



augment his influence on the educational growth 
of the township. On March 17. 1830, he mar- 
ried Jane McCracken, a daughter of Robert 
McCracken, whose family were among the earli- 
est in Harrison County. Their home was made 
on Section 34, where till death they remained. 
The result of their marriage was as follows: 
Robert M., Mary, John, Martha, James, Nancy, 
George, Naucy Jane, Margaret ami Caroline J. 
Of these Mary was born September 2d. 1832, 
married David Lyle. and resides at Uniontown, 
Belmont Co., Ohio (their children are George 
L., John M.. James G., Anna B. , Sarah S., 
Ella M., D. Miller, Flora J. and an infant son); 
John was born September Hi, 1834, married 
Eliza Taylor (their children are Clara A., Jane 
Ann, Taylor H., Halla M : this wife died J;.nu 
ary 28, 1869, and John Love then married 
Mary J. Mundell, by whom one son was born 
named George W. |; Martha was born Deem 
ber 24, 1836, is unmarried, and is now residing 
on the old homestead with her brother George; 
James was burn August 22. 1840, and died Sep 
tember 3, 1864 (a brief record of him appearing 
farther on); Nancy was born September 8, 
1838, and died March 3, 1842; George was born 
September '••. 1842; Nancy Jane was born Sep- 
tember 13, 1S44. died March 1'.). 1849; Marga- 
ret, of whom further mention is made, was born 
September 19, 1847; Caroline Jane was born 
June 17, 1850, died May 28, 1853. In his 
township George Love held many years the 
trusteeship, being elected repeatedly, this fact 
showing he discharged the duties of his office in 
a satisfactory manner. For many years he took 
an active part in the campaigns of his party, 
and always strove to elect its candidates. On 
one occasion he was himself a candidate for 

commissk r. In the early history of Franklin 

College he was appointed a member of the board 
of directors, to which position lie brought his 
usual vigorous and business-like mind, and ren- 
dered valuable assistance in the final establish 
ment of that school. He was no less prominent 
in church matters than in the other interests 
which he espoused. Affiliating with the United 



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Presbyterians, he was one of their earnest work- 
ers, being a member of the session many years. 
On December 20, 1880, he was called home, his 
faithful wife having preceded him to the grave 
February 21, 1879. They were buried in the 
family cemetery at Unity. 

Kobert M. Love, eldest son of George Lovo, 
was born in Athens Township December 21. 
1830. Here he now makes his home on the 
place which was owned by his grandparents, 
Love and McCracken. His early education was 
received at the common schools of the neigh- 
borhood, which he afterward supplemented by 
a course of study at Franklin College. He en- 
gaged in teaching for some time, but finally 
commenced farming, which he has followed ever 
since. On June 3, 1854, he was married to Sa- 
rah Henderson, a daughter of William Hender- 
son, who was a resident of Cadiz Township, and 
they commenced their married life in Belmont 
County, where they remained until 18S0, when 
they removed to Athens Township on the farm 
on which they now reside. The present im- 
provements are those of Mr. Love, and are 
among the handsomest and most convenient in 
the county. His attention is confined to gen- 
eral farming and stock-raising, in which he has 
made an eminent success. His family are as fol- 
lows: Nancy W., at home; Joseph M., deceased; 
Kate H. , Mrs. William Henderson; Jennie, twin 
sister of Kate H. , at home; and William H. , at 
home, in Franklin College in the senior class, and 
will graduate in June, 1891. In the politics of 
his township, State and nation Mr. Love takes an 
active interest, and always endeavors to bring 
about his party's success. Like a long line of 
ancestry he is Democratic, and while many times 
urged to accept office he has steadfastly refused, 
but is always among the foremost in the coun- 
cils and workers of the party. He has fre- 
quently represented his party in the convention, 
and has served many times as chairman of the 
county convention. In 1887 he was chosen as a 
member of the Agricultural Society of Harri- 
son County, to which he rendered valuable serv- 
ice. His family, as well as himself, are mem- 



bers of the United Presbyterian Church at New 
Athens, are among the progressive ones in Ath- 
ens, and are well known for their intelligence 
and social qualities. The home of Eobert M. 
Love is one of the handsomest in the township, 
situated one quarter of a mile south of New 
Athens village. His farm of 204 acres of mostly 
improved land contains one of the best stone 
quarries in Harrison County, large quantities of 
stone having been dug therefrom for public pur- 
poses. His entire farm is underlaid with coal, 
the veins varying in thickness from four and one- 
half to nearly six feet. 

James Love's early life was spent in the ac- 
quiring of an education, to which he devoted 
much time. After receiving all the advantages 
which were to be had at the common schools, 
he entered Franklin College, where he remained 
until the call for volunteers to defend his native 
country. The warlike spirit which had ani- 
mated his ancestry in 1812 was aroused, and, 
abandoning all plans for the future, which in 
his case promised to be a brilliant one, he 
enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 
O. V. I., and was sent to the front immediately. 
Here, while in the discharge of his duty, at the 
burning of a bridge at Monocacy, and while 
waving the colors, he was Hhot through the 
right thigh. The Union forces being driven 
back, he fell into the hands of the rebels, who 
placed him near a spring, giving him no other 
attention. Here he lay suffering excruciating 
pain and slowly bleeding to death. After some 
twenty- four hours the Union forces recovered 
their lost ground, when he was cared for, being 
removed to the hospital at Frederick City. 
Here he lingered until September 3, 1804, when, 
attended by his father and brother George, he 
passed from earth, and there his body now rests. 

Margaret Love was married, December 15, 
1870, to Robert Henderson, who was born Jan- 
uary 8, 1845, a son of William Henderson, of 
Belmont County, Ohio. Since their marriage 
they have resided in Harrison County, where 
their family have been born, as follows: Jen- 
nie, December 12, 1871; Ella ML, February 22, 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



1-V.i 



1875; Harry, May 30, 1882. On February I I, 
18S7, Mr. Henderson died and was buried in 
Unity Cemetery. His family still live in Athens 
Township, where they are well known for their 
sterling qualities, and are among the most highly 
respected. 




l.AKKER HALL. In 1802 Joseph Hall, 
with a large family, emigrated from 
North Carolina and located in the west- 
ern part of Jefferson County. Ohio. 
They were among the earliest pioneers of this 
section, and he cleared a home- for himself and 
family from the unbroken wilderness. Mrs. 
Hall, whose maiden name was Christiana Peel, 
died about one year after coming to their new 
home, Mr. Hall living until August, 1825. 
They had married in North Carolina in 1778, 
and had born to them ten children, among 
whom was Jesse Hall, who came with his pat- 
ents from North Carolina. He resided on the 
original homestead until his death in 1806, he 
and his wife dying within six months of each 
other. They left a family of three sons, the 
youngest of whom was William Hall, born in 
April. 1804. He was but two years of age when 
his parents died, and he made his home with an 
uncle, John Hall, with whom he resided until 
he became of age. He was educated in the 
pioneer subscription schools, when the log 
school-houses were furnished with huge lire- 
places, for which the scholars would take their 
axes to school and cut wood from the timber 
which surrounded the school houses. In April. 
1826, he was united in marriage with Mies Han- 
nah Wharton, a native of Bucks County, Penn., 
and a daughter of Ezra and Martha (Terrj - 
Wharton. In 1818, when Hannah was eleven 
years of age, her parents removed to Ohio and 
located in Harrison County, near where Harris 
ville now stands, the town then consisting of 
but a few scattered houses. The Wharton 
family are, therefore, among the earliest families 
of Harrison County. They located on a farm 
and resided there until their death. Ezra 



Wharton was born August 26, I 1 73, and died in 
May, IS 17; Mrs. Wharton was horn May 19, 

1778, and died December L9, L866. Theywere 
married April L9, 1797, and to them had been 
born nine sons and three daughters, and the 
fifth child in the order of her birth was Hannah 
Wharton. 

Immediately following marriage, William 
and Hannah Hall located on a farm in Jefferson 
County, and began life for themselves. The 
place was all covered with timber, which they 
began to clear oil'. Their first house was a 
primitive log cabin with puncheon floor and 
stick- chimney. The single room was lighted 
by six small panes of glass, and in this simple 
abode, among the barest comforts and conven- 
iences, were spent some of the happiest days of 
their lives. Two years later they erected a 
more commoilious dwelling, which is now stand 
ing. To them were born seven children, six of 
whom still survive, Ezra, the eldest, having died 
in 1852 in Minnesota, while on a tour through 
the State; two of this family now reside at 
the old homestead— Nathan L. and Penina; 
Parker, whose name heads this sketch, resides 
on the old Wharton homestead in Harrison 
County; Tilmau resides in Mahoning County; 
Linton, in Columbiana County, and Martha 
(now the wife of Thomas Dewees) resides in 
Morgan County, Ohio. December 11, 1883, 
William Hall left this earthly abode for the one 
beyond. He was a man highly esteemed for his 
virtues, and his sterling integrity won for him 
much esteem. lb- look an active interest in all 
works of a charitable and benevolent purpose, 
and was kind and hospitable to all. His worthy 
widow, now in her eigl id year, resides 

at the old home. and. while time has silvered her 
hair, she is remarkably active for one of her 
years. The Hall family have for generations 
been devoted members of the Society of Friend--. 

Parker Hall was born June 6, l^'Jlt, in 
Jefferson County. Ohio, on the old Hall i 
stead. His early life was spent at home, assist 
ing his parents in the duties of the farm. He 
received the rudiments of an education in the 



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old log school-house of his district, and at the 
age of seventeen entered the boarding school at 
Mount Pleasant, where he remained one year. 
In August, 1853, he married Miss Rebecca Hob- 
son, a native of Belmont County, Ohio, and 
following their marriage they located in Harri- 
son County. In 1866 Mrs. Hall passed to her 
last long sleep, leaving three sons: Lewis, now 
a prosperous farmer near Harrisville; William 
B., now residing at Colerain, Belmont Co., 
Ohio: Edwin, now in Philadelphia. In 1870 
Mr. Hall purchased and moved upon the old 
Wharton homestead, where he now resides. 
The farm consists of 100 acres of finely im- 
proved land, devoted to stock and grain, and on 
which is a large, pleasant brick residence. In 
1872 Parker Hall married Mrs. Tabitha D. 
Bundy, a native of Belmont County, Ohio, and 
their union has been blessed with two children, 
Clara R. and Alfred D. In political matters 
Mr. Hall is a supporter of the Republican party, 
has served the people of Short Creek Township 
as assessor and township trustee, and is a man 
in good standing in his community. 



I 



DWARD HAGAN. one of the leading 
and prosperous farmers and stock-raisers 

1 of Short Creek Township, Harrison 

County, was born May 1, 1843, near the 
place where he now resides, and is a son of 
John A. and Margaret A. (McLaughlin) Hagan. 
John Hagan was born in Adams County, Penn. , 
on the battle ground of Gettysburg, November 
14, 1813, and came with his parents to Ohio, in 
1815, where he grew to manhood. They were 
among the pioneers of this region, and he was 
schooled in the difficulties of those early times, 
his advantages being necessarily limited, and his 
education was self acquired. March 8, 1838, 
he married Miss Margaret A. McLaughlin, a 
native of Ohio, born in Jefferson County, No- 
vember 24, 1809; her parents were pioneers 
there, and came from Pennsylvania. After 
marriage John A. Hagan located in Short Creek 
Township, devoting his attention to agricultural 



pursuits, and he and his wife continued to re- 
side here until their deaths; he died October 24, 
1886, his wife having preceded him to the 
grave June 4, 1875. John Alexander Hagan 
was a man of irreproachable character, just in 
his dealings with his fellow-men, and generous 
to a fault; always active in public works, he 
won the respect and esteem of all. 

Of a family of five sons and three daughters, 
Edward Hagan, whose name heads this sketch, 
is the fourth child in the order of his birth. 
His early life was spent at home, assisting his 
parents. He received the limited educational 
advantages of the times, and recalls the old log 
school-house, with its rude benches and furnish- 
ings, where he was taught the simple rudiments 
of an education. In 1864 he entered the serv- 
ice of the United States as one of the " hun- 
dred days men," and participated in the engage- 
ments of Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry and 
Winchester; was honorably discharged at Co- 
luuibus and returned to his home. November 
23, L870, he was united in marriage with Miss 
Mary J. Anderson, a native of Harrison County, 
Ohio, and a daughter of Samuel and Araminta 
(Stevens) Anderson, early pioneers of this 
county. After marriage he located on his 
present farm, which they purchased in 1S87, 
the place now consisting of 109 acres, well im- 
proved, and on which they have one of the 
finest residences in this section, a large and 
commodious barn and good outbuildings. Mr. 
Hagan devotes much of his attention to the 
raising of fine stock, and ' ' Riverside Farm ' ' is 
known as one of the leading stock farms in the 
township. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hagan are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder, 
and in which his father held a similar position 
for upward of twenty years. Mrs. Hagan 
takes an active interest in woman's work, and 
charitable and benevolent purposes receive her 
hearty support. Politically Mr. Hagan is a 
Republican, and he has served as assessor of 
the township; he prefers, however, to devote 
his attention to the farm rather than seek polit- 



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ical prominence. Mr. ami Mrs. Hagan began 
life on a capital of pluck and energy, and they 
now enjoy a handsome competence. They have 
been the architects of their own fortune, and 
their success is due to their own personal efforts. 
Their union has been blessed with six children: 
Maude S., Maggie A., Odessa B., Rose A., 
Robert A. and Daisy E. They reside at their 
pleasant home near Adena, and justly enjoy the 
respect and esteem of all. 



JOHN W. COMLY, M. D., the oldest phy- 
sician and surgeon of Harrisville, Short 
i Creek Township, Harrison County, is de- 
scended from an English family of Friends, 
of whom Henry Cornly, an ancestor of John 
W., came to America with William- Penn in 
1682. The father of our subject, David Comly, 
was born in Washington County, Penn., August 
8, 1798. He crossed the Ohio River in 1814, 
locating in what is now Carroll County, Ohio, 
whence, in 1817, he removed to Jefferson County, 
where he resided until his death, which oc- 
curred in 1S66. In 1821 he became united in 
marriage with Sarah Whiunery, a Pennsylvanian 
by birth, and to this union were born ten chil- 
dren, six of whom grew to maturity. 

John W. Comly was born upon his father's 
farm near Mount Pleasant, Jefferson Co. , Ohio, 
in the Short Creek valley, June 24, 1823. There 
he grew to maturity, and there his early life was 
spent upon the farm. Surrounded on every 
hand by the beauties of nature, he became a 
close observer and careful student of the work- 
ing of Nature's laws. His early education was 
obtained in the private and district schools of 
his region, and later he attended the Quaker 
Seminary at Mount Pleasant. His boyhood 
ambition was that he might achieve success and 
distinction in the medical field, and lie had early 
resolved to be a physician. He therein 
erted every effort to tit himself for the practice 
of medicine. He began his medical studies 
under the preceptorship of Dr. William S. 
Bates, at Smithfield, Ohio — a graduate of the 



University of Pennsylvania — and John T. Lee 

lie, M. D., a native of Scotland, who was classic- 
ally educated in his native country, and who 
was a man of mure than ordinary attainments. 
Under the efficient instruction of these two emi- 
nent physicians he laid the foundation of his 
success in after life, and his eminent career ae a 
physician and surgeon is bat the due reward of 
his untiring efforts and researches under their 
direction. He attended lectures at the Ohio 
Medical College during the session of 1842 L3, 
and applied himself so assiduously to his studies 
that he acquired great proficiency, and won for 
himself the admiration and esteem of his class 
mates and instructors. He began the practice 
of his profession in Jefferson County, and from 
there he came to Harrisville, where he has since 
resided. He spent the winter of 1804—65 in 
the military hospitals at Washington, Philadel 
phia and New York, having borne to Sure;.- 
Oen. Barnes a letter of introduction, and an 
endorsement of his professional ability from 
his intimate friend, Hon. John A. Bingham, 
then congressman from this district. The Doc- 
tor has also in his possession a recommendation 
dated November S. 1864, and written by his in- 
timate friend and associate, the late lamented 
Hon. Jonathan T. Updegraff. The Doctor has 
spent nearly half a century in the practice of 
his profession, and this long association with tie' 
study of humanity and its ills has not dimin- 
ished his love for his profession or tended to 
detract one whit from his belief that "the 
proper study of mankind is man." Under his 
efficient instruction have been started on life's 
road to success some of the country's 
physicians, among whom are Dr. N. R. Cole 
man. of Columbus, Ohio, now lecturer and in 
strnctor in the Columbus Medical College, and 
Dr. Addison Nicholson, of Frauklin, Penn. 

In the fall of L849 the Doctor was united in 
marriage with Mary ('. Armstrong, a native of 
Ohio, of Scotch-Irish extraction, and a daughter 
of Charles and Sarah Armstrong. The fruits of 
this anion were three children, as follows: Sarah 
J. (now Mrs. Dr. N. It. Coleman, of Columbus, 



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Ohio); Marietta (at home), and William J., who 
died during infancy. Mrs. Coinly, in 1863, af- 
fcer a lingering illness from consumption, de- 
parted for the other shore. The Doctor, of recent 
years, has retired from active j :ofessional life. 
He has amassed a handsome competence, and 
he now spends his time in pleasant communica- 
tion with the library he has been accumulating 
for years. He is a great reader, a deep thinker, 
and a careful reasoner, and in his library are to 
be found some of the choicest works that present 
a feast to the literary mind. In his religious 
belief the Doctor is liberal. He is not, as some 
look upon him to be, an infidel, for he not only 
does not deny the existence of a Supreme Be- 
ing, but affirms it. His belief is the gospel of 
intellectual hospitality, his moral guide, the 
Golden Rule. He believes in the hereafter men 
will be miserable or happy, according as their 
deeds here be base or noble. The Doctor is 
kind and affable in his manner, and a pleasant 
conversationalist. Politically he is an ardent sup- 
porter of the Republican party and its principles. 
He has spent the recent winters in the South, and 
has traveled extensively in that section. 



TV RCHIBALD B. WILKIN, M. D., one of 

// \\ the oldest and most prominent surgeons 
lr\^ of Harrison County, with residence at 
■f/ Harrisville, was born in "Washington 

Comity, Perm., February 20, 1S26. His grand- 
father, Archibald Wilkin, a native of Ireland, 
came to America when but eight years of age, 
and the parents of our subject, Andrew and 
Mary (Henderson) Wilkin, were early settlers of 
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mary Wilkin departed this 
life in Pennsylvania, when her son Archibald B. 
was but thirteen years of age, but Andrew Wil- 
kin lived until eighty-four years old, dying in 
188-">, in Harrisville, Ohio, at the residence of 
our subject, with whom he had made his home 
for man)' years. 

Archibald B. Wilkin availed himself of all 
the educational advantages that fell to the lot 
of the boys of the pioneer days, until he had 



attained his majority, when he entered Wash- 
ington College, in which institution he finished 
his literary education. In 1847 he began the 
study of medicine, under the efficient instruction 
of Dr. Bemis, the leading physician and surgeon 
of West Middletown, Penn., under whom he as- 
siduously pursued his studies until 1850, when 
he entered Cleveland Medical College. After 
graduating, he entered upon the practice in 
partnership with his former preceptor, but Jan- 
uary 1, 1854, he came to Harrisville, where his 
superior medical abilities were at once recog- 
nized, and here he has ever since been busily and 
successfully engaged in treating his numerous 
patients. He has, in conjunction with his pr ic- 
tice. established a neat and complete pharma :y, 
stocked with fresh drugs, and here are filled 
many medical prescriptions other than his own. 
On July 7, 1853, the Doctor married Miss 
Lorinda McKeever, a native of Pennsylvania, 
and for several years a teacher in the Pleasant 
Hill Seminary of which her mother, Jane C. 
McKeever, a sister of Alexander Campbell, was 
principal. This union has been blessed by the 
birth of five children, of whom four are living: 
Jenoie O, now Mrs. Charles N. Watson, of 
Chicago; Mary E., married to I. W. Gray, of 
Steubenville; William A., of Harrisville, Ohio, 
and Robert O, of Wheeling, W. Ya. The Doc- 
tor aud his wife are respected members of the 
Disciples Church, aud politically he is a Repub- 
lican. The Doctor is one of Harrisville' s most 
public-spirited citizens, and is never found lack- 
ing in his support of any movement having for 
its object the general good. His success in his 
profession has been achieved by his untiring re- 
searches through the medical field, and his con- 
stant watchfulness of the progress made in the 
advancement of the science, with which he keeps 
f ally abreast, and he now enjoys his reward for 
his constancy in this respect. Father Time has 
silvered his hair to some extent, but he still re- 
mains strong and active, and the fleeting years 
have in no way diminished his mental vigor: the 
ripening of his intellect is like that of "an au- 
tumn that grew the more by reaping. ' ' He is 



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one who, outside of the esteem in which he is 
held for his scientific knowledge, enjoys the ad- 
miration of nil for his kindliness of disposition 
and amiability of heart. 



THOMAS BOYD (deceased) was born in 
County Tyrone, Ireland, in March, 1815. 
His father, William Boyd, had been twice 
married, his first wife, whose maiden 
name was Ellen Mason, bearing him eight chil- 
dren, and his second wife, nee Sarah Means, bore 
him ten. thus making him the father of a total 
of eighteen children, Thomas, our subject, being 
on« of the last family. In 1833 William Boyd, 
with his family, came to America, locating in 
Ohio, and bought a large tract of land in 
Coshocton County, where he ended his days. 

■ Thomas Boyd received his preliminary edu- 
cation in Ireland, and was eighteen years old 
when he came to America with his father. Here 
he supplemented his earlier studies by an addi- 
tional course of instruction, and, on beginning 
life on his own account, located on a farm in 
AVashington Township, Harrison County, where 
he soon established a reputation as a successful 
husbandman and as a man of more than ordi- 
nary business tact and capability. December '.(, 
1841, Mr. Boyd was united in the bonds of 
matrimony with Miss Martha Allen, daughter of 
James and Sarah (Boyd) Allen. James Allen 
was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, and 
came to the United States in 1836, settling in 
Harrison County and becoming one of its most 
successful farmers. The marriage of Thomas 
Boyd and Martha Allen was blessed with twelve 
children, the youngest of whom died in infancj ; 
the others were named in order of birth as fol- 
lows: Mary A., Sarah, William O, Elizabeth 
(Mrs. Logan), M. Agnes (Mrs. Thompson), 
Mtggie I., Minerva (Airs. Ferguson), Almira. 
Emily (Mrs. Harris). Thomas A. and Lucinda. 
The sons are all prosperous farmers, and are liv- 
ing in Guernsey County, Ohio. It can be said of 
Mr. Boyd that it was largely through his indus- 
try, economy and business ability that he met 



with financial success. He was a public-spirited 
and generous hearted man, one possessed of 
more than ordinary intelligence. He v. 
member of the United Presbyterian Church. and 
lived fully up to the teachings of that denomi- 
nation, while his moral tendencies led him to 
act with Prohibitionists, politically. Mourned 
by his large family and friends innumerable, he 
passed from earth January 1 1). 1889. His widow, 
now a lady of sixty-eighi years, resides on the 
home farm, surrounded by her highly intelligent 
unmarried daughters, and she and ties 
the respect of the whole community. 



DAVID STEEL, one of the leading and well- 
known farmers of Washington Township, 
Harrison County, was born October 3 1 . 
L822, on the farm on which he now re 
sides. His father, Basil E. Steel, was B native of 
Virginia, having been born in B rkeley County 
(now in West Virginia). -lame-, father of Basil, 
was also a native of Virginia, where he married 
and had born to him two children, John and 
Basil E., who were quite young when their par- 
ents died. The children, as was then the cus- 
tom, were bound out, Basil being bound to a 
man named Foraker, with whom he remained 
until of age, receiving the usual two months' 
schooling, to which at that time they were en 
titled. Soon after completing his time. Basil 
moved to Pennsylvania, where he met and mar 
ried Rachel Spaulding, and they began their 
married life in the Keystone State, where the) 
lived until 1815, when they came to Harrison 
County, settling in Washington Township, and 
entered the tract on which lie afterward died. 
Here he erected his cabin, and underwent the 
various hardship-, which are inseparably inci 
dent to the early settlement of a country. There 
were but a few families in his immediate vicini- 
ity, and they consisted of the Maxons, Boyds, 
Quellons and Davidsons. The children born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Basil Steel were named as fol 
John. Sarah. Mary, Matilda Jane, Nancy, An- 
drew, Basil, William, Daniel and David. The 



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political preferences of Mr. Steel were Demo- 
cratic, and for many years he never failed to as- 
sist the party. An energetic man and one who 
from youth had been schooled in a struggle for 
existence, who was taught the lessons of econ- 
omy and industry by that most severe, but also 
most thorough teacher — necessity — his life in the 
early settlement of Harrison County was but a 
continuation of his previous condition. He how- 
ever succeeded remarkably, and by the aid of 
his children replaced the once gigantic forests by 
green fields; and haunts which the wild animals 
once roamed he converted into pastures, in which 
peaceful flocks and herds wander undisturbed. 
After a long and useful life Mr. Steel died in 
1857, and was followed by his wife in 1874. 

David Steel, who now occupies the old home 
place, has spent the best years of his life in the 
improvement of it. His life, like that of his fa- 
ther, has been one of unremitting hard work, 
and, like his father, he has succeeded. April 
10, 1845, he was married to Elizabeth Vermill- 
ion, of Guernsey County, who became the mother 
of the following named children: John B. (de- 
ceased), Andrew J., Joseph M. (deceased), Frank 
lin. William, Henry, Sparling, Amanda, Matilda, 
and Olive. Mrs. Steel lived until December 
17, 1885, when she died and was buried in Boyd's 
Cemetery, and February 11, 1890, Mr. Steel 
was married to Mrs. Comfort Lindsey, of Flush- 
ing. He now resides on his farm of 200 acres, well 
improved land, situated about three miles from 
Freeport, Harrison County. The buildings are 
neat and tasty, and comprise a large stock and 
grain barn, a commodious two-story square frame 
house, with modern conveniences, which Mr. 
Steel erected in 1884, besides a number of other 
necessary structures. Mr. Steel is emphatically 
a self-made man, having, by various enterprises 
connected with farming, succeeded well in the 
financial world. At various times he has owned 
threshing machines, and in 1851 he built a 
water power saw- mill; also for many years was 
engaged in contracting for and constructing 
buildings in various portions of his county. 
While never actively engaged in politics, he has 



always identified himself with the Democratic 
party. He is liberal in his support of enter- 
prises which are for the benefit of his county, 
and is numbered among the representative men 
of his section. 




|\ILLIAM BUCHANAN, president of 
the Buchanan Business Institute, at 
Hopedale, Green Township, Harrison 
County, was born in Harrisville, Har- 
rison County, Ohio, May 1, 1853. William 
Buchanan, Sr., the father of our subject, was 
born in Pennsylvania, and was of Scotch descent; 
he was a soldier in the War of 1812, a cooper by 
trade and a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
On coming to Ohio he married Miss Abagail 
Mercer, a native of the State, though a descend- 
ant of Edward Mercer, who immigrated to 
America from Ireland in 1720, but was born in 
England. She bore three children: David, 
Wilson and William. She died May 30, 1857, 
and was interred in the cemetery at Dickerson's 
Church, Short Creek Township. The father 
was an active business man and a justice of the 
peace for thirty years. His death took place 
September 2, 1873, at the age of eighty-three 
years, and was buried in West Grove Cemetery. 
William Buchanan, whose name heads this 
sketch, was educated at Hopedale College, and 
completed his college course in 1882. In 1883 
he graduated from the National School of Elo- 
cution and Oratory, Philadelphia, and from 
Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. , in the business and ornamental penman- 
ship courses, taking the "College Gold Medal," 
in 1884. He then passed three months at 
Kolla. Mo., conducting elocution and commer- 
cial courses, in connection with the Western 
Conservatory of Music; then went to Red Bluff, 
Cal. , where for a year he was engaged in school 
work in connection with the Bed Bluff Academic 
and Normal School. In 1S85, on account of the 
ill health of his wife, he came to Hopedale, 
Harrison County, Ohio, and erected a building 
which he opened in September as a business in- 



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stitute, including a college of business, school of 
elocution and oratory, school of teachers, school 
of science, school of mathematics, school of 
general education and school of shorthand, type- 
writing and penmanship. Prior to opening the 
institute Mr. Buchanan had taught seven years 
in the public schools of the county, and five 
years in the Normal College of Hopedale, at- 
tending school in the East during the college 
vacations. Later he taught one year in Frank- 
lin College at New Athens. His present school 
is the only one of the kind, with one exception, 
in the State, and the only one in Harrison 
County. The average attendance is about fifty, 
and the institute is doing a good work for the 
county, Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan giving their un- 
divided attention to the duties of the school. 
Mr. Buchanan is the author of a book on ora- 
tory entitled " The Self Instructor of Elocution 
and Oratory," and another on book-keeping 
known as " The Pocket Encyclopedia of Book- 
keeping." 

The marriage of Mr. Buchanan took place 
June 29, 1880, with Miss Virginia \Y. Maddox, 
a daughter of Wilson and Mary L. (Ladd) Mad- 
dox, and a native of Short Creek Township. 
Harrison Co., Ohio. Her mother came to 
Harrison County from Virginia in 1833, her 
father some seven years earlier; they settled 
about five miles from Cadiz, and were married in 
L838. The father died April 30, 1859, when 
Mrs. Buchanan was but three weeks old; the 
mother died January 17, 1875. Mr. Maddox 
was a farmer and a very popular gentleman. 
In 185(3 he was nominated for Congress; ho was 
a director of a Cadiz bank, and also of a bank 
at Mount Pleasant. He was a stanch Repub- 
lican, a wide-awake business man, and at the 
time of his death was the owner of a section of 
land in Harrison County, and had a large inter- 
eat in plank roads. Two children have been 
boru to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan: 
William Thomas and Charles Hall Maddox. 

Mrs. Buchanan graduated from the Normal 
College of Hopedale in 1878, and later entered 
the National School of Oratory. In 1885 



Franklin Colleg nferred upon her the degree 

of A. M. Mr. Buchanan is a Republican in 

politics, and he and his wife are mhersof the 

Friends Church. 



DAVID ADAMS. Among the successful 
and enterprising farmers < > f Freeport 
Township, Harrison County, none are 
more favorably known than the gentle- 
man whose name stands at the head of this 
sketch. His father. William Adams, was born 
in Fayette County, Perm., September •">, 1799. 
When William was about ten years of age he 
lost his father, and his time afterward was 
chiefly devoted to the care and maintenance of 
the family, of which he was the eldest. Soon 
after arriving at manhood's estate he was mar- 
ried to Elizabeth, a daughter of Joshua Clark, 
and after marriage they located in Short Creek 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, whence, in 1834, 
lie removed to Nottingham, where he remained 
until 1880, when he came to Freeport Township. 
His children were the following named: David; 
James, in Kansas; Amos, who served as a sol- 
dier, now deceased; John and Eliza Jane, both 
also deceased. On January 8, ISM. William 
Adams died and was buried in Green .Mountain 
Cemetery by the side of his wife, who died De- 
cember 10, 1869. A self made man, frank and 
fearless in the expression of his convictions, he 
was esteemed by all. 

The youth of David Adams was that of the 
ordinary farmer boy, and was spent in Short 
Creek and Nottingham Townships, he being nine 
pears old when he came to the latter. His edu- 
cational advantages were limited, but his native 
genius and keen observation largely supplied 
the deficiency in training, November 10, 1855, 
he was united in marriage to Lucinda Marsh, of 
Iowa, who died December 9, 1865, and March 
1 t. 1867, Mr. Adam- was married to Mary Ann 
Moore, who bore him the following children; 
An infant that died unnamed, William Moore 
and Robert C. The Adams family have 
ever been identified with the Republican party. 



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and have always lent their aid in its support. 
They Lave been Quakers and Presbyterians in 
religious belief, have always been engaged in 
farming, and have invariably been successful. 
They have taken a prominent part in the coun- 
ty's progress, and are always found io the front 
rank of the progressive element. 



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INDLEY M. BRANSON. The county 
of Harrison has within her borders many 
men toward whom she may point the fin- 
ger of pride — men who, in their advance- 
ment, have not been blind to their country's wel- 
fare, but, uniting their efforts, have not only won 
honor and success for themselves, but have 
shaped the grandeur and destiny of their coun- 
try. Born of parents descended from a long 
line of sturdy pioneers, Lindley M. Branson in- 
herited those principles of industry, economy, 
and above all, sterling integrity, the attributes 
of those brave and sturdy men, and which, as 
characteristics of his own life, have fitted him 
as one to add to the glory of his native land. 
The Bransons are descended from an En- 
glish family of Friends, who immigrated to 
America about the middle of the eighteenth cent- 
ury. Locatiug in Virgiuia, they resided there 
many years, and the original homestead is in 
the possession of their descendants to this day. 
One of their descendants, Abraham Branson, 
the great grandfather of our subject, was a 
prosperous and successful farmer near Winches- 
ter, Va. , was for many years an elder of the 
Quaker faith, and became an active and ener- 
getic worker in the cause. He was one of those 
pioneer exhorters who made journeys on horse- 
back through miles of wilderness to preach the 
gospel to the scattered settlements; he jour- 
neyed as far west as Central Ohio. He married 
a lady of Southern birth, and to that union was 
born one child — a son — Keese Branson, who 
emigrated to Ohio about the year 1800. He 
located at St. Clairsville, Belmont County, and 
resided there until his death. He left a family 



of four children, viz. : Abraham, William, Ma- 
ria and Eliza. 

Abraham, the eldest, was born in Belmont 
County, Ohio, June 13, 1806. When he was a 
lad he lost his father, and was sent to Virginia, 
where he made his home with his grandfather 
until he was about fourteen years of age, at 
which time he returned to Ohio, going to Glen's 
Run, where he lived with an uncle, one Isaac 
Branson, a prominent manufacturer and miller, 
who had early emigrated to Ohio, and had 
erected a large woolen and flouring mill. Here 
young Branson served an apprenticeship, and 
learned the woolen manufacturer's trade, at 
which he became an expert. In the spring of 
1831 he married Ann W. Wilson, born near 
Mount Pleasant Ohio, and a daughter of Jona- 
than and Hannah Wilson, a pioneer family of 
Jefferson County. Their union was solemnized 
under the beautiful and impressive marriage 
service of the Quaker faith. Immediately fol- 
lowing their marriage they located at Kinsey's 
Mills, in Belmont County, on the National Pike, 
near Wheeling, and there he engaged in the 
manufacture of woolen goods. Two years later, 
in the spring of 1833, they removed to Short 
Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and, pur- 
chasing a milling and woolen manufacturing 
property there, was engaged in the milling and 
manufacturing business until the time of his 
death. In those early times the clothing was 
largely of home manufacture. Wool would be 
brought to the mill to be carded, and this the 
busy housewife would spin and then knit into 
stockings or weave into blankets or cloth as 
necessity required. Here at these mills Mr. 
Branson used the first steam engine used for 
manufacturing purposes in Harrison County. 
It was a small engine of 15-horse power, but it 
was an object of much admiration and wonder, 
people coming many miles to see it. This en- 
gine was soon removed, and one of 45- horse 
power put in its place. The first power-looms 
and spinning-jack in the county were used here. 
The latter, on account of its length, had to be 
hauled on a wagon from Pittsburgh, Penu. The 



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goods manufactured were broadcloths, cassi- 

rueres, cassinettes, blankets, indigo blue Ken- 
tucky jeans and flannels, and these goods were 
appreciated by the people. Abraham Branson 
did much toward the advancement ;md develop- 
ment of the country. As a citizen, he was firm 
in his convictions of unswerving integrity, and 
was respected and esteemed by all who knew 
him. His death occurred January 16, 1867, 
and that of his wife February 3, INNS, when she 
was aged eighty-two years. 

Of a family of five sons and two daughters, 
Lindley M. Branson is the eldest, born at Kin- 
sey's Mills, near Wheeling, Belmont Co., Ohio, 
September 26, 1832. His early life was spent 
amidst such scenes and surroundings as fell to 
the lot of the pioneer boys, and he was taught 
the rudiments of an education in the district 
schools of the period, in the little school-house, 
with its huge fireplace, rude furnishings of 
slab benches, in which the school was maintained 
for a few months during the winter season, by a 
per cajrita subscription, by the settlers who had 
children to educate. With such surroundings 
he grew to manhood, and in those early strug- 
gles the obstacles surmounted and privations 
endured were the crucial test, the fire that puri- 
fied the pure metal from the dross ; and the in- 
domitable will, perseverance and untiring en- 
ergy, there made manifest in the boy, have 
ripened and developed in the character of the 
man. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Branson 
became a partner with his father in the mill. 
As a boy he had learned his father's trade. The 
firm, under the name of A. Branson & Son, con- 
tinued in business and prospered until 1861. 
In the meantime he had, in partnership with 
Isaac Lewis and others, been buying and hand 
ling wool, and these operations were continued 
during the war. Mr. Branson, in one day, rid- 
ing over the country on his trusted saddle Inns,', 
purchased from large wool growers of Harrison 
and Jefferson Counties 40,000 pounds of wool, 
paying for the same the high price of one dollar 
per pound. In his early apprenticeship in his 
father's woolen mills, he had become an expert 



in tin* matter of judging wool, and great confi- 
dence was placed in bis judgment by the East- 
ern manufacturers, for whom he purchased in 
eastern Ohio millions of pounds of wool. For 
twenty-seven years he devoted his attention 
largely to this industry. On May 7, 1S74, he 
was united in marriage with Anna M. Fox, an 
estimable lady, a daughter 01 Charles J. and 
Esther (Cooper) Fox, early settlers of this re- 
gion, of whom portraits and a complete sketch 
are given elsewhere in this volume. Two chil- 
dren have been born to our subject and wife, 
viz.: Charles Fox Branson and Chester Abra- 
ham Branson. They reside on a farm in Short 
Creek Township, where, although Mr. Branson 
has been engaged extensively in other business, 
yet he devotes much attention to agriculture. 
In 1878 he erected their handsome residence, a 
commodious three-story structure of brick and 
stone, and finished throughout in hard woods- 
black and white walnut, ash and chestnut. It 
is located on an eminence, commanding a beau- 
tiful view of the surrounding country, and is 
the finest farm residence in Harrison County. 
For the past twenty seven years Mr. Branson 
has been connected with the National banks of 
Cadiz, as stockholder and director, and, besides 
his property here, has interests elsewhere. Po- 
litically, Mr. Branson is a Republican, always 
taking an active interest in his party. Person- 
ally, he is a man of striking appearance, kind 
and affable in his manner; he is an entertaining 
conversationalist, and, with his family, he enjoys 
the respect and esteem of all. 



II I'. -VILLIAM K. FITCH, Mooretield Town 

\MJ) sbip> Harris ° n countv ' ° hi °' is * -"" 

V/V[ of James M. and Mary (Kelley) Fitch. 
James M. was a son of Jacob and 
Eleanor (MoGill) Fitch, natives, if Greene Coun- 
ty, Penn. The father of Jacob died when the 
latter was a small boy. and Jacob was reared to 
manhood by a German family of Greene County, 
Penn., where he married. In 1811, in com- 
pany with John Coulter and Miles Hart, Jacob 



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immigrated to Belmont County, Ohio. Coulter 
ancl Hart settled at Powhatan Point, and Mr. 
Fitch settled in Smith Township, about eight 
miles south of St. Clairsville. He had been to 
this land before and erected a rude log cabin, 
having neither door nor floor. He was a stone 
mason by trade and after his family was settled, 
he returned to Powhatan Point (which was 
twenty miles away) to work at his trade, to earn 
money to make his new home more comfortable, 
and to provide food for his family. He was an 
energetic, hard-working man, and in a few 
years he erected a more comfortable residence, 
his farm put on a more cultivated appearance, 
and the forests were turned into rich meadow 
lands and pleasant pastures. To Jacob Fitch 
and wife were born seven children, namely: 
James M. , deceased; Hester Leyda, in Carroll 
County, Ohio; Catherine, deceased; William, on 
the old homestead; Nancy, deceased; Ellen, de- 
ceased, and Jacob, in Belmont County, Ohio. 
Jacob and his wife spent their life on the farm 
where they first sett led . James M. Fitch was 
born in 1811 in Greene County, Penn., but grew 
to manhood in Belmont County, Ohio. In 1838 
he married Mrs. Mary McMillan (nee Keller) 
who was born October 27, 1804, a daughter of 
Hugh and Mary (Johnson) Kelley, natives of 
Ireland, who migrated to the United Srates in 
1800, in company with seven other families 
from his neighborhood. They were seventeen 
weeks on the ocean, and the last five were spent 
on a sand-bar, upon which the captain had run 
the vessel on purpose to work a scheme he had 
plotted against one of Mr. Kelley's companions. 
The captain had fallen in love with the wife ol 
one of these men, and after getting the vessel 
where he knew it could not get away, he took 
his crew to shore and returned with two of them 
to take the passengers off. They put the gang- 
plank from the small boat to the vessel, and the 
man with the wife whom the captain loved 
wanted to get into the boat first, so he pushed 
his way along on the plank. The captain took 
the wife by the hand and pulled her into the 
boat, and pushed the husband into the water, 



and left the vessel with his prize. The rest of 
the passengers, being excited at seeing the man 
in the water and the captain going away with 
the wife, did not know what to do. They dare 
not shoot at the captain for fear of shooting the 
woman. The man was rescued, but he never 
was able to find his wife. The passengers were 
nearly starved when they were discovered. Mr. 
and Mrs. Kelley remained with the man that 
rescued them for one year, and then came to 
Ohio. Mr. Kelley was killed by a tree on the 
farm where our subject now lives. James M. 
Fitch, after his marriage, settled in Belmont 
County, near his parents, where he remained 
till his death in August, 1870. His wife died 
March 1, 1S66. They were the parents of three 
children, viz.: Jacob, on the old homestead; 
William K. , our subject, and Mary, dece 
Mr. Fitch was a member of the Presbyterian 
Church for a number of years. 

William K. Fitch was born July 21, 1844. 
in Belmont County, Ohio, where he grew to 
manhood and was educated at the common 
schools. In his youth he learned the trade of 
a carpenter, which he followed for some years. 
September 20, 1870, he married Miss Hannah 
I E. Watt, who was born in Belmont County, 
Ohio, June 17, 1852, a daughter of Robert and 
Rachel (DeLong) Watt. Robert Watt is a son 
of Thomas and Jane (Gladden) Watt. Thomas 
is a son of James, a native of Maryland, who 
migrated to Ohio in 1810 and settled in Smith 
Township, Belmont County, where he entered 
100 acres of land. The children born to Thomas 
and Jane Watt were sis in number, by name, 
Hannah, who died January 11. 1800; Robert, 
who died February 11, 1866; William, who 
died December 21, 1872; Sarah A., who died 
June 22. lsS: J >: Mary J., living in Belmont 
County, Ohio; and Elizabeth, at the same place. 
Robert Watt was born November 2. 1815, in 
Maryland, but he grew to manhood in Ohio. 
In 1840 he married Rachel DeLong, who was 
born July 17, 1810, a daughter of Jonathan 
and Sabina (Horn) DeLong, natives of Penn- 
sylvania, and of German descent. To Mr. and 



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Mrs. Watt were born ten children, oamed as 
follows: Sabina J., deceased: JohnT.. in La- 
bette County, Kas.; William W., on the old 
homestead in Belmont County, Ohio; Mary A., 
in Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Nancy O, in Belmont 
County, Ohio; Hannah E.. wife of oar subject; 
Bachel A., deceased; Bobert M. and Margaret 
M., both deceased; and a daughter that died 
unnamed in infancy, February 8, 1801. Bobert 
Watt departed this life February 1 1, 1866; his 
widow still resides on the old farm in Belmont 
County, Ohio. She is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, of Concord, of which church 
Mr. Watt was also a member, having served 
some years as an elder. Thomas Watt died in 
July. 1827; his widow died August 29, 1889. 
William K. Fitch, after his marriage, came to 
the farm which he now owns, which was once 
owned by his maternal grandfather. Mr. Fitch 
and wife are the parents of five children, namely : 
Minnie A., born May 18, 1872; Mary F., born 
July 6, 1874; Hiram Mc. born February 26, 
1877; Lulu D., born September 12, 1879; Veda 
V., born July 13, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Fitch are 
both members of the Nottingham Presbyterian 
Church. Politically Mr. Fitch is Democratic, 
and he has held several offices of trust in 
Moorefield Township. 



JOHN LISLE. Among the oldest and best- 
^ I known residents of Archer Township, Har- 
\J) rison County, is John Lisle, who was born 
December 5, 1803, in Jefferson County, 
Ohio. His paternal ancestors were Scotch, and 
maternal, Irish. His father, Bobert. was born 
in Pennsylvania, where he, at an early age, was 
married, and soon after came to Jefferson 
County, where he entered a large farm, and in 
that county he lived until death claimed him. 
His children comprised the following: William. 
Nancy. Hannah, Bobert. -lane. Rachel, Polly, 
Eliza and John. In politics Mr. Lisle was a 
Whig. He died, and was buried in Jefferson 
County. John Lisle was always an industrious 
and energetic man. these traits manifesting 



themselves in his youth. His early life was 
spent on the home place, and in 1829 he was 
married to Eliza A. Johnston, a daughter of 
Bobert Johnston. After marriage the young 
couple located in Short Creek Township, bat in 

1839 moved to Archer Township, where he died, 
October 3, 1890. The children born to their 
union are Johnston, William. Elizabeth, Mary 
Jane, John, Hamilton and Martha. A Repub- 
lican in politics. Mr. Lisle held no political of- 
fice, although always an earnest supporter of 
his party. He was one of the oldest residents 
of the township, aud won the esteem and con- 
fidence of all. 

John Lisle. Jr., was born February J7. 
1842, and during hi-- youth was a participant 
in the usual enjoyments and pursuits which the 
neighborhood afforded. At the early age of 
nineteen he enlisted in the Sixty ninth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. Company K, and with his 
company was sent to Camp Chase, and after- 
ward to Nashville. Tenn. There he was en- 
gaged in guard duty for about six months. His 
regiment was a part of the Army of the Cum- 
berland, and he participated in all the battles 
in which that army was engaged. After his 
term had expired he re-enlisted, and accom- 
panied the troops on the Atlanta campaign, par- 
ticipating in the battles and many of the skir- 
mishes of that march. After the fall of Atlanta, 
the famous march to the sea commenced, and 
his regiment was one of those which composed 
that victorious army. Although a mere youth, 
Mr. Lisle never failed in his duty, nor was he 
absent from his company in any march save 
oe, when the troops were nearly exhausted 
with long inarching, lie rested a short time with 
some companion-, joining his com pain some few 
hours later. He took part in the grand review 
of the troops at Washington at the close .if the 
war. and was mustered out of service July 17, 

1865. 

John Lisle. Jr., participated in twelve regu- 
lar battles, besides skirmishes, viz.: Gallatin, 

Tenn.. August 13, 1862; Stone River, Tenn., 

December 31, 1862, to January 2. 1863; Chick- 



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auiauga, Ga., September 19 and 20, 1863; Mis- 
sion Ridge, Tenn., November 25, 1863; Resaca, 
Ga., May 13 to 16, 1864; Dallas, Ga., includ- 
ing Pumpkin Vine Creek, May 25 to June 4, 
1864; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 9 to 30, 
1864, Marietta, Ga., July 4, 1864; Chatta- 
hoochee River, July 6, 10, 1864; Peach Tree 
Creek Ga., July 20, 21, 1864; Atlanta, Ga., 
July 28 to September 2, 1864; Jonesboro, Ga. , 
August 31, September 1, 1864; Bentonville, 
N. C, March 19, 21, 1865. 

Surely, when a mere lad, for the love of 
country, will enlist in its defense, and never 
falter in the performance of the duties pertain- 
ing to the service in which he entered, it is 
enough to convince all that patriotism is not dead. 
After the close of the war Mr. Lisle engaged 
in farming. November 6, 1873, he was mar- 
ried to Jennie Henderson, daughter of James 
Henderson, a resident and prominent farmer of 
North Township. Mr. Lisle and wife are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. and Mrs. 
Lisle both having been baptized, taken into the 
church, and also married by the same minister, 
Rev. Robert Herron. In politics Mr. Lisle is 
an ardent Republican, and though not an office 
holder, still is deeply interested in the success 
of his party. 

Hamilton Lisle, son of John Lisle, Sr. , was 
born May 12, 1844, in Archer Township, Harri- 
son County, where his life has since been spent. 
Soon after attaining his majority he entered the 
droving business, which he followed for some 
years. November 11, 1869, he married Mary 
Crawford, a daughter of John Crawford, a resi- 
dent of Archer Township, Harrison County. 
His wife died March 29, 1875, and was buried 
at Cadiz; she was a member of the Presby- 
terian Church. October 5, 1882, Hamilton was 
married to Mrs. Elizabeth Haverfield, of Cadiz 
Township. She was the mother, by her first hus- 
band, of one child, Clarence, born October 17, 
1876. Mr. Lisle' s family is now increased by 
Charles, born June IS, 1883, and Anna Blanche, 
born August 2, 1885. In politics Mr. Lisle 
is a Republican, and his family are members 



of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. The Lisle 
family, to which he belongs, is one of the oldest 
in Archer, and are most highly respected. 




T. PERRY, one of the rising young at- 
torneys of Harrison County, and one 
of the most popular citizens, both pro- 
fessionally and socially, was born in 
Short Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio (near 
Warfell's Mill), September 28, 1858. His 
grandfather, Henry Perry, was a native of 
Wyoming Valley, Penn.,bornin 1774, and when 
about three years of age his parents were mas 
sacred by the Indians in their raid down the 
valley. He was carried off by a straggling party 
of redskins, but was rescued at Pittsburgh. 
I Coming to what is now the State of Ohio, when 
of age, he here worked at the mason's trade, and 
built the first brick house in Cadiz. He was 
married to Sarah Franks, of Fayette County, 
Penn., a lady of German descent, who bore him 
eleven children as follows: Martin, a carpenter, 
who died in Indiana; Henry and Adam, who 
died young; Eliza, married to James Polen and 
moved to Guernsey County, Ohio; John and 
Thomas, died young; William W. , of whom a 
a record is given below; James, who moved to 
Illinois, where he died in 1882; Mary (Polly), 
married to Joseph Howell, and died at an ad- 
vanced age at Hopedale, Ohio; Sarah J., who 
died young, and Susan, still living in Cadiz, 
Ohio. The father of this family died at New 
Athens, Ohio, in March, 1865, and the mother 
in 1866, at the age of eighty-six years. 

William W. Perry, father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born December 18, 1823, and in 
his youth followed the mason's trade. In 1848 
he began milling at the old Warfell's Mill, two 
and one-half miles south of Cadiz, and there re- 
mained until the breaking out of the Civil War, 
when he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred 
and Seventieth O.V. I., serving until the close of 
the struggle. He died August 26, 1865, of disease 
of the lungs, contracted while in the service, 
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son's Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he 
was class leader. On December 18, 1845, he 
was married to Miss Betsey Kelley,who survives 
him, and is at present residing near the old 
Warfell's Mill, already referred to; she was born 
October 14, 1816, a daughter of James and Jane 
Kelley, of Guernsey County, Ohio, and of Irish 
descent, former of whom was a school teacher 
and surveyor. By this union there were six 
children, all born in Short Creek Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, and whose record is as follows: 
John H. was born December 22, 1846, and 
was educated at the school in Red Hill, Cadiz 
Township. At the age of eighteen he enlisted 
in Company B, One Hundred and Eightieth 
Regiment, O. V. I., serving till the close of the 
war, and on his return home he engaged in 
farming near Cadiz. On September 9, 1871, he 
was married to Eliza Ann, youngest daughter of 
Jacob Jarvis, county surveyor, and by her has 
one son, J. Frank, and one daughter, Florence. 
Mr. Perry now owns a beef shop in Cadiz, and 
is one of the enterprising business men of the 
place. . . .James A., born May 3, 1849, and also 
educated at the school in Red Hill, is a farmer 
in the township of his birth. He was married in 
April, 1881, to Annie, daughter of Daniel and 
Elizabeth Norman, of Cadiz Township, by which 
union two sons have been born: John Sherman 
and Willian Daniel . . . .Albert K., born Novem- 
ber 14, 1852, when about sixteen years of age 
went to McLean County, 111., where he worked 
on a farm till of age, when he embarked in the 
same business for his own account, following it 
until the year 1880, when he moved to Clermont 
County, Ohio, where he was married to Rebecca 
Riley, whose parents were farmers living near 
Felicity, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Perry then moved 
to their present farm in Harrison County. The 
names of their children are "William L., 
Eddie and Quincy A .... Samuel L., born in 
1855, died of scarlet fever, when he was three 
years of age, and is buried in Dickerson's Ceme- 
tery .... William T. is the subject proper of 
these lines, whose record follows below.... 
Joseph D., born September 16, 1861, educated 



at Red Hill in Cadiz Township, was married in 
January, 1884, to Lillie Walker, and is now liv- 
ing near Cadiz, Ohio. He is a prosperous 
farmer, and is a politician. 

William T. Perry received his primary edu- 
cation at Red Hill, which was supplemented by 
a course at Cadiz public schools. At the age 
of fifteen he secured a certificate to teach school 
in Harrison County, Ohio, and on November 18, 
L875, at District No. 5, Freeport, Ohio, he be- 
gan his first term of school. He taught there- 
after one term at Irish Ridge, Cadiz Township, 
same county; one year at Beech Point, in Ath- 
ens Township; six years at Red Hill, in Cadiz 
Township, and was for seven years superintend- 
ent of the Jewett public schools. He served 
two terms as county examiner of teachers, act- 
ing as clerk of said board. On December 26, 
1883, he secured a certificate from the State 
Board of Examiners (at that time being the only 
person in the county holding a certificate from 
said board). On March 3, 1887, he was ad- 
mitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of 
Ohio, and is now successfully following his 
chosen profession at Cadiz. On September 5, 
1878, Mr. Perry was united in marriage with 
Josephine M. , eldest daughter of John and 
Margaret Blackburn, of Franklin, Ohio, and they 
have the following named children: William 
Clyde, John Linton and Mary Elizabeth, all 
living at Cadiz, Ohio. The entire family are 
adherents of the Methodist Episcopal Chim-h, 
and in politics Mr., Perry is a Republican. 



L 



AFFERTY FAMILY. Like many other 
families the Laffertys can trace their 
j origin to Britain's shores, whence, about 
the middle of the eighteenth century, the 
first of their name came to the then colonies, 
but which were soon, owing to the spirit of free- 
dom with which those early settlers were im- 
bued, the fearlessness which they possessed, and 
the self-reliance which enabled them to come to 
a new country, to be placed among the nations 



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of the world, and whose position the descend- 
ants of those families have ever striven to make 
more grand and secure. The tirst of the Laf- 
fertys of whom any authentic record can be had 
was Edward, who was a native of Pennsylvania, 
where he married Elizabeth Ramage. In that 
State he reared a large family, and, thinking to 
better secure homes for all, he disposed of his 
property and came with them to Harrison 
County. Arriving here, he at once purchased a 
large tract of land in Moorefield Township, 
which was entirely wild. Having erected a 
small cabin, in which the family were sheltered, 
he and his sons set to work to clear up their 
farm. After many weary months of unremitting 
toil, they succeeded in preparing what was then 
called a large field for crops. Many hardships 
were here endured, and at last the father and 
mother both succumbed, and were laid to rest 
in the cemetery at Nottingham, Mrs. Laft'erty 
dying August 22, 1844, aged one hundred and 
eleven years. From his early youth Mr. Lafferty 
was Democratic, and when the party was in 
need of his services he cheerfully rendered them. 
The family were members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Nottingham. 

His son Edward was born in 1789, in Penn- 
sylvania, and came with his parents to Ohio. 
His early life was spent in clearing the home 
place, and his education was received at the 
common schools of his district, which he at- 
tended a few weeks each winter. Soon after he 
had grown to manhood he married Margaret 
McFadden, sister of Joseph McFadden. He lo- 
cated in Moorefield Township, where he re- 
mained for some time, and then removed to 
Athens Township. His wife bore him a large 
family, consisting of the following children: 
Samuel, deceased; John, deceased; Eliza (Mis. 
Thomas Guines), died in 1847; Margaret (Mrs. 
Luke Vorhees), in Lorain, Ohio; George, who 
died in 1860; Joseph, in Belmont County; 
Hiram, deceased; Edward, deceased; Findlay, 
in Nebraska, and Mary Jane, deceased. Mr. 
Lafferty was a self-made man — one who, by his 
own individual efforts, succeeded in life. He 



won the respect of all by the nobility of his 
character, his integrity and his uprightness; in 
politics he was a life-long Democrat, very act- 
ive in his party, and he and his family were 
faithful members of the Presbyterian Church at 
Cadiz. November 8, 1S36, he passed away, and 
was buried at Cadiz, in the old cemetery, and 
September 14, 1864, his wife followed him, but 
was buried at Nottingham. 

Hiram Lafferty was born April 5, 1831, 
in Athens Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, where 
he grew to manhood. The common schools 
were his early assistants in educational matters, 
and in time he acquired a taste for read- 
ing and study, which he in after life grati- 
fied to the utmost extent. In 1857 he was mar- 
ried to Jane Dickerson, daughter of John Dick- 
erson, of Athens Township, and soon after 
marriage they settled on a place where their 
married life was spent, and where, since Mr. 
Lafferty' s death, his widow has resided. He 
died August 31, 1875, and was buried in Not- 
tingham Cemetery. He was a member of the 
Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, of which 
all his family are also members, and was a man 
of excellent judgment, combined with good native 
shrewdness. Democratic in politics, his assist- 
ance was invaluable to the party; he was a gen- 
eral farmer and stock-raiser, and was univer- 
sally respected. His family are as follows: 
Samuel D., born February 16, 1858, of Cadiz 
Township; John W., born May 11, 1859, of 
Athens Township; Joseph F., born January 6, 
1861, of New Athens; Allen S., born June 15, 
1864, died October 16, 1865; Anna E., bom 
June 22, 1872. 

Samdel D. Lafferty was born February 16, 
1858, as stated above, and grew to manhood on 
the home place. Upon the death of his father 
the management of the farm devolved upon him 
and his brother John, and together they carried 
it, on. His education was received at Oak Dale 
school-house, which he attended during leisure 
from his home duties. August 29, 1882, he 
was married to Martha J. Barger, a daughter 
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Township. He located near Moorefield, re- 
mained there a short time, then returned to 
Athens, and thence moved to Cadiz Township. 
where he at present resides. He and his family 
are members of the Rankin Methodist Bpisco 
pal Church, and are regular attendants; polit- 
ically he is a stanch Democrat, and always votes 
that ticket. His children are Jessie E., born 
March 1, 1884, and Hiram Allen, born August 
22. 1885. 

John W. Lafferty was also born in Athens 
Township on the date mentioned above, and has 
always made his home there. Like his brothers, 
his education was received at the common schools 
and during his leisure from work. Jul)' 1 5, 
L880, he married Mary A., daughter of William 
Dickerson, Sr. , a resident of Athens Township, 
and then located on the home place, where he 
has since resided and managed the farm. He 
is a hard-working, industrious man, one whose 
social qualities are excellent. He always votes 
the Democratic ticket, though not taking an act- 
ive interest in politics. His children are Eliza 
J., born May 28, 1881; Mary B., bom Decem- 
ber 25, 1882; Emma F., born December 25, 
1884, and Anna M., born July 24, 1887. The 
family are members of the Rankin Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Mr. Lafferty is one of the 
representatives of an old and well-known fam- 
ily, and is fully worthy of the high regard they 
possessed. 

Edward Lafferty was born November 25, 
1826, in Athens Township. Here he received 
his education, which was largely that of the 
common schools. September 7, 1865, he was 
married to Sarah A., daughter of William C. 
Cooper, and soon after their marriage they set- 
tled on the place where the family now reside. 
Hero were born to them the following named 
children: George T., born March 26, 1867; 
Charles E., born October 8. 1869; Eliza C, 
born August 4, 1871; William A. and Margaret 
E. (twins), born August 31, 1874, and Mary, 
born November 22, 1881. The family are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens. 
By principle a Democrat, Edward Lafferty 



always voted that ticket. His death occurred 
April 2. lssn. and his remains were buried at 
Nottingham Cemetery. 



*TT\ OBERT K. HAGAN, well known among 
y\ the early settlers of Harrison County, 

1^ Ohio, and a descendant of one of the 

■f/ Short Greek pio t families, was born 

in Short Creek Township, Harrison Co.. Ohio, 
January 21, ISIS. About 1815 Edward Hagan 
emigrated with his family from Adams County, 
Penn. , and located in Harrison County. Ohio. 
He was a miller by trade, and rented a mill on 
the right hand fork of Short Creek. This mill 
was one of the first built in this region, and is 
now standing on the land of William Bernhard, 
Dear its original location. About two years 
later he purchased a farm on Section 2, and 
with his family located thereon, and began to 
clear and improve land. The country was at 
that time a wilderness, and each pioneer hewed 
out his own home. He followed farming and 
milling for several years, and continued to 
reside here until his death. His wife, Jane 
(Kerr), he had married in 1S12, in Pennsylva- 
nia. Edward Hagan was known among his 
neighbors as a public spirited man, always fore- 
most in all works tending toward the advance- 
ment and upbuilding of his county. He was a 
man of sterling integrity and unswerving de- 
termination of purpose, and whatever was right 
found in him an earnest advocate, regardle-s of 
public opinion, and in his death the country 
lost one of those grand and uoble men who 
rescued from the wilderness the country, and 
who gave to the present generation the smiling 
region we now behold. 

Of the family of two sons and four daugh- 
ters born to them the third child in order was 

Robert K., whose na heads this sketch. His 

early life was spent at home, assisting his par- 
ents in the support of the family. He received 
the meager advantages for an education afforded 
by the early subscription schools of the period, 
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the simple rudiments of an education, and when 
their alma mater was a rude log school-house, 
built in the midst of the woods, and whose in- 
terior furnishings consisted of benches split 
from logs, and a Luge fireplace on which blazed 
great blocks of wood, throwing out a fierce heat 
which melted the pupils' faces while they were 
freezing their backs. In 1842 he married Kath- 
erine McLaughlin, a daughter of John McLaugh- 
lin, one of the earliest pioneers of this region, 
and soon after marriage Mr. Hac;an located in 
Short Creek Township, and followed milling 
with his father; afterward he devoted his at- 
tention to farming, and also operated a saw mill. 
While residing near the present home, the 
creek, becoming swollen by heavy rains, over- 
flowed its banks and surrounded the house. 
Mr. Hagan endeavored to remove his family 
from the building to a place of safety, and 
when near the center of the stream the wagon 
was upset, precipitating them into the torrent. 
By almost superhuman efforts Mr. Hagan res- 
cued them all, but they barely escaped with 
their lives. In 1860 Mrs. Hagan died. She 
was a devoted member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and her death was mourned by a large 
circle of friends and relatives. Eight children 
had been born to them, four of whom are now 
living. In 1862 Mr. Hagan married Mrs. 
Elizabeth Dean, widow of Robert Dean, by whom 
she became the mother of three children, one 
now living. She was a daughter of George 
and Mary (Johnson) Moore, who came from 
Chester County, Penn., in 1818, and located 
in Jefferson County, Ohio, where they resided 
until their death. Mr. and Mrs. Hagan' s union 
has been blessed with four children, of whom 
three daughters are now living. In 1866 they 
purchased and moved onto their present farm, 
and now own 200 acres of line land, all well 
improved. They also own 160 acres in Union 
County, Iowa, and enjoy a competence of this 
world's goods. Their farm is situated on Short 
Creek, near Adena. Mr. Hagan devotes much 
attention to live-stock raising, and has some 
particularly fine horses. He started life a poor 



boy, and has been the architect of his own fort- 
une, having acquired it through industry and 
economy, receiving no help except the advice 
and assistance of his worthy wife. They are 
both members of the Presbyterian Church, in 
which he has served as a trustee. Mr. Hagan 
has served as judge of the election and as district 
supervisor, and has always been an adherent 
of the^Dernocratic party and its principles. Mr. 
and Mrs. Hagan now reside in their pleasant 
home. They are kind and charitable toward 
all, their hospitality having become proverbial, 
and they are respected and esteemed by all who 
know them. 



1/ RA CRUMLEY. In every community do we 
find those who, having passed the three- 
_j score and ten, are now liviner on borrowed 
time, and who, although well advanced on 
the highway of life, still are youthful in body 
and mind. These are the connecting links be- 
tween the first settlers and those who are now 
occupying their places. From the earliest set- 
tlement of Harrison County, Ohio, the Crumley 
family have been among the stalwart champions 
of right, and have striven to forward the inter- 
ests of the county, both in political and religious 
development. In 1812 Thomas Crumley came 
from Virginia to Ohio, and resided one winter 
near what is now the village of Harrisville. 
There he remained but a short time, when he 
purchased the farm now known as the Bond 
Farm, in Short Creek Township. To this place 
he removed, and, by the aid of his family, suc- 
ceeded in reducing it to a state of cultivation, 
and which was further improved by buildings, 
as his finances would permit. Before leaving 
his native State he was united in marriage with 
Elizabeth Gardner, a descendant of one of the 
old English families, and to this union were 
born the following named children: Samuel, 
Sarah, Mary, William, Thomas, Ira, Elizabeth, 
John, Hannah, James, Aaron W., Emily, Joseph 
and David. Coming to the State of Ohio shortly 
after its admission into the Union, he at once 



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was identified with its interests, and united 
himself with the Republican party of that 
period, with which he continued until it ceased 
to exist; subsecpiently he joined the modern 
Republican party, then in its infancy, with 
which he affiliated until his death. At various 
times he held positions of honor and trust in 
his township, and was never defeated in a can- 
vass. He was active in the advancement of all 
enterprises for the betterment of his county and 
township, and in 1861 passed away, and was 
laid to rest by the side of his faithful wife, who 
died in 1856. 

Ira Crumley was born October 7, 1809, in 
Virginia, and at the age of three years was 
brought to Ohio, where he has since resided. His 
early life was spent in the performance of the 
duties of the farm, on which he grew to manhood. 
The necessary rudiments of an education he re- 
ceived at the schools in his neighborhood, but 
being ambitious to excel he did much of his 
study at home. On January 31, 1840, he was 
united in marriage with Jane Dickerson, whose 
family sketch appears elsewhere. The young 
couple went to Deersville, Franklin Township, 
Harrison County, where they purchased a farm, 
remaining there nearly eight years. They then 
came to their present homo in Washington Town- 
ship, situated about two miles from Freeport, 
consisting of 160 acres, improved with excellent 
buildings of all kinds. Their success is of their 
own making, having been accomplished by econ- 
omy, frugality and hard work. Since his first 
vote, Mr. Crumley has supported the party that 
■ to him seemed to embody the principles best 
suited to his judgment, and now, at the ago of 
eighty-two, betakes as lively an interest as ever 
in the success of the Republican party, with 
which he has been associated ever since its for- 
mation. From its organization the Dickerson 
Methodist Episcopal Church has numbered 
among its members many of the best people of 
the county, who have there imbibed those prin- 
ciples which they have ever disseminated where 
they have resided. In such a school were Mr. 
and Mrs. Crumley taught, and their subsequent 



lives show forcibly the results of that training. 
In their neighborhood and township the family 
have had the universal respect and esteem, and 
now, on the decline of their earthly pilgrim 
they, surrounded by their children, are awaiting 
the final summons. Their family comprise the 
following named children: Mary E. (Mrs. David 
McFadden), in Iowa; Sarah (widow of William 
Wilson), in Freeport; Hiram and Clara, at home, 
and Thomas (who was married October 9, 1888, 
to Alice, daughter of Q. W. Kirkpatrick, of 
Mooretield Township l. on the farm near his 
father's residence. 




ARY J. CECIL, residing in Mooretield 
Township, Harrison County, is a daugh- 
ter of Hiram Cecil, who was born in 
Relmont County, Ohio, December 12, 
1821, and died January •_'•">. 1882. He was a son 
of John Cecil, a native of Maryland, who was 
born in 1800. John's wife was Duanner Long, 
who was born in 1803 in Loudoun County, Va.. 
and they were parents of seven children, named 
as follows: Hiram. Biram, Henry. Thursa, Har- 
riet. Mahala and Irwin, all d ased but Henry 

and Thursa, who reside in Morrow County, Ohio. 
John Cecil, when a young man, migrated to Bel- 
mont County. Ohio, where he purchased a farm, 
on which he passed from earth in lSlll.his widow 
dying in 1855. Hiram Cecil grew to manhood 
in Belmont County, and was educated in the 
common schools. December 28, 1842, he married 
Susanna Campher, who was born January :i, 
1818, and whose parents were early settlers of 
Mooretield Township. To this union were Lorn 
two children: John William (deceased), who, 
when only sixteen years old, enlisted in the 
service of his country in Company C, One Hun- 
dred and Twenty sixth Regiment, O. V. I., as a 
drummer boy the was born June 1. 1846); and 
Mary J., our subject, who was bom April 14, 
is lit. After his marriage, Hiram Cecil pur- 
chased the farm which our subject now owns, 
and which contains Kill acres, situated in Section 
34, in Mooretield Township. Mary J. Cecil, 



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since her father's death, has remained on the 
old homestead. She is an active member of the 
Presbyterian Church, of Freeport, of which her 
parents were also members. Politically Mr. 
Cecil was a Republican. 



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LB. RALSTON, one of the most highly 
I respected citizens of German Township, 
] Harrison County, is a son of Lewis W. 
and Eleanor (Moorhead) Ralston. Lewis 

was a son of Andrew Ralston, whose father, 
mother, sister and brother were murdered by 
the Indians in 1761, in Adams County, Penn., 
Andrew and one sister being the only survivors 
of the family; Andrew, at the time was eight 
years old, and his sister was younger, and both 
were bound out to different families in Adams 
County. Their paternal ancestors were of Scotch 
descent. When the Revolutionary War broke 
out, Andrew promptly enlisted in the colonial 
army, and served faithfully all through the 
struggle, receiving only a slight wound in the 
side of his head, at the battle of Brandy wine. 
At the close of the war he returned home, and 
soon after married Miss Sophia Walterrneyer, of 
Adams County. Penn., a lady of German de- 
scent. Andrew's sister married a gentleman in 
Pittsburgh, the name being unknown to the sur- 
vivors of the Ralston family. In 1814 Andrew 
Ralston went to Bloonrfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
where he purchased 160 acres of land; he died 
on his farm in 1827, having reared a family of 
four sons and six daughters. 

Of his sons, Lewis W. Ralston was born in 
Adams County, Penn., November 30, 1S06, and 
was educated in Jefferson County, Ohio, spend- 
ing his boyhood days on the farm with his par- 
ents. In 1828 he married Miss Ann Darr, of 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and they became the 
parents of three children, of whom two died 
when quite young, and one, John N. , died at 
the age of eighteen. In 1832 Mrs. Ann Ralston 
died, and same year Mr. Ralston married Miss 
Eleanor, a daughter of William and Elizabeth 
(Scott) Moorhead; the Moorheads were of Irish 



descent, but William Moorhead was born in 
West Virginia. Lewis \V. Ralston, after his 
marriage, came to German Township, Harrison 
County, and purchased the farm our subject now 
owns. He departed this life September 6, 1884. 
He held many offices of trust in German Town- 
Bhip, and was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian 
Church for forty-one years. He was the father 
of six children by his second wife, as follows: 
Andrew, w T ho died in infancy; Elizabeth, who 
died at twenty-five years of age; Lewis B. , our 
subject, born February 16, 1839; Ruth and 
Sophia (twins), who both died in infancy; and 
Mary E., wife of James Bosley, a carpenter, in 
Springfield, Ohio. 

Lewis B. Ralston lived on the farm with his 
parents till their death, receiving his education 
at Hopedale College, Harrison County, and at 
Martmsburg Academy, in Knox County, Ohio. 
January 8, 1861, he married Miss Maria V. 
Sanders, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth 
(Oliver) Sanders, former of whom was a native 
of England, and latter of Scotland, both coming 
to Ohio in 1830. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Lewis B. Ralston have been born three children, 
viz.: One daughter who died in infancy; one 
son, Walter Sanders, who died at the age of 
twenty years; and Elizabeth E., at home. Lewis 
B. Ralston is one of the most extensive breeders 
of tine sheep in Harrison County, and socially 
and financially holds a high position. He has 
held the office of justice of the peace for six 
years, was clerk of German Township eleven 
years, and is ruling elder in the Presbyterian 
Church, of which his wife and daughter are 
also members. 



JOHN WATT. Among the representative 
men in Freeport Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, none are better known for liberal views 
for progressive ideas, for unflinching integ- 
rity and honesty, than Squire Watt, as he is 
familiarly called. He was born December 1, 
1820, in Guernsey County, Ohio, where his youth 
was spent. His father, Joseph Watt, emigrated 



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with his parents from Ireland in L798, and after 
remaining in the East for some time, the family 
came among the earliest to Guernsey County, 
Ohio, where they afterward made their home. 
Tbe children were named James, Joseph. Mar- 
garet, Mary and Ann. Mr. Watt, father of Jo- 
seph, early espoused the principles of the Whig 
party, and in the organization of the county 
played a prominent part. His family, as well 
as himself, were members of the Seceder 
Church, whose meetings, in those early days. 
were held in the houses of its members, services 
being conducted by a lay member when no reg 
ular minister could be had. Mr. Watt engaged 
in agriculture exclusively, and with the assist 
ance of his children succeeded in clearing a con- 
siderable portion of the land entered by him. 
He and his faithful wife now lie side by side 
in the county of their adoption, having con 
Bcientionsly performed their work. 

Joseph Watt, father of our subject, spent his 
youth in Guernsey County, Ohio, where in edu- 
cation he received the rudiments of the common 
branches. Early in life he chose as his wife 
Barbara, daughter of Charles Williams, of 
Guernsey County, Ohio, and she bore him the 
following named children: James (deceased), 
John (our subject), Jane, Joseph (deceased), 
Charles, Sarah, William, Mary and Henry (de- 
ceased). In 1812 Mr. Watt enlisted in the de- 
fense of his country, and was assigned to that 
portion of the army which was fighting the In- 
dians. He served through the entire war, and 
during the latter part was under Gen. Harrison. 
He was a Whig in politics, but likewise an ar- 
dent Abolitionist. He and his family were of 
the United Presbyterian faith, in which .Mr. 
Watt died in 1883, being followed by his wife 
November 20, 1889. 

John Watt, the subject proper of this sketch, 
received his education at the common schools, 
and also attended the academy at Antrim. 
Guernsey Co., Ohio, where he fitted himself for a 
teacher, a profession which he followed from 1843 
to 1856, in Guernsey and Hani --nil ( ionnties, meet- 
ing with marked success. May 21. 1849, he mar- 



ried Sarah Frazier, daughter of I leorge I'razier, 
of Guernsey County, Ohio, and immediately 
menced (arming in the latter county, where he re- 
mained four J ears: then came to Harrison County. 
where he lias since remained, and where he has 
taken a leading and prominent part in the ad- 
vancement of the interests of his section. He 
early identified himself witli the Repub 
party, and lias been among its faithful adherents. 
He was elected justice of the peace, a position 
which he filled acceptably for fifteen years, and 
only on a derided refusal by him to accept 
another nomination was his name omitted from 
the ticket. His life lias mainly been spent in 
farming and stock-raising, in which he has met 
with unwonted success. His children were 
named Mary L. (Mrs. Louie N. Davidson), Asa 
(deceased), Harriet (deceased), George H. , 
Barbara (Mrs. Joseph Grimsley), Eva and Lore- 
na F. Few families stand as high in the esteem 
of their neighbors as that of John Watt, and 
certainly none hold a higher rank in the town 
ship than the subject of the sketch himself. 



THOMAS C. FORSYTHE. one of the 
leading farmers of Freeport Township, 
Harrison County, was born March _•">. 
1847, in Washington Township, where 
his youth was spent. He is a son of Harrison 
and Martha Jane Forsythe. Harrison Forsythe 
was born June IT), 1813, in Fayette County, 
Penn., ami is a son of Jesse Forsythe, a native 
of the same State. At the age of seventeen 
Harrison commenced learning the millwright 
trade, which he followed for many years, work 
ing in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia. He 
finally retired from his trade and BUgagi 
agriculture, which he still follows. November 
7. 1839, he was married to Martha Jane, 

daughter of Ke/.in Pomphrey, and to this union 
were born the following named children : Beal 
W.. John, Thomas Cor win (in Freeport Town- 

Ship), Keziu ('. an. I Mar\ E., all deeea-ed e\ 
cent Thomas C. In his politics a Whig and af- 
terward a Republican, Mr. Forsythe has ever 



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been interested in his party's success. He is a 
consistent member of the Baptist Church, of 
which he is a most liberal supporter. 

From an early age Thomas C. Forsythe has 
been accustomed to the duties of farm life, 
which he has made the subject of much study 
and research. His leisure during the winters 
was devoted to the common schools, where he 
acquired a taste for reading and study which he 
has since largely and extensively gratified. 

April 23, 1873, he was married to Clara, 
daughter of Benjamin Howell, of Belmont 
County, Ohio, who was born March 8, 1812, 
and in youth married Elizabeth Wyllis, who 
bore him the following named children: Ruth 
E., John C, Melinda J., Elizabeth A.. Harvey 
W., Clara C. and Benjamin F. In 1862 Mrs. 
Howell passed away, and was laid in the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Cemetery at Flushing, Belmont 
County. In 1865 Mr. Howell was again mar- 
ried, on this occasion to Sarah McEIroy, who 
bore him one child, William B., now deceased. 
February 18, 1888, Mr. Howell died and was 
laid to rest by the side of his wife. He was a 
stanch Republican in politics, and was energetic 
in the service of his party. To spiritual mat- 
ters he brought the same foresight and activity 
that made him successful in the other duties of 
life, and early entered the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, in which he held all the various offices, 
discharging their duties to the full satisfaction 
of all. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe re- 
sided in Washington Township, Harrison 
County, nearly six years, when they removed to 
Flushing Township, Belmont County, where 
they remained three years; then came to Free- 
port Township, where they have since resided, 
and where he engages in general farming and 
stock-raising. Like his ancestry he is a Repub- 
lican, and has always taken an active part in the 
contests of that party, being inevitably found 
where the fight is the thickest. His children 
are Harry H., born October 21, 1875; Lillie 
M. , born January 26, 1878, and Orel F., born 
September 16, 1885. The family worship at 



the Methodist Episcopal Church at Freeport, of 
which the parents are members. The Forsythe 
family have long been known in this section, 
and are always looked upon as being among the 
representative men of the section. 



EORGE W. EVANS. Here and there, 
scattered throughout the county, are those 
who form the connecting links between 
the earliest settlers and the present gen- 
eration — between those, who, undaunted by the 
hardships and trials that awaited them in their 
new homes, bravely went to work and labored 
that their descendants might enjoy the blessings 
of plenty, and those who now are reaping the 
fruits of the toil and pains of their ancestry. 
Such a man is George W. Evans. 

The Evans family originated in Virginia, 
whence Isaac, the father of our subject, emi- 
grated in the early part of the present century, 
making the journey partly on foot, and arrived 
in Coshocton County, Ohio, where he was one 
of the only four white settlers. Here he entered 
a large tract of land (about 2,000 acres), com- 
prising some of the choicest in the county, and 
extending along the Tuscarawas River. Here 
he reared his log cabin, around which at night 
prowled the wild animals, as well as the treach- 
erous Indian. In his early life he was married 
to Martha Qualey, a resident of Kentucky, and 
with her he enjoyed life's blessings until 1827, 
when she died. He survived until March 2, 
1831, when he quietly passed away and was laid 
by her side. Their children were named Mary, 
Rebecca, Joseph, Martha, Isaac and Henry (all 
deceased), and George W., our subject, now 
a resident of Freeport Township, Harrison 
County. Isaac Evans was a member of the 
Democratic party, one of the leading politicians 
of his section, and was elected judge of his 
county, a position which he honored for many 
years. In 1812 he enlisted in his country's 
defense, and was elected captain of his company, 
which he led throughout the entire struggle. 



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Patriotic in the extreme, liberal and benevolent, 
he was respected and honored by all. 

George W. Evans was born June 14, 1815, 
and nearly his whole life has been spent in 
agriculture, the principles of which he learned 
on the parental farm. His educational advan- 
tages were limited to the three months' session 
of the district school until his seventeenth year; 
but, notwithstanding such disadvantages, he has 
obtained a wide and extensive knowledge by 
subsequent study and observation. April 15, 
1838, he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Philip Spikes, a resident of 
Washington Township, and the following named 
children blessed their union: Andrew J. and 
Samuel T. (twins), the former a resident of 
Freeport, the latter deceased; Philip, of Jean- 
ette, Penn. ; Henry, at home, and James C, 
also of Freeport. Like his father, George W. 
Evans has been a life-long member of the Dem- 
ocratic party, and has given it his support. He 
has taken a prominent part in the party man- 
agement of his section, and is ever ready to 
assist it in every legitimate manner. Mr. Evans 
is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
and is eminently successful. A man who has 
made his own success in life, he has much 
reason to congratulate himself for the position 
he now holds in the financial and social circles 
of his section. 



I OHN D. CRABTREE, a wealthy farmer 
^. I of Nottingham Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty ty, was born June 12, 1825. Peter Crab 
tree, his grandfather, was a native of 
England, but at an early day immigrated to the 
United States, lived in western Pennsylvania 
for a short time, and then came to Ohio. In 
this State he resided at Rush Creek, Jefferson 
County, until about 1812, when he removed to 
Harrison County. Here he entered a tract of 
land in the southern part of Nottingham Town- 
ship, erected a small log cabin, but a few years 
later sold his land to Robert McMillan, and 
bought the farm in Nottingham Township on 



which John D. Crabtree now resides, and here 
he died in 1829. The children born to Petei 
Crabtree were eight in Dumber and were named 
Rhoda, Sarah, Rachel, Ann, Amy, Cornelius, 
Gabriel and William. 

William Crabtree, the youngest child of 
Peter Crabtree, was born in Pennsylvania about 
1795, but was reared to manhood in Ohio. He 
married Rachel Moore, who was born about 
1811, a daughter of Loami Moore, a soldier "f 
the War of the Revolution, and to this union 
were born ten children, viz. : Sarah, Keziah, 
John D., Loami, Gabriel, Shepard, James, 
William, Peter .and Alary A. Of these, lames 
and William served in the War of the Rebellion. 

John D. Crabtree, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was married May '_!7. L847, in Bliss 
Elizabeth Moore, who was born in Moorefield 
Township, Harrison Co.. Ohio. February <>. 
1829, a daughter of David and Sarah (Kidwell) 
Moore, and this union has been blessed with 
seven children, viz. : William. Sarah, Martha. 
Gabriel, Mary. Edmond and Elmer. Immedi- 
ately after his marriage John D. Crabtree 
settled on the farm which he at present occu- 
pies, and on which he has resided ever since, 
with the exception of two years passed in Ins 
carawas County. Politically he is a Republican, 
and under its auspices has served his fellow- 
citizens as trustee of Nottingham Township. 
several terms. Mr. Crabtree enjoys the full 
esteem of his neighbors, and is recognized as a 
prudent, practical and enterprising agriculturist. 



En F. SHEARROW, farmer, of Moorefield 
. Township, Harrison County, is a -. 
h Solomon and Eliza (Cunningham) Shear 
row. Solomon is a son of William and 
Eunice (Insley) Shearrow, natives of Pennsyl- 
vania, who migrated to Jefferson County, Ohio. 
where they remained for a short time and then 
removed to Franklin Township, Harrison County, 
where William entered a large tract of land, 
most of which he cleared; he remained in Har- 
rison County for a Dumber of years, and then 



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removed to Guernsey County, afterward to Tus- 
carawas County, where lie spent his last days. 
He was born June 15, 1778, his wife March 8, 
1785. 

Solomon Shearrow was born in Pennsylva- 
nia, July 9, 1802, his wife October 29, 1803, 
and to them were born ten children, viz. : Eliza- 
beth C, born September 30, 1825, resides in 
Newtown, Ohio; Euuicey I., born September 21, 
1827, died October 20, 1843: Nancy, born 
March 1, 1830, died December 4, 1830; Annie 
S., born February 20, 1832, died February 24, 
1832; Sylvanus W., born April 20. L833, died 
May 23, 1871; Angelina, born March 2, 1835, 
resides in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Obediah 
S.. born January S, 1837, resides in ChiJlicothe, 
Ohio; Solomon C. , born February 24. 1839, 
died March 13, 1886; Sarah, born May 26, 
1842, resides in Guernsey County, Ohio, and 
Benjamin F., of whom special mention will be 
presently made. Solomon Shearrow was a 
blacksmith by trade, and soon after his marriage, 
December 23, 1824, started a shop at Sewells- 
ville, Ohio, where he remained seven years; he 
then removed to Guernsey County, Ohio, where 
he worked at his trade one year; he nest pur- 
chased a tract of wild laud, which he improved 
by hard work, which made him a comfortable 
home, where he remained until his death, Janu- 
ary 20, 1882; his wife survived him until No- 
vember 7. 1SS7. They were active members of 
the Methodist, Episcopal Church for many years. 

Benjamin F. Shearrow was born in Guern- 
sey County, Ohio, October 8, 1843, on the old 
homestead, where he grew to manhood. He 
received a practical business education at the 
common schools, and subsequently taught school 
fur some years. October 8, 1868, he married 
Miss Elizabeth R. Kidwell, who was born Feb 
ruary 22. 1845, a daughter of William and Sa- 
rah (Crabtree) Kidwell, of Harrison County. 
Ohio, and after his marriage Mr. Shearrow re- 
mained in Guernsey County till 1876, when he 
came to Mooreiield Township. Harrison County, 
and rented the farm which he now owns, hav- 
ing purchased it in 1881. Both our subject 



and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and he is a Republican. 



AMUEL HANNA, one of the well and 
favorably known farmers and stock-rais- 
ers of Green Township, Harrison County, 
was born May 28. 1S24. The Hanna 
family are of Scotch extraction, were among the 
earliest settlers of Ohio, and have ever been 
known for their honesty, true worth and irre- 
proachable character. The early life of our 
subject was one of vicissitude and hard work, 
but he found sufficient leisure to cultivate his 
mind and acquire quite an extended knowledge 
of the various branches of education. As a 
business he combined wool carding with farming, 
at which trade he was eminently successful. 
March 18, 1847, he was united in marriage with 
Dosche Ann Boggs, who was born June 11, 
1826, daughter of James Boggs, a resident of 
Belmont County, Ohio, where he was engaged 
in the milling business. 

Soon after their union, Mr. Hanna purchased 
his present farm, which during his many years 
of residence thereon, he has greatly improved, 
both in appearance and productiveness. His 
children were James Boggs, born March 20. 
1851, died October 21, 1872, and Samuel Ander- 
son, born February 3, 185U. Mr. Hanna has 
in his political preferments been a life-long Re- 
publican. For many years the family have been 
members of the Beech Spring Presbyterian 
Church, of which he has been trustee for many 
years. Mr. Hanna may well be proud of his 
success in life, as he has himself won it, both 
financially and socially. By untiring energy 
and strict economy, united with good business 
judgment and sagacity, he has collected his 
share of tliis world's goods. His farm of 131 
acres is situated about one-half mile from Union- 
vale, ou the \V. & L. E. R. R., well adapted to 
grazing and general farming. It is known as 
the Stonington Farm, and here, in connec- 
tion with his son, Samuel A., Mr. Hanna con- 
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thoroughbred cattle. His line herd comprises 
some of the best blood in Ohio, and consists of 
selected stock from various portions of the 
States, the herd, known as the " Stonington," 
being well known throughout the State. 

On October 1, 1885, S. A. Hanna was united 
in marriage with Jennie E., daughter of Samuel 
Thompson, a resident of Green Township, Har- 
rison County, and one child is the fruit of their 
union, Mary Isabelle, born May 29, 1881). Like 
his father Mr. Hanna is a Republican, and he 
and his wife are members of the Beach Spring 
Church. Mr. Hanna is weli and widely known 
as a young man of great promise, and a rising 
one in his section. 



B, ANIEL SMITH was born November 20. 
| 1834, in Stock Township, Harrison Co., 
/ Ohio, where he still resides, engaged in 
farming, and with the interests of which 
township he has ever been indentified. When 
not engaged in work in clearing and cultivating 
the homestead, Mr. Smith employed his earlier 
days in attendance at the common schools, 
wherein he laid the foundation of that knowledge 
which has been supplemented by after study and 
by practical experience in the affairs of life. On 
January 20, 1865, he was married to Elizabeth 
Johnson, daughter of Samuel R. Johnson, and 
to this union have been born the following 
Damed children: Loman J., born December 28, 
1865; Delia F., born March 13, L868; Maggie 
R., bom March 25, 1871; William E., born May 
30, 1874, and Samuel H., born May 21), 1879. 
After marriage Mr. Smith settled on his present 
farm, in Section 16, Stock Township, about five 
miles from Scio, which farm, containing 2d) 
acres, he has highly improved, and here lie gives 
tin' greater part of his attention to stock-raising, 
in conjunction with farming, in which he lias met 
with more than ordinary success. While as a 
rule Mr. Smith votes the Democratic ticket, he 
still maintains his independence in county and 
township politics — looking to the litness of the 
candidates for the offices for which they are nom 



inated.as well as to (heir honesty and voting for 
the man he thinks to be best qualified. Mrs. 
Smith is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Pleasant Valley. Mr. Smith is recog- 
nized as one of the most intelligent men of his 
neighborhood, and consequently stands very 
high in the esteem of his fellow townsmen. 



diOSEPH P. BINNS was born near Harris- 
ville, Ohio, on the eighteenth day of the 
/ second month, 1847. and there grew to 
manhood. His father, David Binns, was 
a native of England, born at Skipton, Pariah 
of Skipton. Yorkshire, on the fourteenth day of 
the fourth mouth, 1815, and was a son of David 
and Margaret tHolden) Binds, who were both 
worthy people of England, and members of a 
family of Friends there. David and Margaret 
(Holdeu) Binus came to Ohio in 1^47, and, lo- 
cating near Harrisville. resided there until their 
deaths, which occurred in 1849 and 1858, re- 
spectively. They had immigrated to America 
in 181S, and settled at Brownsville, Penn. 
David Binns came to America with his parents. 
and remained with them, learning the trade of 
a cabinet-maker, and in 1839 he went to Bel- 
mont County. Ohio, where he engaged as a 
laborer in a machine shop. In the spring of 
1840 he located on a farm near Harrisville, 
which farm he had purchased in L839. In 1841 
he married Rebecca Hall, a daughter of Thomas 
and Mary Hall, and a native of .Jefferson County, 
Ohio. They located on their farm, where she 
died in 1867; her husband survived her ten 
jrears, dying in 1877. He had married again, 
bis second wife being Sarah Li. Xowlin. who 
still survives him. 

( )f a family of ten children our subject is the 
third in order of birth, and the eldest now liv- 
ing. Hi' began hi- education in the 1 
bouse of those early time-, his fattier being the 
teacher, and after becoming of age followed the 
carpenter's trade. In 1874 be married Belinda 
Bobson, a native of Jefferson County. Ohio. 

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went with her parents, Thomas and Unity (John- 
son) Hobson, to Washington County, Ohio. Mr. 
and Mrs.Binns now reside near Harrisville, Ohio, 
and to them have been born three sons and one 
daughter: Edward T., Arthur, John A. and 
Mary C. The family are highly respected 
members of the Friends. Mr. Binns has an old 
family Bible, brought from England, and which 
was published in 1757. 



DAVID M. LONG, M. D., Cadiz, is a 
native of this State, born in Monroe 
_^ ' Township, Harrison County, June 28, 
1866. His grandfather, James Long, 
who was of Scotch extraction, married Isabella 
McCullough, and of their children one son, 
David, was born in Ohio, his early years being 
spent on the farm and in attending the common 
schools. On August 13, 1862, he enlisted for 
three years in Company A, One Hundred and 
Twenty-sixth O. V. I., and being sent to Vir- 
ginia he there served till November 6, 1863, at 
the "convalescent camp," on account of disa- 
bility, and returned to the paternal home in 
Harrison County to find his father no longer 
alive, he having died while the son was absent 
serving his country. On September 7. 1865, 
David Long was married to Miss Mary, daughter 
of Henry and Eliza Law, of Monroe Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and together they made 
a home upon a portion of the old Long home- 
stead. Here they shared life's joys and sorrows 
until April 25, 1867, when, at the early age of 
twenty-eight years, the husband died. He was 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in politics a Republican. 

The subject of this sketch was but ten 
months old when he was deprived of a father's 
care, and his widowed mother then moved with 
her infant son to the home of the grandfather. 
Here she resided until May 10, 1876, at which 
date she was married to Samuel S. Campbell, of 
Cadiz Township, Harrison County. In Septem- 
ber, 1880, while Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were 
proceeding by rail to Uhrichsville, on the Cadiz 



Branch, the coach in which they were traveling 
by some means left the track and rolled down 
the embankment, whereby Mrs. Campbell re- 
ceived injuries from which she never recovered. 
She suffered intensely, and was a confirmed 
invalid until on June 3, 1S86, death came to her 
relief. Her remains now rest in the cemetery 
at Cadiz. 

David M. , who was her only son, was edu- 
cated at the high school at Cadiz and at the 
University of Wooster, Ohio. During the sum- 
mer succeeding his mother's death he traveled 
through the Western States, visiting relatives in 
Colorado and other places, among them his 
maternal grandmother. In the fall of the same 
year he entered the University of Wooster, Ohio, 
where he spent one and a half college years. 
While here, he not only applied himself to the 
studies of the regular curriculum, but also iden- 
tified himself with the military battalion of the 
institution, beiDg made captain of Company E 
(Wooster battalion), under Lieut. A. C. Sharp, 
U. S. A. In the spring of 1887, he entered, as 
substitute, Company D, Eighth O. N. G., and 
was present with them at the national encamp- 
ment of State troops held at Washington, D. C. 
Returning from the field of Mars he again 
betook himself to the quiet highway of study, 
finishing his school yeai. During his student- 
ship he was a member of the Sigma Chi frater- 
nity of the college. In the following fall he 
entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of 
New York City, in order to prepare himself for 
the duties of his chosen profession. Previous 
to this he had made some preparation by read- 
ing under Dr. J. S. Duff, whom he accompanied 
to the college, where they spent the winter 
together. Here he diligently applied himself 
to his medical studies, and with the class of 
1800, on March 10, he graduated, after a three 
years' study. During his last year of prepara- 
tion the Doctor was a private student of Joseph 
D. Bryant, M. D., professor of anatomy and 
clinical surgery, also associate professor of 
orthopedic surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical 
College, and a man of national reputation. 



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Returning at once to his old borne, Dr. Long 
entered into partnership with bis former pre- 
ceptor, Dr. J. S. Duff, in the practice of their 
profession at Cadiz; be has since purchased Dr. 
Duff's interest, and is now alone in practice. 
Dr. Long early became associated with the 
Masonic fraternity, in which he is a K. T. , being 
one of the youngest in the commaudery in the 
State. He is also a member of the Sons of 
Veterans, D. Cunningham Camp, of Cadiz, and 
is a member of the Presbyterian Church of 
Cadiz, Ohio. 



JfOHN EDWARD SARGENT, of the firm 
i of Arbaugh & Sargent, millers, Scio, Har- 
i rison Count}', was born near New Pbila- 
delphia, Tuscarawas Co. , Ohio, October 1, 
1857. His father, T. J. Sargent, was also born 
in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and his father 
Laurence Sargent, who died in 1878, at the age 
of eighty years, came from Maryland. Laurence 
was a carpenter, and Thomas J. was a farmer, 
but also followed carpenter work for a time. 
The latter married Elizabeth Keffer, of Tuscar- 
awas County, where he still resides, and nine 
children were born to this union, of whom our 
subject is the only one residing in Harrison 
County, Ohio. 

John Edward Sargent, when eighteen years 
of age entered a flouring mill at New Philadel- 
phia for the purpose of learning the business, 
having left the home farm for that purpose. In 
April, 1882, he married Miss Amanda Slonecker, 
of Freeport, Harrison Co., Obio, and three chil- 
dren have blessed this marriage, viz. : Maud, 
Alma and Jessie, all at home. After marriage 
Mr. Sargent located in Ubrichsville, Ohio, 
where for three years he was employed as head 
miller in the City Roller Mills; then located in 
Port Washington, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, wheuce, 
after remaining three years, he moved to West 
LaFayette, Coshocton Co., Ohio, and there 
purchased a half interest in the LaFayette 
flouring-mills in partnership with J. W. Court- 
rigbt. On November 13, 1889, he left that 



place and came to Scio, and purchased a balf 
interest in (be Adelphi Mill, his partnership with 
Levi Arbaugh having continued ever since, The 

mill is equipped with the Stephens Patent Kell- 
ers, an<l is the only one in the place. It has 
been in existence eleven years, and does ai 
tensive local trade as well as a large shipping 
business. Mr. Sargent is one of those business 
men who have had to work their way from the In it 
torn rung of the ladder, and his bard work and 
industry alone have advanced him to the place 
he occupies to day. He is a Freemason. 



*[7^Y Z. BAKER. John Baker, the second 
L«\ son of John and Margaret (Buchanan) 
1^ Baker, was born in ISO], in the western 
■f/ part of Pennsylvania. His early life 

was uneventful, being spent in assisting his 
father in the duties of the farm, ami attending 
the common schools. On March 3, 1832, he 
married Nancy Thompson, who was born in 
1806, in Huntingdon County, Penn., daughter 
of Thomas Thompson, a resident of Cadiz 
Township, and they immediately settled on the 
farm on which he died and on which his widow- 
still remains. Two children were bom to this 
union: R. Z., born in 1833, and Mary lv . born 
in 1842. The parents both embraced the Meth 
odist Episcopal faith in early life, ami were 
faithful and steady adherents of that church at 
all times. They were foremost in all matters 
of benevolence and charity, and were ever ready 
to do a generous act. Politically Mr. Baker 
was a Republican, and like his father did maoh 
to advance the party's interest in his section. 
He was a man of great force of character and 
integrity, and was a highly respected and es 
teemed citizen. In 1879 he laid aside life's 
burdens, ready for the rewards that await those 
who merit them, and was buried in Bethel I 
etery. His widow, now at the age of eighty 
four, still remains on the home place, siir 
rounded by every comfort that loving children 
can procure, and is awaiting the summons to 
join her husband with the full faith of a Ohrifl 



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tian. Her mental powers are unabated, and 
physically she is exceptionally well preserved. 
Their son, R. Z. , is one of the live men of 
his section, and is a worthy representative of his 
family. A Republican in politics and a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in each 
position he is a leader. To such representative 
men must this county look for its future welfare, 
and may rest fully confident that its trust will 
not be betrayed.. 



rii DAM J. PALMER, a prosperous farmer 
// \\ of Stock Township, Harrison County, was 
ffj^ born July 4, 1841, iu North Township, 
•f/ Harrison Co. , Ohio, where his father still 

lives. His early life was passed on the home 
farm, and in pursuing his literary studies, and at 
the age of twenty years he commenced teaching 
school, which vocation he followed for a number 
of years, with unvarying success. On Septem- 
ber 7, 1869, Mr. Palmer married Miss Rebecca 
J., daughter of William Welsh, of Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison County, and after marriage re- 
mained in North Township until 1881, when 
they came to Stock Township and settled on 
their present farm of 147 acres, where all the im- 
provements have been made by Mr. Palmer, the 
buildings being commodious and substantial. 
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are 
named Alice J., John H. , William A., Clara E. , 
Mahlon W. and Anthony R. The family are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Mount Hope, in which Mr. Palmer has held all 
the offices, besides taking an active interest in 
Sunday-school work. In polities he is a Repub- 
lican, and has always taken an active and prom- 
inent part in the movements of his party; has 
served in nearly every capacity in township 
offices, and has invariably given the utmost sat- 
isfaction. Attentive to his business affairs, and 
keeping abreast with the progressive farmers of 
the times, Mr. Palmer has won the esteem of his 
neighbors as well as the full confidence of his 
fellow-townsmen and the community at large. 



BB. WALLACE, of Moorefield Township, 
] Harrison County, is a son of Rev. Will- 
iam Wallace, who was a son of John and 
Mary (Anderson) Wallace, natives of 
York County, Penn. Rev. William Wallace 
was born in Chester County, Penn., March 17, 
1787. He finished his literary edncation at 
Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, studied the- 
ology under the direction of James Hervey, D. 
D., and was licensed to preach the gospel by 
the presbytery of Steubenville, Ohio, in the 
spring of 1821. He entered the service of his 
Divine Master as a domestic missionary, going 
through the new settlements of eastern Ohio, 
hunting up families of the Presbyterian order, 
and when finding one or more such families in 
any destitute place, he would publish notices 
for preaching at some convenient point, and in 
this way was instrumental in gathering up and 
forming nuclei, from which have arisen some of 
the most prominent congregations. After re- 
porting progress to the presbytery, he was ap- 
pointed chairman of a committee that organ- 
ized several churches in this territory, and 
among them the churches of Nottingham and 
Freeport, and to each of the last named places 
he gave one-half of his labors for eighteen 
years, when his health so failed that he was 
compelled to resign his charge in 1839. After 
two years of increasing infirmities, he died of 
heart disease, December 18, 1841, in the fifty- 
fifth year of his age, having spent twenty years 
in the work of the ministry. His last mo- 
ments were full of comfort, and his faith strong 
in Christ and His promises; thus he passed 
from earth with a holy calmness, and a full con- 
fidence of a blessed future. Mr. Wallace had 
a reputation of being a man of ardent piety and 
practical worth. He was modest and retiring 
in his manners, cautious and reserved in ex- 
pressing the convictions of his mind. His 
whole ministerial intercourse amoug his clerical 
brethren, as among the people of his charge, 
was a verification of the Scripture's precept: 
' • Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak 
and slow to wrath." He was social in his 



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habits, and never failed to win the hearts and 
wannest regards of those with whom he mingled 
in his daily work. His stronghold upon the 
affections and sympathies of the people was in 
the family circle of his parishioners and at the 
bedside of the sick and dying. In this connec- 
tion his name was still held in grateful remem- 
brance by the older members of the congrega- 
tion. He was faithful and successful as a 
pastor, mild and amiable as a man and Chris- 
tian, tender and kind as a parent and husband. 
"Asa preacher he was plain and textual; his 
sermons were rather expository than topical; he 
was diligent in his attendance upon the courts 
of his church, always taking a deep interest in 
presbyterial business; although not disposed 
to be very officious in ecclesiastical meetings, 
still he was prompt in action, a wise and judi- 
cious presbyter." [The above was written by 
Rev. T. R. Crawford, in 1871, for the historical 
narrative of the Nottingham Presbyterian 
Church.] 

On June 1, 1815, Rev. William Wallace mar- 
ried Miss Mary W. McWilliams. who was born 
March 17, 17 ( J7. a daughter of David and Mary 
(Wilson) McWilliams, natives of Pennsylvania, 
who in 1797 migrated to Ohio and settled on a 
farm one half mile west of St. Clairsville, Bel- 
mont County, where they resided until their 
death. Mr. McWilliams was one of the first elders 
and members of the Presbyterian Church of St. 
Clairsville, Ohio; Mrs. Wallace died in 1869. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace were parents of ten 
children, as follows: David McWilliams, de- 
ceased in infancy; John, who was born -Novem- 
ber 10, 1817, and died in Iowa; Nathaniel, 
born August 27, L820, now deceased; Sarah A., 
born April 11, 1822, wife of David Lyons, of 
Iowa, deceased; David B., born April 3, 1825; 
Eleanor S., wife of James Kirkpatrick, born 
June 17, 1827, deceased; William A., born No- 
vember 14, 1829. now owner of the old Wallace 
homestead in Mooretield Township; Samuel M., 
born February 12, 1832, a farmer in Mooretield 
Township; Margaret J., wife of Joseph Kirk- 
patrick, born December 23, 1833, and Wilson 



Iv, bi.ni May 6, 1836, a farmer in Moorefield 
Township. 

David B. Wallace was born on the old Wal 
lace homestead in Moorefield Township, Harri- 
rison County, where he grew to manhood and 
was educated at the common schools. On 
March 25, 1857, he married Miss Margaret 
Diokerson, who was born December 30, 1834, a 
daughter of Joshua and Belijah (Laffertj i 1 > i < ■ k 
erson, natives of Fayette County, Penn., and 
early settlers of Harrison County. Our subject 
and wife are parents of six children, namel) : 
William D., born February 6, 1858, and resid- 
ing in Lisbon, Dak.: James S. born November, 
23, 1859, still at home; Mary E., born Febru- 
ary 28, 1862, wife of John Diokerson, of 
Moorefield Township; Joshua A., born August 
12. 1864; Lillie B., born August '.'. 1867, and 
Lewis V., born October 13, 1869, residing at 
home. Mr. Wallace after his marriage pur- 
chased the farm he now owns, which contains 
170 acres on Section 5. Moorefield Township. 
The family are active members of the .Notting- 
ham Presbyterian Church. 




RS. JANE HUMPHREY, of Stock 
Township. Harrison County, was born 
in Ireland .March 1. 1813, a daughter 
of John and Elizabeth (Lynn) Law, 
the former of whom, in 1820, immigrated to 
the United States and settled in Harrison 
County, Ohio. On April 10. 1834, Miss Jane 
Law was married to \\ dliam Humphrey, wbo 
was born in June, 1812, in Ireland, lint when a 
small boy lost his father. The mother of Will- 
iam Humphrey and his sister Margaret came to 

the United States, and here the lad. William, 
resided with his uncle, .lames Evans, till he was 
old enough to support himself. He by his own 
efforts received a practical business education. 
In L832 he entered loll acres of land in £ 

Township, Harrison County, and in L834 lie 

erected thereon a log cabin, in which he with 
his wife resided for some years. Mr. Humph 
rey eventually cleared off the greater portion 



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of his land and erected fine buildings thereon. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey were born nine 
children, viz.: Elizabeth, who resides at home; 
Thomas, who was a resident of Saline County, 
Mo., for over twenty years, up to the time of 
his death, which occurred March 31, 1886 (by 
industrious farming and stock-raising he had 
accumulated a very comfortable home to leave 
to his widow and three little children); Marga- 
ret, wife of Joseph Patterson, of Missouri; 
Mary J., wife of William Patterson, of Green- 
wood County, Kas. ; Catherine, wife of William 
Foster, M. D., in Superior, Neb.; John, a 
farmer and stock-raiser in Labette County, Kas. ; 
Ellen, wife of Almond Birney, also in Labette 
County, Kas. ; Martha, wife of Marion Spiker, 
in Cadiz, Ohio, and Rebecca Anne, wife of W. 
K. Haverfield, in Jewett, Ohio. 

In 1858 Mr. Humphrey purchased the farm 
which Mrs. Humphrey now owns, and which 
contains 208 acres, situated in the southwest 
part of Stock Township, Harrison County. Mr. 
Humphrey died in 1884. In his youth he 
experienced religion, and joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of which he was a member 
all his after life. His widow has been a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church also 
from her youth, and the children have all been 
brought inside the fold, by their walk through 
life giving evidence of the sincerity of their 
profession. Politically Mr. Humphrey was a 
Kepublican. He was well known throughout 
the country and very highly esteemed by all. 
Mrs. Humphrey is held in the highest esteem 
by her neighbors, and is passing the waning 
days of life in ease and comfort. 



Ejs EATTY CARROTHEES is one of the 
i well-known farmers of Moorefield Town- 
fj ship, Harrison County, and is a son of 

George and Ann (Hastings) Carrothers, 
natives of Ireland. George Carrothers was 
born in 1784, a son of James Carrothers, and in 
1803 came to the United States, first locating 



in Washington County, Penn., where he carried 
on a distillery. About 1810 he married Miss 
Jane Hall, who was born February 2, 1791, 
and to this union were born five children, named 
James, John, George. William and Margaret. 
About 1813 George and his wife migrated to 
Harrison County, Ohio, and entered 320 acres 
of land in Nottingham Township. On February 
2, 1828. Jane Carrothers died, and the same 
year George married Ann Hastings, who was 
born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, May 1, 
1798, and whose parents came to America about 
1820. To the second union of Mr. Carrothers 
were born five children, viz. : Sarah, deceased 
wife of James Wilson; Beatty; Eliza, deceased 
wife of Jackson Kennedy; Mary, deceased, and 
Christopher, who in 1869 went to Japan as a 
missionary, but now is employed as a govern- 
ment teacher in that country. George Car- 
rothers departed this life December 4, 1863; 
his wife died January 14, 1886. Mr. Carrothers 
was for years a member of the United Brethren 
Church; his wife was a member of the Presbyter- 
ian Church. 

Beatty Carrothers was born in Nottingham 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, March 14, 1832, 
and when only four years old came to the farm 
he now owns, where he grew to manhood. On 
November 26, 1856, he married Martha J. Mc- 
Clintock, and to this union was born one child, 
by name Winfield. Mrs. Carrothers departed 
this life March 26, 1859, their child, Winfield, 
dying June 27, of same year, and June 21, I860, 
Mr. Carrothers was married to Miss Elsie John- 
son, who was born July 10, 1839. To this 
union have been born five children, viz. : John- 
son, who was married to Miss May E. Williams 
of Albany, N. Y., and they now reside in Coun- 
cil Bluffs, Iowa; George, who was married to 
Miss Anna B. Love of Harrison County, Ohio, 
and now resides in Piedmont, Ohio, where he is 
engaged in the hardware trade; C. D., who 
married Miss Mary B. Dickerson, and resides 
at home; Sadie M., at home, and William O, 
deceased. Mr. Carrothers and wife are mem- 
bers of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. 



rit ARON GREEN, one of the well known 
/ / \\ residents and a native of Washington 
/f^A, Township, Harrison County, was born 
JJ May <>. 1836, and is the third son of 

Samuel and Ann (Thompson) Green. The early 
life of Aaron Green was spent on the home 
place, where he assisted in the carrying on of 
the farm, and June 24, 1872, he was married to 
Eleanor B., daughter of Thomas Chambers,who 
came with his father, Samuel, from Ireland, in 
1S.25. Samuel Chambers was early in life mar- 
ried to Jane Beck, who died soon afterward, 
leaving one child, Thomas; the second wife of 
Mr. Chambers was Deborah Carr, by whom he 
had eight children. In 182U Thomas Cham- 
bers was married to Prudence Morton, who 
bore him three children: Mary J., Caroline M. 
and Eleanor B. He was a great traveler, and 
was familiar with most of the United States. 
On December 15, 1851, he died, and was soon 
followed to the grave by his wife, who died May 
14, 1857. 

Shortly after his marriage Mr. Green re- 
moved to the farm on which he still resides, 
and on which he has made extensive improve- 
ments. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Aaron Green are Alice C, Bessie and Samuel 
H. and Thomas H. (twins). Mr. Green is a 
member of the Society of Friends at Freeport; 
Mrs. Green and her daughter, Alice C, are 
members of the Methodist Church. He has 
been a Republican, but since the organization 
of the Prohibition party has been among its 
strongest adherents. Mr. Green and family 
are among those identified with charitable ami 
other benehcial objects, and rank among the 
families whose presence does so much to make 
a community better and happier. 




,\ILLIAM McKEOWN, a well known 
and progressive farmer of Freeport 
V( Township, Harrison County, was born 
here August 28, 1*42. His father. 
Alexander McKeown, was born in Ireland, and 
in 1824 came to America, and located in Bel- 



mont County. Ohio, where he remained until 
1S26, when he entered the farm on which his 
son William now resides, in Harrison County. 
Before leaving Ireland, Alexander was married 
to Rose Ann Glasgow, whose parents came to 
Guernsey County, Ohio. The children born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McKeown were Henry, 
John, James (deceased), Alexander, Adam (de- 
ceased), Arthur, William, Man .lane, Lavina 
and Rosa A. The father, who was a weaver by 
trade, in polities a Whig, died in 1851, his wife 
surviving him until April, 1SS6. He was a man 
of kindly disposition and of great strength of 
character, and was respected by all. 

William McKeown was reared on the home 
place, and farming has always been his voca- 
tion, while the common schools were the advan- 
tages he enjoyed in the matter of educational 
facilities. In 1S62 he enlisted in the Eighty - 
seventh O. V. 1.. Company H, and was sent to 
Baltimore, as well as t<> Harper's Perry. While 
at the latter place the regiment was captured, 
but the members thereof were paroled, and Mr. 
McKeown then returned home. On May 14. 
1867, he chose as his life's partner Nancy J. 
Tidrick, daughter of Robert Tidrick, of Guern- 
sey County, Ohio. The young couple imme- 
diately settled on the home place, where fchej 
remained until 1885, when they went to Mis- 
souri, remaining there, however, but three years, 
when they returned to the home place, where 
they have since resided. In polities Mr. Mc- 
Keown is a Republican, heartily supporting his 
ticket, and has served in various offices of honor, 
among which may lie mentioned that of trus 
tee for several terms. He is the father of two 
children: Mary and James G., the latter now 
deoeased, and of whom the following obituary 
appeared in a local paper: 

Died at his heme near Freeport, Ohio, September 

2 1890, James G. McKeown, aged twenty years, In 
terred ai Londonderry September :'.. funeral services 
conducted b) Rev. J. W.Taylor. The deceased was 
ii,,. onlj Bonof William ami Nancy McKeown Three 
life- were spent with liis parents and Bis- 
i Sublett, Mo. The remainder "f liis life was 
passe.l at his heme near this place. He was absent 

from home when he was taken sick, but returned 

home at once and consulted a physician. Continuing 



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to grow worse, two other physicians were summoned, 
hut the skill of all was baffled by his disease, which 
his physicians termed typho-malaria fever. He united 
witli the United Presbyterian Church at Londonderry 
in his fifteenth year. Young and full of life's youth- 
ful vigor and joys, but not a stranger to deep thought 
or meditation upon serious things which he evidenced 
upon his deatli bed, by resigning himself to God, and 
assuring his parents that God doeth all things for the 
best. His sufferings were severe, which he bore with 
great patience. Being early made acquainted with 
the Scriptures, they afforded him much consolation in 
time of trial. His mind was clear, and his faith un- 
shaken to the last. The family, community and friends 
have experienced an inexpressible loss. He had a 
large circle of friends, and was loved and respected by 
all who knew him. He has gone to his rest, and given 
to youth and all a warning. 

The family worship at the United Presby- 
terian Church at Londonderry, of which the 
parents have been members for many years. 
Mr. McKeown engages in general farming, and 
also deals quite extensively in stock. He is now 
the only representative of this family, which 
have been so long aud favorably known in this 
locality. 



fti BNER CARVER was born near Flush- 
/ / \\ ing, Belmont Co., Ohio, January 23, 
lr~X\ 1805, a typical representative of the Car- 
■(/ ver family, who have for so maDy years 

been prominently and closely identified with the 
history, growth and progress of Harrison Coun- 
ty, almost from its earliest settlement. Mr. 
Carver was during the greater part of his youth 
engaged on the farm, and had little opportunity 
for attending the schools whose sessions occupied 
about two months of the year. But his memory 
was a receptive one, and he seemed to imbibe 
knowledge readily. In 1829 he was married to 
Eliza, daughter of Thomas Norris, of Freeport, 
and immediately removed to the farm now occu- 
pied by his son, which he largely improved. 
Here he and his faithful wife lived and died, 
leaving behind them the following named chil- 
dren: Harriet (now deceased), Harrison N. and 
Thomas P. Mr. Carver was no exception to the 
Carver family in politics. He early united with 
the Whig party, but on the organization of the 
Republicans supported them. He always took 
an active part in the party management of his 



section, and was eminently successful in that 
line. On July 23, 1855, Mrs. Carver died and 
was laid to rest in the Methodist Cemetery, and 
for a second wife Mr. Carver married Rachel 
Cullen, who died August 14, 1882. Mr. Carver 
died May 13, 18S4, and was buried in Green 
Mount Cemetery. 

Thomas P. Carver, youngest son of Abner 
Carver, was born September 19, 1843, was 
reared on the home place, and has since resided 
there. In 1862 he enlisted in the Ninety-eighth 
O. V. I., Company C, for three years, and fol- 
lowed the fortunes of that regiment till, at the 
close of the war, it was disbanded. While par- 
ticipating in all the battles, skirmishes and 
marches, still he was never wounded nor absent 
from the roll call. After leaving Atlanta he was 
one of the color bearers for his regiment, and 
was always at his post of duty. The greatest 
credit that can be given a soldier is that he did 
his duty, and doubly so when, a mere boy, he 
enters the ranks and follows for nearly three 
long years the fortunes of war, undergoing 
hardships, privations and dangers. On his dis- 
charge from the army Mr. Carver returned 
home, and in 1S66 engaged in operating a port- 
able saw-mill in Harrison and adjoining coun- 
ties. He still deals quite extensively in lumber, 
a business he has followed for the past twenty- 
three years. His farm of 135 acres is situated 
about one and a half miles from Freeport, 
stocked with different kinds of animals, and in 
connection with stock-raising he carries on gen- 
eral farming. He takes an active interest in the 
questions of the day, and votes according to his 
own judgment. Although he is a Republican, 
and supports the party from the conviction that 
it represents most nearly what he considers for 
the best interest of the people. In all matters 
Mr. Carver is a liberal-minded man, and while 
not a professing church member, still recognizes 
the civilizing influence of the church, and its 
beneficial effect on the people generally. He 
has ever been an industrious man, and has made 
his own success. On November 15, 1868, he 
was married to Mary A., daughter of William 



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Johnson, of Smyrna, and this union has been 
blessed with the following named children: 
Clara E., Harry, William, Fred, Abner, Carl, 
Roy and Delmar. 



GEORGE W. BARRICKLOYV was born 

August 7, 1887. His grandfather, Henry 
Barricklow, and his father, Frederick Bar- 
ricklow, were both natives of New Jersey, 
whither the ancestry had come from Germany. 
Frederick Barricklow was a young man when he 
came to Pennsylvania, and here he remained 
until coming to Harrison County. In 1826 be 
was wedded to Nancy, daughter of John and 
Catharine McClelland Dugau. Mr. Dugan was 
a native of Ireland, from which country he came 
at an early age; his wife was of German extrac- 
tion. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bar- 
ricklow located in Fayette County, Penn., and 
in 1832 they came to Ohio, where they pur- 
chased the farm now occupied by John D. Bar- 
ricklow. Here they reared their family and en- 
joyed the blessings of life, the respect and 
esteem of their acquaintances, and the mutual 
blessing flowing from married life, till 1858, 
when the father died at the age of sixty three 
years. He had always carried on agricultural 
pursuits, and was regarded as one of the success- 
ful followers and devotees of Ceres. Politically 
he was a life-long Democrat, taking a lively in- 
terest in the affairs of his party. Mis. Barrick- 
low survived him till the age of eighty one, 
when she, too, joined the silent majority. She 
was the mother of five children, viz. : John D. , 
in Cadiz; Henry, also in Cadiz; Alexander, in 
Athens; Margaret A., deceased, and George W., 
our subject. 

George W. Barricklow, from his birth, has 
been a resident of his native county, and is now 
one of its most prominent citizens. Here ho re- 
ceived his education, both in books and in busi 
ness affairs, and good use has he made of his 
knowledge. Entering the common schools be 
there remained until about seventeen years of 
age, when he entered Franklin College, where 



he continued his studies for several terms, thus 
receiving an exceedingly liberal education. In 
1869 he was married to Ruth Emily, daughter of 
Presly and Sarah Gregg, of Indiana, and he is 
now the father of two children: K. 1'. and 

Bertha M. S q after his marriage Mr. Barrick 

low settled on a farm in Athens Township, where 
he remained until 1886, when, with his family, he 
took a western trip, but since his retnrn he 
has resided in Cadiz. His farm consists of 189 
acre-,, located about four miles west of New 
Athens, well improved and in good condition. 
Here he engages in general stock raising and 
farming, grazing a large number of western 
cattle, which he tits for market. While taking 
an active interest in political affairs, he finds but 
little time to devote to them, as persona] matters 
demand his entire attention; he, however, sup- 
ports the Democratic ticket. He is well known 
in the county for his business sagacity and 
shrewdness, and is accounted as one of the lead- 
ing citizens of his section. 



RAffATHAN S. M.CLAINE was born in 
I \l 1848, on the farm on which he now lives, 
lj in North Township, Harrison County, 
ty which has always been his home, and 

here also reside his widowed sister. Sarah, and 
her little girl. This farm, situated two miles 
southwest of Scio, comprises seventy acres in 
his own right, and forty acres belonging to his 
sister, and is chiefly devoted to aising. 

In politics Mr. McClaine is a Republican; he is 
a representative fanner, and is widely known 
throughout the county. 

James McClaine, father of Nathan S., was 
born in Westmoreland County. Penn.. and was 
twenty one or twenty two years of age when he 
came to Harrison County. Ohio, with his father. 
Joseph, who entered a quarter section of land. 
. I: ames McClaine married Sarah Endsley, daugh- 
ter of John Endsley, a pioneer of . Archer 
Township. Harrison County, Ohio, and to this 
union were horn twelve children, in the follow- 
ing order: Jane, deceased; Joseph, in Oi 



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John E., of North Township; Mary Ann, de- 
ceased; Samuel, in Iowa; James Alexander, of 
Archer Township; Sarah, widow of Edward 
Smith; Harriet, wife of Samuel Cutshall, of 
Carroll County, Ohio; Thomas E., William and 
Martha Jane, deceased, and Nathan S. , of 
North Township, whose name heads this sketch. 
Thomas E. McClaine was a member of Com- 
pany A, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. 
I. , from 1862 until his death, which occurred in 
1863. The father of this family died in North 
Township in 1851, aged fifty years; his widow 
survived until 1881, when, at the age of eighty 
years, she followed to the grave. 



DANIEL J. SNYDER, M. D. The town 
of Scio, Harrison County, enjoys the en- 
viable reputation of having in her midst 
some of the best-read and most experi- 
enced physicians of not only the county, but 
even of the entire State, and by no means the 
least of these is the gentleman whose name ap- 
pears at the head of this sketch. Dr. Snyder 
was born at Farmerstown, Holmes Co. , Ohio, 
April 9, 1841, a son of John and Susan (Miller) 
Snyder, of Westmoreland County, Penn. George 
Snyder, grandfather of our subject, was a native 
of Pennsylvania, born in Union County in 1768, 
and his father was a soldier in the war for Ameri- 
can independence, having been engaged in nearly 
all the principal battles during that great strug- 
gle. The family were originally from Hanover, 
in Germany, who came to this country about 
1740, and settled in the wilds on the Susque- 
hanna River, where many of the descendants 
still reside. George Snyder was married to 
Catharine Blume, and with his family moved to 
Holmes County, Ohio, in 1822, and settled on 
the farm where the Doctor was born. He died 
in 1S30, at the age of sixty-two years; his 
widow, at the home of her son, the Doctor's 
father, in 1859, aged eighty-six years. The 
children born to this honored pioneer were four- 
teen, viz.: Three died in infancy; Jacob, the 
oldest son, remained in Pennsylvania, and died 



there in 1824; John, the father of the subject 
of this sketch; George, Peter, Mrs. Kate Hou9er, 
Lydia Houser, Mrs. Tinnie Lower, Miss Sally, 
Mrs. Mary Rainsberger, Samuel and Daniel; 
with the exception of Samuel, Daniel and Mrs. 
Mary Rainsberger, all are deceased. 

John Snyder, father of the Doctor, was born 
in Union County, Penn., in 1806, and in 1822 
came to Holmes County, Ohio, where he grew 
to manhood on a farm, teaching school during 
the winters. In 1820 he married Miss Susan, 
daughter of Henry Miller, of Westmoreland 
County, Penn., and born in that county in 1S08, 
coming with her parents to Holmes County, 
Ohio, in 1816. To Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder 
were born the following named children: Jacob, 
now in Champaign, 111.; Polly (Mrs. Samuel 
Shatzer), in Stark County, Ohio; Peter, in Holmes 
County, Ohio; Susan (Mrs. Samuel Lower), in 
Wayne County, Ohio; John, in Illinois; Daniel 
J., the subject proper of this biographical 
sketch; and Albert, in Illinois. The mother of 
this family died in 1869, the father in 1885; he 
had been a school teacher up to the age of sixty 
years, and in his politics had been a Jacksoniau 
Democrat all his life. 

Daniel J. Snyder was reared to farm life, 
attending the common school of his district dur- 
ing the winter months, and at the age of seven- 
teen he became a teacher, a profession he fol- 
lowed, in all, ten winters. In 1864, being then a 
resident of Hancock County, this State, he 
enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Sixty- 
first O. V. I., from that county, which was sent 
South and attached to the Army of the Potomac. 
He participated in the engagement at Harpei - 's 
Ferry (1864), and at the close of the war received 
an honorable discharge, and returned to Hancock 
County. The study of medicine he commenced 
in Holmes Coiinty, later taking a course at the 
College of Medicine and Surgery at Cincinnati, 
graduating therefrom in 1870. That yoar he 
came to Lamartine, Carroll County, and the 
same year moved to Scio, where he has since 
remained a recognized leading physician of the 
place. Under the administration of Cleveland 





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he was appointed postmaster at Scio. I nit after 
serving part of a term, his practice having largely 
increased, he resigned in favor of a Republican 
lady, Miss Martha C. Patton. In 1803 the 
Doctor was married to Mary J. Miller, who died 
soon after, and in March, 1807, he became 
united in wedlock with Miss Mary, daughter of 
Dr. William W. Custer, of Scio, and three chil- 
dren have been born to them, viz. : Frances, 
deceased at the age of three years; James 
Albert, born in 1872, at present in the junior 
class in Scio College; and Willie, deceased. 
Dr. Snyder is a member of the American Med- 
ical Association, and the Ohio Medical Society, 
also the Ohio Sanitary Association; is an honor- 
ary member of the Tuscarawas County Medical 
Society, and was a delegate to the International 
Medical Convention (ninth) held at Washington 
in 1887. He is the author of papers on various 
medical subjects, and possesses the finest library 
of medical works, and the most complete case of 
surgical instruments, in the two counties. In 
his political preferments he is an uncompromis- 
ing Democrat. Since the above was written, 
Dr. Snyder received, October 15, 1890, the ap- 
pointment of assistant physician to the Columbus 
(Ohio) Asylum for Insane, which position he 
now holds. 



fli ETHUR ALLISON HAWTHORNE, one 

i/l\ of the leading agriculturists of Short 
fn\\ Creek Township, Harrison County, was 
•r/ born February 27, 1845, on the farm 

where he now lives. His grandfather, James 
Hawthorne, was a native American, but the lat- 
ter' a father was born in Ireland, whence he and 
three brothers came to this country — two settling 
in Jefferson County, Ohio, and one in Harrison 
C.iimty. James Hawthorne married Rosanna, 
daughter of Robert Stewart, and they became 
the parents of eight children, viz. : Hannah, 
now Mrs. Mcllroy, in Washington County, Iowa; 
Margaret Ann, now Mrs. John MoNary, living 
near New Athens, Harrison County ; Nancj Jane; 
Arabella, who died at the age of twelve years; 



Robert Creighton, born October 5, 1819; and 

Samuel E.. William and Rosanna, all deceased. 
The lather of this family died in L844, at the 
age of fifty sis years, on the farm now occupied 
by Isaiah Field; he was a tanner by trade, which 
he followed in New Athens, and was a member 
of the Seeeder Church. His widow survived 
him many years, dying at the advanced age of 
ninety t wo yean . 

Robert Creighton Hawthorne, father of the 
subject of these lines, was born on the farm, 
where he grew to manhood's estate, attending 
during winter time the common schools; h> 
worked for a time at harness making. In the 
fall of 1842 he was married to Margaret J., 
daughter of Francis ami Jenette Grove, and 
born in York County, Penn., August 26, 1817. 
In 1833 she came with her parents to Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County, where the latter 
both died, the father in March. 184 I. at the age 
of sixty-two years (he was a farmer by occupa- 
tion, in politics a strong Whig], and the mother 
in t873, at the age of eighty four years. They 
were the parents of nine children, as follows: 
Emily, Susan. Maria and Charlotte, all deceased; 
Margaret Jane, Mrs. Robert ('. Hawthorne; 
Eleanor 1!., now Mrs. Oliver R. MoNary, in 
Leavenworth. Kas. ; Thomas Cross, in Jell- 
County, Ohio; Sarah Elizabeth, n"» wife of 
Samuel Kyle, in Muskingum County, Ohio; 
Francis Pringle. in Cadiz Township, Harrison 
County, and William Scott, in Kansas. After 
their marriage Mr. and .Mrs. Hawthorne came to 
Short Creek Township, and in the following 
spring moved to the farm where Mrs. Hawthorne 
now resides. For three years they resided in 
Muskingum County. Ohio. Here in L864 at 
the age of forty live, died Robert Creighton 
Hawthorne, after an illness of only two weeks. 
Politically he was a Republican, and in religion 
he was a member, as is his widow, of the 
Unity United Presbyterian Church of Helmont 
County. Since his death Mrs. Hawthorne, now 
Seventy four years of age. has continued to re- 

sideon the old home place. Therecordof their 

children is as follows: Arthur Allison is the 



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subject proper of these lines; Francis Grove, 
born January 25, 1847, lives in Short Creek 
Township. Harrison County; Emily Arabella, 
born October 20, 1849, is now Mrs. James 
Holmes, and lives in Greene County, Ohio; 
James Stewart, born August 2, 1852, resides in 
Adena, Jefferson Co., Ohio. 

Arthur Allison Hawthorne grew to maturity 
on the farm, attending the common schools. On 
January 3, 1878, he married Miss Jane Eliza, 
daughter of Samuel and Isabella (McMillan) 
Maxwell, and a native of Jefferson County, 
Ohio, and they then settled on the farm where 
they now reside in Short Creek TownsLip. 
Three children have been born to them, viz. : 
Florence Gertrude, born December 4, 1878; 
Clarkson Grove, born December 8, 1881, and 
Harvey McMillan, born September 30, 1886. 
The parents are both members of the Unity 
United Presbyterian Church of Belmont County, 
Ohio; in politics Mr. Hawthorne is a strong 
Republican. His farm of eighty-one acres is 
situated about half way between New Athens 
and Harrisville. and is devoted to general farm- 
ing and stock-raising. The house was built in 
1844, and the outbuildings some time later. 
The Hawthorne family are well known in the 
county, and highly respected in the community. 




M. PATTON. In every community are 
to be found those who are recognized 
as leaders, and who have the highest 
regards of their associates; men who 
by their lives have set examples for future gen 
erations, who possess an integrity always un- 
questioned, a character as irreproachable as it 
is esteemed. Such a man is the subject of this 
sketch. Born in Fayette County, Penn., Sep- 
tember 3, 1815, he, with his parents, early 
moved to this part of the country. His father, 
Joseph, also a native of Pennsylvania, where 
he was engaged in farming, while quite young 
was married to Sarah, a daughter of John 
Burns, one of the leading farmers of his sec- 
tion. The young couple settled in .his native 



county, where they remained a few years, and 
then decided to brave the hardships of a wild 
and unsettled country, there to build up a new 
home. So, on April 1, 1816, they set out for 
their western home, arriving in Harrison 
County, Ohio, and settling in Rumley Town- 
ship, where their descendants are still to be 
found. Here they purchased a quarter-section 
of land, and, with the assistance of their chil- 
dren, made a home, neat, comfortable and 
happy. Their family consisted of ten children, 
viz. : John, Sarah, Joseph, Margaret and M. 
M. , born in Pennsylvania, and James, Mary. 
Cynthia J., David and Ann, born in Harrison 
County, Ohio. In politics Mr. Patton was a 
Democrat, and was honored by his party with 
the gift of several offices. In February, 1851, 
he departed this life, and was buried in the 
cemetery at Rumley by the side of his wife, who 
had preceded him in September, 184'^. 

The subject of these lines remained at home 
during his early childhood, assisting in carry- 
ing on the farm in summers and attending the 
district schools during the winters. The old 
school-house of that day was a log cabin, with 
a slab floor, slab benches, and greased-paper 
windows. In such primitive surroundings, 
aided by a few well-worn books, and a teacher 
whose muscular development was never doubted, 
but of whose literary qualifications little should 
l)f said, the children of the early settlers re- 
ceived their education. On March 3, 1S44, Mr. 
Patton was married to Sarah Jane, a daughter 
of Samuel McCullough, a resident of Carroll 
County, Ohio. Mr. Patton first made his home 
in North Rumley, where he leased a place for a 
short period, and in a few years he purchased 
what is now known as the Pratt Farm, to which 
he immediately moved. Here he remained 
eleven years, making extensive improvements on 
the place, erecting all the buildings and effect- 
ing many needed repairs. He then sold, and 
purchased the farm of 130 acres on which he 
now resides, and which is in excellent condition, 
well watered and timbered. The following is a 
record of his family: Sarah Margaret, now 



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Mrs. Adam Miller, of German Township, this 
county, was born January 19, 1843; James was 
born October 23, 1844; John H. was born Au- 
gust 25, 1S46; Joseph was born May 7, 1848, 
and died August 22, 1851; Samuel M. was 
born April 12. 1850, and died August 31, 1857; 
Addison was born May 25, 1852: William was 
born August 17, 1854, and died February 27, 
1858; Fremont was born August 29, 1856, and 
died March 5, 1858; an infant daughter was 
born March 12, 1859, and died March 17. L859; 
Ida was born February 9, 1860; Fre was born 
April 12, 1862; Thomas B. was born December 
8, 1863. Mrs. Patton died June 13, 1878, and 
was buried in the Ridge Cemetery. She was a 
leading member, as is her husband, of the Pres- 
byterian Church. In politics Mr. Patton was a 
Democrat until the election of Buchanan, when 
he joined the Republican party, who at that 
time were the exponents of the principles which 
he espoused. Although never an office seeker, 
yet Mr. Patton never fails to do his full share of 
the labor in the political canvass, and is num- 
bered among the leaders of his party. 

Thomas B., his youngest son, resides at 
home, and manages the home place. On March 
20, 1888, he was married to Hattie E., daugh- 
ter of John Finnicum, a resident of Rumley 
Township, Harrison County, and one child was 
born to them, October 11, 1889, named Beryl F. 
Mr. Patton is an intelligent, thinking, rising 
young man. He is a Republican in polities, 
and he and his wife are members of the Presby- 
terian Church. He is a worthy son of a worthy 
parent. 




S. MATTERN. Among the rising and 
highly esteemed young men of Green 
Township, Harrison County, none occu- 
pies a higher place than the one whose 
name heads this sketch. Abraham Matteni, 
his father, was a native of Westmoreland Conn 
ty. Penn.. where he was born October 'J. 1806, 
and where, for many generations, the family 
had resided. When he was quite young his 



parents removed to Ohio, purchasing a farm in 
Archer Township, Harrison County. Here they 
encountered the many hardships incident to 
pioneer life, and, after a long life of trials, they 

I to their reward. Abraham grew to man- 

h 1 under the paternal roof, and. at the age of 

twenty commenced life for himself, engag- 
ing in agricultural pursuits, which he followed 
during life. In \^'-\'i be was married to Mary 
Brown, of Archer Township, Harrison County, 
and by he]- had six children, viz.: Jani 
home), John (in Archer Township), Nancy Ann 
(at home), Hugh B. (deceased), Wesley (at 
home), and Alfred S. (residing at Folk's Sta 
tion). After marriage Mr. Mattern and his 
young wife located on a farm which he had 
purchased in Archer Township, and paid for 
with the savings of many years' hard work. 
This farm he sold, and, April 'l'-K 1837, he moved 
to Green Township, where he passed the re- 
mainder of his days. While eminently sue 
cessful in his business of farming, his prosperi 
ty may lie attributed entirely to his foresight, 
economy and strict attention to business. On 
February 15. L889, Abraham Mattern passed 
from earth, and was buried in Bethel Cemeterj : 
his widow followed him to the grave December 
17, 1890, and was laid to res! bj tli" side of her 
husband. In politics .Mr. Mattern was an en- 
thusiastic Democrat, in religion a Methodist. 

A. S. Mattern. of whom this sketch treats, 
was born February 18, I s "':!. in Green Township, 
Harrison, Co., Ohio, and his youth was -pent in 
attending to the duties of the home farm, and 
receiving such education as the common schools 
afforded. For some years after attaining his 
majority he engaged in various businesses with 

s, and soon after his marriage, he em- 
barked in general mercantile trade, which he 
still continues. On September II. 1881, he 
was married to Jennie R., daughter of Robert 
Pry. at the time a resident of Pennsylvania, 
but now of Wellsbnrg. W. \ a. Pour children 
were bom to this union: Ora M., born August 
22, 1882; Lela J., bom April 3, L884, died June 
13, 1S85; Edna Leona. born April 29, 1886, 



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and Wesley Earl, born June 6, 1890. In pol- 
itics Mr. Mattern is Democratic, and in religion 
he is a Methodist. As a worthy citizen of his 
township Mr. Mattern is held in the same high 
respect as was his father before him, and he 
well merits it. 




^ILLIAM WATTEES, a thriving young 
farmer of North Township. Harrison 
M[ County, was born in Harrison County, 
Ohio, September 12, 1848, and is a son 
of Nathan "Watters, also a native of Harrison 
County. William Watters, the father of Na- 
than, was born in Maryland, of Scotch descent, 
and his death took place in Harrison County, 
Ohio. Nathan Watters, who was a farmer, mar- 
ried Miss Catherine Foutz, a native of North 
Township and daughter of Michael Foutz, who 
entered the farm on which our subject now re- 
sides. On this farm Mrs. Catherine Watters 
died April 28, 1874, at the age of sixty-one 
years, Nathan Watters surviving her until April 
29, 1887, when he, too, passed to his long home 
at the age of seventy- four years, a member of 
the Lutheran Church. The children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Nathan Watters were six in number, 
and were named as follows: John, Elizabeth and 
Jonathan, deceased, and Elijah, William and 
Isaiah, the last named being a resident of Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio. 

William Watters grew to manhood on the 
farm on which he was born, attending the common 
schools during the interval, and assisting in the 
performance of farm duties. On March 23, 
1882, he married Mrs. Sarah A. Clemens, widow 
of Jephtha Clemens (who died in Youngstown, 
Ohio), and daughter of George W. and Sophia 
Siinmonds, of Monroe Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio. By her first marriage, Mrs. Watters was 
the mother of four children, of whom one only, 
Frank, is still living; by her second marriage 
she has had one child, that died unnamed. The 
dwelling of Mr. Watters was totally destroyed 
by tire in 1884, with no insurance, but Mr. 
Watters, with characteristic energy, had his 



present edifice completed before the expiration of 
the year. The farm is located about two miles 
south of Connotton, and by road about six miles 
southwest of Scio. Mr. Watters is favorably 
and widely known throughout the township, and 
his farm is a model of neatness. It may lie stated 
as an unusual and most extraordinary circum- 
stance that the grandmother of our subject had 
been blind for many years, but just before her 
death (perhaps the day before) her sight was 
restored, and she was able to see distinctly. 
The father of our subject was also blind several 
years before his death. 




ILLIAM F. SMITH, a well-known citi- 
zen of Scio, Harrison County, was 
born in Carroll County, Ohio, Septem- 
ber 3, 1835, and is a son of W'illiam 
F. Smith, Sr., a native of Maryland, who when 
a young man came to Ohio, and settled in Car- 
roll County, where he met and married Lydia 
Dotts, a native of Carroll County, and a daugh- 
ter of Philip and Delila Dotts. To this union 
were born live children, viz.: Selina; Susanna, 
Mrs. Frederick Slates, of Perry ville, Ohio; Mary 
Ann, deceased wife of John Gladden; Obadiah, 
a fanner, of Missouri, and William F., the sub- 
ject of this sketch. William F. Smith, Sr. , was 
born January 5, 1797, and died on the farm in 
Carroll County, Ohio, June 29, 1853; his widow, 
who was born February 23, 1800, now resides 
in Perryville, Ohio. 

William F. Smith, the subject of this sketch, 
was reared on the farm and attended the com- 
mon schools until eighteen years of age, when 
he began to learn shoemaking near Perryville, 
and for nearly twenty years followed the trade. 
March 23, 1864, he enlisted in the Twenty sixth 
Ohio Independent Battery, and was honorably 
discharged in September, 1865, at Columbus, 
Ohio. In 1867 he settled in Scio, where for 
four years he worked at his trade; was then a 
year in the hardware business in partnership 
with M. J. Foster, and afterward for a time con- 



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ducted business on his sole account. He then 
formed a partnership with William Herron, and 
for a year and a half conducted a general mer- 
cantile business; next, from April 4, 1884, to 
1887, he was ticket and freight agent for the 
railway company at Scio. His dwelling, which 
was erected in 1880, in the south side of the 
village, on College Street, is pleasant and 
commodious, and has four acres of ground at- 
tached. The marriage of Mr. Smith took place 
October 23, 1867, with Miss Lizzie M. Robin 
son, a native of Brooke County, W. Va. , and a 
daughter of John and Nancy (Webb) Robinson. 
To this union two children have been born, viz. : 
an infant that died unnamed, and Anna Grace, 
who was born December 21, 1878. Politically 
Mr. Smith has always been a Republican, and 
although not an office-seeker, has held various 
of the offices within the gift of his fellow-towns- 
men; in religion, with his wife, he is a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has 
made what he has through his own hard work 
— his success being the result to a large extent 
of his good judgment. 

Elijah Robinson, the grandfather of Mrs. 
Smith, married Elizabeth Chapman, and both 
died near Colliers, W. Va. Elijah and Eliza- 
beth Robinson were the parents of the follow- 
ing named children: William, who died in Rich- 
land County, Ohio; Ellen, deceased wife of 
William McQueen, of Carroll County, Ohio; 
Sarah, deceased wife of James Boyd, also of 
Carroll County; Mary, widow of James Walker, 
who died in the West, and John, father of Mrs. 
Smith. The grandfather Webb served in the 
War of 1812, was married to Elizabeth Creal, 
and died on a farm near Colliers, W. Va., Janu- 
ary 4, 1859, aged sixty one years. The mother 
of Mrs. Smith died near Colliers, W. Va., 
January 1, 1854, aged fifty years, the mother of 
ten children, viz.: Washington, graduated at 
Allegheny College and Poughkeepsie Law 
School, and died in Indianola, Iowa, December 
20, 1854, aged twenty-nine years; Chapman 
was a cabinet-maker in Steubenville, Ohio, and 
died in July, 1851, at the age of twenty-five 



years; Samuel W. was a teacher, and died at 
Fort Laramie (while on an overland t ri j> to Call 
fornia) June 9, 1852, aged twenty live years; 
Elijah N., a farmer near Colliers, \V. Va. ; 
Prof. William Thomas, a graduate of Mt. Union 
College, taught in the South until the War of 
the Rebellion broke out, afterward located at 
Council Bluffs, Iowa, and died June '•'. 1874; 
John Wesley, a fanner near Colliers. W. Va. : 
Lizzie M., wife of our subject; Ellen, died 
August 1. lsis, aged nine years; Charity, Mrs. 
T. J. Robinson, in California; and Mary .).. 
who was a teacher before her marriage with 
Alfred D. Stansbury, and now living in Brooke 
County, \V. Va. The family were reared in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Smith, lie- 
fore marriage, was a teacher in West Virginia, 
and she also taught one term in Ohio. 



IMEOX SMITH was born January 2. 
1841, in Stock Township, Han 

/ County, Ohio, where he has ever 

resided, engaged in agriculture since his 
majority. He is a sou of William P. and .Mar- 
garet (Parker) Smith, Americans by birth, who 
had born to them the following named children: 
James P., Harriet, Sin.i. 1!. P., Daniel, Marga 
ret, David, and Simeon and Hannah (twins i. 
The educational advantages which our subject 
enjoyed were limited to the common school-, bul 
he has since devoted much of his leisure tit 
study, and has thus acquired a vast and varied 
fund of information: yet, while a great reader, 
he forms his own opinions on all subjects, and 
always stands on logical ground. As a mathe- 
matician he is exceptionally expert, having 
made it the subject of especial study. In his 

political affiliations Mr. Smith has always 1 D 

with the Democrats, but he has never Bought 
public office. 

On January 30, 1870, Mr. Smith married 
Rebecca, daughter of Samuel It. and Rebecca 
(Barnhill) Johnston, by birth Americans, and to 
this union have been born the following named 



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children: William, Allison (died December 28, 
L875), Juniata, De Witt T. and Mary W. In 
1871 Mr. Smith purchased his present residence, 
and has since been engaged in improving it. 
His attention is given to farming and stock 
raising, making a specialty of Mouchamp-Me- 
rino sheep, of which he is the originator, the 
parent flock being Spanish Merinos, imported 
by Stephen Atwood in 1801. 



JjOHN M. WELSH, M. D., Deersville, Har 
rison County, was born in Hanover, North 
I Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, December 
19, 1842, a son of James and Martha 
(Slemmons) Welsh. James Welsh is a son of 
Samuel and Catherine (Coulter) Welsh, and 
was born in Archer Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, July 9, 1815, where he grew to manhood 
and received a common-school education. March 
28, 1833, he married Miss Martha Slemmons, 
who was born July 7, 1814, a daughter of Will- 
iam and Jane (Osburn) Slemmons. To this 
union were born six children, viz. : Catherine, 
in Nottingham Township, Harrison County; 
Samuel S. , in Franklin Township. Harrison 
County: William C, in Kansas; Martha J. 
Johnson, in Nottingham Township, Harrison 
County; John M., our subject, and James Cam- 
eron, deceased. James Welsh, after his mar- 
riage, remained on his father's farm in Archer 
Township, Harrison County, for a few years, 
when he embarked in mercantile business in 
Hanover, where he remained a few years, and 
then removed to Nottingham Township, Harrison 
County, where he was also engaged iu mercan- 
tile business for about two years; he then sold 
his store and commenced farming in Notting : 
ham Township, where he remained four years, 
when, in company with R. N. McMillan, he 
started a tannery in Deersville, Franklin Town- 
ship, Harrison County, in which he was engaged 
about seven years; he then withdrew and opened 
a shoe store in Deersville, in which business he 
has since been engaged. In June, 1845. his 
wife, who was for years an active member of 



the Presbyterian Church, departed for the life 
to come, and November 17, 1860, Mr. James 
Welsh married Mrs. Louisa Cope, who was born 
June 18, 1826, a daughter of Barrett and 
Nancy (Carson) Rogers. This union has been 
blessed with three children, viz. : Flora J. Wa- 
gers, of Deersville, Ohio; Ernmett A., M. D. , 
a graduate of the Baltimore Medical College, 
in Smithiield, Ohio, and Bingham, who died in 
infancy. Politically Mr. Welsh is a Repub- 
lican, and served fifteen years as justice of the 
peace in Deersville and North Township. He 
aud his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

John M. Welsh, the subject proper of these 
lines, received his education at the common 
schools of North and Nottingham Townships and 
Cadiz High School, and at the age of sixteen 
years commenced teaching in schools of the same 
class, which vocation he followed for ten years, 
devoting the last four years of his teaching to 
the reading of medicine in his leisure hours. 
During the winters of 1868 and 1869 he attended 
the Charity' Hospital Medical College of Cleve- 
land, and June 26, 1869, graduated from the 
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. 
August 6, 1869, he purchased the practice of his 
preceptor, Dr. John G. Kennedy, of Deersville, 
where he has since been in practice. Since 1865 
he has been a member of the Stillwater (Ohio) 
Medical Society, and June 11, 1873, he was 
elected a member of the Ohio State Medical As- 
sociation. He has also served for several years as 
medical examiner for several of the leading life 
insurance companies. Dr. Welsh studied law 
one year under Judge Lemmon, and two years 
under Col. Lewis Lewton. He was admitted to 
the Harrison County bar September 4, 1877, and 
has spent some time, in connection with his 
medical practice, in the practice of law. August 
28, 1862, he chose for his life's companion Miss 
Martha Moore, who was born in Nottingham 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, October 12,1841, 
a daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Given) 
Moore, natives of Ireland. Our subject and 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 



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Church; politically he is a Republican, and he 
is a charter member of the Masonic Lodge of 
Deersville, Ohio. 



BANIEL CLEMENTS, one of the best 
] known and progressive citizens of Athens 
Township, was born in Harrison County, 
Ohio. His father, James Clements, was 
a native of Maryland, of which State his ances- 
tors had long been residents. When quite young 
James was married to Plessey Merritt, a resi- 
dent of Belmont County, Ohio, and soon after 
their marriage they came to Harrison County, 
settling in Cadiz Township, where they remained 
for some time. Here James Clements erected 
a fulling-mill, probably the first in the county. 
This he carried on some time, and finally re- 
moved to Athens Township and erected a fnll- 
inc-mill there, to which he subsequently added 
a saw-mill. This business he followed for many 
years, and at last retired to his farm to enjoy 
the fruits of his industry and labor. His family 
were as follows: Nancy, Josiah, Daniel, John, 
Ester, Eliza, Mary, Merritt and James. The 
father was a member of the Whig party, and 
while in Cadiz Township served in many official 
capacities, such as justice of the peace, trustee, 
etc., and he and his family were members of the 
Presbyterian Church at Crabapple. He passed 
away and was laid to rest in the scenes of his 
religious work, being soon followed by his wife, 
and side by side they now sleep in Crabapple 
Cemetery. 

Daniel Clements was born December 24, 
1819, grew to manhood on the farm in Athens 
Township, and early began farm work, which he 
always pursued. His winters were devoted to 
the district school, where he laid the foundation 
of his education. In 1842 he was married to 
Elizabeth, a daughter of Barrick Diekerson, a 
resident of Cadiz Township, and they immedi 
ately commenced their married life on a farm in 
Section 28, removing but once, and then to the 
place where their son John now resides. Mr. 
Clements was widely and favorably known as a 



man of intelligence and honesty, as well as good 
business ability. He was a Democrat, and took 
quite a prominent part in the politics of his 
county, having served as trustee for several 
years, as well as treasurer; he and his family 
were members of the Presbyterian Church at 
Nottingham. A record of his children is as fol- 
lows: James is deceased; Thomas W. and John 
M. live in Athens Township: Samuel is de- 
ceased; Jane Elizabeth is now .Mrs. Robert Bar- 
tow; Josiah resides in Athens Township: Lou- 
isa is deceased; Clara 1'. is now Mrs. Dnnlap, of 
Belmont County. The father die. I September 
1, 1872, the mother January 22. 1888, and both' 
were interred at Nottingham. Mr. Clements 
was largely a self made man. and was eminently 
successful in acquiring property. 

Thomas \V. Clements was born June It, 
1846, in Athens Township, ami has since made 
hi-- residence there. His time was spent mainly 
on the farm, and in the schools during the leis- 
ure from his work. Like his father, he takes a 
great delight in study, and has added much to 
his knowledge by a thorough course of reading. 
On June Hi, 1883, he was married to Josephine 
Smith, a resident of Harrisi n County. He set- 
tled on the farm on which he resides at present, 
and which forms a part of the original home 
stead. His family consists of three children: 
Loda, Coral and Forrest. He is a Democrat in 
politics, and has for many years supported that 
party; he and his family belong to the Not 
tingham Church. 

John M. Clements was horn June 4. 1848, 
in Athens Township. From early childhood he 
has been accustomed to the duties of the farm, 
and is still engaged in agriculture. Attending 
the district school of his neighborhood, he ranked 
high for his general proficiency. His education, 
however, like that of his brother, was not aeg 
lected after the school days were ended, but he 
tnce devoted time and study to the various 

questions of the day. and is remarkably well in- 
formed in many branches. June 20. L888, he 
was married to Miss Marx Sloan, a daughter of 
John Sloan, a resident of Mooretield, and after 



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his marriage he removed to the home place, 
whiie he at present resides. One child, Sadie 
E. , has been born to him. Politically a Demo- 
crat, still he is not governed by that party's 
action, but votes as he deems best for the inter- 
ests of the people. He and his family are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church at Nottingham. 
The Clements family, since its advent into 
Harrison County, nearly four-fifths of a cent- 
ury ago, has ever had and still retains the re- 
spect and esteem of all. The present repre- 
sentatives are young men of excellent character, 
and are well known for their intelligence and 
integrity. 



J; AMES TAGGART (deceased) was born 
July 22, 1806, in Green Township, Har- 
I rison Co., Ohio. His father, John, was 
a native of Washington County, Penn., 
of which place James, the father of John, 
had been a lifelong resident. In early life 
James Taggart, grandfather of the subject 
of this memoir, was married to Mary Ferguson, 
and they raised a family consisting of John, 
James, Samuel, Robert, Jane and Elizabeth. 
He remained in Pennsylvania all his life, died 
and was buried there. John Taggart spent 
most of his early life on the paternal farm, at- 
tending the various schools of his neighbor- 
hood, and, in his young manhood, he chose as 
his life's partner Margaret Miller. In 1803, in 
company with a few companions, he came to the 
West, settling in Green Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where he entered a large tract of 
land. In the following spring he brought his 
family to his new home in the wildness of the 
primeval forest. Here, with that sturdiness 
and energy which characterized the early set- 
tlers of the country, he went manfully to work, 
and soon cleared up a farm. His family were 
James, Margaret, Mary, John, George, Jane, 
David and Alexander. From his earliest com- 
ing to the county he was a constant attendant 
and an enthusiastic supporter of the Beech 
Spring Presbyterian Church. At an advanced 



age, with his life crowned with good deeds, he 
passed away, and was buried in Beech Spring 
Cemetery. His beloved wife survived him but 
a few years, and, dying, was laid by his side. 

The life of James Taggart, whose name 
opens this sketch, was spent in the pursuit of 
farming, in which he was eminently successful. 
On March 12, 1835, he was married to Anne 
Craig, a daughter of John Craig, one of the 
earliest and most prominent farmers of his sec- 
tion, and, soon after marriage, Mr. Taggart 
purchased the farm on which he afterward re- 
sided in Green Township, Harrison County. It 
was then in an entirely uncultivated state, and 
its present productiveness and high state of im- 
provement are due entirely to the work of Mr. 
Taggart, of which he justly felt proud. His 
children were as follows: Margaret, born April 
23, 1836 (now Mrs. Dr. J. B. Crawford, of 
Gillespie, 111.); John Craig, bom May 28, 1839, 
died December 31, 1842; Milton J., born July 
19, 1842; Elizabeth A., born March 10, 1845 
(now Mrs. J. B. Mansfield, of Jefferson County, 
Ohio); James A., born January 8, 1848, died 
May 7, 1849; Mary R., born May 27, 1850; 
Luella K., born October 26, 1856, (now Mrs. 
W. H. Eagleson, of Green Township). The 
mother died February 24, 1887, the father Oc- 
tober 15, 1890, and they were laid to rest in 
Beech Spring Cemetery. In all political strug- 
gles Mr. Taggart was among those prominently 
identified with the Republican party; he had 
been honored many times by his party, having 
held the offices of trustee, treasurer and clerk 
for many consecutive years. In early youth he 
united with the Beech Spring Church, and ever 
afterward was prominently identified with it 
and its various movements for the advancement 
and betterment of the people. 

Milton J. Taggart, the only surviving son 
of our subject, is one of the rising and influen- 
tial young men of his section. He received 
his education at Hopedale Normal College, from 
which he received the degree of A. B. In the 
fall of 1863 Mr. Taggart entered the law de- 
partment of Michigan University, from which 




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he was graduated in 1866, receiving the degree 
of LL. B. He then entered partnership with 
Hun. J. H. S. Trainer, and opened a law office 
in Steubenville, Ohio, where he remained until 
called home to attend to the business of his 
father, who desired to retire from active pur- 
suits. At the last call for troops, Milton J. 
Taggart enlisted in Company H, One Hundred 
and Seventieth O. V. I., and was immediately 
sent to Washington, where he was assigned to 
duty cm the Signal Corps, for the dnties of 
which his previous education rendered him 
especially apt, and he served in this capacity 
until he was mustered out, September 10, 1864. 
On October 25, 1887, he was married to Anna 
Patten, of Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio, daughter 
of H. T. Patten, a prominent farmer of that 
county. They have one child, named Wayne 
Patten. The Taggart family were among the 
earliest settlers of Green Township, and are 
numbered among its most highly- respected and 
well-known citizens. As a family, they are 
always deeply interested in any movement for 
the welfare of the county, and never fail to do 
their share toward its promotion. 



JOHN B. BEALL is a thrifty and prosper- 
ous farmer and sheep-raiser in Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County, and is a sum 
of Colmore C. and Hannah (Rogers) Beall. 
James P. Beall, grandfather of our subject, was 
a native of Pennsylvania, but when compara- 
tively young came to Ohio. By his first wife he 
became the father of two children: Jane, who 
resides in Crawford County, Ohio, and Zrnas. 
deceased; his second wife, Minerva, was a daugh- 
ter of William Huff, an early settler of Harrison 
County. The brothers of Minerva — William, 
Reuben, Jackson and Johnson Huff — were prob- 
ably in their day the most noted Indian scouts 
of eastern Ohio. Jackson Huff, still adhering 
to the occupation he had adopted in early life, 
was shot and killed by an Indian, in 1875, while 
acting as a guide to some land seekers in a weal 
em State. James P. Beall, by his marriage wit li 



a Huff, became the father of ten children, 
viz. : Elizabeth, Cassandra, Colmore, all deceased; 
•lames P., Cyras and John, who died in the 
Civil War: Rebecca and Susan, both deceased; 

Minerva and Zephaniah. The father of I 
children early entered a tract of land in Section 
--!. Nottingham Township, erected a cabin, 
cleared his farm, and resided there until 1857, 
when he went to Crawford County, purchased 
another farm, and there en. led his days February 
'-'1. 1869; bis wife departed this life January It. 
1875, and both died in the faith of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

Colmore C. Beall. the father of the subject 
of this sketch, was born in Nottingham Town- 
ship. Harrison Co.. Ohio. Jim." 5, 1826, was 
reared a farmer. and was educate,! in the common 
schools. On January 24, 1850, he married Miss 
Hannah Rogers, also a native of Nottingham 
Township, born August 111. 1830, a daughl 
Barrett and Nancy (Carson) Rogers, her parents 
being natives of Ohio. To the union of Mr. and 
Mrs. Colmore C. Beall five children were born 
in the following order: John B., our Bubject, 
born December 13, 1850; Mary E., born June 
I9j 1*54, now the wife of Lyle McDivitt. North 
Township. Harrison County; James ¥.. born 
December 1 '_'. 1NJYS, decease, 1; Nancy M., born 
January 16, 1861, wife of Ahiram Johnson, and 
Emma L., born May 20, 1873. Two years after 
his marriage C. C. Beall removed from his 
homestead to thai of the Rogers family, and two 
years later, in 1854, purchased the farm now 
owned and occupied by his son. John B. This 
farm comprises 105 acres, on Section 10, 
tingham Township, and here he departed from 
earth March 1 •">. 1880; he was a cripple, unable 
to walk without the aid of crutches for nineteen 
years prior to his death. His widow resides 
with her son, John l">. Beall, and is a member 
of the Methodist Kpiscopul Church. 

John B. Beall, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born in Nottingham Township, liar 
rison Co. .Ohio. and was here reared andedui 
On December 30, 1875, lie married Miss Lucy 
Garner, who was born in Nottingham Township, 



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August 20, 1856, a daughter of Edward and 
Julia A. (Merriman) Garner, and eight children 
resulted from this union, born in the following 
order: Frank M., February 7, 1877; Harry O, 
December 26, 1878; Mary O., September 5, 
1880; William M., October 2, 1882; George W., 
July 22, 1884; Ada F., May 28, 1886; Ella V., 
February 7, 1888, and Anna G., May 26, 1890. 
Politically Mr. Beall is a Republican, but has 
never sought official position. Members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Beall 
live in full comformity with their faith, enjoying 
the respect and confidence of all who know them. 



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Hi ENRY V. SHEPLER (deceased) was born 
in Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
March 27, 1840, a son of Samuel and 
Susanna (Copeland) Shepler, pioneers of 
the county. Our subject grew to manhood in 
his native county, attending the common schools 
of his neighborhood, and on March 27, 1861, he 
was married to Miss Mary Ellen Howell, born De- 
cember 21, 1840, daughter of William Howell, 
of Hopedale, Harrison County. 

They settled in Green Township, Harrison 
County, where, February 2, 1871, Mrs. Shepler 
died, leaving four children: Selena May, born 
July 8, 1861 (now Mrs. Stanton McGrew, of 
Hopedale); John O, born October 25, 1863, 
now in Kansas (married November 27, 1883, to 
Miss Lillie May Place, of Chase County, Kas.); 
Samuel Fry, born March 8, 1866, now in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County (married December 
30, 1886, to Miss Belle Porter, of Harrison 
County); and Harry D., born March 11, 186S, 
died March 22, 1873. Mr. Shepler for his 
second wife married an old acquaintance in the 
person of Miss Amanda, daughter of Aaron and 
Mary Ann (Busby) Dennis, and a native of Har- 
rison County, born September 19, 1847, and 
who grew to womanhood in her native county. 
In April following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Shepler moved to Delaware County, same State, 
and, while there, on September 16, 1872, her 
only son was born, by name James Albert, now 



living with his mother. In 1874 they returned 
to Harrison County, and settled on the farm 
where the mother and her son now reside. On 
September 4, 1886, Mr. Shepler was called from 
earth at the age of forty-seven years. He was 
a farmer and stock dealer through life; was a 
stanch Democrat, and a man well known and 
much respected in the county. Since his death 
his widow and her sou have lived on the old 
home farm, three and a half miles southeast of 
the town of Cadiz. The family are well known 
and universally esteemed, well deserving of a 
prominent place in this Commemorative Record. 
Samuel Shepler, father of Henry V., was 
born April 9, 1799, and October 9, 1828, was 
married to Susanna Copeland, who was born 
September 20, 1805, and died March 13, 1854. 
By this union were born the following children: 
One that died in infancy, born August 17, 1829; 
Christina, born October 17, 1830, married to 
William Davidson October 10, 1849, and died 
October 17, 1890; Jacob O, born April 9, 1832, 
married October 5, 1857, to Mary Jane Frazier, 
and died June 13, 1863; James B., born No- 
vember 9, 1833, and married Catherine Croskey, 
December 15, 1864; Nancy Jane, born January 
25, 1836, died March 12, 1841; Susanna, born 
December 5, 1837, married March 16, 1865, to 
Alex. P. Bell, and Henry V. (now deceased), 
whose record appears above. 



AMUEL R. McFADDEN. Athens Town- 
ship abounds in representative men, 
among whom the McFadden family are 
well known. Samuel R. McFadden was 
born October 10, 1825, in Cadiz Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, where his earliest youth 
was spent, and soon after his removal to Athens 
Township he was married, May 7, 1851, to Mar- 
tha Robb, a daughter of William Robb. The 
Robb family came from Pennsylvania, where 
Mr. Robb married a Miss Warnick, and soon 
after came to Harrison County, Ohio. After 
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McFadden settled 
on the farm on which they still reside, and 



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which they have greatly improved, both in pro- 
ductiveness and improvements. Their home 
consists of 158 acres, situated three miles west 
of New Athens, where they engage in general 
fanning and stock-raising. Their children are 
as follows: Oscar R., in Athens; Rev. John E., 
in Kansas; Mary Eva, now Mrs. Rev. George 
W. Lyons, in Merced County, Cal. ; Abbie Jane; 
Grace, now Mrs. William Cook: William A., Car- 
rie, Adam B. and Everett. Mr. McFadden and 
family are prominent members of the United 
Presbyterian Church at New Athens; and he has 
served his township several terms as trustee, 
land appraiser, etc., at all times in a highly sat- 
isfactory manner discharging the duties im- 
posed. He has always been highly respected 
and esteemed by all, and has earned the good 
opinion by his own estimable life. 

The progenitor of the McFadden family in 
this country was John McFadden, who was born 
in Dublin, Ireland, but who, at the age of nine- 
teen years, sought a home in the State of Penn- 
sylvania, where, a few years later, he married 
Miss Sharpe, daughter of Col. George Sharpe, 
of the United States Army. In the year 1800, 
in company with the Jameson family, he entered 
one-half of Section No. 4, in what is now Cadiz 
Township, Harrison, Co., Ohio, and at once 
made preparations for the reception of his 
family, whom he had left temporarily in Penn- 
sylvania, and whom he brought to Ohio in 1801. 
It is unnecessary here to attempt to relate the 
many hardships and privations to which the 
hardy pioneer and his family were subjected; 
suffice it to say, that John McFadden and wife, 
after a well-spent life, passed from their first 
home in Ohio to another land, at a ripe old age. 
Their children were named Samuel, George, 
John, Joseph, Mary (Mrs. Joseph Sharpe, of 
Cadiz Township), and Margaret (Mrs. Edward 
Lafferty, of Athens Township), all of whom 
have followed their pioneer parents to the grave. 
Of these the third child, John, was born in 
Pennsylvania in 1788, and at the age of thirteen 
years, in 1801, came with his parents to Ohio, 
settling with them in Harrison County, where 



he grew to manhood, on the original homestead. 
He chose as a life partner Miss Mary Dnnlap, 
daughter of Adam Dunlap, of Harrison County, 
a pioneer from Maryland. After marriage Mr 
McFadden purchased a farm of 100 acres from 

Samuel Gib v, who had entered the land, and 

here he and his wife ended their days, Mr. Mc 
Fadden dying in L857, at the age of sixty-nine, 
and Mrs. McFadden one year later, also at the 
age of sixty-nine. Both were consistent mem 
bers of the Union Church. There were born to 

this venerable and highly-respected < pie 

twelve children, in the following order: Adam, 
deceased; John J. and Samuel R., of Athens 
Township; George, of Cadiz Township; Marga- 
ret, widow of John McFadden, of Cadiz; Re- 
becca, deceased; Mary, now Mrs. William 
Hamilton, of Cadiz; Sarah and Jennie, both de- 
ceased; Esther, now Mrs. Phillips, of Nebraska; 
Rachel, now Mrs. William Hamilton, of Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, and Elizabeth, who died at 
the age of eleven years. 



ri( Q. ARBAUGH, merchant, Jewett, is a 
// \\ son of Levi and Elizabeth (Reid) Ar 
|7|\ baugh, and Levi is a son of John and 
■fj Rosanna (Wentz) Arbaugh, natives of 

Maryland. John Arbaugh was a son of William 
Arbaugh, also a native of Maryland, but of Ger- 
man descent, who served in the Revolutionary 
War as a private. He was father of five chil- 
dren, namely: Jacob, Daniel, Rachel, Margaret 
and John. John Arbaugh married in Mary 
i land, and about 1820 came to Rumley Town 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he bought [60 
acres of land on Section 6. He was the father 
of nine children, named Sarah, Margaret. Lo- 
vina, Lydia, John, James, Adam. Levi and 
Catherine. Levi was born October 28, 1825, in 
Rumley Township, was reared to manhood on 
the old farm, and December 23, [858, was mar- 
ried to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh and 
Margaret (Fulton I Reid, who were among the 
early settlers of Archer Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. To this union were born three 



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children, viz.: A. Q., William R. and Henry X. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Arbaugh died in 1885, and in 
April, 1889, Mr. Arbaugh married Miss Louisa 
Hilbert, of Defiance County, Ohio. Mr. Ar- 
baugh owns one of the best farms iii Rumley 
Township, containing 187 acres. He is an active 
member of the Lutheran Church, and stands 
high in the esteem of his neighbors. 

A. Q. Arbaugh was born in Rumley Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, December '24, 1859, 
was reared to manhood on the farm, and finished 
his education at Duff's Business College at 
Pittsburgh, Penn., in 1882. On December 25, 
1883, he married Maggie A. Spence, born in 
July, 1862, a daughter of Henry and Martha 
(Aiken) Spence, of Germano, Ohio. On Jan- 
uary 1, 1885, he bought the store of B. W. 
Winings, in the town of Jewett, where he has 
since been engaged in the merchandise busi- 
ness, having, in 1887, built a very fine store, 
22x50 feet. Mr. and Mrs. Arbaugh are the 
parents of two children, namely: Clara E., who 
was born December 23, 1886, and Martha Ethel, 
who was born July 23, 1890. 



FIi BRAHAM WILSOX BRAXSOX. This 

f/l\ well known citizen of Harrison County, 

[rX\ a brother of Lindley M. Branson, whose 

■f/ sketch and portrait appear elsewhere, was 

born in Short Creek Township, Harrison Co., 

Ohio, December 9, 1846. 

His father, Abraham Dow Branson, was a 
native of Virginia, in which State he learned 
the trade of a manufacturer of woolen goods, 
and whence he came to Ohio, where, in Jeffer- 
son County, he was married to Miss Ann Wil- 
son, June 2, 1831, and soon thereafter came to 
Harrison County, settling near Georgetown, 
where all their children save one were born. 
The father died January 16, 1867, aged sixty 
years, seven months and three days; the mother 
lived to the good old age of eighty-three years, 
dying February 3, 18S8; she had borne seven 
children, whose names and residences are as fol- 
lows: Lindley M., Elizabeth S. (Mrs. I. 



Thomas) and Abraham W., in Short Creek 
Township; Rachel, in Iowa, and William, in 
Kansas; Jonathan died in infancy, and John C. 
at the age of twenty-three years. 

Abraham W. Branson, being naturally of an 
industrious disposition and economical habits, 
has gathered the comforts of life around him, 
and, being of a retiring turn of mind, seeks to 
know rather than to be known. On May 25, 
1875, he was married to Miss Lucy Thomas, 
daughter of Isaac Thomas, formerly of Short 
Creek Township, Harrison County, but now a 
resident of Mount Pleasant, Jefferson Co., Ohio. 
Isaac Thomas was born June 1, 1813, and was 
married, January 1, 1834, to Miss Annie L. , 
daughter of Robert and Mary Ladd, and born 
August 14, 1812, in Virginia, near Richmond. 
Isaac Thomas was one of the best-known 
farmers of his county, energetic and ever ready 
to identify himself with any worthy cause for 
his county's advancement. For years he was a 
director of the First Xational Bank of Cadiz, 
having been one of the founders of that insti- 
tution. Mrs. Thomas died in 1872, at the age 
of sixty-one years, having borne eleven children, 
all of whom save two are now living. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Branson 
continued to make their home in Short Creek 
Township, and in 1885 they removed to their 
present home, on what is generally known as 
the old Maddox Farm, situated some five and a 
half miles from the town of Cadiz. Their chil- 
dren, four in number, are named as follows: 
Xellie J., Mary E., Thomas W. and Annie L. 
Mr. Branson is a member of the Republican 
party, and he and his family are members of the 
Society of orthodox Friends. 



JOHX HERVEY BLACK, who in his life- 
time was one of the representatives of the 
family of that name so well known in this 
section of the country, was born March 13, 
1813, in Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
and died, much respected by all who knew him, 
March 28, 1885, when aged seventy-two years. 



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He was a son of James Black, Jr., and a grand- 
son of James Black, Sr., one of the pioneers of 
Harrison County. The early life of our subject 
was spent at the paternal home, where he as- 
sisted in the usual work of the farm, and his 
natural brightness of mind was made yet more 
brilliant by his close and attentive studies at the 
common schools of his neighborhood, whereby 
he readily attained to the distinction of becomimr 
a leader in his community. On February 22, 
1S3S, he was united in marriage with the lady 
who proved to be so true a helpmeet to him, in 
the person of Mary K. , daughter of Alexander 
Work, of German Township, Harrison County, 
and soon after marriage they located on a farm 
in the northeastern part of Green Township, 
where they remained until 1S44, when they pur- 
chased the place now occupied by Mrs. Black. 

From his early youth Mr. Black was a mem- 
ber of the Beech Spring Presbyterian Church, 
of which he was an elder for over thirty-five 
years, and, in all works of benevolence, charity 
and social progressiveness, he and his wife were 
ever found at the head. In politics he was 
closely identified with the Republican party, 
and, though a strong partisan, he always retained 
the confidence and esteem of his political oppo- 
nents. He was regarded as one of the leaders 
in his township, and was acknowledged to be 
one of the best judges of men in his party. 
For twenty-three years he held the office of 
justice of the peace, and on several occasions 
was honored with other positions of trust in his 
township, always being credited with doing his 
duty faithfully and honestly, having the full re- 
spect and confidence of the entire community. 
As a man of progressive ideas, of unquestion- 
able integrity and honesty, he was the peer of 
the best; and he was truly a worthy representa- 
tive of the family who have, since the settlement 
of Harrison County, been prominently identified 
with its growth and progress. 

Alexander Work, father of Mrs. J. H. Black, 
was born in 1781, a son of George and Martha 
(Dunlap) Work, who were married prior to com- 
ing to this country from Ireland, about the close 



of the last f fury, and settling in Pennsylvania. 

George Work died in 1830, and was buried io 

Buffalo Cemetery, his wife having preceded him 
by a few years. They were members of the 
Presbyterian Church in Washington County. 
Penn. ; in politics he was always a W 'hig. <>n 
April 10, 1809, Alexander Work was married 
to Jane Taggart, of Washington County, Penn., 
who bore him the following named children: 
George, James, John, Mary K., Samuel, Ander- 
son D., Jane, Margaret and Alexander. The 
parents both died in the year 1851, the mother 
in April, and the father in May. Mr. Work, in 
early life, learned the carpenter's trade, which 
he followed for many years. In 1818 he came 
to Harrison County, settling in German Town- 
ship, where he spent the last days of his life. 
From the time of his coming to Harrison County 
he was a member of the Beech Spring Church, 
in connection with which he did much toward 
the advancement of religious matters in his sec- 
tion. Politically, he was a strong Whig and 
Abolitionist, being one of the "'conductors" on 
the "Underground Railroad," which existed in 
pro slavery days. Mr. Work was a man of 
strong convictions, coupled with a deep earnest 
ness in all his undertakings, and he did much 
to impress his personality on the generation in 
which he lived. 



GOPE FAMILY. Perhaps no family in 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County, 
is better or more favorably known than 
the one now under consideration, whose 
lot has for more than half a eentuiw been cast 
among the people of the county named. The 
first of the family, of whom we know anything, 
was one Oliver Cope, who. in 1687, came from 
Wiltshire, England, to make a home in the then 
new world, settling in Pennsylvania, among the 
first English settler-,, where be resided until his 
death, which occurred in 1701. John Cope, a 

great-grandson of tins original comer, was I.. .in 
in Virginia, where he grew to manhood, married 
Grace Steer, and reared a family, with whom he 



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removed, in 1812, to Belmont County, Ohio, and 
thence, in 1813, came to the new county of Har- 
rison, settling in Short Creek Township, and 
making a home in the dense forest that then 
covered what now are fertile fields. Here it 
was that death found them, the husband and 
father being taken first, the mother following to 
the grave March 30, 1855, at the advanced age 
of ninety-two years. Their children were five 
in number, and named as follows: William, 
born August 1, 1796, died September 27, 1869; 
Joseph, born January 9, 1799, died April 22, 
1885; Isaac, born February 1, 1801, died De- 
cember 19, 1883; John, born April 25, L803, 
still living; James, born November 9, 1806, died 
January 17, 1868. These five brothers all grew 
to manhood, and settled on adjoining farms in 
northwestern Short Creek Township. The eld- 
est son later removed to Iowa, and died, and 
the youngest removed to Hopedale, Green 
Township. Harrison Co., Ohio, where he died. 

Joseph Cope, son of John and Grace (Steer) 
Cope, was some fourteen years of age when 
with his parents he came from Virginia to Har- 
rison County, where he grew to manhood 
engaged chiefly in mechanical pursuits. In 
common with his father and brothers he built a 
saw-mill, and also entered upon the manufacture 
of threshing machines, which were the first 
manufactured or used in the West. In 1825 
Joseph chose as his life's partner Miss Ruth 
Griffith, daughter of William and Sarah (Cooke) 
Griffith, and born in Westmoreland County, 
Penn., January 1, 1801. Her ancestors were 
of Welsh extraction and of the sect of Friends. 
At the time of her marriage she lived in Fay- 
ette County, Penn., but soon thereafter removed 
to Harrison County, settling about one mile 
from where she now resides, their first home 
being where now lives Harrison Adams. In 
L844 they removed to a farm, where now the 
aged widow and her son Oliver reside. The 
farm, which was principally paid for by the 
manufacture and sale of threshing machines, 
was partly improved, having thereon a brick 
house in which the family still reside, and 



which is one of the oldest in the township. In 
April, 1885, death took the husband at the 
age of eighty-seven years. The family con- 
sisted of five children, named as follows: Amos 
A., now a resident of Poweshiek County, Iowa; 
Benjamin T., residing in Short Creek Township, 
on part of the old home farm; Israel, who died 
in infancy; Oliver G. , who resides on the old 
home farm; and an infant daughter who died 
unnamed. Since the father's death the aged 
mother and her son Oliver have lived at the old 
homestead where "Aunt Ruth," as she is usu- 
ally called, now a woman of ninety years, hav- 
ing been born on the first day of the present 
century, is calmly awaiting the final summons 
to the long last sleep. The husband (Joseph) 
was from boyhood opposed to slavery, and for 
nearly forty years was an active conductor on the 
"Underground Railroad," extending from his 
home to Moore' s Salt Works, in Carroll County, 
often carrying as many as seven fugitives on one 
trip. In politics he was originally a Whig, but 
on account of the attitude of both the great 
parties in relation to slavery, and having no 
faith in third-party methods, he did not vote 
from 1844 until 1860, when he became a Re- 
publican, with which party he was in full sym- 
pathy until his death. In religious faith he was 
a member of the Hicksite Friends Society, and 
he was a man universally respected, standing high 
in that society. His success in life was largely 
his own making. 

Benjamin T. Cope, son of Joseph and Ruth 
(Griffith) Cope, was born May 15, 1828. His 
education was that of the common schools, whose 
primitive methods were as nothing when com- 
pared with those of this later day. He had, 
however, as had also his brother, Oliver G., the 
advantages, for a short time, of a high school in 
Stark County. In 1855 he was married to Miss 
Rachel Lukens, daughter of Moses and Eliza- 
beth (Barber) Lukens, and a native of Guernsey 
County, born in 1834; she was a child of four 
and one-half years when she was brought to 
Harrison County. Her maternal grandparents, 
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into Harrison County among its pioneers, and 
within said county Elizabeth Barber was born. 
Grandfather Samuel Barber died in January, 
1851, at the age of eighty- four years, and 
grandmother Ann Barber survived until Ootober 
1, 1863, when, at the age of ninety-seven years, 
she, too, departed this life. In 1N50 Benjamin 
T. Cope and his wife came to the old Cope 
homestead, where they now reside, situated some 
four miles from the town of Cadiz. Of their 
union two children have been born, namely: 
Kuth Anna, now the wife of Dr. L. F. Scott, of 
Chicago, 111., and Lizzie L., who married Mc- 
Nary F. Adams, a farmer of Franklin County, 
Kas. Politically Mr. Cope is a Republican, 
ever ready to stanchly support the principles of 
his party, and he has for a number of years 
served as assessor of his township. He and his 
esteemed wife are both memberB of the Hicksite 
Friends Society, and are justly classed among 
the progressive citizens of Harrison County. 

Oliver G. Cope, another son of Joseph and 
Ruth (Griffith) Cope, was born August 11, 1830. 
He grew to manhood on the old farm, bearing his 
portion of its various duties. He made the most 
of the meager advantages of his neighborhood 
schools, and early showed an aptitude for car- 
pentering. On March 6, 1856, he was married 
to Miss Sarah Williams, daughter of Nathan and 
Sarah Williams, of Harrison County, and of this 
union one child was born, Mary Elizabeth, who 
lived to be but twenty months old, and on May 
10, 1859, the wife also died. Since then Mr. 
Cope has cared for his parents, and since his 
father's decease has tenderly cared for and 
smoothed the path of his aged mother, as her 
life's sunset is drawing near; and when, ere 
many moons, her day darkens into the night of 
death, her last words will be a blessing on her 
children. Mr. Cope is of the Republican ranks, 
and has taken an active part in his county. State 
and National politics, and in 1880 and 1881 he 
had the responsibility and honor to represent his 
district in the State Legislature. He is a re- 
former, and a member of the Good Templar or- 
ganization. Few, if any, men in Harrison Coun- 



ty have more friends than Mr. Cope, and his 
popularity has come from real merit coupled 
with untiring zeal in every worthy enterprise 
which occupies his attention. 

John Cope, son of John and Grace (Steer) 
Cope, was born in Frederick County, Va., April 
25, 1803, and now, at the advanced age of 
eighty eight years, weakened in body and slowly 
approaching dissolution, it will ere long be said, 
" a good citizen has gone to his reward; " but a 
record worthy of being remembered will be 
made. A brief outline of his life is as follows: 
His education was that of the pioneer trials, 
which gave strength of arm and resolution of 
spirit, and before the sturdy strokes of his ax 
many a forest giant has been prostrated. In 
1832 he was married to Miss Mary Lukens, 
daughter of Moses and Sarah Lukens, and born 
in Pennsylvania, November 1, 1804. Their 
home was made in Short Creek Township, Har- 
rison County, where they shared the hardships, 
trials and successes of life until July 19, L876, 
the faithful wife aud helpmate, at the age of 
seventy-two years, was called home. She had 
borne three children as follows: Sarah T.. born 
June 2, 1833; Lemuel, bom July 1. 1838. died. 
aged three months; Hiram, born December L6, 
1843. Since the departure of the mother, the aged 
father has remained at the old home farm, which 
is situated some four miles from Cadiz, where 
his declining years are cheered by his daughter, 
Sarah T. (who with true filial affection has clung 
to her childhood's home), and an adopted daugh- 
ter, Miss Mary L. Creighton, who for twenty- 
three years has made her home with them. The 
farm on which is the home is part of the land 
added to the original farm settled by the first 
comers, John Cope and his sons, and to day. on 
the green hills over whose then wooded summits 
the wild animals wanderered in search of their 

prey, now pasture peaceful herds and flocks. 
Politically John Cope is a Prohibitionist, but 
was formerly a Republican. During the exist 
ence of African slavery John Col"' waa everv - 
where known as an uncompromising Abolitionist, 
and in the times (times that tried men's bouIb) 



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preceding the Civil War, bis home frequently 
sheltered the fugitive on his way to liberty. The 
family are members of the Hicksite Friends So- 
ciety, and are no exception to the general rule 
that for respectability the Cope family rank 
among the highest. 

Hiram Cope, son of John and Mary (Lukens) 
Cope, certainly ranks as one of the most pro- 
gressive and intellectual of the young farmers 
of his township. Not yet having reached the 
fiftieth milestone of his life, he has yet made a 
record of which he may well feel proud, and 
which many an older man might envy. His 
education, with the exception of one term in 
Hopedale College, was obtained at the district 
school of the neighborhood, and his early work 
was on his father's farm. In 1872 he was 
united in marriage with Miss Martha, daughter 
of Isaac and Anna Thomas, old residents of 
Harrison County. For a few years Mr. and 
Mrs. Hiram Cope remained at his father's 
home, and then, in 18S0, came to their present 
farm, where, in 1887, they erected their pleas- 
ant and commodious dwelling. Their anion 
has never produced any children. Politically, 
Mr. Cope is a Prohibitionist, and one who ear- 
nestly and fearlessly advocates the principles of 
that party. Formerly a member of the Repub- 
lican ranks, he left the party, merely because 
his convictions of right and wrong told him it was 
his duty so to do, and, loving principles more 
than party ties, he ' 'dared to do right, dared to be 
true, ' ' notwithstanding the criticism of many who 
either had not similar convictions or else lacked 
the moral courage to assert them; he deserted 
his old party and became a " Short Creek Pro- 
hibitionist," while the party was yet in its incipi- 
ency. In 1885 he was honored by his party 
by being given the nomination for the State 
Legislature, but it being during the infancy of 
the cause, he was most naturally defeated. Not 
only does Mr. Cope vote and talk for the ad- 
vancement of the temperance cause, but articles 
from his pen are frequently to be found in 
various periodicals of his county and elsewhere, 
and the leading literature of the times is to be 



found on his table. He and his wife are mem- 
bers, respectively, of the Hicksite and Ortho- 
dox Friends. His library is not merely for show, 
but is stored with books which Mr. Cope finds 
both time and disposition to often read. His 
farm is largely devoted to the raising of small 
fruits, and is situated five miles from Cadiz. 



f|OHN RAMSEY. Among the oldest resi- 
^. I dents of Green Township, Harrison Coun- 
\J) ty, as well as among those most highly 
respected, is the subject of this sketch, 
who was born June 23, 1805, in that township, 
where his entire life has been spent. His father, 
John Ramsey, was born in Washington County, 
Penn., in 1781. George, father of John, came 
from Ireland about the middle of the eight- 
eenth century, and settled in Pennsylvania. 
He was twice married, and his first wife bore 
him six children, John being one of them ; the 
second wife, named Leeper, survived her hus- 
band, dying in her ninety-ninth year. The 
children by this second marriage were David, 
Nancy and William. The early life of John 
Ramsey (our subject's father), was spent on the 
farm in Pennsylvania, but soon after attaining 
his majority he came with his family to Ohio, 
settling in Green Township in 1803. At the 
age of nineteen he was married to Nancy 
Laughlin, a resident of Pennsylvania, and their 
children were named as follows: Hugh, George, 
John, Mary, Samuel and Nancy, all save John 
(our subject) being deceased, Mrs. Nancy Max- 
well dying last, November 22, 1889, in Colorado. 
Mr. Ramsey was a Democrat, and was promi- 
nently identified with the organization of his 
township and county. From its earliest founda- 
tion he was a member of the Beech Spring 
Church, in which he was regarded as one of the 
leaders. In 1812, when danger threatened the 
Union, Mr. Ramsey responded to the call for 
volunteers, enlisting in a company under the 
command of Capt. Scrogg, in which he was 
made lieutenant. This company broke up, aDd 
he then joined a company in Col. Holmes' regi- 




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HARRISON COUNTY. 



521 



ment. During service be was taken sick, and 
after a short, illness died, in 1812, at Lower San 
dusky, where he was buried with the honors of 
war. In 1818 Mrs. Ramsey was married to 
James Lyons, a resident of Jefferson County, 
Ohio, to which place they immediately removed, 
remaining there the rest of their lives. She 
died, leaving three children by her second mar- 
riage, one being Mrs. Elizabeth Gladman, of 
Franklin Township, Harrison County. 

John Ratusey, the subject proper of this 
sketch, remained at home until about sixteen 
years of age, when he was apprenticed to John 
MeCurdy, a carpenter and prominent contractor 
and builder, of Cadiz, Ohio. With him Mr. 
Ramsey remained until he was about twenty 
years old, when he was employed by Mr. Mc- 
Curdy in the construction of various buildings 
both in Harrison and Jefferson Counties. On 
May 24, 1827, Mr. Ramsey was married to 
Rebecca MeCurdy, a daughter of his employer, 
after which the young couple lived for a short 
time in Jefferson County, and then removed to 
Harrison County to their present home Their 
family consisted of three children, viz. : Ebene- 
zer, in California; Thomas Vincent, married to 
Sarah Patrick, and living at Mount Vernon, 
Ohio, and Samuel, a minister of the Presby 
terian Church. Mrs. Ramsey's death occurred 
February 12, 1833, and Mr. Ramsey remained 
a widower until January 7, 1839, when he mar- 
ried Mary Barr, a daughter of John Barr, a 
resident of Carroll County, Ohio. To this 
union the following named children were burn: 
William Marshall, who married Mary Elizabeth 
Howell; John Barr; Nancy Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried John Vermillion, and moved to Jeffersun 
County, Ohio; Margaret Rebecca, now Mrs. 
John Lease, living in Green Township, Harrison 
County; Mary A. ; and Jennie, now Mrs. Samuel 
F. Birney. Mrs. Mary (Barr) Ramsey was 
born July 22, 1817, and died November 11, 
1889, after a married life of nearly fifty-one 
years, and her remains now repose in Green 
Township Cemetery. Since her death the home 
has been conducted by the daughter, Mary A. 



Mr. Ramsey has always supported the Demo 
cratic party, and has been honored many times 

by his party in the dislrihuti if offices. 

When fifty years of age he became a member of 
the Presbyterian Church at Beech Spring, and 
he is one of its most highly esteemed members. 
The family of Mr. Ramsey are among the old 
est in the county, and are well known for their 
progressiveness and integrity. 

•John Barr Ramsey was horn June 20, 1841, 
and AugUflt L5, L862, was married to Anna \ it 
million. A short time prior to his marriage he 
had enlisted in the Ninety eighth 0. V. I., BOOB 
after went to the front, and while in the die 
charge of his duty, but two short months after 
his enlistment, on October 8, he was killed at 
Perryville. He was given a soldier's burial On 
the battlefield, and was deeply lamented by his 
comrades who fully recognized his true worth 
and manhood. 

Rev. Samuel Ramsey was bom July 13. 1832, 
and in 1851 he commenced studying for the 
ministry of the Presbyterian Church, at New 

Jefferson, Harrison Co.. Ohio. In 1852 1 D 

tered the academy at Alexandria. lVnn., and in 
May, following year, he joined the Presbyterian 
Church there; then he went to the St. Clairsville 
Presbytery, and in 1854 entered Washington 
College of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 
L857. In September of that year he went South. 
where he taught school, but. desiring to become 
a regular minister of the gospel, he entered the 
Western Theological Seminary, and was licensed 
October 4, 1859. He afterward preached at 
Columbus, Dayton, Washington, Mill Brook and 
Carrollton, Ohio, and then, February 21. 1862, 
,.(1 a call to a church at Tarentum, Penn., 
and was ordained .) i 21. L862. On June 28, 

1864, he was united in marriage with Nannie 
.1. Randolph, who bore him two sons, one of 
whom is now deceased. Mr. Ramsej died Sep 
tember 18, l s 72. He was an assiduous and 

earnest worker, ever diligent in the labor of the 
vineyard, feeling, as he -aid, that, his time- was 
short, and that he must needs improve it. \- B 
preacher he was possessed of great power, ami 



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his doctrine was mainly Evangelistic. "His 
power over men, had he been spared, would have 
equaled Hammond's, and in another age he 
might have been the peer of Wesley. " 



QEORGE COOKE. From the earliest set- 
, tlement of Harrison County has the 
Cooke family been among those who 
, l have contributed largely to its progress, 
and been instrumental in achieving for it 
that high place which it occupies at present in 
the State. The family are of Scottish descent, 
the grandfather of the subject of this sketch 
being a native of that country. He was called 
Robert, and followed the profession of civil en- 
gineer for the Government, until he finally re- 
moved to Ireland, where all his children were 
born. James (who was the second son) received 
a liberal education, and spent much of his early 
life in intellectual pursuits. Soon after leaving 
school he was married to Nancy Moore, a resi- 
dent of Ireland, and here they resided for some 
time, but, finally concluding to seek their fortune 
in the land across the ocean, they embarked, in 
1788, in a sailing vessel, and underwent all the 
terrors and hardships of a stormy passage, their 
only child, Mary, accompanying them. On 
landing, they immediately proceeded to Wash- 
ington County, Penn., where they purchased a 
small tract of land, and amid the various diffi- 
culties of pioneer life endeavored to build their 
home. Many times were the early settlers of 
that section compelled to seek the protection of 
the block-houses, as the Indian raids were nu- 
merous, and many lives lost. In this section Mr. 
Cooke remained until 1805, when, thinking to 
better his condition, he came to Harrison Coun- 
ty, Ohio, and settled in Athens Township. The 
country was but little improved, there being a 
small clearing here and there around the log 
cabin of some settler. Here they lived and 
died amidst the struggles which are inevitable 
in new countries. Their children were named 
Mary (Mrs. John Love), Elizabeth (Mrs. John 
Henderson), Robert, William, James, John, 



Thomas and George, all of whom are now de- 
ceased, except George. Mr. Cooke, from the 
time of his arrival until his death, took an act- 
ive interest in his county's progress, and was 
always foremost in all movements for the up- 
building and advancement of it. In politics he 
was a supporter of the Democratic party, and 
was many times honored through it by election 
to positions of honor and trust. His family and 
himself were members of the Seceder Church, 
and he was one of the organizers of the pres- 
ent church at Unity, as well as one of its promi- 
nent supporters. His death, which occurred in 
1815, was much regretted by friends and neigh- 
bors; his widow survived him but a short time, 
dying in 1829. and their dust now mingles in 
the cemetery at Unity. 

George Cooke, the youngest child in order 
of birth born to James Cooke, was born May 5, 
1804, in Washington County, Penn., and was but 
a few months old when his parents brought him 
to Harrison County, Ohio, in which county he has 
resided ever since. His education was acquired 
at the common schools of his district, and al- 
though primitive in their methods, still suc- 
ceeded in laying a good foundation, on which 
Mr. Cooke has since reared an excellent knowl- 
edge of men and facts. Gifted by nature with 
a receptive and analytical mind, possessed of 
powers of observation rarely excelled, Mr. 
Cooke has, since his early manhood, been one 
of the leaders in his section. A Democrat from 
principle, he has unswervingly served that party, 
and has been one of the factors in its many suc- 
cesses. Many times has he been honored by 
the party. He was justice of the peace for 
twenty seven years, trustee several times, as 
well as clerk and treasurer of his township. He 
was also one of the electors on the Democratic 
ticket when Buchanan was elected. In 1858 he 
was nominated for probate judge of his county, 
and although the county was overwhelmingly 
Republican, he came within a few votes of an 
election, running many votes ahead of his ticket. 
On July 10, 1824, Mr. Cooke was married to 
Nancy Anderson, a daughter of Col. William 



HA RRISON CO UX TY. 






Anderson, an early settler of Cadiz Township, 
and the issue of their marriage was as follows: 
Nancy, now Mrs. William Gillespie, of Guernsey 
County, Ohio;Melila, now Mrs. James Crossan; 
Ruth E. , now Mrs. David McConaughey; Mary, 
deceased; Jane, now Mrs. Thomas Morrow; 
James, at home; William, deceased; George, 
deceased; John, a physician in Bridgeport, 
Ohio; Thomas (deceased), twin brother of John; 
Mary N, now Mrs. John H. Rourk, and Ma- 
tilda, now Mrs. William Walker. Mr. and Mrs. 
George Cooke were at one time members of the 
Seceder Church, but they later joined the United 
Presbyterians. Mr. Cooke's life occupation has 
been that of farming. 

James Cooke was born December 28, \S: J ,~>, 
in Athens, Harrison Co., Ohio, and his early life 
was spent on the home place, where he grew to 
manhood, his early education being that of the 
district school. On March 4, 1858, he was mar- 
ried to Jane McCracken, a daughter of William 
McCracken, a resident of Belmont County. For 
about ten years after marriage Mr. Cooke fol- 
lowed agriculture, and then engaged in mer- 
cantile business in New Athens for some time, 
after which he removed to Belmont County, 
where he resided four years, and finally, at the 
death of his mother, came to the home place, 
where he still resides. His children are Will- 
iam (who is the present clerk of Athens Town- 
ship), Agnes, George, Maggie and Robert P. 
In his political views Mr. Cooke is a Demo- 
crat, and is one of the successful workers of his 
party. While in Belmont County he was 
trustee for two years; for many years he was 
trustee of his township in Harrison County, and 
since his removal to that county has taken an 
active interest in the success of his party here. 
He made the race once for the office of county 
commissioner in Harrison County, but it being 
a strong Republican County, he was, of coarse, 
defeated, yet he ran far ahead of his ticket, tak- 
ing nearly every vote in his own township. He 
is now, and has been for several years, a member 
of the Agricultural Board of the county. He 
and his family are members of the United Prea 



byterian Church at Athens. Mr. Cooke is wide- 
ly ami favorablj known for his honesty, integ- 
rity and irreproachable character, and the Cooke 
family have ever, from their first arrival in the 
county, had the respect and esteem of all, and 
are numbered among its representative citizens. 



IX RTEE BEATTY. Among the wealthy 

f/l\ and substantial citizens of Archer Town- 
I i\ ship, Harrison County, none were more 
'/ prominently identified with its interests 

than the well-known Beatty family, the sole 
representative now being the gentleman whose 
name heads this sketch, at present a resident of 
the southern part of the township. He was 
born January 25, 1827, in Archer Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, where he has since resided. 
Sampson Beatty, father of Alter, was a nat- 
ive of the Emerald Isle, and in the early part 
of the present century he immigrated, in com- 
pany with his mother, to this country, settling 
in Harrison County, Ohio. In early life he 
learned the trade of a weaver, which he fol- 
lowed until locating on a farm, when he devoted 
liis attention exclusively to agricultural pursuits. 
On April 20. 1826, he married Rachel, daughter 
of Samuel Johnson, a resident of Pennsylvania, 
and the young couple then settled on a farm 
now owned by Robert Smylie, where they passed 
the remainder of their lives. Their family con- 
sisted of five children, of whom Alter is the 
eldest. One son, John, enlisted, in 1861, in 
Company E, Ninth 111. V. I., and was sent to 
Nashville, Tenn., where his regiment joined the 
Army of the Cumberland. On October 3, 1862, 
at the battle of Corinth, Miss. , his company and 
others f" the Dumber "f 300, being sent out on 
a scouting expedition, were surrounded l>,\ a 
superior force of the enemy, and were all taken 
prisoners and carried off save Mr. Beatty. who 
was so severely wounded in the hip that the 
Confederates left him on the held, apparently to 
die. They took from him his rations and his 
canteen of water, leaving in their place a couple 
of blankets. Here he lay from Friday till Sun 



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day in thp broiling sun by day, and exposed to 
the chilling dews by night, enduring tortures of 
Lunger, thirst and pain, till he was picked up at 
last and carried to a hospital. His brother, Ar- 
ter, being made acquainted with his distressing 
condition, immediately hastened to the hospital, 
and was permitted to convey his dying brother 
as far as Knoxville, Tenn., where they remained 
until death released the poor fellow from his 
sufferings. His brother remained with him to 
the last, bringing his remains home, and they 
now peacefully rest in an honored soldier's 
grave. As a son he was loving and dutiful, as 
a brother he was affectionate and unselfish, and 
as a soldier he was patriotic, brave and heroic. 
Another son of Sampson Beatty was Jeremiah, 
who enlisted in Company C, Thirtieth 111. V. I., 
which was also attached to the Army of the 
Cumberland. He received a wound in the right 
hand, causing the loss of his thumb, but he con- 
tinued to bravely fight his country's battles un- 
til after the taking of Fort Donelson, when he 
was honorably discharged on account of disabil- 
ity, caused by his wound. Sampson Beatty 
passed from earth November 27, 1849, having 
lived a sixty-three years' life of usefulness, and 
he is interred in Bethel Cemetery. His widow 
did not long survive him, for on June 25, fol- 
lowing year, she joined him on the other shore, 
her remains being laid by his side. They were 
both leading members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church; in politics he was a Democrat. 

Arter Beatty, the subject proper of these 
lines, remained at home during his youth, assist- 
ing his father on the farm and attending tbe 
district school. On March 27, 1851, he became 
united in marriage with Susan, daughter of 
Samuel McDevitt, a resident of Stock Township, 
Harrison County, and to this union have been 
born the following named children: Rachel, who 
became the wife of William Lisle, and died 
June 24, 1887; Kate, who died April 1 1877; 
Lizzie M., who died April 10, 1877; Amanda 
K. ; Johnson; William A., who was married 
January 30, 1890, to Miss Mary Mattern; Ar- 
thur C. ; Frank J. and Cora J. After marriage 



Mr. and Mrs. Beatty settled on the home place, 
where they remained until 1854, when they pur- 
chased the farm whereon they now live in Archer 
Township, situated about three miles from Cadiz. 
It consists of 273 acres of land, under excellent 
cultivation, and provided with substantial and 
commodious buildings. Mr. Beatty carries on 
general farming, and occasionally buys and sells 
cattle, a business he for many years has followed 
with marked success. He is in all respects a 
self made man, having acquired this beautiful, 
valuable property entirely by his own unaided 
efforts. In politics he is a Democrat, and has 
held many offices of honor and trust in his 
township and county, among which may be 
mentioned those of trustee, and director of the 
County Fair, each of which positions he tilled 
acceptably for many years. He and his wife 
are prominent members of the Presbyterian 
Church, and their names are ever to be found on 
the list of the charitable and benevolent. 



djOHN C. McCONNELL, who in his life- 
| time was one of the enterprising and well- 
I known residents of Washington Town- 
ship, Harrison County, was born January 
1, 1807, in Belmont County, Ohio. His father, 
Robert, was a native of Pennsylvania, where, in 
his early life, he was married to Mary Caldwell. 
The issue of his first marriage was James, born 
1790; Susan, born 1793; David, born 1795; 
Alexander, born 1796; Martha, born 1797; 
Mary, born 1800. For his second wife he mar- 
ried Prudence Coleman, who bore him the fol- 
lowing named children: Robert, born Novem- 
ber 21, 1802; Hannah, September 30, 1804; 
John O, January 1, 1807; William, January 0, 
1809; Wilson, April 13, 1811; Prudence, March 
22, 1813; Margaret A., September 21, 1815; 
Sarah, November 18, 1817; Elizabeth, November 
6, 1819; Alexander S., March 25, 1822; David, 
September 4, 1824. In 1807 he came to Ohio, 
where he lived until the War of 1812, when he 
enlisted and served through the entire struggle, 
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tered 1(30 acres in Washington Township, Harri- 
son County, where is the present family resi- 
dence. This, by the aid of his children, he 
succeeded in clearing and improving. He was 
Democratic in his politics, and was one of those 
actively engaged in the success of his party. 
On August 22, 1850, he died, and was followed 
to the grave by his widow, who died iu 1867. 

John C. McConnell's life was wholly spent 
in Ohio, the greater portion in Harrison County. 
While the common schools afforded but little 
assistance in his mental development, still by 
his own efforts, he succeeded in acquiring an 
extensive and liberal knowledge. He married, 
for his first wife, Jane, daughter of James 
Boles, one of the oldest settlers of Harrison 
County, and the children born to this marriaere 
were Mary and Nancy. Mrs. McConnell died 
May 29, 1841, and April 9, 1848, Mr. McCon- 
nell was married to Rachel Browning, of Athens 
Township, born January 25, 1825, a daughter of 
Samuel Browning, who was one of the early 
residents of Athens Township, and in early life 
married Margaret Markee, whose parents came 
from England. Mr. Browning was a volunteer 
in the War of 1812, was engaged in scout duty 
on the western frontier, and served through the 
entire struggle. His children were named 
James, Julia A., Elias, Samuel, Absalom, 
Rachel, Margaret. Sarah, Asberry T., Susanna. 
Wesley, Zara and Edward. Mr. Browning was 
a Democrat. His family were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which they took 
a prominent and leading part, Mr. Browning 
being class leader for many years, as well as a 
financial supporter. In 1S64 he died, and his 
remains were laid beside those of his wife, who 
died in 1855. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell settle,! 
on the home place immediately after marriage, 
and there the family have since resided. The 
children born to their union are Theodore, Mar- 
garet A., John \Y., Louisa J., Samuel W.. 
James R., Elmer F. and Edward E. Mr. Mc- 
Connell was a Democrat until 1840, when he 
espoused the principles of the Whig party and 
afterward united with the Republican. He held 



many offices in his township. BUoh as trustee, 
others. He was largely 
the architect of his own raccess, financially, 
which was due to his business tad 
foresight, as well as his industrious habits and 
honesty. His was a life well worthy of emula- 
tion, one whose influence was widespread and 
Bcial. His death took place July is. 1873. 



L 



B. WILLIAMS, editor and manager of 
the Freeport (Ohio) r,rs*. is the old- 
est living member of the family of Elara 
Williams, a native of Belmont County, 
Ohio. There L. B. Williams was reared on the 
home place, assisting iu the various duties of the 
farm, and also attended the district schools during 
the winter sessions. He early manifested a 
strong desire for study, and, after his sixteenth 
year, attended the college at Mount I'nion, after 
which he engaged in teaching in his native .-111(1 
adjoining counties. During the leisure afford 
ed in teaching he undertook the study of law. 
and so diligently did he apply himself that in 
less than two years he was admitted to the bar, 
with honor, at the age of twenty two. He. how 
ever, continued teaching, and united with it the 
practice of his profession. In 187(3 he was elected 
principal of the public schools at Xew Athens, 
Ohio, where he remained for three years, when 
he was elected principal of the Freeport schools, 
and immediately took charge. Under his man 
agement the standard of instruction was gradu- 
ally raised, and the school graded as far as was 
practicable. He also taught select school, in 
which he was eminently successful. In 1883 he 
accepted the position of editor and manager of 
the Freeport Press, and has since been act- 
ively engaged in the prosecution of the duties 
pertaining to the position. He has made it one 
of the leading papers of his seotion, it reoeiv 
ing a warm and hearty welcome from a large 
circle of readers; and, besides his regular news- 
paper work, he does a large job business, for 
which his office is admirably equipped. 

In politics Mr. Williams was a Democrat 



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until 1876, when he united with the Republican 
party, and, for the past few years, has been a 
Prohibitionist. In liis various places of resi- 
dence he has held offices of honor and trust, 
whose duties be has ever discharged with full 
satisfaction to all. From his early youth Mr. 
Williams has been connected with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which, in 1874, he was 
licensed as a local preacher, since which time he 
has filled various appointments. On July 2, 
1872, he was united in marriage with Mary W. 
James, of Bellville, Ohio, and the children 
born to them were Hamilton B. , Homer C. and 
Milton E. (deceased.) 



JOHN W. SPIKER, a prominent farmer, 
was born on a farm in Stock Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, July 31, 1833, and 
still has his residence on the same farm- 
His father, Christopher Spiker, passed his en- 
tire life in Harrison County, and here wedded 
Ara A. Carnes. He settled in Stock Township, 
where there were born to him the following 
named children: William, George W., Mary 
J. (Mrs. Cornelius Vickers), John W., Henry 
C. (deceased), Henry, Elizabeth (Mrs. David 
Christy), Christiana (Mrs. William Hines), 
Catherine (Mrs. Samuel Hines), and Sarah Ann 
(deceased). The family were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Valley, 
in which Mr. Spiker was for a long time trustee, 
steward and class-leader. In politics he was a 
Republican, and served several years as trustee 
of his township. 

The early life of John W. Spiker was spent 
on the home farm. He was married, in 1859, 
to Nancy Crawford, daughter of Josiah Craw- 
ford, of Stock Township, and then settled im- 
mediately on his present place, the home farm, 
on which have been born the following named 
children: Edward O, Flora, Frank, Crawford 
and Birdella. The family are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Spiker is 
trustee. In politics he is a Republican, under 
the auspices of which party he has served many 



terms as trustee of the township, and in 1889 
he was elected county commissioner. He is a 
self-made man, financially, and is at present the 
owner of 59T> acres of fertile land in Stock and 
Franklin Townships. With his sons he is now, 
and has been for many years, engaged in hand- 
ling and shipping stock and growing wool. 



THOMAS McMILLEN was born June 9, 
1826, in Nottingham Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, a son of John McMillen. who 
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 
1800. Robert McMillen. father of John, was a 
native of Pennsylvania, where he met and mar- 
ried Nancy Mitchell, who bore him the follow- 
ing children: John, Jane, Nancy, Margaret, 
Mary, Ann, Robert and Matthew. They came 
to Ohio in 1816, and settled on a farm in Jeffer- 
son County, then moved to Harrison County in 
1818, where they entered, in Nottingham Town- 
ship, a one-half section of land, which they 
cleared themselves, and here their family were 
reared. Mrs. McMillen dying in 1840, Mr. Mc- 
Millen married, for his second wife, Mary Boyd, 
who died in 1844, and Mr. McMillen then mar- 
ried Ellen Moore. In 1854 he died and was 
buried in Nottingham Cemetery; his wife still 
survives him. In 1819 John McMillen came to 
Nottingham Township, where he was engaged 
in clearing and cultivating a farm, and in 1822 
he was married to Elizabeth Peacock, a daugh- 
ter of Eli Peacock. She bore him the following 
named children : Robert N., Thomas, John, Susan 
and Nancy (Mrs. John Black, who died in 1865). 
Mr. McMillen was a stanch Democrat, and he 
and his family were members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Nottingham, afterward at Deersville, 
whither they had moved in 1865. On April 5, 
1881, he passed away, being followed by his 
wife October 4, 1882, and they were buried in 
Deersville Cemetery. Soon after their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. McMillen settled on a farm in 
Nottinghan Township, and spent the most of 
their busy and hard-working lives in its im- 
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by the practice of economy succeeded in amass 
ing quite a competence. Tbeir last- days were 
spent under the care of tbeir daughter Susan, 
who, with true filial love, did all that was pos- 
sible to make their lives pleasant and comfort- 
able, and who passed away August 3, 1890. 

The early life of Thomas McMillen was 
spent in Nottingham Township, where he from 
his youth was engaged in farming. On Decem- 
ber 23, 1852, he was united in marriage with 
Martha Ross, whose father, James Ross, was 
born in 1797, and came to Nottingham Town- 
ship, Harrison County, in 1827. In early life 
he was married to Martha Phillips, who bore 
him the following named children: Rachel, 
Mrs. Immer Knight; Deborah, Mrs. William 
Poulson; Jane, Mrs. Isaac Drummond; William 
P., Mary E. and Thomas H., all three deceased; 
Martha, Mrs. Thomas McMillen, and Barbara, 
Mrs. Beal Pumphrey. In 1886 the wife and 
mother died and was buried in Pugh Cemetery, 
and in 1839 Mr. Ross was married to Jemima 
Hines, who bore him children as follows: Eliza. 
Mrs. George Oglevee; John H. ; James N. ; 
Rebecca, Mrs. Anthony Blackburn, and Sarah, 
Mrs. William Nash. In 1878 Mr. Ross died 
and was buried in Pugh Cemetery, his wife 
dying July 5, 1882. In politics he was a Re- 
publican; his family were members of the Pres- 
byterian Church. 

Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
McMillen settled on a small farm in Nottingham 
Township, where they remained eight years, 
and then bought and sold until 1865, when 
they came to Deersville, Franklin Township, 
and here they have since made their home. 
Their early married life was one of contin- 
ual struggle, as they commenced with but 
little assistance. The outcome of their labors 
and savings has been fruitful of success, as they 
now possess 206 acres of land, besides three 
houses and lots in Deersville. For about twenty 
years after coming to Deersville he engaged m 
milling, at which he was eminently successful. 
In his politics Mr. McMillen has been a Repub- 
lican, and has held various offices in his county, 



township and town, serving the count] as com- 
missioner for six years; justice of the peace, 
mayor and member of the council of the village 
of Deersville for man) years. Two children 

comprise the family born to Mr. and Mrs 
Thomas McMillen, viz.: John R. and Thomas 
H. Our subject and wife are favorably known 
to a large circle of acquaintance--, ami are 
among the substantial and successful residents 
of Harrison County. 



^r^\ S. McLAIN, one of the well known 
L"V farmers of Rumley Township, Harrison 
1^ County, is a son of Samuel and Eliza- 
■f) beth (Hall) McLain, former of whom, a 

son of Joseph McLain, a native of Ireland, was 
an early settler of Westmoreland County. Penn. ; 
he was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., 
in L805. In 1812 his father came to what is 
now Rumley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
and entered several pieces of land, among them 
being the farm our subject now lives on, located 
on the northeast corner of Section 17, and con- 
taining 160 acres. Joseph McLain did not re- 
main in Rumley Township, but returned to 
Pennsylvania. In 1833 Samuel married, in 
Westmoreland County, Penn., and came to 
Rumley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, settling 
on the farm now owned by our subject. He 
lived in a log cabin for some time, and then 
built the house in which R. S. McLain now re- 
sides. Samuel McLain and wife were members 
of the Seceder Church for many years, bul be- 
fore their death they united with the United 
Presbyterian Church. Samuel died on the old 
farm, in August, 1879; his wife, who was born 

in Pennsylvania in 1807, died in 1883, They 

were the parents of nine children, namely: Ma- 
tilda, wife of Joseph Johnson, of Montgomery 
County, Iowa; Joseph, killed in the battle of 
the Wilderness; Mary A., living near our BUb 
ject; Samuel (deceased); John and James (twins) 
former deceased, latter living in Taylor County. 
Iowa; It. S., our subject; Jennie E., wife of 



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Robert Custer, of Scio. Ohio; and Emma, de- 
ceased. 

R. S. McLaiu was born June 18, 1846, where 
be now lives, and received a common-school edu- 
cation in Rumley Township, having never left 
the old farm. On December 6, 1868, be mar- 
ried Miss Aramintha Wiles, who was born in 
1843, and to this union were born three chil- 
dren: Amos E. and Annie E., both living at 
home, and an infant son, deceased. Mrs. Ara- 
mintha McLain died in 1870,. and October 29, 
1879, Mr. McLain married Miss Henrietta Mc- 
Lane, born January 9, 1851, a daughter of 
James M. and Mary (McFarland) McLane, for- 
mer of whom was born in Bloornfield, Ohio, in 
1827, and died in 1886; latter was born in 1826, 
and is now living in Harvey County, Kas. They 
were the parents of six children, viz. : William, 
in Colorado; James, Albert and Ella, in Kan- 
sas; Elizabeth, deceased; and Henrietta, now 
Mrs. McLain, who was born in Jamestown, Ohio. 
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McLain are parents of three 
children: Martha M., Joseph M. and Nannie 
Jeanette, all at home. Our subject and wife 
are members of the United Presbyterian Church. 



GHARLES JAMES FOX. The Fox fam- 
ily in Harrison County trace their gene- 
alogy to the year 1650, at which time 
Francis Fox and his wife, Dorothy, were 
living in Cornwall, England. From them to 
the present generation is traced an uninter- 
rupted descent, and a " family tree " giving the 
various branches in full, also four volumes con- 
taining the family history, are in the possession 
of Mr. C. J. Fox. Francis and Dorothy Fox 
begat three children, one of whom, named Fran- 
cis, married, for his first wife, Joan Smith, and 
for his second, Tabitha Croker, having in all 
twelve children, of whom John married, first, 
Lovall Applebee, and after her death, Lydia 
Berry, becoming the father, by these two unions, 
of seven children. Of these, John married, in 
1747, Rebecca Steevens, who bore him twelve 
children, of whom Josiah, the tenth in order of 



birth, was married in America to Anna Miller, 
by whom he had the following named children: 
John, who died of croup at the age of two years; 
Elizabeth Miller (deceased), married to Moses 
Chapline, of Wheeling, W. Va., and had twelve 
children; Anna Applebee (deceased), married to 
Robert I. Curtis, and had six children; Rebecca 
Steevens (deceased), married to Elijah Picker- 
ing, who is now a resident of near St. Clairsville. 
Ohio, and had seven children; John Charles, 
who died in childhood; Charles James, the sub- 
ject of this biography; Sarah Scant] ebury, de- 
ceased wife of B. E. Dungan, who had eight 
children, and Francis Drake, who was killed by 
a fall from an apple tree, leaving four children. 
The paternal great-grandfather was a merchant 
in Falmouth, England, and his son (the grand- 
father) succeeded to the business; a son of the 
latter, and uncle of the above named children, 
was a merchant in Plymouth. 

Josiah Fox, the father, was born in Falmouth, 
England, October 9, 1 763, and received a good ed- 
ucation at the schools of the place, proving him- 
self an apt scholar. When of age he bound him- 
self out as an apprentice to the shipbuilding busi- 
ness at Plymouth, England, serving five years, 
after which he commenced a seafaring life, in 
company with his brother Henry, who was a mar- 
iner, and in 1790 he made his first voyage, which 
was to Mediterranean ports, in the wheat trade. 
Among other places he then visited were Italy, 
calling at Genoa, viewing Mount Vesuvius, etc. 
On another voyage he sailed to Northern Russia, 
calling at many ports, among them New Arch- 
angel, and proceeding even as far north as did 
Sir John Franklin. His next venture was in 
America, where he resided one year, returning 
to England. In 1793 he again came to these 
shores, and for some years was engaged by the 
Government as navy constructor, first at Phila- 
delphia Navy Yard, from where he was trans 
ferred to the Norfolk and Portsmouth Navy 
Yards, and next to that at Washington City. In 
his own neat handwriting is preserved a list of 
the ships of war drafted by him, as follows: 
United States (44 guns) Constitution, President, 




^Sxfoc^f 






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HARRISON COUNTY. 






Chesapeake, Congress (36), Crescent (built for 
the Dey of Algiers), John Adams (3'2, since 
made into a corvette), Portsmouth (22), Hornet. 
(18), Wasp (18), Ferret (12), and of these the 
Constitution, Hornet and Wasp have left their 
records in history. While so engaged he served 
under Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, 
Madison, and by his skill and exertion did 
efficient work for the Government until achange 
of administration, after the incoming of the lat- 
ter President, released him from further duty. 
His son, Charles James, has in his possession 
many of his original plans and drafts of vessels. 

After being disconnected from this, to him, 
pleasant yet responsible charge, he took up his 
residence June 8, 1811, in Wheeling, W. Va., 
with the intention of aiding in the construction 
of other sea- going vessels. Shortly afterward 
he invested in a farm in Colerain Township, 
Belmont Co., Ohio, to which he removed with 
his family in 1814, and there spent the remain 
der of his life. His wife, whom he married in 
Philadelphia, in 1794, was born in 17US, and 
died on this farm in 1841, he following her to 
the grave in 1S47 at the advanced ageof eighty 
four years. He was, in politics, a Whig, and 
took a great interest in the affairs of his adopted 
country, keeping himself well posted and 
abreast of the times. For generations, and ever 
since its rise, the family had been members of 
the Society of Friends, and bore a share of its 
early grievous persecutions, but on account of 
his being connected with the building of ships, 
which they supposed were intended for war, 
Josiah was disowned by the Society. 

Charles James Fox, one of the oldest and 
wealthiest, as well as one of the most highly 
esteemed and best-known residents of Harrison 
County, was born in Washington, D. C, Octo- 
ber 17, 1805, and received a good practical edu- 
cation. When twenty one years of age, desir- 
ing an enlargement of his insight into business 
life, he found employment in a store and print 
ing office in Wheeling for a short time, after 
which he remained with his parents on the farm 
until the spring of 1831, when, with his father 



and brother Francis, he sailed for England, 
where the year was spent looking after persona! 
interest-, and sight seeing in London and adja- 
cent points. 

In 1839 he settled on the place where he 
now resides in Short ('reek Township, Harrison 
County, but in lMiMiis mother and his brother's 
wife having died, he remove.] to the paternal 
homestead, whine he remained two years 
then returned to his own faun, and commenced, 
in 1845, the erection of his residence, and fol- 
lowing this the replacement of other buildings. 
The property had gone badly to decay and de- 
terioration, and presents a marked contrast in 
the present evidence of comfort and careful hus- 
bandry. On February 7, 1837, Mr. Fox was 
married to Esther Cooper, of near Flashing, 
Belmont Co.. Ohio, who was born April 4. 1810, 
near Baltimore, Md.. a daughter of Nicholas 
and Sarah (Balderson) Cooper. The Cooper 
and Balderson families came from England and 
Ireland, respectively, to this country prior to 
the Revolutionary War, and Nicholas Cooper 
and Isaiah Balderson (Sarah Cooper's father) 
were ministers in the Society of Friends. 

The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Fox. when 
a young man, heard some men talking of the 
advantages to lie derived from entering a certain 
tract of land lying in York County, l'enn., on 
the Susquehanna River. While they lingered 
maturing their plans, he was quick in his judg- 
ment, and. mounting his horse, hastened to 
Washington, nearly eighty miles away, and 
secured the tract. Upon learning of his action 
they remarked to him: "We beat the bush and 
you caught the bird, and we commend you for 
it." The parents of Mrs. Fox came to Belmont 
County in 1829, settling in Wheeling Township, 
where they died, the mother in 1843 and the 
father in 1844. They were the parents of twelve 
children, a record of whom is as follow-: Far 
thenia was married to John Harmer; Elizabeth 
was married to Jacob Ely; Isaiah was a men 
of Wheeling, Va.; Martha was married to 
Jonathan Bye: Anna was married to James 
McConnell; Sarah became the wife of John 



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Michener; Nicholas; Priscilla became the wife 
of Thomas Dunn, and lives in Belmont County, 
Ohio; Esther is Mrs. Charles J. Fox; Ely B. ; 
Margaret was married to William E. Lnkens; 
Gulielma was married to Joseph Hicks, and 
resides in Grundy County, 111. ; all are now de- 
ceased except Priscilla, Esther and Gulielma. 

To Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Fox have been 
born four children, viz. : Anna Miller, now Mrs. 
Lindley M. Branson, in Short Creek Township, 
Harrison County; William Spicer, also in Short 
Creek Township, and Sarah Cooper and Fran- 
cis C, at home. The entire family are mem- 
bers of the Society of Friends, and the father 
and sons vote the straight Republican ticket. 
The farms, 379 acres in extent, are of the most 
fertile and pleasantly situated in the county. 
Mr. Fox, by his pure, just principles, his care- 
ful business habits, and his genial, peaceful 
nature, has secured for himself, through a long 
life, quiet happiness, culminating in good-will 
to all men; and now, at the honored age of over 
four score and five years, he enjoys the respect 
and esteem of a wide circle of friends. 




\ILLIAM E. SAMPSON was born in 
Stock Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
Iff March 20, 1833, on the farm on which 
he still lives. Francis Sampson, father 
of William E. Sampson, was born in County 
Tyrone, Ireland, and was a son of John Samp- 
son, who married Sarah Gibson and became the 
father of two children, Francis and William. 
In 1812 John Sampson came with his family to 
America, and for about fifteen years resided in 
New York, when, in 1827, he came to Stock 
Township, Harrison County, and entered a 
quarter section of land, which was subsequently 
improved by the family. He was among the 
founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Mount Hope, and also assisted in the organiza- 
tion of the church at Pleasant Valley. He was 
a class leader and trustee, and liberal in his 
contributions toward the support and upholding 
of the Methodist Society, and in this faith he 



died and was buried at Mount Hope. His 
political views were those of the Whig party. 

Francis Sampson spent his early life in New 
York, where he married Margaret, daughter of 
Christmas Evans, a native of Wales. In 1827 
he came to Stock Township, Harrison County, 
and settled down to farming. The children 
born to his marriage were John, now in Wichita, 
Kas. ; Sarah Ann, who died at two years of age; 
William E., our subject; Charles W., in German 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio; A. J., United 
States consul at Paso del Norte, and Francis A., 
in Sedalia, Mo. In politics Mr. Sampson was 
a Whig, and on the organization of the Repub- 
lican party espoused its cause. He was among 
the earliest members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Mount Hope, and also of that at 
Pleasant Valley, in both of which he held the 
various offices, and to both of which he was a 
liberal contributor of his means. March 16, 
1870, he died in the faith, and was followed by 
his wife November 9, 1884. Both now sleep 
their last sleep at Pleasant Valley. 

\Y. E. Sampson was educated primarily at 
the common schools of Stock Township, and this 
was supplemented by a course at Franklin Col- 
lege and also at Hopedale. For several years 
later he was identified with the educational 
progress of Harrison County, and was one of its 
most successful teachers. October 25, I860, 
Mr. Sampson married Miss Susan M. , daughter 
of William Welch, of Archer Township, Harri- 
son Co. , Ohio, and this union has been blessed 
with five children, viz. : Frank, Anthony, George 
F., John and Archibald. Immediately after his 
marriage Mr. Sampson settled on the farm he 
still occupies, which farm gives every evidence 
of skill in cultivation, thrift and comfort. In 
politics he is a Republican, and has been many 
times entrusted with public offices — such as 
those of trustee, treasurer and land appraiser. 
He and his family are members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, his membership having 
extended over a period of forty-seven years, and 
for many of these he has been class leader and 
steward. In Sunday-school work he has always 



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taken an active part, and has served either as 
superintendent or teacher for over thirty years. 



JjOHN SPAHROW, a resident of Green 
| Township, Harrison County, was born in 
' Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
March G, 1825. Elijah Sparrow, his 
grandfather, was a native of England, where he 
was married and reared a family of live children. 
In the latter part of the nineteenth century he 
and his family emigrated to America, settling in 
Maryland, where they remained many years. 

Eli Sparrow, son of Elijah, and father of 
John, was a native of Montgomery County, 
Md., born in 1791. He enlisted in the War of 
1812, serving throughout the entire campaigu, 
and was at the siege of Baltimore when the 
British general, Ross, was killed. Soon after 
the close of the war he married Nancy Dial, 
and then removed to Harrison County, Ohio, 
where he followed shoemaking to the end of 
his life. He died in September, 1829, and was 
buried in Beech Spring Cemetery; his widow 
survived him until April 17, 1882, when she de- 
parted to the other shore, at the advanced age 
of eighty-three years, three months and twenty- 
three days, her remains now resting in West 
Grove Cemetery. They were the parents of the 
following named children: Samuel, born Sep- 
tember 4, 1817, died May 26, 1862; Jane, born 
November 8, 1819; Lorena, born April It), 1822, 
died September 20, 1857; John (our subject), 
and Benjamin F., born March 9, 1828. 

John Sparrow, the subject proper of this 
biographical memoir, at the early age of nine 
years, became engaged to work for a farmer 
for his board and clothes, and thus continued 
until the age of fourteen, when his remunera- 
tion was increased to five dollars per month for 
three and one-half months. His income he 
steadily thereafter increased until, by untiring 
efforts he amassed a valuable and handsome 
property in Green Township, situated about 
three miles from Cadiz. On September 6, 1849, 
Mr. Sparrow was united in marriage with Sarah 



Jane, daughter of James Adams, a resident and 
early settler of Short Creek Township, Hani- 
son County, and to this union were born the to] 
lowing named children: Sanford, born Septem 

ber 5, 1850, died October 1, 1851, and Oscar C., 
born November 14, 1855. Mr. Sparrow was an 

Old line Whig until the organization of the Re- 
publican party, when he united with the Demo- 
crats. He has acceptably filled various offices 
in his township, among them that of justice of 
the peace, which position he has held many 
years in a manner calculated to win the confi- 
dence and esteem of his constituents. 

Oscar C, his son, was married December 17, 
1SS5, to Jennie T.. daughter of Joseph L. 
Thompson, of Cadiz Township, Harrison County. 
and they then settled on the home place, where 
he assists his father in the management of the 
farm. He is a rising and exemplary young 
mau in his section, and a worthy representative 
of a worthy father. 



dj C. PATTERSON. Among the most highly 
respected citizens of Stock Township, Har- 
' rison County, none occupy a higher place 
in the estimation of his fellow-citizens 
than Joseph C. Patterson. He was born Au- 
gust 30. 1835, in Archer Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where he stills owns a valuable prop- 
erty. His father, Joseph Patterson, was born 
of Scotch parentage, in April, 1799, in County 
Down, Ireland, where he resided until twelve 
years of age, when his parents immigrated to 
America, landing at New York, whence they 
came to Pittsburgh, remaining there some time. 
They soon, however, decided to move farther 
west, and settled in Harrison County, Ohio, as 
the place best suited to their wishes. Arriving 
in Archer Township they entered a piece of land 
and built the usual log cabin, in which they 

lived until re vingto Stock Township, where 

the father engaged in clearing and improving 
his farm. Here he remained about thirty yeai 9, 
prospering year l>y year, and then removed to 
Cadiz Township, where he died in 1S79. On 



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February 14, 1822. be was married to Jemima, 
daughter of James Hoagland, a resident of 
Stock Township, this county. The young couple 
commenced housekeeping on a very economical 
scale the wife weaving all the cloth and making 
all the clothes for the family. Eleven children 
were reared by them, and all the sons are now 
deceased except J. O, who is living in Stock 
Township, and James H., in Cadiz Township, 
Harrison County; the daughters, five in num- 
ber, are all living, highly respected citizens. In 
politics Mr. Patterson was a Whig, until the 
organization of the Republican party, when be 
united with them, and was always one of the 
stanchest of the party. Both himself and 
wife were among the prominent members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Foremost in 
all acts of charity and benevolence, he was one 
who carried his principles into practice. With 
no assistance save that of his loving and faithful 
wife, be became, from a penniless boy, one of 
the most substantial and prosperous of the 
farmers of Harrison County. After the death 
of Mr. Patterson, his widow removed to Scio, 
in this county, where she yet resides, now ninety 
years old and of sound memory. 

Joseph C. Patterson remained at home un- 
til the age of twenty-one (attending the district 
schools until be was about that age), when he 
entered Hopedale College, where be remained 
three years, holding a leading position in his 
classes, being one of the most prominent and 
influential among his fellow-students. On the 
call for volunteers, during the Civil War, Mr. 
Patterson gave -up his studies, and at once en- 
listed in the Ninety-eighth O. V. I., Company 
F, of which he was appointed secretary, and 
soon after was made second lieutenant, a posi- 
tion he held for two months, when he .was 
further promoted to first lieutenant, and soon 
thereafter to the captaincy of his company. 
His regiment joined the Army of the Cumber- 
land, and engaged in the various engagements 
of that division. Mr. Patterson took part in 
the battles of Chaplin Hills, Chickamauga, 
Buzzard's Roost, Resaca and Kenesaw Mount- 



ain, the siege of Atlanta and Jonesboro, Sher- 
man's march to the sea, the siege of Savan- 
nah, battle of Bentonville, and other battles 
and skirmishes; marched through the Caroli- 
nas and Virginia (Richmond, Va. ), and on to 
Washington. He served throughout the entire 
war, notwithstanding his poor bealtb, which 
he suffered, having undergone many exposures 
on the field and in the camp. His service to 
bis country was during the best period of bis 
life, and to that service he sacrificed his dream 
of literary or professional honors. To such 
men as these, with brilliant prospects before 
them, with success almost assured, this country 
is under the deepest obligations. He was a 
participant in the magnificent review of the 
armies that occurred in Washington just before 
disbanding, and when the safety of his coun- 
try was assured, he returned home and engaged 
in the profession of teaching, *which he fol- 
lowed about three years. On September 7, 
1865, be was married to Mary Ann, daughter 
of John and Margaret Simpson, of the well- 
known Simpson family, of whom the late 
Bishop Simpson and the Grant family are mem- 
bers. Soon after marriage he purchased the 
farm on which he now resides, and has greatly 
improved its appearance by new buildings and 
clearing, tiling and other means. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Patterson have been born six children, all 
of whom but one remain at home: Nettie (Mrs. 
Fre Patton), born October 17, 1866, living in 
Archer Township; Vernon, born July 11, 1868; 
Glen V., born October 10, 1871; Henry O, 
born March 8, 1874; Minnie J., born December 
21, 1875; Clara G., born January 28, 1879. 

Among the members of his party Mr. Pat- 
terson is recognized as one of the leaders in his 
county, and is prominently mentioned as a can- 
didate for some of the offices in the gift of the 
Republicans of his section. He has always 
worked ardently for his party, and the interests 
of the county and township, both financially 
and politically. He and his wife are promi- 
nent members of the Methodist Episcopal 
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every worthy and deserving enterprise. Besides 
engaging in farming, which he does generally, 
raising all kinds of stock, Mr. Patterson has 
financial interests in the West. This sketch he 
leaves for the benefit of his family and of all 
who may read it. 

The time-honored saying — "No excellency 
without great labor" — Mr. Patterson gives 
prominent place among his life maxims; and he 
supplements it with the advice that " if you want 
to succeed in life, push your business occupation 
or profession with thought and energy." 




SBURY F. PETTY, a popular progres- 
sive farmer of Green Township, Harri- 
son County, was born in Freeport Town- 
ship, same county, August 22, 1847, a 
son of Rhodum and Hester Ann (Fry) Petty. The 
grandfather of our subject, also named Rhodum 
Petty, was a native of Germany, where he prob- 
ably married. Rhodum Petty, the father, who 
was a farmer, when seven years of age came 
with his parents to Ohio, and here he grew up 
to farm life. He married, in this State, Hester 
Ann Fry, daughter of Joseph Fry, of Harrison 
County, and they became the parents of six chil- 
dren, as follows: Jane, wife of S. Jewel; Cas- 
sandra, wife of Robert Petty, of Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County; Joseph, who died 
in the army; Asbury F. ; Henry, in Coshocton, 
Ohio, and Charles, who died when young. 

Asbury F. Petty, whose name heads this 
sketch, was brought up a farmer, attending the 
common schools, and at fifteen years of age be- 
gan life for himself, not, however, going outside 
of the county. In February, 1873, he was mar- 
ried to Sarah M. , daughter of Thomas and Jane 
(McNary) Kyle, and a native of Harrison Coun- 
ty. Her grandfather, William Kyle, came from 
Ireland to Pennsylvania at an early day, and 
here carried on farming. He was married in 
the Keystone State to Margaret Paxton, and 
they came to Harrison County, Ohio, with their 
family in 1808. settling on a wild piece of wood- 



land. Here the v passed Hi" remainder of their 
lives, the grandmother dying first; he afterward 
married Man Morrow, of Pennsylvania; the 
grandfather lived to be eighty -five years of age; 
they were influent i.il members of thePiney Fork 
Church. Of their children only one, William 
L., survives, who is living near Columbus, Ohio. 
Thomas, one of their sons, was eight years old 
when he came with his parents to Harrison 
County, where he was brought up an agricult- 
urist, attending during the winters the subscrip 
tion schools held in the old log school-house. In 
1829 he married Jane McNary, daughter of 
Judge Samuel and Man McNary, latter a native 
of Jefferson County, Ohio, of which county her 
maternal grandparents were pioneers, dying 
there. Of their children, but one, a daughter, 
Margaret Hervoy, survives, living near I'nionport, 
Jefferson County. Mr. and Mis. Thomas Kyle 
located on a farm in Green Township, Harri- 
son County, and here reared their family : in L862 
they moved to Short Creek Township, remaining 
there until 1880, in which year they went to live 
in Jefferson County, with their eldest daughter, 
Mrs. R. M. Henderson, by whom they were 
most,tenderly cared for. Here Mrs. Kyle died. 
November 4, 1884, at the age of seventy-seven 
years, and Mr. Kyle, November 4, 1889, at the 
age of eighty-nine years. They were the par- 
ent-- i>f eleven children: Samuel W., in New- 
Concord, Muskingum Co., Ohio; Margaret, now 
Mrs. Robert Henderson, in Smithfield, Jefferson 
County; Mary, deceased wife of David McNary: 
Jane, Mrs. James McNary. late of Cannons- 
burg, Penn., who died November 18, 1890; 
Martha, deceased wife of Henry Barricklow. of 
Harrison County; William P., now living in 
Green Township, Harrison County ; Elizabeth A., 
wife of John Mitchell, in Cadiz Township, Har- 
rison County: Jemima ('. ( deceased i: Thomas 
M., who died in the army at the age of eighteen; 
Sarah M.. wife of Asbury F. Petty: and Joseph 
A., living near Sabina, Clinton Co., Ohio. The 
parents were both members ol the United Pres 
bvterian Church. Grandfather McNary was a 
politician in his day. and was one of the verj 



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early judges of Ohio; was also representative for 
one term (or more) from Jefferson County. He 
was a ruling elder in the Piney Fork (then Asso- 
ciate, now United Presbyterian) Church, and was 
very instrumental in the building up of the old 
congregation. At his home, the ministers who 
came to preach at the country church were most 
hospitably entertained. His place was known as 
the "Preachers' Home," and today the same 
unbounded hospitality is found in the home of 
his granddaughter and her husband, Mr. and 
Mrs. R. M. Henderson, whose residence is near 
the church of their ancestors. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Petty 
made their permanent home in Green Township, 
with the exception of four years spent in Short 
Creek Township. In 1884 they purchased the 
old Hamilton Farm, two miles southeast of Cadiz, 
where they have since lived. Of their union 
four children have been born, viz. : Orville A. and 
Orlando H. (twins), Anna and Thomas A. Polit- 
ically Mr. Petty is a stanch Republican, and he 
and his wife are members of the United Pres- 
byterian Church, at Cadiz. The family are 
well known and highly respected by all, Mr. 
Petty being recognized as one of the rising and 
prosperous farmers of Green Township. 



J (AMES KIRKPATRICK, one of the well- 
J known farmers of Moorefield Township, 
Harrison County, is a son of William and 
Sarah (Guthrie) Kirkpatrick, former of 
whom was a son of James and Mary (Loney) 
Kirkpatrick, natives of Maryland, who moved 
to Washington County, Penn., in an early day. 
About 1815 they came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, and purchased 160 acres of land in the 
northwest corner of Athens Township, on which 
land they remained some years, then sold and 
removed to Moorefield Township and purchased 
160 acres in Section 6, in the southeast quarter. 
James Kirkpatrick, Sr., was a school teacher, 
which occupation he followed for some time. 
He was the father of seven children, named as 
follows: Hugh, Robert, William, James, John, 



Elizabeth and Mar}', the latter being the only 
one now living and residing on the old home- 
stead. As nearly as can be ascertained, William 
Kirkpatrick was born in Washington, Penn., 
December 10, 1801, and with his parents came 
to Harrison County, Ohio. When twenty-one 
years of age he married Miss Sarah Guthrie, 
and remained in Athens Township till about 
1832, when he removed to Moorefield Town- 
ship and purchased 120 acres of land on Section 
5, where he remained until his death, which oc- 
curred in 1888; his wife departed this life in 
1S84. To this union were born eleven children, 
as follows: James, our subject; Robert, resid- 
ing in Moorefield Township; Joseph, residing 
in Moorefield Township; Hugh, in Iowa; Mary 
J., on the old homestead; Adaline, in Flushing; 
Sarah, in Moorefield Township; Elizabeth, wife 
of W. E. Wallace, of Moorefield Township; 
Nancy, deceased; Margaret, residing in Moore- 
field Township, and John, who died in 1845, 
aged six years. The descendants of James 
Kirkpatrick, Sr. , number about two hundred. 

James Kirkpatrick, our subject, was born in 
Athens Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, November 
21, 1824. He received a common school educa- 
tion in Harrison County, and when a young man 
taught school for about three years. On Feb- 
ruary 25, 1847, he married Miss Ellen S. Wallace, 
born June 17, 1827, a daughter of Rev. William 
and Mary (McWilliams) Wallace, natives of 
Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in 1817. To 
our subject and wife were born six children, viz. : 
Mrs. Sarah J. Brocaw, of Flushing, Ohio; W. W., 
residing in Moorefield Township; John A., re- 
siding in Flushing, Ohio; David McWilliams, in 
Kansas; Emma L. Welling, of Washington Town- 
ship, and Mary E. Adams, of Pettis County, Mo. 
Mrs. Kirkpatrick departed this life November, 8, 
1882, and October 12, 1886, Mr. Kirkpatrick 
married Miss Belle Guthrie, born December 10, 
1835, a daughter of Robert and Jane (Cunning- 
ham) Guthrie. In 1855 Mr. Kirkpatrick pur- 
chased the farm he now owns, which contains 
160 acres, and is located in the southeast 
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HARRISON COUNTY. 






has made many improvements, having erected a 
tine residence, and has the place under an excel- 
lent state of cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpat- 
rick are both members of Nottingham Presby- 
terian Church. The father of Mr. Kirkpatrick 
was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for over 
forty years, and the Kirkpatricks have always 
been regarded as moral and highly respected 
citizens, foremost in church work and every be 
nevolent enterprise, seeking the good of all in 
the community, and strong advocates of temper- 
ance and every moral reform. For three gener- 
ations the Kirkpatricks have been at the head 
of the church music in Nottingham Church. 



f(OHN CALVIN MALLABNEE. farmer, 

w. I Nottingham Township, Harrison County, 
\JJ is a son of John G.Mallarnee, who is a son 
of Isaac Mallarnee, who was born about 
177S, in Maryland, where he grew to manhood 
and learned the wagon-making trade. He served 
some time in the War of 1812, and soon after the 
close of the war migrated to Ohio and first located 
at Bloomfield, Jefferson County, where he remain- 
ed a short time; then went to Smithfield, Ohio, 
where he worked at his trade as long as his health 
would permit, when he removed to Guernsey 
County, Ohio, and resided with his son until his 
death, which occurred about the year 1870. His 
son, John G. Mallarnee. was born in Maryland 
in 1815, but grew to manhood in Ohio, aod was 
also a wagon-maker by trade, at which he worked 
in Bloomfield, Ohio, till 1850, when he then re 
moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and resided 
near Newtown for a short time; then purchased 
a small farm near West Chester, Guernsey Coun- 
ty, where he now lives. He married Miss Mary 
Galbraith, who was bom about 1820 in Ohio, and 
to this union were born eleven children, viz. : 
John Calvin, our subject; Sylvester, residing in 
P report Township; Jasper, in Guernsey Conn 
ty; Lafton, at home; Ashley, deceased; Samuel 
K.. deceased; Margaret, at home: Sarah E. Bur- 
ns, in Guernsey County, Ohio; Mary C. Ripley, 
in Freeport Township; Elizabeth Miller, de 



ceased, and Estella, at home. Mr. and Mrs. 
Mallarnee arc both members of the Methodist 
I 'rotestant Church. 

John Calvin Mallarnee was born in Bloom- 
field, Ohio, October 22, 1843. He received a 
common-school educaf inn in Tuscarawas < lounty, 
Ohio, and remained at home until he was twenty- 
one years of age, when he commenced working 
for his neighbors as a farm laborer. On January 
25, 1872, he married Miss Eleanor McKibben,who 
was born about 1 s: J ,7, a daughter of George and 
Eleanor (Morrison) McKibben, and to this union 
have been born two children: George McKibben 
Mallarnee, born February 1'.'. 1876, and John 
Calvin Mallarnee, Jr., born September 22, 1878, 
and died April 21, ISM. After his marriage 
Mr. Mallarnee rented a farm in Cadiz Township. 
Harrison County, where he remained for six 
years; then removed to Mooretield Township, 
remaining one year, and also was in Athens 
Township one year. In 1880 he purchased the 
farm he now owns, which contains ninety six 
acres on Section 28. Nottingham Township; he is 
one of its progressive citizen-, and is well known 
to the public as a man of unimpeachable integ- 
rity. He is quite tin extensive Bheep grower, 
having some of the fines) sheep in Nottingham 
Township. He was for many years a Democrat, 
but a few years ago he saw the effects of strong 
di ink. which brings desolation and ruin to many 
a home, and has since worked in the ranks of 
the Prohibition party. 



DAVID GLADMAN, one of the well known 
and prominent farmers of franklin Town- 
' ship. Han inty, was born Septem- 

ber 10, 1810, in Maryland. His father. 
Thomas Gladman, was a native of that State, 
where he met and married Mi'.. I.avely. who 

bore him the following named children: Marga- 
ret, Rachel, Nancy, David and John. In 1811 

he removed to JetTei son County. Ohio, with his 
family, remained until 1842, and then, with his 
son David, he came to Franklin Township. Har- 



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rison County, and purchased the farm on which 
the family still reside. Here, in the care of his 
son David, were the last days of himself and 
wife spent, the pathway to the grave being 
smoothed by the care and assistance of David 
and his wife. He died in 1855, followed mx 
years later by his wife, and they rest side by 
side in the cemetery at Deersville. They were 
members of the Christian Church from early 
life, and died in the full faith of that belief. 

David Gladman spent his youth in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, where he received the advantages 
of an education, which, though somewhat lim- 
ited, still was thorough, and in after years was 
of great advantage to him. On March 17, 
1842, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth, 
daughter of James and Nancy (McLaughlin) 
Lyons, of Jefferson County, Obio. They im- 
mediately came to Frankliu Township, Harrison 
County, Ohio, and purchased a farm, which was 
partially improved. Here they entered their 
log cabin, and through many years of discour- 
agement and hardship never lost heart, but 
bravely struggled on, and at last succeeded in 
clearing up the home and improving it. Few 
who have not been engaged in the work realize 
what it is to redeem a farm from the wilderness, 
and to those who have labored so assiduously too 
great credit can not be given. Mr. Gladman and 
his wife commenced their married life poor in 
worldly goods, but rich in hope, energy and 
determination. Their success is and should be 
an example as to what may be accomplished 
where one sets about achieving it. In politics 
the Gladman family are Democratic, and have 
universally supported that ticket. Mr. Glad- 
man was elected to various offices in his town- 
ship, and always discharged his duties faith- 
fully and according to his best judgment. Mr. 
and Mrs. Gladman reared a large family, all of 
whom are members of the church of their 
parents — the Christian. The family have al- 
ways been among the regular attendants and the 
earnest workers of the society, and the younger 
members of the family are now fully sustaining 
the family reputation. The children are named 



Nancy, John, Mary E., Thomas, Sarah M. , 
Rachel E., James B., Lydia J. and Anna B. 



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V I/ON. JASPER N. LANTZ, Mooretield, 
y~k Harrison County, is a son of John and 

1 Eliza (Fulton) Lautz, former of whom 
was a son of Peter Lantz, a native of 
Pennsylvania, who migrated to Jefferson County, 
Ohio, where he died in 1821, leaving his widow 
and seven children. The wife of Peter Lantz 
was Mary Patterson, a native of Pennsylvania, 
born of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and their children 
were Christopher P. , William, John, Abraham, 
Abigail (all of whom are now deceased), and 
Mary Beall, residing in Coshocton County, Ohio, 
and Sarah Cramer, in Medina County, Ohio. 
After Mr. Peter Lantz' s death, Mrs. Lantz re- 
moved to their farm in Mooretield Township, 
Harrison County, where our subject now resides, 
and there she lived for a number of years in a 
rude log cabin. 

John Lantz was born in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, May 24, 1809, but grew to manhood in 
Mooretield Township, Harrison County, where 
ho was educated at the common schools. In 
1837 he married and settled at the old home- 
stead, on Section 24. To Mr. and Mrs. Lantz 
were born six sons, as follows: Dewey S., re- 
siding in Belmont County, Ohio; R. W. , in 
Mooretield Township; Jasper N, our subject; 
A. E. , killed in the Civil War; Samuel M. , in 
Piedmont, Ohio, and Albert C. , deceased. Mr. 
and Mrs. Lantz were members of the Notting- 
ham Church for many years. He died Novem- 
ber 7, 1879; his wife, who was born February 9, 
1815, died February 8, 1887. Politically, Mr. 
Lantz was a Republican, and he was a very act- 
ive politician. 

Hon. Jasper N. Lantz was born in Moore- 
field Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, January 
22, 1843, grew to manhood on the old farm, 
and was educated at the common schools. On 
April 27, 1871, he was married to Miss Sarah 
Sloan, who was born April 20, 1848, a daughter 
of John and Eliza (Wherry) Sloan. In June, 





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]SS8. our subject was Dominated by the Repub- 
lican party of Harrison County as a candidate 
for representative, and was elected in the fall 
of 1883. On July 4, 1887, he was nominated 
the second time, and was elected by a majority 
of 612. During his term in the Legislature he 
served on several of the most important com- 
mittees of the House. At the expiration of his 
legislative work he returned to his farm, where 
he is engaged in farming and stock-raising. 
Mr. Lantz takes great pleasure in breeding fine 
stock; anil has on his farm some well-bred cattle 
and line horses, comprising grades and standard- 
bred stock; and there, with the cares that be- 
long to a progressive farm life, he represents the 
third generation on the old homestead. 



J (AMES ROBISON, another of the honored 
| pioneer settlers of Harrison County, was 
J born April 11. 1808, in Franklin County, 
Penn., a sou of William and Mary (Little) 
Robison, both natives of County Antrim, Ire 
land. Soon after their marriage the parents 
came to America, here to found a home and pass 
the remainder of their days. Landing at Phila- 
delphia in 1796, they proceeded at once to 
Franklin County, Penn., whence they removed 
to Stock Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where 
they remained but one year, when the father 
purchased a farm of 200 acres in Archer 
Township, on which he lived until he was sum- 
moned to his reward. He died in 1840, and 
was buried in Eidge Cemetery; his wife is in- 
terred in Washington County, Iowa, where, at 
the time of her decease, she was visiting her 
daughter, Mrs. Judge Maxwell. Mr. and Mrs. 
Robison were members of the Presbyterian 
Church; in politics he was a Democrat. Their 
family consisted of nine children, two of whom 
were born in Ireland; others were William, 
James and John. 

James Robison, the subject proper of this 
biographical memoir, attended the winter 
schools, sitting on the wooden benches, and fac- 
ing the blazing tire, which roared and crackled 



in tin' great fireplace, roasting Lis, face whilst 
his back would be freezing. At the age of 
nineteen he commenced learning the blacksmith's 
trade at Shippensburg, Penn., in the shop of 
Matthews iV Wilson, with wliom he remained 
about one year and a half, earning tin' respect 
and challenging the admiration of all by his 
aptness and deftness in handling the tools. He 
next entered the shop of John Mull, with whom 
he finished his apprenticeship. As a full fledged 
journeyman, our subject now started out. travel- 
ing through the counties of A\ est nioreland and 
Allegheny. Penn., for nearly a year, meanwhile 
looking for a suitable place where to establish a 
business for his own account. Finally locating 
in Jacksonville. Westmoreland County, he re- 
mained there two years, doing a thriving busi- 
ness. Selling this out, he removed to Harrison 
County, Ohio, to the farm of 1'JO acres in 
Archer Township, he now owns, where he imme- 
diately opened a shop, which he carried on dar- 
ing the summer. He then purchased a dwelling- 
and shop in Bloomtield, JetTersou Co., 
Ohio. Here he was very busy, having as much 
work as he and two employes could do, and 
soon after, having sold out the shop, be removed 
to the farm on which he at present reside-. 
Here, however, he remained only a short time, 
his desire for a more active life leading him to 
again take up his trade: so. returning to Bloom- 
field, he resumed work at the old stand, and 
soon had his old customers about him, soon af- 
terward purchasing the property. At this place 
he remained nine years, doing an excellent busi- 
ness all the time. He then exchanged this 
property for land in Virginia, and removed to his 

place in Archer 'Township. Harrison County. 

March L5, L831, at Irving Station. Penn., he 
was married to Man. daughter of William and 
Ellen (McCosick) Larnes. and nine children 
were born to them as follows: Eleanor (deceased 
wife of Jacob Megaw), Mary (who died when 
aged fifteen years), Ruth (now Mrs. Oliver Ca 
vin. living at Walker. Mo. ). Sarah .lane (at home 
with her father), Rachel H. mow Mrs. William 
Henderson, residing in Cadiz Township, this 



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county). Martha B. (now Mrs. Albert Havelin, 
also in Cadiz Township), and four who died in 
infancy and are buried in Ridge Cemetery. 
The mother of these children died November 
27, 1805, and is buried in Ridge Cemetery. 
She was a leading member of the Ridge Pres- 
byterian Church, and in the foremost ranks in 
all the acts of benevolence. Mr. Robison is a 
member of the same church; in politics he has 
always been an enthusiastic follower of Jack- 
son, his first vote being cast for him. He has 
attained his present enviable position, social 
and financial, by his own unaided efforts, and 

he is recognized as one of the intelligent farm- 
is i~> 

ers of this section, and one of those men whose 
history is so interwoven with that of his county 
as to be inseparable. 




RTHUR B. BARRETT, farmer, Not- 
tingham Township. Harrison County, 
was born in Flushing Township, Bel- 
mont Co., Ohio, November 6, 1840. 
When seven years of age his parents, Meredith 
and Mary Barrett, came to Harrison County, 
where he grew to manhood. On June 10, 
1862, he enlisted in the ranks of the Union 
Army, in Company E, Eighty eighth Regiment, 
O. V. I., and was mustered out in the follow- 
ing September. 

Arthur B. Barrett has been wedded three 
times, his first wife dying a few days after mar- 
riage. His second wife was Nancy E. Carson, 
a daughter of William Carson, and to this union 
were born three children, viz. : Viola J. Jones, 
born January 11, 1808, and residing in Notting- 
ham Township; William O. and Mary S. (twins), 
born July 22, INTO. His second wife died No- 
vember 28, 1871, a member of the Baptist 
Church, and March 30, 1873, he married Miss 
Annie G. Dicks, who was born December 21, 
1853, a daughter of Noah and Lydia A. (Peddy 
court I Dicks, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To 
this union have been born five children, viz : 
Clarence E., born November 4, 1873, now at 
home; Lillian B. , born June 2, 1875, died in in- 



fancy; Allen L., born October 12, 1877, at home; 
James W., born September 1, 1881, at home; 
and Ada O. , born March 2, 1885, also at home. 
Mr. Barrett, after his marriage, came to the 
farm where he has since lived, and where he 
lias been engaged in raising sheep. Politically 
he is a Republican, and has held several offices 
of trust in his township. 



QEORGE LOVE. In the township of 
. Athens, Harrison County, as well as in the 
adjacent country, none of the residents 
, >• are better known, not only for their pro- 
gressiveness and intelligence, but also for their 
honesty and integrity, than George Love. A 
descendant of one of the oldest and best known 
families in this section, he seems to have in- 
herited those qualities which have ever marked 
the family from which he springs, and have 
given them so much influence and respect in the 
county. He is a son of George and Jane 
(McCracken) Love, is a native of Athens, and 
was born September 9, 1S42. His whole life 
has been spent within the confines of this county, 
and here he has received his education, not only 
of a literary character, but also as to the prac- 
tical part of life. During the lifetime of his 
father he managed the home place, and now re- 
sides upon it with his family. 

On December 0, 1805, he was united in mar- 
riage with Eleanor, a daughter of Samuel Haley, 
long a resident of Belmont County, but now living 
in McClain County, 111. Mr. Love is well known 
in the politics of his county, having early iden- 
tified himself with the Democratic party, to 
which he still belongs, and in the progress of 
which he takes an active interest. He has served 
his township many times in various capacities, 
and was elected to the office of trustee several 
times successively, discharging its various duties. 
He and family are members of the Presbyterian 
Church, at Crab Apple, in which society his 
family are among the foremost in the move- 
ments of usefulness and charity. For many 
years he has been a member of the board of 



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directors of the Crab Apple Cemetery, and in 
1890 he was chosen president. His married 

life Las been blessed by the birth of the follow- 
ing named children: James, born in 1870, and 
died in 1ST."); Mary Jane, born in 1876; and 
George H. born in 1884. 




AlLLIAM McCULLOUGH, hardware 

\\lj dealer and druggist, New Athens, Har- 
rison County, is a son of George and 
Sarah (Whan) McCullough, anil was 
born in Harrison County. Ohio, in 1840. His 
maternal grandfather, John Whan, was born in 
Chester County, Penn., September 25, 1 770. 
and, at seventeen years of age, moved to North- 
umberland County, thence, in 1803, to Wash- 
ington County, Penn. On August 21, 1804, he 
married Margaret Bogg, who was born Novem- 
ber 17, 177U, and, in 1S15. he came to Harri- 
son County, Ohio. John Whan was an exem- 
plary Christian, having joined the Old School 
Presbyterian Church, under John Brison, at 
Warrior Run, in 1802; his wife. Margaret, was 
of the same faith, having joined in 1805. Mr. 
and Mrs. Whan had seven children, as follows: 
William, born July 7, 1805, died March 18, 
1833; Sarah, born January 7, L8D7; Hannah, 
born October 16, 1808; Mary, born December 1. 
L810, died August 6, 1851; Ellen, born May 13, 
1813 (Mrs. Michael Morgan, of Short Creek 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio); James, born 
January 9, 1816, died September 19, 1856. and 
John, born May 10, 1821, died July 19, 1849. 
Sarah Whan was married to George McCul 
lough, a drover and live stock dealer, and pork- 
packer, who died in New Athens, of erysipelas. 
In 1S7"i Mrs. McCullough also died, in New 
Athens, the mother of five children, viz. : Mar- 
garet, deceased; Martha, decease.!; John, de- 
oeased; Robert, in Milwaukee, and William, the 
subject of this sketch. Mrs. McCullough died 
in the Presbyterian faith, and was a woman who 
had at heart the interests of her family. 

In 1871 William McCullough opened a 
drug store in New Athens, in partnership with 



A. Hammond, but finally added hardware, and 
in L873 formed a partnership with Archibald 
Hammond, which was continued until Mr. M ■ 
Gnllough bought his partner out. After his 
mother's death a niece came to keep house for 
our subject, but she was soon after married to 
S. M. Bartley. Margaret, Bister of our subject, 
was married to s. K. Kane, a Presbyterian min- 
ister, of Darlington. Penn., who died in Mis- 
sissippi; Martha, another si<ter. married James 
Stewart, who died in Pittsburgh. Margaret 
became the mother of four children, and Martha 
the mother of three. Robert, a brother of our 
subject, is largely engaged in the manufacture 
of soap, in Milwaukee. Wis. John, another 
brother, who was studying for the ministry, 
died of consumption, at the age of twenty-one. 
Mr. McCullough is a business man, who 
Main- to keep abreast of the times, con 
stantly introducing new articles for the use of 
the farming community. Be is widely known 
and universally esteemed, and from early life 
has been actively occupied in building up the 
comfortable little fortune which he now enjoys. 



JOHN P. BROKAW. The Brokaw family 
are of German origin. In the early part 
of the eighteenth century, when religious 
persecutions were at their height in Ger 
many, the Brokaw family were among those 
upon whom the wrath of the persecutors fell. 

Many threats as to their destruction had I n 

made, and so common had these become that 
little attention was given to them. One day. 
however, news was brought that, on the day 
following, desperate measures would be resorted 
to if the family remained in the place. After 
much discussion, it was determined to remain, 
it being believed that nothing would be done. 
Two of the sons, however, hearing the discus 
sions relative to the matter, resolve,! to run 
away, and that nigh! set out on foot and pro 
Ceeded westward; and after many days of wear\ 
travel arrived at a seaport on the coast of Prance. 
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one of the many vessels in the harbor, secreted 
themselves, and remained iu hiding till the ship 
was well out to sea. She was bound for Amer- 
ica, and in good season reached New York, 
where she discharged her passengers and cargo. 
Here the two little waifs were cast upon their 
own resources, and as the elder was but thirteen 
and the younger nine, they had a difficult time 
in getting a livelihood. 

George, the founder of the Brokaw family 
in Harrison and Belmont Counties, early learned 
the weaver's trade, which he pursued many 
years of his life. On the breaking out of the 
War of the Revolution, they both enlisted in the 
defense of the colonies, and underwent the 
hardships of the whole time, serving as scouts 
on many occasions, John going as far as where 
Cincinnati now stands, George being in the 
neighborhood of Pittsburgh, each rendering im- 
portant as well as dangerous service to the 
Government. During the war George was mar- 
ried to Jane Custard, and immediately settled 
in Pennsylvania. His family was large, and 
contained the following named children: Abra- 
ham, born April 8, 1778; Benjamin, September 
28, 1779; Sarah, February 20, 1782; George, 
March 27, 1784; William, February 10, 1786; 
Judah, March 19, 1788; Jane, July 15, 1790; 
John, September 23, 1793; Mary, February 1-4, 
1796; Isaac, April 30, 1798; Jacob, October 31, 
1800, and Peter, December 25, 1802. Remain- 
ing in Pennsylvania till about 1802, he came to 
Harrison County and settled in the township of 
Green, near Beech Spring. He remained here 
but a short time when he removed to Athens, 
where, in company with Messrs. McCullough, 
Phillips & Johnson, he entered a section of land. 
On this land, which is that now occupied by 
our subject, he erected a log cabin, and the next 
year built a frame house, the boards for which 
had been whip-sawed by himself and family. 
This was probably the first frame house in 
Harrison County, and to-day portions of it may 
be seen in the residence occupied by his grand- 
son. Here he lived, and after many years of 
unremitting toil, he passed away, and was 



buried at Crab Apple Cemetery, by the side of 
his wife. He was a Democrat, politically, and 
was one of the organizers of the county. From 
early youth he had been a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church at Crab Apple. 

John Brokaw, father of our subject, grew 
to manhood in the township of Athens, and was 
always prominently identified with it and the 
county. He was an attendant at the common 
schools, and, like the students of those days, 
learned as much from observation as from books. 
He remained at home until July 10, 1823, when 
he married Sarah Burwell, who was born in 
1802, a daughter of Job Burwell, a resident of 
Harrison County. For some time after his 
marriage Mr. Brokaw remained unsettled, but 
eventually located on the section entered by 
Mr. McConnell, where he remained until his 
deatb. He took quite an active part in the 
politics of his day, although never accepting 
office, voting the Democratic ticket, and working 
for its success. His family, as well as himself, 
were members of the Crab Apple Church. He 
was the father of the following named children: 
Catherine, born April 18, 1824, now Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Covert, New Athens; Jane, born August 
22, 1825, deceased wife of William Smith; 
Mary, born "November 29, 1827, deceased wife 
of Isaac Fitch; Margaret, born November 19, 
1829, now Mrs. William Price; Nancy, born 
October 21, 1831, deceased; George, born De- 
cember 5, 1833, in Iowa; John P., born April 
25, 1836, in Athens Township; Sarah, born 
July 29, 1843, now Mrs. Wesley Vanborn, of 
New Athens; and Martha, born September 1, 
1845, deceased wife of Abraham Atzinger. On 
March 25, 1876, he passed away and was buried 
in Crab Apple Cemetery, to which his wife fol- 
lowed him April 5, 1883. 

John P. Brokaw, the subject proper of this 
sketch, spent nearly all his youth in the duties 
of the farm and his leisure in the district school. 
When twenty-fotir years of age he removed to 
Crawford County, where he remained about six 
years, when he returned to Athens, and has 
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dents. As a member of one of the oldest fami- 
lies in the settlement of the county, he has so 
regulated his conduct as to merit the esteem of 
all. He hits, like his ancestry, been since 
youth a Democrat, and has taken active part 
in the successes of his party. Soon after his 
return, December 25, ISfiT. to Athens Town- 
ship, he was married to Mary E., daughter of 
William McGrew, a resident of Green Town- 
ship. Locating on the home place he remained 
there two years, when he removed to Scotch 
Ridge, where he made his home a short time, 
then returned to the old homestead, where he 
has since resided. The union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Brokaw has been blessed with the following 
named children: John F. , born September 28, 
1869; William Ma, born October 28, 1870; Ed- 
ward Lee, born October 24, 1874, died Novem- 
ber 3, 1875; Emma May, born May 15, 1876; 
Flora Alin, born August 19, 1877; and George 
Alfred, born February 9, 1880. Mr. Brokaw is 
one of the industrious and prosperous farmers 
of his neighborhood, and owes his present finan- 
cial success solely to his own efforts. He and 
his family are members of Crab Apple Presby- 
terian Church, and are highly esteemed by all. 



5^ T. MEARS. Like many of our best 
families, that of the Mearses had its origin 
in the Emerald Isle. Samuel, the grand- 
father of the gentleman whose name 
heads this sketch, was the first of the family to 
come to America. In 1790, with his family, he 
landed in Baltimore, and made Maryland his 
home, until 1818, when he came to Ohio, and set- 
tled in Perry Township, Tuscarawas County, 
where he purchased a large tract of land, and 
spent much of his time improving it. He was 
Democratic in his political principles, and took 
an active part in the formation and early govern- 
ment of his adopted country. He was born 
May 13, 1777, and was married to Leah Serges, 
who was born May 8, 1786, by whom he had 
the following named nine children: .John, born 
November 2, 1805; Alexander, born January 1, 



1807; William, born April I. 1809, died August 
3, 1879; Catharine, born November 23, 1810; 

•lane, born October 2, 1811, died in March. 
L879; Robert, horn October 26, 1813, died July 
21, 1890; Samuel, born September 28, L815; 
Rachel, born January 20, IMS. and Nathan, 
born September 27. 1820. Of these, Robert 
Mears. father of our subject, and who was born 
in Maryland, passed the early portion of his 
life in assisting generally in the clearing ami 
improvement of the home farm in Tuscara- 
was County. Ohio. The schools of that time 
were of the most primitive nature, consisting of 
the rate or subscript ion schools, which were ex 
pensive as well as inefficient, but Robert, nevei 
theless, acquired a good education. In IS 12 he 
was united in marriage with Aon Eliza Thomp- 
son, daughter of Thomas and Mary Amelia 
(Mitchell) Thompson, ami settled in Weal Ches 
ter, Tuscarawas Co. , Ohio. Thomas Thompson 
was born September 12, 17S2. anil died Septem- 
ber 12. 1828; his wife. Mary Amelia (Mitchell), 
was born December 2(1. 17^0. and died August 
17, 1865; both were natives of County Down. 
Ireland, and they were married at her father's 
residence in 181(1 Coming to this country, 
they landed in New York, where they remained 
four years, then moved to Harrison County. 
Ohio, in 1 S"20. settling three miles west of Free 
port, on a farm covered with heavy timber. 
Here they cleared out a place, large enough for 
a boose ami garden, remaining thereon eight 
years, then moved to West Chester. Tuscarawas 
Co., Ohio. They had a family of five children. 
as follows: Ann Eliza, born June 7. IS 19. was 
married to Robert Mears. and died September 
28, 1861; Robert, born in 1821, was married to 
Louisa Carruthers, and died .March 15, 1885; 
.lames, born in 1823. married Margaret I 
Harriet, born in 1825, married Si'.es Stephens: 
Julia, born in 1S27. married John R. l'razier. 
The children by the union of Robert ami Ann 
Eliza Mears were all born in Wee! Chester, as 
follows: Elizabeth Jane, born July 29, 1843, 
died August 31, L871; S. T., born October 1, 
is I.".; Robert T.. born November 21. L848; 



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Mary L., born October 20, 1831, died July 17, 
1873; Nathan H., born October 19, 1836; Har- 
riet A., born October 25, 1839. Mrs. Mears 
died September 28, 1861, and was buried at 
West Chester, and for his second wife Mr. 
Mears married Mary McCord. His death oc- 
curred July 21, 1890. " Uncle Robert," as Mr. 
Mears was familiarly called of late years, was 
fond of jovial company, was a welcome guest in 
society, and made man)' warm friends and but 
few, if any, enemies; but he neglected the 
"Friend that sticketh closer than a brother," 
until in February, 1890, when he cast himself 
upon Jesus, and united with the Presbyterian 
Church. He had contracted disease, and at the 
last communion services, being unable to attend 
the public service, he requested that the ele- 
ments representing the broken body and shed 
blood of Jesus be administered to him at his 
home, which request was complied with. Dur- 
ing his lingering illness of six months he was 
uncomplaining, and the only regrets expressed 
were that he had not sought reconciliation 
through the blood of Christ in early life, and 
his wish was that he might live to yet perform 
some labor in the Master's vineyard. He died 
in full confidence of a home in that " house not 
made with hands," and where he would enjoy 
the companionship of Jesus " his elder brother." 
In his political preferments he has been a stanch 
Democrat. 

S. T. Mears was born, as already stated, 
October 1, 1S45, in West Chester, Ohio, where 
he spent his youth. He attended the common 
schools and afterward the high school, where 
he obtained a liberal education. At the age of 
fifteen he entered an apprenticeship of three 
years with John R. Frazier, an uncle, who was 
a saddle and harness maker. After completing 
his apprenticeship, he worked as journeyman for 
about six months, and then entered the employ- 
ment of the Government in its shops situated 
at Camp Nelson, Ky. Here he remained until 
June 1, 1865, when he returned home and en- 
gaged in business in his native town, where he 
remained until April, 1882, when he came to 



Freeport, and has here since carried on his 
trade. He is the leading dealer in this section, 
and by attention to the wants of customers has 
built up an extensive trade in Harrison and ad- 
joining counties. In politics he was a Demo- 
crat, but has for the past few years identified 
himself with the Prohibition party, of which he 
is an active and earnest worker. In church 
matters he and his family are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, in which he has been 
trustee for many years. On December 25, 
1866, he was married to Arminda Stewart, of 
Freeport, and this union has been crowned by 
the birth of two children: Charles Franklin, 
born March 19, 1871, married August 30, 1890, 
to Miss Adda Courtright, and Minnettie Alton, 
born February 9, 1877. 

The maternal grandfather of the mother of 
Mrs. Mears was Isaac McNamee, and his father, 
Barnabas McNamee, came from Ireland and 
married Mary Pearson, daughter of Thomas 
Pearson, who came from England with William 
Penn, and was party to the treaty made with 
the Indians. It is said the term "tomahawk" 
originated when said Thomas Pearson gave the 
Indians a small hatchet, and they called it 
Tommy's hawk ("hawk" in the Indian lan- 
guage meaning ax). The maternal line of Mrs. 
i Mears' ancestry were all Quakers, or Friends, as 
far back as they can be traced. The great- 
grandmolher of Mrs. Mears was Margaret 
Llewelleyn; her father and two of his brothers 
came from Wales, their given names being 
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Shadrach 
settled in Virginia, and the other two went to 
Tennessee, where they entered land and laid 
out the city of Nashville, and let it out at 
"quit rents." The maternal grandparents of 
Mrs. Mears, Jacob and Sarah Townsen Mc- 
Namee Snider, were married in Smithtield, Ohio, 
in 1811. Adam Snider, great-grandfather, was 
a German, and his wife, Rachel Evans, was 
Welsh. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. 
Mears settled in Pennsylvania and New York. 
Mrs. Mary A. Stewart (mother of Mrs. Mears), 
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was married to Andrew Stewart in the same 
town in May, 1840. 

Andrew Stewart's great-grandfather married 
in County Tyrone, Ireland, and had two sons: 
Andrew and Daniel. Daniel Stewart emigrated 
from Ireland to this country when thirteen years 
old, coming over in company with a family by 
the name of Gibson, and leaving behind one 
brother, Andrew, who died bequeathing quite a 
fortune to his brother in America, which is still 
there for his great grandchildren. Daniel 
Stewart was married to a Miss Perry, first cousin 
of Commodore Perry (they were of French tie- 
scent); they had twelve children — nine sons and 
three daughters. James Stewart, Andrew 
Stewart's father, and grandfather of Mrs. S. T. 
Mears, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., 
and died in Tuscarawas County Ohio, in L843; 
was married to Mary Feasel, who died in 1872 
aged ninety-sis years, and they had nine children 
— seven sons and two daughters — as follows: 
John Stewart, married to Mary Bracken ; Massie, 
married to John Carpenter; Mary, married to 
Wm. Carpenter; James, married to Mary Handel; 
Andrew, married to Mary A. Snider; William, 
married to a Miss Woolf; George, married to 
Sarah A. Beal; Samuel, married to Miss White, 
and Daniel, who died in infancy. Mary Feasel 
had two sisters, Betsie Charles, and Charity 
Hufman. Andrew Stewart was born March 10, 
1811, in Washington County, Penn., and came 
to Ohio when six years old with his parents, 
they having bought the farm now owned by 
John Niblick near Londonderry, Guernsey Coun- 
ty, where they resided several years, then sold 
to Daniel Winders, and moved into Tuscarawas 
County, near New Comerstown and kept hotel. 
Andrew and Mary A. Stewart had a family 
of seven children, viz. : Benjamin Franklin, 
Mary Adaline, Elmira Jane, Sarah Arminda, 
Emma Lee, Harriet Ann and William Andrew, 
all of whom are living. The father died De- 
cember 13, 1880, at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas 
Co., Ohio, was buried with the honors of the 
Masonic fraternity. The names of the brothers 
and sisters of Mrs. Mary A. Stewart are Samuel, 



Adain, Jonathan, William and .linkens, and 
Rachel, Ldaline Emily and Jane. Jacob Snider 

was horn near Steulmuville, Ohio, in L790, and 

died July 5, 1ST I; Sarah Snider was born near 
Lexington, Penn., in L793, and died in l^t'd. 

The following lines are from the pen of -Mr. 
Mears' mother, the poem, "Old Stillwater," 
having been written by her when she was Mary 
A. Stewart, at the age of sixteen years, and the 
other poem, '•Passing Away." when she was 
aged seventy years. 



OLD BTILLWATBB. 

.Many times when I was young, 
Along Stillwater's banks I run, 
Gathering Bowers as ihey sprung . 
Glittering in the Betting sun. 

( )n Stillwater's banks I si I 

The sun just glancing through the wood, 
Dancing on the glittering Btream. 
oh! can my fancy paint the scene. 

But now the sun's behind the hill. 
And I am gathering flowers still. 
My fancy wide and wider roams, 
But I must quickly hasten home 

As I slowly move alone 
I hear the distant plowboy'a song, 
Gently swelling loud and shrill. 
Till it reaches the distant hill. 

Where the lofty pine so green, 

By the Freeporl villagers may be seen. 

Oft I wished to get a sprig, 

That grew upon the very edge 

Of the towering rocks so high, 
That often caught the wandering eye; 
But my gentle mother dear. 
Bade me not to go so neai 

< tft beneath that rock I've stood 

And heard the foaming, rushing Hood 

O'er the rock like fury go 

Till it reached the stream below. 

Beneath that fork I've rambled round, 
Hunting pebbles on the ground, 
Red and yellow, ochre too 
Amidst those little things I view 

But now I have a full supply 
And to my brother quickly By, 

He makes an image on the door, 
Alas! BUOh happiness is o'er 



PAS9INO TIME. 

How swift the wheels of time roll on' 
Now fifty years have come and gone 
Since first I wrote this little song. 
And now old Muee you'veslept so long, 
Wake up and finish off your song. 



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Ah! Mr. Critic, so I will, 

And make mention of that good old Freeport Mill, 

Whose constant clack, and hum and roar 

Makes glad the town of Freeport as in days of yore. 

And now. where 1 heard the plowhoy's SOng, 

The locomotive rolls along, 

And makes a noise that is louder still, 

As it echoes back from Padies hill. 

My native village, ever dear — 

I may not check this rising tear; 

My friends are gone, but few remain 

That I may ever see again. 

The old Bear den of "29," 
Surrounded hy a dozen pine, 
The beauty of it was sublime, 
But oh! the vandal hand of time 
Has destroyed all the pine; 
Or perhaps there may be one 
To tell us what the vandal done. 



f | AMES HENDERSON (deceased) was a 
k. I son of John Henderson, who was born in 
}^J) Ireland, and came to America when a lad 
of sixteen years. With his parents John 
Henderson made a temporary settlement in 
Indiana County, Penn., where he was married 
and reared a family of four sons and seven 
daughters. In 1816, with his family, he came 
to Harrison County, Ohio, where he died in Feb- 
ruary, 1862; his widow survived him until May, 
1878; both had been active members of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and died in the full belief in a 
happiness beyond this life. 

James Henderson, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born September 11, 1813, in Penn- 
sylvania, and was less than four years of age 
when he was brought to Harrison County. He 
here grew to manhood on his father's farm, but 
at the age of twenty one turned his attention to 
the carpenter's trade, and later became widely 
known as a most excellent workman. At the age 
of twenty-live, in October, 1838, he chose, for his 
life companion, Miss Susannah McClintock, 
daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fisher) Mc- 
Clintock. Thomas McClintock was born in 
Ireland, but was brought to America when but 
six weeks old. When he married he hist located 
near the Ridge Church, Harrison County, Ohio, 
and reared a family of three sons and eight 
daughters. About 1824 he, with his family, 
moved to near Franklin, and there resided the 



remainder of his life; he died in the Presbyter 
ian faith; his wife had always been a Methodist. 
To Mr. and Mrs. James Henderson were born 
seven sons and three daughters: John, Thomas, 
Alexander, Elizabeth Jane, George, Lovina, 
Barbara, Henry, Walter and William Homer, of 
whom Thomas and Walter are deceased. 

James Henderson, our subject, died Novem- 
ber 1, 1889, having been an invalid for three 
years. During his life he and his good wife, by 
economy and the exercise of good judgment, ac- 
cumulated quite a nice little fortune. The old 
homestead comprises 130 acres in a good state of 
cultivation, and here Mrs. Henderson resides with 
her youngest son. Mr. Henderson had ever been 
a devout Christian, and passed away in the full 
belief in a happy home in the world beyond. 

The deceased, in January, 1866, united with 
the Presbyterian Church of Ridge, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, in which he was a devout worshiper 
till his death. Kind in heart, and genial in dis- 
position, he was an agreeable companion and 
excellent neighbor. He was noted for his great 
hospitality in his home, and his kindness to the 
poor, and his sympathy for the afflicted and 
suffering knew no limit. Mr. Henderson was a 
man of good business qualities, enterprise and 
thrift, and these talents were shown in the suc- 
cessful manner in which he conducted his busi- 
ness on his farm and with his neighbors. As a 
husband, his kindness was full of charm; as a 
father, his word was law, vested in love; as a 
neighbor, always ready to help in time of need. 



T/OHN MARTIN is one of the old settlers 
^. II and most esteemed agriculturists of Harri- 
\J) son County, within whose borders almost 
seventy years of his life have been spent. 
Among its farmers he has toiled and planned 
and prospered, and when at last the final sum- 
mons shall call him to his final reward, it will 
truly be said of him that Harrison County loses 
one of its best citizens. 

John Martin was born in Jefferson County, 
Va., November 5, 1805, a son of Peter and 



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Elizabeth (Heberling) Martin, former a native 
of New Jersey. The Martin family came to 
America prior to the Revolutionary War, and an 
uncle of our subject, Jonathan Martin, was a 
soldier in that struggle, on the side of the 
colonists. Peter Martin grew to manhood in 
New Jersey, and thence moved to Virginia, 
where he married Miss Elizabeth Heberling, a 
native of Maryland. In 1823 the couple, with 
their family, came to Ohio, settling in Short 
Creek Township, Harrison County, where they 
spent the remainder of their lives, the father 
dying first, at the age of seventy-three years, 
the mother surviving him several years, and 
reaching the patriarchal age of eighty-four; he 
was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and 
she of the Baptist. They were the parents of 
ten children, named as follows: Luther, Nancy, 
Sally, John, Betsy, Jacob, Susan, William, 
George and Jesse, all of whom save our subject 
and his brothers, George (living near Zanesville, 
Ohio), and Jesse (in Green Township, Harrison 
County), are now deceased. 

John Martin was eighteen years of age when 
he came to Harrison County. His parents were 
poor, and early did he have to put his young 
shoulders to the wheel to help support the fam- 
ily and himself. He worked by the day, the 
month and the year for ten or more years, at 
first getting but twenty -five cents per day, and 
fifty cents when he worked in the harvest field. 
He had a desire for an education, and in in- 
clement weather, when he could not work out 
of doors, and such other times as he could spare, 
be attended school. Determining to succeed, he 
resolutely went to work with that intent, and 
being possessed of good judgment and business 
tact, he made his efforts so effective that from a 
poor, homeless farm boy he kept on rising, 
until to-day he is the owner of 275 acres of 
finely improved land in Short Creek Township, 
Harrison County. In their old age his parents 
came to his home, where they remained until 
called away by death. Politically our subject 
was originally a Whig, casting bis first presi 
dential vote for John Quincy Adams. Upon 



the formation of the Republican party, he 

identified himself therewith, and has since I n 

found in the ranks. He has never sought or 
held office, preferring to devote bis entire atten- 
tion to his own business affairs. He now resides 
in Georgetown, Short Creek Township, and, at 
the patriarchal age (if eighty live, he is yet bale 
and hearty, enjoying the respect and esteem of 
the people of the county he has in his long, busy 
life done so much toward building up. 



JOHN THOMPSON, one of the oldest and 
most honored residents of Harrison Coun- 
ty, was born August 8, 1808, in Half Moon 
Valley, Penn.. his paternal ancestry hav- 
ing been Irish and bis maternal ancestry, Scotch, 
who, coming to the shores of America in the 
latter part of the last century, immediately 
adopted the habits and politics of their new 
home. The grandfather of onr subject was 
twice married, first to Eleanor Lindsey, who 
died in Pennsylvania and was buried in the 
Quaker Cemetery in Half Moon Valley. He 
was the father of twelve children, of whom 
Thomas was the immediate progenitor of the 
Thompson families now residents of Harrison 
County. He grew to manhood in the Keystone 
State, and here learned the trade of brick and 
stone-mason. On May 4, 1803, he was married 
to Catherine, daughter of Thomas Weston, whose 
ancestry originally came from Germany, and 
were among the earliest settlers in Pennsylvania. 
In 1816 Mr. and Mrs. Thompson came with 
their family to Harrison Comity. Ohio, and here 
died, the mother, May 29, I860, at the age of 
seventy five years, and the father January L8\ 
1875, aged ninety-five years. They were both 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Cadiz, and they now sleep their last sleep in 
Bethel Cemetery in Green Township. They 
were the parents of eleven children, as follows: 
one that died in infancy. Nancy. John, Sarah. 
Thomas, Mary, Catherine, Elijah, Eleanor, 
Joseph and Rachel Jane. 



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Of this family, John Thompson, whose name 
heads this commemorative memoir, spent his 
early life on his father's farm, and in prosecut- 
ing his studies at the district schools of the 
period. In early youth he became united in 
marriage with Betsy Baker, who died in 1851, 
leaving the following named children: Thomas, 
Margaret, John B. , Mary, Rezin, Joseph M. , 
Sarah O, Nancy E. and Elijah. On September 
27, 1859, Mr. Thompson took tq himself a 
second wife in the person of Miss Hannah, 
daughter of Joseph Lewis. By this union 
there is no issue. The declining years of Mr. 
and Mrs. Thompson are comforted by the filial 
care of the daughter, Sarah C. After his first 
marriage Mr. Thompson purchased the farm in 
Green Township on which he still resides, and 
which he has greatly improved by industry and 
good management. 




NTILLES STARKEY. The Starkey 
family are of German descent, and for 
many years previous to 1800 resided in 
Loudoun County. Va. The eldest of the 
family of whom any record is known is Joseph, 
the grandfather of our subject. He was a sol- 
dier of the Revolution, and while in his native 
State was taken prisoner, and carried as a capt- 
ive over the same ground as his grandson An- 
tilles was. nearly ninety years later. Joseph 
Starkey, father of the family now resident in 
Freeport, spent much of his youth and early 
manhood in his native county. He received 
exceptional advantages, educationally, and on 
his coming to Ohio was engaged as a teacher, a 
profession which he followed many years. He 
had three brothers, Isaac, Thomas and Gabriel, 
of whom the two last named were in the War of 
1812, Soon after his arrival in Belmont Coun 
t\, Ohio, in 1825, Joseph Starkey was married 
to Mary Romans, a daughter of Thomas Ro- 
mans, and the children born to this union were 
named as follows: Moses, Anna M., James 
Monroe, Florinda, Jesse, Comly, Orlando, Ade- 



line and Antilles. Five of these sons were in 
the War of the Rebellion, one being killed in 
battle in Virginia. Joseph Starkey was one of 
the earliest Whigs, and was earnest in his sup- 
port and assistance to the party. Always en- 
gaged in teaching he never mingled much with 
other matters, save those to the advantage of 
his county, and consequently became successful. 
The family have always been identified with the 
Baptist Church. In 1881 Mr. Starkey died, his 
wife in 1882. 

Antilles Starkey was born January 27, 1845, 
in Monroe County, Ohio. In 1S61, at the age 
of sixteen, he enlisted in the Fifth Ohio Cav- 
alry, thus showing that the blood of his warlike 
ancestor coursed through his veins. His regi- 
ment was sent to join the Army of the Cumber- 
land, they being assigned to Buell's command. 
From this on the history of the regiment is but 
that of the army, as they followed its movements 
and participated in its success until the close of 
the war, being in the Atlanta campaign, on the 
march to the sea, and also from Savannah north 
through South Carolina and North Carolina, in 
the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Missionary 
Ridge and Knoxville. While doing advance picket 
duty in company with some others, Mr. Starkey 
encountered Wade Hampton's troops, and he 
and his companions were captured. Their 
horses were taken from them, and they were 
compelled to walk the entire distance to Rich- 
mond, where they were confined in Libby prison. 
Here they remained but a short time, as Rich- 
mond was soon evacuated, and the prisoners 
were paroled. While at or near Ripley, Miss. , 
Mr. Starkey was on a reconnoitering expedition 
in command of a squad of soldiers. While the 
men were preparing their food and attending to 
the wants of their horses, Mr. Starkey stood 
guard a short distance down the road, where it 
was intersected by others. Here he concealed 
himself in a clump of bushes. Hardly had he 
taken his position when a solitary horseman ap- 
peared, riding leisurely, little thinking of the 
nearness of an enemy. He was soon, however, 
made aware of the fact by a command to halt. 



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He wheeled his horse, but perceiving that he 
was cornered by the rifle of his challenger, he 
stopped. To the inquiry as to his business, he 
said he was a physician at Ripley, and was re- 
turning from a professional call. When in- 
formed that his explanation would have to be 
made to the commander of the Union forces, he 
made known his identity, saying ho was a lieu- 
tenant-colonel in the Confederate service. He 
was paroled, and his name then made known. 
He was L. Q. C. Lamar, afterward a cabinet 
officer under Cleveland, and at present on the 
supreme bench of the United States. In 1865 
Mr, Starkey was mustered out at Camp Chase, 
and immediately returned home. In 1867 he 
was married to Evaline Dick, daughter of Sam- 
uel Dick, and she died September 16, 1879, the 
mother of the following named children: Del- 
mar, Mary M., Harlie and Inez. In September, 
1881, Mr. Starkey was married to Evaline, 
daughter of William Angus, and one child, 
Willie, has blessed this union. In politics Mr. 
Starkey has always been a faithful Republican, 
and has been among the energetic supporters of 
that party. In 1SS3 he was appointed deputy 
sheriff of his county, and served continuously 
under two administrations, thus showing that 
the duties of the office were discharged with sai 
isfaction to all. 



JOHN N. MILLER. The ancestors of the 
Miller family in Harrison County came 
, from North Caroliua. Mason Miller, the 
first to come to Ohio, married Ruth How- 
ard, and at once, with his bride, left the Old 
North State for the then Far West, and after a 
lung and tedious journey, during which paths 
had to be cut through forests, and livers had 
to be forded, at times ridiug and at other 
times walking, they at last reached Ohio, where 
they purchased a farm in Short Creek Town 
ship, Harrison County. For a while the} re 
sided in this tract, and then entered a large tract 
in Freeport Township, and. still later, one in 
Washington Township, where they permanent!) 



made their home, which they carved out of the 

wilderness. Thej became highly res] ted by 

their neighbors, and after a long and useful 

life passed away, leaving the following named 
children: A-a. Nathan, Stephen, Eli, Richard, 
Sarah, Mary, Edith, William and Thomas. 

Nathan .Miller, the second son of Mason, and 
the father of the gentleman whose nameheads 
this sketch. «;h rearedon the home farm, in the 
development of which he took an active part. In 
his early youth he was married to Am j Jones, of 
Washington, who bore hini tin- following children: 
Kuth Ann (Mrs. William Wallace), lason. John 
N.. Ardenna .1. (Mrs. Joseph Miller) and Kliza- 
beth A. i Mrs. Leander W allace). Nathan Miller. 
in his early days, was a Democrat in politics, but 
in 1840 uuited with the Whig party, with which 
he remained until his death. He became a very 
prominent man in his township, quite popular 
with his party, and by it was repeatedly elected 
I to office. He was progressive in his idea--, and 
was fully identified with every measure that 
had a tendency toward the advancement or im- 
provement of the condition of the community 
in which his lot was cast. His death took place 
in 1SS2. when he was aged seventy six years, 
and that of his wife in L885, when she was aged 
seventy three year-.. 

John N. Miller, the second --on of Nathan 
Miller, was born Oct. .her 20, 1886, in Washing 
ton Township. Harrison Co., Ohio. He spent 
his youth in attendance at the schools of the 

period, during his leisure from the duties which 
claimed so much of his attention on the farm. 
His life has been one of hard work and economy . 
and by it he has BUCOeeded in making a compe 
tency. His success is due to his own efforts, he 
having commenced life with no aid from any. 
hut gradual!] he has added to his possessions, 
and now has a small, well stocked farm, situated 
iilK.nl three miles from Freeport, which he lias 
largely improved himself. As in finances, bo 
he is iii educational matters, hi- knowledge, 

which is varied, having I i acquired after Ids 

schooldays were over, an. I when, in the spare 
time from his work, he found opportunity 



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gratify his desire for knowledge. He takes an 
especial interest in the political affairs of his 
country, and is exceptionally well informed on 
the leading questions of the day. He has al- 
ways, however, been identified with the Re- 
publican party, but is not actively engaged in 
politics. He has ever been found among the 
representative men of his county and township, 
as well as among the liberal supporters of char- 
ity, and other matters of public and private 
benefit. On April 1, 1862, he chose, as his life's 
partner, Mary Guthrie, daughter of Benjamin 
C. Guthrie, of Franklin Township, and two 
children have been born to them, viz. : Anna 
Belle and Benjamin N., the latter of whom is 
now deceased. 



JAMES K. TAYLOR. In some phase of 
life every one may find his vocation, one 
which he can till with pleasure to himself 
and to the satisfaction of his friends and 
patrons — one in which he can excel, and appar- 
ently with little effort achieve the highest suc- 
cess. Fortunate indeed is he who finds his 
sphere in early life, and fills it, irrespective of 
its nature, so that it be honorable. Of these 
fortunates our subject is one. Fitted by nature 
with ready wit, a persuasive and pleasing man- 
ner — one who inspires confidence in his custom- 
ers — Mr. Taylor is recognized as the leading 
auctioneer of his section, a fact doubly empha- 
sized by the demand for his services. He was 
born August 7, 1817, in Greene County, Penn., 
of which State his father, Timothy Taylor, was 
also a native. The early life of Timothy Tay- 
lor was spent in farming, but after his majority 
he engaged in overland traffic from Baltimore, 
Md., to his native place. He was married to 
Sarah Byce, a resident of Greene County, by 
whom he became the father of the following 
named children: Lot B., David, Holsworth. 
Sarah, Francina, James K. and Jane, all now 
deceased except our subject, James K. Timothy 
Taylor was an active member of the Democratic 
party, and served as sheriff of his native 



county under its auspices. In 1849 he came to 
Ohio, but met with an accident near Zanesville, 
which resulted in his death; Mrs. Taylor sur- 
vived him until 1860. 

The early life of James K. Taylor was one 
of incessant work on the home farm, inter- 
spersed with a short attendance at the schools 
in winter. On June 29, 1845, he was married 
to Sarah Linn, daughter of John Linn, an early 
settler of Guernsey County, Ohio, coming from 
Virginia, where he had married. His journey 
was made on foot, beside his wife, who rode a 
horse, upon whose back their entire worldly 
goods were stowed. On their arrival here they 
entered the house of Mr. Linn's father, where 
they remained until their own cabin could be 
erected. The logs were piled upon one another, 
the spaces between being chinked with clay. 
The only door was a quilt, which was subse- 
quently replaced, however, by a more substantial 
guard, and here, in the wilderness, they toiled, 
and cleared their farm. Their family comprised 
the following named children: Lizzie, Ann, 
Margaret, Agnes, Mary, Samuel, Sarah, Rebecca, 
Anderson F., Adam and John. Mr. Linn was 
in his early life bound to a blacksmith, and re- 
mained with him thirteen years, until he was 
aged twenty one, and he followed his trade in 
Guernsey County, being widely known as an 
excellent workman. In 1866 he died, and was 
followed by his wife in 1869. After their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Taylor remained in Guernsey 
County for one year, and then removed to Free- 
port, Harrison County, where they afterward re- 
sided. Their children are named John, Andrew 
F., Leander, Arbena, James L., Margaret Ann, 
Sarah Agnes and Roland C. The mother passed 
to her long home December 1, 1890. 

Roland C. Taylor was born June 20, 1863, 
in Freeport, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he has 
made his home ever since. Here he enjoyed the 
advantages of the village schools, which were 
excellent. On June 26, 1887, he was married 
to Delilah Milliner, of Monroe Township, Har- 
rison County, and two children have been born 
to them, viz. : Charles R. and Earl. The family 



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are Democratic, and are much interested in poli- 
tics. They worship at the Presbyterian Church, 
of which they have been life-long members. 



QEORGE LOVE, JR., a prosperous farm- 
. er of Nottingham Township, Harrison 
County, was born in Belmont County, 
Jl Ohio, August 14, 1827. His grandfather, 
George Love, born in County Tyrone, Ireland, 
married Sabella Smith, also a native of County 
Tyrone, and they came to America about the 
year 1792, locating first in Pennsylvania. Some 
time afterward they removed to Wheeling Town- 
ship, Belmont Co. , Ohio, and purchased a tract 
of land, on which they passed their remaining 
days, dying in the faith expounded by the 
Seceder Church, of which they were members. 
They were parents of eight children, of whom 
the father of the subject of this sketch was one. 

George Love (second) was born in County 
Tyrone, Ireland, about 1784, and came to 
America with his parents. He married Mary 
Moore, also a native of County Tyrone, born in 
1801, a daughter of John and Mary (Smith) 
Moore, and this union was blessed with three 
children, viz. : Thomas, who resides in Madison 
County, Iowa; John (deceased), and George, 
the subject proper of this sketch. The father 
departed this life on the homestead in Belmont 
County, February 21, 1829. 

George Love, whose name heads this sketch, 
came to Nottingham Township with his mother, 
August 10, 1831. This lady, after the death of 
her first husband, married John A. Todd. a 
resident of Nottingham Township, where it 
thus became necessary for her to take up her 
residence, and here her son George, our subject, 
grew to manhood, receiving a practical business 
education. On November 21, 1854, he married 
Miss Barbara Barclay, daughter of David and 
Elizabeth (Kissick) Barclay, natives of Ireland, 
and after marriage Mr. Love purchased his farm 
of 200 acres in Section 20, Nottingham Town- 
ship, and here the couple have ever since re- 
sided. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Love has 



been blessed by the birth of twelve children, as 
follows: Elizabeth I. Blackwood, born October 
10, 1855, and DOW a resident of Clay County, 
Kas. ; David B., an attorney at law. in Fremont, 
Ohio, born January L5, l^">7; John, born Octo- 
ber 17, 1858, and residing at Butler, Ohio; 
Mary I. Hutchinson, born February 6, 1860, 
residing in Mooretield Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio; Annie B. Carrothers, born June 28, 1861, 
and a resident of Butler, Ohio; William W., 
born July 20, lsti:',, also a resident of Butler; 
George S., born September 16, 1865 (William 
W. and George S. own and operate successfully 
the Butler Mill, Butler, Ohio); Ulysses S., born 
March 29, 1867; James K . born May 27, 1869; 
Thomas Mc, bora October 11, 1871; Ella M., 
born February 1, 1874; Charles B.,born March 
27, 1876 — the last five named living at home 
with their parents. In politics Mr. Love is a 
Republican, has held several township offices, 
and in October, 1879, was elected commissioner 
of Harrison < ounty. In religion he is a Pres- 
byterian, and he aud his wife are members of 
the United Presbyterian Church at Cassville. 
Mr. Love has in his possession a sword carried 
through the War of 1812 by his father, who 
was a captain under William Henry Harrison. 



DAVID TBNNENT, one of the oldest and 
most highly honored citizens of Wash- 
' ington Township, Harrison County, was 
born in York (ounty, Penn., February 
20, 1815, to which state, his father, Matthew 
Tennent, came from County Donegal, Ireland, 
where he was born in 177'.). Soon after arriv- 
ing at manhood Matthew, seeing the impossibility 
of improving bis fortunes in his native country, 
determined to emigrate, and started for America. 
Settling in Pennsylvania, he engaged as a 
farmer, and until his marriage spent his time 
in working at anything that would make him 
the best return. When he had reached his 
thirtieth year he was married in Pennsylvania 
to Rosannah Scott, a native of Count] Down, 
Ireland. With the money which his industry 



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and economy had enabled him to save, be pur- 
chased a farm, upon which the young couple 
located, but remained only a short time, selling 
out and with the proceeds coming to Jefferson 
County, Ohio. Their journey was one of dif- 
ficulty and hardships, being made in a cart 
entirely, most of the family walking, however. 
They came to Harrison County in 183'2. settling 
in Washington Township, on what is now the 
Jenkins Farm. Here the father and mother 
passed away, after a long life of hard work and 
toil, the former in 1853 and the latter ten years 
later. The family consisted of five children: 
"William, George, Isabella, David and Robert. 
From his coming to America Mr. Tennent con- 
nected himself with the Democratic party, and 
was always an earliest supporter of its princi- 
ples. In religious matters he was identified 
with the old-school Presbyterian Church, and 
was always a liberal supporter of religious en- 
terprises. Economical, industrious and honest, 
Mr. and Mrs. Tennent. by careful management, 
succeeded in making a competency. Their 
lives were such as to entitle them to the respect 
of their acquaintances, which they never failed 
to receive. 

David Tennent, during the various removals 
of his parents, remained with the family assist- 
ing in the duties of the farm. He received his 
education in the subscription schools of his va- 
rious places of residence, the advantages of 
which schools were exceedingly limited. Nothing 
daunted, however, he persevered in his educa- 
tional work, devoting what leisure he had to the 
cultivation of his mind. Thus he succeeded in 
laying a broad, deep foundation of mental cult- 
ure, which has served him well during his 
whole life. On November 6, 1845, he was mar- 
ried to Mary, daughter of Joseph Watson, an 
early settler and resident of Harrison County, 
Ohio, and the young couple immediately settled 
in Washington Township, where their home has 
since been made. Their family comprise the 
following named children: Albert, Isabelle (Mrs. 
J. F. Randall), Nancy (Mrs. Stephen Hall), and 
Louisa. From his first vote Mr. Tennent has 



given his unqualified support to the Democratic 
party, and while rarely accepting any nomina- 
tion for office, has always rendered his party 
what aid he could. For several terms, however, 
he served as trustee, inasmuch as his nomina- 
tion and election were secured by the aid of the 
opposite party, who readily recognized the 
ability, as well as his integrity; he also served 
as land appraiser. He is a liberal supporter of 
all enterprises of benefit to his community, both 
in moral and educational work. His life has 
largely been spent in the pursuits of farming 
and stock-raising, in which he is still engaged. 
He and his faithful wife are enjoying the fruits 
of their labor, and are happily and contendedly 
passing the evening of their lives, surrounded 
by their children and their friends. 



U/RIAH MOORE is one of the oldest citi- 
zens now living in Moorefield Township, 
' Harrison Co., Ohio. He was born in 
Greene County, Penn., March 4, 1814, 
but when three years old his parents migrated 
to Ohio, and settled in Moorefield Township, 
Harrison County, and purchased the farm our 
subject now owns, which contains 160 acres in 
the northeast quarter of Section 7. They 
erected on the land a rude log cabin, in which 
our subject was reared to manhood. His mother 
was Sarah (Shepard) Moore, who was born in 
1777, a daughter of William Shepard, a native 
of Pennsylvania, who settled in the eastern 
part of Greene County, Penn., and was known 
among the early settlers as being a great hunter. 
The father of our subject was born in New Jer- 
sey in 1767, and migrated to Greene County, 
Penn., about 1795. Our subject had four sis- 
ters and two brothers, named Rebecca, Rachel, 
Mary, Elizabeth, Shepard and John, all now 
deceased. The father and mother of this 
family were active members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church for many years; the former 
died in 1823, and the latter in 1841. 

When Uriah Moore was sixteen years of age 
he engaged with Henry Moore, of Cadiz, as an 



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apprentice to the trade of wheelwright; he re 
maiued there for three years, when he returned 
home and erected a shop near where he now re- 
sides. He spent some years working in the 
shop, but his business became so dull thai he 
turned his attention to carpenter work, which 
he followed for six years. On October 13, 1842, 
he married Miss Mary Ann Fulton, who was 
born April 14, 1821, a daughter of Philip and 
Sarah (Hanna) Fulton, natives of Maryland, who 
came to Harrison County, Ohio, about 1819. 
After his marriage Uriah settled on the farm 
where he now resides, on which he has made 
many improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have 
hern blessed with ten children, named as fol- 
lows: Sarah A. Corbin, John F., William A., 
Hannah M. Dickerson, all of Moorefield Town- 
ship; Albert D. , in Nottingham Township; 
Zephaniah, postmaster at -Moorefield; Anderson 
W. and Vincent C, in Mooreiield Township; 
Elliott D., physician in the town of Moorefield; 
and Mary E., deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Uriah 
Moore are both active members of the Notting- 
ham Presbyterian Church. Mr. Moore is in 
politics a Democrat, and has held several offices 
of trust in Moorefield Township. 



EORGE W. WELLING, one of the 

young and prosperous farmers of Wash- 
ington Township. Harrison County, was 
£i bora June 15, 1855, in Athens Township, 
same county. His father, David Welling, was 
born in 1765, in Pennsylvania, but was among 
the earliest settlers of Athens Township, where, 
in common with the rest, he rented a small piece 
of land, on which he remained until he had ao 
cumulated enough means to purchase a small 
farm. He was married in Pennsylvania, and 
reared a family of six children. Soon after his 
arrival in Ohio his wife died, and he afterward 
married Elizabeth Black, of Guernsey County, 
who bore him children as follows: Margaret 
Jane (Mrs. Finley Butler), William W., Nancy 
•lane (deceased), Martha A. (Mrs. Joseph White), 
George W., Harriet C. and John. -Mr. Well- 



ing was an g the organizers of the Notting- 
ham Presbyterian Church; in polities he was a 
Democrat. He die, I in 1864, hie wife in \s~ t :',. 
George W. Welling's life has been one of 
continued bard work. At an early age he . 
menced working for the neighboring farmers, 
and thus had little opportunity for cultivating 
his mind, even at the primitive common schools. 
Xol getting discouraged, however, he kept man- 
fully on. and won the respect ami esteem of all, 
not only by his honesty and integrity, but by 
his industrious and excellent habits. On June 
2, 1881, he was married to Laura, daughter of 
James Kirkpatrick. and then moved to the farm 
of John Clements, where he remained five ; 
at which time he came to his present residence. 
His farm consists of ninety one acres. Bituated 
one and a hall' miles from West Chester, and 
this he has largely improved since ii came into 
his possession. He is Democratic in politics, 
although he has never had much leisure to take 
an active part in [tarty affairs. He is a young 
man of excellent habits, of progressive thoughts, 
and one of the most industrious in his section. 
His children are named William W., Ralph E. 
and Luella. He and his wife are members of 
the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. 



EiZRA WHARTON, one of the self-made 
me n of i on, was bom June 21, 

1833, in Washington Township. Harri- 
son Co.. Ohio. His father, Joel Whar- 
ton, was a native of Bucks County, Perm., where 
Ezra, fatherof Joel, resided. Thechildren born 
to Ezra were as follows: Anna. Hannah. Dan- 
iel, Lynton, Amos, James, Silas, Levi and Joel. 
The family werelong timeresidenta of Pennsyl- 
vania, but, in 1820, Joel and all Ins father's 
family determined to seek their fortune in the 
then " Wild West," and they accordingly -tarted 

for Ohio, which was then regarded as the frontier 

of civilization. Joel Wharton cam.' to Harrison 
County, locating near ilai ri-ville. where he re- 
mained some time, and then moved to Washing- 
I ton Township, where the remainder of his life 



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was spent. He was a self-made man, and one 
who, like many of the early settlers, had much 
to struggle with, and many difficulties to over- 
come, but still persevered and was finally re- 
warded. Shortly after leaving Pennsylvania 
he was married to Abigail Bundy, and the 
issue of the marriage was the following named 
children: Martha, Bethiah, Josiah, Bachel, 
Talitha A., Matilda, Ezra, Abigail and Susan- 
nah. Joel Wharton was a strong Whig, and on 
the organization of the Bepublican party united 
with them. In 1863 he died, his wife following 
him to the grave in 1874. 

The early life of Ezra Wharton, the subject 
proper of this sketch, was passed in the care of 
the home farm, where he was taught those les- 
sons of thrift and industry that have largely 
contributed to his success. Beceiving the lim- 
ited advantages of the common schools only, he 
has ever sought to remedy any defects in his 
education by study during whatever leisure he 
might have. 

On February 22, 1859, he was married to 
Martha Myers, of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County. Her grandfather, Michael Myers was 
born in Pennsylvania, where he was married to 
Martha Huffman, who bore him the following 
family: George, John, Michael, Samuel, Philip, 
David, Berlin, Eliza, Catherine, Bachel and 
James. Michael Myers came to Ohio among the 
earliest settlers, entering a large tract of land, and 
had to contest his rights with the wild beasts of 
the forest. In his political belief he was a 
Whig, and he was active in the party's work; he 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Tippecanoe, and was prominent in church 
affairs. His son Samuel was born in 1802, and 
spent most of his time on the farm, the onerous 
duties of which needed the whole force of the 
male portion of the family. In 1830 he was 
married to Mary Connell, of Franklin Township, 
and they immediately settled in that township, 
where he passed the remainder of his life, dying 
June 3, 1879, deeply mourned by all. Like his 
father, Samuel Myers was a Bepublican, and 
took an active part in politics; a member of the 



Methodist Episcopal Church, he was one of its 
liberal supporters. He was a life member of 
the Bible Society, a very zealous advocate of 
missions, and his home was a home for ministers. 
A self made man, his life was a worthy example 
for others, and one of which too much praise 
can not be given. His children were Jamima, 
David, Martha, Jonathan, Wesley, George, 
Catherine, Sarah J., Amanda, Sansom, Mary J., 
Samuel S. and John. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Wharton 
commenced the realities of life on a small scale 
near Tippecanoe, where they remained several 
years. By steady work, economy and good 
management, they have gradually increased 
their possessions until at present they own a 
farm of 220 acres. Their dwelling, but recent- 
ly built, is a large commodious two-story frame 
residence, well located, and excellently finished 
in native wood. Hospitable and pleasant, their 
home has been the scene of many cheerful 
gatherings. In his politics Mr. Wharton has 
been among the stanchest supporters of the Be- 
publican party, and has taken an active part in 
the advancement of its interests. Himself and 
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Tippecanoe, and they are ever assist- 
ing in the cause of religion. The names of his 
children are Olive (Mrs. William Laizure), Sam- 
uel M., David B., Oscar E., and Arthur B. 



P,ETEE TBUSHEL. The family bearing 
the name of Trushel in Harrison County 
comes of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, 
the first to arrive here being Solomon 
Trushel, who settled with his family on land he 
had entered near where his grandson, our sub- 
ject, now lives in North Township, Harrison 
County. He had seven children, all now 
deceased except Betsy, wife of Isaac Beavers, 
living in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. One son, 
John, father of Peter, was a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, born near the Alleghany Mountains, and 
was about ten years old when he came with his 
father to this part of the country, which was 




Susannah Trushel 




Peter Trushel. 



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then in a wild state, and covered with forest. 
At that time they took grain on pack-horses as 
far as Canal Dover (twenty-three miles distant), 
and brought back flour; John learned the trade 
of tanner at Canal Dover. He married Fannie 
Little, a native of what is now Harrison County, 
and they then located on the old homestead 
place for a time, finally settling on the farm 
where Valentine Trushel now lives, in North 
Township. They had born to them thirteen 
children, of whom the following is a brief record: 
Eli lives in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Mahala 
is the widow of John Smidley, and resides in 
Conotton, Ohio; Joshua died of small-pox at 
the age of nine months; Solomon died in the 
army; Elizabeth is the widow of Joseph Morgan 
(who died in Libby Prison), and has her resi- 
dence in Perrysville, Carroll County; Peter is 
spoken of farther on in this sketch; David lives 
in Harlem, Carroll County; Susanna (now de- 
ceased) was the wife of Jacob Miner; Man is 
the wife of Thomas Ray, and lives at Bowerston, 
Harrison County; William is somewhere in the 
West; Sarah died when young; Valentine is a 
farmer in North Township, Harrison County; 
Abraham is deceased. The mother of this fam- 
ily died in June, 1875, aged seventy- five years, 
the father in March, 18S3, at the advanced age 
of eighty-three; he was a hard-working man, 
but had to abandon his trade of tanner, on 
account of impaired health, and take up farming. 
This honored couple were members of the 
Lutheran Church, and lie buried in the cemetery 
at Bowerston. 

Peter Trushel, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch, was born May 21, 1S35, 
on the place where he now lives, where he 
grew to manhood, attending, during the winter 
months, the common school of the neighborhood, 
the teacher thereof knowing but little more than 
the scholars. In 18G3 he was married to Miss 
Susannah, daughter of Abraham and Edna 
(Brock) Baker, and born near Cadiz, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. Her grandfather, Zachariah Baker, 
came from Maryland to Harrison County, being 
one of the early settlers, and died in Carroll 



County. Her father was by birth a Marylauder, 
and died in Carroll County, Ohio, April 5, 
1880; he had been in early life a millwright, 
erecting a mill at Masterville, but farming was 
the main occupation of his life. Mrs. Trushel' s 
mother is now living in Perry Township, Carroll 
County, at the age of four score years. They 
were married in 1820, and had eight children, 
viz. : James William and Otho Williams, both 
deceased; Susannah, Mrs. Peter Trushel; Dor- 
cas Adeline, Mrs. John Trushel, in Jefferson, 
County, Ohio; Margaret Jane, Mrs. Robert 
Busby, in Carroll County; Thomas Brock, in 
Archer Township, Harrison County; Nancy 
Ellen, Mrs. Thomas Thompson, in Green Town- 
ship, and Elizabeth Ann, Mrs. Henry Markley, in 
North Township. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Trushel located in North Township, just north 
of where they now live, and in 1807 they moved 
to their present place, the improvements on 
which are all of their own making, the com- 
modious barn and other outbuildings having 
been built in 1879. This farm, comprising 433 
acres of well-improved land, is situated about 
two miles from Scio; in addition to which Mrs. 
Trushel owns forty acres in Carroll County. To 
Mr. and Mrs. Trushel have been born three 
children — one son and two daughters — viz. : 
James Harvey, at home; Fanny Edna, now the 
wife of Albert Hagy, of Perry Township, Car- 
roll County, and Kate Matilda, at home. Mrs. 
Trushel is a member of the Methodist Church; 
in politics Mr. Trushel is a Democrat. 



JAMES ALEXANDER, a most successful 
agriculturist, was born March 18, 1829, 
on the farm on which he still resides, in 
Freeport Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
His father, John Alexander, was born in Coun- 
ty Antrim, Ireland, where his early life was 
spent in securing the rudiments of an educa- 
tion, and in his "teens" learning the weav- 
er's trade, which he combined with farming. 
While yet a resident of Ireland he was mar- 
ried to Mary Allen, a resident of his native 



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county. There the young couple remained for 
some time, but finally concluded to do as so 
many of their race had done — come to America. 
Accordingly, in 1826, they embarked in a sailing 
vessel, and after a tedious voyage of nine weeks 
arrived in Philadelphia. They remained in 
Pennsylvania till 1828, when, with their family, 
they came to Freeport Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, where Mr. Alexander entered eighty acres 
of the farm at present owned by our subject. 
On this he erected the ordinary log cabin, of 
small dimensions and not very elaborate in its 
finishings, and he and his faithful wife struggled 
with the difficulties which the pioneers all had 
to endure, uncomplainingly toiling on to im- 
prove and beautify the home. The children 
born to their marriage were as follows: Eleanor 
(deceased), Thomas (in Jacobsport), Jesse (de- 
ceased), Mary Ann (deceased), John (in Kansas), 
James (our subject), Hannah J. (deceased) and 
Elizabeth (in Kansas). For many years Mr. 
Alexander was one of the active political leaders 
in his section, and firmly believed in and advo- 
cated the principles of the Whig party. He, 
however, was not an office seeker, and would 
never accept political preferment. A leading 
member of the United Presbyterian Church at 
Londonderry, he was also one of its founders. 
In June, 1869, he died, and was laid beside his 
wife, who had departed this life in 1838, and 
they now sleep in the cemetery at Londonderry'. 
James Alexander was early taught the ad- 
vantages of industrious and economical habits, 
which have been such important factors in his 
after success. While having no other advan- 
tages than those afforded by the common 
schools, he has, by subsequent reading and study, 
added much to his store of knowledge. He has 
always been engaged in farming and stock-rais- 
ing, in which he has been uniformly successful. 
On the death of his father he purchased the in- 
terests of the other heirs to the home place, and 
has by subsequent additions increased his hold- 
ings until now he possesses 360 acres of excel- 
lent land with many valuable buildings. His 
success has been of his own making, he having 



commenced with no pecuniary assistance. Like 
his father he has always voted the Republican 
ticket, and while he would accept no nomina- 
tions, still lent his aid to the success of the 
party. From early youth he has been a mem- 
ber of the United Presbyterian Church, in 
which he and his family at present worship. 
On May 27, 1852, he was married to Margaret, 
a daughter of Matthew Forsythe, of Freeport, 
and she has borne him the following named 
children: Matthew, Mary, John and Maggie E. 
On November 20, 1888, Matthew Alexander was 
married to Nancy Harbison, and commenced his 
married life on the parental farm, on which he 
still resides. 



JiACOB TURNEY, farmer, Stock Township, 
Harrison County, was born in Rutuley 
' Township, same county, November 4, 
1842, and is a son of Jonas Turney, who 
was born October 25, 1811, in Somerset County, 
Penn., where he was married to Elizabeth Car- 
penter, who bore him the following named 
children: Ann (Mrs. Michael Conaway), Mary 
(deceased), Elias, Jacob, Wilson (deceased), 
John. Sarah (Mrs. John Phoutz) and Martha. 
The parents of Jonas Turney, John and Mary 
(Horner) Turney. came from Pennsylvania at 
at an early day and settled in Rumley Town- 
ship, bringing with them children as follows: 
Solomon, Jonas, Mary, Sarah, Jacob and Cath- 
erine, and in Rumley Township John Turney 
died November 21, 1840, his widow surviving 
him until 1870; Mr. Turney was a Democrat 
in politics, and in religion a Lutheran. Jonas 
Turney left Rurnleyr Township some time after 
the death of his parents, and settled in Stock 
Township, where his family grew to maturity, 
and where he lost his wife, February 25, 1887, 
she being a consistent member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church. 

The early life of Jacob Turney was passed 
in Stock Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where, 
until 1862, he was engaged in performing the 
various duties pertaining to the farm. In the 



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year named he enlisted in Company H, One 
Hundred and Twenty sixth O. V. I., and served 
with the regiment until the battle of Manassas, 
where he received a sunstroke, which caused 
his confinement to the hospital two months; he 
then rejoined his company, and served until the 
close of the war, receiving an honorable dis- 
charge. On July 1, 1865, he was united in 
marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of John and 
Elizabeth (Hoagland) Conaway, who were par- 
ents of the following named children: Cynthia, 
Hannah, Charles, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, Susan, 
John, Michael, Martha and Rachel. Mr. Cona- 
way came to Harrison County, Ohio, from Balti- 
more, Md., and was one of the pioneers of 
Stock Township. He was a Whig in politics, 
afterward a Republican, for several years was 
justice of the peace, and also served as trustee 
of the township and director of the infirmary : 
he served in the War of 1812 as a soldier in the 
Maumee Company. He died in September, 1861, 
his widow following in May, 1880, and both 
now sleep their last sleep together in Mount 
Hope Cemetery. 

After marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Tnr- 
ney settled in Stock Township. Harrison Coun- 
ty, where he is now engaged in farming and 
stock raising. In politics he is a Republican, 
and with his family is a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church at Mount Hope, and he is 
well known in the community as an honest, up- 
right and progressive citizen. 



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HfENRY HILLYER, JR., was born July 
20. IS 42. in Franklin Township. Har- 
rison Co. , Ohio, and his father, George 
Hillyer, was born in England, on the 
Isle of Wight, County of Hants. The father 
of George Hillyer, Thomas, was also a native 
of England, where he was married toAnn Rogers. 
Thomas and his family came to America, and 
landed in New York, where they remained some 
time, and then came to Franklin Township, liar 
rison County, where his descendants still reside. 
The family comprised the following children: 



George, William, Ann, Mary Ann, Elizabeth 
and Henry. In 18 12, during a visit to England, 
Thomas Hillyer died, and was there buried. 
His widow survived until 1857, and she, too, 
passed away, in America. George Hillyer was 
about sixteen years of age when he was brought 
to America. Soon after his majority he was 
married to Amelia Edna, a daughter of Jewell 
Edna, of Franklin Township, Harrison County. 
The childreu resulting from this union were 
Thomas, Robert (deceased), Mary Jane, Car- 
oline (deceased), Henry. Jr.. William H, Lou- 
isa, Jewell E., Edward (deceased). Silas (de- 
ceased) and Albert. George Hillyer was 
first an active Whig and then a Republican, 
lie was among the organizers of the Presby- 
terian Church at Feed Springs, and was always 
one of its liberal supporters, and consistent 
members. In 1886 he died, and was buried by 
the side of his wife, who died in 1871. 

Henry Hillyer. Jr., has for many years been 
identified with the various interests and pro- 
gressive movements of Harrison County, Ohio. 
He is a man of good mental cultivation, having 
received his education at the common schools, 
and afterward at New Hagerstown Academy. 
In 1864 Mr. Hillyer enlisted in the One Hun 
dred and Seventieth O. V. I., and was in all of 
the engagements of that army uutil his dis- 
charge. In 1862 he was married to Catherine J. 
Latto, whose death occurred October 2o, lsss. 
Their children were named Eliza, Eudocia, 
Mary E. (deceased in 1871), Jewell L., John 
L., Bertha R. and Harvey E. Mr. Hillyer re- 
sides about two miles from Franklin village. 
and is engaged in farming and stock raising. 
For many years he has taken an active part in 
the politics of his township and county, and he 
has been prominently mentioned for the office 
of commissioner. For several years he has been 
trustee, always giving satisfaction. He and 
family are members of the Feed Springs Presby- 
terian Church, in which they take an active and 
prominent part. From the coming of the grand- 
father from England to America, until the pres- 
ent time, the Hillyer family have sustained a 



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character for integrity and intelligence that has 
been unrivaled in Harrison County. The above 
named Jewell L. and John L., sons of Henry 
Hillyer, Jr., are young men of promise, both 
having attended college at Lebanon, Ohio. The 
elder one, Jewell L., aged twenty-two years, 
has taught six terms of school, giving general 
satisfaction. He intends to teach another winter 
term and then enter college to complete his ed- 
ucation. John L., seventeen years of age, holds 
a certificate to teach school, as a result of his 
early studious habits. Eudocia comes as near 
filling the place of mother in her home as any 
young lady could do. She is untiring in her 
efforts to minister to the comforts of the family. 
The two younger children, Bertha and Harvey, 
are making considerable progress in the study 
and practice of music. 



| OHN S. McFADDEN, although as yet a 
^. I young man, is one of the ablest and most 
%J) progressive farmers of Stock Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and was born in this 
township February 2, 1845, a son of Robert Mc- 
Fadden, who was born in Belmont County, 
Ohio, September 4, 1813. Robert McFadden, 
grandfather of John S. McFadden, was born 
October 13, 1768, in Vermont, in which State 
he married, October 13, 1795, Mary Morrison, 
•who was born June 13, 1772. They came to 
Belmont County, Ohio, soon after marriage, and 
there they engaged in farming in the wilder- 
ness, reared their family and prospered, but 
subsequently moved to Stock Township, Harri- 
son County. The family were Presbyterians, 
and in politics Mr. McFadden was a Democrat. 
Robert McFadden, father of John S. McFadden, 
passed the early part of his life in Belmont 
County, Ohio, until he came with his parents to 
Stock Township, Harrison County, where he 
entered the land on which John S. McFadden 
now resides. The improvements which now are 
exhibited on this splendid farm have been the 
work of three generations, and the buildings 
which grace it have been added to and made 



more beautiful as each generation came into pos- 
session. November 6, 1837, Mr. McFadden mar- 
ried Miss Sarah Moore, daughter of Robert Moore, 
and the children born to this union were named: 
Mary (Mrs. George S. Johnston, deceased), James 
M. (deceased), Margaret (Mrs. William A.Welch), 
Robert H., John S., William W. (deceased), 
James (deceased), and Rebecca A. (Mrs. James 
Birney). In politics Mr. McFadden was a Demo- 
crat, and was a party leader both in county and 
township. With his family he was a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant 
Valley, in which for several years he was a class 
leader. In this faith he died, March 15, 1876, 
his widow following June 21, 1879. Mr. Mc- 
Fadden was a man of great energy and enter- 
prise, acquiring his education by self-tuition 
and achieving fortune by his own exertions. 
Respected and esteemed by all, he was worthy 
of the universal regard in which he was held. 

John S. McFadden, the subject proper of 
this sketch, was reared on the home farm, in the 
performance of the various duties of which he 
was early taught to take an active part, his leis- 
ure hours being passed at the common schools. 
August 28, 1879, he married Miss Annie, daugh- 
ter of George W. Spiker, and with his wife set- 
tled down on the home place, which he still 
continues to cultivate. He and wife are mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleas- 
ant Valley, and are among its constant attend- 
ants. In politics he is a Democrat, and takes 
an active part in the political affairs of his town- 
ship. Like his ancestors, he enjoys the full 
respect of his townsmen and the esteem of the 
public in general. 



JOHN H. ESTEP, dealer in drugs, notions, 
books, tobacco, etc., New Athens, Harri- 
son County, was born in Short Creek 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, September 
13, 1855, and is a son of Andrew Estep, also a 
native of Short Creek Township. John Estep, 
grandfather of our subject, came to Harrison 
County from Pennsylvania, in which State he 



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bad married Sarah Smith, daughter of Edward 
Smith. He settled in the woods of Short Creek 
Township, and died at the age of eighty-four or 
eighty-five years; his widow survived him some 
years, and died at about the same age. Their 
family consisted of five children, viz. : Harrison, 
in Loydsville, Ohio; William, an M. D., also in 
Loydsville; Robert, deceased; Harriet, Mrs. 
Taylor Linn, in Short Creek Township, and 
Andrew. 

Andrew Estep grew up a farmer, was edu- 
cated in the common schools, and in 1S50 was 
married to Miss Sarah, daughter of Andrew and 
Martha (Nichol) Henderson, and a native of 
Belmont County, Ohio. The Nichol family 
were of Scotch origin; from Scotland they 
passed to County Derry, Ireland, during the 
"persecution," and thence came to Cumberland 
County, Penn., in 1789. Later they reached 
Westmoreland County, and about 1800 came to 
Colerain Township, Belmont Co., Ohio. The 
maternal grandmother of our subject was Jean- 
ette Nichol, born in 1801; her husband, Andrew 
Henderson, was born in 1798, and died in 1861. 
The old Nichol family Bible was purchased in 
1805, at a cost of fifteen dollars and twenty-five 
cents, of William Mathers, St. Clairsville, Ohio, 
and is a cherished heirloom. Grandmother 
Nichol had the following named children: Mar- 
tha, John N., Annie, Agnes (wife of Thomas 
Love, in Aledo, III), Margaret (Mrs. Robert 
C. McConnell, in Brady, Ohio), Mary J. (wife of 
John Mintur, in Shepherdstown, Ohio), Andrew 
Jackson (deceased), Sarah Henderson (mother 
of our subject), Isabelle (wife of John Anderson, 
in Iowa), Andrew (in Hardy, Neb.), Elizabeth 
(Mrs. R. W. Castle, in Iowa), Harriet (Mrs. 
John Sweeney, also in Iowa), William T. (de- 
ceased), Thomas Jefferson and M. N. Hender- 
son. The family record now comprises fifty seven 
grandchildren living, thirty-seven deceased; 
three hundred great-grandchildren living, sixty- 
sis deceased; three hundred and eighty-eight 
great-great-grandchildren living, forty deceased ; 
thirty-two great-great great grandchildren. Af- 
ter the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Estep, they, 



for awhile, resided on the home place in Short 
Creek Township, thence moved to Steubenville, 
Ohio, and two years later, in 1874, proceeded 
to Missouri, thence to Kansas, and then to Kan 
sas City, Mo., where the father died in 1884, 
aged fifty-eight years; he was a Freemason 
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. His widow, who was born in 1830, 
still resides in Kansas City, Mo. ; she is the 
mother of ten children, viz. : Thomas B. , an at- 
torney in St. Louis, Mo. ; Emma, Mrs. William 
Purviance, in Rosedale, Kas. ; John H. , our 
subject; James B., deceased: Harriet E., living 
with her mother in Kansas City; William O, 
Ella (Mrs. John Wolf), Andrew Smith and 
Sarah C. , all in Kansas City, and Charles, re- 
siding with our subject, in New Athens, Ohio. 
Mrs. Estep is a member of the Disciples Church, 
and is a firm believer in immersion, although 
her parents were members of the United Pres- 
byterian Church. 

John H. Estep was but thirteen years of 
aire when he left home to fight life's battles for 
himself. He had been a farmer up to that 
time, and had attended the common schools. 
He first entered the store of Dr. Sharp, of Cadiz, 
Ohio, as clerk, and there learned his lessons in 
the line of work he had chosen to follow. He 
remained with the Doctor some nine months, then 
came to New Athens, and entered Franklin 
College, where he took a special course of study 
in order to perfect himself in his vocation. 
After a few terms he went to Steubenville, and 
for three years traveled for J. S. Foster, whole- 
sale dealer in drugs. He then entered the real 
estate and patent right business, and in 1879 
opened a drug store in the " Old Erie House," 
in New Athens. In 1880 the house burned, 
and his stock was entirely destroyed, the loss 
being from thirteen hundred to fourteen hun- 
dred dollars, with no insurance. The same 
year he started again, near where the post- 
office now stands. Later he was appointed 
postmaster under Cleveland, and attended both 
to the duties of that position and to the demands 
of his business, so continuing until the incom- 



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ing of Harrison. He continues in the drug 
business, however, and is recognized as one of 
the rising young business men of the place. 
He is efficient and obliging, and keeps full} 7 
abreast of the times. Politically Mr. Estep is 
a Democrat, and in 1884, for county auditor, he 
carried his township by the largest majority 
ever given to any one; but his party was the 
weaker one, and was naturally defeated. He 
was mayor of his town four years — serving two 
terms and declining a re-election. In Novem- 
ber, 1881, at New Athens, Mr. Estep married 
Miss Mary L., daughter of J. E. and Agnes 
(Cooke) Cannon, of Harrison County, Ohio, and 
three children have blessed this union, viz. : 
Arthur E., born June 23, 1883; Frank Bell, 
born August 20, 1886, and died at the age of 
two years and six months, and Paul C, born 
July 31, I VI, I. 



THOMAS PARKINSON. The Parkinson 
family, who were among the earliest set- 
tlers of Harrison County, Ohio, came 
originally from Maryland. Thomas, the 
grandfather of the gentleman of whom we write, 
was born in Frederick. Md., where his life 
was speut up to the years of maturity. Soon 
after attaining his majority he married Elizabeth 
Schleiff, ami lief ore many days of wedded life 
had passed they came, in company with his par- 
ents, to Ohio, settling in Green Township, Har- 
rison County, on the farm now occupied by his 
grandson. Here be died in 1838, his wife fol- 
lowing him in 1847: they lie side by side in 
Green Township Cemetery. Mr. Parkinson 
served under Washington during the entire 
Revolutionary War. His political tendencies 
were Democratic, and for many years he held 
the office of justice of the peace, the duties of 
which he so satisfactorily discharged as to win 
the respect and esteem of all. He and his family 
were members of the Canipbellite Church. ' Of 
his children, numbering four sons and three 
daughters, Jacob, the father of our subject, was 



born in 1787. in Maryland, where he remained 
until the year 1814. when he came to Ohio, and 
located in Smithfield Township, Jefferson 
County. Previous to this he had married in his 
native State, in 1810, Mary Kellar, and two 
years thereafter, in response to the call of his 
country, he enlisted in the W"ar of 1812. Like 
his father before him, he was a supporter of the 
party that carried the colors of Jefferson and 
Jackson. He served in many positions of honor 
and trust in his township, among which may be 
mentioned trustee, justice of the peace, and 
others of a minor character. His death oc- 
curred in 1805, that of his wife in 1870, and 
their remains repose at Rehoboth Church, in 
Jefferson County. The children born to this 
honored couple were as follows: John, Thomas, 
Joseph, William, David, Louisa, Elizabeth, 
Nancy and Edward. 

Thomas Parkinson, the subject proper of 
these lines, was born February l'J, 1818, in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and his boyhood and 
youth were spent on the home place, his edu- 
cation being confined to the limited advantages 
of the common schools. On October 1, 1S44, 
he was married to Caroline O, daughter of 
Abraham Cuppy, a resident of Jefferson County, 
Ohio, and after marriage they settled on the 
place where they now reside, in Green Town- 
ship, Harrison County. To them were born 
three children, viz.: Mary Ann, born August 
6, 1S45, married to William H. Johnson; Su- 
sanna, born February 7, 1847, died June 17, 
1870; Evaline R., born August 25, 1853. now 
Mrs. James Dickersou. Politically, Mr. Park- 
inson is recognized as one of the leaders in 
his section in the Democratic party. He is 
now the only representative iu this county of 
the well known Parkinson family, so highly es- 
teemed for their social qualities and sterling 
integrity. He carries on general farming with 
much success, and his tine property, consisting 
of well cultivated land and a handsome brick 
residence, together with a commodious barn and 
other necessary outbuildings, all indicate care, 
thrift, good management and prosperity. 



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V I,. WILSON, farmer. Rumlej Town- 
/■■ ship, Harrison County, is a son of 
Mj William H. and Margaret A. (McComb) 
Wilson, natives of Washington County. 
Penn. William H. Wilson was a son of John and 
Esther ( Fisher) Wilson, who were the parents of 
nine children, viz.: William H. , James, Hugh, 
John, Samuel, David, Esther, Margaret, all of 
whom were reared to maturity, but are now de- 
ceased, and Lizzie, who died in infancy. 

William H. Wilson, the father of our sub- 
ject, was born in Washington County. Penn., 
September 22, 1803. When he was three years 
of age his parents removed to Short Creek 
Township. Harrison Co., Ohio, where they re- 
mained for a short time only, and then returned 
to Washington County, Penn. In May-, 1834, 
they removed to Rumley Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where our subject still resides. Mr. 
and Mrs. Wilson were the parents of nine chil- 
dren, viz.: Eliza J., wife of C. N. Coulter, in Mich 
igan; John A., in Rumley Township; Hadassah 
A., wife of James V. Thompson, in Richland 
County, Ohio; R. M. (deceased); W. L., our 
subject; Mary E. , deceased; James R., in Ar- 
kansas City, Ark. ; David Mc. , deceased, and T. 
H, wife of S. G. Phillips, in Arkansas City, 
Ark. The father of this family died in August, 
1S87, and the mother in March, 1884, both act 
ive members of the United Presbyterian Church. 
Mr. Wilson was well known throughout the 
county, and was highly respected. 

W. ■ L. Wilson, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born October 29, 1841, on the farm 
where he now resides. He received his educa- 
tion in the public schools of his native township, 
and was reared to manhood upon the old home 
stead. In August, 1880, be was married to .Mis-, 
M. A. Mehoffey, of near Mount Hope, Washing- 
ton County, Penn., and by this union there are 
five children, viz.: William R., born November 
8, 1882; Mary E., born August 2, L884; Clara 
M., born August 5, 1886; Hattie, born August 
17, 1888, and James H., born February 9, 
1890. Mr. Wilson has always resided upon the 
farm where he was liorn, and is one of the well 



known and highly respected agriculturists of 

Rumley Township. He always voted with the 
Republican party until 1884, since which time 
he has cast his vote in the temperance cause, 
having cast the very first Prohibition ballot in 
Rumley Township. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson 
are influential and consistent members of the 
United Presbyterian Church. 




ILLIAM BOLITHO, farmer, German 
Township, Harrison County, was born 
in England, March S, 1828, and is a 
son of William and Elizabeth (Treze- 
der) Bolitho. His grandfather, Bolitho, owned 
a farm on Bligie Moor, Cornwall, England, and 
his (our subject's) father owned ten acres of 
ground on Buswire Moor (with lease during 
term of three lives), near Parkelis, Cornwall, 
where the family were all reared. The father 
was a miner part of the time, and had a family 
of nine children to support, viz. : John, Eliza- 
beth. Mary, Peggy, William M., Thomas. Annie, 
Martin Trezeder and Martin, of whom Martin 
Trezeder (named after his grandfather Trezeder), 
the fourth son in order of birth, died when seven 
years old. Our subject had no chance to 
receive an education, but as soon as he was old 
enough was obliged to go to the mines with his 
father. In 1.852, in company with his brother 
Thomas, he came to Harrison County. Ohio, 
and commenced work on the P., C. & St. L. R. 
R. , which was then in course of construction. 
Some months later, December 22, 1853, he mar- 
ried Miss Mahala Arnold, a daughter of David 
and Mary (Kail) Arnold. Mr. Bolitho worked 
as a common laborer till 1867, when he bought 
the farm of forty one acres, on which he DOW 
lives, situated on Section IT, German Town- 
ship. The buildings on this farm were all built 
by Mr. Bolitho. Mi-, and Mrs. Bolitho have 
had born to them six children, as follows: John, 
a farmer in Archer Town-hip. Harrison County; 

Th s. foreman on the l'.,C. & St. L. K. K., 

at Cadiz Junction, Ohio; Mary, deceased; 
Elizabeth, wife of E. L. McGuyer, an engineer 



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on the T. V. R. R., and living at Bridgeport, 
Ohio; Sarah, wife of James Howell, a laborer 
on the railroad, at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, and 
Rebecca F., at home. Mr. Bolitho and family 
are steady -going, industrious and moral people, 
and enjoy the respect of all who know them. 



ffOHN MANLY (deceased) was born in 
^ I Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, April 
%J) 8, 1817, and, being descended from a long 
line of English-Irish ancestry, inherited 
those principles of industry, sterling integrity 
and unswerving determination of purpose, the 
attributes of those sturdy j>eople, which were 
always prominent characteristics of his life. 
His parents, Allan and Rachel (Wilkin) Manly, 
were both worthy people of Pennsylvania, and 
had emigrated from their native State to Ohio 
in an early day; some years later they removed 
to Illinois, and died there at advanced ages. 
John Manly grew to manhood with his parents, 
taking an active part in the farm duties and as- 
sisting his father in the maintenance of the 
family, and thus his early life was spent amidst 
the privations and limited advantages which fell 
to tbe lot of pioneer boys. He attended the 
subscription schools in the old-fashioned log 
school-house, with its huge, glaring fireplace 
and rude furnishings, and there he laid the 
foundation for the brilliant career which dis- 
tinguished him in after years. He learned the 
trade of a carpenter when young, and this he 
followed in connection with farming for many 
years after becoming of age. He became identi- 
fied with the anti-slavery question and gave it 
much careful thought. It was one of his prin- 
ciples to do nothing by halves, and, true to his 
convictions, he spoke fearlessly and fluently in 
advocacy of them, and soon became recognized 
as one of the leading anti-slavery speakers and 
agitators in those exciting times. He was a deep 
thinker and careful reasoner, and was the author 
of many productions which won particular atten- 
tion from the public. He had been denied the 
advantages of an education when young, and his 



learning was self acquired. In his later years 
he spent a great deal of his time in traveling, 
when at home in writing for publication, and he 
became ere his death well posted on all leading 
topics of the times, and spoke with intelligence- 
and eloquence in regard to them. In 1848 he 
removed to Harrisville, where he continued to- 
reside until his death, which occurred February 
8, 1889. He had for years been gradually fail- 
ing in body, while his mind retained its brill- 
iancy to the last, and when death came his life 
went out as the fading of the day — calm and 
peaceful. As a citizen he was honored and es- 
teemed by all. In public works his liberality 
had manifested itself in many ways. There ia 
no greater pleasure in life than to be able to look 
back over one passed usefully, and in the sunset 
of his life Mr. Manly was comforted by the 
knowledge of a life well spent. Though unos- 
tentatious in his religion, he was firm in his con- 
victions of right and wrong, and strict in the 
observance of the Golden Rule, and his unim- 
peachable character and unswerving integrity 
were the characteristics of a grand and noble 
life. In 1843 he was united in marriage with 
Amy Hurford Barrett, a daughter of Warden 
and Mary (Hurford) Barrett, and a native of 
Harrison County. She still survives him, and 
resides in her pleasant home at Harrisville. 




A. NIBLOCK. The Niblock family 
were natives of Ireland, where John, 
the grandfather of William, was born. 
His father, James, was an employe of 
the Government, and was an only son. He had 
but one child, John, who, after the death of his 
father, came with his mother to America, in 
1801, remained in New York sis years, and then 
came to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he 
met and married Jane Taylor, who bore him the 
following family: Jane, James and Robert 
(twins), John, Julia and William. The trip to 
Ohio was made by wagon, and such was the 
condition of the roads that the family were com- 
pelled to walk nearly the entire distance. After 





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many weeks they arrived at their home in the 
wilderness, and immediately commenced to 
erect their cabin, which had only quilts for 
doors. They underwent all the struggles and 
hardships which beset the settlers on every 
hand, but finally managed to improve enough 
of their land to enable them to take a little 
needed rest. They were among the earliest mem- 
bers of the Seceder Church. Politically Mr. 
Niblock was a Democrat, but took little part in 
politics. In October, 1846, he died, and was fol- 
lowed by his wife in 1870. 

John Niblock was born March 29, 1807, in 
Wall Street, New York City, and soon after his 
f nth year was apprenticed to a mill- 
wright, with whom he remained three years. 
He then engaged in various kinds of work, re- 
ceiving the munificent wages of fifty cents per 
day, twenty-five cents per hundred for splitting 
rails, etc. He followed a nomadic life until 
August 30, 1829, when he was married to Sarah 
Gruil, who died March 1, 1840, and left three 
children: Mary, Nancy and Caroline. On Sep- 
tember 23, 1841, Mr. Niblock was married to 
Matilda Kerr, who bore him the following 
family: Sarah, Eowet K., Margaret, William 
A., James, Henry A., Susan J. and Dorcas B. 
On January 24, 1881, Mrs. Niblock died, and 
Mr. Niblock was then married. May 23, 1889, to 
Margaret Porter, daughter of James Porter, of 
Cadiz Township, Harrison County. He is a 
member of the Republican party. 

W. A. Niblock ranks among the young and 
intelligent farmers of Freeport Township. Har- 
rison County, and holds a prominent position. 
He was born September 9, 1849, in Freepori 
Township, where, for many years, his father, 
John, resided. He was early initiated in the 
duties of farm life, which he has since followed. 
On May 30, 1872, he was united in marriage 
with Celinda J. , daughter of Braudus Bethel, 
of Freeport Township, and to this union were 
born the following children: Oresco, Nannie 
A. and Minnie F. After his marriage Mr. Nib- 
lock settled on the old Bethel homestead, where 
he carries on general farming, and also engages 



in stock-dealing. He is a very successful buyer, 
and usually feeds considerable stock of different 
kinds for market. He is an enterprising and 
successful young man, and has won the confi- 
dence of all with whom he comes in contact. 
Of a generous and hospitable disposition, lie is 
a favorite in all circles. A Republican, he is 
one of those who founds his opinions on knowl- 
edge of the facts, and not on what others may 
say. While his school advantages were those of 
his neighborhood only, still he has always been 
a deep reader and thinker, and is one of the 
well-educated men of his section. 



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AFAYETTE McCONNELL. Among the 
representative young men of his section, 
none perhaps had exercised more influ- 
ence on the people, or more impressed 
them with his own merits, than he whose name 
heads this sketch. He was the youngest son of 
John and Jane (Robinson) McConnell, and was 
born March 7, 1844, in Athens Township, where 
all his life was spent. Here he grew to man- 
hood, devoting himself to the labor of the farm, 
and employing his leisure in acquiring an edu- 
cation. His early advantages were confined to 
the common schools, but after some time, find 
ing them insufficient for his desire to learn, he 
entered Franklin College, where he remained 
until March 13, 1864, when he enlisted in the 
Signal Corps, the duties of which he was emi- 
nently qualified to fill. Ho was sent to the West, 
where he remained on duty until the termina- 
tion of the war. Fort Leavenworth and Fort 
Laramie being the principal points at which he 
was stationed. He was mustered out December 
9, 1865, immediately returned home and engaged 
in farming, managing the home place. On Oc- 
tober •_'::. 1873, he was married to Melissa J. 
Henderson, a daughter of John N. Henderson, 
a resident of New Athens. 

Mr. Henderson's father, Andrew, was a 
native of Belmont County, Ohio, of which place 
his family, who were of Irish extraction, were 
early settlers. Andrew's early life was spent 



576 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



iu farming, a profession he followed all bis life. 
He was married to Janet Nichol, by whom be bad 
a large family of six sons and nine daughters, 
of whom all survive except three. In politics a 
Democrat, he always gave that party his earnest 
support. He and his family were members of 
the Associate Reformed Church for many years. 
He passed from earth in 1860, and his remains 
now rest in the Taggart Church Cemetery, Bel- 
mont County. His widow is yet living at the 
remarkable age of eighty-nine years, having 
been born January 29, 1801. Tbeir son, John 
N. . father of Mrs. McConnell, was, during the 
greater part of his life, engaged in mercantile 
business, from which he retired in 1870, having 
made a success of his many ventures, after 
which he engaged in contracting and other busi- 
ness requiring capital. He whs first married, 
March 8, 1850, to Mary Ann, a daughter of 
Joseph Haverlield, a resident of Cadiz. Mrs. 
Henderson died September 30, 1854, leaving one 
child, Melissa J. , who was born December 28, 
1850. For his second wife Mr. Henderson mar- 
ried, January 10, 1856, Mary Richards, the issue 
of which union was two children: Grace, born 
December 8, 1856, and Emma Alice, born De- 
cember 1, 1858. On May 30, 1859, the second 
Mrs. Henderson passed away, and was buried in 
Cadiz Cemetery, and Mr. Henderson was next 
married, in 1861, to Mary Scholes, by whom be 
had two children, Orville and Carrie. Mr* Hen- 
derson died March 12, 1882, and was buried in 
Unity Cemetery, Belmont County. He took an 
active interest in politics, and he and family were 
members of the United Presbyterian Church. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. McConnell 
came to the home place, where Mr. McConnell 
managed the business of his father for many 
years. The following are the names of his chil- 
dren: Frank, born April 29, 1875; Grace, born 
May 2, 1877; Mary, born November 16, 1880; 
Mark N., born October 7, 1SS2; Robert, born 
October 15, 1884, and Janet, born April 30, 
1888. In his political belief Mr. McConnell 
was a Democrat, and took a deep interest in the 
welfare of his party. For many years he was 



trustee of his township, and in 1888 he received 
the party's nomination for county auditor, and 
although defeated, polled the full party vote. 
He was regarded as one of the talented men of 
bis section, and was much esteemed by all. He 
died March 7. 1S89. and was buried in the 
township cemetery, whose site he had chosen, 
and in which his was the first interment. 



d|OHN McDIVITT is a prominent tile manu- 
] facturer and farmer of Monroe Township, 
I Harrison County. About the year 1820 
bis grandfather, James McDivitt, came 
with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and 
took up land in North Township, Harrison 
County, where he passed the remainder of his 
life. In his family were rive sons, and as a 
reminiscence of pioneer life, it may be stated 
that one of these sons walked all the way from 
Scio to Steubenville and back the same day, in 
order to have the steel laid on a broadax. 

The youngest child in the above mentioned 
family was James McDivitt, who was born in 
Westmoreland County, Penn., December 25, 
1810, and was a lad when he came to Ohio with 
his parents, with whom he grew to maturity, 
experiencing all the hardships of pioneer life. 
When about twenty years of age (in 1830) he 
was married to Annie Birney, who was born in 
Green Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, in 1808, 
a daughter of John Birney. The young couple 
then located on a farm in North Township, Har- 
rison County, and there Mrs. McDivitt died Oc- 
tober 15, 1862, and Mr. McDivitt March 19, 
L874. -They were life-long members of the 
Methodist Church, and were held in the highest 
esteem by their neighbors. Mr. McDivitt was 
an exemplary, conscientious man, consistent in 
his walk, and was kind and charitable to all. 
To this honored couple were born ten chil- 
dren, the first five of whom died in infancy', and 
of the remaining hve four are still living, viz. : 
Margaret, Mrs. James Nixon, of North Town- 
ship; Elizabeth, Mrs. William Nixon, of Stock 
Township; John, whose name opens this sketch, 



HARBISON COUNTY. 



577 



and Nancy, wife of Thomas Cuiurnings, a con- 
tractor and builder in Topeka, Kas. 

John McDivitt, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born on the old homestead in North 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, March 10, 1845. 
His father had erected the first frame dwelling 
in the neighborhood, and in this, the leading 
farm residence of the section, John first saw the 
light of day. He was reared to farm life, and 
taught the rudiments of an education at the old- 
time log school-house, to reach which he had to 
walk two miles. When he had attained his 
majority, he entered upon an apprenticeship to 
learn the carpenter's trade, receiving fifteen dol- 
lars per month for the first year, and following 
year was competent enough to command twenty- 
two dollars per month. He worked five years as 
a journeyman in various parts of the State, and 
in 1873 located in Scio, Ohio, where he success- 
fully followed contracting and building, erect- 
ing many dwelling-houses, and several of the 
principal buildings; he also took the contract 
for the erection of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Harlem Springs, Harrison County. 

On June 24, 1875, Mr. McDivitt was mar- 
ried to Miss Martha M. Easterday, a native of 
Harrison County, a daughter of David and Mary 
Easterday, and for a time they resided in Scio, 
where Mr. McDivitt continued to carry on his 
business of contractor and builder. Many edi- 
fices scattered throughout Harrison, Carroll and 
Jefferson Counties bear evidence to his haudi 
work. In 1877 Mr. McDivitt located on a farm 
in Slock Township, Harrison County, where, in 
conjunction with his trade, he carried on farm- 
ing, but in the spring of L884 he sold this place 
and purchased his present farm on Plum Bun, 
in Monroe Township, the farm comprising L60 
acres of well-improved and fertile land, which 
Mr. McDivitt keeps in first-class order. In 
1887 he established his tile yard, it being the 
only concern of the kind in the section, and his 
trade in this line is very extensive, as his cus 
loin is drawn from all parts of the country. In 
the summer of 1890 he found it necessary to 
increase his means of supply, and now has a 



capacity of 1,000, 000,000 feet per annum, his 
product being in all respects without a rival in 
the market. Mr. and Mrs. McDivitt began life 
in limited circumstances, but by industry and 
economy on the part of both, they now enjoy 
all the comforts of life in a most pleasant home, 
which is brightened by the presence of three 
children, Bertha, James and Robert. Mr. and 
Mrs. McDivitt are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Plum Run; in politics he 
is a Republican. 



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i\M RS. REBECCA COLE is a daughter of 
\f/\ Jacob and Eliza (Davis) Buxton, na- 
il tives of Washington County, Penn. 
The Buxtons were of German descent. 
The father, Jacob Buxton, was born in 1770, 
the mother December 2, 1787. They were 
married in Washington County, Penn., and re- 
sided in Cross Creek Township. Mr. Buxton 
was twice married. His first wife was a Miss 
Mary Sparks, and to this union were born five 
children, viz.: Mary, Darius, James, Ann and 
Aaron. By the second wife were born ten chil- 
dren, as follows: Davis, a farmer in Washing- 
ton County, Penn. ; Amos, a farmer in the same 
county; Hannah, wife of William Hamlin, Car- 
roll County (deceased); Ezra (deceased); Friend 
(deceased); Rebecca, our subject; Haddou, a 
farmer of North Township, Harrison County, 
Ohio; Absalom (deceased); Elizabeth, wife of 
John Cunningham, and Melissa (deceased). 

Rebecca Buxton was reared to womanhood 
upon the farm where she was born, and received 
her education in the public schools of her na- 
tivi> county. In 1841 she was married to Moses 
Cole, she being at that time twenty -one years of 
age. Her husband was born in Washington 
County, Penn., in L815, and was a son of Sam- 
uel and Anna (Perine) Cole, natives of Pennsyl- 
vania. The father, Samuel Cole, was twice 
married, and Anna Perine was the second wife, 
to whom was born a large family, as follows: 
Samuel, Margaret, Nancy, Stephen. Amy, Da- 
vid, Mary, William. Catherine and Caroline. 



578 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



Mr. and Mrs. Moses Cole resided in Washing- 
ton County until 1848, 'when they came to Ruin- 
ley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and pur- 
chased the farm (upon which Mrs. Cole still re- 
sides) of Emanuel Custer, father of the re- 
nowned Gen. Custer, who was killed in a war 
with the Sioux Indians, under Sitting Bull. 
The husband of our subject erected the build- 
ings now standing upon the homestead, and 
died January 6, 18(55, 'not living to enjoy for 
many years the fruits of his labor. Mr. and Mrs. 
Cole were the parents of eleven children, viz. : 
John, who died of sickness in the late Civil 
War; Margaret, wife of Samuel Sherman, in Den- 
nison, Ohio; Samuel, who resides with his fam- 
ily and mother upon the home farm, and who 
married Miss Esther Patton, daughter of James 
Patton: James, deceased; Elizabeth J., de- 
ceased; Sarah A. wife of Rev. John I. Wilson, 
in Coshocton, Ohio; Mary E., deceased; George, 
railroad civil engineer, in Ashtabula, Ohio; Had- 
don D. , a carpenter; William, a dentist, in Buffalo, 
N.Y. ; Isaac, a railroad superintendent, in Geneva, 
Ohio. Mr. Cole was an elder in the Presby- 
terian Church, and Mrs. Cole is also an active 
and influential member of the same society. He 
was, as she is, an honorable member of society, 
and of him it can truly be said: "Their chil- 
dren shall rise up and call them blessed." 



DAVID SCOTT was born February 29, 
] 1829. in Washington County, Penn., 
_ where his youth was spent. His father, 
Thomas Scott, was a native of Maryland, 
from which State he moved in 1820. While 
yet a young man, he married Hannah Glover, 
who bore him the following family: Nancy 
Ann, Archibald, Sarah, Jane, David, Hannah, 
Mary E., Andrew and Martha. He took an 
active part in the political movements of his 
section, and was an enthusiastic Democrat. Dur- 
ing his life he was employed in farming, both 
in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and continued 
in that vocation until his death, in Pennsyl- 



vania, when our subject was about twelve years 
of age. His widow died in September, 1870. 

The early life of David Scott was spent on his 
home place, where he attended such schools as 
the country then afforded. While the education 
there received was limited, still he was a well- 
trained pupil in the schools of experience and 
hard work. In 1862 he came to Ohio, and set- 
tled in Freeport Township, Harrison County, 
and in 1862 was married to Mary J. Davidson, 
of Harrison County. November 22, 1887, Mrs. 
Scott died, leaving no children to comfort the 
husband in his bereavement. Mr. Scott has 
been a life- long Democrat, and at present sup- 
ports that party. His farm, consisting of 150 
acres, is pleasantly situated and well improved, 
and here Mr. Scott is profitably engaged in 
agriculture and stock-raising. He is a highly 
esteemed man, one whose success in life is due to 
his own sagacity and foresight. 




ARNETT UTTERBACK was born April 
23, 1828, in Cadiz Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. His father, Henry Utterback, 
was born in Virginia, where the family for 
several generations had resided. There he re- 
mained until 1820, when with his family he came 
to Ohio, and settled in Harrison County, near 
the present city of Cadiz, where he remained 
until 1836, when he came to Franklin Township, 
and entered 160 acres of land, which land was 
cleared and improved by the father and sons. 
Henry Utterback was the father of the following 
children: William, Lucinda, John, Harrison, 
James, Sarah and Barnett, all of whom are now 
deceased excepting the last three. Mr. Utter- 
back was a Whig, and was an enthusiastic sup- 
porter of that party. He and family were mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
were among the early organizers of the society 
in their section. In 1842 Mr. Utterback died, 
and was followed in 1864 by his wife. They 
now rest side by side in Feed Springs Cemetery. 
Highly honored and esteemed by all, their lives 
were well worthy of emulation. 



HARBISON COUNTY. 



579 



Barnett Utterback, the youngest of the fam- 
ily, spout his youth at the home place, and in 
1848 was married to Nancy Blackwell, daughter 
of William Blackwell, of Franklin Township, 
and the children born to this union were James 
(deceased), Henry (deceased), Mary (Mrs. Ben- 
nard Ross), Lana (deceased), Martha (deceased), 
William F., Thomas and Nora. November 29, 
1883, Mrs. Utterback died, and was buried at 
Feed Springs, and in 1888 Mr. Utterback was 
united in marriage to Amanda Linard, who had 
two children, Bailey and Bertha Freeman. To 
this union there is one child, Harry Lee. In 
politics Mr. Utterback is one of the stanchest 
Republicans, and one who, although never ac- 
cepting office, still assists extensively in the 
management of the party's tactics. He is a self- 
made man, and has acquired his property through 
his own thrift and industry. His farm has 
gradually grown until he now has 317 acres sit- 
uated in the western part of the township. His 
property in Deersville consists of a house and 
three acres of land. The family are well and 
favorable known as among the leaders in the so- 
cial and financial circles of Franklin Township. 



di OHN W. WATSON. In 1790 a sturdy and 
I vigorous Scot, who, through a long line 
I of ancestry, had inherited a spirit of ad- 
venture as well as progression, set out from 
his native shores to build a home in the new 
republic, the haven to which the adventurous, 
as well as the oppressed, were striving to reach. 
Landing at Baltimore, he remained some time 
in Maryland, but later removed to Pennsylva 
nia. where his son, Robert, born March 3, 1786, 
met, and, October 25, 1810, married Rachel, a 
daughter of Robert Wilson. Engaging here 
in farming, Robert Watson remained until 1831, 
when, with his family, he came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, and purchased a farm in Athens 
Township, where Mrs. S. J. Watson now re- 
sides. A large family resulted from this mar- 
riage, as follows: James, born March 2, 1812, 
died August 15, 1S15: John \\\, born Febru- 



ary 7, 1814, died July 22, 1859; Jane, Mrs. 
Anderson Wallace, born May 1, 1815, died Feb- 
ruary 9, 1868; Alexander, born July 3, 1817, 
died November 7, 1M7; Rachel (now Mrs. John 
Barricklow), born January 30, 1819, died March 
30, 1839; Smith R., born October 12, 1821. 
died April 30, 1877; Nancy Gr. (Mrs. Joshua 
Dunlap), born January 30, 1S23. A man of 
quick perceptions and keen foresight, Robert 
Watson at once took front rank in his party's 
councils. A Democrat from his coming to 
America, he remained unswervingly so until 
his death. He held various offices in his sec- 
tion, being trustee for many years, and also 
treasurer. His family and self were members 
of the Crab Apple Presbyterian Church, and 
were among its most liberal supporters. No- 
vember 19, 1872, Mr. W T atson passed away, 
and was laid beside his life's companion, who 
had preceded him, she having died May 18, 
1806. Quietly, now they sleep in Nottingham 
Cemetery. So passed away a life that had 
been full of hard work, not only for himself 
and family, but for the good of others — one 
whose influence has been and will be long felt 
in this community where he lived. 

John W. Watson was born in Washington 
County, Penn., February 7, 1814, as stated 
above, and accompanied his family to Harrison 
County, Ohio. Much of his education was re- 
ceived in Pennsylvania, as after coming to Ohio 
he, with his father and elder brother, was en- 
gaged in clearing up the farm and raising what 
produce they best could. In this manner much 
of his early life was spent, and he was early 
taught those habits of industry and economy, 
which were a marked characteristic of him. In 
his early manhood he was married to Julia 
Barricklow, who survived but a short time after 
marriage, leaving one child, Rachel, to share 
her husband's grief. March 16, 1848, Mr. 
Watson married Rebecca Dunlap. a daughter of 
John Dunlap, a resident of Athens Township. 
The issue of this marriage w T as as follows: Rob- 
ert, born May 7, 1849, died August 28, 184'.t ; 
Adam D., born March 24, 1850, at home, and 



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Nancy A., born March 28, 1853, also at home. 
From his majority Mr. Watson took quite an 
active interest in the success of the Democratic 
party, with which he identified himself, and of 
which he was a life long member. His private 
business, however, never allowed him to accept 
any office, although many were frequently tend- 
ered him. Mr. Watson was a self-made man, 
and was eminently successful in all matters he 
undertook, his industry, coupled with his good 
business qualities, making him one of the 
leaders in his section. John W. Watson died 
July 22, 1859, and was buried at Nottingham 
Cemetery. Soon after his death his family re- 
moved to their present residence, about two 
miles from New Athens. The farm is now 
managed by Adam D. Watson, who fully in- 
herits those qualities which made his father so 
successful. He is a member of the Democratic 
party, and has always supported that cause. 
He is also a member of the Masonic lodge at 
Cadiz, and, being a young man of ability and 
social qualities, he has hosts of friends. 



FI( DAM DUNLAP, JR. known as one of 
f/\\ the wealthiest farmers of Moorefield 
/P'Ia Township, Harrison County, is a son of 
4/ Adam and Jane (Pattison) Dunlap, 

former of whom was a son of Adam and Rebecca 
(Works) Dunlap. They were married in 1817 
in Harrison County, Ohio. Grandfather Adam 
Dunlap was a native of Scotland, born in 1761, 
whence, in an early day, he emigrated to the 
United States, locating in Fayette County, 
Penn., then, in 1802, came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, and entered 160 acres of land in Athens 
Township. Here he erected a rude log cabin, 
in which he resided for a number of years, en- 
during the hardships such as were only known 
to the brave pioneers, but which can not be de- 
scribed in this brief sketch. He was one of 
the men who helped to erect the first log 
church building, where the church of Notting- 
ham now stands, and he was an active mem- 
ber of that church for many years. At his 



death he left to his twelve children the legacy 
of a good name, which is far more valuable than 
gold. His son Adam was born in Fayette 
County, Penn., in 1790, and came to Ohio 
with his parents in 1802, where he grew to 
manhood and received a limited education at 
the common schools. He was the father of 
twelve children, as follows: Joseph, Hugh, Re- 
becca (deceased), Nancy (deceased), Mary J., 
Sarah, Adam, Pattison, Samuel, John (de- 
ceased), a twin of John that died in infancy 
and William. Of these, Adam, Samuel and 
Sarah still reside on the old homestead; Joseph, 
Hugh, Pattison and Mary J. reside in Athens 
Township; William is a farmer, and resides in 
Moorefield Township. The father of this family 
first purchased a tract of laud in Coshocton 
County, Ohio, and afterward traded it for land 
in Section 34, Moorefield Township, Harrison 
County. He departed this life in 1863; Jane, 
his wife, in 1865. 

Adam Dunlap, Jr., with his brother Samuel 
and sister Sarah, since the father's death, have 
resided together on the old farm, and have 
erected a fine home. Sai-ah was born in 1828, 
Adam in October, 1830, and Samuel in 1834. 
They are all active members of the Nottingham 
Presbyterian Church. The politics of Adam 
Dunlap, Jr., his father and brothers have al- 
ways been with the Democratic party. 



THOMAS H. IRONS (deceased) was born 
in Washington Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, July 25, 1832. He was a son of 
Thomas and Mary (Davidson) Irons, who 
were married in 1825. Thomas Irons, Sr. , was 
born in Maryland in 1793, took part in the War 
of 1812, and at an early day took up 250 acres 
of land in Washington Township, then one 
dense forest, abounding with wild animals, and 
wild red men were not infrequent. This land 
Mr. Irons lived to see cleared in a great meas- 
ure, and in the clearing of it some very valuable 
coal lands were disclosed, and here, after having 
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life, Mr. Irons ended his earthly career Decem- 
ber 30, 1870. 

Thomas H. Irons, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was reared on the home farm, and was 
educated in the common schools of his district; 
like his father, he achieved success as a farmer, 
and also, like him, gained the esteem of the 
whole community. In 1855 he married Miss 
Permella. daughter of John and Nancy (Edgar) 
Mitchell, the former a native of Maryland and 
the latter of Pennsylvania, and to this union six 
children were born, of whom three are now liv- 
ing, viz.: Mary A. (Mrs. Morris), Agnes G. 
Stewart, and Ella (Mrs. Latto). Thomas H. 
Irons departed this life October 21, 1876, sin- 
cerely mourned by family and friends. His 
widow, a highly estimable lady, resides at her 
comfortable home near the town of Tippecanoe, 
and is a consistent member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, with which the other mem- 
bers of the family are also united. In politics 
the late Mr. Irons was a Republican, and he 
was extremely liberal in his contributions to the 
building of churches and to other benevolent 
purposes. 



J 



AMES O. BETHEL, farmer, Moorefield 
Township, Harrison County, Ohio, is a son 
of Alfred and Margaret (McCall) Bethel, 
natives of Ohio, and was born in Flush- 
ing Township, Belmont County, Ohio, Decem- 
ber 19. 1848. In the spring of 1869 became 
to Moorefield Township, Harrison County, and 
June 30, 1870, married Miss Nancy M. Slater, 
who was born in Moorefield Township, October 
1. 1848, daughter of James Wells and Margaret 
Jane (Dunlap) Slater. James Wells Slater was 
a son of Robert Slater, a native of Fayette 
County, Peun., and was born April 13, 1816; 
his wife was born November 30, 1818. They 
were married April 23, 1840, and their union 
was blessed with five children, as follows: 
Emily L., born April 27, 1841, and wife of 
Johnson Moore, of Moorefield Township; Will- 
iam D., born January 18, 1843, a farmer in 



Belmont County, Ohio; Nancy M. , born Octo- 
ber 1, 1846, wife of James O. Bethel; James A., 
born July 11, 1849; Margaret R. Shriber. born 
December 23, 1853. James Wells Slater de- 
parted this life August 9, 1875; his wife fol- 
lowed him December 5, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. 
James Wells Slater came to Moorefield Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1845, and pur- 
chased 207 acres of land on Section 4. This 
land was entered by Mr. Warden, then sold to 
William Ramage, from whom Mr. Slater made 
the purchase. On this farm Mr. Slater erected 
one of the most substantial residences there is 
in Harrison County, it being built of stone of 
large size. It was erected in 1851, and will 
stand as a monument to its erector for many 
years to come. Mr. Slater was highly re- 
spected, and served as trustee for some years in 
Moorefield Township. 

James O. Bethel, after his marriage, settled 
on the farm he now owns, which was given him 
by his father; the farm contains 183 acres, and 
is situated on Section 4, Moorefield Township, 
which land was first settled by William Ram- 
age about 1798, and located three and a half 
miles southeast of Moorefield Borough, on what 
is known as Bogg's Fork. Here, in 1873, Mr. 
Bethel erected the 'fine residence which he now 
occupies. Mr. Bethel and wife are the parents 
of seven children, namely: Alfred W., born 
June 8. 1871; Charles E., born January 27, 
1875; William A., born May 1), 1877; Harry 
F., born October 5, 1879; George N. . born July 
7, 1882; Jesse M., born February 16, 1885, and 
Margaret M., born March 27. ISSS. 



JjOHN MITCHELL. Among the well- 
known farmers and business men of 
I Freeport, Harrison Co., Ohio, Mr. John 
Mitchell occupies a prominent place. He 
was born January 14, 1S37, in Harrison County. 
His father, Ira, was born in Maryland, and came 
to Ohio in 1 S, : ', < > . Soon after his arrival he was 
married to Elizabeth Harding, of Carroll County, 
and the young couple settled on the farm in 



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Freeport Township, and there remained until 
the death of Mr. Mitchell, which occurred in 
1840. Their children were John, William (de- 
ceased) and Hester A. Soon after the death of 
Mr. Mitchell, John was bound to Mr. Francis 
Moffet, with whom he remained until his death, 
caring in the last years for one who had been a 
father to him. Thus did he repay the kind- 
ness which was so freely bestowed when it was 
most needed. 

On September 28, 1858, Mr. Mitchell was 
married to Mary A. Blackwood, daughter of 
Robert Blackwood, of Freeport Township. 
Robert Blackwood came from Ireland in 1824, 
and soon after his arrival was married to Eliza 
Jane Aiken, of Lawrence County, Penn. The 
children born to this marriage were Mary A., 
Rachel, Martha J., Eliza K. (deceased), W. J., 
Robert A. (deceased), T. J. (deceased), Eliza K. 
Mr. Blackwood and family were members of the 
Covenanter Church. After their marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Mitchell commenced life on the farm, 
where they still reside, which consists of 110 
acres, three miles from Freeport. Mr. Mitchell 
engages in general farming as well as in stock- 
raising. He is also interested in the growing 
of fruits, and has of late attained a remarkable 
success in that line. Always taking an active 
interest in the questions now before the people, 
Mr. Mitchell, in consonance with the teachings 
of his church, refrains from voting. He is a 
well-known and progressive man, and one who 
is numbered among the enterprising men of 
his section. A good citizen, he is ever alive to 
the best interests of the people. His children 
are William R., Frank M., J. T., Elizabeth J. 
and John P. 



rpy OBERT McCOY COULTER, president 
h*K of Hopedale Normal College, Hopedale, 
l\ Harrison County, is of Irish or Scotch- 
■jy Irish ancestry. The earliest account of 

the Coulter family in this country is that of four 
brothers, who in a very early day settled in vari- 
ous parts of Pennsylvania. From these, and 



later immigrations, it has spread through ten or 
twelve States of the Union. Of the Presbyterian 
faith in all its branches it has given a number 
of ministers and professors to that church. 

The paternal grandfather of R. M. Coulter 
came from the north of Ireland, probably from 
County Antrim, and in 17S0 or 1790 settled in 
Chester County, Penn. The paternal grand- 
mother, Isabella Coulter, came from the same 
part of Ireland, and after the death of her first 
husband was married to Robert McCoy, and re- 
moved to Lancaster County, near York, Penn., 
and thence, in IS 16, to Jefferson County, Ohio; 
thence in 182S, to Perry Township, Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio, where she died at the old home- 
stead in June, 1849. Joseph Mayes, the ma- 
ternal grandfather of our subject, was born in 
Washington County. Penn., June 6, 1785, and 
was of Irish or Scotch-Irish descent. He came 
to Ohio, and settled in Green Township, Harri- 
son County, on the Cadiz branch of the. P., C. 
& St. L. Ry., near Folks Station, and was there 
killed by a runaway team, December 29, 1845. 
His wife, Sarah (Miller) Mayes, was a daughter 
of Johu Miller, of Beech Spring, Ohio. 

Andrew Coulter, the father of the gentleman 
whose name heads this sketch, was born in Lan- 
caster County, Penn., June 14, 1796. He came 
to Ohio in 1816, and located in Jefferson Coun- 
ty; later he moved to Green Township, Harri- 
son County, and engaged in farming, which he 
subsequently relinquished, and opened a general 
country store near Bethel, Ohio. His death 
took place in Smithfield, Ohio, September 30, 
1872. He has been twice married; his first wife 
who bore the maiden name of Jane Reed, was 
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and became the 
mother of seven children, all now dead except- 
ing one; his second marriage was with Nancy 
Mayes, who was born September 15, 1815, was 
married June 9, 1844, and who died June 17, 
1859, the mother of one child, the subject of 
this sketch. 

Robert McCoy Coulter was born near Bethel, 
Harrison County, Ohio, March 19, 1S49. His 
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preliminary education was received at the com 
mon school. At the early age of twelve years, 
January 25, 1S61, he lost a leg by the cars at 
Cadiz Junction. He attended the high school 
at Smithfield, Ohio, one winter (1864), and the 
next year, 1805, when but a little over sixteen 
years of age, began his career as teacher. He 
next attended Hopedale Normal School, and 
then Franklin College, and from the latter in- 
stitution graduated in the classical course in 
June, 1878. From the Lane Theological Semi- 
nary, at Cincinnati, he graduated in May, 1880. 
He was licensed to preach May 23, 1879, by the 
presbytery of Steubenville, Ohio. He was 
ordained July 7, 1881, at Malvern, Iowa, to 
which place he had removed after graduating 
from the theological seminary, and in 1881-82 
was pastor there. In the fall of 1882 he be- 
gan the publication and became editor of the 
Omaha Observer, a Presbyterian journal of 
Omaha, Neb., but in a short time sold his in- 
terest and returned to the pastorate, in 1884, 
this time at Woodbine, Iowa. He was delegate 
to the Iowa Synods of 1884-85-86, and also a 
delegate to the General Assembly, Cincinnati, 
Ohio, in 1885. In 1889 he removed to Cadiz, 
Ohio, and January 31, 1890, was elected presi- 
dent of Hopedale Normal College, and took up 
his residence there in May, 1890. 

Prof. Coulter has held various offices of trust 
and responsibility in his presbytery (Council 
Bluffs, Iowa). From his boyhood he has been 
interested in temperance reform, and was more 
or less active in the work while at college and 
since, especially in Iowa, making addresses and 
agitating the question on all proper occasions. 
He was chairman of the permanent committee of 
temperance, Presbytery of Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
and was State lecturer and deputy grand chief 
templar of the Independent Order of Good 
Templars of Iowa, 1887-89. He believes in the 
prohibition, not the permission, of the traffic 
in intoxicating beverages. His degree of A. M. 
was conferred by Franklin College in 1882, and 
the honorary title of M. A. I. C. was received 
from the American Institute of Civics in 1890. 



The marriage of the Professor took place 
September 27, 1881, with Miss Jennie E. Mc- 
Coy, third daughter of Matthew xMcCoy, of 
Archer Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and this 
union has been blessed by the birth of two chil- 
dren: Bessie, born September 9, 1SS2, at Mal- 
vern, Iowa, and Roxana, born March 19, 1888, 
at Walnut, Iowa. 

HOPEDALE NORMAL COLLEGE. 

The first normal school, either public or pri- 
vate, in our State, was established in what was 
then Sub-District No. 3, of Green Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. Its instigators, founders 
and life long friends and benefactors were Mr. 
and Mrs. Cyrus McNeely, and Mrs. Mary Don- 
aldson, of Green Township, aud Mrs. Eliza 
Hogg, of Cadiz, Ohio. Their object was to estab- 
lish an institution for the training of teachers for 
the common schools of the country, in connection 
with which there was to be a model ungraded 
country district school for the illustration of the 
best normal methods. 

In pursuance of this object, the improvement 
of the present grounds of the school was begun 
and carried on, until there has been accumu- 
lated a property valued at forty thousand dol- 
lars, most delightfully and healthfully situated 
on one of the finest school sites in the State. 
The grounds consist of over ten acres of fine 
upland prairie, tastefully adorned with shade 
trees and shrubbery, all in a high state of cul- 
tivation. Pumphrey Hall, on the south side of the 
campus, is the young ladies' boarding hall, and 
usually the president's residence. It is a tine, 
large building of some twenty rooms in all, well 
built, furnished and excellently adapted to its 
intended use. The college building proper is 
centrally located on the grounds. It contains 
ten rooms devoted lo class, society and library 
purposes. These are conveniently arranged, well 
lighted, heated and ventilated, and form one of 
the best college buildings in eastern Ohio. The 
gymnasium is a large building on the south side 
of the main campus, devoted to gymnastic ex- 
ercises and general assembly purposes. This 



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is an excellent equipment for the school and its 
work. 

The first teaching was done in the fall of 
1849, but was rather elementary in character. 
The institution under the name of the " Mc- 
Neely Normal " was first fully opened in 185- 
with Prof. George L. Work as principal of the 
normal department, Prof. Edwin Regal as 
teacher of the Model District School, and Miss 
McGrew as assistant. Recognizing it as the 
duty of the State to foster normal schools, Mr. 
McNeely, about this time, tried to get the State 
to accept the school as a gift and continue it as 
a State institution. This plan failed. Turning 
to the Ohio State Teachers' Association, he of- 
fered the school to it if it would endow the in- 
stitution to the amount of ten thousand dollars. 
The association undertook to carry out their 
part of the proposed plan for the school, and 
were accordingly placed in possession of it. 
Under the new management, Hon. John Ogden 
became its principal in 1855, and Prof. Regal 
and Miss Betsey Cowles were assistants. Prof. 
A. S. Hayden succeeded Prof. Ogdenin 1857. 
In 1859 the association, being unable to secure 
the proposed endowment, were relieved of all 
financial responsibility for the school by Mr. 
and Mrs. McNeely, who for many years there- 
after bore the expenses for repairs, apparatus, 
etc., themselves, Mr. McNeely especially mak- 
ing it his life-work to care for and improve the 
college, the buildings, grounds and apparatus. 
An endowment fund of five thousand dollars is 
now (1891) being provided for this purpose, 
which fund will, it is believed, be abundantly 
sufficient for this phase of work in the school. 

The following educators have been the later 
principals of the Normal School for the times 
as indicated: 1860-65, 1871-72, Prof. Edwin 
Regal; 1866-70, 1873-79, Prof. William Briuk- 
erhoff. During these years, the school was 
known as the "McNeely Normal School." In 
1879, for greater efficiency, a reorganization 
took place. A charter was secured, conferring 
full collegiate powers and privileges. Mr. and 
Mrs. McNeely transferred the entire school 



property, in fee simple, into the hands of a 
board of trustees. The name was changed, as 
well as the character, and, to some extent, the 
work of the school, and became " Hopedale 
Normal College," its present title. Dr. William 
Brinkerhoff was elected president, and continued 
to act as such until 1884. Since then, the fol- 
lowing have been the presidents: Rev. J. M. Jam- 
ieson, 1885-86, 1889-90; Prof. W. C. Garvey, 
1887-88; Rev. R. M. Coulter, 1891- This, in 
outline, is the history, so far. of this old and in- 
fluential school. Many phases of interest and 
profit could be presented. Space permits, how- 
ever, the presentation of the more essential ones 
only. 

Profs. Regal, Jamieson and Brinkerhoff 
taught in the school some twenty or more years 
each, records seldom equaled as to time, and 
full of honor as to usefulness. Not far from 
8,000 students have received instruction in the 
school. A large number have been useful in 
and to the world, many being prominent in pub- 
lic life. The Model School brought in at first, 
as part of the work, was abandoned after some 
years, and the normal and academic, and, later, 
the collegiate, academic and normal courses re- 
ceived the attention of the school. In later 
years the work broadened, so as to include book- 
keeping, phonography and type-writing, as well 
as music, elocution and painting, and these de- 
partments are still continued. " Summer nor- 
mals ' ' were held quite regularly at first, but 
gradually fell out of the regular work of the 
school. Some attention has been given to this 
phase of work however, within the year last 
past, and this useful form of work will doubtless 
be continued. One somewhat remarkable fact 
in this forty years of educational work is that 
there has never been a death among the thou- 
sands that gathered here, and very little sickness. 
No attempt is made to estimate the value of 
such an institution to the community and the 
world. Neither can right division of honor be 
made between the noble men and women who 
gave us such an inestimable heritage. Those who 
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greatest gratitude and praise, yet each helper 
here, however short his time or humble his work, 
has also assisted in giving to the world these 
blessings. 

After a varied history of so many years, of 
mingled sunshine and shadow, it is agreeable to 
record the fact that the "old Normal" is in 
good condition, financially, to day, has its tine 
campus, liner than ever, its buildings in good 
condition, an able faculty and live manage- 
ment and fine class of students, and is so far 
prepared to take up the work of the next forty 
years with renewed vigor and hope to make it 
the counterpart and possible superior of the 
forty years that are gone. 



Il( LEXANDER McFADDEN. Another of 
// \ \ the stalwart, well-to-do and honored pio- 
[Tl\ neer farmer families of Harrison County 
4/ are the McFadilens, the first one of 

whom to land on American soil was the grand- 
father of the gentleman whose name appears at 
the head of this sketch. By name Joseph Mc- 
Fadden, a farmer by occupation, and a native of 
Ireland, he came from his native land to the 
United States some few years after marriage, 
accompanied by his wife and children, and 
located near Middletown, Penn., where he fol- 
lowed agricultural pursuits. Thence some time 
afterward he moved to Harrison County, Ohio, 
where he secured a piece of land two and a half 
miles southeast of Cadiz, where his home was 
made until removed by death. He was a quiet, 
yet progressive, man, possessed of indomitable 
energy and perseverance. He and his faithful 
wife both sleep their last sleep within the bor- 
ders of Harrison County. Their son, Samuel 
(father of Alexander), was born in County 
Cavan, Ireland, and was eight years of age 
when he came with his parents to this coun- 
try. He grew to manhood on his father" s 
farm, and by his labor aided materially in its 
improvement. Upon reaching maturity he mar 
ried Miss Mary Milligan. a native of Adams 



County, Penn., and they then located on a farm 
in Harrison County, near Cassville, where they 
had entered eighty acres of land, but soon after 
they bought a quarter section, to which they 
moved, and here lived the remainder of their 
lives. They were the parents of six children, 
of whom three are yet living, all in Harrison 
County, viz. : Jane, widow of James Love, in 
Archer Township; Elizabeth Muhollin and 
Alexander, in Cadiz Township; those deceased 
being Mary. George and Joseph. In 1842 the 
mother died at the age of sixty-seven years, 
and in 1870 the father followed her to the grave, 
dying on his eighty fourth birthday. He lived 
to see many changes wrought in his county — 
seeing the dense unbroken forest abounding with 
wolves, deer, and other game give place to green 
and fertile fields where pastured peaceful herds 
and flocks. 

Alexander McFadden, their son, began life 
on the same farm where now at the age of 
seventy-two he is patiently awaiting the sum- 
mons that will call him to his long home.' He 
was born September 9, 1818, and in the sum- 
mers of his boyhood he endured the arduous 
labors of the farm, in the winters experiencing 
the tortures of the old peg benches in the prim- 
itive log school-house. His first teacher was 
John Welch, who afterward became one of the 
judges of the supreme court of Ohio, and who, 
after an absence of fifty-five years, returned to 
view the scene of his early labors, being shown, 
by his former pupil, the remains of the old 
school-house. On June 29, 1840, Alexander 
McFadden was united in marriage with Miss 
Elizabeth, daughter of Valentine Barger, of 
Cadiz Township, Harrison County, and after 
their marriage they built the house in which 
they are now spending their declining years. 
In 1882, leaving the farm in the care of their 
son, Elzy. they removed into the town of Cadiz, 
where they remained a few years, and then 
returned to the Old home. To them were bom 
four children, as follows: Joseph (deceased), 
Mary Jane (at home with her parents), Martha 
A. (Mrs. J. Law McFadden, a widow residing 






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in Cadiz), and Elzy (on the home farm). Mr. 
McFadden, in politics, is a Republican, and cast 
bis first presidential vote for William H. Harri- 
son; be and bis wife and family are members of 
the United Presbyterian Cburcb at Cadiz. 



M 



AMUEL EICHEY, a son of one of Har- 
rison County's pioneers, was born in 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
March 24, 1850. His parents are John 
and Ann W. (Gilmore) Richey. He re- ■ 
mained at home until twenty- three years of age, 
and received the advantages of a common-school 
education. September 10, 1873, he was united 
in marriage with Miss Martha M. Hedges, 
daughter of Samuel and Sarah Rowley Hedges, 
of Cadiz Township, Harrison County. [The 
sketch of her parents is given elsewhere.] 

After their marriage Mr. Richey and wife re- 
mained some two and a half years on the farm 
wbere his father was born, and in 1876 removed 
to tbeir present home. One child, named Will- 
iam H., born April 3, 1875, has blessed this 
union. Politically Mr. Richey is a Democrat. 
He and wife and son are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church of Cadiz. Their home is two 
miles northwest of Cadiz, on the Moravian road, 
and the house is a substantial brick residence, 
and was erected, in 1838, for Thomas Henderson. 



SCAR GRIFFIN, general merchant at 
Franklin, Harrison County, was born 
near Bowerston. Ohio, June 1, 1851. and 
is a son of William W. and Merium 
(Dunlap) Griffin, both natives of Harrison 
County. Mr. Griffin was reared to farming, 
ami was educated in the old-fashioned log 
school-house, and the scene of its split-log 
benches, capacious fireplace and greased-paper 
window panes is still vivid in his memory. When 
about twelve years of age he was taken to Tus- 
carawas County by his parents, who for a short 



time resided there on a farm, and then moved 
to Ubrichsville, where young Oscar attended the 
graded school until about seventeen years old, 
when be was employed as a clerk in a news 
depot. This firm, Fribley & Hover, sold out, 
and entered into the grocery business, Oscar 
continuing with them seven years. He was 
next engaged with J. J. Fribley in the grocery 
business for a few years, and next with Mo- 
zena & Foster, and then with Dr. S. R. Thomp- 
son. In the fall of 1SS0 he entered the em- 
ploy of S. Burgess, at Cambridge, Guernsey 
Co. , Ohio, as traveling salesman, and was on 
the road three years. He next established him- 
self in business at Paoli, in Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio, where he remained thirteen months, and 
then went to Cadwallader, in the same county, 
and for a year carried on business under the 
firm name of Brown & Griffin. In 1887 he lo- 
cated at Franklin, where he had previously 
clerked for a short time for L. Arbaugh. Here 
he entered into bis present business under the" 
firm name of Jumps & Griffin, and in July, 
18S9, became sole proprietor of the store. 

Mr. Griffin was united in marriage, in 1882, 
to Miss Mary M. Hastings, of Guernsey County, 
Ohio, and this felicitous marriage has been 
blessed by the birth of three children: Myrtle, 
Jennie Fay and Rodney Hastings. Mr. Griffin 
is a hearty supporter of the Republican part}', 
but is not an office-seeker. He early became 
a member of Uhrichsville Lodge, No. 519, I. O. 
O. F., and in religion is a Presbyterian. His 
fortune has reached him through his business 
integrity, and his social standing is one of which 
any one might feel proud. 



AMUEL BAXTER, oue of the well- 
known farmers of Green Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, and a native of the town- 
ship, was born September 10, 1838. 
Samuel P. Baxter, his father, was born in Fay- 
ette County, Penn. , where he served an appren- 
ticeship at saddle-making, at which he worked 
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Miss Nancy Wells, daughter of Thomas and 
Susan Wells, of Fayette County, Penn. , and at 
once came to Ohio, in 1821, and settled in 
Green Township, Harrison County, on a piece 
of wild land that had been entered by Mr. 
Wells. Mrs. Nancy Baxter, who was born Feb- 
ruary 15, 1797, breathed her last on this farm 
November 28, 1840, the mother of eight chil- 
dren, viz. : Susan, born May 11, 1822, and mar- 
ried to William Craskey, of Green Township; 
John B., born September 7, 1826, living "in 
Green Township; Thomas G., born March 25, 
1828, died August IS, 1829: Elis, Mrs. Aiken, 
born January 26, 1830, and living in Harrison 
County: Mary J., born April 13, 1832, living in 
Hopedale, Ohio; Nancy, widow of D. W. Mans- 
field, and living in Hopedale, born April 15, 
1834; Amanda, deceased wife of William 
Holmes, born April 25, 1836, and Samuel, 
whose name is at the opening of this sketch. 
Mary J. was married April 10, 1851, to James 
A. Harrah, and to this union was born one 
child. William Oliver, now in Rochester, N. Y. 
Nancy was married April 10, 1852, to D. W. Mans- 
field, and bore the following named children: 
Baxter,Virginia, Clara, Mary, Thomas W.. Welch, 
William. Melvin, John B., Nancy Ella (died in 
1886), one son that died in infancy unnamed, 
February 15, 1864, and Minnie R., who < 1 i *-< 1 
August 26, 1877. The father of these, D. W. 
Mansfield, was born November 20, 1829, and 
died April 14, 1883. Mrs. Mansfield and her 
sister, Mrs. Harrah, now reside together at 
Hopedale. Samuel P. Baxter remained a wid- 
ower about nineteen years, when he married 
Julia Tedrow, and, September 19, 1887, passed 
away from earth, aged ninety years, one month 
and four days. He had been a hard-working 
man throughout life, although his later years 
were rendered comfortable through the care of 
his sons, who took charge of the place. He was 
a stanch Democrat, and a man who was firm in 
his convictions; and he left the impress of his 
character upon his children. He was a member 
of the Disciples Church, as is his widow. 

Samuel Baxter was reared to manhood on 



the old homestead, which is now his own prop- 
erty and which comprises 240 acres. He was 
educated in the common schools of his town- 
ship primarily, but supplemented the knowledge 
thus acquired by home study. In his twenty- 
fifth year (1863) he was married to Miss Amanda 
V. Mansfield, daughter of James and Susan 
Mansfield, of Jefferson County, Ohio. After 
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Baxter resided on 
the farm until 1884, when they removed to 
Hopedale, where Mr. Baxter had erected one 
of the finest and largest dwellings in the town, 
and has since made his home here, although he 
still superintends his farm, which is located 
only about one mile away. The five children 
horn to Mr. and Mrs. Baxter were named Miles 
G., born January 2. 1NU4; Virena E., born 
January 3, 1866; Nancy, born August 8, 1870, 
and died November 2 1. 1888; Myrtle D., born 
April 1, 1873; and Norris L., August 9, 1883. 
Politically Mr. Baxter is a Democrat, but has 
never been an office-seeker. He has been a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, since 1860, 
and is well known throughout the county as a 
business man who has made a success in life. 
Miles G. Baxter began his studies in the 
common school of his township, subsequently 
attending Hopedale College, after which he en- 
tered Bethany College of West Virginia, from 
which he graduated in the class of 1885. He 
also became proficient in shorthand, and is now 
teaching in the Cleveland Business College. 



diOHN BEAR. The Bear family now resi- 
dent of Freeport and adjacent townships, 
I Harrison County, Ohio, were of German 
descent, and trace their ancestry to Jacob 
Bear, who, in the latter part of the eighteenth 
century, came to America with his family and 
settled in Maryland. He engaged in farming, 
which calling the family have since followed. 
Mi- son John was born in Maryland, where 
his youth was spent. In his early youth he was 
married to Mary E. Boyer, who bore him 
the following named children: George. Mar- 



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garet, Julia Ann, John, Reuben, Peter, Mary 
and James. In 1832 they came to Ohio, where 
they settled in Guernsey County, purchasing a 
farm in the then wilderness. Here they erected 
their log cabin and actively engaged in clearing 
their land. In three or four years they sold out 
and removed to Freeport, purchasing the farm 
on which John, his son, now resides.. In the 
improvement and clearing of this many of the 
best years of their life were spent, but later in 
life they enjoyed the competency their work and 
frugality had brought them. In 1880 John 
Bear passed away and was laid to rest beside 
bis wife, who had died in 1851. They were 
members of the Methodist Protestant Church, 
and he was a sincere believer in the principles 
of the Democratic party, never failing to give 
his support to its interests and success. A 
hard working and industrious man, he was the 
architect of his own success. 

John Bear, the subject of this sketch, was 
born September 30, 1822, in Maryland. At the 
age of ten years he came to Ohio, and here he 
has since been a resident. He is a man of good 
judgment and excellent principles, and one who 
has made a success, although many times com- 
bating against difficulties that would seem in 
surmountable. Endowed by nature with an 
excellent mind, he early received such training as 
could be given in the common schools, and has 
since largely added to it by private study and 
reading, as well as observation. April 18, 1850. 
he was married to Lauriuda Bethel, daughter 
of one of the earliest settlers of Harrison Coun- 
ty, and on their marriage settled to house-keep 
ing in Freeport Township, where they have 
since resided. They are members of the Meth- 
odist Protestant Church at Pleasant Hill, and 
are among the workers of that society. A Demo 
crat in principle, Mr. Bear has invariably sup- 
ported that party. He engages in farming, and 
stock-raising on his farm, about three and a 
half miles west of Freeport. The home place 
he has greatly improved, both in buildings and 
repairs. His house is on a commanding emi- 
nence, overlooking a wide stretch of country. 



His children are named Addison R., Mary J., 
John F., Laura and George W. (deceased). 
The family have always held a foremost position 
among the intelligent and better class of the 
community, being recognized as enterprising, 
useful and progressive citizens. 



I, SAIAH RIPLEY. The Ripley family trace 
their ancestry to Germany, whence Ludwig, 
[ the great-grandfather of Isaiah, came to 
America about the middle of the eighteenth 
century. While on the voyage the ship was 
becalmed, and a famine threatened. The pas- 
sengers were put on short rations, their allow- 
ance being only a biscuit per day. Soon after 
his arrival here he established himself as black- 
smith, a trade he had learned in his native 
country. During the Revolutionary War he 
was employed by the Government in his trade, 
and did thorough work for it in many of its 
most perilous times. All through the dread 
winter of Valley Forge he was kept busy re- 
pairing the different implements of war. His 
children were named John, Jacob and Lewis. 
After a long and well-spent life he passed away 
and was buried in Pennsylvania. John, son of 
Ludwig, remained at home engaged in farming 
until he married Elizabeth Sheets, a resident of 
Pennsylvania. She bore him the following 
children: Catherine, Mrs. William Wolfe; Mary, 
Mrs. Asa Engle; John, Jacob and Solomon, all 
three deceased; Hannah, Mrs. William Peoples; 
David. Stephen, Mary, Wesley, Elizabeth 
Wright, Nancy Gilpen and William, all de- 
ceased except Hannah, Stephen and Wesley. 
In 1800 he came to Ohio and entered a large 
tract of land in Freeport Township, Harrison 
County, on which he spent most of his life en- 
gaged in improving it. In March, 1853, he 
pass.il away, and was soon followed by his 
widow, who died in 1857. At the age of five 
year-, John Ripley, father of Isaiah, the subject 
of this sketch, was brought to Ohio and from 
that time he was a resident of the State. His 
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of the common schools only. In 1818 he was 
married in Harrison Comity to Eunity McBride, 
daughter of Samuel McBride, a native of Del- 
aware, and an early settler of Tuscarawas Coun- 
ty. Ohio. The issue of their marriage was 
Ezekiel C, who died in the Civil War; Henry; 
Asberry, in Cambridge, 111. ; Isaiah and George 
W. (deceased). Mr. Ripley at first resided in 
Freeport Township, Harrison County, but soon 
removed to Guernsey County, where he passed 
away October 27, 1872. September 29, 1888, 
Mrs. Ripley passed away. 

The early life of Isaiah Ripley was spent in 
Guernsey County, Ohio, where be was born 
August 26, 1831. Like most farmer boys his 
education was received at such schools as the 
country then afforded. He, however, there re- 
ceived an incentive to study, which he has largely 
gratified in his spare time. June 18, 1871, he 
was united in marriage to Mary C. , daughter of 
John G. Mallarnee, of Guernsey County. He 
immediately commenced his married life on the 
place where he still resides in Freeport Town- 
ship, Harrison County, and which he has done 
so much to beautify and improve. His children 
are Stanton, Sumner, Frederick and Mary F. 

On September 20, 1861, Mr. Ripley respond- 
ed to his country's call for volunteers, enlisting 
with the Fifty- first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
Company E, and was sent to join the Army of the 
Cumberland. He followed the movements of 
this army until shortly previous to the battle of 
Mission Ridge, when, on account of sickness, he 
was sent to the hospital at Nashville. On his 
partial recovery he was transferred, September 
20. 1863, to the Fifteenth Regiment. Veteran 
Reserve Corps, and was engaged chiefly in 
transporting and guarding prisoners and sup 
plies. On October 3, 1864, he was honorably 
discharged at Camp Douglas, and came home 
and engaged in farming. The Ripley family 
have always been identified with Democratic 
principles, and have ever taken a prominent part 
in the establishment of them. Always re- 
spected and enjoying the confidence of the 
people, they may well feel proud of their record. 




ILLIAM MAHAN. farmer, Nutting- 
V ham Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
jf; is a son of Joseph Mahan, who was 
born in Harford County. Md., Feb- 
ruary 20, 1811, and was of Welsh and German 
descent. Joseph's mother died when he was a 
small child, and he was reared to young man- 
hood by his uncle, William Mahan, of whom he 
learned (he trade of cooper. Joseph, when a 
young man, came on foot from Maryland to 
Nottingham Township and made his home with 
Ebenezer Brown, a native of Harford County, 
Md. Here he met and married Miss Rebecca 
Brown, who was born in Harford County, Md., 
July 20, 1801, a daughter of Joseph and Cath- 
erine Bowen Brown, also natives of Harford 
County, Md. The Browns are of English and 
the Bowens are of Irish extraction. Rebecca 
Brown and her two sisters, Catherine and Sarah, 
came to Ohio with Ebenezer Brown. 

Joseph Mahan. after his marriage, first lo- 
cated on a small farm in the eastern part of 
Nottingham Township. Harrison County, now 
owned by John Ramsey. Here he worked at 
his trade for some years, when he removed to 
Stock Township. Harrison County, where he 
purchased a small farm, but continued to work 
at his trade. He died in Franklin Township, 
March 25, 1855; his wife survived him till De- 
cember 6, 1^73. This union was blessed with 
three children, viz.: Margaret Hinos, of Xul 
tingliani Township; Rebecca Wood, of Jasper 
County. Ind., and William, our subject, who 
was born in Nottingham Township. July 31. 
]S37. where he grew to manhood, and received 
a limited education at the common schools. 
On the eve of January 8, 1862, he enlisted in 
i ho service of his country in Company ('. Forty- 
third Regiment, 0. V. V. I. He was engaged 
in several severe battles, but returned home 
unharmed, with the exception of his general 
health, which was somewhat affected from ex- 
posure. He was mustered out of the service 
July 13. 1865, and after his return home 
worked at the carpenter's trade for some years. 
May 1 I. 1S72, he married Miss Mary E. Bowles, 



who was born July 15, 1842, a daughter of 
Thomas and Hannah (Strahl) Bowles, natives 
of Chester County, Penn. Thomas Bowles is a 
son of Thomas Bowles Sr. , a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, of German extraction. Thomas Strahl 
came to Ohio in an early day, and settled near 
Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County; he was a 
member of the Society of Friends. Thomas, 
Jr., was born November 31, 1796; his wife was 
born July 18, 1801. Thomas was married 
twice. By his first wife, Amy Nichols, there was 
one child, by name John, born January 27, 
1823; by his second wife, Hannah Strahl, were 
born six children, viz.: Alfred E., November 
19. 1828, deceased; Henry C, November 1, 
1831, killed in the Civil War; Lindley M., Jan- 
uary 3, 1834, a resident of Iowa; Hanson D., 
November 2], 1836, a resident of Morristown, 
Belmont Co., Ohio; Martha J. Pennell, Sep- 
tember 24, 1839, a resident of Monroe County, 
Ohio, and Mary E., wife of our subject. 

William Mahan, after his marriage, pur- 
chased the farm he now owns, which contains 
ninety acres on Section 23 of Nottingham 
Township. This land was first entered by 
Charles Mummey. Mr. and Mrs. Mahan are 
the parents of six children, named Joseph L , 
born June 22, 1873; Ora H. , September 30, 
1875; Albert V., October 27, 1877; Rebecca J., 
August 23, 1879; Luna M., July 5, 1881, and 
William H., March 18, 1884. Mr. Mahan is a 
Republican; held the office of school director in 
Nottingham Township for seven years, and in 
1889 was elected township treasurer. 



JiOHN MILLER, farmer, German Township, 
Harrison County, is a son of Daniel and 
/ Susannah (Lowmiller) Miller. Daniel 
Miller was a son of John, a native of 
Frederick County, Md. , who came in 1806 to 
Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, 
where he purchased land of the Government, 
and at the time of his death, in 1836, he was 
the owner of 215 acres of land. When he 
came to Rumley Township he had to cut the 



road through the woods to get to his premises, 
and had to camp out while he built his cabin. 
He was the father of nine children, viz. : Dan- 
iel, David, John, Jacob, Joseph, Catherine, 
Hannah, Polly and Sarah. 

Daniel Miller was born in Frederick County, 
Md., in 1788, and in 1806 came with his par- 
ents to Ohio, where he shared all the hardships 
his father encountered in clearing land and 
making a home. In 1817 he married Miss 
Susannah Lowmiller, a daughter of John and 
Catherine (Long) Lowmiller. She was born in 
Dauphin County, Penn., in 1796, and her par- 
ents came to Harrison County in 1800; she is 
still living, now aged ninety-five years. Daniel 
Miller, after his marriage, settled in German 
Township. Harrison County, where he bought 
100 acres of land for $1,500, borrowing the 
money of his father and father-in-law; after- 
ward he bought 160 acres in the same township, 
and 160 acres in Rumley Township. He after- 
ward sold his land in Rumley Township and 
bought seventy-three acres in German Town- 
>-li i j>, Harrison County; he then bought 145 
acres where our subject at present lives, and 
twelve acres adjoining where his widow now 
lives. Daniel Miller and his wife were the 
parents of children named as follows: Catherine, 
Elisabeth, Sarah, John, Henry, Susannah, Re- 
becca, Margaret, Abigail and Eliza J. 

John Miller, whose name opens this sketch, 
was born in German Township, Harrison County, 
Ohio, February 22, 1822, in an old log cabin, 
and received an education in one of the log 
school-houses, such as they had in those days. 
He spent his boyhood days in his old home help- 
ing his father, who died in 1854. On May 1, 
1849, he was united in the holy bonds of matri- 
mony with Miss Susannah Mikesell, who was 
born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, 
Ohio, February 15, 1824, a daughter of Peter 
and Mary A. (Long) Mikesell, who came from 
Frederick County, Md., with the early settlers 
in 1800. After his marriage Mr. Miller settled 
on the farm he now owns, where he has erected 
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best of the county. He and wife are the 
parents of children, as follows: 0. B., a pro- 
fessional teacher of music and public school in 
Germano; Rebecca Margaret; H. A., a farmer 
in German Township; Andrew B. , a farmer in 
Rurnley Township; Rev. Daniel D., married 
and living at Parker's Landing, Penn. ; Samuel 
H., a professor in Thiel College, at Greenville, 
Penn.; John O. ; Joseph M., a farmer in Wash- 
ington County, Penn. ; Clement E., Clayton L., 
and Jessie L. , at Thiel College,Pennsylvania. Mr. 
Miller has beld various township offices, and in 
1883 was elected county commissioner, which po- 
sitk n he filled three years. Both parents and 
children are members of the Lutheran Church, 
and, politically, strong adherents to the party 
of Jefferson and Jackson. 



nt BRAHAM WEYANDT. Prior to the 
//\\ Revolution, Christian Weyandt emigrated 
[r)h from Germany, his native land, and 
■fj located in Washington County, Md., 

where he married and resided until death, his 
wife, Amelia (Putman) Weyandt, living to be 
over one hundred years old. Among their chil- 
dren was a son John, who was born in Mary- 
land December 6, 1783, and at the age of thirty 
married Magdaline Warner, who was born in 
1795. She was a native of Maryland, and her 
mother was a cousin of Gen. William Henry 
Harrison. Following their marriage they re- 
moved to Somerset County, Penn., where they 
resided until about 1817, when they started in a 
wagon overland for Ohio, then a wilderness, 
three children having in the meantime been 
born to them. They purchased a tract of land 
in Monroe Township, Harrison County, and 
located thereon, and resided there until their 
death, Mr. Weyandt dying February 25, 1848, 
and his wife February 12, 1868. Their union 
had been blessed by four sons and two daugh- 
ters, and in this family our subject is the 
youngest. 

Abraham Weyandt was born in a log cabin on 
the homestead in Monroe Township. March 23, 



1822, and he grew to maturity schooled in the 
difficulties and privations of the frontier times. 
As to his literary education, he had to walk 
three miles to attend the early subscription 
schools of the period. At an early age he 
learned the trade of a shoemaker, and has fol- 
lowed it since. In 1844 he married Roxana 
Duulap, a native of Carroll County, Ohio, and 
a daughter of William and Annie (Newton) 
Dunlap, early pioneers of that county, her 
father having served as a soldier from Ohio in 
the War of 1812. Mrs. Weyandt died in 1854, 
leaving three children, viz. : Armadilla, now 
Mrs. E. M. Long; Martha A., now Mrs. \Y. B. 
Penn, and Miram J. , married to Mr. Rohan, and 
residing at Georgetown, Ky. In 1850 Mr. 
Weyandt married Margaret Ann Gamble, and 
to them have been born three children: Amelia 
Alice, now Mrs. Oscar Price; Orphelia Olive, 
now Mrs. L. D. Price, and Frank W. Mr. ant 
Mrs. Weyandt reside on the old homestead near 
Bowerston, in Harrison County, and are highly 
respected and esteemed by all. 



diOHN EDWARDS, one of the well-known 
farmers of Athens Township, Harrison 
I County, and a capitalist, was born Sep- 
tember 3, 1835, in Belmont County, Ohio, 
where his father, Henry, was born. The father 
of Henry was Ignatius, who was a native of 
Pennsylvania, where he reared a large family, 
who, in the early part of the present century, 
came to Ohio, where they were among the earli- 
est settlers. Here they struggled, died, and 
were buried. Henry Edwards was married in 
his yonth to Catherine Shatger, a resident of 
Belmont County. His children are John, Ig- 
natius and Henry. John Edwards passed his 
early life at the home of his parents, where, for 
many years, he was employed in the various 
duties incident to farming. A constant and 
studious attendant of the common school during 
the leisure in winter, he succeeded in storing up 
a large amount of knowledge, that has since 



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been of much benefit to him. On November 20, 
1855, he was united in marriage to Eliza Jane, 
daughter of Amos Morgan, a resident of Bel- 
mont County. The Morgan family were among 
the earliest in Belmont County, the founder of 
the family coming from Pennsylvania, where 
they had long been residents. Soon after mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Edwards settled on the place 
where they now reside, and which they have 
done so much to improve and beautify. Their 
farm is about three and a half miles from Cadiz, 
finely situated and excellently well fenced. The 
following named children blessed the union 
of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards: Clarinda (Mrs. Sam- 
uel Chaney), born September 12, 1856; Archu- 
lous \\\. born November 23, I860, died August 
12, 1863; Willis M., born September 13, 1864, 
died November 25, 1886; Maggie M., born De- 
cember 25, 1870, died September 9, 1874. Mr. 
Edwards and family are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church at New Athens, where, for 
years, the family have worshiped. A strong 
Republican in politics, he has ever supported 
that party. While not active as a politician, he 
cheerfully renders what assistance he can for 
the benefit of the Republican cause. 

AVillis M. , youngest son of John Edwards, 
received his primary education in the common 
schools, where he was a constant attendant, and 
early showed that marked taste for learning 
which, in succeeding years, rendered him one 
of the brightest pupils of his college. At an 
early age he entered Franklin College, where he 
remained six years, and in 1886 graduated with 
high honors. He immediately entered the The- 
ological Seminary at Allegheny, where he re- 
mained but a short time, being there seized with 
a fever, of which he died. His remains now 
rest in Dickerson Cemetery. He was a young 
man of excellent prospects, and was much es- 
teemed by all. John Edwards is what may be 
termed a self-made man, one who has made his 
success in life by his own individual efforts. 
Highly esteemed and respected by all, sur- 
rounded by a large circle of friends, he is now 
enjoying the fruits of his early toil. 



S AMUEL WILKIN, one of the self-made 
and prosperous farmers of Harrison 
County, was born May 23, 1818, in Wash- 
ington Township, where he still resides. 
His father, Archibald, was born in Pennsylva- 
nia, in which State Robert, father of Archibald, 
settled in 1770. Soon after his arrival in Penn- 
sylvania Robert married Mary Hyde, who bore 
him the following children: Elizabeth, Nancy, 
Jane, Rebecca. Mary, Samuel, Thomas, Archi- 
bald, William. James and Robert. He came to 
Ohio about 1802, and leased a small farm near 
the city of Cadiz, Harrison County, remaining 
there a few years, and then he proceeded to 
Guernsey County, where he entered land where 
the town of Londonderry now stands. There 
he built a roomy house and opened a tavern, 
which was well known to the travelers of that 
time. He was a Whig, and served his party 
many years as justice of the peace. He was 
also a member of the Brethren Church, and was 
among its organizers. His son Archibald re- 
mained with his family until he was of age, 
when he was married to Hannah Davidson, 
daughter of Samuel Davidson, of Washington 
Township. The family resided in various 
places, but finally settled down in Harrison 
County, where they died. Their children were 
Samuel, Mary Ann, Jane and Angelina. In 
politics Mr. Wilkin was a Republican, and took 
quite an active part in party matters. He was 
also a member of the Brethren Church, in whose 
faith he died in 1870, Mrs. Wilkin having de- 
parted in 1856. Their lives were full of hard 
work and frugality, but they reared a large 
family, giving each such instruction as was 
deemed best for them, and when the final sum- 
mons came gave up their work and sank quietly 
to rest. 

Samuel Wilkin has spent nearly his whole 
life in Washington Township, where, by faithful 
attention to business, by unceasing industry and 
economy, he has succeeded in becoming one of 
the solid farmers of his section. On April 18, 
1843, he was married to Margaret Foraker, of 
Guernsey County, who bore him the following 



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children: Ellis, Mary Ann, Archie, Hannah, 
Samuel and Margaret S. On October 22, 1864, 
Mrs. Wilkin died, and August 6, 1866, Mr. Wil- 
kin was married to Jeanette McCormack, of 
Guernsey County. No children have resulted 
from this union. Mr. Wilkin engages in farm- 
ing and stock-raising, his farm consisting of 
over 400 acres, about two and a half miles from 
Tippecanoe, Washington Township. He is a 
Republican, and one who has largely contributed 
to his party's success. He has been justice of 
the peace for several years, and has given satis- 
faction in the discharge of the duties of that 
office. The Wilkin family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at West Chester, 
in which for many years he has been trustee. 
Mr. Wilkin has been an extraordinarily success- 
ful man in business matters, as he has by his 
own work accumulated his entire property. 



E 



W. LAUGHRIDGE, another of the na- 
tive born progressive agriculturists of 
North Township, Harrison County, first 
saw the light February 2, 1840, on the 
farm he now owns. His grandfather Laugh- 
ridge came with his family to America in 1806, 
settling in what is now North Township, Harri- 
son Co., Ohio, where they carried on farming 
and spent the remainder of their lives. Of their 
children, James, the father of E. W. , was born 
in Ireland, and was an infant of sis months 
when his parents arrived in Harrison County. 
He grew to manhood on the paternal homestead 
in North Township, attending the common 
schools, and while a young man learned the 
trade of carpenter, which he followed many 
years. He was married, December 19, 1886, to 
Miss Anna, daughter of William and Sarah 
Henderson, of Harrison County, who both died 
in Tuscarawas County, the mother in 1850, and 
the father in 1852. Mr. James Laughridge en- 
tered the land which is now our subject's farm, 
and he and his wife lived in the old log house, 
which he had erected some time previously, and 
in which all their children were born and reared. 



They were the parents of four children, viz. : 
Sarah Ann, wife of Elias Stonebrook, of near 
Carrollton, Carroll County; E. W. : Eliza 
Jane, widow of Henry Lntz, living near Car- 
rollton, Carroll County, and James Wesley, in 
Carroll County. The father died in 1866, at 
the age of sixty years, six months and sixteen 
days. He was a farmer by occupation, and 
worked also on corporation jobs. In his polit- 
ical convictions he was a strong Whig, and after- 
ward a Republican. The mother is now living 
with her son, James, in Carroll County, calmly 
awaiting the final summons, being now seventy- 
nine years of age. 

E. W. Laughridge, the subject proper of 
these lines, received his education at the old log 
school-house of the neighborhood, and assisted 
on the home farm. May '-', 1867, he was united 
in marriage with Miss Mary M., daughter of 
Daniel and Elizabeth Fierbaugh, of North 
Township [a sketch of whom appears else- 
where], and their home has ever since been 
made on the old farm place. Of their union 
three children have been born, viz. : Carrie E., 
Anna and Blanche, all at school. Politically 
Mr. Laughridge is a Republican, and has held 
various positions of trust in his township. He 
is a member of the F. & A. M. and the K. of P. 
His farm of 1(50 acres, which is chiefly devoted 
to stock-raising, is situated three miles north- 
west of Scio. 




LEXANDER JOHNSON, one of the well 
and favorably known citizens of Rumley 
Township, Harrison County, was born in 
German Township, same county, August 
IS, 1818. In 1783 his father, Alexander John- 
son, came to America from County Tyrone, Ire- 
land, of which county he was a native. He 
was not much mure than a lad, and when he 
arrived at his landing-place, Wilmington, Del., 
he had but three shillings in his pocket, with 
which to begin his career in the New World. 
He had learned the weaver's trade, however, iu 
which he was proficient, but as the war had 



prostrated all industries, he looked in vain for 
employment at that business; but he was not 
discouraged, and sought employment at farm- 
ing, in which he continued for many years. 
He then removed to Pittsburgh, Penn. , where he 
remained some time, and was there married to 
Mrs. William Work, nee Eleanor Brown. Mrs. 
Johnson was born in Baltimore, Md., where 
she was married and widowed. After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, settling near Jefferson, German Township, 
in 1814. Here he secured one of the earliest 
entered farms, which was only partly improved, 
a small log cabin being the dwelling, but by the 
industry and hard work of Mr. Johuson, was at 
his death one of the excellent farms in which 
German Township abounds. Here he and his 
faithful wife shared life's joys and sorrows till 
1862, when death claimed the wife, who had 
reached the advanced age of seventy-five years. 
By her first marriage she was the mother of 
three children, all of whom are now deceased. 
By her last marriage she was the mother of the 
following children: Andrew, who died of chol- 
era at Sparta, 111. ; John, who was born in 1814 
and died in 1875; Nancy, of German Township; 
Alexander, and Mary, now Mrs. Joseph Hamil- 
ton. Mr. Johnson survived until 1869, when 
he passed away, having attained the remarkable 
age of ninety-seven years. 

During his youth and early manhood Mr. 
Johnson endured many hardships and privations, 
and during his whole life was a hard earnest 
worker. When he attained his majority he had 
planned to come to America, but was attacked 
by sickness which kept him at home until the 
following year. He remained some time in the 
vicinity of Wilmington, Del., but soon proceeded 
to Butler County, Penn., where he marked out 
his farm with his tomahawk. He spent many 
nights in the woods, with fire to keep away the 
various beasts of prey with which the woods were 
filled. He kept the farm for some time, and 
finally sold out and worked out by the month. 
He then invested his earnings in a flat-boat, 
which he loaded with flour and took to New Or- 



leans, where he sold it for fifteen dollars per bar- 
rel. Here he sold his boat, and proceeded to his 
home, making the whole journey on foot to 
Pittsburgh. Soon after his return a party of 
fifteen was organized for a prospecting tour 
through the West. When they reached Ken- 
tucky only eight were left. They passed through 
Nashville, which then contained only two or 
three houses. They soon after built a rude boat, 
and again took a cargo of flour to New Orleans. 
The market here being filled, prices were exceed- 
ingly low, and he decided to ship his cargo to the 
West Indies. He finally sold it at a great sac- 
rifice, and returned to Pittsburgh. Soon after 
his settling in German Township he carried his 
wheat to Steubenville, where he sold it for 
twenty -five cents per bushel, and purchased 
coffee at fifty cents per pound. He and family 
were members of the Seceder Church of Jeffer- 
son, he having been a member before he left 
Ireland. He was a self-made man, and was very 
successful in his business undertakings, and at 
his death had amassed a handsome property. 

Alexander Johnson, our subject, grew to 
manhood on the home place, where he attended 
to the farm duties. His early education was re- 
ceived at the district schools of his neighborhood, 
which, though primitive, still exercised a strong 
and permanent influence on its students. De- 
cember 7, 1852, he chose as his life's partner, 
Margaret, a daughter of Samuel Galbraith, who, 
with his wife, was a native of County Donegal, 
Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith came to Har- 
rison County, Ohio, from Pennsylvania in 1836, 
and here passed away their remaining years. 
Their family consisted of seven children, five of 
whom now survive. Mr. Johnson located at first 
in German Township, near the old homestead, 
where he remained till 18S3, when ho purchased 
his present residence, in Rumley Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. Five children have been 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Johnson, viz. : 
John, Samuel, Alexander (in Columbus, Ohio), 
Ellen Jane, and Isabella Ann (Mrs. Michael Fin- 
ical). Until 1856 Mr. Johnson was an ardent 
Democrat, but then joined the Republican party, 



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to which he has since lent very efficient service 
and support. He has been one of the earnest 
workers in his township, and has ever been 
prominently identified with every enterprise 
tending to the benefit or progress of his county. 
By his own industry, perseverance and ecomony, 
he has succeeded in gaining a prominent place 
in the financial circles of his county, and his 
worth, honesty and integrity have won for him 
the esteem of all. 



FJ H. PENN, merchant, Means, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, is a son of Joseph H. Penn, 
who was a son of Thomas Penn, a native 
of England, and supposed to be a de- 
scendant of William Penn, the founder of Penn- 
sylvania. Thomas Penn came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, in 1830, and settled at Tippeca- 
noe, Washington Township, where he bought 
160 acres of land of the Government. His son, 
Joseph, married Miss Jane Hamilton, and settled 
in Cadiz, Ohio, where he worked on farms in 
the summer and mined coal in the winter, and 
after a few years made enough money to start in 
mercantile business at Cadiz, in which he was 
very successful. In 1850 he came to German 
Township and bought a farm of 160 acres, and 
was known as one of the best and most skillful 
farmers of the township. He died in 1885, 
leaving a family of seven children, namely, 
Florella,wife of Jacob Lewis, of Cadiz; Thomas, 
who has since died; F. H. , the subject of this 
sketch; Hannah M. , wife of O. H. P. Long, of 
Bowerston, Ohio; Joseph R., of Means, Ohio; W. 
B., of Bowerston, Ohio, and Christianna, wife 
of Joshua A. Bell, engineer on the P., C. & St. 
L. B. R. 

F. H. Penn was born at Cadiz, Ohio, Febru- 
ary 12, 1842, and received a practical business 
education at School No. 3, German Township. 
He spent his boyhood days till he was eighteen 
years old on the farm with his parents, when he 
entered a shoe store as an apprentice, and served 
two years. The fall of 1862 he entered the 
Union Army, in Company C, One Hundred and 



Twenty-sixth Regiment, O. V. I., in which he 
served faithfully for three years. After his re- 
turn home he started in business in Bowerston, 
Ohio, where he manufactured boots and shoes, 
at the same time selling ready-made goods. 
December 28, 1869, he married Miss Mary E. 
Cotter, of New Hagerstown, Ohio. In 1871 he 
came to Means and purchased the property he 
now occupies, having enlarged the buildings 
since, his business having continually increased, 
and he is now one of the most influential men 
in the county. He never has had time to bother 
with county offices, although he has always 
stood ready to help in any public enterprise. 
In 1880 he was appointed postmaster, which 
office he held for five years. He has always 
been a stanch Republican, serving his party 
faithfully. Our subject and wife have been 
blessed with three children: Eva M. , Nora D. 
and Burdette H, all residing at home. Mr. and 
Mrs. Penn are faithful and active members of 
the Presbyterian Church. 



^ESLEY A. HOLMES, one of the lead- 
ing farmers of Short Creek Township, 
M[ lfj' Harrison County, was born in Short 
Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
August 19, 1859, a son of Abraham and Phoebe 
(Ekey) Holmes, former also a native of Short 
Creek Township. Joseph Holmes, grandfather 
of Wesley A., was a native of Maryland, and in 
1800 came to Short Creek Township, settling on 
a piece of wild land comprising the present 
farm, and one of the original patents signed by 
Thomas Jefferson is now in possession of our 
subject. Joseph Holmes married Sarah Mc- 
Nabb, and both died in Harrison County, the 
latter departing first, at the age of eighty-five 
years. They were the parents of eleven chil- 
dren, two of whom are now living: Joseph, in 
Hopedale: Martha (pow Mrs. John Webb), in 
New Athens, Harrison County. The father of 
this family died at the age of ninety-eight years 
and eighl months. He was a Democrat; was 
at one time a member of the Ohio Legislature. 



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Abraham Holmes, father of Wesley A., grew 
to manhood on the home farm, and was about 
twenty-one years of age when he left home, to 
make his own way in the world. He was a me- 
chanic as well as a farmer. In 1S36 he was 
married to Miss Rachel Mansfield, daughter of 
Thomas Mansfield, of Jefferson County, Ohio, 
but she died a few years later, leaving two sons, 
Joseph and William, both now deceased. In 1856 
Mr. Holmes married, for his second wife, Miss 
Phoebe A., daughter of Andrew and Ann Ekey, 
old settlers of Jefferson County, Ohio; her 
father is deceased, but her mother is yet living 
in Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, 
after marriage, made their home on the farm in 
Harrison County, where he died in May, 1880, 
at the age of seventy-three years. Politically 
he was a Republican and a strong Abolitionist — 
an earnest advocate of their principles. Since 
the death of her husband, Mrs. Holmes has re- 
mained on the home place, and is now sixty- 
four years of age. She has borne two children, 
viz. : an infant deceased, unnamed, and Wesley 
A. She is a member, as was her husband, of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Wesley A. Holmes was reared on the home 
farm, receiving a common-school education, and 
for a time attending the college at Scio. Hav- 
ing completed a course he returned to the farm 
at the time of his father's death, since which 
event he has carried on the home place himself. 
In 1884 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Minnie, daughter of John and Mary Conwell, 
of Cadiz, Harrison Couuty, and soon after pur- 
chased the place where they now reside, located 
on the Cadiz and Harrisonville Pike, some four 
miles from Cadiz and immediately adjoining the 
home place. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes have one 
child named Alice, now aged four years. Po- 
litically, Mr. Holmes is a Republican. He is 
one of the progressive farmers of Short Creek 
Township, and, although but comparatively a 
young man, is widely and favorably known. 
His farm embraces some 210 acres of excellent 
land, and in addition to plain farming he is 
engaged to some extent in stock-raising. 



Mrs. Abraham Holmes is a native of Jefferson 
County, whither her parents had come from 
Washington County, Penn., in 1801. Her father, 
Andrew Ekey, was born in the Keystone State, 
of Irish extraction. He was married to Ann 
Howden, also of Irish extraction, and by her 
had the following named nine children: Andrew 
and Margaret (deceased), Mary Ann (wife of 
Benjamin Barkhurst of St. Clairsville, Ohio; 
Phcebe Ann (Mrs. Holmes); David (deceased); 
Edward (in Jefferson County, Ohio); John H. 
(on the home place), James (in Jefferson County), 
and Wesley (deceased). In 1873 the father 
passed from earth at the age of eighty-two 
years; the mother continued to reside at the old 
home place until death called her to her rest 
February 5, 1890, when at the age of nearly 
ninety-one years, she having been born May 1, 
1799. They were both members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. Phoebe A. Ekey was 
married in 1856 to Abraham Holmes, and they 
then made their home in Harrison Couuty, as 
already narrated. In May, 1880, Mr. Holmes 
died at the age of seventy-three years. He had 
held, in his lifetime, various offices of trust in 
his township. He was a member, as is his 
widow, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Mrs. Holmes now resides at the home place, 
attending to her household duties, and she is a 
woman remarkably well preserved. 



JOHN H. MARTIN. At two periods at 
least in their existence do the pioneers of 
every country stand prominent and distinct 
from other men: First, when, as a sturdy, 
zealous band, they push far out beyond the 
limits of civilization and make a home in the 
primeval forest or on the trackless prairie, en- 
during the encompassing dangers from wild 
beasts and the still wilder savages, that they 
may enjoy a grander liberty and bequeath to 
their children the many comforts of life denied 
to themselves; and long years afterward, when 
that little band has been decimated and thrice 
decimated by the sickle of the "Grim Reaper," 



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who has out them down, one by one, as they 
had felled the giants of the forest, they stand 
mere relics of the past. In the first, strong, 
vigorous men, they deserve praise for their no- 
bility of purpose and intrepidity; in the second, 
weakened, withering handfuls of animated dust; 
bowed beneath the weight of years, their tasks 
accomplished, they look back from the sunset 
liills of life on a record replete with useful deeds, 
and well do they merit homage. 

Such a man is John H. Martin, the subject 
of this sketch, who remains one of but four left 
of the early pioneers of his township. He was 
born in Lancaster County, Penn., whither his 
father, Arthur Martin, had come from his native 
country, Ireland, at some previous date. When 
John H. was but two years of age, Arthur Mar- 
tin came with his family to Ohio, settling in the 
woods of Harrison County, on a piece of land 
which he had entered. In Pennsylvania he had 
married Miss Margaret Urey, also a native of 
that State. Her parents came from Germany 
to Pennsylvania, and her paternal grandfather, 
George Urey, was a Revolutionary soldier. It 
was some three miles west of Cadiz where the 
Martins made their home, and here, in 1826, the 
husband and father departed this life, aged fifty- 
five years. His faithful widow survived him 
till 1856, when, at the advanced age of eighty- 
three years, she followed to the grave. She 
was the mother of five children, who were named 
as follows: Ann (now deceased), Mary (wife of 
Washington Ourant, in Cadiz Township), Ed- 
ward (deceased), John and George (in Cadiz 
Township). John Martin remained at home 
until twenty-five years of age, receiving such 
meager educational advantages as were to be 
had at the primitive log school-house, having 
some three miles to walk through the woods. 
In 1840 he married Harriet, daughter of Samuel 
and Isabella (Moore) Hitchcock, born in Har- 
rison County, Ohio, November 6, 1819. Her par- 
ents had also been early comers to the county, 
setting foot within its borders in 1808, and 
entering a piece of wild land on which they 
remained the balance of their lives. The mother 



died February 24, 1851, aged sixty-three years, 
and the father February 7, 1879, aged ninety- 
one years. They were the parents of ten chil- 
dren, all of whom have joined the silent major- 
ity, save the following named two: John Hitch- 
cock, in Franklin Township, and Mrs. Martin. 
After their marriage, for some six years, Mr. 
and Mrs. Martin lived in Nottingham Township, 
Harrison County, and in 1846 they came to 
their present home in Cadiz Township. To 
them ten children have been born, viz. : Albert 
(in Jay County, Ind. ), Margaret and Samuel 
(at home), Edward and John (in Cadiz Town- 
ship), George (at home), Belle (Mrs. John F. 
Mehollin. in Cadiz Township), Jane (Mrs. John 
Jamison, of Cadiz), James (in Athens Township), 
and Mary (Mrs. Joseph D. Clark, in Colorado). 
Politically Mr. Martin is a Republican, having 
but once in his life cast any other ballot. He 
has never been an office seeker, and has never 
held office. He and his wife have been mem- 
bers of the Cadiz Presbyterian Church forty 
years. In the War of the Rebellion Mr. Martin 
was represented by his eldest son, who served 
his country two years, or until broken down by 
sickness, when he was honorably discharged. 
Mr. and Mrs. Martin, hale and hearty, and well 
preserved for their time of life, remain on the 
old home farm surrounded by their children, 
and patiently awaiting the summons to their 
long home. [Since the above sketch was pre- 
pared for publication, John H. Martin has de- 
parted this life.] 



JOHN A. PITTIS, farmer and dealer in 
produce, Nottingham Township, Harrison 
County, is a son of George Pittis, who died 
August 4, 18U0, and Sarah (Arnold) Pit- 
tis. He was born August 15, 1845, on the farm 
where he now resides, where he grew to man- 
hood, and received a practical business educa- 
tion at the common schools. On May 2, 1864, 
he entered the Union Army, in Company D, One 
Hundred and Seventieth O. V. I., and was hon- 
orably discharged September 10, 1864. His 



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regiment was detailed to do picket duty at 
Washington, D. C, till July 4, 1864, when it 
was placed in the front ranks, and engaged in 
several battles and skirmishes. On January 7, 
1869, John A. Pittis married Miss Annie E. 
Moore, who was born February 23, 1851, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. , a daughter of Andrew and 
Sarah (McCormick) Moore, and by this union 
there have been five children, viz. : Clarence C. , 
born March 18, 1871, died December 6, 1871; 
George A., born October 6, 1872, resides at 
home; Mary L., born July 17, 1875, at home; 
Lamphier S., born August 30, 1880; and Cath- 
erine L. , born March 8, 18S5. The farm of 
Mr. Pittis contains 167 acres, and for several 
years he has been engaged quite extensively in 
the buying and shipping of produce. Politic- 
ally, he is a Republican, and has held several 
offices of trust in Nottingham Township; he is 
a very active member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church. 



It T/ENRY MILLER, breeder of Clydes- 
fp^l dale horses, etc., German Township > 

1[ Harrison County, is a son of Daniel and 
■f/ Susannah (Lowmiller) Miller, and was 

born August 27, 1824, on the farm where he 
now lives. Daniel Miller was a son of John, a 
native of Frederick County, Md., who came in 
1806 to Rumley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where he purchased land of the Government, 
and at the time of his death, in 1836, he Was 
owner of 215 acres of land. When he came to 
Rumley Township he had to cut the road 
through the woods to get to his premises, and 
had to camp out while he built his cabin. He 
was the father of nine children, viz. : Daniel, 
David, John, Jacob, Joseph, Catherine, Hannah, 
Polly and Sarah. 

Daniel Miller was born in Frederick County, 
Md., in 1788, and in 1806 came with his parents 
to Ohio, where he shared all the hardships his 
father enconntered in clearing land and making 
a home. In 1817 he married Miss Susannah 
Lowmiller, a daughter of John and Catherine 



(Long) Lowmiller. She was born in Dauphin 
County, Penn., in 1796, and her parents came 
to Harrison County in 1800; she is still living, 
now aged ninety-five years. Daniel Miller, 
after his marriage, settled in German Township, 
Harrison County, where he bought 100 acres of 
land for $1,500, borrowing the money of his 
father and father-in-law; afterward he bought 
160 acres in the same township, and 160 acres 
in Rumley Township. He afterward sold his 
land in Rumley Township, and bought 73 acres 
in German Township, Harrison County; then 
bought 145 acres where John Miller at present 
lives, and twelve acres adjoining, where his 
widow now lives. Daniel Miller and his wife 
were the parents of children named as follows: 
Catherine, Elizabeth, Sarah, John, Henry, 
Susannah, Rebecca, Margaret, Abigail and 
Eliza J. The father died in 1854. 

Henry Miller received a common-school edu- 
cation in German Township, and has always 
lived on the farm where he was born. On May 
20, 1856, he married Miss E. W. Gault, who 
was born February 28, 1831, a daughter of 
John and Nancy (McKinsey) Gault, who came 
to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1839. Mr. Miller 
is a great lover of fine horses, always endeavor- 
ing to get the best that can be found, and has 
made several trips to Canada, to Kentucky, and 
through the western States, in search of fine 
blooded stock; he pays special attention to 
Clydesdales, although he breeds some trotting 
stock, of the Mambrino, Patchin and Log 
blood, and he has thirty of these noble animals 
on his farm at the present time. He is also a 
considerable breeder of fine sheep, of which he 
has a flock of 175. His farm contains 338 
acres of fine farming land, and he is the owner 
also of eighty acres of timber land in Michigan. 
Politically Mr. Miller is a Democrat, in which 
party he has always served faithfully. His fa- 
ther and grandfather were Democrats, also his 
brother, John Miller, and five of his sisters 
married Democrats. He has had several offices 
of trust tendered him by his party, but has al- 
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after bis farm and business. Mr. Miller bas 
had several serious accidents in bis life, chiefly 
caused by bis horses, and once he was shot 
through the hip accidentally by his brother 
John; but he recovered from tbem all, and now 
at the age of sixty-six years he is hale and 
hearty, attending to his affairs just as in his 
younger days. In September, 1862, during the 
War of the Rebellion, Mr. Miller was drafted 
into the army. 



I OHN W. SCOTT FAMILY. The first of 
w I the Scott family of whom we have any 
\Jj knowledge was the grandfather (Timothy 
Scott) of the deceased John W. Scott, 
formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, an Englishman wbo 
spent his entire life in his native land. At the 
age of eighty- five years be desired to come to 
America to purchase a plantation, but on ac- 
count of bis advanced years changed his plans 
and remained at his old home, where, when a 
man of ninety-five, still hale and hearty, he 
accidentally drove off a bridge and was killed. 
James Scott, who was by occupation a clock and 
watch maker, was born at Sowerby Bridge, in 
Yorkshire, England. He married Miss Howartb, 
in England, where she died, leaving three chil- 
dren, viz.: John W., William and Eliza. The 
bereaved husband, with tbe children, came to 
America in 1816, first going to York (now 
Toronto), Canada, then to New York (United 
States), and after walking all the distance, 
carrying his youngest child, he settled in Cadiz, 
Ohio, in LSI'.), being the first watch and clock 
maker to come to Harrison County. James 
married, for his second wife, Harriet Arnold, 
and to this union there were born four children, 
viz.: Dr. Daniel (deceased); James, in Akron, 
Ohio; Thomas, in Texas, and Mary (Mrs. Mc- 
Masters), in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Upon the 
death of the father the care of the family fell 
on John W. At one time, while attending to 
bis duty as deputy sheriff, he was attacked by a 
madman, then temporarily confined in the jail, 
and only by tbe use of the large keys he held 



in his hand did he escape deatb. He took up 
the occupation of his father, and started a re- 
pair shop on the ground which is now occupied 
by the county buildings, it being almost in front 
of the sheriff's residence to-day. The shop was 
once robbed by the notorious and daring thief. 
Dan Winchell, who was afterward sent to the 
penitentiary. He was so much feared by the early 
settlers that many persons paid him $2. 50 each 
per annum to insure their property from his 
depredations. A few years later John W. was 
appointed postmaster. 

In 1839 John W. Scott married Miss Jane 
Pittis, daughter of Robert Pittis, of Harrison 
County. The Pittis family came to Harrison 
County from the Isle of Wight, among the 
pioneers, and settled in tbe vicinity of Deersville, 
Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Scott shared life's joys and 
sorrows until death claimed him, October 8, 1886. 
The following from a local paper, printed at the 
time of his funeral, shows the esteem in which 
he was held: 

It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of this ex- 
emplary citizen and noble man. It came not after pain 
and physical suffering — not after slow, wasting disease; 
of weary days and sleepless nights — but suddenly, 
without one premonitory symptom, at the close of one 
of the loveliest autumn days, his spirit winged its 
flight, and his eyes opened to all the beauties of the 

Cell iStial Land, Where there are no withered leaves to 
lis! ily of the dying year, and no hoar frosts to indicate 
tin- chilling cold of winter. Last Friday, the 8th, Dr. 
Scott was ill his usual health, and in good spirits. 
After supper, at about half past rive o'clock, lie passed 
out to the rearporeh of his residence, and while stand- 
ing there, perhaps watching the evening shadows gath- 
er o'er the landscape at the mirth, the summons came, 
and he fell— the Reaper had come — and life no longer 
animated his body. Dr. Bcott was seventy live years 
of age. Sunday, the day of his funeral, being the anni- 
versary of his birth. Dr. Scott was mi'' of those calm, 
Self-possessed men, always thoughtful, and whose 
judgment always commanded respect. He wns a thor- 
oughly honest man, ami was congenial and compan- 
ionable. As a citizen he was tbe soul of truth and 
honor. As a business man his word was as good as a 
written bond. Possessing the kindest of hearts, social 
in disposition, he attracted friends, and always retained 
them. He was a devoted adherent to the Disciples 
Church, and lirinly persuaded of the truth of its doc- 
trines, but he was no bigot, and that church having no 
place of WOT8hip here, be joined heartily in the wor- 
ship of other churches of the town, but more particu- 
larly with the Methodists. A good man is gone, and 
not only I he immediate friends, but the whole com- 
munity, have sustained a great loss. 

His remains now rest in the Cadiz Cemetery, 

within the finest vault in Harrison County, ' 



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erected by his family to his memory. Mr. Scott 
having gained a knowledge of dentistry, prac- 
ticed for a number of years, and thus it was he 
received the title of "Dr.," as by such he was 
known by many. To Mr. and Mrs. John W. Scott 
were born the following children: Mary, who 
died at the age of twelve years; James and Albert, 
who died when quite young; Julia, wife of Dr. 
George W. Woodbourne, of Uhrichsville, Ohio; 
Cyrus M. , in Arkansas City, Kas. , who for four 
years held the position of Government scout in 
various Indian troubles, and is now engaged in 
stock dealing; Robert P., in Baltimore, inventor 
and manufacturer, having invented a great num- 
ber of valuable implements; Lanphear H., in 
Newark, N. J., an attorney and manufacturer; 
Charles S., on the old homestead, engaged in 
the jewelry business with his brother, Thomas 
A. The mother, with the two sons last men- 
tioned, remains at the old homestead. Of 
the sons, Cyrus M. married Miss Maggie 
Gardner, and two children were born; Thomas 
married Miss Susie Pittis, daughter of George 
Pittis, of Scio, Ohio. In mechanical ability and 
tendencies the mantle of the father seems to 
have fallen upon the sons, each possessing in- 
ventive genius to a marked degree, and almost 
every evening Charles S. (or "Nip," as he is 
often called) can be found in his private work- 
shop, industriously at work upon some mechan- 
ical device. In the summer of 1885 Charles S. 
and Robert took an extended tour through 
Europe on bicycles for pleasure and recreation. 
All in all, the Scott family in Harrison County, 
from its pioneer days, has ranked among its best 
known people. 



rii B. DUNLAP, who is among the valued 
// \\ and trusted residents of Freeport, Hai" 
f/l\ rison County, and occupies an enviable 
■f/ position, was born December G, 1846, in 

Athens Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. His 
youth was spent in the duties of farm life, and 
he followed agricultural pursuits until 1S82. 
On October 21, 1873, he was married to Sarah, 



daughter of Asa Miller, and, settling on a farm 
immediately after marriage, he remained in 
Athens Township three and one-half years; then 
removed to Washington Township, where he 
remained about three years, when he came to 
Freeport Township, and finally settled in the 
village of Freeport, where he has since made 
his home. Since his residence here he has en- 
gaged in various enterprises, among which may 
be mentioned brick and tile manufacturing and 
operating a planing-mill, now owned by S. C. 
Kelly. Since selling his mill business, he has 
engaged in contracting for and constructing 
buildings in Freeport and vicinity. During the 
winter of 1890 he purchased the general store 
carried on by V. M. Reaves, which he still con- 
ducts, in partnership with W. M. Grey. He is 
a Democrat in politics, but has been honored by 
an election as land appraiser in a Republican 
township. His children are named .Emma, 
Charles C. and Lucille, and he and his family 
are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Dunlap has a large circle of friends and ac- 
quaintances throughout the country, and is pop- 
ular with all. His fortune has been entirely of 
his own making, and he can congratulate him- 
self on the reputation he has attained. 



»fpV OBERT WOOD, the well-known cabinet- 
IW( maker, furniture dealer and undertaker, 
V has been one of the leading citizens of 
■fj Cadiz for the past three decades. He 

was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., in 1824, a 
son of John and Sarah (Thompson) Wood, both 
natives of Lancashire, England. John Wood 
came to the shores of America about the year 
1821, bringing his wife and those of his chil- 
dren who were born in the mother country, and 
settled in New York, where he became a manu- 
facturer of woolen goods, and later a commer- 
cial traveler; he died in Stamford, Vt., where 
his wife had preceded him to the grave. They 
were parents of four children, of whom one died 
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another in Maine, and the fourth, Robert (the 
subject, of this sketch), resides in Ohio. 

Robert Wood moved from New York to 
Wheeling, W. Va. , in 1839, and thence, in 
1842, to Toronto, Upper Canada (now Ontario), 
where he learned cabinet-making, spending 
three years in that country. From there he 
went, in 1845, to England, where he finished 
learning his trade, and at the end of a year he 
proceeded to Australia, but remained there only 
eleven weeks, returning to England by way of 
Africa, working a passage. After some time he 
recrossed the Atlantic to the land of his birth. 
Thus for eight years did Mr. Wood gratify his 
natural desire for travel and adventure, meeting 
with many interesting incidents, and encounter- 
ing no few hardships. On his return to the 
United States, he located at Westport, Conn. , 
one year, then in Bridgeport, same State, two 
years, and after various other changes, he final- 
ly settled, in 1861, in Cadiz, Ohio, where he has 
since made his home, and in 1865 embarked in 
his present prosperous business. 

In England, in 1S46 (some two years before 
his return home), Mr. Wood was married to 
Miss Ann Owens, who bore him two children: 
Frederick, who died in infancy in England, and 
William T. , a grocer, in Cadiz, born in Eng- 
land. The family are members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church ; Mr. Wood is a member 
of the F. & A. M. , and in politics is a Repub- 
lican. His present home is the oldest house in 
the town, and has been kept in repair and great- 
ly improved by his own labor. 



JAMES WILLIAM COFFLAND, of New 
Athens, Harrison County, was born in 
Belmont, Ohio, April 17, 1829, and is a 
son of Launcelot C, who was born in Old 
Virginia. James Coffland, the grandfather of 
our subject, and who was of English descent, 
moved from Loudoun County, Va., to Washing- 
ton County, Penn., and thence came to Ohio; 
he was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was 



discharged on account of injuries received while 
in action. Both grandparents died in Belmont 
County, Ohio. Launcelot Coffland, who was 
but a small boy when he was brought to Ohio 
by his parents, grew to manhood in Belmont 
County, and was married in Jefferson County 
to Eliza Becket, daughter of William and Eliza- 
beth Becket. Mr. and Mrs. Coffland were the 
parents of children, as follows: James W., our 
subject; Elisabeth E., Mrs. James Webster, 
living near Monmouth, 111.; John M. , in Mon- 
tana; Sarah Jane, deceased; Mary Katharine, 
at Martin's Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio; Sam- 
uel M., in Bridgeport, Ohio; Selanine, deceased; 
George W., in Iowa; Erasmus B., deceased, 
and Martin, near Aledo, 111. The father died 
near Monmouth, 111., in 186'.), aged sixty-eight 
years, and the mother in Belmont County, Ohio, 
April 19, 1868, at the age of sixty-six years. 

James W. Coffland resided on the home 
farm until March 26, 1850, when he married 
Ann Varner, daughter of John and Arena Var- 
ner. This lady lived some thirteen years after 
marriage, and in 1863, at the age of thirty-two 
years, she passed to the grave, leaving six chil- 
dren, viz. : Eliza Ellen, Mrs. James Lucas, of 
Belmont County, Ohio; Susan I. ; Charles Wesley, 
in Iowa; Fraucis A., in New Athens, Ohio; 
Emma, Mrs. John Coffland, of Belmont County, 
Ohio, and John H. , who died when aged four 
months. In February, 1866, Mr. Coffland chose, 
for his second wife, Laurinda Latham, daughter 
of John Latham and a native of Belmont 
County, Ohio, to which union have been born 
six children, viz.: John O., Laura O., Fred 
Latham, Jenkinson W., Lure Blanche (deceased) 
and Lollie C. The Latham family came to Ohio 
from Virginia. The mother of Mrs. Coffland is 
deceased, but her father is still living in Bel- 
mont County, Ohio. 

In February, 1865, Mr. Coffland enlisted in 
Company K, One Hundred and Eighty-sixth O. 
V. I., and served about seven months. In the 
fall of the same year he opened a general store 
at New Castle, Ohio, and two years later moved 
to Hunter, where he remained seven years; in 



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1875 he came to Burr's Mills, and in 1884 to 
New Athens, where, in partnership with his son, 
he carried on a mercantile business until Sep- 
tember, 1888, when, selling out, he embarked in 
cigar manufacturing, which he is still carrying 
on, near his residence. His house is nicely sit- 
uated on the main thoroughfare, and is one of 
the finest in the place; he erected it in 1887, 
and his shop he built in 1888. Politically Mr. 
Coffland is a Republican, and while in Belmont 
County he was treasurer of Goshen Township 
five years; for four years he has been mayor of 
New Athens, and was assessor of the precinct 
one year. He is a Freemason, but has not affil- 
iated since his residence in Harrison County; 
with his wife and two of his children he is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Francis A. Coffland, son of James W. Coff- 
land, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, April 
16, 1856. His early life was passed near Burr's 
Mills, Ohio, where he was educated, and in 1S82 
he came to New Athens, where, from June of 
that year until September, 1884, he was en- 
gaged in clerking in the general store of S. M. 
Bentley, in the same room where his own bus- 
iness is now being conducted. In September, 
1884, his father came, and together they pur- 
chased Mr. Bentley' s stock, and together went 
into a partnership, which lasted till 1888, since 
when Mr. Coffland has been alone. His stock 
in trade consists of groceries, dry goods, no- 
tions, shoes, fancy articles, etc., and he carries 
a complete assortment. On October 1, 1889, 
he took charge of the post office, having been 
appointed in September under Harrison, and 
this office he conducts in connection with his 
other business. On February 13, 1884, at 
Bridgeport, Ohio, Mr. Coffland was united in 
marriage with Mollie F. Bangle, daughter of 
Henry and Eliza (Powell) Pangle, and a native 
of Burr's Mill, Ohio. This union has been 
blessed with two children: Carl Bentley, born 
May 30, 1885, and Dora Dean, born December 
15, 1886. Mr. Coffland is a member of Cadiz 
Lodge, F. & A. M., and politically he is a Re- 
publican. He is one of the popular young men 



of New Athens, and is widely and favorably 
known throughout the township. 



f [OHN L. BAKER. Among the earliest set- 
l. I tiers of Harrison County were the well- 
\^JJ known Baker family. The father of the 
father of the family of that name now in 
Harrison County was a native of Pennsylvania, 
and in early life was married to Margaret Bu- 
chanan. They lived on their home place until 
their eldest son, John, was born; then, thinking 
to improve their financial condition, they re- 
moved to Ohio, in 1802, settling in Green Town- 
ship, Harrison County, where they entered 160 
acres of choice land. At this time the country 
was all wild woodland, and they had to cut a 
road through the forest, part of the way to their 
new home. Deer and bears as well as many 
other kinds of wild game were plentiful, and 
Indians were still in the neighborhood. At one 
time a party of them, while passing Mr. Baker's 
place on their way to the Ohio River,, called in 
and had dinner under his hospitable roof. The 
nearest mill was six miles distant, and that was 
but a primitive horse-mill. All domestic neces- 
saries had to be brought from a distance, and 
for some time Mr. Baker carried his salt from 
the Ohio River on horseback. Here, with a log 
cabin for their dwelling, they toiled, and after a 
life spent in good deeds, passed from earth to 
their reward. Mr. Baker and his wife were 
prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and were among its most ardent sup- 
porters. Church was held at John Baker's 
home for several years before they had any 
church built, and he was the first leader and the 
first steward, which offices he held until his 
death. Then Rezin Baker (his son) was ap- 
pointed steward in his stead, which office he held 
till his death, and one hour before he died he 
settled up the financial business of the fiscal 
year. In politics he was a Republican, and 
always found in the front ranks of his party's 
advisers. He died in 1849, and was buried in 
Bethel Cemetery; his wife died in 1829, and was 



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also buried in Bethel Cemetery. Their family 
consisted of seven children, named as follows: 
Delilah (who died in infancy), John, George, 
Betsy, Kezin, Samuel, and William (who died 
when an infant). 

Rezin Baker, one of the above-named chil- 
dren, was born November 10, 1810, and on the 
paternal farm he remained until he was of age. 
His early youth was spent in the ordinary way, 
and he early began to develop those faculties 
which secured for him the respect and esteem of 
all. He was married February 13, 1835, to 
Sarah, daughter of Thomas Thompson, a resi- 
dent of Cadiz Township, Harrison County, and 
they then settled on the home place, where he 
remained caring for his parents until, having 
reached the fullness of their life, they passed 
away. He then succeeded to the estate, which 
he continued to improve until before his death 
it had reached an excellent condition. The fol- 
lowing children blessed the union of Rezin and 
Sarah Baker, viz.: John L., born November 
20, 1836; Thomas J., born January 9, 1838; 
"Weston, born November 17, 1841; one that died 
when aged twenty- two months, and Elijah W., 
born January 4, 1847. In politics a Republican, 
he never allowed party feeling to control his 
judgment. On May 26, 1876, he passed from 
earth, and was laid to rest in the church yard at 
Bethel. His widow still survives, and although 
now at the advanced age of eighty-three years 
still attends to her house duties. 



DANIEL WEYANDT is one of the oldest 
1 and best known citizens of Monroe Town- 
_^ ' ship, Harrison County, his native place, 
where he was born in a log cabin — the 
mansion of the pioneers — September 21, 1819, 
and is a son of John and Magdaline (Warner) 
Weyandt. His parents being early settlers, 
his boyhood days were spent amidst such 
scenes as fall to the lot of tho pioneer boys, 
and during the privations necessary to over- 
come those obstacles which stood in the way 
of progress and civilization, making him self- 



reliant and strong, both physically and mental- 
ly. The primitive log school-house, chinked 
and daubed with clay, with its rude desks and 
benches, furnished but meager facilities for an 
education; it was, nevertheless, an excellent 
moral training school, and many a man unites 
with our subject in looking back with pleasure 
to the time when, barefooted and clothed in 
their rough home-made clothing, they walked 
miles to attend one of these schools. Thus 
Daniel Weyandt grew to manhood. He learned 
of his father the shoemaker's trade, and this 
has held his attention since. On May 2, 1844, 
he married Catherine Gumly, who was born in 
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, November 8, 1818, 
and following their marriage they located on 
the present farm in Harrison County and began 
farming, Mr. Weyandt also working at his trade. 
On May 13, 1864. Mr. Weyandt enlisted as 
a member of Company B, One Hundred and 
Seventieth, O. N. G., serving with his regiment 
in its campaigns and marches, and at the ex- 
piration of his term of enlistment was honora- 
bly discharged. He served as musician, and 
was a lifer in the regimental band. He is now 
a member of R. M. Lyon Post, G. A. R. , at 
Bowerston. Eight children have been born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Weyandt, six of whom still sur- 
vive, viz. : Mary M., Mrs. John Kothe, of Denni- 
son, Ohio; William, dealer in boots and shoes, 
Bowerston, Ohio; Adaline; Charlotte, Mrs. T. 
A. Newell, of Bowerston; Daniel D., a travel- 
ing salesman, and Catherine L., Mrs. Peter 
Thompson, of Dennison, Ohio. Mr. Weyandt 
is a Republican, and cast his first vote for Will 
iam Henry Harrison in the famous " log cabin 
campaign of 1840." Locally he has served as 
township assessor and treasurer. 



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DWIN McMASTERS STANTON. The 
city of Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
lias the distinguished honor of claiming 
this eminent jurist and statesman as one 
of her native-born sons: and so intimately was 
he at one time associated, both professionally 



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and socially, with Harrisou County, that the 
memory of him, whose name during the darkest 
days of the great Rebellion, was as " familiar 
as household words,'' appropriately finds place 
in this Commemorative Record. 

Mr. Stanton was born December 19, 1814, 
and died at Washington, D. C. , December 24, 
1869. His father, who was a physician, died 
while Edwin was a child. After serving three 
years as clerk in a book store, our subject en- 
tered Kenyon College in 1831, but left in 1833 
to study law. In 1S36 he was admitted to the 
bar and, the same year, he commenced the prac- 
tice of his profession in Cadiz, Ohio, forming a 
co-partnership with Hon. Chauncey Dewey, un- 
der the firm name of Dewey & Stanton, which 
continued until 1842, when the firm was dis- 
solved. In 1837 he was elected prosecuting at- 
torney. During his stay in Cadiz Mr. Stanton 
lived (as did also his mother and two sisters), at 
the Dewey homestead, where he was married. 
From 1842 to 1845 he was Ohio Supreme Court 
reporter, preparing Vols. XI, XII and XIII Ohio 
Reports, his residence being at Steubenville. 

In 1848 he removed to Pittsburgh, Penn., 
and, in 1857, on account of his large business, 
in the United States Supreme Court, he estab- 
lished himself in Washington. During 1857- 
58 he was in California, attending to important 
land cases for the Government. On December 
20, 1860, he was appointed successor to Jere- 
miah S. Black, as attorney-general. Politically 
Mr. Stanton was originally a Democrat of the 
Jackson school, and, until Van Buren's defeat, 
in the Baltimore convention of 1844, took an act- 
ive part in the political affairs of his locality. 
He was au anti-slavery man. but his hostility to 
that institution was qualified by his view of the 
obligations imposed by the Federal Constitu- 
tion. He had held no public offices prior to en- 
tering President Buchanan's cabinet, except 
those above enumerated — prosecuting attorney 
for one year in Harrison County, and reporter 
of the Ohio Supreme Court for three years — be- 
ing wholly devoted to his profession. 

President Lincoln called Mr. Stanton to the 



head of the War Department on the retirement 
of Simon Cameron, January 15, 1862, which 
event marked the beginning of a vigorous mili- 
tary policy. A few days before the President's 
death Secretary Stanton tendered his resigna- 
tion, because his task was completed, but was 
persuaded by Mr. Lincoln to remain. After 
the assassination of Lincoln a serious contro- 
versy arose between the new President, Andrew 
Johnson, and the Republican party, and Mr. 
Stanton took sides against the former on the 
subject of reconstruction. On August 5, 1867, 
the President demanded his (Mr. Stanton's) 
resignation, but he refused to give up his office 
before the next meeting of Congress. On Au- 
gust 12 he was suspended by the President, but, 
on January 13, 1868, he was restored by the 
action of the Senate, and he resumed his office. 
On February 21, 1868, the President informed 
the Senate that he had removed Secretary Stan- 
ton, and designated a secretary ad interim. 
Mr. Stanton refused to surrender the office 
pending the action of the Senate on the Presi- 
dent's message; the Senate, the same day, re- 
solved that the President had not the power to 
remove the Secretary, and Mr. Stanton, thus 
sustained by the Senate, refused to surrender 
the office. The impeachment of the President 
followed, and, on May 26, the vote of the Sen- 
ate being, "guilty," 35; "not guilty,'' 19, he 
was acquitted — two-thirds not having voted for 
his conviction. 

After Mr. Stanton's retirement from office 
he resumed practice of law, and. December 20, 
1869, he was appointed by President Grant a 
justice of the Supreme Court, which was, forth- 
with, confirmed by the Senate. Four days later 
he expired. 

The value of Mr. Stanton's services to the 
country during the Civil War can not be over- 
estimated. His energy, inflexible integrity, 
systematized industry, his comprehensive view 
of the situation in its military, political and inter- 
national aspects, and many other qualities, made 
him at once the stay of the President and the 
hope of the Nation. 



HARRISOX COUNTY. 



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EV. J. M. JAMIESON, D. D., was bom 
July 30, 1831, in Westmoreland County. 
V Penn., and is a son of John Jamieson, 
who was born August 12, 1807, in New- 
ville, in the same State. The grandfather of 
our subject was John Jamieson, who was born 
near Glasgow, Scotland, of which country his 
father, the Rev. John Jamieson, great-grand- 
father of our subject, was also a native, having 
been born in 1747, and was educated at St. 
Andrews University, from which he was gradu- 
ated with high honors. Soon after his gradua- 
tion he entered upon the study of theology with 
the Rev. John Brown, at Haddington, and was 
later licensed and ordained by the presbytery. 
In early life he was married to Sarah Gibbs, 
and was soon on the way to America, arriving 
here in the autumn of 1783. After his arrival 
he was settled as pastor of the Big Spring Con- 
gregation at Newville, Penn. His family con- 
sisted of five children — four daughters and one 
son. On October 11, 17U3, he was installed as 
pastor of Hannahstown, and its connections in 
the present counties of Westmoreland and In- 
diana, Peun. He subsequently was appointed, 
by his presbytery, instructor in theology, and 
received, as students, Alexander Porter, Alex- 
ander McCoy and David Prowfitt. In 1800 he 
published an account of the disputes of the 
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod and 
himself, relative to their doctrines. He re- 
mained in active ministry until his death, which 
occurred July 1, 18*21, of paralysis, and his re- 
mains were laid to rest at Crete, Indiana Co. , 
Penn. His wife survived him until her ninety 
first year, when she too passed away, and was 
buried at Ebeuezer, Penn. 

His son, John, received his education at 
Newburg, Penn.. mostly under the instruction 
of his father. Early in life he engaged in 
teaching, which vocation he followed nearly all 
the time until his death. Soon after attaining 
his majority he was united in marriage to 
Martha Mitchell, and they settled in Newburg, 
where they remained a short time. Their fam- 
ily were John, Jesse Mitchell and Jane. Soon 



after the birth of her youngest child, Mrs. 
Jamieson died, leaving the children to the care 
of the father; she was buried at Newburg. In 
politics Mr. Jamieson was a Whig, and an 
earnest and conscientious supporter of that 
party. In religious matters, like his ancestors, 
he was a member of the Associate Reformed 
Presbyterian Church, in whose welfare and suc- 
cess he took a deep and unceasing interest. His 
death occurred in 1852, and his remains were 
buried at Ebeuezer, Indiana Co., Penn. 

At the death of his mother, John, the father 
of our subject, entered the family of his grand- 
father, where he, like his parent before him, re- 
ceived that instruction from his grandfather 
which rendered his after life one of pleasure 
and profit to him. When he had finished his 
preparatory work, he entered the leading acad- 
emy in Indiana County, Penn. ; then engaged 
in teaching, a profession he followed with 
marked success for many years. On October 
13, 1830, he was united in marriage to Ellen 
McCune, who was born December 27, 1800. 
They settled in Fairfield, Westmoreland Co., 
Penn., where they remained some time, and 
then removed to Blairsville, where Mr. Jamie- 
son died, the father of the following named 
children: J. M., born July 30, 1831; David M., 
born September 21, 1833; Lucina Jane, born 
October 25, 1835; Margaretta, born December 
29, 1837; Martha E., born July 27. 1840; John, 
born May 26, 1842; Isabella Ann, born October 
18, 1844; Robert R., born August 19, lst<>. 
He, too, was a strong and earnest supporter of 
the Whig party, and was an earnest worker in 
its ranks. A member of the Associate Re- 
formed Presbyterian Church, he entered fully 
into the work of that denomination, and was 
numbered among its leading and enterprising 
members. On September 18, 1852, while on 
plane No. fi, of the Portage Railroad, the cable 
which drew the cars broke, and he was struck 
by the descending car and instantly killed. His 
remains were laid to rest in the beautiful ceme- 
tery at Blairsville, followed thither by a large 
cortege of people, who sincerply mourned his 



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untimely and tragic end. Mrs. Jamieson married, 
for her second husband, Hugh Anderson, of 
Beaver, Penn., with whom she lived until his 
death, which occurred about eight years after 
their union. Her third marriage was with Mat- 
thew McClain, of Wellsville, Ohio. Her death 
came peacefully on December 2, 1887, and she 
was buried at Wellsville. 

Rev. Jesse M. Jamieson, D. D., another son 
of John, and brother of the above, was educat- 
ed at Jefferson College, and soon after his grad- 
uation went to India as a missionary, where he 
remained about twenty-five years, when he re- 
turned to the United States, and, now, more than 
an octogenarian, he lives in Monmouth, 111. , 
where, after a life spent in well-doing, he is 
only awaiting the summons home. 

Rev. J. M. Jamieson, D. D., our subject, 
received his education at Westminster College, 
in Lawrence County, Penn., where he grad- 
uated in June, 1856. He then entered the 
United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, at 
Allegheny, Penn., from which he graduated in 
1860. In April, 1859, he was licensed to preach, 
l>y the United Presbytery, of Allegheny, Penn., 
and May 1, 1860, was ordained by the presby- 
tery of Steubenville. On May 20, 1860, he was 
installed as pastor of Piney Fork Congregation, 
Jefferson County, Ohio, in which pastorate he 
remained until the fall of 1887, when he de- 
mitted his charge. This long settlement of 
nearly thirty years was one of great peace and 
prosperity. While filling his duties as pastor, 
he was, in 1873, elected professor of Latin, 
Greek, logic, and psychology in Hopedale Nor- 
mal College, a chair he held throughout his con- 
nection with the institute. In 1885 he was 
chosen president of the college, the duties of 
which position he so well and conscientiously 
discharges as to merit the confidence and full 
respect of the patrons and friends of that insti- 
tution. He has always been a close friend of 
the institution, and has done much for its wel- 
fare. His published works are " A Sermon on 
Slavery" (in 1860), and a "Sermon on Regen- 



eration" (April, 1870). On October 5, 1853, 
he married Miss Mary Jane McCartney, a daugh- 
ter of the late John Y. McCartney, of Clarksburg, 
Penn., a merchant; he was a worthy Christian 
man, liberal with his means, with which he was 
abundantly blessed; he lived and died in the 
United Presbyterian faith. Mrs. Jamieson was 
born May 21, 1834. For a short time after set- 
tlement Dr. and Mrs. Jamieson resided in Bloom- 
field, Jefferson Co., Ohio, and then removed to 
Hopedale, Harrison Co., Ohio, where they re- 
mained until 1886, when they took up their 
residence on their present farm, in Green Town- 
ship, Harrison County. These places of resi- 
dence are within the bounds of Piney Fork Con- 
gregation. Their children are Sarah Ellen, born 
July 13, 1854, and married October 17, 1875, 
to John Hamilton, of Steubenville, Ohio; Mary 
Jane, born March 5, 1857, still at home; Martha 
E., born July 13, 1860, died December 5, 1863; 
John Y., born August 16, 1862, and is now em- 
ployed in the Agricultural Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; Jesse M. , born August 18, 1864, 
graduated at Hopedale Normal College in 1885, 
and at the United Presbyterian Theological Sem- 
inary, Allegheny, Penn., in 1888, and is pastor 
of the Second United Presbyterian Church of 
YouDgstown, Ohio; Margaretta, born March 10, 
1867, died August 6, 1868; Amanda E., born 
April 6, 186 ( J, graduated at Hopedale Normal 
College in 1889; Thomas L., born November 
20, 1871; and David G., born July 20, 1875. 
In 18S8, in recognition of his valuable services, 
as well as his scholarly attainments, the college, 
with which Dr. Jamieson has so long been con- 
nected, conferred upon him the degree of D. D. 
For the past sixteen years Dr. Jamieson has 
been an active member of the board of directors 
of the United Presbyterian Theological Semi- 
nary, Allegheny, Penn. The family rank among 
the best educated in the county, and are well 
and prominently kuowu, both in social, religious 
and educational circles. Dr. Jamieson has now 
retired to his beautiful home, which is situated 
one mile east of Hopedale, there to spend the 
remaining days of his useful life. 




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615 



J/OHN E. FORD, one of the most enter- 
prising farmers and live-stock growers of 
I Nottingham Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, was born in April, about the year 
1832, on the farm which he now owns and on 
which he still resides. Lewis Ford, his father, 
was a son of John Ford, who early came from 
Eedstone, Washington Co., Penn., and en- 
tered the farm in Nottingham Township, Har- 
rison Co. , Ohio, now owned by his grandson 
Lewis, brother of the subject of this sketch. 
Here he erected a log cabin, and spent his life 
in clearing his land. His son Lewis, father of 
John E., was born in Washington County, Penn., 
in 1794, and came to Harrison County, Ohio, 
with his father, whom he aided in clearing off 
the homestead. When a young man he entered 
the farm of 160 acres on Section 5, in Notting- 
ham Township, now owned by our subject. 
He married Miss Rebecca Dodd, who was born 
about 1795, and this union was blessed with 
seven children: Slemons, deceased; William, 
deceased; Lewis, occupant of the old home- 
stead; Emily, deceased; Piety A., deceased; 
Ruth, deceased, and John E. , whose name 
stands at the head of this sketch. After his 
marriage, Lewis Ford built a cabin on his land, 
and in this he resided for some years, when it 
was replaced by a comfortable residence built 
of hewed logs. Many years were passed in 
clearing the timber off the place, but the task 
was finally accomplished, and one of the finest 
farms in the county was redeemed from the wil- 
derness. Lewis Ford was also engaged in the 
mercantile business for a number of years, 
using one room in his new building for a store- 
room. His death took place about the year 
L846. For many years he was a member of 
the Disciples Church, and in polities he was a 
stanch Republican. 

John E. Ford was married December 2, 
1870, to Miss Viney R. Hudson, who was born 
June 3, 1843, in Indiana, and to this marriage 
have been born eight children, in the following 
order: Smith, December '23, 1871, deceased; 
Wilbert, March 10, 1^73; Mary E., Decern^'. 



7, 1874; Clara E., March 4, 1876; Minnie, 
June 27, 1877, deceased; Elizabeth, May 17, 
1878; Lydia F., March 8, 1880 (died June 15, 
1880), and James E., August 28, 1881. The 
mother of this family passed away November 
25, 1886, shortly after she had been admitted a 
member of the Disciples Church. Mr. Ford 
has always resided on the old home place, and 
for several years has been extensively engaged 
in raising stock, which vocation he finds to be 
agreeable as well as profitable. His present 
fine residence was erected in 1886, and is one 
of the handsomest in the county. Mr. Ford, 
although not an office seeker, is a faithful ally 
of the Republican party. He stands socially 
high in his community, and is one of the most 
enterprising agriculturists in the township. 



/T%- EORGE WASHINGTON KIRKPAT- 
[ _ RICK was born Marc'.. 6, 1831 , in Moore- 
\L>| field Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where 

^ he grew to manhood and received a com- 
mon school education. On March 12, 1856, he 
married Miss Mary E. W. Smith, who was born 
August 3, 1833, a daughter of William and 
Julia A. (Brown) Smith, natives of Cecil County, 
Md. , who migrated to Belmont County, Ohio, 
about 1830 and settled at Bridgeport, where 
Mrs. Kirkpatrick was born. William Smith 
was born in Maryland in August, 1801 ; his wife 
was born in Maryland about 1811. They were 
blessed with ten children, named as follows: 
Stephen L., of Belmont County, Ohio; Mary E. 
W., wife of our subject; Lucinda Clark, of Lick- 
ing County, Ohio; William H., deceased; Rob- 
ert P., of Taylor County, Iowa; David and 
Rebecca .Myers, both of Licking County, Ohio; 
]\laria Hnwey, of Columbus, Ohio: Rosanna, 
deceased, and James O.. of Plain City, Madi- 
son Co., Ohio. 

George W. Kirkpatrick, after his marriage, 
rented a farm of John Kirkpatrick, on whiih he 
remained until L878, when he moved to his 
present home, which he had purchased about 
IS73. This farm contains 135 acres on Section 



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HARRISON COUNTY. 



5, in the southeast quarter. On this farm he 
has erected a good dwelling and fine stables, 
and has otherwise improved it. Mr. Kirkpat- 
rick and wife are parents of eight children, 
named as follows: Julia A. Kirkpatrick, of 
Moorefield Township; John and William S., at 
home; Mary A. Cramley, of Freeport, Ohio; 
Hannah M. , Leonora and Ida F., at home, and 
Conrad S., deceased. Mr. Kirkpatrick and wife 
are members of the Nottingham Presbyterian 
Church. Mr. Kirkpatrick has held many of the 
township offices and is a Democrat, which party 
he has served faithfully. He is well known 
throughout the county, and is highly respected 
by all who know him. 



I/OHN H. FURNEY. Among the venerable 
w I and honored residents of Deersville, Ohio, 
%J) is the subject of this sketch, who was born 
November 29, 1820, in Cadiz Township, 
Harrison Co. , Ohio. His father, Frederick 
Furney, was a native of Germany, born August 
28, 1787. Abraham Furney, father of Freder- 
ick Furney, together with his family, left his 
native land in 1798, and came to America. They 
gradually came westward, and in 1801 arrived 
in Harrison County, Ohio, and settled on a tract 
now adjoining the city of Cadiz. Here the fam- 
ily life was not unlike that of the other early 
settlers, and the story of their hardships and 
labors would be but a repetition. Here the fa- 
ther remained until his death. His children 
were John, Abram and Frederick. He was a 
man of strong convictions and sound judgment, 
the traces of which can now be seen in his de- 
scendants. The first decade of Frederick Fur- 
ney' s life was spent in Germany, where he re- 
ceived all the educational instruction he was 
destined to have, but, notwithstanding this dep- 
rivation, he applied himself earnestly to study, 
and became one of the well-educated men of his 
county. He always took a prominent and lead- 
ing part in the public movements of his time. 
During the War of 1812 he recruited a company 
of men, and was elected captain. He was a 



Whig in politics, and took a deep interest in the 
welfare of his party. October 29, 1812, he was 
married to Deborah Harris, whose family were 
among the early settlers of Harrison County. 
The following named children were born to 
them: Sophia, September 6, 1813; Susanna, 
November 3, 1814: Mary Ann, August 6, 1817; 
John, November 29, 1820; Eliza M., July 6, 
1825; Catherine, July 8, 1827, and Alice, July 
4, 1829. Mr. Furney died in 1854; his wife 
survived until June 21, 1873. For several years 
after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Furney lived 
in Cadiz Township, but in 1827 removed to Not- 
tingham Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where 
they purchased a farm, which still remains in 
the family. They were industrious, economical 
and persevering, and succeeded in amassing 
quite an extensive property. 

The early life of John H. Furney was spent 
in Cadiz Township, and afterward in Notting- 
ham Township, where he was early initiated 
into the hard work of the farmer. His educa- 
tion was received during attendance at the sub- 
scription schools, which were the only ones that 
existed at that time in his neighborhood. In 
early life he was married to Nancy Johnson, 
daughter of Ephraim Johnson, of Moorefield, 
Harrison County. After their marriage they 
settled in Nottingham Township, where, for 
many years, they rented a small farm; they then 
went, to Moorefield, where they remained four 
years, when they purchased a farm in Tuscara- 
was County, Ohio, where they remained ten 
years, and then came back to Nottingham Town- 
ship, Harrison County, and purchased the old 
home place, which is now in their possession. 
Their prosperity is entirely due to their own 
efforts, as they began life with nothing save 
their own energy and perseverance. In public 
matters Mr. Furney has always been found 
among the leading and progressive men. He 
is a Republican in politics, and has always sup- 
ported the principles advocated by that party. 
He has held various offices in his township, 
among them being that of trustee. He and 
family are members of the Disciples Church, of 



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whicb, for many years, they have been constant 
attendants and liberal supporters. Only one 
ehilil bas blessed their marriage, Ephraim J., 
who now resides in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
where he is a worthy representative of a long 
and well-known family. 



Ill LBERT PITTIS was born April '20, 
[J \\ 1841, in Franklin Township, Harrison 
IH^ Co., Ohio. His father, Robert Pittis, 
4/ was born November 24, 1803, and was 

married March 11, 1832, to Sarah Hout, who 
was born October 8, 1808. Their family com- 
prised the following children: Thomas H., born 
January 18, 1833; Robert D., November 2, 
1834; John C, August 29, 1830; Charles E., 
July 9, 1838; Julia and Albert (twins), born 
April 20, 1841 ; Sarah J., January 3, 1844, and 
Mary A., June 5, 1848. For many years Mr. 
Pittis was engaged in mercantile business in 
Deersville, Ohio, whei-e his business qualifica- 
tions were well known. He was a Republican; 
and for many years was justice of the peace. 
In the financial circles of his county he \va- 
prominent, being a director in the First National 
Bank of Cadiz, Ohio. He died June 9, 1869, 
and was followed by his widow May 22, 1887. 
They were members of the Presbyterian Church, 
in which he was an elder for many years. 

The early life of Albert Pitts was spent in 
Deersville, Ohio, and vicinity. Here he at- 
tended the village schools, and supplemented 
this training by a course of study at New Athens, 
Ohio. On August 6, 1863, he was married to 
Jane K. Birney, daughter of Wesley Birney, of 
Washington Township, Harrison County, and 
to this union were born the following children: 
Hugh A., born March 17, 1860: Belle, March 

19, 1868; Wesley E., March 5. 1870; Maggie 
B., June 14, 1874; M. Oily, February 24, 
1881; Horace E., October 24, 1882. On June 

20, 1886, Mr. Pittis died, and was buried in 
Deersville Cemetery. He was among the most 
intelligent men of his section, and was one of 
the leaders in his township in political reform. 



He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for 
many years; and was a liberal supporter of all 
worthy enterprises. Honest, upright and con- 
scientious, he was ever respected and honored. 



jTIi W. COLE. Among those who have re- 
f/l\ cently come into Washington Township, 
II l\ Harrison County, none have more prom- 
4/ inently identified themselves with its in- 

terests, welfare and progression than the gentle- 
man whose name stands at the head of this 
sketch. He was born in Wayne Township, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio, July 13, 1846. His father, 
William, was also a native of Jefferson County, 
and was born in 1822. Joshua, the father of 
William, came to Ohio in 1800, and entered the 
land now occupied by his son. In his early 
life Joshua Cole was married to Sarah Talbert, 
who bore him the following family: Joseph, 
Thomas, John, Ezekiel, Mary, Elizabeth and 
William. He came from Maryland, was identi- 
fied with the Whig party, and was for many 
years a member of the Baptist Church. In 
1857 he died, having been preceded by his wife 
in 1830. William Cole has always lived in 
Jefferson County, where he married Axie, a 
daughter of Elijah and Martha Cole, also of 
Jefferson, and immediately settled on the home 
place, where the following children were born 
to them: Alexander W., Izina, Abyron, Lycur- 
gus, Nesbit, Viola, Delmar, Etta, Emmeline and 
Luanca. Mr. Cole is a Republican, and has 
ever taken an active interest in politics. In re- 
ligious matters he is a believer in the doctrines 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he 
has held all the offices, and has done much for 
the advancement of its cause. He is among the 
enterprising citizens of Wayne Township and 
takes a sincere interest in its welfare. 

A. W. Cole, the eldest son, as has been 
stated, was born July 13, 1846. His early life 
was spent at the parental home, where he was 
engaged in the various duties incident to the 
pursuit of agriculture, and where he received 
the education which has been so useful to him. 



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HARRISON COUNTY. 



On October 3, 1867, he was married to Eliza J. , 
daughter of Samuel Host, of Stock Township, 
Harrison County. The young couple resided in 
Franklin Township for fifteen years, and then 
purchased their present residence, consisting of 
160 acres in Washington Township, and admira- 
bly fitted for stock-raising, in which he engages 
quite extensively. His children were named 
Clarence P. (deceased), Viola, Oscar, Samuel G. 
and George O. In his politics Mr. Cole has 
always been an enthusiastic Republican, and 
has ever been identified with the leaders in 
the section in which he has resided, and, 
although rarely accepting political preferment, 
still has always rendered efficient aid to the 
party which advocated his principles. For 
many years he has represented his party in the 
county conventions, and has ever discharged 
his duties with full satisfaction. He has been 
trustee of his township for several years, and 
has also served as a member of the board of 
education for nine years. A member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Mount, 
he has brought the same good judgment and 
energy of action to the discharge of his duties 
in this relation. He is widely and favorably 
known to a large number of people, and has, by 
his conduct, won their confidence and respect. 



J[ ACOB MINNEY, a wealthy farmer of Wash- 
ington Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, was 
I born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1833, 
and is the youngest of the family of four 
children born to Henry and Catherine (Speck) 
Minney. In 1842 this family came to Ohio and 
first located in Belmont County, but a year later 
came to Harrison County, and here Henry Min- 
ney purchased a farm of 240 acres, which he 
successfully cultivated until his death in 1872, 
when he was aged seventy-four years, at which 
time he bequeathed his property to his children. 
Since coming here, at the age of ten years, 
Jacob Minney has passed his life on this farm, 
with the exception of three years passed in 
teaching in Tuscarawas County. In 1859 he 



was united in marriage to Rebecca; daughter of 
Rev. William Smith, and to this union have been 
born seven children, of whom four are still liv- 
ing, viz. : Sarah Ann, Margaret Oleita, Jacob 
Luther and Mercia Melissa. Mr. Minney is now 
the owner of a farm comprising 320 acres, and 
in his vocation as an agriculturist he has met 
with unvarying success. As a member of the 
Presbyterian Church his life has been such as 
to command the respect of his fellow-men. Po- 
litically he is a Democrat, but is not an office- 
seeker; nevertheless, for nineteen years, he has 
ably and satisfactorily filled the position of 
school director. 



JAMES COPELAND, one of the oldest and 
wealthiest farmers of German Township, 
Harrison County, is a son of Thomas and 
Nancy (Shepler) Copeland. Thomas Cope- 
land was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., 
in 1795; the father of Thomas was James Cope- 
tend, who was a native of Ireland. James Cope- 
land, the elder, came to Jefferson County, Ohio, 
in 1800, and permanently settled on 160 acres 
of land, which some years before he had entered 
in Wayne Township. He was the father of ten 
children, named Thomas, James, Susan, Sam- 
uel, Mary, Jennie, Joseph, Nancy, John and 
Iba. Thomas Copeland worked on the farm for 
his father till 1814, when he married, and bought 
a farm in Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
At his death, in 1879, he was the owner of sev- 
eral hundred acres of fine land. His children 
were twelve in number, and named Christina, 
Mary, Jacob, Lucinda, James, Samuel, Peter, 
Joseph L., John M. , Henry, Thomas F. and 
George. 

James Copeland, our subject, was born Sep- 
tember 4, 1823, received a practical business 
education in Green Township, and spent his 
boyhood days on the farm with his parents. 
March 19, 1846, he married Miss Margaret 
Gut-shall, a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Hos- 
plehorn) Gutshall, who came to German Town- 
ship, Harrison County, in 1800, and who served 



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in the War of 1812. James Copeland, after his 
marriage, bought the farm he now owns, com- 
prising 27(3 acres of the best land in German 
Township, and he is numbered among the best 
stock-growers and farmers in Harrison County. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Copeland have been born thir- 
teen children, viz. : Mary M., Thomas D., Nancy 
J., Elizabeth A., Christina L. Rebecca S., 
Sarah S. , James A., Emma A., Adaline and 
Evaline (twins, both deceased), Laura B. and 
Samantha M. Mr. Copeland enjoys the full 
confidence of his neighbors, and has held the 
office of constable for six years, and school 
director for twenty-four years, of which twenty- 
one years were consecutive. 



JjOSEPH BARCLAY, a farmer of Notting- 
I ham Townshij}, Harrison Co. , Ohio, was 
/ born on the old Barclay homestead, in the 
township named, September 3, 1846. His 
father, David Barclay, was born in County 
Derry, Ireland, May 18, 1790, and on September 
26, 1822, married Miss Elizabeth Kissick, who 
was born in the same county, March 17, 1801. 
In their native country there were born to David 
ami his wife two children: James and William, 
both now deceased. In 1826 these parents came 
to America, landing in Baltimore, whence they 
went to Pittsburgh, Penn., where David passed 
two years at work in an iron foundry. From 
Pittsburgh the family came to Nottingham Town 
ship, and for six months resided in a log cabin 
on the farm now owned by Salathiel Kennedy. 
David then purchased the farm of 160 acres on 
Section 14, Range 6, Nottingham Township, on 
which his son John now resides, and here he 
ended his days, April 9, 1876, his wife going 
before on January 9, 1871. To David and 
Elizabeth Barclay, after coming to America, 
were born eight children, named as follows: 
Barbara Love, of Nottingham Township; 
Eleanor McAdams, of Moorefield Township; 
David, of Allegheny County, Penn. ; John, of 
Nottingham Township; Joseph, whose name 
heads this sketch; Elizabeth Easter, of Moore- 



field Township; Ann Lee, of Jefferson County, 
Ohio, and Jane, who died in childhood. For 
many years the parents of these children were 
devout members of the United Presbyterian 
Church, in the faith of which they died. In 
politics David Barclay was a Whig until the 
organization of the Republican party, to which 
he ever after gave his allegiance, and under its 
auspices served several years as trustee of Not- 
tingham Township. 

Joseph Barclay, the subject of this sketch, 
was reared to the arduous duties of a husband- 
man on the home farm, and was educated in the 
township schools. April 30, 1872, he married 
Miss Sarah Scott, who was born in Athens Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, December 28, 1846, 
and is a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hogg) 
Scott. To this felicitous union have been born 
two sons, only one of whom, however, lives to 
gladden the hearts of the parents, David F., 
born May 30, 1873. Orra W. T. , the younger, 
was born October 9, 1877, but died at an early 
age. After marriage Mr. Barclay lived on the 
farm of his brother John, in Nottingham Town- 
ship, until 1877, when he purchased that which 
he now owns, comprising eighty acres, on Sec- 
tion 21, in the same township, and on which he 
erected a line dwelling-house in 1885. Politic- 
ally Mr. Barclay is a Republican, has held the 
office of township clerk seven years, and in 1889 
was elected township trustee. He is a man of 
unblemished integrity, and is highly esteemed by 
his fellow-citizens. Although not a member, he 
is a regular attendant at the Nottingham Pres- 
byterian Church, in which Mrs. Barclay is a 
communicant. 



jTti M. GEORGE. Among those who have 
l/V of late come to Harrison County, although 
fr^V representatives of old families that have 
J/ been identified with the history, growth 

and prosperity of eastern Ohio (though not of 
Harrison), none have taken a livelier interest in 
the development of his section than he who is 
the subject of this brief biography. He was 



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born in Guernsey County, July 20, 1847. His 
father, Isaac George, was born in Jefferson 
County, March 10, 1806, near Steubenville. 
John George, father of Isaac, was born in Mary- 
land, where the family had been agriculturists 
for many generations, and there reared his fam- 
ily, consisting of the following children: Har- 
riet, Isaac. Jonah, Fanny, Mary, Nathan, Maria 
and Rebecca. About 1800 John George came 
to Jefferson County, Ohio, where, in company 
with others, he entered a tract of land. This, 
with the help of his family, he cleared, and he 
enjoyed the benefit thereof until his death. Isaac 
George remained in Jefferson County till he was 
twenty-two years of age, when he married Mary 
Perviance, of the same county. They soon pro- 
ceeded to Guernsey Count)', where they pur- 
chased a farm. Of their children the first born 
died unnamed; the others were Jonah, Amos, 
Mary, Elizabeth, Elvira and Andrew M. Mrs. 
George died in 1856, and Mr. George mar- 
ried for his second wife Nancy Hooper, who 
bore him two children: Wesley and Hattie. In 
his politics he was at first an enthusiastic Whig, 
and took an active part in the party's move- 
ments, but upon the organization of the Repub- 
lican party he united with it, and still supports 
it. He and family are of the Methodist Episco- 
pal faith, to which society they have belonged 
for many years. Mr. George has occupied many 
of the offices in the church, such as steward and 
class leader. 

A. M. George early showed extraordinary 
mental ability, which was cultivated to the full 
extent of the common schools, which, owing 
to the excellent supervision of the school board, 
were exceptionally good. At the age of eight- 
een he entered the teacher's profession, which 
he followed for several years in his own district 
and in other counties with unvarying success. 
His health failing, he was compelled to abandon 
his work and to engage in farming, since which 
time he has wonderfully improved physically. 
September 7, 187-1, he was married to Maggie 
A. Birney, daughter of Wesley Birney. Wesley 
Birney was born in Green Township, Harrison 



County, where he grew to manhood and married 
Margaret McCullough, who bore him the follow- 
ing children: Belle, Lizzie, Hugh A., Jane, 
Maggie A., James and Martha. Politically he 
was a Democrat; in religion he was a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church from early 
life. Mr. and Mrs. George, after their mar- 
riage, resided in Guernsey County two years, and 
then moved to their present residence of 172 
acres, about one mile from Tippecanoe, Wash- 
ington Township, Harrison County. He is a 
Republican, and has always taken an active in- 
terest in the welfare of the party. He and his 
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Tippecanoe. His children were as 
follows: Gatha B., Amos E., Mary M., Mattie, 
Hattie, Maggie M. , Birney and Bessie — all liv- 
ing but Mattie, who died when quite young. 



/T^/ EORGE W. BETHEL, one of the repre- 
T sentatives of his family now resident of 
\.A\ Freeport, Harrison County, was born 
^ February 21, 1833, in Belmont County, 
Ohio. His father, John Thornton Bethel, was 
born in Virginia, February 11, 1802, of which 
State Edward, father of John T., was also a na- 
tive. Edward Bethel, in his youth, received 
the advantages of a liberal education, and for 
many years was a leading educator in his native 
State. His children were James, Katherine, 
Simpson, William, Henry, Thompson and John 
T. Like nearly all the educated Virginians at 
that time Mr. Bethel was a Democrat, and was 
energetic in the advancement of the party's wel- 
fare. In 1813 he came to Ohio and entered a 
farm in Belmont County, where he remained 
until his death. John T. Bethel spent his youth 
on the farm, and learned the principles of agri- 
culture. September 14, 1824, he was married 
to Mary Jackson Billingsby, a native of Virginia, 
and a relative of Gen. Jackson. Their children 
were Lorinda, Vitura, Celestine, Melinda, Ruth, 
George W., Mary Ann, Rebecca and John T. 
After his marriage John Bethel resided in Bel- 
mont County three years, and then came to 



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621 



Harrison County, where the family have since 
resided He at first located in Moorefield Town- 
ship, remaining six or seven years, when he 
purchased a farm in Freeport Township, to 
which he removed, and where he remained until 
his death. His life was one made up of hard 
work and economy, and by the assistance of his 
helpmeet he succeeded in his financial life to an 
excellent degree. He was thoroughly Demo- 
cratic in his principles, and while not an active 
man in the seeking of office, still took a prominent 
part in the advancement of the interests of his 
party. August 15, 1870, Mrs. Bethel died, and 
March 1, 1877, her husband followed her. They 
now quietly sleep in the cemetery at Pleasant 
Hill. He was a kind-hearted neighbor, loyal to 
his friends and just to his opponents. 

George W. Bethel, since the death of his 
parents, has had the management of the home 
place under his care. He and his sisters oc- 
cupy the family residence, and are among those 
most highly respected and esteemed. His edu- 
cation is that of the common schools, but he is 
an indomitable student, and has cultivated his 
mind far beyond the usual branches. While he 
votes the Democratic ticket, and firmly believes 
in its principles, still he is not bigoted or un- 
reasonable in his political beliefs. The home 
place consists of 175 acres, situated four miles 
from Freeport. 



fiOHNSON HITCHCOCK, justice of the 
^. I peace and farmer, of Washington Town- 
\^J ship, Harrison County, was born in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1838. 
John Hitchcock, the father of our subject, is now 
a resident of the county and one of its most suc- 
cessful farmers. He was united in marriage 
with Sarah Kelley, who became the mother of 
four children: Isabella, Johnson, Samuel and 
Mary, of whom three are living, Isabella being 
deceased. John Hitchcock was born in Cadiz 
Township, a son of Samuel and Ibby (Moore) 
Hitchcock, parents of eight children — six daugh- 
ters and two sons. John Hitchcock began life 



with no brilliant prospects and with but few 
educational advantages, but he has made a sue-' 
cess, financially, now owning some 600 acres of 
land, besides other valuable property. He 
resides in Franklin Township, Harrison County, 
enjoying in his later days the comforts secured 
by a long life of hard work, and respected by 
those who know him; his wife died in 1889, 
aged seventy- seven years. 

Johnson Hitchcock received a liberal educa- 
tion, and is gifted with a higher intelligence than 
is ordinarily found in men leading the life of a 
farmer. He has been three times married: 
First to Miss Maggie Sproul (daughter of An- 
drew Sprtful), who bore one son, John L. , now 
residing in Kansas; his second marriage was 
with Elizabeth Edie, daughter of Alexander 
and Nancy (Barkley) Edie, of Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio, and to this union five children 
were born, four of whom are now living: Will- 
iam, Nannie, Mattie and Bertha; all of these 
children are at home. The second Mrs. Hitch- 
cock died in 1873, and Mr. Hitchcock next mar- 
ried Rebecca Jackson, of Washington County, 
Penn. , a daughter of Joseph Jackson ; four chil- 
dren have been born to this union, of whom 
two are living: Sarah Margaret and Annie 
Laura. Mr. Hitchcock is a stanch Republican, 
and was elected justice of the peace of his town- 
ship in 1888, which position he yet holds. 



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HrENRY ERVIN, one of the well-known 
citizens of Washington Township, Har- 
rison County, was born April 6, 18ir>,in 
Short Creek Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio. His father, James Ervin, was a native 
of Maryland, where he met and married Eliza- 
beth Bann, and their children were William, 
James, John, Henry, Phoebe, Isaac and Nancy. 
In 1812 James Ervin came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, and for a short time resided in Short 
Creek Township, but soon removed to Franklin 
Township, where he purchased a farm, and 
where he remained until his death. In politics 
he was a Democrat, and took quite an active 



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part in the early organization of bis party; in 
religion he was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Short Creek, and was one 
of its organizers. In 1850, after a long life of 
usefulness and hard work, he died in his faith; 
his wife survived him until 1870, when she, too, 
passed away. 

Henry Ervin has passed his whole life with- 
in the confines of Harrison County, with the 
welfare and progress of which he has always 
identitied himself. His advantages in attend- 
ance at school were exceedingly limited, he hav- 
ing to work on the home place nearly the entire 
time, but soon after his twenty-first year he be- 
gan life for himself, working at farming, and by 
frugality and industry succeeded in saving some 
money. In 1840 he was married to Elizabeth 
Watts, of Harrison County, and she became the 
mother of the following named children: James, 
John, Mahala, Ann, Margaret H. , Sarah J., Isa- 
belle, Thomas and Actia A. This young couple 
resided at first in Franklin Township, but re- 
moved from there and lived on a farm about two 
miles west of Tippecanoe until 1887, when they 
came to their present residence. Mr. Ervin has 
always been an industrious man, and now, at the 
age of seventy-five, is enjoying the fruits of his 
toil. He and his family are members of the U. 
B. Church, and in politics he has always identi- 
fied himself with the Democratic party, which 
he has never failed to support. He has always 
taken a deep interest in progressive movements, 
and is ever to be found in the front rank of en- 
terprising citizens. 



li JlfES. MARY LAFFERTY, a highly re- 
\f/\ spected wido.w, a resident of Moore- 
1^ field Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, is 
W/ a daughter of James and Mary (Brock) 

Bethel. James Bethel was a son of Edward 
Bethel, a native of Virginia, who immigrated to 
Ohio in 1815, and purchased land in Flushing 
Township, Belmont County. He was father of 
eight children, by name Henry, Simpson, W illiam, 
James, Thompson, Annie, Elizabeth and Thorn- 



ton. James Bethel was born in Virginia, about 
1795, there grew to young manhood, and received 
his education at the common schools. He came 
to Ohio with his parents in 1815, and here mar- 
ried. He had born to him a family of twelve 
children, named as follows: Edward, Benjamin, 
Alfred, Abner, Marion, James S., Sarah, Lu- 
cinda, Elizabeth A., Mary, Eliza J. and Quint- 
ery, all being deceased excepting Alfred (who 
resides in Flushing Township, Belmont Co., 
Ohio), James S. (who is also living in Belmont 
County), Lucinda (who resides in Kansas) and 
Mary, our subject. After the marriage of James 
Bethel he settled in Flushing Township, Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, where he passed the re- 
mainder of his life. Alfred Bethel was born in 
Flushing Township, where he grew to man- 
hood and married Miss Margaret McCall, to 
which union were born eight children, of whom 
four are yet living, viz.: John A., James O., 
Jesse B. and Franklin; the deceased are Mary, 
Jane and two infants. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 
Bethel are still living in Belmont County, both 
hale and hearty. 

Miss Mary Bethel was born April 25, 1826, 
in Flushing Township, Belmont Co., Ohio, 
where she grew to womanhood. On August 18, 
1844, she was married to Joseph Lafferty, who 
was born October 26, 1819, a son of Samuel and 
Margaret (Figley) Lafferty, former of whom 
was born in Virginia, April 14, 1782, and latter 
bbrn also in 1782. They were married January 
1, 1S07, and were blessed with seven children, 
as follows: Belijah, born October 10, 1807; 
Jacob, born December 1, 1809; Edward, born 
March 14, 1812; Jane, the date of whose birth 
is not on record; Elizabeth, born August 7, 
1814; Joseph, born October 26, 1819, and Mar- 
garet, born March 15, 1822. Samuel Lafferty 
came to Ohio soon after his marriage, and set- 
tled in Moorefield Township, Harrison County. 
He worked for William Ramage, to pay for 
eighty acres of land he had purchased of him. 
This he afterward sold, and then purchased the 
farm now owned by Alexander Barger, on Sec- 
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died about 1862. He was an active member of 
the Nottingham Presbyterian Church for many 
years, and was universally beloved and respected. 
To Joseph Lafferty and his wife were born eight 
children, as follows: Two that died in infancy, 
James, Elizabeth, Mary E., Sarah E., Laura L. 
and George F., all of whom are deceased except 
Sarah E. and Laura L., who are married and 
reside with their mother on the old homestead. 
Joseph Lafferty departed this life March 29, 
1886. He was very successful in business, and 
at his death owned 353 acres of land in Moore- 
field Township. Politically he was a Democrat, 
but took no active part in politics. Mrs. Laf- 
ferty and her daughters are members of the 
Rock Hill Baptist Church, of which church 
Joseph Lafferty had been a member for many 
years prior to his death. 



JiOSEPH MIKESELL, a retired farmer of 
Rumley Township, Harrison County, is a 
) son of John Peter and Mary Ann (Lang) 
Mikesell, natives of Frederick (now Car- 
roll) County, Md. John Peter Mikesell was a 
son of John, a native of Maryland, his father 
being a native of Germany, who settled in Mary- 
land in an early day. In 1S16 John Peter 
Mikesell, with his family, came to Rumley 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, making the jour- 
ney with two horses and a wagon. He entered 
160 acres of land, of which he cleared a large 
part before his death. Where the sheep and 
cattle now feed, then the bear, panther, deer and 
other wild animals made their home. On this 
land John Peter Mikesell built a small log 
cabin, in which he with his family endured the 
hardships and privations of a pioneer's life. 
He was the father of seven children, viz. : 
Joseph, Andrew, George, Jessie, Daniel, Su- 
sanna and Samuel. He was for many years a 
member of the Lutheran Church, and died July 
15, 1846. 

Joseph Mikesell, our subject, was born in 
Frederick County, Md., March 25, 1811, and 
received his education at the only school-house 



in Rumley Township, which was a small log 
cabin, furnished with seats made of slabs, with 
pegs in them for legs. He was reared on the 
farm, and there he remained until October 22, 
1839, when he married Miss Magdaline Hoobler, 
born February 17, 1821, a daughter of Adam 
and Elizabeth (Lawyer) Hoobler, who were 
among the early settlers of Harrison County, 
Ohio. Mr. Mikesell, after his marriage, bought 
a farm of ninety-three acres in Rumley Town- 
ship, remained on it eight years, and then re- 
turned to the old homestead, of which he bought 
a part. In 1864 he moved to Jewett, where he 
has since lived a retired life. Our subject and 
wife are parents of one child, Maria, born May 
6, 1843, and now the wife of James Aiken, of 
Jewett, Ohio. Mr. Mikesell has been a member 
of the Lutheran Church since 1832, and was 
trustee of the township for eight years. 



JEREMIAH FOWLER, one of the well- 
known citizens of Scio, Ohio, was born in 
Monroe Township, Harrison County, July 
10, 1837. Garrett Fowler, father of Jere- 
miah, was a native of Pennsylvania, was a farmer, 
and died in Ohio at the age of sixty -five years; 
his aged widow, now eighty-seven years old, 
makes her home on the old farm, in Monroe 
Township. She bore the maiden name of Han- 
hah Eagleson, and at the age of fourteen, in 
1818, was married to Garrett Fowler. She is 
the mother of twelve children, named as follows: 
John E., in Colnmbus, Ohio; Mary, Mrs. Joel 
Cramblett, of Franklin, Ohio; Thomas, of Mon- 
roe Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio; Asenath, at 
home; Richard, at Riverside, Cal. ; Isaiah, in 
Ainsworth, Brown Co., Neb.; Jeremiah, our 
subject; Joseph, of Monroe Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio; Clarissa, Mrs. John Spray, of Frank- 
lin Township, Harrison County; Garrett, at 
Deunison, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio; and two that 
died young. 

Jeremiah Fowler remained on the home farm 
until L859, when he married Catherine Auld, a 
native of Franklin Township, Harrison Co., 



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Ohio, and a daughter of Stewart and Sarah 
(Connell) Auld, pioneers of Harrison County. 
Stewart Auld was born in Pennsylvania in 1792, 
and died in Harrison County, Ohio, in Septem- 
ber, 1883; Mrs. Auld had died in 1844, when 
Mrs. Fowler was but a little girl. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Auld were born ten children, viz. : Nancy, 
widow of John McGill, of Franklin, Ohio; Eliza- 
beth, wife of Edward Romig, of Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio; Jemima, widow of Tobias Eamig; 
Margaret, wile of Alexander Wilson, iu Washing- 
ton County, Iowa; Catherine, Mrs. Jeremiah 
Fowler; Sarah, Mrs. Thomas Guthrie, of Tus- 
carawas County; Caroline, Mrs. Robert Ten- 
nant, residing near Freeport, Ohio; Samuel, of 
Tuscarawas County; Mar}', Mrs. Richard Fow- 
ler, of California; and a son that died in in- 
fancy. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Fowler settled on a farm in Stock Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and there their children 
were born, in the following order: Sadie H. ; 
Stewart A., who died when one year old, and 
Martha and Mary, who died when a few days 
old. In November, 1876, Mr. Fowler left the 
farm, and moved to Scio, where he erected his 
dwelling and added the surrounding improve- 
ments. Sadie H. , his only surviving child, is 
now attending Scio College. October 14, 1884, 
she was married to Lewis F. Euglehart, a na- 
tive of New York City, who now resides in Scio 
with Mr. Fowler. Politically, Mr. Fowler has 
always been a Democrat, but has never been an 
office seeker. He is a Freemason and an Odd 
Fellow, and, with his wife, is a member of the 
Baptist Church. The family are well known. and 
rank high among the citizens of the county. 




^ILLIAM P. BURRELL was born July 
28, 1857, in Port Washington, Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio. His father, 
Richard T. Burrell, was born in Co- 
shocton County, Ohio, to which his father, 
Richard T., came at an early date from Virginia, 
which for many generations had been the home 
of the family. Richard T. was married to 



Elizabeth Whelan, whose parents came from 
the Dutch-Pennsylvania settlements. She was 
born in 1803 in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, the 
youngest of seven children. She bore him 
three children: Benjamin, Meliuda and Richard 
T. In 1844 Mr. Burrell died, and his widow 
married Col. Wormer, then superintendent of 
the Ohio Canal; she bore him two children: 
Eliza and Henry. Richard Burrell, the 
younger, spent nearly his whole life in Tusca- 
rawas County, where he carried on the saddler's 
trade, which he had learned there. In 1850 he 
was married to Jane P., daughter of Israel and 
Susan Holliday, of Freeport, Ohio. His mar- 
ried life was begun in Gilmore, Tuscarawas 
County, where he remained a short time, and 
then removed to Port Washington. His chil- 
dren by this marriage are as follows: Henry M., 
of Ogden, Utah; E. H., of Port Washington, 
and William P., of Freeport. Mrs. Burrell 
died in 1863, and was buried at Port Washing- 
ton. For his second wife Mr. Burrell married 
Margaret Robinson, by whom he has two chil- 
dren: B. F. and James. Mrs. Margaret Bur- 
rell died iu 1869, and Mr. Burrell chose for his 
third wife Angeline Carruthers, a resident of 
his city. His children by this marriage were 
Charles, Samuel, John, Hal and Robert. 

William P. Burrell received the education of 
the village schools, and in 1875 entered the tele- 
graph office at home to learn the business of 
operator. Here he remained two years, when 
he was stationed at New London, on the O, 

B. & Q. Railroad, remaining with them for some 
time. He was then engaged by the Pan Handle 
Railroad Company, with whom he remained until 
March 26, 1880, when he was engaged by the 

C, L. & W. Company, to manage its business at 
Freeport, where he has since attended to the 
duties of the position. April 6, 18S2, he was 
married to Fannie, daughter of Z. Z. Court- 
right, and to this union have been born two 
children: Roxie M. and George R. Since his 
marriage he has built a large and handsome 
residence on one of the main streets of the 
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esteem of all. In his politics Mr. Burrell is an 
uncompromising Republican, and takes an active 
part both in the work of the party and in its 
conventions. Ever since the organization of the 
village he has been a member of the council, 
and has been repeatedly elected member of the 
board of education. His family are members 
of the Presbyterian Church of Freeport. Mr. 
Burrell is a self-made man, and is an excellent 
example of what good habits, a faithful atten- 
tion to business, and loyalty to his employers 
can accomplish. 



AMUEL SHAMBAUGH, a well known 
*, farmer of Rumley Township, Harrison 
County, is a son of Philip and Catherine 
(Arbaugh) Shambaugh. Philip Sham- 
baugh was born in Perry County, Penn., Feb- 
ruary 20, 1809, a son of George and Elizabeth 
(Brown) Shambaugh. Philip Shambaugh was 
reared to manhood on the old farm in Rumley 
Township, and received his education at the 
subscription schools. February 20, 1833, he 
married Miss Catherine Arbaugh, born June 24, 
1816. Mrs. Shambaugh was a daughter of 
John and Rosanna Arbaugh, citizens of Rum- 
ley Township. To the union of Philip and 
Catherine were born ten children, as follows: 
Levi, deceased; Sarah, wife of Jonathan Saw- 
vel, in Jewett; Samuel, our subject; Eliza, 
wife of James Stewart, a farmer of Rumley 
Township; Lovina, wife of Kerr McGaw, a 
farmer of Rumley Township; William, in Kan- 
sas; Margaret, wife of W. L. Finnicum, mer- 
chant in New Burnley; Rachel, wife of W. F. 
Grim, farmer in Rumley Township; Hannah, 
wife of James McAfee, Jr., farmer in Burnley 
Township; Mary, wife of the late Andrew Mc- 
Afee. Mrs. Shambaugh, the mother of this 
family departed this life March 24, I860. She 
was a consistent member of the Evangelical 
Lutheran Church from early life. Mr. Sham 
baugh is one of the oldest citizens now living in 
Burnley Township, and is highly respected by 
all who know him. Since his wife's death he 



has spent some time traveling through Califor- 
nia, and in visiting many places of interest 
through the Western States. 

Samuel Shambaugh, our subject, was born 
April 2, 1840, on the old farm near Jewett, 
Ohio, where his father first settled. Here he 
grew to manhood, receiving such an education 
as the common schools afforded. August 31, 
1873, he married Miss Amanda Scott, of Rum- 
ley Township, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
July 15, 1846, a daughter of Samuel and Eliza 
("Wheeler) Scott. To this union have been born 
two children: Scott Monroe, July 19, 1874, and 
John Arthur, June 26, 1877. After his mar- 
riage Mr. Shambaugh remained on the old 
homestead one year, then bought the west por- 
tion of same farm, on which he resided nine 
years. In 1883 he purchased from his wife's 
father, the home farm which he and his wife now 
own, containing 168 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Sham- 
baugh are both active members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church of New Rumley. 

Mrs. Eliza Scott was a daughter of Rev. 
James and Elisabeth (Cramblet) Wheeler, resi- 
dents of Smithfield Township, Jefferson Co., 
Ohio. Having located on the farm which he 
owned the remainder of his life in 1813, Mr. 
Wheeler was for many years an honored local 
minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He died February 23, 1S72, aged nearly eighty- 
eight years, Mrs. Wheeler having departed this 
life November 19, 1822. 



THOMAS C. HAYES. The family has its 
origin in Georgia, where for many gen- 
erations they had lived. The earliest 
authentic history of any of its members 
is that of Edmond Hayes, the grandfather of 
Thomas C, and the great-uncle of ex-President 
Hayes. His family consisted of twenty-two 
children, one of whom, Edmond, the father of 
Thomas C, with his Bister and two brothers, 
started for the North in a covered wagon, to 
come to Ohio. Their journey was a difficult 
one, and only accomplished by cutting their way 



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through forests, fording streams, sleeping in 
their wagon, and undergoing other hardships. 
Finally, after a trip of five weeks, they arrived 
at their destination in Belmont County, where 
the elder brothers entered a tract of land. 
Soon after their arrival here the sister became 
disheartened and returned, but the boys resolved 
to remain, and accordingly married and settled 
on their land. On October 28, 1818, Edmond 
married Berthena Romine, a resident of Bel- 
mont County. He brought his bride to his 
farm, where they spent nearly their whole life 
in a cpnstant struggle to subdue the forests 
that encumbered their laud. He finally re- 
moved to Perry County, Ohio, where he died 
in 1873. His wife died in 1885. His family 
were Emily, Hannah. Thomas O, Bebecca Ann 
(deceased), William, Bobert, Nancy Jane. Mary, 
Phcebe and Eliza. Politically a Democrat, he 
was a stanch worker in the party, and was trus- 
tee and constable for many years. He was a 
member of the Friends Society, to which his 
family have belonged for many years. 

Thomas C. Hayes was born September 19, 
1823, in Belmont County, where for many years 
he remained. His education was received at 
the subscription schools, which existed in that 
day, and which were attended when no work 
could be done at home. Under these circum- 
stances, however, he obtained the fundamental 
principles of the common branches. December 
6, 1843, he married Priscilla Hall, a resident of 
Belmont County. Her father, Stephen Hall, 
was a resident of North Carolina, to which 
State his ancestry came. from England. When 
he attained his majority he came to Belmont 
County, Ohio, where he soon married Mary 
Bailey, who came to Ohio with her parents in 
1806. She was the daughter of Henry and 
Elizabeth (Overman) Bailey, whose family were 
Jesse, Mary, Ruth and Elizabeth. Mr. Hall 
was a Whig and a member of the Society of 
Friends. He died in July, 1862, and was fol- 
lowed by his wife in March, 1865. After their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hayes located in Guern- 
sey County, where they remained until 1845, 



when they came to Freeport, where Mrs. Pris- 
cilla Hayes died April 22, 1890, of heart failure, 
at the age of seventy-one years, one month and 
twenty-seven days. Mr. Hayes engaged in 
general farming, and has made a success of life, 
and now, at the end of a long struggle, is en- 
joying the fruits of his labor and economy. 
He is among the oldest and most highly re- 
spected residents of their township, and has ever 
merited the esteem of all. Mr. Hayes has al- 
ways been an earnest advocate of the principles 
of the Whig and Republican parties, and has 
held various public offices. In religion he is, as 
was his wife, a member of the Friends Society. 
His children are named Ira L., Jesse R. and 
George S. » 



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AIRD SINGER, one of the representa- 
tive citizens and stock-raisers of Short 
[ Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
was born July 25, 1840, on the place where 
he now resides. About 1808 John Singer im- 
migrated from Virginia to Ohio, journeying 
overland, and they located on a farm in Short 
Creek Township, built a log cabin and cleared 
a patch of ground. The country here was then 
almost an unbroken wilderness, and he was 
known as one of those sturdy people who braved 
the dangers of a frontier life to build up a home. 
Here among many privations he and his wife 
resided until their death. Their union has been 
blessed with seven children, the eldest being 
named James. He was born in Virginia in 1806, 
and came with his parents to Ohio, being then 
but two years of age. He grevv up schooled in 
the privations and disadvantages of the pioneer 
times, and in those early struggles were developed 
the industry and economy which characterized 
his after life. After he attained maturity he be- 
came a wagoner. In those early times the 
pioneers would haul their produce over the 
mountains to Philadelphia and various other 
places, and there disposing of it would bring 
back a load of salt and groceries; and it was in 
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this capacity, each round trip requiring several 
weeks. On one of these trips he was taken sick 
with the small-pox, and lay six weeks at the 
point of death. He, however, recovered and re- 
turned to his home. He was very successful at 
this business, and, with the proceeds which he 
had carefully hoarded, he purchased a tract of 
seventy-five acres near the original homestead, 
and at once began its improvement. In 1838 he 
married Miss Tacy Goodwin, a native of Har- 
rison County, bom in Short Creek Township. 
She was a daughter of Jesse Goodwin, one of 
the early pioneers of Harrison County, and a 
Quaker. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Singer located on their farm, residing first in a 
small cabin, which was afterward replaced by a 
more extensive one, in which they lived until 
their death. Mrs. Singer died in August, 1872, 
aged fifty -two years. Mr. Singer died in March, 
1880. He had taken an active interest in the 
advancement and improvement of the country. 
He was a member of the old Whig party, and 
then became a Republican. He was recognized 
as one of the early residents of Harrison County. 
to whose efforts the present generation owe much 
for the advantages they now enjoy. Twelve 
children were born to them, of whom six are now 
living, our subject being the second in order of 
birth. 

The early life of Laird Singer was spent at 
home in assisting his parents in the support of the 
family. His education was acquired in the (lis 
trict schools, and he recalls the school-house of 
logs with the benches of slabs split from logs, 
and the desk on pegs driven into the wall. The 
huge fireplace threw out a fierce heat, which, 
however, was greatly inadequate to cope with 
the cold which came in through the cracks and 
crevices between the log walls. November 5, 
ISO'J, he enlisted in the United States service, 
a^ a member of the Sixth Independent Company 
Ohio Volunteer Sharpshooters, and was mua 
tered into service at Camp Cleveland December 
30, 1862. On March 10, L863, the company 
was attached to the Army of the Cumberland, 
and participated in many of the campaigns of 



that noble corps, holding the honorable position 
of headquarter guards under Gens. Rosecrans 
and Thomas. He was mustered out of service 
at Nashville, Tenn., July 26, 1865, after which 
he returned to his home. On November 2, 1 ST 1 . 
he married Miss Rachel A. Adams, a native of 
Harrison County, and a daughter of Samuel and 
Sarah (Chambers) Adams. After marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Singer located on their present place, 
where they have since resided, and on which 
they built their present fine residence in 1886. 
Their union has been blessed by five children: 
Anna S., Lorena, Millard O, Estella and John 
L. ' Mr. Singer devotes much of his attention 
to the breeding and raising of fine stock, and 
for many years he was the most extensive breeder 
of Poland China hogs in this section of the 
State. Since 18<S<> he has paid much attention 
to the raising and breediug of the Dickinson 
Merino sheep, and at present has as tine a flock 
of thoroughbreds as is in the State. He makes 
a specialty of this, and enjoys a reputation second 
to none, as a breeder of this justly celebrated 
class. His farm consists of 130 acres of finely 
improved land, and the broad, fertile fields give 
evidence of a careful husbandry. Mrs. Singer 
and her daughters are members of the Short 
Creek Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Singer is, 
politically, a Republican. 



AMUEL B. PORTER, one of the lead- 
is ing agriculturists of Green Township, 
\^fj Harrison County, is a native of the 
county, born in Athens Township, Octo- 
ber 8, 1843. Samuel Porter, his grandfather, 
was a native of the Keystone State, where he 
learned the saddler's trade, which he followed 
through life. In 1804 he came with his family 
to Harrison County, Ohio, settling in Cadiz 
Township, where he passed his life. In politics 
he was a Democrat, and. on the organization of 
that party, he took a leading part, David 
Porter, his son, and father of the subject of this 
sketch, was born February 5, 1802, in Wash- 
ington County, Penn., and Ids early life was 



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spent on the farm and in attending the primi- 
tive schools of those days. He was married to 
Theresa Stone, a resident of Belmont County, 
Ohio, and after marriage the young couple set- 
tled on a farm in Athens Township, Harrison 
County, on which they resided until their deaths. 
Mrs. Porter died in 1859, and lies buried in 
Crab Apple Cemetery, in Belmont County; Mr. 
Porter died December 22, 1885, and was laid to 
rest in the cemetery at Cadiz. They, as are all 
the family, were closely identified with the 
Presbyterian Church. In his political convic- 
tions Mr. Porter was Democratic, and though 
often solicited to accept office, he invariably 
modestly declined, never refusing, however, to 
lend his services in the interests of his party. 
To him and his wife were born the following 
named children: Sarah, John D., Mary, Samuel 
B. , James (who died in infancy), David S. and 
Theresa Elizabeth. 

Samuel B. Porter remained on the home 
farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when 
he married Margaret Dickerson, a daughter of 
John and Eliza (McFadden) Dickerson, of 
Athens Township, Harrison County. The young 
couple immediately located on a farm in the 
township just named, where they remained a 
short time and then removed to Cadiz Township, 
same county, where they resided ten years, when 
they came to the farm where they now have 
their home, in Green Township. The children 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Porter are 
named as follows: Mary Belle (now Mrs. Fry 
Sheplar, in Cadiz Township), Emma Alice, Da- 
vid D.. Eliza May, Samuel Augustus and Jo- 
seph Emerson. The family are all consistent 
members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. 
Politically, Mr. Porter is a Democrat, and is a 
hard, zealous worker in all things tending to the 
advancement of his township and county. He 
has held the office of trustee and various other 
positions of trust in his township, and has 
always faithfully discharged the duties of the 
same. Ho is the only representative of the 
Porter family in Green Township. His farm is 
situated about three miles from Cadiz, and em- 



braces 240 acres of land, under excellent culti- 
vation, and here he engages in general farming, 
being recognized as one of the most successful 
in his section. The residence and outbuildings 
are situated on a prominent place, commanding 
an extensive view of the surrounding country. 



APTAIN ANDREW SMITH was born in 
County Tyrone, Ireland, February 10, 
1840. His "ancestors were Scotch sol- 
diers, who fought at the battle of the 
Boyne under King William in 1690. Archibald 
Smith, father of our subject, died in his native 
land, Ireland, as did also the mother. In 1858 
Andrew Smith, then but a boy of eighteen, left 
the land of his birth, and came to America, and 
proceeding from his place of landing directly to 
Harrison County, Ohio, became at once a laborer 
on a farm. For a full year and a half he re- 
ceived but live and one-half dollars per mouth. 
On June 3, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, 
Thirteenth O. V. I., for a term of three years, 
and served the entire term of his enlistment, 
being in active service continuously. He was 
with the Army of the Cumberland, passing with 
Buell through Kentucky to Pittsburg Landing, 
where he participated in the second day's fight. 
In 1864, receiving a "veteran furlough," he re- 
turned to Harrison County, Ohio, and while 
home married Miss Ann Jane Moore, daughter 
of Thomas Moore, of Carroll County, Ohio. 
Soon after he returned to his regiment, the 
Thirteenth, in which he then held the rank of 
first lieutenant, but afterward was transferred 
to the One Hundred and Eightieth Regiment, 
O. V. I. , and was promoted to the position of 
captain, by which term he is now familiarly 
known. On August 26, 1865, he received an 
honorable discharge, and returned once more 
to his home. By his own untiring efforts, 
coupled with a never-yielding "grit" and good 
judgment, he acquired for himself a farm, and 
on it spent his life until 1885. In that year 
he was elected county commissioner, being re- 
elected in 1888. 



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Gapt. Smith, in the spring of 1887, rented 
his farm, and moved to Cadiz, entering into 
partnership, under the name of Harrison & 
Smith, for the buying and selling of real estate, 
and said partnership continued until death dis- 
solved it, taking the partner, Mr. Harrison, since 
which time the business has been entirely in the 
hands of our subject. Capt. Smith is one of the 
self-made men of Harrison County, and he and 
his esteemed wife are now enjoying the confi- 
dence and respect of all who know them. Both are 
members of the United Presbyterian Church of 
Cadiz. Their union has been fruitless of chil- 
dren, but the arms of their sympathy have been 
extended to take to their home the children of 
others, and thus two foster daughters have been 
theirs, who now are, respectively, Mrs. Samuel 
Mehollin, of Cadiz Township, Harrison County, 
and Mrs. Margaret Jane McCausland, wife of 
S. H. McCausland, of Carroll County, Ohio. 



fjOHN HARVEY SCOTT is well known 
^ I among the citizens of Bowerston, Harri- 
}^J son County, as one of the energetic busi- 
ness men of the place, He is a native of 
Carroll County, Ohio, and was born May 18, 
1860. His father, John W. Scott, is a native of 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and when a young man 
moved to Carroll County, where he engaged at 
farming. There he married Mary McCasky, a 
native of Carroll County, and a daughter of 
George K. McCasky, a pioneer. They located 
on a farm in Carroll County, and still reside 
there. They are the parents of three sons and 
three daughters, the youngest of whom is our 
subject. 

John H. Scott grew to man's estate in his 
native county, spending his early life upon his 
father's farm, and being educated iu the dis- 
trict schools of his neighborhood. July 1, 1883, 
he entered upon his vocation as proprietor of the 
livery business at Bowerston, which he still suc- 
cessfully manages, handling a superior line of 
carriages, light wagons and pleasure vehicles of 
all kinds, and keeping the best animals to be 



found in the county. Mr. Scott is also interest- 
ed in the buying and shipping of tine horses, 
and each year ships a number of tine roadsters 
to Pittsburgh and other eastern city markets, 
where he enjoys a deserved reputation. June 
19, 1884, he was united in marriage with Lizzie 
J. Ford, a native of Harrison County, and a 
daughter of Louis and Mary M. Ford, residing 
near Deersville, and the results of this union 
have been three children: Olive Blanche, Harry 
and Lucille Mary, the latter two being twins. Mr. 
Scott is a respected member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and in political faith is a 
stanch Republican. He is a progressive and 
enterprising citizen, and holds the esteem of all 
who know him. 



JOHN McKIBBEN, a prosperous farmer of 
Moorefield Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
is a son of George and Martha (Brocaw) 
McKibben. George McKibben is a son of 
Richard, whose father, a native of Ireland, im- 
migrated in an early day to the United States 
and settled in Allegheny County, Penn. Rich- 
ard was born in Allegheny County, Penn., in 
1 742. where he grew to manhood. He wedded 
three times. His first wife was a Miss Coulter; 
the second a Miss Robison, and the third was 
Sarah Brocaw. To this last union were born 
eight children, byname: Richard, Joseph, Sam- 
uel, Thomas, William, Rebecca, Jane and 
George. About 1790 Richard migrated with 
his family to Warrentowrj, Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
and entered a large tract of land. He remained 
there only a short time, when he removed to 
Belmont County, thence to Harrison County, 
and thence to Morgan County, Ohio, where he 
died in 1827. His son, George, was born in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, September 15, 1804, 
and grew to manhood iu Jefferson and Belmont 
Counties. In 1828 lie married Miss Brashers, 
who became the mother of one son. Jesse, who 
now resides in Illinois. This wife lived only a 
short time after the birth of the son, and in 
L830 George McKibben married Miss Martha 



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Brocaw. To this union were born two sons: 
George, in Nottingham Township, Harrison 
County, and John, our subject. This wife died 
in a few years, and Mr. McKibben married, for 
his third wife, Miss EleaDor Morrison, by whom 
were born three children, namely: William, 
Eleanor and Richard, the latter residing with 
his father. This wife lived but a few years 
after marriage, and Mr. McKibben then married 
Jane Bealle, who died in 1887. The father of 
our subject resides on his old farm in Mooretield 
Township, where he has lived many years, and 
is the oldest person residing in Mooretield Town- 
ship at this date, March, 1890. 

John McKibben was born January 27, 1833, 
in the southern part of Athens Township, Har- 
rison Co. , Ohio, where he grew to manhood and 
received a common- school education. January 
3, 1856, he married Miss Isabelle McMillan, who 
was bom in Athens Township, October 6, 1829, 
a daughter of Charles and Rosanna (Gilmore) 
McMillan, natives of Ireland, who emigrated to 
New York City in 1806, and thence to Harrison 
County, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. McKib- 
ben remained in Athens Township for two years, 
then came to Mooretield Township, Harrison 
County, where he has since resided. In 1859 
he purchased the farm he now owns, which con- 
tains sixty-four acres on Section 31, Mooretield 
Township. Our subject and wife are parents of 
six children, named George, J. C.,Mary E. and 
Sarah B., still at home; William, in Moore- 
field Township, who is married, and Thomas C, 
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. McKibben are mem- 
bers of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. 
Politically Mr. McKibben is a Republican. 



DR. HENRY C. BLACK. The physician 
I occupies one of the most responsible, as 
^ ' well as confidential, relations in our so- 
cial existence. To him are intrusted our 
innermost secrets, as well as the lives and wel- 
fare of our dearest friends. To worthily and 
acceptably till such a position is one of the 
most difficult tasks ever imposed on man. Such 



a task, however, we find is assumed by Dr. 
Henry C. Black, who was born December 25, 
1825, in Guernsey County. Ohio. Daniel Black, 
the grandfather of our subject, was a native of 
Ireland, where he was married, and shortly 
prior to the War of the Revolution he came 
with his family to America. His brother, James, 
came with him, and enlisted with the patriots 
for the tierce struggle which ensued between 
the forces of England and the colonies. The 
family of Daniel Black consisted of the follow- 
ing named children : James, Joseph K. , Daniel, 
Ralph, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth. Soon 
after his arrival Mr. Black located in Virginia, 
where he remained until 1803, when, with his 
family, he came to Guernsey County, Ohio, where 
he entered and afterward improved a large tract 
of land. He was closely allied with the move- 
ments of progression and enterprise, and was 
among those of the higher intelligence and cult- 
ure in his county. He, together with his life's 
companion, now quietly rests near the old home- 
stead where so many years of their life were 
spent. Joseph K. Black, the second child of 
the family, was born April 16, 1794, in Virginia, 
and came with his parents to Guernsey County, 
where his early life was spent in attending the 
common schools of his neighborhood, and teach- 
ing. He enlisted in the War of 1812, and, 
with others, was occupied in guarding the bor- 
ders of the lakes. On August 10, 181S, he was 
married to Ann Eliza, daughter of Joseph 
Hutchinson, a resident of Loudoun County, Va. , 
and immediately after marriage they engaged in 
agriculture in Guernsey County, where they re- 
mained until 1832, when they removed near the 
town of Cambridge, same county. There were 
born to their union the following named chil- 
dren: Lucretia (Mrs. John Scott), in Iowa; 
Clarinda (Mrs. Josephus Pugh), also in Iowa; 
Cephas N.j in Cambridge, Ohio; Gain R., in 
Peoria, 111. ; Caroline (Mrs. George Scott), in 
Cambridge, Ohio; Henry C, in Freeport; 
Eliza (Mrs. Joel Linkhart), in Iowa; Charlotte 
(Mrs. R. I. Thaker, deceased); Talleraynd H, 
in Minnesota, and Mary C. (Mrs. William 



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Scott), in Ohio. A strong and ardent follower 
of Henry Clay, Joseph K. Black took an act- 
ive part in the promulgation of that statesman's 
theories, and the advancement of the principles 
of the Whig party. He was a justice of the 
peace for his county during fifteen consecutive 
years, and this was the only office he would ever 
accept. On October 28, 1850, he died, and 
was buried at Cambridge, where his wife was 
also laid to rest. She died November 27, 1874. 
Henry C. Black spent his early life on the 
home place, and at the age of fourteen com- 
menced to carry the mail from Cambridge to 
Coshocton. The difficulties and dangers attend 
ing this undertaking at this period, by one so 
young, is best described by the following extract 
from the Guernsey Times : 

On the morning of the 6th of .Inly. IS10, I com- 
menced lo carry the mail from Cambridge via Libcily 

anil Jacobsport to Coshocton. Being a small boy, too 
young to legally cany the United States mail, the under- 
taking appeared to me to be a huge one. There was 
no bridge over Wills ('reck at Liberty at that time; 
just above the mill there was a Batboat, with a rope 
and pulleys attached, in which I crossed, pulling my- 
self and horse over. The rope and pulleys would 
sometimes get out of order, when I had either to ford 
the creek below the mill or hunt some one to ferry me 
over. I have often been poled over in a flatboat by a 
young lady, a Miss Gibson. I think; she could pole a 
boat equal to most men. Never having had an op- 
portunity of thanking her. I will do so now most 
heartily, although I sometimes thought thai she kept 
me waiting a little longer than was necessary. She is 
the only woman I ever " called on " with tears in my 

eyes Two miles helow Liberty, ai the residence of 
Alexander .Mitchell, Esq., I stopped each day to feed my 
horse-. I fed in a. trough under a large apple tree, and a 
half mile farther on I deposited weekly a package of 

the Guernsey Times in a box made for tin- purpose. 

nailed to " Ike " Miski nimbi's gate-post. 1 crossed Wills 
Creek again on my route, at Joseph Hazlett's, now Lin- 
ton Mills. Here we bad neither bridge nor boat; it was 
a soft, muddy fording on one side and rockj on 

the other, and always reminded me of the fording 

when- Wetzel lay in anibudi for the Indiana 1 several 
times ventured in w hen I had to swim my horse to 
reach the opposite shore, getting myself and mail com- 
pletely wet, for which the postmaster never failed to 
scold me. If the creek was tOO deep to ride 1 would 
go down to Mr. Miskimniin's, where there was a sort' 
of draw-bridge; but when the water got too high for 
the bridge I was compelled lo get some one to row me, 

with saddle and mail-bags, in a skill, and lead my 
horse. Bwimming behind. One of my hardest tripswas 
in the last <>f January, 1842. Going down on Tuesday, 

the loads were very muddy and the creek high, bill 
that night it turned suddenly cold, and the road 8 were 
as rough as it was possible for them to be. I got up in 
the morning, fed my horse and wailed until after sun 
rise, but there was no stir or appearance of breakfast, 
,;i 



so I started homeward without breakfast. It was very 
cold; I came on to Jacobsport, ten miles; there was no 
fire in the post-office. I got the mail changed, and 
turned northward around the great bend of Wills 
( 'reek and over the largest hill I ever crossed in ( >hio, 
on the Evansburg road, south of Malalt's Run. I 
reached Squire Mitchell's at one o'clock, both cold and 
hUDSry; I led my horse, as usual, under the apple tree, 

and amused myself by stamping, pounding my knees, 
and. like the "little philosopher,' trying " not to think 

about it." At this stage Miss Mitchell came out to me 
with a great, large doughnut, smoking hot. It was as 
large as a dinner-plate. I ate it ferociously; I had 
eaten doughnuts before, and have eaten a great many 
since, but that of Miss Mitchell's was the doughnut of 
my life. I reached home about nine o'clock at night, 
whb my feet so badly frozen that the nail came oft 
one of my great toes. I had many rough trips, but this 
one was the severest. 

When the weather was pleasant and the roads 
good I enjoyed the business. The first dollar that I 
could ever call my own I made by carrying packages, 
bundles, etc.. for person 8 along the road. During the 
time I carried the mail. Jacob Ferguson. A. J. Dunlap 
ami Isaiah Mcllvar were postmasters at Cambridge, 
Jesse Smith at Liberty, and Dr. Williams and John 
Johnson at Jacobsport. all kind and obliging gentle- 
men. 1 can recollect some of the frequenters of the 
post-office when the mail would reach Jacobsport: 
Judge Johnson. Dr. Anderson and Dr. Ferguson; at 
Liberty, John Gibson. N. Luccock and Dr. Milligan. 
A generation has passed away since that time, and 
doubtless many of those men are gone. 

H. C. Black. 

Freeport, Ohio. December 1, 1873. 

Not satisfied with the limited advantages of 
the common schools of that day, our subject, in 
1846, attended a select school taught by Prof. 
McKelvey, a graduate of Edinburgh, Scotland. 
Here he pursued a course of higher mathematics, 
intending at that time to become an engineer. 
During the years 1847 and 1848 he taught 
school in the vicinity of Cambridge. He has 
all his life been a close reader and deep thinker, 
pursuing a course of private study, making a 
specialty of mathematics, as is exemplified by the 
many choice works contained in his library on 
this science. He subsequently determined to 
enter one of the professions,and accordingly chose 
that of physician, entering the office of Dr. S. 
F. Marquis, one of the leading praetitionere of 
his section. His progress was rapid and highly 
satisfactory to his preceptor, and after a two 
years' course he passed a satisfactory examination, 
and was given a diploma, entitling him to prac- 
tice anywhere in the State. Ho located in An 
trim, where ho resided until 1852, when he 
came to Freeport, and has here since remained, 



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HAERISON COUNTY. 



where his ability is recognized and appre- 
ciated. As an obstetrician he has remarkable 
success, losing only one case in 1,000. Repub- 
lican in principle, he has always supported that 
party, and he has given to its aid much time 
from his professional duties. He and his family 
are members of the Presbyterian Church at Free- 
port, and are among the leading citizens of that 
town. Mr. Black has been twice married: De- 
cember 14, 1848, he was united to Eebecca Mc- 
Carty, sister of Prof. H. D. McCarty, late State 
superintendent of Kansas schools. The issue 
of this marriage was four children: Clelia De- 
France (Mrs. James C. Carver), in Cambridge; 
and R. ML, B. H. and Ottis K., in Freeport. 
On November 25, 1881, Mrs. Black died, and 
December 31, 1885, the Doctor was married to 
Mrs. Jennie L. Hayes, a graduate of Lebanon 
College, and successful teacher of Tuscarawas 
and other counties. Mrs. Black is an only sis- 
ter of W. H. Lanning of the well-known banking 
firm of McKinley & Lanning, of Hastings, Neb. 
Dr. Black, has, on account of his advanced age, 
ceased wholly from making night calls, and, al- 
though often summoned, does not respond. 
Since his duties began he has faithfully dis- 
charged them, and has the satisfaction of know- 
ing that he has the respect of all. 



JOHN WESLEY HEASTAN. a prominent 
farmer and stock-raiser of Monroe Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, is a son of John 
Heastan, a native of Pennsylvania, who 
had immigrated with his parents to Ohio in its 
pioneer period. They located in Monroe Town- 
ship, and there, amidst the privations of the 
pioneer period, John grew to manhood. He mar- 
ried Mary Hines, who was born in Westmoreland 
County, Penn. , and reared near Cadiz, Ohio, 
and a daughter of Christopher and Jane ( Jeffers) 
Hines. Her father was a native of Ireland. 
Mr. and Mrs. Heastan began life for themselves 
in Monroe Township, in a log cabin, and began 
to clear their land, the country being a com- 
plete wilderness, and they di«l much toward the 



country's improvement and progress. They 
were consistent members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, in which, for years, he was a 
trustee. Eleven children were born to this 
union, of whom two sons and six daughters still 
survive. One son, David M. , graduated at 
Scio College, and entered the ministry of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and died while 
filling a charge in West Virginia. 

J. W. Heastan, our subject, is the fourth 
child in order of birth. He was born in Monroe 
Township, Harrison County, January 8, 1840, 
and his early life was spent on the farm with 
his parents. His educational advantages were 
limited to the early district school, but he after- 
ward attended the academy at New Hagerstown. 
In 1863 he married Mary J. Bower, a daughter 
of Jacob and Anne Bower, and a grand daughter 
of the pioneer after whom Bowerston was 
named. They first located on a small farm in 
Monroe Township, but now have 142 acres of 
valuable land and a handsome residence, erected 
in 1880. Both are respected members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. 
Heastan is a class-leader, and for years has been 
a trustee. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. 
Heastan and his family hold an enviable position 
in the township and county, socially. 



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'HOMAS H. BINNS, stock-raiser and 
farmer, of Short Creek Township, Har- 
•ison County, was born near Harrisville, 
Ohio, the sixth day of the seventh month, 
1857, and is the son of David and Rebecca (Hall) 
Binus. He spent his early life at home upon 
the farm, and received the advantages of an 
ordinary education in the Friends school at 
Harrisville and Barnesville, and at the age of 
sixteen years he began life for himself as a farm 
laborer. 

In the fall of 1877 he purchased a farm of 
forty acres in Short Creek Township, and located 
thereon. He subsequently added thirty acres 
to the original purchase, and sold his place in 
18S9. In 1879 he married Alza J. Steer, a 



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native of Belmont County, Ohio, and a daughter 
of Nathan and Mary J. Steer, whose parents 
were early Bottlers. Three children Lave been 
born to thern: Ida Mary, Clara and Myra H. 



If AMES M. BRADFORD, for over sixteen 
w I years an esteemed citizen of Scio, Harrison 
\JJ County, was born February 28, 1821, at 
Cadiz, Ohio. The first of this family were 
Scotch people, who came to these shores at an 
early date, and are supposed to have been 
Puritans. James Bradford, grandfather of our 
subject, was a native of Lancaster County, Penn., 
ami his son, James, was born in Washington 
County, same State. The latter married Mary, 
daughter of James Morrison, of Washington 
County, Penn., and about the year 1800 they 
made their home in Cadiz, Ohio, where he car- 
ried on carpentering and died in 1830, at the 
age of forty years. The widowed mother then 
returned to her old home in Washington Coun- 
ty, Penn., taking her children with her, and 
there married her second husband, David Wat- 
son, of Pennsylvania. She died in that State 
at the age of eighty-one years, the mother by 
hi-]' first marriage of three children: James M. ; 
David, in Washington County, Penn., and Eliza, 
in Scio, Harrison County. 

James M. Bradford, when fourteen years of 
age, went to New Athens, Harrison County, 
where he learned the tanning business, remain- 
ing three years, and then resided in Deersville 
and Franklin, same county, in all thirteen years. 
In 1N74 he came to Scio. where he now lives a 
retired life, having rented his farm, which he 
had bought near Franklin. In 1844 Mr. Brad- 
ford was married to Julia Ann Lewis, of Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, daughter of William and 
Mary Lewis, both now deceased. By this union 
one child was born, named Ann Eliza, who was 
first married to Dr. Kennedy, afterward to 
Marian dates, and is now living in Pratt Coun- 
ty. Kas. Squire Bradford, in his political pre- 
ferments, was first a Whig, becoming afterward, 
on the formation of the party, a Republican. 



He has never sought office, but while a resident 
of Franklin Township.he served for twelve years 
as a justice of the peace. He and his wife are 
members of the United Presbyterian Church, 
opposite which his home, a commodious and 
comfortable one, stands. 



DF. HESS. The Hess family are among 
the early settlers of Maryland, and are 
_^ ' of German descent. The first of the 
family to come to Ohio was John Hess, 
who settled in Knox County, where he erected 
a flouring mill, which he carried on for many 
yeai's. He was also a millwright by trade, and 
tinder his supervision were many of the mills 
in that vicinity erected. His son, John, father 
of D. F. Hess, was born November 15, 1814, 
and came with his father to Ohio. His earliest 
infancy was associated with milling and mill 
building, and at the age when many young men 
are deciding in what they shall engage he had 
well mastered the details of the business, and 
was fully occupied in the construction of mills 
in the various parts of the section in which he 
lived. His business grew gradually and finally 
extended over many counties, where he had a large 
force of men. In this business, and also in the 
running of mills, he engaged until his death. In 
1835 he had married Susan Arnst, who survived 
their marriage but a short time, leaving at her 
death one child. Charles A., now a resident of 
Jefferson County. For his second wife John 
Hess married Catherine E. Simmonds, a res- 
ident of Carroll County, Ohio. She bore him 
the following family: Sarah, Mrs. James All- 
baugh; Margaret A., Mrs. Solomon Oler; Susan, 
deceased; Mary Ann. deceased; John, deceased; 
George, Samuel, D. F., William, David, Joseph 
and Emma. Mrs. Frank Coyle. On August 28, 
1889, Mr. Hess passed away, and was buried at 
East Springfield, Jefferson County; Mrs. Hess 
died June \'.\, lS.S.'i. The family were members 
of the U. B. Church, and were liberal sup 
porters of it. 

D. F. Hess was born October 7, 1854. in 



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HARRISON COUNTY. 



Carroll County, Ohio. His life has been largely 
spent in Tuscarawas County, where for many 
years he has been engaged in the milling busi- 
ness, in which his whole life had been spent, and 
to-day he is accounted one of the best mill- 
ers in eastern Ohio. At the age of seventeen 
he started in life for himself, working at his 
trade of miller and millwright, in Carroll and 
Tuscarawas Counties, and in 1S83 purchased the 
Freeport Mill, which he has conducted since. 
Since his control of the mill he has vastly im- 
proved it, putting in entirely new machinery 
and all of the latest improvements, increasing 
the capacity from fifty barrels to 150 per day. 
His trade is large, and extends over a radius of 
fifteen miles, and is gradually increasing, as his 
work is satisfactory and of an extremely high 
grade. In politics, while not taking an active 
part in the struggle, still he usually supports 
the Democratic nominee. Mr. Hess is an en- 
terprising and energetic man, and a valuable 
addition to any place. Being a self-made man, 
he is deeply interested in the advancement of 
the section in which he resides, and always 
takes an active part in the prosecution of any 
movement for the welfare or benefit of the town- 
ship, village or community. 



JOHN ADDLEMAN, merchant, Bowerston, 
Harrison County, was born in Monroe 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, October 
16, 1823. His father, George Addleman, 
was a native of Virginia, and when a small boy, 
went with his parents to Greene County, Penn., 
where he grew to manhood, and married Eliza- 
beth Prong, a native of that State. In 1820 
George Addleman, with his wife, came to Har- 
rison County, Ohio, and located on the farm in 
Monroe Township, on which the subject of this 
sketch was born. After a residence of five years 
on this farm, he and his wife returned to Pennsyl- 
vania, where another period of five years was 
passed, when they again came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, and located on a new farm. Mrs. 
Elizabeth Addleman died about the year 1S50, 



and, later, Mr. Addleman married Mrs. Elizabeth 
Price, widow of John Price. At the advanced 
age of nearly ninety-seven years, George Addle- 
man passed away, January 30, 1886. 

John Addleman was reared, like all other 
pioneer boys, to hard work and physical endur- 
ance of toil. His home was in the wilderness, 
and many a fine drove of deer did he see roam- 
ing through the forest. In those primitive days 
the pioneer threshed his grain with the flail and 
by tramping it out with horses. The nearest 
market place to the Addlemans was Steuben- 
ville, Ohio, about forty miles distant, and, after 
hauling their threshed wheat to that point, they 
would sell it at twenty-five cents or thirty cents 
per bushel, but would have to pay exorbitant 
prices for any "store goods" they might bring 
back for family consumption. The educational 
facilities consisted of those furnished by the 
subscription schools, and those could be availed 
of only a few weeks in each winter; but in these, 
however, our subject laid the foundation of an 
education that was developed to the full, later 
in life. December 14, 1843, John Addleman 
married Miss Charity M. Jones, who was born 
December 7, 1824, in Harrison County, Ohio, 
and whose parents, Henry and Amy Jones, were 
early pioneers of Nottingham Township, in the 
same county. In 1853 Mr. Addleman, with his 
wife, settled in Bowerston, then comprising a 
few dwelling-houses, one store and a blacksmith 
shop, and situated in the wilderness. Here Mr. 
Addleman, who had learned the trade of cabinet- 
making in his young manhood, to which he 
added carpentering, opened up in this line of busi- 
ness, and successfully conducted the same until 
1870, when he established himself in the furni- 
ture business exclusively, which he still carries 
on. To Mr. and Mrs. Addleman have been born 
nine children, of whom four are still living. 
Both parents are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Addleman 
is a Republican, although he was originally a 
Democrat. For the past ten years he has served 
as treasurer of Monroe Township; he was elected 
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has held the office ever since; he is a charter 
member and treasurer of Centennial Lodge No. 
94, K. of P. , at Bowerston, and a member of E. 
M. Lyon Post, No. 405, G. A. R., at Bowerston. 
In 1SIU Mr. Addleman enlisted in Company B, 
One Hundred and Seventieth O. N. G., and took 
part in the engagements at Harper's Ferry, 
Winchester, Maryland Heights and other places, 
and was honorably discharged at Columbus. 

George W. Addleman, eldest son of the sub- 
ject of this sketch, enlisted in Company A, One 
Huudred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., and died 
in service, at Martinsburg, Va., April 18, 1863, 
at the age of eighteen years and nine months. 



DR. R. J. PUMPHREY, of Freeport, as a 
young physician is taking a leading po- 
' sitiou in his profession in Harrison and 
adjoining counties. He was born March 
10, 1862, in Washington Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where his father, B. W. Pumphrey, 
was a long time resident. In early youth he 
was given the instruction of the common schools, 
which he supplemented by a course of study at 
Scio College, and in 1883 he entered the College 
of Medicine and Surgery of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
After his first year he was selected as demon- 
strator of anatomy, owing to his marked ability 
in that line, and in the spring of 1885 he grad- 
uated with high honors; then immediately com- 
menced the practice of his profession at Free- 
port, where he has since remained. His prac- 
tice is a large and growing one, and he is very 
successful in his treatment of intricate cases. 

For many years the Doctor was a Repub- 
lican, but lias for the past few years been a mem- 
ber of the Prohibition party. On February 19, 
1884, he was^mariied to Mary E. Gray, and to 
this union his only child. Claude, was born. In 
church matters Dr. Pumphrey takes an active 
part, as a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and for many years he has been super- 
intendent of its Suuday -school, and is now a 
class leader. 




LBERT JOHNSON. The character of 
every community is largely influenced 
by the life of some of its members, who, 
by their daily example, their honesty and 
uprightness and their irreproachable character, 
may have gained the respect and esteem of all. 
Such meu are the landmarks in the progress of 
a county, State or nation, and largely determine 
and modify its financial, social and religious de- 
velopment. Such a man was Albert Johnson, 
who was a native of Short Creek Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, born November 30, 1823. His 
early life was spent with his grandfather Will- 
iam, who was a native of Pennsylvania, born 
May 26, 1776. In his early life Mr. William 
Johnson was married to Agnes Pickens, who 
■was a native of Pennsylvania, born May 15, 
1781. They were engaged in agriculture which 
they followed in Pennsylvania until 1804, when 
with their family they removed to Harrison 
County, Ohio, and settled in Short Creek Town- 
ship, where they remained until their death. 
Their life was one of continual struggle and 
hardship, but was borne cheerfully and patiently. 
Their family consisted of the following named 
children-: Susannah, Mary L., Margaret, John, 
Martha, Josiah, Razzel, Temperance, William, 
Elizabeth, Agnes, Rebecca, Abram, Margaret 
and Albert. Mr. Johnson was a strong Whig 
in his political views, largely interested in the 
success of his party, and he and his wife were 
faithful members of the Presbyterian Church at 
Crab Apple, Belmont County. Mr. Johnson 
died January 7, 1855, and was buried in Crab 
Apple Cemetery; his wife survived him until 
February 24, 1864, when she, too, was called to 
her reward, and their remains now rest side by 
side. Their lives were remarkable for their up- 
rightness, and their death, coming to them when 
they were at such advanced ages, seemed but 
the passing to the eternal home. From his 
early youth Mr. Albeit Johnson was accustomed 
to hard w<nk and strict economy. He received 
a practical education at the schools of his ueigh- 
borhood, and by subsequent reading and obser- 
vation had so added to his early trainiug that at 



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his death he was rated among the most intelli- 
gent men in his section. In 1801 he was united 
in marriage with Rachel Conaway, daughter of 
Charles Conaway, a resident of Harrison County. 

Charles Conaway' s early life was spent in 
the ordinary pursuits of youth, attending the 
schools during winter, and the remainder of the 
year attending to the duties of the farm. Soon 
after he left home he met and married Fannie, 
a daughter of Benjamin Arnold, a resident of 
Maryland, and after marriage the young couple 
located in Archer Township, Harrison County, 
Ohio, where they remained until 1861, when 
they removed to Richland County, Ohio, and 
there passed the rest of their days, he dying in 
1870, and his faithfnl wife two years later. 
Their children were Benjamin, John, Sophia 
Ann, William, Elizabeth, Michael, Mary, Charles, 
Rachel, Susannah, Fannie Jane, and Enoch W., 
who enlisted in the Ninety-eighth O. V. I., in 
August, 1802, and was sent immediately to the 
front, where, in the battle of Perryville, he was 
killed. Mr. Conaway was a strong Democrat, 
and an earnest worker in the party. He and 
his family were members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church at Bethel. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Albert 
Johnson located on a farm in Short Creek Town- 
ship, Harrison County, where they remained 
until 1872, when they removed to the place 
where the family now reside, in Athens Town- 
ship. The fruit of their union were Martha 
Jane (who married Dr. W 7 hittaker, but survived 
only a short time, leaving one child, who resides 
with Mrs. Johnson); Carrie May and Charles O, 
both at home. Mr. Johnson was an active 
worker and leader in his party; was a strong 
Abolitionist, and an earnest supporter of the 
principles of protection. While not an office- 
seeker, still he never failed in doing his portion 
of the political work. He was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church of New Athens, and was 
among its strong supporters. He took a deep 
interest in the progress of his county, and was 
ever ready to render what assistance was possi- 
ble. He was entirely a self-made man, and 



during a life of hard work and abstemiousness, 
coupled with good judgment and business fore- 
sight, succeeded in amassing a comfortable com- 
petency. At his death, which occurred Decem- 
ber 10, 1886, his farm consisted of 250 acres, 
situated one mile east of New Athens, well im- 
proved and stocked, and furnished with excel- 
lent buildings. His family, who are also mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church, now reside on 
the farm, and are retaining the esteem of all. 
Mr. Johnson departed this life highly respected 
and deeply mourned by all. 




!( LEXANDER LOGAN is of Irish descent, 
l\ his grandfather, John Logan, having 
been born in County Donegal, Ireland, 
in 1750. He married Martha Miller, 
and reared the following family: John, James, 
William and Samuel. He came to America a 
short time before the Revolutionary War, as a 
"stowaway,"' and was compelled, oq his arrival in 
this country, to work out his passage. During the 
Revolutionary War he came as a scout to Ohio, 
and near the city of Chillicothe, with others, 
had a tight with the Indians, in which the party 
were all killed except Mr. Logan, who found 
safety in hiding. He lived until 1S50, when he 
died at the ripe old age of one hundred years. 
Samuel Logan, son of John, was born May 17, 
1801, in Allegheny County, Penn., where he 
grew to manhood, and was married to Elizabeth 
Fulton, a cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor 
of the steamboat. Their children were John, 
Samuel, James, Robert and William (twins), 
Jesse, Mary, Elizabeth and Alexander. The 
family remained in Pennsylvania until 1842, 
when they came to Harrison County and set 
tied near Tippecanoe, where the father died 
March 16, 1865, and the mother pecember 24, 
1877. Mr. Logan was a tanner by trade, and 
during his residence in Pennsylvania followed 
that exclusively, but after coming to Ohio he 
carried on farming. 

Alexander Logan was born in Allegheny 
County, Penn., December 12, 1S2S, and re. 



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mained there until twelve years of age. when 
his parents brought him to Washington Town 
ship, Harrison Comity, where he lias Miice re- 
sided. On March 7, 1807, he was married to 
Matilda Copeland, daughter of James Cope- 
land, and four children have been born to them: 
Ann E., Oceola, Samuel C. and Walter E. Mr. 
Logan, like his ancestry, has always \)ocn a Re- 
publican, and has given that party his hearty 
support. The Logan family have ever been 
identified with the church, usually the United 
Presbyterian, and Alexander Logan's own im- 
mediate family are among the members of the 
Dnited Presbyterian Church at Tippecanoe, in 
which he has been trustee for several years. 
The family have always been known for their 
enterprise, excellent judgment and good busi- 
ness qualifications, as well as for their honesty 
and truthfulness. 




ARK HOGUE (deceased), who was one 
the earliest settlers and best known cit- 
izens of Washington Township. Harri- 
son County, was born June '28. 1802, in 
Allegheny County, Penn., where for many years 
his father, Robert, had resided. Robert Hogue 
was, in his early manhood, married to Phoebe 
Hamell, who bore him nine children — six sons 
and three daughters. Among the early sett Jits 
of Washington Township were Robert and his 
wife, and like the majority of new comers were 
in >t well endowed with worldly possessions, but 
by hard work and economical management they 
succeeded in acquiring a small farm, on which 
they resided. Mr. Hogue was a Democrat, and 
was energetic in the furtherance of his party's 
principles; he and his family were members of 
the Presbyterian Church, aud were among its 
consistent and constant attendants. 

Their son, Mark Hogue, was a strong and 
vigorous child, both physically and mentally, 
and was early instructed in the duties and re- 
sponsibilities of life. He early espoused relig- 
ion, and was during his whole life an active 



aud zealous supporter of his church, giving lib- 
erally to its support. His educational advan- 
tages were limited, but such was the natural 
bent of his mind that he readily absorbed the 
rudiments of any education, and devoted much 
of his leisure to the study of economic and polit- 
ical subjects. He was a life-long Democrat, 
( always just to his opponeuts, though never yield- 
ing to their arguments in favor of their cause. 
His innate sense of right and wrong was strong- 
ly developed, and for many years he was the ar- 
bitrator for his neighborhood. In 1838 he was 
wedded to Elizabeth Cree, and to this happy 
union wen born the following named children: 
Sarah, Phoebe J., Martin V., Elizabeth A. 
(Mrs. Amasa PI : llips) deceased, George \V.. 
Hannah Retta, X try M., James W., Dorcas E., 
and Nancy, decea-ed. Mr. Hogue's life was the 
synonym of honesty, integrity and truth. He 
died December 20, lNSIl, and was buried at 
West Chester. 



I(ESSE WALLIS, New Rnmley, Harrison 
k I County. There is no greater degree of 
\J happiness to be enjoyed by the aged than 
to be able to look back over a life usefully 
spent in doing good to others. Such a life is 
the one we are now to record. Jesse Wallis 
is a son of George Wallis, who was born in 
London, England, March 2, 1778. When only 
thirteen years of age the father went to sea. in 
company with an uncle, James Wallis, and he 
led the life of a sailor until he was eighteen 
\ cars of age, or for five years, having touched, 
in those years, every seaport in the United 
States except one. Becoming tired of sea life, he 
went to New York City, where he served for five 
years as an apprentice with an ironer of ships, 
and at this he afterward continued to work as a 
journeyman until the breaking out of the War 
of 1812, when he enlisted in the regular army, 
in which he served five years as a private, at the 
end of which time he left the service and went 
to Fayette County, Penn. There he married 



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Miss Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in 1800, 
and to this union were born seven children, viz. : 
Andrew, deceased; Jesse, our subject; Marga- 
ret, deceased; John W., in Parke County, Ind. ; 
Mary, wife of Christopher Coher, in Sugar 
Grove, Wis. ; Martha, in Missouri, and Cathe- 
rine, deceased. The father of this family came 
to Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 
1831, where he worked at his regular trade as 
well as at blacksmithing. In 1840 the mother 
of the family was called to rest from her labors; 
the father died in February, 1861, at the home 
of our subject, with whom he was residing. 

Jesse Wallis, our subject, was born Feb- 
ruary 23, 1S20, in Fayette County, Penn. He 
received a practical business education in Mon- 
roe Township, Carroll County, in the old log 
school-house, attending school for about three 
months in the year; but such was his desire to 
obtain an education that, by studying at home, 
he acquired one far exceeding that of most 
people of his day. In July, 1848, he mar- 
ried Miss Susanna Kimmell, who was born 
in 1818, a daughter of John and Maria E. Kim- 
mell, who came to Rumley Township, Harrison 
County, in 1810. The Kimmells are of Grerman 
descent, and some of the best blood of their 
stanch old German ancestors flows through their 
veins. After the marriage of Mr. Wallis they 
settled in Rumley Township, Harrison County, 
and in 1855 they purchased the farm where they 
now reside, which ranks among the finest farm- 
ing lands in Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. 
Wallis are the parents of six children, namely: 
Elizabeth, wife of George Wood, in Rumley 
Ohio; William, deceased; Clatus, in Uhrichsville, 
Ohio; George, a farmer in Carroll County, Ohio; 
Samuel, in Jefferson County, Ohio, and John 
N., at home. The parents are members of the 
Lutheran Church in New Rumley; Mr. Wallis 
has held the office of justice of the peace for 
three years, and is highly respected by all. 

[Since the above was written Jesse Wallis de- 
parted this life July 2, 1890, mourned by a wide 
circle of relatives and friends, by whom he was 
always held in the highest esteem.] 



AMUEL F. DAVIDSON. Among those 
families who were prominent in the earli- 
est settlement of Harrison County, Ohio, 
none did more for its advancement than 
the Davidsons. Robert Davidson, the founder 
of the family in Harrison County, was a native 
of Pennsylvania, but in early life, having deter- 
mined to better his fortunes in the Far West, 
in company with John Crosky and Jacob Shep- 
ler, he came, in 1802, to Ohio, where they en- 
tered wild land in Harrison County. Soon after 
his arrival here he married a sister of John 
Crosky, and immediately settled on the farm he 
had entered and on which his grandson Samuel 
still lives. Here in the midst of the wilderness 
he erected a log house, which still stands as 
a mute reminder of the hardships and pri- 
vations of the early settlers. His family were 
Margaret, Elizabeth, Robert, James, Rachel, 
William and Mary. In his political views Mr. 
Davidson was a Whig and afterward a Repub- 
lican. He was identified prominently with the 
early organization of the county, and always 
took a leading interest in party work. He and 
his family were connected with the Seceder 
Church. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, after a long 
life of usefulness and toil, were called to their 
reward, and now quietly rest in Cadiz Cemetery, 
near the scenes of their labors. 

William Davidson was born in 1822, and 
spent his early youth in the duties of the farm, 
attending also, during the winter season, such 
schools as the neighborhood afforded. On Oc- 
tober 10, 1849, he was married to Christina 
Shepler, a daughter of Samuel Shepler, a resi- 
dent of Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. 
He settled on the home farm and there remained 
until April, 1887, when with his family he re- 
moved to Iowa. He had two sons: Samuel F. 
and James H, latter of whom and the mother 
both died since the writing of this sketch. A 
Whig in politics, Mr. Davidson was enthusiastic 
in his party until 1800, when he joined the 
Democratic ranks, and has since supported that 
party. Himself and family were members of 
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Samuel F. Davidson was born March 19, 
1850, in Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where he has since remained, and where his 
early youth was spent on the farm. On Novem- 
ber IS, ISt; 1 ,), he was married to Catherine M. 
Bell, daughter of Francis Bell, a resident of 
Wayne Township, Jefferson Co., Ohio. They 
settled immediately in Harrison County, Ohio, 
where they have since remained. Their chil- 
dren are Frances W., born September 25, 1871 ; 
Caroline, born February 19, 1873; Lizzie J., 
born May 15, 1875, died since the writing of 
this; Melvin S. , born August 4, 1881. In politics 
Mr. Davidson has always been a supporter of 
the Democratic ticket, and he and his family 
are members of the Disciples Church at Hope- 
dale. Mr. Davidson is the only representative 
of the Davidson family, who have been among 
the most prominent in this section, and he fully 
merits and retains the respect and esteem which 
the family have always had. 



AMTJEL STEWART was born June 25, 
1809, in Pennsylvania. His father, Arehi- 
f.i bald Stewart, a native of Ireland, in the 
latter part of the eighteenth century 
accompanied his parents to America, and his 
early life was spent in Pennsylvania, where, 
in L805, he married Margaret Donaldson, who 
bore him five children, viz.: James, Samuel, 
Mary, Isabelle and Margaret. In 181 <> he, 
with his family, came to Ohio and located near 
Cadiz, Harrison County, where, however, they 
remained but a short time, and then removed to 
Washington Township, where they purchased a 
farm, which he and his family improved. On 
March IS, 1854, he died, and was buried by the 
side of his wife, who had preceded him to the 
grave November 13, 1849. 

Samuel Stewart came to Ohio at the age of 
seven years, and spent the remainder of his life 
in Harrison County. On June 2, 1840, he was 
married to Maria Auld, daughter of William 
Auld, whose father, Samuel, was a native of Ire- 
land. His (Samuel's) family comprised the fol- 



lowing named children: John, Samuel, Mary, 
James, William, Eliza, Diana, Robert, Stewart 
and Grace. For a short time the family lived 
in Pennsylvania, but finally came to Nottingham 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where the father 
passed the rest of his days. William Auld was 
married to Mary McAdoo, who bore him one 
child, Maria, and who died in 1820. For his 
second wife Mr. Auld married Elizabeth Tood, 
who bore him children as follows: James, 
George T. and Alexander T. Mr. Auld was a 
Republican, and took quite an active part in 
politics. For many years he was a member of 
the Seceder Church, but in his later years was 
an active member of the United Presbyterian 
Church, in which faith he died January 11, 
1880. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Stewart settled in Washington Township, Har- 
rison County, with little to aid them save their 
own efforts; but they struggled bravely along, 
and by hard work and economy succeeded in 
amassing a handsome competency. Their chil- 
dren were Mary, born April 0, 1841 ; Archibald, 
born January 10, 1843; William Alexander, 
born August 16, 1845; Margaret, born Septem- 
ber 1<>, 1S47; James M., born January 25, 
1850, and Samuel D. and Thomas M., born 
November 3, 1855. From his youth Mr. Stew- 
art identified himself with the Democratic party, 
and was among its leaders in the councils of his 
section. While never an office seeker, still he 
did much for the party's success. He was a 
man whose character was irreproachable, whose 
honesty was never questioned, and who deserved 
and possessed the respect and esteem of all. 



JAMES GUTSCHALL (deceased), who in 
his lifetime was one of the oldest and most 
' successful farmers of German Township, 
Harrison County, was a son of Samuel 
and Catherine (Fisher) Gutschall, and was born 
August IS. L822, on the farm now owned by Ir- 
vin Naragon, in German Township. Samuel 
Gutschall was a son of Nicholas Gutschall, who 
(■ame to Harrison County in 1800, and entered a 



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part of Section 2, in German Township. Here 
he erected the first saw- ami grist-null ever built 
in German Township, and quite possibly the 
first ever built in Harrison County — running it 
with both horse and water power. Some of the 
stones used in grinding are still on the farm 
owned by Irvin Naragon, on which farm the 
mill was built. Samuel Gutschall was born in 
Maryland in 1795, and was brought to Ohio by 
his parents. He spent his boyhood days on the 
farm and in the mill, and when he married he 
settled on the farm nowowned by John Peepels, 
a part of the land entered by Nicholas Gut- 
schall. He had been married four times, and by 
his first wife had five children, viz. : Mary A., 
wife of Dr. Aaron Bishop, in Vinton County, 
Ohio; James, our subject; Margaret, wife of 
Jacob De Vault, a farmer living in Davis County, 
Iowa; Elizabeth, deceased wife of John Pee- 
pels; Frances, wife of George Gibson, a farmer 
in German Township. By his second wife Mr. 
Gutschall had one child, named David, now a 
farmer near Mount Pleasant, Ohio, and by his 
third wife two children were born : Samuel, de- 
ceased, and Ellen, married and living in a 
Western State. 

Mrs. Catherine Gutschall, our subject's 
mother, died when he was nine years old, and 
he afterward made his home with his aunt, Mrs. 
Elizabeth Sneddeker. As soon as he was old 
enough to labor, he worked as a farm hand for 
his neighbors for several years. On August IS. 
1850, he married Miss Susanna Smith, who was 
born in Carroll County, Ohio, November 14, 
1824. a daughter of George and Mary (Lamb) 
Smith, natives of Maryland, who came to Car- 
roll County among the early settlers. After 
marriage Mr. Gutschall bought, the farm now 
owned by Jasper Cole, on Section 0, in German 
Township, Harrison County, but in 1862 he sold 
this property, and bought his late farm of 146 
acres, which comprises some of the best land in 
German Township. Here he erected a fine resi- 
dence, which unfortunately was destroyed by 
fire in 1884. He rebuilt, however, on the same 
ground, erecting one of the finest residences in 



German Township, also one of the best barns, 
in size 40x60 feet, and having a fine basement. 
The marriage of Mr. Gutschall was blessed with 
children as follows: Parkinson, a farmer in 
Green Township, Harrison County; Catherine, 
wife of Boss Burrier, a farmer in Carroll County; 
Elizabeth, wife of Reed Osterman, at Cadiz 
Junction, Ohio; James E. and Ann, at home: 
George and Almeda (twins), former a laborer in 
Jewett, Ohio, latter wife of Edward Adrian, of 
Jewett. and Samuel, deceased. On August 16, 
1890, Mr. James Gutschall passed from earth. 



JAMES CARTER (deceased). There are 
comparatively few men who, having be- 
' gun at the foot of the ladder of success, 
have, by their own untiring efforts and 
ceaseless energy, advanced themselves to that 
height from which they can look back over the 
past and trace their progress through the diffi- 
culties with which they were beset, and experi- 
ence that perfect happiness which comes with 
the knowledge of a life well spent. Among the 
names of those few who have been the architects 
of their own fortune, and who, by their own 
personal efforts, have reached the top of the 
ladder, that of James Carter stands prominent. 
Descended from an English family of Friends, 
who came to America with AVilliani Penn, and 
with him located in Pennsylvania, James Carter 
inherited the principles of sterling integrity, 
industry and economy, the attributes of those 
people, which always manifested themselves in 
his life. He was born May lo, 1815, in Phila- 
delphia County, Penn., near the place of Penn's 
famous treaty with the Indians, and was a son 
of James and Phcebe (Tomlinson) Carter, 
worthy people of the Keystone State, where 
they died at the ages of eighty-three and fifty 
years, respectively. Of a family of eight chil- 
dren, our subject was the seventh in order of 
birth, and a brother who now resides on the 
original homestead, is the only survivor. 

The early life of James Carter was spent at 
home, and he received such advantages for an 



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education as the early subscription schools fur- 
nished. In the fall of 1833 he immigrated to 
Ohio, the journey being made partly over the 
Pennsylvania Central Railroad, over which the 
ears were drawn by horses. He located in Jef- 
ferson County, where, following year, he mar- 
ried Miss Susanna Tomliuson, a Pennsylvania!! 
by birth, and who, when but a few months old, 
came with her parents to Ohio. In the spring 
of 1839 Mr. Carter returned with his family to 
Pennsylvania, whence, a few years later, they 
moved to Ohio. In 1847 they located near 
Pleasant Grove, in Belmont County, and resided 
there until 1849, when they came to Harrison 
County, and located on a farm in Short Creek 
Township, where our subject afterward resided 
The place, which has been greatly improved by 
him, now consists of one hundred acres of fine- 
ly-improved land, and the broad and fertile 
fields give evidence of a careful husbandry. 
On October 16, 1888, Mrs. Carter passed to her 
final rest, her death occurring on their wedding 
anniversary, and at nearly the same hour, and 
June 15, 1890, Mr. Carter followed her to the 
grave. Fourteen children had blessed their 
union, and of these eleven still survive. Po- 
litically Mr. Carter was a Republican, and a 
firm believer in the principles of Protection. 
He was kind and pleasant in his manner toward 
everyone, and was highly esteemed and respected 
bv all who knew him. 



DR. WILLIAM BURGESS was born June 
i 13, 1859, in Boyd County, Ky., and is a 
' son of George Roberts Burgess, a native 
of Virginia, born of English and Scotch 
descent. George R. Burgess was born January 
25, 1814, and passed the early part of his life 
in Lawrence County. Ky. He became sheriff, 
for two terms was a member of the Legislature. 
for forty years was a justice of the peace and 
police judge, and in 1886 declined a re-election. 
In 1836 he was married to Martha M. Spurlock, 
daughter of Col. William Spurlock, who served 
in the War of 1812. 



Dr. William Burgess received his prelimi- 
nary education at the common schools, and then 
attended the academy at Catlettsburg for two 
years, after which he entered Louisville Medical 
College, from which he graduated February 20, 
1882. He at once came to Harrison County. 
Ohio, and settled in New Athens, where he has 
ever since been in active practice. On Decem- 
ber 18, 1885, he married Miss T. L. Holmes, 
and in 1886 was elected, by the board of direct- 
ors of Franklin College, professor of physiology, 
hygiene and anatomy, a position he still holds. 
In 1887 he was nominated as candidate for the 
State Senate, and ran far ahead of his ticket. 
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church of New Athens, and officiates as a local 
preacher. 



Fli ARON ROSS. One of the few surviv- 
// \\ ing native-born citizens of Cadiz Town- 
fr\^ ship, Harrison County, is the subject of 
r/ this sketch. Born July 3, 1811, he has 

spent his entire life within the borders of Har- 
rison County, and almost the entire time on the 
farm where he now resides. His father, Adam 
Ross, was a native of eastern Pennsylvania, 
where he grew to manhood and married Susan- 
nah Rowe, a native of the same State, but of 
German descent. One generation farther back 
we find John Ross, who was born in Ireland, 
whence, at an early date (probably during the 
latter years of the eighteenth century), he emi- 
grated to America and settled in Pennsylvania, 
where he met and married Miss Charlotte 
Hatcher, with whom, about the year 1804, he 
came to Harrison County, and took up from 
the Government a piece of land on which he 
made a home for the balance of his life. He 
passed from earth about the year 1830, at the 
age of eighty years. After the death of her 
husband the widow removed to the home of one 
of her sons in Morgan County, Ohio, and here 
remained until called from earth. She was the 
mother of the following named children: Adam, 
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and Polly, all of whom have closed their eyes 
to earth, the last to die being Susannah (wife of 
Miles Tipton), who departed this life August 31, 
1889, at the age of ninety one years and two 
months. 

Adam Ross., in his early manhood, learned 
the trade of a blacksmith, which, in his native 
State, for some years after his marriage, he 
followed. He came to Ohio about the same 
time as his father and mother, and here con- 
tinued toiling at the anvil until the breaking 
out of the War of 1812, when he abandoned 
the glow of the peaceful forge to face the glare 
of the hostile cannon, and proceeded to the 
front to serve his country. Fate had decreed 
that he should never return, for, being stricken 
with fever he died at his camp, at Sandusky, 
Ohio. The widow remained with her children 
on the Ohio farm until her death, which occurred 
in 1848, when she was seventy years of age. She 
was the mother of six children, namely: John, 
deceased; Adam and George (twins), the 
former now dead, the latter residing in Mis- 
souri; Caleb, deceased; Joseph and Aaron 
(also twins), Joseph being dead. 

Aaron Ross is very widely known through 
his county as a man who in his day has done 
much to the general improvement of his town- 
ship, and many a giant of the forest has gone 
down before the sturdy strokes of his ax. On 
June 16, 1853, he was united in marriage with 
Miss Nancy, daughter of Samuel and Casandra 
(Cox) Harper, and a native of Harrison County, 
where both her parents died on their farm lo- 
cated about one mile from the home of Aaron. 
Mrs. Ross still has two sisters living in Harri- 
son County, viz. : Mrs. Martha J. Johnston, in 
Franklin Township, and Mary A. (wife of N. B. 
Haverfield, in Cadiz Township). To Mr. and 
Mrs. Aaron Ross three children have been born, 
viz.: Milton B. , a farmer in Cadiz Township; 
Franklin Harper, a physician in Brooklyn, N. 
V.. and Susan E., wife of W. P. Hedges, also 
in Cadiz Township. Politically Mr. Ross has 
been a stanch Democrat, casting his first presi- 
dential vote for Andrew Jackson. Twice has he 



been nominated by his party for infirmary di- 
rector, but being a member of the party in the 
minority in the county, was both times defeated, 
although on each occasion he received the full 
strength of his party vote. Mr. Ross, though 
now well advanced in years, is still remarkably 
robust and well preserved, never using intoxi- 
cating liquors as a beverage, and entirely ab- 
staining from the use of tobacco. He and his 
faithful wife (their children, being all married 
and gone to homes of their own) now reside 
alone at the old homestead, which is situated 
some four miles from the town of Cadiz. 

The farm is cared for by the son, Milton 
B., who was born July 3, 1854, his education 
being obtained at the common schools of Cadiz 
Township. On May 2, 1877, he was married to 
Miss Anna J. , daughter of Nathan and Mary 
(Patterson) Laveley, formerly of Harrison 
County, but now residing in Kansas. After 
their marriage Milton B. and his wife came to 
their present home ori the Moravian Road, three 
miles west of Cadiz. There were born to them 
four children, viz. : Josie K. , Charles F.. Aaron 
C. and Edith O, the last named being deceased. 
In politics Mr. Ross is a Democrat, and in re- 
ligion he and his wife are members of the As- 
bury Methodist Episcopal Church. 



di ASON MILLER. The Miller family were 
among the first settlers of North Carolina, 
' and took a prominent part in the develop- 
ment of that section. The earliest one of 
whom any knowledge exists is Mason Miller, 
who was the son of one of the leading residents 
of that section. His youth was spent in his na- 
tive place, where he married Ruth Howard. 
The young couple, in whom the adventurous 
spirit was well developed, immediately left 
home and friends to settle in the wilds of Ohio, 
and there built themselves a home. After many 
days' tedious journey through the woods, where 
paths had to be cut, and rivers forded — part of 
the time walking, and sometimes riding — they ar- 
rived in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, 



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where they purchased a farm. They remained 
here but a short time, however, when they en- 
tered a large tract in Freeport Township, and 
afterward in Washington Township, Harrison 
County. Their family consisted of the follow- 
ing named children: Asa, Nathan, Stephen, Eli, 
Richard, Sarah, Mary, Edith, William and 
Thomas. Here, in the wilderness, they strug- 
gled under many difficulties, among which not 
the least to be experienced were the dangers 
from beasts of prey and the Indian. They were 
among the organizers of the Friends Church in 
their vicinity, and were active in promoting its 
success. Politically the family supported the 
Whig party, and were much interested in its 
success. They were well known and highly re- 
spected, and after a long life of usefulness the 
parents passed to their reward. 

Nathan Miller, the second son, spent his 
youth on the home place, and was active in the 
performance of the duties of the farm. In his 
early youth he was married to Amy Jones, of 
Washington Township, Harrison County, set- 
tled on a farm in that township, and remained 
there till his death. His children were Ruth 
Ann (Mrs. William Wallace), Jason, John N. , 
Ardenna J. (Mrs. Joseph Miller) and Elizabeth 
A. (Mrs. Leander Wallace). In his early life 
Mr. Miller supported the Democratic party, but 
in 1840 he joined the Whig party, and remained 
true to it until his death. He was one of the 
prominent men of his township, and was repeat- 
edly elected to its various offices. A self-made 
man, he by his own efforts succeeded in the du- 
ties of life, and, numbered among the progress- 
ive men, he ever identified himself with all 
movements for the furtherance of the interests 
of the people with whom he lived. His death 
took place in 1882 and that of his wife in 1885. 

Jason Miller, second child and eldest son of 
Nathan and Amy (Jones) Miller, was born April 
29, 1835, in Washington Township. Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where he has thus far spent his life. 
He received his education at the common schools, 
where he laid the foundation for the subsequent 
study, in which he has spent much of his leis- 



ure. In politics Mr. Miller, while a believer in 
the doctrines of the Republican party which he 
usually supports, still in local elections votes 
for the man he deems best fitted to perform the 
duties of the office. He now resides on the 
home place, where he engages in general farm- 
ing and stock-raising. An enterprising citizen 
and an excellent neighbor, Mr. Miller has well 
filled the place occupied by his father. 



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DWIN STANTON HELLER. About 
the year 1815 Anthony Heller, a native 
of Pennsylvania, emigrated from Greene 
County, that State, with his family over- 
land through an almost unbroken and trackless 
wilderness, ami located in Carroll County, Ohio, 
but soon afterward moved upon a tract of land 
which he had entered from the Government, 
which land was in what is now Harrison Coun- 
ty, then Tuscarawas County, and was in its 
primitive wilderness. Wild animals roamed at 
will through the woods, and eyed with suspicion 
and fear the encroachment upon their native 
wilds by these sturdy white men, who braved the 
dangers of a pioneer life, and claimed the vir- 
gin soil as their inheritance. Here they settled, 
and, like other pioneers, resided in their log 
cabin. Mr. Heller was a distiller, and soon 
after settling on his farm he erected his " still- 
house. " To Mr. and Mrs. Heller were born 
three sons and two daughters. Of this family 
but one survives, Mrs. Elizabeth Irvin, now in 
Lucas County, Iowa. The youngest child of 
the family was a son, Henry Boen Heller, who 
was born in Greene County, Penn., July 5, 
IS lo. He was but a babe of a few months 
when his parents first emigrated to Ohio; four 
years later they returned to Pennsylvania on a 
visit, and the entire journey was made on horse- 
back', his mother carrying him in her arms. 
The return journey, a few weeks later, was made 
in the same way. He grew to maturity with 
his parents, and enjoyed the meager advantages 
that fell to the lot of the pioneer hoys. The 
school then was held in a Ioji cabin with its rude 



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furnishings, and the teacher "boarded around" 
and was paid by subscription. To attend one 
of these early schools he and his two brothers 
would ride a horse for five miles through the 
forest, and turning the horse out to graze they 
would attend the school. At night the trusty 
horse was again called into service, to bear the 
triple load homeward. In those early times the 
settlers wore their home-made clothes, and with 
their rough clothing felt happy. Among these 
privations Henry grew to maturity, and in the 
after life of these pioneers we can easily trace 
the effect of their early training in the sterling 
integrity and sturdy determination of purpose 
that are a part of their lives. When a young 
man he served an apprenticeship at the stone 
masons' trade, and afterward followed this for 
many years. He married Mary Weyandt, a 
native of Maryland, and a daughter of John 
and Magdaline (Warner) Weyandt. Following 
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Heller located on 
a farm in Monroe Township, Harrrison County, 
where Mr. Heller engaged at his trade for 
many years. Later in life he gave this up and 
devoted his attention to farming. They resided 
here until their death. Mr. Heller was one of 
those citizens who took an active interest in the 
advancement and improvement of his county, 
and his public spirit manifested itself in many 
ways. He was widely known throughout the 
country as •'Captain Heller.'' He had for 
years been captain of an artillery company of 
State Militia, and at the outbreak of the Mexi- 
can War he went to Cadiz to enlist, but, the 
regiment being full, he was rejected. His ma- 
ternal grandfather, Peter Sharpneck, whose 
remains now lie at rest in the Lutheran Ceme- 
tery at Bowerston, was a soldier in the Revo- 
lution. Mr. Heller always took an active 
interest in the politics of the country, and al- 
though he was elected and served as appraiser, 
assessor and trustee, yet he never sought, office. 
Politically he is a stanch Democrat. 

Of a family of three sons and four daugh- 
ters, six of whom grew to maturity, and all now 
living, our subject is the third child in the order 



of his birth. He was born in a log house on his 
father's homestead, in Monroe Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, January 7, 1841. He grew to 
maturity with his parents, assisting in the sup- 
port of the family, and, although the county had 
made rapid advancement, he remembers vividly 
the old log school-house, with its split log 
benches and single desk extending around the 
room on pegs driven into the wall. In those 
early days the busy housewife would weave the 
cloth for the clothes, and our subject well re- 
members the home-made clothing of his boy- 
hood. He was twelve years of age when he 
wore a coat for the first time; but when dressed 
in his " red wampus " and "linsey" pants he 
felt as proud as though dressed in broadcloth. 
November 2."). 1 St'iS, he married Miss Maria 
Baker, a native of Monroe Township, Harrison 
County, and a daughter of Samuel and Betty 
(Orr) Baker, who were both descended from early 
pioneers of this county. Following their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Heller located on their pres- 
ent farm, in Monroe Township, Harrison County. 
They began life on limited means, but now own 
280 acres of rich land, about one mile south of 
Bowerston, where they have a pleasant home, 
surrounded by all the comforts of life. Their 
union has been blessed with one child, Betty A. 
Politically, Mr. Heller, like his father, is a 
stanch Democrat. 



JOSHUA CLARK. The earliest authentic 
history of the Clark family is of one Wal- 
ter Clark, whose family were natives of 
Pennsylvania. They were engaged in 
agriculture for several generations, and were 
among the substantial and prosperous citizens 
of the community. Joshua Clark, the father 
of our subject, now resident in Freeport, Har- 
rison Co. , Ohio, was born in Fayette County, 
Penu.. where his childhood years were spent in 
the duties that ordinarily occupy the early life 
of those resident in the country. In his early 
life he was married to Susannah Flaugh, whose 



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parents were natives of England. They com- 
meneed their married life in Pennsylvania. 
where they remained until 1804, when they 
came to Belmont County, Ohio, remaining four 
years. They then moved to Short Creek Town- 
ship, Harrison County, where they remained 
until 1831, when they came to Washington 
Township. In 1S39 they purchased the farm 
on which their son, Joshua, now resides. Their 
life was one of hardship and toil, but, never 
faltering, they ultimately reaped the reward of 
their industry and frugality, and soon rose from 
penury to comparative wealth. Their children 
were named Betsy (deceased), John (deceased), 
Abisha (in Maynard, Ohio), Mary (deceased), 
James (deceased), Hannah (deceased), Mar- 
garet (Mrs. Augustus Harris, in Freeport), Susan 
(Mrs. .lames Reeves, in Washington Township), 
and Joshua (of Freeport). From his youth the 
father was a Whig, and took an active part in 
the management of his county and township 
affairs. He and family were members of the 
Friends Church. January 17, 1868, he passed 
away, and was buried in Green Mount Ceme- 
tery. Mrs. Clark died July 6, 1853, and was 
laid to rest in Freeport Cemetery. 

Joshua Clark, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born in Short Creek Township, 
4-9-1823, and has spent his whole life in 
the county of his birth, where he has been 
known as an enterprising and representative 
citizen, being active in the advancement of I lie 
political, educational and financial interests of 
his section. He has been an enthusiastic Re 
publican since the organization of that party, 
and has done much for the advancement of his 
section. February LIS, 1862, he was married to 
Sally, daughter of Elijah Covington. Their 
married life was commenced in Washington 
Township. Harrison County, where for three 
years they managed the farm of Mrs. Clark's 
uncle. They then removed to Freeport, where 
Mr. Clark now resides. His family consists of 
two children: Walter and Pradbee. On July 5, 
1887, Mrs. Clark died and was interred in 
Green Mount Cemetery. Since the death of 



his wife Mr. Clark has remained at home with 
his two children. 

Walter Clark was born June 6, ISC,.",, j n 
Washington Township. He was early initiated 
into the calling of farming, and has since pur- 
sued it. For the past few years, he, in com- 
pany with his brother, has been engaged in the 
importation and breeding of blooded stock, con- 
sisting mainly of cattle, hogs and poultry. Their 
farm is familiarly known as Beech Land Farm, 
and has quite an extended reputation. They 
were the first to introduce the Polled Aberdeen- 
Angus cattle into the county, and they have 
twenty-five tlocks of thoroughbred poultry. On 
August 22, 1889, Mr. Clark was married to 
Ella M., daughter of Robert Albaugh, a resi- 
dent of Carroll County, Ohio, and since their 
marriage they have resided on the home place. 

Pradbee Clark was born January 27, 1868, 
and has since resided at home. He and his 
brother are members of the Republican party, 
and they are enterprising young men. and are 
destined to meet with success in their chosen 
field of work. They have been successful exhibit- 
ors at fairs and expositions. Their cattle and 
poultry, especially, are the admiration of all. and 
have gained for them many friends far and near. 




W. RAMSEY.M.D., the longest resident 
among the physicians of Hopedale, 
Green Township, Harrison County, and 
probably the oldest practitioner in I ho 
county, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, 
in 1830, a son of James and Rachel (Font) 
Ramsey, natives of Pennsylvania, the former a 
farmer by occupation. His grandfather, .lames 
Ramsey, immigrated to America from Ireland, 
of which conntry he was a native. -lames and 
Rachel Ramsej were the parents of seven chil- 
dren, of whom the subject of this sketch is the 
youngest. The father died in Columbiana 
County, and the mother in Athens County, Ohio; 
he was a Democrat in politics, and for many 
years filled the position of justice of the peace. 
A. W. Ramsey passed bis boyhood on a farm 



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in Columbiana County, attending the common 
schools of his district, then at a select school in 
Wellsville, same county, one year (1847), after 
which he commenced the study of medicine with 
Dr. Lawrence, of Hookstown, Penn. He then 
studied under Dr. Grafton, of Glasgow, Penn., 
and attended Jefferson Medical College, at 
Philadelphia, where he graduated in the spring 
of 1854. In that year the Doctor commenced 
the practice of his profession, spending one year 
with his brother-in-law in Glasgow, Penn., and 
in 1855 he came to Hopedale, where he has since 
resided, enjoying a most successfxil practice. 
In 1856 our subject was united in marriage 
with Miss Margaret Ellen, daughter of Joshua 
and Margaret Carle, who came to Harrison 
County in 1856; the mother is now living in 
Illinois; the father is deceased. To Dr. and 
Mrs. Ramsey have been born rive children, viz. ; 
Symaria, deceased; John W., in Steubenville, 
Ohio; Wesley C. , an M. D., who practices in 
Hopedale, Harrison Co., Ohio; George F. , de- 
ceased, and DeWitt Talmage, at home. The 
Doctor is a Democrat in politics, and a member 
of the F. & A. M. 



HOLMES FAMILY. Among the earliest 
settlers of Harrison County, who have, 
from its organization, been prominently 
identified with every progressive move- 
ment, are to be mentioned the Holmes family. 
William Francis Holmes, when quite a young 
man, came from Ireland to the New World, here 
to seek his fortune. Settling in Pennsylvania, 
he reared in that State a large family. His son, 
William, was married to a Miss Crouch, and, 
about the year 1802, he and his wife, together 
with his father, came to Harrison County, Ohio, 
where he entered a large tract of land, a por- 
tion of which is still in the possession of the 
family. They reared the following named chil- 
dren: Isaac, Susan, Sally and Elizabeth. The 
mother of this family died and was interred in 
Beech Spring Cemetery, and Mr. Holmes after- 
ward married Matilda Thaker. In 1862 Mr. 



Holmes departed this life, and was buried beside 
his first wife, his second spouse surviving him 
some years; she died in Mount Pleasant and 
was buried there. He and his family were 
members of the Beech Spring Presbyterian 
Church, in which he was for several years an 
elder. 

His son Isaac spent the greater part of his 
early life in applying himself to the duties of 
the farm, and attending the district schools 
from time to time. In 1833 he was married to 
Jane, daughter of Dr. Thomas Vincent, of 
Green Township, and the young couple imme- 
diately settled near the home place, where they 
remained until their death. The children born 
to this union were as follows: Sally, William 
F., Thomas V., Eliza Jane, Martha, Matilda, 
Mary, Josephine, Amanda, two who died in in- 
fancy, and Winfield S. On February 12, 1884, 
the father passed away, and was soon followed 
by his beloved wife, who was called to her long 
home July 17 following. They now sleep their 
last sleep, side by side, in the cemetery in 
Green Township. They were members of the 
Hopedale Presbyterian Church, which society 
his energy and native shrewdness did much 
to assist, and of which he held the office of 
trustee many years. He was an active, ener- 
getic Republican, and was the leader of his 
party in his neighborhood, never failing to give 
his full support to all measures tending to bene- 
fit the community at large. He persistently re- 
fused to accept office, though repeatedly solicit- 
ed to do so. Mr. Holmes was highly endowed, 
gifted with shrewd business sagacity and fore- 
sight, and, though physically weak, was, men- 
tally, a giant. His word was never disputed, 
and his truth, honesty and integrity won for 
him the respect and esteem of all. 

William F. Holmes, eldest son of the 
above, was born on Christmas day, 1836, in 
Green Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. His 
early life was passed in the way usual with 
farmers' sons, his education being confined to 
the common schools, except a few months' 
attendance at Hopedale Normal College. On 




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Amanda S. Holmes. 




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October 10, 1800, be was married to Amanda S. 
Baxter, who was born April 25, 1836, a daugh- 
ter of Samuel Baxter, a resident of Green 
Township, Harrison County. After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Holmes remained on the old 
Holmes place, near Miller's Station, until the 
following spring, when they removed to the 
farm near Beech Spring, remaining there until 
April, 1872, when they removed to his present 
residence in the same township. The record of 
the children born to this union is as follows: 
Nancy Jane, born July 24, 1801; Bartley E., 
born September 26, 1802; a daughter, unnamed, 
born October 9, died October 19, 1800; Mary 
Baxter, born October 31, 1870. The mother of 
these children died October 13, 1881, and was 
buried in Green Township Cemetery, in Green 
Township. On December 24, 1 884, Mr. Holmes 
was married to Hannah J., daughter of William 
Starr, of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, 
Ohio. Mr. Holmes is an enthusiastic Repub- 
lican, taking a deep interest in the success of 
his party, and lias been honored by election to 
the position of township trustee and other minor 
offices at various times. He is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church at Hopedale, of which he 
has been trustee several years. 

Thomas V. Holmes, the second son born to 
Isaac and Jane (Vincent) Holmes, was born 
March 14, 1840, on the old home place in Green 
Township, Harrison Count v, Ohio. During his 
boyhood and early youth he attended the dis- 
trict schools, and at the opening of the Hope- 
dale Normal School he was among the first to 
enter. Here he remained five years, when he 
was summoned to take the management of the 
home farm. On October 21, 1809, he was mar- 
ried to Melissa Jane Harrah, who was born 
February L3, IS IT, a daughter of John Harrah. 
of Jefferson County, (his State. To this union 
were born, on the several dates given, the fol- 
lowing named children: William Winfield, An- 
gusl 17. L871; John Isaac, December 26, 1873; 
Flora Jane, December 1 I. 1879; Mary Vincetta, 
November 21, 1882, and Thomas Vincent, Feb- 
ruary 2. 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes have 



lived on the homestead in Green Township ever 
since their marriage. They are prominent 
members of the Presbyterian Church at Hope- 
dale, of which he has been an elder for many 
years, and of the Sunday-school, of which he 
has had charge since its organization, much of 
its success being due to his efforts. In politics 
he is a stanch Republican, and has been trustee 
of his township several terms. 

The two brothers, William F. and Thomas 
V. Holmes, are now the only representatives in 
this county left of the Holmes family so well 
and so favorably known, and who, from their 
earliest residence here to the present time, have 
commanded, by their exemplary lives, the un- 
qualified respect of all. 



JjEPHTHA BARGER, the subject of this 
l. 1 1 sketch, is a well-known resident of Harri- 
Xj) son County, Ohio, and was born in Cadiz 
Township, January 29, 1840. His early 
life was spent at home, assisting in the duties 
of the home, and attending the common schools 
during their continuance. At the age of six- 
teen, desirous of acquiring more of an education 
than was afforded in his district, he entered 
Hopedale College, where he remained one year. 
He then entered the Demascoville College, in 
Mahoning County, Ohio, where he also remained 
one year. During his efforts to acquire an edu- 
cation he taught school in various parts of Har- 
rison County, with eminent success, and his ex- 
penses in his college life were borne by himself. 
In 1801 he entered the Southwestern (now Na- 
tional) Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. There 
he remained only one term, when he, like a patri- 
otic man, enlisted in the service of his country. 
After the time of his enlistment expired he re- 
turned home, and engaged in teaching, which 
he followed for some time. 

On November 18. 1803, he was united in 
marriage to Sarah Ann Spiker, a daughter of 
William and Eliza (Finical) Spiker, residents of 
Stock Township, Harrison County. After mar- 
riage this young couple located in Laceyville, 



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Stock Township, but in a few years removed to 
Hopedale, in Green Township. Here Mr. Bar- 
ger engaged in mercantile business for some 
time, and then removed to Coshocton, where 
he still carries on his business. In 1875 he 
returned to Hopedale, where he resided until 
1887, when he moved to the place on which be 
now resides, in Archer Township. His family 
consists of the following children: John A. B. , 
born August 28, 186-4; William Emerson, born 
March 18, 1866; Marion, born April 16, 1868; 
Earl J., born June 24, 1870; Lizzie Maud, born 
April 15, 1872; Ida Belle, born February 28,1873, 
died the same day; Mary E., born June 20, 
1877; and George Paul, born April 23, 1881. 
Politically, Mr. Barger is a Republican, and 
while not active as many in politics, still does 
much to influence the vote of his section. For 
many years he was mayor of Hopedale, was also 
assessor, and was also appointed census taker in 
1880 and 1890. He and wife are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Asbury, and 
are prominently identified with all works of that 
society. Mr. Barger is one of the intelligent 
farmers of his section, and a man of excellent 
learning. His home is well filled with books, 
gleaned from the best authors, and a short con- 
versation with him will convince anyone that 
Mr. Barger is thoroughly familiar with them. 



Tp5j Y. HOBSON, hotel-keeper and livery- 
1*^-1 man, Jewett, Harrison County, is a son 
*' -, of Caleb P. and Sarah Ann (Moore) 
Hobson. Caleb is a son of William and 
Mahala (Plumer) Hobson, and William was a 
son of Joseph and Ann Hobson. Joseph Hob- 
son was a native of Ireland, and came to Amer- 
ica in an early day and located in Pennsylvania, 
where he married and raised quite a large fam 
ily, five of whom were sons, named John, Joseph, 
Francis, James and William. In 1807 he re- 
moved from Pennsylvania to Salem Township, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio. 

William Hobson was born in Pennsylvania 
in 1792, and came to Ohio with his parents in 



1807. He built the first grist-mill in Salem 
Township, using water as a power; as the coun- 
try became cleared the water grew less, and, 
there not being sufficient to run the mill, in the 
summer of 1822 Mr. Hobson was obliged to ar- 
range his mill to run by horse-power, which he 
barely lived to see completed, as he was out 
only a few days before his death to see it started. 
William Hobson was a member of the Society 
of Friends; his wife was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. William was the father 
of one child, Caleb, who was born in Salem 
Township, Jefferson Co., Ohio, September 
23, 1821. The mother of Caleb Hobson was 
born in Frederick County, Md., in 1788. Caleb 
Hobson grew to manhood on his father's old 
farm, which his father had left him at his 
death. The farm contained twenty acres, and 
the mill was located on this land. When Mr. 
Hobson became of age, he sold his property 
and bought a small farm about three miles from 
the old homestead. May 29, 1845, he married 
Miss Sarah Ann Moore, born March 6, 1826, a 
daughter of John and Sarah Ann (Donahue) 
Moore, natives of Ireland. Caleb Hobson and 
wife were parents of five children, viz. : Mahala 
Ann, wife of Lewis N. Carman, farmer in 
German Township; Mary Samantha, wife of 
William Spruins, of Jefferson County, Ohio; 
Euphemia, wife of Jonas Groves, of Jefferson 
County, Ohio, E. Y. , our subject, and Cort- 
land M., at home. 

E. Y. Hobson, the subject of our sketch, 
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, July 20, 
1858, and grew to manhood on the old farm. 
February 21. 18S4, he married Miss Annie L. 
Amspoker, born July 29, 1860, a daughter of 
Jonas and Ellen (Porter) Amspoker. Jonas 
Amspoker was born February 25, 1822; his 
wife was born in 1820. To the union of Jonas 
Amspoker and wife were born six children, viz. : 
Mary S., Rebecca, Margaret, Ella F., Annie L. 
and John P. After his marriage, Mr. Hobson 
started in the livery business atUnionport, Ohio, 
where he remained but a short time; in the 
spring of 1885, he came to Jewett fromScio; in 



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1887 lie started in the hotel business at Jewett, 
having a livery stable in connection. Our sub- 
ject and wife are the parents of two girls: Maud 
Opal, born April 28, 1885, and Edith May, born 
September 12, 1887. Mrs. Hobson is an active 
member of the Presbyterian Church of Jewett. 



dfOHN MILLER, one of the leading farm- 
ers of Stock Township, Harrison Co., 
I Ohio, was born February 6, 1832, in Bel- 
mont County, Ohio. His father, Samuel 
G. Miller, was born in Pennsylvania, June 26, 
1801, and was a son of John Miller, a native of 
Pennsylvania, where he was married and reared 
a family of eighteen children, nine of whom 
were boys, and in his native State he followed 
the vocation of farming until his death. Samuel 
G. Miller, who was reared lo the farming busi- 
ness, came to Ohio in 1828, and settled in Bel- 
mont County, where he was married to Margaret 
Lightner, who was born in Pennsylvania. April 
3, 1805. To this marriage were born the fol- 
lowing children: John; Mary J., Mrs. R. P. 
Smith; William; Elizabeth, Mrs. Eichard Lane; 
Belinda, deceased, and Margaret A. In 1853 
Mr. Miller removed to Morgan County, Ohio, 
where he purchased a farm, which he lived on 
till 1874, when he came to Slock Township, 
Harrison County, and lived with his children 
until his death, July 26, 1889, when his remains 
were laid in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Harrison 
County. His wife, who had died March 14, 
1860, was buried in Morgan County. Mr. 
Miller was a Democrat in politics, and in religion 
affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Pleasant Valley. 

John Miller, the subject proper of this 
sketch, passed his youth in Belmont, Harrison 
and Morgan Counties, Ohio, where he attended 
the common schools during his leisure hours — 
or, rather, those not occupied with farm work, 
and these precluded any extended devotion to 
educational matters. November 3, 1853, having 
reached his majority and the years of discretion, 
Mr. Miller married Miss Margaret, daughter of 



William P. Smith, the result resting in the fol- 
lowing family of children: Amanda, Mrs. John 
A. Miller; George H. ; William D. ; Anna J.; 
Maggie M. ; Clement L. and Albert L. The 
Miller family are respected members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Valley, 
in which Mr. Miller has especially taken an act- 
ive interest. In politics he has ever been a 
member of the Democratic party, and has several 
times served as township trustee, and also as 
treasurer. The present financial prosperity of 
Mr. Miller is due solely to his own efforts, with 
the aid of his excellent wife, and he has built 
up his present extensive property from nothing. 
An active and energetic gentleman, he has won 
the respect of all who know him, and his fair 
dealing and honest life have been the admira- 
tion of his neighbors. 



THE CLARK FAMILY, of Cadiz. The 
founder in America of this now extensive 
and highly respectable family was Roger 
Clark, who was born in Ireland in 1726, 
and when quite young came to this country and 
made a settlement in Cumberland County, Penn., 
but, as tradition has it, was at one time a com- 
panion of Daniel Boone, of Kentucky. He was 
married in Pennsylvania to a Miss Agnew, and 
died in his adopted State in 1765, having had 
born to him four children — Elizabeth, James, 
Nancy and Jane —by the marriage just alluded 
to, and, by a second marriage he had two children : 
Joseph and John. The second child born to the 
first marriage, James Clark, born in Cumber- 
land County in 1751, was married to Jane Jack, 
and moved to Westmoreland County, Penn., in 
177<V He served in the French-Indian and 
Revolutionary Wars, and in 1810 came to Ohio 
and settled in Jefferson County, where he passed 
the remainder of his life. His children were 
named John, Joseph, William, Polly, James. 
Andrew, Thomas, Robert and Francis. Of 
these, Joseph was the grandfather of Oliver 
Clark, of Cadiz. 

Joseph Clark was born in Westmoreland 



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County, Penn., February 12, 1778. He came 
to Jefferson (now Harrison) County, Ohio, in 
1808, and March 14, 1811, married Rachel 
Johnson, and settled on a farm in Green Town- 
ship, in what is now known as Harrison Coun- 
ty, where his wife died, September 3, 1854. 
After his children, whose names are given below, 
had grown to manhood and womanhood, he 
made his home with his son, Ephraim, and died 
October 3, 1861, at the age of eighty three 
years. His children were named as follows: 
James, who was attorney in Cadiz and druggist 
in New Philadelphia, died in 1847; Johnson, is 
now living in Cadiz; Ingram, whose portrait 
will be found elsewhere, is now deceased; Jane, 
deceased, was married to David Moore, also 
deceased, and was the mother of J. Clark Moore, 
of Cadiz; Ephraim was born February 19, 1826, 
and lives in Green Township; Joseph is in Cadiz; 
Oscar is a resident of Walton, Kas., and is mar- 
ried to Margaret Hamilton; Albert is a farmer 
in Nebraska, and is married to Amanda Kerr, 
daughter of John C. Kerr, of Harrison County, 
Ohio. 

Ephraim Clark, above named, grew to man- 
hood in Green Township, Harrison County, was 
bred to farming and educated at the common 
schools. He married Miss Isabella, daughter 
of Dr. Moses and Catherine (Snider) Kennedy, 
and in 1871 removed to Cadiz, where he passed 
away October 10, 1885. Politically he was a 
Republican, and in the fall of 1855 was elected 
to the Ohio Legislature. When a young man 
he had always taken a prominent and active part 
in county affairs; he was well read and had a 
good memory. In the State Legislature he was 
noted for "his cool head and wise counsel," 
and as one who possessed a great fund of gen- 
eral information. He was tall of stature, being 
over six feet, was well built, was grave in de- 
meanor, and, withal, presented a striking ap- 
pearance. When he passed away Harrison 
County lost one its best and most valued citi- 
zens, and his family a kind husband and an 
affectionate father. His children were as fol- 
lows: Oliver; Frances, who died at six years of 



age; Ida, wife of George D. McFadden, of 
Cadiz; and Cora V., who died when seven years 
old. The mother of these children is now a 
resident of Cadiz, where she enjoys the respect 
of all who know her, and there are but few who 
do not. She is a consistent member of the 
Presbyterian Church, to the teachings of which 
her husband was also a faithful adherent. 

Oliver Clark, the eldest of the above named 
family of children, was reared on the home farm 
until nineteen years of age, when he entered 
Hopedale Normal College. He came to Cadiz 
with his parents, and September 13, 1871, mar- 
ried Clara S. Cochran, daughter of Samuel 
Cochran. She lived to share his fortunes, and 
to afford him the companionship he sought with 
her hand, until January 20, 1878, when she 
was called away, leaving two children: Francis 
Cochran and Bertha Bell. The second marriage 
of Oliver Clark took place March 20, 1879, with 
Miss Lizzie A. , daughter of James Kerr, of 
Cadiz, Ohio, and this union has been blessed 
by the birth of four children, viz. : James Ches- 
ter, Elizabeth Louise, Mary Ella and Cora Isa- 
bella. In 1872 Mr. Clark established himself 
in the planing-mill and lumber business, under 
the mm name of Clark & Kennedy, but has 
since absorbed the business for himself, and he 
is now the owner of the only planing mill and 
lumber yard in Cadiz. He is a stanch Repub- 
lican in politics, is a Presbyterian in religion, 
and is a pleasant, companionable gentleman, 
well informed and fully abreast of the times. 
He is a pushing business man, one who believes 
that success comes to him who seeks it. He is 
known far and wide through the county, and 
possesses a host of friends. 

The Kerk Family. James Kerr, the father 
of Mrs. Oliver Clark, is a native of Short Creek 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, the family hav- 
ing been among the pioneers. His father, Sam- 
uel, born October 25, 1792, was a soldier and 
pensioner of the War of 1812, and died in Short 
Creek Township. Samuel was first married 
September 28, 1815, to Miss Annie Smith, who' 
bore him the following children: Sarah I., wife 



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of James McLaugblin; James, mentioned at the 
opening of this paragraph; Mary, married to 
William Campbell, of Belmont County, Ohio; 
Joseph S. ; Ellen, married to Stuart Carriek, and 
Robert, a Presbyterian minister. The second 
marriage of Samuel Kerr took place September 
8, 183"), with Agnes Hamilton, who bore the 
following children: Thomas H. ; Samuel C, a 
Presbyterian minister; Margaret Ann, married 
to John Calderhead; William J. and Effie J. 

James Kerr was born April 19, 1818, was 
reared on a farm, married Julia Ann Carriek, 
and September 14, 1876, retired from farming 
and moved to Cadiz, where he closed his earthly 
career January 21, 1886, but where his widow 
still resides. The children born to James and 
Julia Ann Kerr were born and named in the fol- 
lowing order: Samuel Mason, deceased; David 
Ruinsey, minister and president of the Bell- 
view College at Bellevue, Neb. ; Elizabeth Agnes, 
wife of Oliver Clark; James A., deceased; Adda 
Zilla, married to Charles G. Clark, of Nebraska; 
Mary M., and Julia Ella, now Mrs. Matson, of 
Short Creek Township. 



T/OSEPH E. JOHNSTON, of Harrison 
^. I County, Ohio, and one of Monroe Town- 
\J, ship's representative citizens, is a native 
of said township, and a descendant of one 
of the early pioneer families. His father, Sam- 
uel R. Johnston, was born in Baltimore, Md. , 
December 3, 17'J8, of Irish parentage, Samuel 
R.'a father having died in Ireland. About the 
beginning of the present century the son went 
with his mother to Charleston, S. C. There he 
grew to manhood, and served for many rears as 
a clerk with a wholesale grocer and liquor 
dealer. In 1824 he came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, where he purchased a tract of land of the 
patentee in Monroe Township. Building a 
small log cabin, he settled thereon and began to 
clear away the forest. The country was in an 
almost unbroken wilderness, and the primitive 
inhabitants — the wolf, bear and deer — roamed at 
large through the wildwood, and eyed with dis- 



trust this encroachment upon their native fast- 
nesses by those sturdy settlers, who had pushed 
westward into these wilds, and with undaunted 
bravery and courage hewed out for themselves a 
home and claimed the virgin soil as their herit- 
age. In those early days the settlers made a 
large amount of maple sugar from the sugar 
tree with which the forest abounded, and Mr. 
Johnston would often ride to Steubenville, forty 
miles distant, and there disposing of his sugar 
would invest the proceeds in groceries and other 
necessaries, and drive home again. The wheat, 
after having been threshed with a flail or 
tramped out by horses, would also be marketed 
there, it being the nearest market place, where 
it would bring twenty-five cents per bushel, and 
as coffee sold at the same price as a bushel of 
wheat, it would be exchanged for a pound of Rio. 
This luxury was too expensive for every-day use, 
and the settler's family would enjoy the refresh- 
ing beverage about once during the week, usu- 
ally on Sunday morning. 

On July 20, 1826, S. R. Johnston was united 
in marriage with Rebecca Barnhill, a native of 
Harrison County, Ohio. She was a daughter of 
William and Mary Barnhill, who were both na- 
tives of Ireland, and had immigrated to America 
and located in Harrison County with the pio- 
neers. Taking up their residence on the farm 
in Monroe Township, they resided there until 
their deaths. Three sons and eight daughters 
blessed their union, of whom seven still survive, 
as follows: William B., a merchant at Conot- 
ton, Ohio; Mary, now Mrs. Joseph McKelveen, 
of Scio, Ohio; Joseph E., whose name heads 
this sketch, Margaret, married to Jacob Nor- 
rick, and residing in Nodaway County, Mo. ; 
Rebecca, now Mrs. Simeon Smith, residing at 
Tappan, Ohio; Elizabeth, married to Daniel 
Smith, and residing at Laceyville, Ohio; Cecelia, 
now Mrs. Jonathan Manbeck, and residing at 
Des Moines, Iowa. August 23, 1873, after suf- 
fering several years from paralysis, Mrs. John- 
ston passed to her reward, in her sixty seventh 
year. November 10, 1883, occurred Mr. John- 
ston's death, and thereby the county lost one of 



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its noble pioneers and a most worthy citizen. 
He was an exemplary man, quiet and unassum- 
ing, reserved and dignified, firm and unswerv- 
ing in his opinions. His religious belief was 
free thought, the universal brotherhood of man- 
kind, and his precept the Golden Rule, guided 
by reason. His integrity was like his character, 
unimpeachable, and in his daily life among his 
fellow- men he never suffered his chosen stand- 
ard to be departed from. He was a man of 
more than ordinary attainments and education, 
and became a deep thinker, a cloge observer and 
a careful reasoner. His boyhood days having 
been spent among the privations of a frontier 
life, he did not possess the advantages for an 
education enjoyed by many, but by close appli- 
cation he acquired what he had been denied by 
limited resources. He was well posted upon 
the topics of the day, and spoke clearly and 
fluently of them. He was an inveterate reader, 
and ofttimes becoming absorbed in some treatise 
he would completely lose himself in his book, 
often neglecting for the time being his every- 
day duties. His neighbors, appreciating his 
ability, thrust upon him many positions of trust 
and honor, all of which he filled both with credit 
to himself and satisfaction to the people. For 
about fifteen years he officiated as clerk of the 
township of Monroe, and also served many times 
as trustee. Politically he was an ardent ad- 
herent and supporter of Democratic principles 
and policy. He was a citizen whose public 
spirit manifested itself in each and any move- 
ment tending toward the general advancement 
and improvement of the country. His liber- 
ality was proverbial, and he always stood ready to 
lend a helping hand to the unfortunate and 
needy. Generous to a fault, he won for him- 
Belf the respect and esteem of all. He was in 
every respect of the word a self-made man, hav- 
ing begun at the foot of the ladder of success, 
and by his own personal efforts pushed himself 
upward, and gave to the youth of younger gen- 
erations an example worthy of emulation. 

Joseph E. Johnston, whose name heads this 
sketch, was born on the original homestead, in 



an old log house, August 11, 1832. He grew to 
manhood with his parents, and his early life was 
spent amidst such scenes as fell to the lot of the 
pioneer boy. He was taught the rudiments of 
an education in the early log cabin, dignified by 
the name of school-house, and wherein the split 
log benches and desk, supported on pegs driven 
into the wall, were the only furnishings. The 
huge fireplace threw out a fierce heat over the 
puncheon floor, and 

The children's hot faces were streaming. 
The while they were freezing their hacks. 

To attend school under these disadvantages for 
a few weeks in the winter season, the children 
would ofttimes walk long distances through the 
woods. The schools were maintained by popu- 
lar subscription, while the teacher "boarded 
round. " These privileges were the best the 
country afforded, and the pupils graduated, 
after having attained "tare and tret" and "the 
single rule of three." Amidst such privations 
as these he grew to manhood, and, remaining 
with his parents, assisted them in the duties of 
the farm. In 1855 he went to Iowa, and for 
the following four years engaged at farming 
there. Then, returning to his home, he resided 
with his parents until their death. In 18(14 he 
responded to the President's call for troops, and 
enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Sev- 
entieth O. N. G., and was commissioned ser- 
geant of his company. He participated in the 
engagements at Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry, 
Winchester, and in all the marches and engage- 
ments of his company. At the expiration of his 
term of enlistment he was honorably discharged, 
at Columbus, and returned to his home. Jan- 
uary 26, 1865, he married Hannah S. Smith, 
who was born near Laceyville, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, a daughter of William P. and Margaret 
Smith, early settlers of the county. Their union 
has been blessed by four children: Melvin S., 
George H. , Annie N. and Samuel R. 

Mr. Johnston resides on the original home- 
stead, and besides his 153 acres here, he has 83 
acres in North Township. He raises, principally, 
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the breeding of fine sheep. Democratic in poli- 
tics, lie for nine years has served as justice of 
the peace. He lias also served as township 
trustee. He is a member of R. M. Lyon Post 
No. 105 G. A. R., at Bowerston. His son, 
Melvin S. , is now professor of stenography and 
typewriting in Duff's Commercial College, at 
Pittsburgh, Penn. Samuel R., a brother of Mr. 
Johnston, enlisted in Company C, Forty-third 
Regiment, and served throughout the war. 



JAMES W. KERR was born on a farm in 
Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 
July, 1850, and on this farm he still re- 
sides. His father, Rev. James Kerr, was 
a native of Kirk Collom, County of Wigtown, 
Scotland, but came to America in 1832, when 
about twenty-six years of age. He had decided 
upon the ministry as the profession he was to 
follow throughout life, and finished in this 
country, at Allegheny Seminary, the studies 
that he had begun in his native land with this 
end in view. After his ordination he preached 
one year in Winchester, Va. In 1889 he came 
to Cadiz, Ohio, and here took charge of the 
Presbyterian Church, and for sixteen long years 
filled its pulpit. In 1854, while at the Presby- 
tery, he was attacked with a cold, and on April 
9, 1855, he passed away, aged about forty- nine 
years. He was married to Miss Margaret Mc- 
Whirter, of Pittsburgh, November 17, 1837. 
She was of Scotch birth, and in 1822, when 
but a child of six years of age, was brought by 
her parents to America. These parents, in their 
later years, came to Cadiz and passed away at 
the home of their daughter. David McWhirter 
was a stone-mason by trade, and many speci- 
mens of his handiwork are still in existence at 
Pittsburgh. To the union of James and Mar- 
garet Kerr were born eight children, viz.: Mary, 
Joseph, David and William (all four deceased), 
John (in Colorado). James \Y., Eliza (Mrs. C. 
J. Hunter, in northeast Pennsylvania), and 
Agnes (Mrs. J. W. Slemmons, in Iowa City. Iowa). 
Rev. James Kerr was an amiable, pleasant 



gentleman, and was a self-made man, as well as 
a highly educated one, and for a time had charge 
of the public schools at Cadiz. He purchased 
the place on which James W. now resides on 
the outskirts of Cadiz, and where, at the age of 
seventy-four years, his wife received the final 
summons November 1, 1890. She had always 
been an active worker in the Presbyterian 
Church, of which she was a member, missionary 
work receiving much of her earnest attention. 
James W. Kerr received his education at 
the schools of Cadiz, but while yet a boy was 
called upon to aid in supporting the family. 
His chief business has been farming and coal- 
mining, a vein of the mineral being on the farm. 
In 18S1 he married Miss Martha Lewis, daugh- 
ter of William and Amelia (Andrews) Lewis, 
and a native of Fairhaven, N. Y. Her father 
died in New York, and her mother is now a 
resident of Cadiz, Ohio. One child, Jamea 
William, is the fruit of the union of James W. 
and Maltha Kerr. Politically Mr. Kerr is a 
Republican, and is a member of the city council 
of Cadiz. In religion he is a Presbyterian, of 
which church he has been twice chosen elder, 
but both times declined to accept the position. 
Mrs. Kerr is also a consistent member of the 
same church. 




W. KINSEY. The first of the Kinsey 
family, of which we have any authentic 
record, John Kinsey, a Quaker, from 
London, England, one of the commis- 
sioners for the settlement of West Jersey, un- 
der the purchase by Edward Byllinge, arrived at 
New Castle, on the Delaware, in the Bhip " Kent," 
on the sixteenth of the sixth month, 1677. 
Settlement was first made by the voyagers in 
this vessel at what is now known as Burlington, 
N. J. John Kinsey, however, made selection 
and bargain for purchase of 300 acres of land 
from Peter Cock, a Swede, on the west side of 
the Delaware, above the mouth of the Schuyl- 
kill, and near the locality which afterward be- 
came famous as Penn's Treaty Tree and the 



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city of Philadelphia. John Kinsey died be- 
fore settlement was fully completed, and at a 
court held at Upland (now Chester) November 
12, 11)78, Peter Cock appeared before the jus- 
tices and made formal acknowledgment of his 
deed of conveyance to Elizabeth Kinsey (widow 
of John) of the laud described. 

John Kinsey (2), then a young man, and 
son of John Kinsey (1), it appears did not ac- 
company his parents in 1677, but came out the 
next year, and assumed the management of his 
mother's affairs. He afterward became dis- 
tinguished in his public services, and his son, 
John Kinsey (3), likewise a Quaker, became 
chief justice of Pennsylvania 

Edmund Kinsey, son of John Kinsey (2), 
and a brother of John Kinsey (3), chief justice 
of Pennsylvania, was married to Sarah Osburn, 
on the twenty-first of the eighth month, 1708. 
In 1815 they moved to Buckingham Township, 
Bucks Co., Penn, where they made a home in 
the wilderness, friendly Indians having acted as 
their guide. Edmund Kinsey was much inter- 
ested in the cause of religion, and was one of 
the founders of the Buckingham Meeting in 
1720. He was also one of the foremost and 
most skillful mechanics of his time, and had a 
scythe and ax factory in Buckingham, in which 
he had a trip (or "tilt") hammer, operated by 
water power — a great improvement in those 
days. His family consisted of nine children, 
namely: Samuel, David, Mary, Elizabeth, John, 
Joseph, Sarah, Benjamin and Jonathan. Of 
these, Benjamin was the great-grandfather of 
our subject. He was born October 22, 1727. 
He was twice married: first to Susanna Brown, 
in 1749, and secondly to Martha White, in 1776. 
The first union resulted in seven children, and 
the last one in nine. 

George Kinsey, grandfather of our subject, 
married Mary Gillingham, the twenty-second 
day, twelfth month,' 1773. They had nine chil- 
dren : Sarah, Susanna, Edmund, James, Aaron, 
John, George, Charles and Ann. Charles, the 
eighth child, was the father of the subject of 
our sketch, and was born in Bucks County, 



Penn., May 19, 1786. He was by trade a hat- 
ter, and in Philadelphia, June 1, 1815, he mar- 
ried Ann Worrall, who was born in 1793. In 
1798 the Kinsey family came to Mount Pleas- 
ant, Ohio, where there was a Quaker settlement, 
and from this place Charles returned to Penn- 
sylvania and married; then came back to Ohio 
and entered land in the western part of what is 
now Cadiz Township, Harrison County, near 
where Lafferty's mill stood. Here it was that 
K. W. Kinsey was born, November 2, 1823. 
The father, one of the first hatters in the county, 
carried on his trade until 1832, when, his wife 
having died October 26, he removed to Moore- 
field, Ohio, and here, for a number of years, 
manufactured hats. There he married Talitha 
Gatchel, by whom three children were born, of 
whom but one, Mrs. David Cumly, of Adena, is 
now living. About 1838 this wife passed from 
earth, and in 1842 he married Rhoda Boone, a 
descendant of Daniel Boone, of Kentucky, and 
by her he had two children, viz. : Emily (Mrs. 
Eli Davis, of Pittsburgh, Penn.) and Charles 
Wesley, of Oakland, Cal. 

In 1849, during the gold excitement in Cali- 
fornia, the husband went to that State, crossing 
the Isthmus of Darien, and in California spent 
five years searching for the precious metal. He 
then returned to Mooretield, Ohio, and resumed 
his old trade, soon thereafter removing to Flush- 
ing, Belmont County, where, February 11, 
1884, at the age of almost eighty-eight years, he 
died; his widow still survives him. He had 
served as justice of the peace in Flushing, and 
was the oldest Mason in Ohio at the time of his 
death, having joined that brotherhood in 1816 
at Gallipolis. He lies buried iu the Methodist 
Episcopal Cemetery at Flushing, he having in 
later years joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. The first marriage resulted in three 
children, as follows: Gillingham, who died at 
the age of twenty-two (he had developed con- 
siderable talent as an artist, and a number of 
fine specimens of his work are still in existence); 
K. W., our subject; Sarah Jane, who died at 
the age of four years and ten months. 



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EL W. Kinsey, when a lad of fourteen, came 
to Cadiz, where he was " bound " to serve with 
a merchant named Tom Hogg, with whom he 
remained two years, and then, on account of his 
intemperance and abuse, young Kinsey, with a 
small bundle of necessaries on his back, ran 
away without a dollar, and went to Mount 
Pleasant, where he remained four years. He 
later received his release from Hogg, and in 
1843 returned to Cadiz, where he spent ten 
months in a private school taught by Joseph 
Wood. For the next two years he taught in 
Cadiz Township, and then became clerk for 
William Hogg, in Cadiz, remaining two years. 
He again taught, one winter, and then went to 
Nottingham Township, where, at Mechanicsville, 
he kept a store two years; then entered the em- 
ploy of S. & H. McFadden, at Cadiz, remaining 
until 1855, when he was elected county auditor 
on the Republican ticket, being re-elected to the 
office, serving until 1860. He then bought the 
interest of Samuel McFadden, one of his former 
employers, and the firm became McFadden, 
Kinsey & Co., and continued until 188*2, when 
Henry McFadden retired, and a partnership was 
formed with J. W. Giuues, which continued 
until 1884, when the firm was dissolved. Since 
then he has been an extensive wool buyer. 

On May 6, 1S17. Mr. Kinsey was married to 
Miss Sarah Jane, daughter of Nathan Haver- 
field, and she died in February, 1S64. Although 
no children came to their marriage, they had 
adopted a daughter, Emma Bingham Kinsey, 
who is now the wife of George Burgert, of New- 
ton, Kas. On November 9, 1864, Mr. Kinsey 
was united in marriage with Emma Holmes, 
daughter of (ieorge and Hannah (Mansfield) 
Holmes, of Harrison County. Col. Joseph 
Holmes came to Harrison County at an early 
date. Of his children George was the father of 
Mr>. Kinsey. He was married three times; his 
tiist wife was Hannah Linn, who died some few 
months later; his second wife was TaeyThomp- 
BOn, who bore him four children, of whom bat 
two, Joseph and Kezin, lived to reach maturity, 
but both of whom are now deceased. On Janu- 



ary 7, 1834, George Holmes married Hannah 
Mansfield, daughter of Thomas Mansfield, of 
Jefferson County, and this union produced three 
children: William, who died at the age of six 
years ; Mary, who died at the age of three years, 
and Emma, who was born January 20, 183'J. 

Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey 
have lived in Cadiz. Their children, five in 
number, are as follows: Mary Frances, born 
September 2, 1865; George Holmes, born April 
6, 1867; Henry Stafford, born June 7, 1869; 
Edith Marcella, born June 4, 1871; Nellie Ger- 
trude, born July 18, 1879. On June 7, 1887, 
Mary F. Kinsey was married to .Charles W. 
Brown, of Cadiz, and on September 4, 1890, 
Edith M. was married to E. H. Barringer. 



f ACOB SNIDER, one of the oldest and 
w I best known residents of Green Township, 
\Jj Harrison Co., Ohio, was born July 5, 
1814, on the place where he now resides, 
a son of Martin Snider. The paternal grand- 
father of our subject, also named Martin, was a 
native of Germany, where he was born in 1728, 
and, at the age of eighteen, he left the father- 
land to seek his fortune in the New World. Ar- 
riving in New York, he remained there a short 
time, and then proceeded to Pennsylvania, 
where he married and took up his home in Ad- 
ams County. In 1S02, with his family, he came 
to what was then Jefferson, but is now Harrison, 
County, Ohio, and entered a large tract of land 
in Green Township, a portion of which still re- 
mains in possession of the family. In 1810 
this venerable pioneer passed away at the age 
of eighty two years, and was buried in the cem- 
etery on the place; his wife died in 1821, aged 
sixty-two years, and was laid beside him. She 
bore him the following named children: Martin, 
Henry, Eve, Elizabeth, Catherine, Adam, John, 
Mary and Motilena, all of whom, save Martin, 
lived to be over seventy -five years of age, Eve liv- 
ing to the patriarchal age of over ninety years. 
Martin Snider, son of the above, was born 
in ITTo. in Adams County, Peun. In 1802 he 



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came to Ohio, and, in 1803, became united in 
marriage with Ruth, daughter of Samuel Tip- 
ton, who came to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1801. 
Mr. and Mrs. Snider commenced housekeep- 
ing on the old home place, and there had born to 
them the following named children: Katherine; 
Martin; Mary, now eighty-two years of age, 
widow of Walter Jamison, late of Cadiz, Ohio; 
Samuel; John A., in Green Township; Jacob, 
our subject ; Nancy and Zachariah, of whom five 
are deceased. April 12, 1819, at the age of 
forty-four years, the father died, the result of 
being struck by the falling limb of a tree, and, 
midst the sorrow of his bereaved family and 
friends, he was laid beside his father and 
mother. February 5, 1820, bis widow died, at 
about the age of seventy-two years, and was 
buried in the same plat. In politics Mr. Sni- 
der was a Whig, and in religion a life-long 
member of the Lutheran Church, as had been 
his near ancestry. The paternal grandfather 
was a Dunkard. 

Jacob Snider, his son, and the subject 
proper of this biographical memoir, at the age 
of one year lost the sight of his left eye from 
sickness. He remained at home during his 
early youth, assisting in the duties of the farm, 
soon being entrusted with the entire duties of 
the same, which he managed with laudable suc- 
cess. June 24, 1847, he was married to Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Thomas Bradford, a resident 
of Green Township, Harrison County, and the 
young couple immediately came to the home 
place, where they have since lived. The names 
of their children are as follows: Martin, born 
March 7, 1848 (Martin married Mary J. Carson, 
who died in August, 1875, leaving one son, 
Clark W., who makes the fifth generation on the 
old home farm. Martin married, for his second 
wife, Nancy Jane McGuire, who bore him three 
children: Elizabeth, John J. and Walter 
Clyde); Mary Katherine, married to Leander 
Biggar, of Cadiz, Ohio; Sarah, Caroline, and Isa- 
bella, latter married to Finley Mattern. Mr. 
Snider has always been a strong supporter of the 
Republican party, and prominent in its circles. 



His first vote was cast for Gen. W. H. Harrison, 
and, in 1888, he assisted in electing the grand- 
son, Benjamin Harrison. Among the many 
offices he has held, with credit to himself and 
satisfaction of his constituents, maybe mentioned 
those of township trustee, judge of election, 
township supervisor, and, for twenty three con- 
secutive years, school director. The family are 
numbered among the earliest settlers in Har- 
rison County, and, by their integrity, honesty 
and benevolence, early gained, and have always 
justly retained, the respect and esteem of all. 



If C. HAVERFIELD, another of the well- 
l. I known, wide-awake farmers of Harrison 
MJj County, is a native of the same, born in 
Cadiz Township, March 12, 1842. John 
Haverfield, his grandfather, came to Harrison 
County as one of its pioneers, while deer and 
wolves and other denizens of the forest still 
abounded. He chose his wife in the same coun- 
ty, and they both passed from earth within its 
borders, John dying in 1858, aged seventy years. 
Their son Alexander was also a native of Harri- 
son County, and remained on the home farm un- 
til he was married, in 1825, to Miss Catherine 
Shinier, a native of Ohio of Scotch parentage. 
They chose Cadiz Township as their home, and 
therein died, upon the farm where so much of 
their life's hard work was done, and where their 
son, our subject, now resides. In January, 1875, 
death carried off the father at the age of seventy 
years, and the mother five years later, aged 
sixty-seven. He was a Republican, politically, 
and in religion a member of the United Presby- 
terian Church at Cadiz, in which for many years 
he was a ruling elder. For two years he was in- 
firmary director, and for a number of years he 
was director in the Harrison National Bank. 
His life was a busy and progressive one, and he 
was one of those men who by individual energy 
make their own success. 

J. C. Haverfield received the advantages of 
the common schools of his county, and in Au- 
gust, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, One 



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mi 



Hundred and Twenty-sixth O. V. I., servinghis 
country two years and seven months. He took 
part in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
v.uiia. Gold Harbor, Martins! mrg, Mine Run, 
Nmth Ann, Petersburg and Weldon Railroad; 
was at Monocacy, near Harper's Ferry, where 
for one day they fought the rebel Gen. Early, 
who was en route for Washington, and on that 
day, July 9, 1864, Mr. Haverfield was taken pris- 
oner, and confined over seven months in Lynch- 
burg. Danville and Libby prisons. On Febru- 
ary 21, 1865, he was paroled and returned to his 
home. At the battle of Spottsylvania, while 
fighting without breastworks, he saw the soldier 
on the right shot through the head, the one on 
his left receive a bullet in the hip, and the man 
in iiis rear shot through both wrists. He aided 
a comrade to carry to the rear one of the wounded 
men, and then together they started again for 
the front, but a few minutes later a minie-ball 
struck down the comrade, but Mr. HavertJeld, 
as if by a miracle escaping uninjured, reached 
the front. In one battle, however, he was struck 
by a piece of a spent shell, whereby he was slight 
lv stunned, but was not seriously injured. After 
the war he returned to Harrison County, and 
desiring a higher education than the common 
schools of his neighborhood had afforded him, 
lie entered Hopedale College. Soon after this 
the old house at home was consumed by tire, 
which necessitated our subject leaving school 
and returning to the farm in order to aid in the 
rebuilding. 

In 1S7U Mr. Haverfield married Mattie G. , 
daughter of R. G. and Jane Thompson, both of 
whom now live in Carroll County. After their 
marriage, and until the death of the aged t.i aei 
their home was made on the farm. In January. 
1876, they removed to Cadiz, where for three 
he was a member of the hardware firm of 
Harrison & Haverrield. In 1878 his brother, 
Clarence H. , who had remained upon the farm, 
died, and our subject, disposing of his interest-, 
iii Cadiz, returned at once to his native place. 
the charge of which has since been in his hands. 
His aged mother, who had remained by the old 



hearthstone, suddenly passed away, dying of 
apoplexy in May, 1879. She had borne five 
children, viz. : Eliza, Mrs. James M. McGaw, of 
Cadiz; James H., killed at the battle of Snick- 
er's Gap; J. C. ; MaryH., Mrs. W. S. Haver- 
field and Clarence H., deceased. The union of 
Mr. and Mrs. Haverrield has been blessed by the 
advent of seven children, whose names in the 
order of birth are as follows: Delia Verne, 
Harvey Blanchard, Calvin Leroy, Ralph Frazier, 
Lida Orvetta. William and George, all living at 
home. In politics Mr. Haverfield is a Repub- 
lican, and in religion he and his wife and eldest 
daughter and son are members of the United 
Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, all being mem- 
bers of the choir, of which for over twenty years 
he has been the leader. In 1864, when the final 
demand for one-hundred days men was made, 
James H. Haverfield, the eldest brother of our 
subject, responded to the call, and in the One 
Hundred and Seventieth Regiment, O. N. G. , pro- 
ceeded to the front. But at the first battle, 
that of Snicker's Gap, he offered up his young 
life, being shot and killed instantly. His 
cousin, Nathan Haverfield, who saw him fall, 
aided by a comrade, carried him to the rear and 
across the river, and there they laid him to rest 
in a small garden, where his remains now sleep 
in an unknown grave. 



THOMAS GREEN, one of the leading cit- 
izens of Freeport, Harrison County, his 
native village, was born May 12, 1826. 
His education was limited to the village 
schools, and to those powers of observation 
which were in him finely developed. When of 
suitable age he engaged in mercantile business 
with his father, and in 1849 took entire charge 
of the concern, which he managed until 1866 
with eminent success. Since then he has en- 
gaged in various enterprises which have proved 
successful. He is ever prominent in all efforts 
for the improvement of his village, and has 
undertaken many enterprises in its behalf, which 
he has brought to a successful issue. In his 



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politics he has always been an earnest Repub- 
lican, and has ever been one of that party's 
leaders in his section. While too much occu- 
pied with his private business to accept nomina- 
tions for office, which have been repeatedly 
urged upon him, he still works unceasingly for 
the success of his party. His principles are 
sound and well known, and have made him one 
of those who enjoy the confidence of their ac- 
quaintances. January 1, 1863, he was married 
to Nancy Niblock, daughter of John Niblock, 
then a resident of Freeport Township, but now 
settled in the village. 

The Green family originated in Ireland. 
The earliest of whom we have any authentic 
history was Alexander, who, while yet young, 
was married to Eleanor Chambers. Their chil- 
dren were Thomas, John, Abigail, Samuel and 
James. Mrs. Green dying, Alexander married 
for his second wife Mary Bell, in 1806, and in 
180S came to America and settled in Belmont 
County, Ohio. The issue of his second marriage 
were Sarah, Eleanor, Maria, Ruth, Mary Ann, 
Isaac, Alexander, Sampson and William. In 
politics Mr. Green was a Whig, and was active 
in his section; in religion he was a member of 
the Society of Friends. In 1822 he died and 
was buried at his home in Belmont County; 
Mrs. Green died in 1S55, and was placed by his 
side. 

John Green, father of Thomas, our subject, 
was born July 21, 1792, in Ireland, and was 
brought to Ohio by his father. His early life 
was spent in Belmont County, where he received 
such education as the schools afforded. April 
24, 1825, he was married to Mary, daughter of 
Jacob Hole, and came to Freeport after his 
marriage and engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ness, which he conducted for many years. He 
was among the first merchants in the village, and 
was well known for his business qualifications 
as w ell as his honest dealing. He was a man of 
strong convictions, which he maintained irre- 
spective of results. A member of the Society of 
Friends, he was strenuously opposed to liquor 
in all forms. A Whig in politics, he did much 



efficient work for the party of his choice. His 
children were named Thomas, Sophia, Rachel, 
John, Mary, Jacob, James, Abigail and Rebecca. 
He died in July, 1884, at the age of ninety -two, 
and was laid beside his wife, who, at the age of 
eighty-six, died February 12, 1883. 



El M. KNOX, hardware merchant, Free- 
port, belongs to the well-known Knox 
I family, which has from the earliest set- 
tlement of Harrison County, Ohio, been 
identified with its interests and prosperity. The 
family came from Ireland, and was represented 
by William Knox, who, soon after his marriage, 
located with his family in Maryland, where they 
arrived in 1790. He was a minister by profes- 
sion, and after a few years' sojourn in Mary- 
land, believing that he would accomplish more 
good for humanity, he proceeded westward, and 
arrived in Cadiz, Ohio, during its earliest settle- 
ment. Here and in the vicinity he pursued his 
labors for many years, and finally was called 
home in 1850. His children were Jeremiah, 
William, David, Sarah and John. 

The early life of John Knox was spent in 
Maryland, where he was apprenticed to a cab- 
inet-maker, with whom he remained until he 
had mastered the trade. In 1812 he enlisted in 
the war, and served his country until its close. 
Soon after the termination of the war he came 
to Ohio, where he met and married Mary, 
daughter of Samuel Davis, who came from Ire- 
land with his family and settled in Athens 
Township, Harrison County. The issue of this 
marriage was William, Samuel, Margaret Ann 
(deceased), M. M. (deceased), J. D., Sarah J. 
(deceased), James, George M., E. M. and Theo- 
dore (deceased). He was a strong Whig and 
Republican, and was justice of the peace for 
twenty-one years consecutively. Among the 
organizers of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
he was one of its active and energetic members, 
and held during his life all the positions of trust 
and responsibility in the society. May 16, 1863, 



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be died, being survived by bis wife, who died 
April 12, 1887. 

E. M. Knox, son of Jobn Knox, was born Au- 
gusl 1 6, 1840, in Freeport, Ohio, where at present 
he makes his home, and here he received the ad- 
vantages afforded by the village schools. In 1857 
he entered an apprenticeship to a tinner, and in 
1861 opened his shop at Freeport. In 1863 his 
building was destroyed by lire, but, nothing dis- 
couraged, he recommenced business and con- 
tinued it until 1865,when he removed to Mitchell- 
ville, Iowa, and then came back to Harrison 
County, Ohio, and settled in Moorefield, where be 
remained until 1866, when he again went West 
— this time locating in Topeka, Kas. From 
there went to Emporia, in the same State, where he 
remained until 1872, when he returned to Topeka 
and engaged in business until 1874, when he 
came to Newark, Ohio, and in 1876 came to 
Freeport, where he has since engaged in his 
business of tinware, heavy hardware and other 
lines. November 20, 1862, he was married to 
Abbie H. , daughter of John and Nancy 
Bendore, of Smyrna, Ohio. Mrs. Knox lived 
until April 25, 1884, when she passed away, 
leaving one child, Rosa (Mrs. J. F. McMath). 
July 24. ISS',1, Mr. Knox was married to Mrs. 
Lizzie Robinson, nee Tipton. In his politics 
Mr. Knox is a Republican, and has always taken 
an active interest in the party. He and family 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
of Freeport, and are among the liberal sup- 
porters and earnest workers of that society. 
For the past ten years he has been superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school, and has filled the 
duties of class leader and trustee. His busi- 
ne88 is a growing one, his trade being among 
the best class of citizens, who appreciate his fair 
dealing and honest work. From a small be- 
ginning he has built up his present extensive 
trade, and though often the victim of adverse 
fortune, still has struggled manfully, and at 
lust, succeeded in winning a smile from the 
tickle goddess. He is well known in the busi- 
ness and social circles of his county, and well 
represents the family from which he sprung. 



d I AMES REAVES. Among the earliest set- 
tlers and most energetic pioneers of Har- 
) rison County, the Reaves family occupy a 
leading position. The family come from 
old Virginia stock, which has had such an im- 
portant part in the development of new and un- 
settled States. The eldest of whom there is any 
record was John Reaves, who was born in 1740, 
in Norfolk County, Va. , where he engaged in 
farming, which he followed until his death. 
His children comprised the following: John, 
Richard, James, William and Thomas. Just 
prior to the War of 1812 these boys determined 
to come west and to settle in Ohio, as the State 
best suited to their finances. Accordingly they 
set out with their families, and in due time 
arrived in Freeport Township, Harrison County, 
where they entered their farms. Here they 
lived in the primitive log cabin, meantime rais- 
ing enough upon which to live, and also engag- 
ing in clearing their farms. In 1801, James 
Reaves, the father of the subject of this sketch, 
and who was born August 4, 1776, was married 
to Sarah Hollowell, who was a native of his 
home place, and who was born November 20, 
1775. For the first few years after his arrival 
in Harrison County Mr. Reaves resided in vari- 
ous places, but finally settled in Freeport Town- 
ship, where his death occurred. His children 
were John, born December 15, 1802; Nancy, 
born October 10, 1804; Lydia, born December 
27. 1805; Jesse, born April 20, 1807; Winnie, 
born May 1, 1809; Elizabeth, born November 
30,1810; Hallowell, born April 30, 1813; Sarah, 
born August 17, 1815; James, born April 28, 
1818. Mr. Reaves died January 3, 1851, and 
Mrs. Reaves June 28, 1856. In his politics 
Mr. Reaves was a progressive Whig, and was 
always an earnest supporter of the party. 

James Reaves, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born in Freeport, and spent nearly 
his entire life in that and Washington Town- 
ships. In the manner usual to the boys of the 
farm, he spent his early life in mastering the 
advantages afforded by the common schools, 
and his maturer years have been occupied in 



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farming, an occupation be still pursues. July 
2, 1841, he was married to Susan Clark, of 
Freeport Township, and soon after marriage lo- 
cated with his wife near Freeport, where they 
remained about five years, and then removed to 
Freeport Township, thence to Tuscarawas 
County, and in 1867 came to their present res- 
idence, which consists of 123 acres, about two 
miles from Tippecanoe, Washington Township, 
and is now managed by their two sons. Mr. 
and Mrs. Reaves have always been industrious 
and economical, and what prosperity they now 
enjoy is wholly due to their own efforts. Their 
children were named Matthew C. ; Joshua (de- 
ceased), Harrison (deceased), Martha J. (de- 
ceased), and J. F. Matthew C. Reaves, wbo 
was born in Freeport Township in 1842, has 
spent the greater portion of his life in the pur- 
suit of farming. December 31, 1808, he was 
married to Mary E., daughter of Thomas Rog- 
ers, and one child, Susan J. , was born to them. 
Mrs. Reaves died April 30, 1874. James 
F. Reaves was married February 3, 1886, to 
Anna Linard, daughter of Alexander and Mary 
Linard, of Washington Township, and one child, 
Effie Fearn, was born to them April 21, 1889. 
The family are Republicans in sentiment, and 
all take an active interest in the welfare of the 
party. For many years they have been among 
the honored and respected members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Freeport, of 
which they are liberal supporters. They are 
among the best known in their vicinity, and are 
classed with the enterprising and substantial 
citizens. 



diOSEPH DECKER. The earliest history 
I of the Decker family, that is authentic, 
places their settlement in America in 
Maryland, where for many generations 
they remained. Joseph Decker, the grandfather 
of the Deckers now resident in Harrison Couuty, 
Ohio, was born in Maryland. January 25, 1779. 
and his youth was spent in that State. He moved 
to Washington County, Penu., where he met and 



married Kate Short. He remained there engaged 
in farming until 1815, when, with his family, 
he came to Guernsey Couuty, Ohio, where he 
purchased a farm in the wilderness. The journey 
was made in a wagon, which served as a dwell- 
ing place, both on the road, as well as while 
their cabin was being erected. Their family 
were John, Lewis, Henry, Sarah Ann, Kate, 
Mary, Delilah and Elizabeth. In his politics 
he was a Democrat, and took a prominent part 
in the organization of his county. Here, after 
a long and useful life, he and his help meet 
passed away. The first two years of the life of 
John Decker, son of Joseph, were spent in Penn- 
sylvania, where he was born April 29, 1813. He 
was educated at the early rate schools of Ohio, 
which, at that day, were quite common, and in 
his early manhood he was married to Ruenna 
Shipley. His married life began and ended on 
a farm, which he purchased soon after his mar- 
riage. It consisted of eighty acres of entirely 
wild land, on which he built a cabin, and set 
bravely to work at clearing away the forest, 
which he finally accomplished. His children 
were named Elizabeth J., born September 26, 
1834; Joseph, born December 7, 1836; Highly 
Ann, born August 2, 1839; Sarah O, born De- 
cember 21, 1841; Ruenna J., born March 28, 
1844; John H, born February 20, 1847; Mary 
M. , born July 29, 1850; Louis W., born October 
20, 1852, and Delilah, born February 1, 1855. 
Mrs. Decker died in 1855, and August 15, same 
year, he married Anna Grey, who bore him two 
children: Henry and Stephen. April 15, 1885, 
Mr. Decker died, deeply mourned by a large 
concourse of friends and relatives. 

The early life of Joseph Decker was spent at 
home, where he was engaged in the various 
duties incident to farming. October 13, 1857, 
he was married to Rachel, daughter of Thomas 
Sharnock, of Belmont County, Ohio. Locat- 
ing in Guernsey County, Ohio, he there re- 
mained until 1866, when he removed to his pres- 
ent residence in Freeport Township, Harrison 
County. His farm is about three- fourths of a 
mile from Smyrna, comprises 160 acres, and is 



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well improved. He has lately added a large 
two-story frame house, neat, compact and com- 
modious. Mrs. Decker died February 4, 1884, 
leaving the 'following children: John W., born 
July 26, 1S5S; Thomas W., born February 15, 
1800; Elizabeth L., bom October 17, 1861; 
David H., born September 12, 1803; William 
H., born May 22, 1807; Joseph L., born De- 
cember 22, 1808; and James N., born May 1, 
1871. In 1885 Mr. Decker was married to Anna 
Willoaghby, daughter of Samuel Willoughby,of 
Harrison County, and the issue of their marriage 
is George C, born January 22, 1S80, and Marvin 
C. F., born May 2. 1887. In politics Mr. Decker 
has always supported the Democratic ticket. In 
religion he and the elder members of his family 
belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Smyrna. Mr. Decker is a self-made man, and 
the architect of his own fortune. 




V ENJAMIN J. MALLERNEE, son of 

Levi and Eleanor (Johnson) Mallernee, 
was born February 10, 1840, in Not- 
tingham Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where he still resides, and is looked upon as one 
of the most enterprising young farmers of his 
neighborhood. His great-grandparents, Will- 
iam and Sarah Mallernee, were natives of Mary- 
land, aud in 1809 came to Ohio, settling in 
Jefferson County. Their children were three 
in number and were named Emanuel, Mary aud 
Jaret. Emanuel Mallernee, grandfather of our 
subject, was born in Maryland, November 3, 
1770, aud in his younger days learned the trade 
of sboemakiug, which he followed nearly all his 
life. He was first married to Rachel Matthews, 
who was born in Maryland, November 3, 1788, a 
daughter of Francis and Mary (Karr) Matthews. 
natives of the same State, but who came to Ohio 
in 1809. To this union were boru eight chil- 
dren: William, March 30, 1807; Aquila, Janu- 
ary 0. L809; Mary A., August 7, 1811; Matthew 
P., October 12, 1813; Levi, February 12, 1816; 
Emauuel, Jr., November 3, 1818; Lewis, May 
18, 1822; Elizabeth, May 25, 1825. Emanuel 



Mallernee, grandfather of Benjamin J. Maller- 
nee, remained in Jefferson County. Ohio (to 
which county he bad come with his father), un- 
til 1829, when he settled in Harrison County, 
where he bought eighty acres of forest land, 
passing his life in clearing off his farm and 
working at the bench. His first wife having 
died, June 24, 1828, Emanuel married Miss 
Hannah Eaton, who bore him three children: 
Benjamin, born October 4, 1830; Rachel, August 
13, 1832, and Jaret, September 10, 1834. The 
father of these children died February 23, 1839, 
deeply mourned by his bereaved family and all 
his neighbors. 

Levi Mallernee, son of Emanuel and father 
of Benjamin J. , our subject, was reared to man- 
hood and educated in his native township. De- 
cember 0, 1838, he married Eleanor Johnson, 
who was a daughter of Benjamin and Eleanor 
Johnson, aud was born in Nottingham Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, January 27, 1N2U. 
To this union were born nine children in the 
following order: David Turner, November 18, 
1839; Emanuel, March 22, 1843, deceased; 
Mary A.. March 25, 1840, wife of J. H. Kent, 
of Illinois; Benjamin J., our subject; Lemuel, 
July 5, 1851; Lydia A., August 3, 1854. de- 
ceased; Caroline L., August 20, 1857, deceased; 
Eleanor J., July 18, 1860, wife of L. D. Wells, 
of Illinois, and Kinsey C, December 20, 1863, 
deceased. December 23, 1803, three days after 
the birth of her last child, Mrs. Mallernee 
passed from the scenes of her earthly toil. For 
his second wife Levi Mallernee chose Mrs. 
Jemima Hines, whose maiden name was Garner, 
and to" this uDion were born three children: 
James G., October 10, 1866; Levi lv, October 
20, 1868, and Ruth J., January 6, 1871. Again 
losing his spouse, Mr. Mallernee married Rachel 
Crabtree, June 1, 1879, but one year later. June 
1. 1880, Levi Mallernee drew the last breath of 
life. The business Life of Levi Mallernee was a 
varied one. Remaining after his majority a 
few years on the farm first purchased by his 
father, he removed to Cadiz. Harrison County, 
and for several years carried on a livery busi- 



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ness; thence be returned to Nottingham Town- 
ship, and soon after purchased 105 acres in the 
northern part, on which he resided a few years, 
and next bought the farm on which his son, Ben- 
jamin J., now resides. A few years before his 
death he moved to Deersville, where he expired 
in the faith of the Baptist Church, of which he 
bad been many years a member. In politics 
Levi was first a Tory, but later united with the 
Republican party. He was widely known and 
highly honored for his integrity and elevated 
standard of morality. 

Benjamin J. Mallernee, trained to the culti- 
vation of the soil on his father's farm, has made 
agriculture his life's vocation. January 17, 
1872, he married Miss Maggie Warman, who 
was born in Illinois March 15, 1850, a daughter 
of William and Margaret (Hoffman) Warman, 
natives of New Jersey. The children resulting 
from this union are named Ella M., born Janu- 
ary 10, 1873; Myrta F., November 4, 1874; 
Blanche W., September 5, 1880, and Frank G., 
October 24, 1881. In 1870 Mr. Mallernee pur- 
chased the farm, of ninety acres, on which he 
now resides, on Section 15, Nottingham Town- 
ship, which farm presents to the view of the 
passer-by every evidence of skillful care and ele- 
gant taste in its management. Mr. Mallernee is 
a Republican in politics, and in 1S85 was elected 
trustee of Nottingham Township. In religion 
he and his wife are Baptists. 



THE BOGGS FAMILY, of Athens Town 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio. The first 
member of this family to come to Amer- 
ica was William Boggs, who was born in 
the north of Ireland in 1716, and at the age of 
twelve years reached these shores. Here he 
married Jane Stein, who was also a native of 
Ireland, and with his bride settled in Chester 
County, Penn., where they both passed the re- 
mainder of their days and were interred in the 
cemetery of the Presbyterian Church at Octo- 
raro, of which they were devout members, and 
in which cemetery lie also the remains of a 



number of their children. Their offspring were 
born and named in the following order: James, 
born July 21, 1735; John, February 19, 1737; 
Margaret, February 23, 1739; Robert, April 9, 
1741: William, March 14, 1743; Jane, April 
10, 1745; Elizabeth, July 31, 1747; Rebecca, 
January 31, 1749; Agnes, February 17, 1752; 
Mary, May 24, 1753; Joseph, October 1, 1754, 
and Moses, May 6, 1757. James Boggs, the 
eldest of the above named children, first married 
Hannah Rice, and settled in New Castle County, 
Del., and there were born to them three chil- 
dren, viz. : William, Rice and Jane: his second 
wife was Sarah Brown, who bore him the follow- 
ing family: James, born April 27, 1778; Mar- 
garet, November 17, 1779; Robert, the same 
day; John, June 28, 1782; Rebecca, February 
15, 1784, and Mary on the same day, and, last, 
Sarah, April 21, 1786. About the year 1790 
James Boggs and his family moved from Dela- 
ware to Washington County, Penn., and settled 
near where Cross Creek village now stands, 
after having served his country during the Rev- 
olutionary War as teamster in the army. John 
Boggs, the fourth child born to James and 
Sarah Boggs, married Sarah Marshall, Septem- 
ber 17, 1812, and to this marriage were born 
Thomas Marshall, June 26, 1813; James Brown, 
January 20, 1815; William, November 5, 1816; 
John M., October 20, 1818; Samuel M., Decem- 
ber 6, 1820; Sarah Ann, February 3, 1823; 
Robert W., August 1, 1825, and James. July 
23, 1828. John Boggs came with his family 
from Washington County, Penn., to Harrison 
County, Ohio, in the fall of 1839. 

Thomas Marshall Boggs, the eldest child of 
John and Sarah (Marshall) Boggs, after having 
graduated from Washington College, Penn., and 
from Princeton Theological Seminary, was mar- 
ried to Miss A. J. Cunningham, of Chester 
County, Penn. He was settled, first, as pastor 
of the Presbyterian Church of Marietta, Lan- 
caster Co., Penn., and afterward removed to 
Mount Joy, in the same county, where he had 
charge of the Presbyterian Church, and was 
also pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Done- 





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gal. His death took place at Mount Joy in 1S50, 
in the thirty eighth year of his ago. His chil- 
dren were Lizzie, who was married to the Rev. 
Edgar, now president of the Wilson College for 
women, at Chambersburg, Penn. ; John O, who 
is living with Rev. Mr. Edgar, and William M. , 
who is practicing law at Chicago. The second 
child born to John and Sarah Boggs was James 
Brown, who died in infancy. The third child 
was William, who was killed when twenty years 
old, by a kick from a horse. The fourth child 
was John M., who, after graduating from 
Franklin College, New Athens, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, and from the Theological Seminary, 
Princeton, Penn., was first settled as pastor of 
the Presbyterian Churches of Paxton and Der- 
ry, near Harrisburg, Penn., and afterward pas- 
tor of the Presbyterian Church at Millersburg, 
Ohio; then of that of Independence, Iowa., 
where he died September 1, 1872, aged fifty- 
six years. The fifth child of John and Sarah 
Boggs was Samuel M. Boggs, born December 
6, 1820; he, as did also his sister. Sarah Ann, 
and brother, Robert W., remained on the farm 
with his parents until their death, that of the 
father occurring December 21, 1848, and that 
of the mother January 6, 1849. 

Samuel M. Boggs was born December 6, 
1820, and was married, September 21, 1854, to 
Margaret Parks, who has borne him the follow- 
ing named children: Mary N., who married 
William J. Hawthorn, and is now living near 
Crawfordsville, Iowa; John Marshall, who, after 
graduating from Franklin College and from 
Princeton, and also from the Theological Semi 
nary at Allegheny, was married to Harriet 
Jones, and was sent to Kimball, S. D. , by the 
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, whence 
he returned to Ohio, three years later, and 
settled as pastor of the Third Presbyterian 
Church at Fort Wayne, Ind, January 1, 1888. 
The third child born to Samuel M. Boggs, and 
named James Y. , passed away when but one 
year old; the fourth child, Laura S., died when 
thirteen years of age; the fifth is Parke W., 
who graduated from Franklin College and from 



the Cincinnati Law School, and is engaged in 
practice at Fort Wayne. Intl.; the sixth child, 
Charlie, died when four years of age. Samuel 
M. Boggs, with his family, and brother, Robert, 
lived on their farm in Short Creek Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, until the spring of L8S4, 
when they removed to the village of New 
Athens, Athens Township, same county. 

Sarah Ann Boggs, the sixth child and only 
daughter born to John and Sarah Boggs, was 
married to William H. Watson, and is now re- 
siding in Belmont County, Ohio; she is now a 
widow with five living children, having lost two 
by death .... Robert W. Boggs, seventh in the 
family of John and Sarah Boggs, having never 
married, has made his home with the family of 
his brother, Samuel M.... James Boggs, the 
eighth child of John and Sarah Boggs, died 
February 13, 1840, aged thirteen years. 




t ILLIAM G. GIFFIN, a well-known 
and prosperous agriculturist of Short 
Creek Township, Harrison County, was 
horn in Jefferson County, Ohio, May 7, 
1845, and is a son of John and Jane (Gordeu) 
Giffin. The grandfather of our subject, also 
Darned John, was a native of Virginia, born of 
Scotch-Irish extraction. He married Miss Eliza- 
beth Morrison, moved to Belmont County, Ohio, 
when his son, John, was small, and there fol- 
lowed farming until the end of his days. John 
Giffin; the father of our subject, was born either 
in Virginia or Pennsylvania, but was reared to 
manhood in Belmont County. Ohio, where he 
married Jane, daughter of James Gordon, and 
some time afterward moved to Jefferson County, 
where he and his wife resided some years, but 
eventually returned to Belmont County, where 
he died in 1878, at the age of seventy-two years, 
in the faith of the United Presbyterian Church. 
His widow, now seventy six years old, i 
with her sou, William G., the subject proper of 
this sketch. To John ami Jane [Gordon) Giffin 
were born twelve children, of whom five are '\>' 
ceased, viz. : John, James, I'.lizabeth, Louis 






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and Emma. The survivors are Martha (Mrs. 
James Henderson), of Jefferson County, Ohio; 
M. N., of Short Creek Township; Jane A., and 
Nancy I., residing with our subject; William G., 
whose name heads this notice; Mary, the wife of 
James Hinkle, of Belmont County, and Sarah, 
married to S. Rice, of Martin's Ferry, in the 
same county. 

On the death of his father, our subject pur- 
chased the farm on which he now resides. This 
comprises 191 acres of highly improved land, 
and is situated about three and one-half miles 
from the Cadiz and Harrisville Pike, and he 
here gives much of his attention to the raising 
of sheep, in addition to the work of cultivating 
the farm. He is looked upon as an enterprising 
farmer and as a useful citizen, and stands very 
high in the esteem of his neighbors. In politics 
he was formerly a Democrat, as was his father 
before him, but of late years, having perceived 
the evils brought on by the traffic in liquor, he 
has given his vote to the Prohibitionists. His 
religious faith is that of the United Presbyterian 
Church, with which church the other members 
of the family affiliate. Mr. Giffin is a great 
lover of his home, taking much pride in keeping it 
in good order, and in keeping up with the prog- 
ress of the age with regard to agriculture and 
stock-raising. 



JAMES M. WELSH, a respectable and skill- 
ful farmer of Stock Township. Harrison 
County, was born in Archer Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, October 11, 1832. His 
father, John Welsh, was born in Ireland about 
17S7, but when ten years old came to the United 
States, and spent some time in Westmoreland 
County, Penu., as a common laborer. He mar- 
ried Miss Jane McClellan, who was born in 
Pennsylvania in 1797. In an early day Mr. 
Welsh came to Harrison County, Ohio, and en- 
tered one-quarter section of land in Archer 
Township. This laud was cleared by him and 
here he remained till 1860, when he moved to 
Stock Township and purchased the farm now 



owned by our subject, where he remained till 
his death. To Mr. and Mrs. Welsh were born 
ten children, viz. : Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Samuel 
John K., Jane, Matthew, James M., David and 
William. Politically Mr. Welsh was a Repub- 
lican. He and his wife were members of the 
Presbyterian Church for many years, and were 
highly esteemed in the community. 

James M. Welsh, the subject proper of these 
lines, grew to manhood on the old farm in Archer 
Township, and received a common-school edu- 
cation. Since 1S60 he has resided in Stock 
Township on the farm he now owns, which con- 
tains ninety-seven acres. In politics Mr. Welsh 
is a Republican. 



\\ \\ ti ILLIAM DONALDSON, one of therep- 
\\/\\Jy resentative self-made men of Harrison 
m[ li[ County, who has made his own success 
in life by industry, perseverance and 
economy, was born in Schenectady County, N. 
Y. , September 1, 1827. His father, also named 
William, was a native of Scotland, the "land of 
the mountain and the flood," where he married 
Christina Robinson, and whence, after the birth 
of their first-born, they came to these shores, lo- 
cating in Schenectady County, N. Y. By trade 
he was a stonemason, which he followed till forty 
years of age, when he turned his attention to 
farming, coming with his family (in 1833 or 
1834) to Carroll County, Ohio, and in 1864 he 
moved to Gallia County, same State, where he 
died at the age of seventy-five years. They had 
born to them eight children, of whom the follow- 
ing is a brief record: John died in Columbiana 
County, Ohio; Jane is married to Rosel Miller, 
and lives in West Virginia; Peter lives in Rich- 
mond, Jefferson Co., Ohio; Mildred is the wife 
of Richard Donaldson, in Carroll Count}'. Ohio; 
Elijah keeps a grocery store in Gallia County, 
Ohio; William is in North Township, as related 
below; Robert lives in Wellsville, Ohio; George 
is a resident of Atchison County, Kas. 

William Donaldson, whose name appears at 
the opening of this sketch, remained under the 



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paternal roof until twenty-one years of age, 
alternating, according to the seasons, between 
the duties of the farm in summer and the les- 
sons of the old log school house in winter. He 
then started in life for himself, coming in 1851 
to Harrison County, where he carried on farm- 
ing till L854, in which year he went to Gallia 
County, and after ten years' residence there re- 
turned to Harrison County, finally settling in 
North Township. In the same year (1864) he 
enlisted in Company H, Second O. N. G., or- 
ganized under Gov. Tod, which regiment was 
ordered to Virginia, where it did border duty 
for a time. Mr. Donaldson was made first lieu- 
tenant, and upon his discharge he returned 
home to Harrison County to a farm, which he 
sold in 1883, and then in 1885 removed to 
another one situated one mile and a half from 
Scio. In connection with his farming interests, 
our subject carried on general banking, having 
formed July 6, 18S4, a partnership with a Mr. 
Hogan, under the firm name of Hogan & Don- 
aldson, which still continues. 

On October 3, 1848, Mr. Donaldson became 
united in marriage with Miss Nancy, daughter 
of James and Jane (Pickens) English [sketch of 
whom appears elsewhere], and who died in 1866, 
at the age of thirty-four years, leaving three 
children, viz. : Florence, married to William 
Law, in North Township, Harrison County; 
Jane and Mary, at home; three having died be- 
fore her decease. On February 28, 1889, our 
subject was married to Sarah, daughter of Ham- 
ilton King, a native of Pennsylvania, who came 
to Harrison County, when two years of age. and 
died in 1880; his widow followed him to the 
grave in March, 1881. They were the parents 
of nine children. Mr. King was a Democrat, 
and for several times was appraiser of his town 
ship. Mr. Donaldson's property lies just out- 
side the corporation limits of Scio, and the ele- 
gant and commodious dwelling he built in ! s ">">. 
Politically he was a Republican up to the elec- 
tion of Grant to the presidency, when he became 
a Democrat; and has held various township 
offices, such as treasurer and trustee. He and 



his wife are members of the United Presbyterian 
Church at Scio. 



\ \\ 1\ ILLIAM W - DICKERSON. The Dick- 
Y/\wy ersou f am 'ly are originally of English 
lf[ Mj nativity. In 1752 three brothers de- 
termined to seek their fortunes in the 
country across the sea, and accordingly set out 
in a sailing vessel for the land where fortune 
awaited them. Arriving here, they determined 
to separate, thinking if one found a better loca- 
tion than the others they could all settle there. 
Thus one went to Maryland, one farther south, 
and one to Pennsylvania, and from the latter 
sprang the family which have grown so numer- 
ous in Harrison County. In 181)1 Thomas 
Dickerson, together with his family, came from 
Pennsylvania to Harrison County r , and settled 
in Cadiz Township, where the year previous he 
had entered a large tract of land and had 
cleared a small patch and erected a small log 
cabin. While a resident of Pennsylvania he 
had married Mary Curry, who bore him the 
following named children: Barruch, Joshua, 
Thomas, John, Joseph, Eli, Levi, Hiram, Jane 
and Susan, all of whom are now deceased, but 
who reached a good old age. With the assist 
ance of his family Mr. Dickerson soon succeeded 
in clearing up a large portion of his farm, and 
making quite extensive improvements for that 
early day. As he was one of the oldest settlers 
in the section as well as one whose perceptions 
were keen, and whose judgment was rarely at 
fault, he was chosen by his neighbors as justice 
of the peace, which position he held for twenty- 
seven consecutive years. He was a Whig, and 
took an active and prominent part in the poli- 
tics of the county. He was among the early 
organizers of the township and county in which 
he resided, and was among its first officers. In 
religion- matters he was a member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, and was among the 
founders of what is now known as the Dickerson 
Methodist Episcopal Church. A class leader 
for years, as well as a strong supporter of the 



faith, his influence for good was widely felt, 
both in and out of the church. In the evening 
of life he quietly passed away, and was soon 
joined by the wife who had shared his joys and 
sorrows, as well as his hardships. Their re- 
mains now quietly rest in the cemetery of Dick- 
erson Church, where for years they had wor- 
shiped. Of the sons of Thomas Dickerson, two, 
Barruch and Thomas, remained in Harrison 
County, and gave rise to the two families who 
are so numerous in Athens and Cadiz Townships. 
The eldest, Barruch, was born in Westmoreland 
County, Penn., and came with his father to 
Harrison County, Ohio. Here he engaged in 
farming, and here married Elizabeth Holmes, a 
daughter of William Holmes, one of the early 
settlers. The young couple settled on a farm 
where they remained for about ten years, when 
Mr. Dickerson was elected sheriff of Harrison 
County, having been nominated in 182*2 by the 
Whig party, and having received a good major- 
ity, although at that time the county was Demo- 
cratic. During his administration as sheriff, a 
band of horse-thieves and counterfeiters, who 
had for many years infested this section of the 
State, became so bold that a determined effort 
was made for their capture. They made their 
headquarters at Harrisville, but so cleverly did 
they conceal their track and so stealthily was 
their work of plunder carried on, that it seemed 
almost an impossibility to detect them. History 
proves that no undertaking is so difficult or 
hazardous that none can be found to attempt it, 
and so it was in the present case. The name 
of the man who did so much for the peace and 
security of the then residents of Harrison 
County, and who sacrificed his life for the 
furtherance of justice is scarcely known at the 
present time. Mr. William Gardner determined 
to bring the offenders to justice, and, that he 
might effectually do so, determined to join their 
band and possess himself of their secrets. He 
applied for admission, but after some further 
talk one of the supposed members of the band 
told him that if he would steal a good horse 
that night and bring it to a certain place, they 



would take him in as a member. He immedi- 
ately purchased a horse of a farmer, and telling 
him he would call for it the following day, left 
it at the barn. That night he went to the barn, 
took the horse, and met the man whom he had 
spoken to, who assured him that everything was 
all right and that they would proceed to the 
headquarters of the band, that he might be in- 
troduced. Accordingly they proceeded, and 
Mr. Gardner was introduced and spent much 
time with them. After becoming acquainted 
with them all, and having obtained a knowledge 
of their secrets and plans, he commimicated 
with the officers of Harrison County. On the 
night previous to a contemplated robbery of a 
bank at Mount Pleasant, Mr. Gardner informed 
the officers, and taking precaution to have the 
whole band there, told them where to come. 
The officers, with a strong posse, arrived at 
their place of rendezvous at Fleet's Tavern, 
and surrounding the thieves took them in cus- 
tody. After a short trial, in which Mr. Gard- 
ner was chief witness against them, the culprits 
were sentenced to the penitentiary. Thus was 
a band who had spread terror over half of Ohio 
and Pennsylvania captured. But the sequel 
still remains: Mr. Gardner started for home 
in disguise and avoided meeting any one, as the 
friends of the band had sworn to kill him. 
W r hen near his home, which was in the eastern 
part of the State, he felt sudden pains all 
through his body. He hastened on, and arriv- 
ing at a house had a physician summoned, but 
before his arrival Mr. Gardner had died. He 
said the only chance of poisoning him was when 
at Cadiz he had drunk some water which had 
been handed him. Thus did the friends of the 
band avenge them. After the prisoners had 
been condemned it became necessary to take 
them to the State penitentiary, which journey 
was then accomplished on horseback. Mr. 
Dickerson as sheriff, in command of a strong 
guard, accompanied them and succeeded in plac- 
ing them safely in the prison. On his return 
he was attacked with fever, which he had in- 
curred on the road, and died in a short time. 



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Thus was Lis life cut short, although he bid 
fair to be one of the prominent citizens of the 
county. He died in 1824,' and was buried in 
the family plat at Dickerson Cemetery. His 
family were as follows: Joshua, in Cadiz 
Township; Susannah, deceased; Thomas, de- 
ceased; Mary; William W. ; Jane; Elizabeth, 
deceased; Barruch, who died in infancy. After 
the death of her husband Mrs. Dickerson re- 
moved to a farm, where she remained till death. 
She was buried by the side of her husband in 
Dickerson Cemetery. 

William W. Dickerson was born April 12, 
1818, in Cadiz Township. Receiving instruction 
in the English branches then taught in the com- 
mon schools, he, at the age of sixteen, commenced 
an apprenticeship with a wagon-maker. For 
many years of his minority he had resided with 
his brother Joshua, but October 17, 1839, he 
was married to Susan McCoy, a daughter of 
Thomas McCoy, a resident of Athens. Since 
learning his trade, Mr. Dickerson has been more 
or less actively engaged in it, and now, at the 
advanced age of seventy-two, when most men 
are incapacitated for work, he still may be found 
in his shop doing a good day's work. His home, 
since his marriage, has been made where it now 
is, at New Athens, and which he has done much 
to improve and beautify. During the raid of 
that famous rebel leader, Morgan, Mr. Dickerson 
was favored with the company of the whole troop. 
They helped themselves to an abundance of feed, 
and took wheat from the mow to make beds for 
themselves and horses, wasting a large amount, 
and doing other damage. They likewise forced 
themselves into the house, and took all the 
provisions they could rind, besides intimidating 
the inmates with threats and curses. Mr. 
Dickerson has always been a strong upholder 
of Republican principles, but was, previous to 
the organization of that party, a member of 
the Whig party. He and family are connected 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church at New 
Athens. His children were born and named in 
following order: Barruch (deceased), Thomas, 
Hannah, Granville, Winfield, William, Eliza- 



beth, Clara and Alvin. Mr. Dickerson is one 
of the most industrious as well as highly re-" 
spected citizens of his township. His success 
in life is entirely due to his own efforts, and 
now, at a ripe old age, he has the esteem of all, 
which he has won by his integrity, honesty and 
exemplary life. 



JM. WILLISON. a merchant of Moorefield 
Township, Harrison County, with post- 
office at Cassville, is a son of Jerry WiUi- 
son, who is a son of Charles Willison, an 
early settler in Moorefield Township. Charles 
Willison was father of nine children, viz. : 
Amos, Jerry, Elijah, Abijah, Charles, Rosilla, 
Annie, Rusha and Rachel, all deceased. Jerry 
was born on the old homestead in Moorefield 
Township, where he grew to manhood and re- 
ceived a common-school education. In 1847 he 
was married to Miss Rebecca Figley, and to this 
union were born two children, Rachel A. (de- 
ceased) and J. M. (our subject). Jerry Willi- 
son died in 1850, and a few years later Mrs. 
Willison married Joseph Olivar, and now re- 
sides in Athens County, Ohio. 

J. M. Willison was born July 3, 1850, in 
Moorefield Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 
remained with his mother until he was four- 
teen years old, when he hired as a farm hand to 
John Kirkpatrick, with whom he remained until 
he was twenty-one years of age; he then hired 
to Robert Kennedy, for whom he worked three 
years. On January 8, 1874, J. ML Willison 
married Miss Julia McCullough, a daughter of 
William and Julia (Leiznre) McCullough, who 
were among the early settlers of Nottingham 
Township. After his marriage Mr. Willison 
rented a farm, which he worked for five years 
In 1 VS4 he engaged in mercantile business at 
the place where he is now located, and where 
he has built up by his own efforts a fine trade 
and he is now one of the most successful bus 
ness men of Moorefield Township. Mr. and 
Mrs. Willison are both active members of the 
Nottingham Presbyterian Church. 






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HARRISON COUNTY. 




RICE E. BETTS. Connected with the 
early pioneer history of Ohio, is the name 
of Betts. The family comes of German 
extraction, the progenitors of the branch 
in America settling in Pennsylvania prior to the 
Revolutionary War. In 1802 Adam Betts im- 
migrated to Ohio with his family from Reading, 
Penn., and located in Jefferson County, when 
the country was a complete wilderness. There 
he purchased a farm, paying the Government 
price of $2 per acre. Through the forest the 
wolves, deer and bears roamed at will, and eyed 
with suspicion and distrust this encroachment 
upon their native wilds by these sturdy people 
who had braved the dangers of a pioneer life, 
and with undaunted courage pushed westward 
into the new country to build up for themselves 
a home. Here the family lived until their 
deaths. Adam Betts was a man of more than 
ordinary attainments and superior education for 
those early days, and he took an active interest 
in the development of his adopted State. 

The family name was originally Betz, and 
is so spelled on the patent granted by James 
Madison in 1810 for the land taken up by Adam 
Betts. This original patent, bearing the sig- 
nature of President Madison, is in the posses- 
sion of our subject. Adam Betts was twice 
married, and three children were bora to the 
first marriage, and nine to the second marriage. 
Of these children but two are now living; they 
were born to the second marriage, and their 
names are Annie, now Mrs. Joseph Cryder, and 
residing in Salem Township, Jefferson Co., 
Ohio, on part of the original homestead, and 
Sarah, now Mrs. Phillips, of VY'ellsville, Colum- 
biana Co., Ohio. The eldest child born to the 
second marriage was a son, named William. 
He was born in Reading, Penn. , October 9, 
1787, and came with his parents to Ohio, being 
then but twelve years of age. As they were 
crossing the Ohio River, at Steubenville, he ac- 
cidentally fell from the flatboat used as a ferry 
and was with difficulty rescued. He grew to 
manhood with his parents in their pioneer home, 
and was schooled in all the privations and 



dangers of the frontier life; he attended the 
early subscription schools of the period, and 
acquired a thorough education under the instruc- 
tion of his father and half-brother. Mr. Betts 
married in Jefferson County, Ohio, Elizabeth 
Viers, a native of that county, born and reared 
at Island Creek, and a daughter of one of the 
pioneers there. They located on a tract of land, 
a part of the original homestead, and there they 
lived in their cabin and began clearing the land, 
enjoying such advantages as fell to the lot of the 
pioneers. He served as a soldier in the War of 
1812, as did also his brother, George, who was 
present at Detroit at Hull's surrender. William 
Betts took an active interest in the progress and 
advancement of the country, particularly in edu- 
cation. He was an ardent Democrat, and active 
in political affairs. Mrs. Betts died in 1862, 
aged sixty-seven years, and Mr. Betts died in 
April, 1883. Their union had been been blessed 
by two sons and five daughters, as follows: Re- 
becca, Mrs. William Powell, residing at Union 
Port, Jefferson Co., Ohio; Eliza, married to 
William H. Barrett, of Nottingham Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio; Permelia, Mrs. Samuel 
Scott, of New Philadelphia, Ohio; Margaret, 
married to John Dunlap, by whom she had two 
sons and two daughters (she died February 16, 
1885); Brice E., our subject; McCourtney Betts, 
on the old homestead; Lucinda, now Mrs. 
George M. Gault, of German Township, Harri- 
son Co., Ohio. 

Brice E. , the subject proper of this sketch, 
was born in a log house on the homestead in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, June 13, 1824. His 
early life was spent upon the farm, experiencing 
all the hardships and privations of those early 
times. He was first taught the rudiments of an 
education in the subscription school held in the 
old log school-house, with its puncheon floor, 
rude split-log benches and single desk extend- 
ing around the room on pegs driven into the 
wall, and warmed by a huge fireplace, for which 
the scholars cut the wood. He recalls the home- 
made clothing of his boyhood — the linsey pants 
and red wampus. He was eighteen years of age 



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before he wore a coat, and this was made from 
wool which his mother had carded by hand and 
spun, and never until this age was he the happy 
possessor of a pair of boots, the money to pay 
for which he made by teaching school. When 
about nineteen years of age he engaged as a 
clerk in a general store, and received for the 
first year seventy -five dollars, and the next year 
his wages were increased to one hundred and 
thirty three dollars. He saved the money for his 
start in life, and in 1846 he established a busi- 
ness with Warner Grimes, under the name of 
Grimes & Betts, which lasted two years, when, 
by mutual consent, the partnership was dissolved, 
each continuing in business independently. On 
September 26, 184U, he was united in marriage 
with Isabel N. Guy, a native of Steubenville, 
Ohio, and a daughter of Robert and Sarah Ann 
(Clarke) Guy. Robert Guy was a native of 
Pennsylvania, and in 1811 was married to Sarah 
Ann Clarke, a native of Ireland, who had emi- 
grated with her parents to America in 1S10. 
Robert Guy was a brass founder by trade, and 
for many years resided in Pittsburgh, and when 
Isabel was a babe they removed to Wheeling, 
W. Va., where they resided until their deaths, 
Mrs. Guy dying April 10, 1843, and Robert Guy 
in June, 1804. Mr. Betts continued in business 
at Salem until 1859, when he went to Missouri 
and purchased landed property with the inten- 
tion of removing his family there, but the out- 
break of the war caused him to change his plans, 
and, returning to Salem, he again engaged in 
business as a member of the firm of Sproat & 
Betts, the firm selling out in the fall of 1860. 
That winter he came with his parents to Frank- 
lin, Ohio, whence, in March, 1861, they moved 
to Monroe Township and located on the farm 
where they have since resided. In May, 1S64, 
he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and 
Seventieth Ohio State Guards, and participated 
in all the marches and campaigns of his regi- 
ment in the valleys of the Potomac and Shenan- 
doah; was at the battles of Snicker's Gap. 
Harper's Ferry, Winchester and Maryland 
Heights. He was honorably discharged at Camp 



Chase, Columbus, September 21, 1864. after 
which he returned to his home. Politically Mr. 
Betts has been a heart y supporter of the Repub- 
lican party since 1860, and is a firm believer in 
the policy of protection for American industries. 
During his residence here he has officiated as 
supervisor, trnstee and member of the school 
board, and for twelve years served as justice of 
the peace. He has always taken an active in- 
terest in the advancement and upbuilding of the 
country. He, with his family, resides on their 
farm in Monroe Township, has 260 acres of prime 
land, and is one of the representative farmers 
of the region. Mr. and Mrs. Betts' anion has 
been blessed with eight children, of whom two 
died young; the six remaining are Elizabeth 
A. , who married Andrew Thompson, and resides 
in Monroe Township; William L. , a representa- 
tive farmer of Monroe Township; Eliza M. . now 
Mrs. John Turney, of North Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio; George, a representative farmer of 
Stock Township, Harrison County, and Samuel 
S. and Jessie M. , both at home. Their house 
was destroyed by fire in 1878, and many valu- 
able records were destroyed; but the dwelling 
has been replaced by a more substantial and 
commodious structure, and they have the satis- 
faction of knowing that they have been the 
architects of their own fortunes. Although a 
member of no church, Mr. Betts is liberal in 
his support of all denominations and of all 
charitable objects. 



DAVID B. BRADEN, one of the few re- 
maining pioneers of Short Creek Town- 
___ ' ship, Harrison County, was born near 
where he now resides, August 21, 1818, 
a son of Robert and Catherine (Hay) Braden, 
former a native of Pennsylvania, latter of Can- 
imnsburg, same State. Mr. Braden's paternal 
grandfather was also a native of the Keystone 
State, descended of Irish ancestry, who came to 
America prior to the Revolution. Robert Bra- 
den was reared on a farm, and on attaining his 
majority he married a Miss Finney, who died in 



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Short Creek Township, leaving two sons, both 
now deceased. For a second wife he married, 
in 1815, Catherine Hay, who bore him seven 
children, viz.: John, who died when twenty- 
four years of age ; David B. ; Anna (deceased 
wife of Walker Patton, of Short Creek Town- 
ship); Eobert, in Washington, Iowa; William, 
in Iowa; Elizabeth, who died at the age of eight 
years, and Mary Jane, now wife of Casper Dev- 
ilbriss, in Iowa. Robert Braden, in the year 
1800, along with his father-in-law, James Fin- 
ney, came to Harrison County and took up 600 
acres of land in one body in the northwest cor- 
ner of Short Creek Township, which they di- 
vided between them. Here Mr. Braden made 
his home, bringing to it his wife, who became 
the mother of our subject, and where he died 
in 1837 at the age of sixty-four years. He was 
a farmer all his days, and had to clear his place 
from a wilderness, contending with the wolves 
and wildcats, which were very plentiful, prowl- 
ing around the premises and making night hide- 
ous with their howls. Deer and wild turkeys 
were also plentiful. The family lived in a 
house which was built in 1801, and which still 
stands on the place, now used as a sheep house. 
The widow of Mr. Braden survived him some 
eight years, dying at the age of seventy-five 
years. Robert Braden was first a Jackson Demo- 
crat, but later became a Republican, and he and 
his wife were both members of the United Pres- 
byterian Church. 

David Braden, the subject proper of this 
commemorative sketch grew to manhood on the 
home place, being well schooled in the general 
duties of the farm, especially those of shepherd. 
Later he carried on for thirty years a saw-mill, 
which stood on the farm. On November 5, 
1851, he was united in marriage with Miss 
Susannah M. , daughter of Francis and Jenette 
Groves, of Cadiz Township, who departed this 
life October 19, 1885, at the age of seventy-two 
years, nine months and seventeen days. Mr. 
Braden married for his second wife, at Can- 
nonsburg, Penn., September 2, 1886, Malissa 
Donnell, of that place, and she also passed from 



earth May 14, 1S89. Mr. Braden has had no chil- 
dren. Now a man of seventy-two years of age, 
he is well preserved, and still shows evidence of 
his great strength and endurance. He lives 
alone on the old home place, widely and favor- 
ably known as an honored citizen. He is a Re- 
publican in politics, and for many years was 
supervisor; was for a long time a trustee of the 
United Presbyterian Church, of which he has 
been a member since eighteen years of age. 
Few men in the county have done so much 
hard work and seen so many radical changes as 
has Mr. Braden, and he will ever be remembered 
as one of the sterling, industrious and progres- 
sive men of Harrison County. 



AMUEL GILBERT, a native farmer of 
^ Stock Township, Harrison County, was 
born April 7, 1824. He spent his boy- 
hood days on the old farm, and received 
his education at the common schools. In 1855 
he married Miss Rachel Kitt, of Stark County, 
Ohio, and this union has been blessed with three 
children, viz. : Isaac S. , Narsemenas and 
Amanda M. , all residing at home. In 1856 
Mr. Gilbert purchased the farm he now owns, 
which contains 240 acres, and here he has erected 
a fine dwelling. He has been very successful 
in business, having started in the world with 
nothing but his own willing hands to help him- 
self with. Politically he is Democratic, and 
has held the office of township treasurer several 
terms, also trustee, twelve years. He is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is 
one of the influential and representative citizens 
of Stock Township. [Since the above was writ- 
ten Mr. Gilbert has departed this life.] 



31, 



AMUEL COURTNEY ALLBAUGH, for 

over forty years a respected resident of 
North Township, Harrison County, is a 
native of Carroll County, born January 
1831, in Loudon Township. The family 



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come from the Fatherland to this country at an 
early day. In his boyhood our Bubjeci assisted his 
father on the farm, attending for a few weeks 
during the winter season the common schools of 
the district. When qualified he commenced 
teaching school, a profession he has followed for 
thirty-five years. In 184 l J he moved with his 
father's family to North Township, Harrison 
County, settling about a mile west of Scio. His 
parents had eleven children, viz. : Joseph Tripp; 
Elizabeth, in Iowa; Basil, in Kansas; Morris, 
died October 31, 1887; Samuel C. ; James, in 
East Springfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio; William, 
in Scio, Ohio; Catherine, in Kansas; Andrew, 
died in November, 1882; Robert Patton, in 
Kansas; Martha Ann, died in Kansas about the 
year 1884. 

On October 8, 1857, Samuel C. Allbaugh 
was married to Ann Maria May, of near Conot- 
ton, Harrison County, whose parents had eight 
children — four sons and four daughters — viz. : 
David, Catherine, John, Margaret, Nancy Jane, 
Alexander, Ann Maria and George Kincaid. To 
Mr. and Mrs. Allbaugh have been born seven chil- 
dren, of whom the following is a short record: 
John, born May 25, 1859, is living in Steuben- 
ville, Ohio; Andrew, born October 1, 1800, lives 
in Bowerston, Harrison County; Mary Melissa, 
born March 1, 1861, died when two years and 
twenty-six days old; Jennie M. , born December 
6, 1863; Elveda, born March 8, I860; Roland 
Everett, born September 23, 1872, died eleven 
years ago; Beatty A., born October 29, 1ST"'. 



J(OHN QUINCY LAW. About 1830 John 
i Law came from County Tyrone, Ireland. 
I and located in Harrison County, Ohio, 
where he entered land. In this family 
were two brothers and seven sisters. The 
fourth child in order of birth, and the younger 
of the two boys, was Henry Law, who was born 
in County Tyrone, in July, 1812. He immi- 
grated to Ohio with his parents, and grew to 
maturity with them, experiencing all the priva- 
tions and hardships of the pioneer times. On 



December 18, L839, he married Elizabeth bfc 
Milliu, who was born in County Donegal, Ire- 
land, and when a girl of about five years of age 
(in 1820) came with her parents, Patrick and 
Jane McMillin, to America, the voyage lasting 
nine weeks. After some time spent in various 
places, including Baltimore, Steubenville, etc., 
they located, in 1819, in Monroe Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, where he entered a tract of 
Government land in the spring of 1820, and 
located thereon. He had. previous to his mar- 
riage, come to America, and then returned to his 
native home. Mr. and Mrs. McMillin died in 
Monroe Township about the years 1852 and 
1854, respectively. The women in those days 
wore linsey dresses, and calico was a scarce arti- 
cle. Mrs. Law has woven many yards of cloth 
and carpet, and still has in her possession the 
spinning wheel brought by the Law family from 
Ireland. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Law 
located on a farm in Monroe Township, Harri- 
son County, at the head of Plum Run. They 
lived in a log cabin, with its large fireplace and 
its stick chimney. The little house afforded but 
two rooms, one down and one up stairs — or 
rather up ladder, for the stairs were nothing but a 
short ladder. About 1840 they moved farther 
down the run, and here resided until Mr. Law's 
death, which occurred March 2, L869, when he 
was aged fifty-seven years. His worthy wife, 
who still survives him, is now well and active, 
and is in her seventy- fourth year. He always 
took an active interest in the advancement and 
improvement of the country, particularly in the 
educational advantages. He was a man of more 
than ordinary attainments for those times, his 
father having been a man of education and a 
Bohool teacher. He was a man of exemplary 
habits, careful and conscientious in his walk, 
and won the respect and esteem of all. Of the 
eleven children born to Mr. Law, all grew to 
maturity, and of the number seven are now liv- 
ing, viz. : Jane, Mrs. Henry Clark, of Monroe 
Township; John Quincy, our subject; Linn H, 
in Cadiz, Ohio; Harvey B. , in Deersville, Frank- 
lin Township. Harrison County; Belle, Mrs. 



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John H. Spiker, in Lyon Count}', Kas. ; Henry 
M. , an extensive ranchman who owns a ranch at 
the foot of Pike's Peak, and Camillus R., now 
perfecting his musical education at Milan, Italy. 
John Quincy Law is the eldest son and the 
fourth child in order of birth, and was born July 
12, 1846, on the farm and in the house where 
he now resides. He was educated in the school 
of his district, and there the advancement was 
quite marked. On November 8, 1877, he mar- 
ried Ella M. Scott, a daughter of Josiah and 
Rachel (Vance) Scott, both natives of Washing- 
ton County, Penn. Rachel Vance was a de- 
scendant of the Vance family, early pioneers of 
Washington County, and after whom the fort 
was named, where the inhabitants attended 
church in a block-house and carried rifles to 
protect themselves from the Indians; her father 
is still living in Washington County, Penn. 
Five children have blessed this union, viz. : 
Clyde H. , Eliza Rachel, Frank V. , Loretta and 
Lina J. Mrs. Law is a Presbyterian. Polit- 
ically Mr. Law votes for the one he thinks best 
fitted for tho office. He has served as a mem- 
ber of the school board, but has never been an 
office seeker. Ha owns 314 acres of tine land, 
well improved, raises fine stock, and is one of 
the leading farmers of his section. 



fj DWARD HUGHES (deceased) was born 
in Cecil County, Md., October 30, 1814. 
_ tj His father, Edward Hughes, Sr. , was a 
native of Ireland, but came to America 
when a young man. He was a farm laborer, and 
was married in Maryland, where he and his 
wife died at Rising Sun, leaving four children: 
Robert M. , Sarah Smith, Rebecca Poole and 
Edward, our subject. Edward Hughes was edu- 
cated chiefly at home. He worked at farming 
till about twenty years old, and then began 
learning carpentering at Port Deposit, finishing 
at Philadelphia. In 1839 he came to Ohio, 
stopping at Cadiz, Harrison County, and then 
moving on to New Athens. Here he made the 
acquaintance of Sarah Ann Brown, daughter of 



James and Jane (Welch) Brown, then a girl of 
sixteen years, whom he married. James Brown 
had come to Harrison County, Ohio, about 1814, 
bringing his wife and four children from 
County Down, Ireland. He was a weaver and a 
farmer, and settled on a tract in Athens Town- 
ship, one mile west of town. On reaching 
America he had landed at Baltimore, from which 
place he walked through the wilds to Harrison 
County, leaving his family behind. Having 
selected his land, he obtained a wagon, and 
after six weeks' absence returned for his family, 
whom he brought to New Athens, where, for a 
time they kept a hotel, and then moved to the 
farm, where the father tilled the 'and during 
the day and wrought at his loom in the night. 
In November, 1860, the father died, aged seventy- 
five years, and a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church; his widow followed in 1865, aged 
seventy- seven. They were the parents of six 
children, as follows: George, a banker at St. 
Clairsville, Ohio; Joseph, near Flushing, Ohio; 
Mary Ann, deceased; Jane, deceased; Margaret, 
Mrs. James Rankin, in Missouri, and Sarah 
Ann, Mrs. Hughes. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hughes made 
their home in Athens Township, where he had 
established himself in business, and where, be- 
ing industrious and a good carpenter, he was 
kept busy, and a large number of the houses 
now standing in Athens Township are the result 
of his handicraft. In 1855 they came to the 
place in town where the family now reside, and 
here Mr. Hughes continued to follow carpenter- 
ing, to which he added undertaking and cabinet- 
making. After some time he gave up his trade 
and became a hotel-keeper and general merchant, 
and for a number of years was the leading mer- 
chant of the place. He held to strict business 
principles, and paid for his goods in cash, thus 
securing the lowest prices. As he became older 
he gradually reduced his stock, and retired from 
hard work. In March, 1889, he was prostrated, 
and after some three weeks of sickness he closed 
his eyes to earth, at about seventy-four years of 
age. He was a man of sterling worth, and one 



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who stood firmly by his convictions of right and 
wrong. Having experienced hardships himself, 
he was charitable to all, and many a needy per- 
son was helped by his bounty, nor was the poor- 
est tramp ever turned away unrelieved. In 
politics Mr. Hughes \v;is a stanch Republican, 
and as such tilled various township offices. For 
some years, also, he served as assessor, and for 
BeveraJ years was justice of the peace, declining, 
eventually, to serve any longer. He was strong 
in his convictions of right and wrong, and firmly 
stood by what he thought was right. By the 
aid of his faithful wife he made a marked success 
in his business affairs, and left his family far 
above want. He was a jovial companion and 
neighbor, who could enjoy the sunny side of life 
and laugh with the merry, but at the same time 
could sympathize with the sorrowing. 

Mrs. Hughes and some of her children are 
now living at the old home, where, at the age 
of sixty-four years, she is calmly awaiting the 
final call. With most of her family, she is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were born twelve chil- 
dren, as follows: Hester A. ; Eliza Jane (Mrs. Se- 
well): Oliver P., deceased; John \V., in Spring- 
field. Ohio; George W.,in Hopkins, Mo.; Mary 
E. (Mrs. Rev. Oliver W. Holmes, in Kent, Ohio); 
James C. and Edgar, in New Athens; Theodore, 
in Iowa; Vandorn and twin girls that died un- 
named. The eldest child, Hester A., was for 
several years a teacher, but with filial affection 
ever remained at home with her mother. The 
family are highly respected, and are widely known 
throughout the town and county. 




\ILLIAM DUNLAP is a son of Adam 
and Jane (Patterson) Dunlap, and was 
M[Y[ born March 20, L840, in Moorefield 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where 
he grew to manhood, being educated at the 
common schools, and where he still resides. On 
October 7, 1880, he married Margaret Dunlap, 
who was born October 15, 1850, a daughter of 
Samuel and Eliza J. (Bethel) Dunlap, and to 



this union was born, September 30, 1885, one 
child, named Viola J. Mr. Dunlap, after his 
marriage, settled on the farm he now owns, 
which contains seventy-three acres in Section 
34, Moorefield Township. He is a member of 
the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, and his 
wife is a member of the Baptist Church of Rock 
Hill. Politically Mr. Dunlap is Democratic. 



¥/ I ( ENRY STIERS, one of the oldest resi- 
r^l dent agriculturists of Short Creek Town- 
1_ ship, Harrison County, was born in 
•fj Greene County. Penn., February 15, 

1807. The home of his grandfather. Henry 
Stiers (a native of Germany and married to an 
English woman), in Fayette County, Penn., was 
burned and totally destroyed by Indians, some 
seven in number, his wife, their youngest child 
and a sister of his being killed, while another 
child, a girl, was carried off by the redskins. 
Jacob, the father of our subject, managed to es- 
cape, although pursued some distance, and 
his brother saved his life and scalp by conceal- 
ing himself in a field of buckwheat. Jacob ran 
barefooted toward the nearest neighbor, four 
miles away, some of the Indians following him, 
about forty or fifty yards distant, in full war- 
paint, yelling and flourishing their tomahawks. 
Coming to forked roads the boy succeeded in 
■' fooling" the savages, and so managed to es- 
cape, and alarm the neighbors who gave chase 
to the Indians, but failed to overtake them. 
The grandfather, when the attack on his home 
was being made, was out in the field, attending 
to a pigeon trap, and when he found out what 
was going on he tried to get to the house where 
he had two guns loaded, but was unsuccessful. 
An uncle of our subject, after the War of 1812, 
having received intelligence that the captured 
girl was living among Indians in Cauada, pro- 
ceeded thither, where he found her married to 
an Indian and the mother of four children. The 
uncle remained in Canada, where he married. 

Jacob Stiers, father of Henry, was born in 
New Jersey, whence his parents removed to 



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Pennsylvania, when he was a lad. Here he 
grew to manhood and married Mary, daughter 
of Henry and Rachel (Dunn) Moore, and a na- 
tive of the Keystone State. About the year 1810 
he moved with his wife andfamily to Ohio, settling 
on the place where his son, Henry, now resides, 
it being then all wild land. Here they reared 
their family, consisting of nine children, named 
as follows: Rebecca, Rachel, John, Jane, Eliza- 
beth, Mary, Jacob, Hannah (now Mrs. Hall, 
see end of this sketch) and Henry, all now de- 
ceased (Jacob at the age of twenty-three years), 
excepting Hannah and Henry. In August, 
1832, the mother died, aged sixty-three years, 
and January 1, 1837, the father was called to 
his rest at the age of sixty-six years. While in 
Pennsylvania he had followed his trade, that of 
carpenter, and in Ohio he carried on farming 
exclusively. At his death he was owner of 160 
acres of well-cultivated land, all accumulated by 
industry, economy and perseverance. 

Henry Stiers, whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch, was some eighteen months 
old when the family came to Ohio, and here his 
boyhood was passed much in the manner of all 
pioneers' sons, his education being limited but 
practical. The nearest school-house, to which 
he had to tramp between two and three miles in 
the snow through the woods, was constructed of 
round logs, and had a puncheon floor, paper 
windows, clap-board roof, and the chimney 
made of clay and sticks. The church (Method- 
ist Episcopal) which he attended stood on the 
old homestead farm, and was built of logs which 
his father had hewed, he also doing all the car- 
penter work thereof. Some of the logs are still 
to be seen, and the old cemetery, containing the 
remains of some of Harrison County's earliest 
pioneers, is yet extant; in it our subject's parents 
and most of the family sleep their last sleep. 
Henry remained under the paternal roof until 
he was twenty-five years of age, and then started 
out for himself, purchasing a piece of laud near 
Mt. Pleasant, but which he later sold, returning 
to the home farm, his father being then well 
stricken in years. Of him he bought the home- 



stead, paying him twenty dollars per acre, and 
after his father's death kept bachelor's hall un- 
til May 15, 1839, when he became united in 
marriage with Lucinda, daughter of Henry and 
Magdelena (Neat) Close, and a native of the 
vicinity of St. Clairsville, Belmont Co., Ohio, 
born September 18, 1815. Her parents were 
early settlers of that county, having moved 
thither from near Baltimore, Md., and died in 
St. Clairsville; they had a family of eight chil- 
dren, the youngest of whom died on the old 
farm when over sixty years of age, and those yet 
living are Mrs. Mary A. Berry, in Morristown, 
Belmont County. Ohio; Mrs. Eliza Thompson, 
in St. Clairsville, Ohio; Mrs. Loretta Matson, 
in-Harrisville, Harrison County; Josiah Close, 
living near Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mrs. Lucinda 
Stiers. The paternal grandparents were Ger- 
mans, and the maternal grandfather was of En- 
glish birth. 

After marriage our subject and his young 
wife came to their present place, where, in 1840, 
they erected the house in which they have since 
dwelt. The children born to them were as fol- 
lows: George, John, Mary Olive and Laura, all 
deceased; Harriet E., at home; Henry Bennett, 
in Short Creek Township, Harrison County; 
Ellen Augusta, Emma Rebecca and Louella, at 
home, and one that died in infancy. In 1866 
Mr. Stiers removed to St. Clairsville, there to 
have his children educated, and in 1871 returned 
to the farm. He at one time was owner of 400 
acres of land, but has given away and sold until 
he has now but half that quantity, and the house 
and outbuildings are prettily situated on an ele- 
vated point of land, everything being ample and 
commodious. Mr. Stiers has dealt extensively 
in stock, and was the first farmer to introduce 
into southeastern Ohio the industry of growing 
fine wool sheep, importing, in 1833, from Penn- 
sylvania, some animals of that grade, and he has 
ever since taken a marked interest in the wool 
interest of the county and State. Politically he 
is a strong Republican, believing firmly in the 
principles of protection for each and every in- 
dustry in America. 



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Hannah Stiers, bis sister, was born in De- 
cember. 1S3'J, and was married to Christopher 
S. Hall. They for three years took up their 
residence near Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
and then bought a property near New Athens, 
Harrison County, to which they moved. Mr. 
Hall was a merchant in early life, in Baltimore, 
Md., and afterward, during the rest of his life, 
carried on farming. He died in July, 1879, at 
the age of eighty-six years, and since his death 
his widow has resided in Cadiz. They were the 
parents of three children, viz. : Isabella, now 
Mrs. Wiley, and living with her mother; Edward, 
on a farm in Green Township, Harrison County, 
and Henry, who died at the age of four years. 



dOHN D. PORTER, the subject of this 
sketch, was born in Athens Township, 
i Harrison Co.. Ohio, January 14, 1839, a 
son of David Porter. From early youth he 
has been engaged in farming, his present voca- 
tion. Attending the common schools of his 
neighborhood, he there laid the foundation on 
which, by subsequent reading, he has erected a 
strong and substantial knowledge of men and 
affairs. March 7. 1S76, he was united in mar- 
riage with Mary Isabelle Porterfield, a daughter 
of Alexander Porterfield, a resident of Belmont 
County. Mr. Porterfield, who was for many 
years a teacher in Belmont County, was married 
to Sarah Warnock, and to this union one child 
was born, Mary Isabelle. In 1848 Mr. Porter- 
i'n-M died and was buried in Belmont County. 
Soon after his death Mrs. Porterfield came to 
Harrison County, where she was married to R. 
W. I'atton, and lived until 187(5, when she 
passed away and was buried at Unity. Their 
children were John W. and Rebecca B. The 
Warnock family, to which Mrs. Porter's mother 
belonged, was among the earliest settlers of 
Ohio, Mr. Warnock and wife (nee Isabelle Gil- 
kinson) having come from Scotland in 1799, 
proceeding immediately to Ohio, where they set- 
tled and where they reared a large family who 
have always been prominent in their county. 



After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Porter removed 
to the place on which they still remain in Athens 
Township, and where they engage in general 
farming and stock-raising. Following are the 
names of the children that have been horn to 
them: D. H, born May 12, 1S7<">; Bertha !'>.. born 
May 9, 1879; Charles, born in 188] ; David Alvin 
and Samuel Colvin, born February 7. 1884. Like 
the Porter family, generally, our subject is a 
Democrat, and has always been faithful to his 
allegiance. He and his family are members of 
the Presbyterian Church at New Athens, in 
which he has been trustee for several years. 
The family have been known long and favorably 
in the township and county. 




| OBERT LAUTHERS. In 1830 John 
Lautbers migrated with his family from 
Washington County, Perm., and located 
in Monroe Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio. He was born in Washington County, 
Penn. (whither his parents had emigrated from 
Ireland), grew to maturity there, and married 
Nancy Stenn, a native of Washington County, 
Penn., born of Scotch ancestry. 

Robert Lauthers is the youngest in a family 
of eight children, and was born in Washington 
County, Penn., June 14. 1837. In May. 1862, 
he enlisted in Company C. One Hundred and 
Twenty-sixth O. V. I., and took part in the bat- 
tles of Cold Harbor, Wilderness, Petersburg, 
and many others. At the battle of the Wilder- 
ness he was shot through the arm, from which 
wound he has never fully recovered. In 1878 
he married Eliza Jane Parker, and they have 
two children. 



( NTHONY AUKERMAN, one of the well- 
l\ known, progressive farmer- of Short 
(reek Township, was born in Westmore- 
land County, Penn., January 1 I. 1832, 
a son of John A. and Mary (Nicelj l Aukernian. 
both native l'ennsyh anians. The Aukermans 
are of German extraction, the great-grandfather 




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HARRISON COUNTY. 



Laving come to America prior to the Revolution, 
in which war he participated. He married and 
died in Pennsylvania. The paternal grand- 
father of our subject, George Aiikerman, who 
was a native of Westmoreland County, Penn. , 
married Mary Kishler, and they r both died in 
Pennsylvania. Her brother, George Kishler, 
was sheriff of Westmoreland County, at one 
time. Mr. and Mrs. George Aukerman had a 
family of nine children, the sons being John, 
George and Henry, of whom John was the 
father of the subject of this sketch. John 
Aukerman was reared to farm life, and in due 
course married Mary, daughter of Anthony and 
Mary Nicely, who died in Pennsylvania. Mr. 
and Mrs. Aukerman settled on their farm, and 
here he died in 1874, at the age of seventy-four 
years, his demise being caused by lockjaw, the 
result of accidentally stepping on and running 
into his foot a rusty nail. At the time of his 
death he was owner of 600 acres of land. He 
was a member of the Presbyterian Church. The 
widowed mother is still living on the home 
place at the advanced age of ninety- two years. 
They were the parents of ten children, as fol- 
lows: John, in Latrobe, Westmoreland Co., 
Penn.; Philip, also in Pennsylvania; Anthony; 
George, railroad car shop boss at Irwin Penn. ; 
Sarah, wife of Albert Bossier, iu East Liberty, 
Penn. ; Christina, wife of Philip Kuntz, in 
Ligonier, Penn. ; Eliza, wife of Ashley Nicely, 
also of Ligonier; Mary, in Latrobe, Penn.; 
Lydia, wife of Peter Smith, also in Latrobe; and 
Rebecca, wife of Peter Schupe, residing in Mt. 
Pleasant, Penn. 

Anthony Aukerman, whose name heads this 
sketch, was brought up to the duties of farm 
life, attending, as opportunities offered, the 
common schools of the neighborhood. He was 
married in Pennsylvania to Rhoda, daughter of 
Jacob Poorch, and by her had six children: 
George, in Short Creek Township, Harrison 
County; Edwin, in Cadiz Township, Harrison 
County; John, in the town of Cadiz; Elmer, at 
a law school in Cincinnati (he is a graduate 
from the colleges at New Athens, Hopedale and 



Wheeling, and for two years studied elocution 
under Hon. John A. Bingham); Robert, a 
school teacher in Harrison County, and living 
at home, and Jennie, who died at the age of 
thirteen. In 1873 Mr. Aukerman came with 
his family to Short Creek Township, where he 
remained four years on a rented farm. He then 
made an extended prospective tour to the Far 
West, but preferring Harrison County to any 
place he saw in his travels he returned to Ohio 
and bought part of the Robert Harryman prop- 
erty in Section 30, Short Creek Township, Har- 
rison County, and has here since made his home. 
The buildings are entirely of his own construct- 
ing, and the place is but two miles from New 
Athens and six from Cadiz, on the Cadiz and 
St. Clairsville road. The farm comprises 
eighty acres of valuable land. Mr. Aukerman 
is not only a thoroughly practical farmer, but is 
also a good tradesman, being a stonecutter and 
builder, doing a good deal of contracting. He 
built the Children's Home. He has been liter- 
ally the carver of his own fortune, as he com- 
menced life with the startling income of $3 per 
month. Politically he is a Democrat, and in re- 
ligion a member of the Presbyterian Church at 
New Athens, as is also his wife. 




ICHARD M. COULTRAP is a living 
uf representative of one of the oldest fami- 
lies of Stock Township, Harrison Count)-, 
where he was born in 1840. His grand- 
father, William Coultrap, was a native of Vir- 
ginia, in which State he married Mary Woods, 
who bore him the following family of children: 
William. Henry, David, Matthew, Elizabeth, 
Sarah aud Margaret. Grandfather William 
Coultrap was engaged in ferrying on the Ohio 
River until 1816, when he came to Ohio and 
settled in Stock Township, Harrison County, 
where he purchased a tract of land and erected 
a small log cabin, into which he moved his fam- 
ily. As is well known, the country was in an 
exceedingly wild state, and tilled with game of 
every variety, especially deer, turkeys, etc. 



The Indian was a constant visitor at the home 
of the settler, although he seemed to lie at that 
time peaceably inclined. Here the family en- 
dured all the. toil and hardship of pioneer life, 
and here William Coultrap ended his long and 
useful life in 1823. He was one of the found- 
ers of the Methodist Episcopal Church of his 
neighborhood, and was regarded by his neigh- 
bors as an enterprising settler and citizen. His 
widow survived him until 1842, and when she 
passed away her remains were interred in Guern- 
sey County, Ohio. 

The early life of William Coultrap, father 
■of Richard M. Coultrap, our subject, was passed 
in Virginia, but he came with his father to Ohio 
■and remained for a time in Jefferson County, 
where he met and married Sarah. Moore, and 
soon afterward came to Stock Township and 
settled on the farm now occupied by his sou, 
Richard M., located in Section 19, in the south- 
west corner. The children born to William and 
Sarah (Moore) Coultrap were named as follows: 
Nathaniel, Nancy, Mary, Richard M. , David, 
Ruth, Oliver, Nathan, Williarn, Susanah, Mar- 
garet and Charles. Mr. Coultrap and his wife 
were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and in this faith Mr. Coultrap died in 
1845, at the age of forty-five years, his widow 
surviving him until September 8, 1889, when 
she died at the advanced age of ninety-three. 
In polities Mr. Coultrap was an active Democrat. 

Richard M. Coultrap was reared on the 
homestead, engaged in performing the multifa- 
rious and arduous duties pertaining to farm life. 
But he performed these duties well, and has 
never lost his cunning as an agriculturist, as the 
present appearance of the old homestead, which 
he now owns, bears ample evidence. Our sub 
ject married Mary E. Moore, by whom he is the 
father of one child, Harry H. Mr. Coultrap is 
a member of the Democratic party, and has held 
various offices within its local gift. He is a 
■deep reader on political and economic qnestii 
and has become thoroughly posted in regard to 
them. Iu religious matters he is liberal, and is 
not connected with any sect. The comparative 



antiquity of the family in the township places it 
in the front rank of respectability. 



fiAMES W. FOWLER, a prosperous agri- 
w. I culturist of Stock Township, Harrison Co., 

V^' Ohio, was born in Monroe Township, Har- 
rison County, October 12, L829, and is a 
son of Benjamin Fowler, who was born in 
Pennsylvania, October 81, L802. John Fowler, 
the father of Benjamin, was also a native of 
Pennsylvania, where he was married and had 
born to him the following children: Garrett, 
John, Benjamin, Francis, Joel, Jeremiah and 
Cena. He was among the earliest settlers 
of North Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where he entered a large tract of land, which he 
and his family subsequently cleared. Politically 
he was a Whig. For many years he was a 
deacon in the Baptist Church, in the faith of 
which he passed away from earth, in 1840. 

Benjamin Fowler passed the earlier years of 
his life in his native State of Pennsylvania, and 
was still young when brought to Ohio by his 
father. He married Jane Whittaker. and im- 
mediately settled on a farm in Monroe Township, 
Harrison County, on which the following chil 
dren were born: Mary (deceased), Jane, John, 
James W., Rebecca (deceased), Francis, Ben- 
jamin B. , William and Arabella. Mr. Fowler 
has been a class leader in the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church for many years, and in politics 
was first a Whig, then a Republican, and is 
now a Prohibitionist. He is emphatically a 
self made man, financially, having commenced 
his business life with very little capital. He is 
still living in Monroe Township, but his wife 
died April 19, 1880. 

James W. Fowler was reared on the home- 
stead in Monroe Township, which he helped to 
improve, beautify and cultivate until after he 
had reached his majority. June 7. 1852, he 
married Elizabeth Crawford, daughter of An- 
drew Crawford, of North Township, Harrison 
County, and immediately settled down to farm- 
ing life. In 1801 he removed to Stock Town- 



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ship, and purchased his present farm on Section 
9, which he now has in a splendid state of cul- 
tivation. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Fowler were named as follows: Jennie, Sadie, 
Susie (deceased), an infant that died unnamed, 
Elmer (deceased), Oscar, George A., Edith and 
Anderson (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Fowler 
are among the prominent members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Valley, and 
are ever foremost in all works of charity and 
benevolence. In politics Mr. Fowler has used 
his own judgment in voting for candidates for 
office, selecting those that seemed to him to be 
the best. At the present he is identified with 
the Prohibition party. Mr. Fowler's farm is 
situated about five miles southwest of Seio, and 
is devoted to farming and stock-raising, from 
which, assisted by his wife, he has realized a 
competence. Esteemed and respected by all, 
Mr. and Mrs. Fowler are passing the last of 
their years in the enjoyment of their earnings 
and in the retrospect of their good deeds. 



CHARLES COBBS, M. D., one of the old- 
est resident medical practitioners in New 
Athens, and one of the most popular and 
successful in the county, was born in Co- 
lumbiana (now part of Mahoning) County, Ohio, 
September 30, 1828. The first of the name to 
come to this country were from Wales, and were 
among the earliest colonists. They procured 
their wives by the old system of purchase, the 
price being usually paid in tobacco. Waddy 
Cobbs, grandfather of the Doctor, was by birth 
a Virginian. He married Margaret A. Adams, 
and ultimately came with their family to Colum- 
biana County, Ohio, where they both died, the 
grandfather July 10, 1824 (having been born 
May 4, 1770), and the grandmother, February 
15, 185f> (having been born in May, 1777). 
They had eleven children, of whom but two are 
now living, viz. : Samuel, born October 1, 1814, 
now in Kansas, and Thomas W., born October 
8, 1817, a farmer in Columbiana County, Ohio. 
Lindsey Cobbs, father of Dr. Cobbs, was 



born in Caroline County, Va. , March 3, 1804, 
and died in Columbiana County, Ohio, August 
21, 1875. He was but a boy when his parents 
moved to Ohio. When living in the South they 
owned slaves, and when they came to Ohio they 
brought two female slaves with them, both of 
whom died here, one having married Samuel 
Oliver, also colored. Waddy Cobbs' brother 
brought to Ohio a slave boy named Miles Mon- 
silla, who was set free, and when he reached 
maturity married a half-breed woman; later he 
bought land adjoining the Cobbs Farm, and died 
wealthy, all the members of the family being 
carried off by consumption, except one boy, who 
is still living in Mahoning County, Ohio. Lind- 
sey Cobbs learned the trade of a carpenter, and 
received his education at the subscription schools 
of the district. He was married to Anna W. , 
daughter of Abner and Martha (Antrim) Wool- 
man, and a native of New Jersey. The Antrims 
were descendants of the first Lord Antrim, and 
it is supposed that the grandmother of Mrs. 
Lindsey Cobbs was a sister of Lord Antrim. 
Mrs. Cobbs' father, with his brothers, Aaron 
and Samuel, and one sister, were immigrants to 
Ohio, most of them settling and dying in Colum- 
biana County. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Cobbs settled on a farm in Columbiana County, 
and reared their family, ten in number, as fol- 
lows: Lydia, Mrs. Joshua Ladd, in Colum- 
biana County; Charles, a sketch of whom fol- 
lows: Amasa, in Columbiana County; Sibyl, 
who married James B. Bruff, of Philadelphia, 
both now deceased; Casper, living at Red Bluff, 
Cal. ; Henry, who died in the Civil War at Mary- 
land Heights; Margaretta, Mrs. A. T. M. Bu- 
channon, living in Columbiana County; Simeon, 
who died in infancy; Ruth Anna, deceased wife 
of Augustus Tumbleson, and Thomas, living on 
the farm with his mother. On August 21, 1875, 
the father died. He had been for years, besides 
following farming and carpentering, undertaker 
for his part of the county, and was also repairer 
of watches and clocks. He was a member of the 
Orthodox Society of Friends. Since his death 
his widow has continued to reside on the farm. 



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Charles Cobbs, our subject, attended, up to 
the age of about fourteen years, the com- 
mon schools of his neighborhood, and when 
twenty-two years old he began the study of 
medicine in Damascus, Ohio, where he com- 
pleted his course. In 1852 he began practice 
in Putnam County, whence he moved to Allen 
County, but being seized with ague he proceeded 
to Shepherdstown, Belmont County, where he 
remained till 1856, in which year he came to 
New Athens, where he has since made his home. 
At that time the Doctor weighed but ninety-nine 
pounds, now he tips the scale at something over 
200. Before finishing his studies he had mar- 
ried, October 29, 1851, Miss Martha W., daugh- 
ter of William and Mary (Thomas) Fife, and a 
native of Washington County, Penn. , to which 
union the following named children have been 
born: Lindsey, deceased in infancy ; Frank, who 
was born in 1854, and died in 1883; Mary Anna, 
at home; Eliza Jane, wife of T. C. Price, in 
Uniontown, Ohio; Sibyl, deceased wife of Hiram 
Dickerson; Philena Belle, wife of William Mon- 
ager, in San Francisco; Henrietta, married to 
John Wilson, in Belmont County, Ohio; Charles, 
in Missouri; Margaret and Martha (twins), the 
former married to E. Matthews, of San Fran- 
cisco, latter deceased at the age of three years; 
and, Elizabeth, at home. The mother of this 
family dying at New Athens, October 10, 1874, 
the father married October 17, 1876, Mrs. Van- 
seline Cook, a widow, by whom he had one 
child, Thomas Hartzelle, born in January, 1878. 
This wife was taken from earth in June, 1880, 
and the Doctor was married, for the third time, 
November 17, 1885, the lady of his choice being 
Miss Narcissa P. Ward, a native of Cadiz, Ohio. 
Politically the Doctor is a Republican, and has 
frequently been called to offices of trust; he was 
mayor of New Athens seven years ; is a member 
of the F. & A. M., and of the Presbyterian 
Church. Dr. Cobbs has the well-merited confi- 
dence of a wide circle of friends, and is consid- 
ered to have the largest practice in New Athens; 
he has been eminently successful in obstetrics 
and in typhoid fever cases. 

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JOHN McLANDSBOROUGH The Mc- 
Landsborough family had their origin, 
according to tradition, in Germany, where 
the name is said to have been " Lameric," 
but for four and a half centuries the ancestry is 
traceable to that part of Scotland where the 
Covenanters had their abiding place, with which 
sect all the McLandsborough progenitors in that 
country were associated. The paternal great- 
great-grandfather of John McLandsborough 
(the subject of this biographical memoir) was 
Andrew, who was a farmer and shepherd in 
Scotland; the great-grandfather was John, and 
the grandfather was Andrew, who married Mar- 
garet Sloan, and by her had two children: John 
and Andrew, the latter dying in England. 
John, the father of our subject, was born in 
Scotland in 1782, and when twenty-one years 
of age he moved to England, settling at Otley, in 
the West Riding of Yorkshire, where he carried 
on the business of draper for forty years. He 
had married in his native country a Miss Johns- 
ton, and by her had one daughter, Jenette, who 
died in Scotland in 1811. This wife dying, Mr. 
McLandsborough took for his second wife Eliza- 
beth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Harrison, 
former of whom was a farmer and a man of 
wealth. He visited America several times, and 
here purchased some property which he gave to 
his son Joseph, the other sons receiving prop- 
erty in England; he had the following named 
nine children: Michael (who died when a young 
man), John, Benjamin, Joseph, Rachel, Mary, 
Anna, Elizabeth and Sarah Ann, of whom only 
Joseph and Elizabeth came to America. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. McLandsbor- 
oneh remained in England until 1831, in which 
year, leaving his wife to carry on the business, 
he paid a visit to the United States, where he 
bought 10(5 acres of land in North Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, staid one year and then 
went back to England. In 1834 he returned to 
the United States bringing two sons, Andrew and 
John, and in 1837 the mother and two daugh- 
ters, Catherine and Elizabeth, joined them here. 
The mother had remained in Euglaud on account 



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of a younger child being delicate, which, how- 
ever, died there at the age of three years. The 
record of the children is as follows: Margaret 
died at the age of nine years in England; An- 
drew died in Mahaska County, Iowa, in June, 
1888; John, the subject of this sketch, is fully 
spoken of farther on; Anna died when young; 
Catherine died in America, in June, 1837, at 
the age of nine years; Elizabeth is married to 
John Sproul, and lives in Jasper County, Iowa; 
Robert died in England; James died in North 
Township. On February 14, 1839, the mother 
passed from earth, dying of cancer at the age of 
thirty-eight years, the father following her to 
the grave March 14, 1857, aged seventy-four 
years; he was a large man, standing six feet 
four inches in height, a worthy representative 
of a sturdy race. 

John McLandsborough, whose name appears 
at the opening of this sketch, was born at Otley, 
Yorkshire, England, October 17, 1824, and 
there had his first school experience. At the 
age of ten years his father brought him to their 
new home in North Township, Harrison County, 
where his early work was to help clear the farm, 
and here he secured the remainder of his edu- 
cation at the primitive log school-house of the 
period. He remained on the old home place 
until the death of his father, when he removed 
with his family to their present place. On Au- 
gust 16, 1849, our subject was married to Miss 
Ann Eli, a native of near Cadiz, Harrison County, 
and daughter of George and Sarah Eli, who came 
to Harrison County at an early date, the father 
dying before the birth of his daughter Ann; he 
had been twice married, and by his wife, Sarah, 
had three children, one son being now dead, and 
one living at Uhrichsville, Ohio. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Landsborough, were born ten children, as 
follows: Andrew, in Franklin Township, Harri- 
son County; Jenette, wife of Benjamin Calcott, 
in North Township, Harrison County; Joseph, 
in Monroe Township, Harrison County; Alice, 
wife of John Kearns, in Springfield, HI. ; Will- 
iam, at home; Ellsworth, deceased; Sigel, at 
home; Lincoln, in North Township, Harrison 



County; Mary Katura, deceased, and John, at 
home. Mr. McLandsborough' s farm of 540 acres 
of highly improved land (less six and a half 
taken by the* railroad), is devoted to general 
agriculture, stock-raising and dairying, he being 
one of the most successful and progressive 
farmers in the township; for seven years he has 
been shipping milk to Scio. His dwelling is 
comfortable and commodious, pleasantly situat- 
ed one mile from the railroad station. Politic- 
ally our subject has been a Republican since 
the organization of the party, and has filled va- 
rious township offices, always proving himself 
thorough in his duties, his motto being: " What- 
ever is worth doing at all is worth doing well." 




ILLIAM C. MOORE, a life-long farm- 
er of Moorefield Township, Harrison 
County, is a son of Robert A. and 
Elizabeth (Peacock) Moore. Robert 
A. was a son of Robert and Mary (Armstrong) 
Moore, natives of Ireland, who immigrated to 
the United States in 1793. From New York 
City, where they landed, they made their way 
with a pack-horse to eastern Pennsylvania, 
where they remained till 1795, when they 
migrated to Jefferson County, Ohio, and pur- 
chased a tract of land about ten miles west of 
Steubenville. Robert A. was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, about 1800. While Robert was 
yet a small boy his parents moved to Harrison 
County, Ohio, and purchased 160 acres of land 
in Section 13, Moorefield Township, and here he 
received his rudimentary education. His chil- 
dren were named Mary A. Adams, of Freeport; 
Susannah, who resides with her brother in Not- 
tingham Township; Eli P., in Freeport Town- 
ship; William O, our subject; Eliza J. Bart- 
letfc, in Iowa; Robert B., in Nottingham Town- 
ship; Julia A. Snyder, in Nottingham Township; 
and Thomas A., in Moorefield Township. Mr. 
Moore, after his marriage, purchased 160 acres 
of land in Nottingham Township, the greater 
portion of which land he cleared. He spent 
his life on this farm, but at his death he owned 



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i JUS 



720 acres iu Freeport, Nottingham and Moore- 
field Townships. He held the office of super- 
visor of the township for several years, and died 
in 1877, his wife having died in 1864. 

William C. Moore was born April 20, 1830, 
in Nottingham Township, Harrison Co., Ohio., 
where he grew to manhood and received a com- 
mon-school education. On March 21, 1861, he 
married Miss Rebecca J. Adams, who was born 
January 21, 1842, a daughter of Samuel and 
Elizabeth (Johnson) Adams, and this union has 
been blessed with six children, as follows: 
Mary E., born March 28, 1868, died September 
26, 1881; Ella B. Parks, born January 4, 1867, 
and residing in Moorefield Borough; Annie J., 
born November 28, 1868, and residing at home; 
Emma D., born July 31, 1871, and residing at 
home; Leona D. , born December 17, 1874, died 
September 29, 1875; Iona E., born September 
11, 1876, and residing at home. Mr. Moore, 
after his marriage, moved to the farm he now 
owns, aud which was given him by his father. 
This land was first entered by John Brown, 
whose " body lies mouldering in the grave, as 
his soul goes marching on." Mr. and Mrs. 
Moore and three daughters are members of the 
Nottingham Presbyterian Church. Mr. Moore 
has held the office of trustee of the township 
for three years, and is very popular with his 
fellow- citizens. 



JOHN McCAULEY, a representative farmer 
of Monroe Township, Harrison County, is 
a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, born 
in August, 1831, and in 1833 was brought 
to America by his parents, John and Elizabeth 
(Smith) McCauley, also natives of County Ty- 
rone. After coming to this country they re- 
sided in Philadelphia, where the father worked 
in a brick-yard; later he worked as a mason on 
the Juniata Canal, repairing the damage done 
by a flood, and also on the canal at Johnstown, 
Penn. , the site of the disastrous flood of 1889. 
In the fall of 1840 they came to Ohio, and pur- 
chased a farm in Monroe Township, Harrison 



County, settling thereon and commencing its 
improvement. In the following year Mr. Mc- 
Cauley revisited Ireland, remaining for a short 
time (his original intention was not to remain 
permanently in America), sold property there, 
and then returned to Ohio and to Monroe Town- 
ship, where he passed the remainder of his 
days, dying in 1871. His widow, now (1890) 
eighty-five years of age, is yet living. Eight 
children were born to John and Elizabeth Mc- 
Cauley, three of whom were born in Ireland, 
John being the second child in order of birth. 
As will be seen above, our subject was but a 
child when his parents brought him to America, 
and nine years old when they came to Harrison 
County. His early life was spent amidst the 
scenes and privations of the early times, and he 
enjoyed but the limited privileges common to 
the period. He was small for his age, and re- 
members being weighed one day (his mother 
had sent him to Bowerston to mill), and tipping 
the beam at only sixty pounds. He attended 
school in the log school-house for a few weeks 
during the winters, so it may be said his educa- 
tion is self-acquired, and the clothes he then 
wore were made by his mother. Our subject's 
first business enterprise, after becoming of age, 
was to hire out as a farm laborer, receiving one 
dollar for three days' work; indeed, he has 
chopped many days in the woods at twenty-five 
cents per day. He invested his meager earn- 
ings in a small piece of land, and began as a 
farmer. This land has subsequently been in- 
creased, until he now owns 145 acres, and has 
one of the finest farms in the township. The 
handsome dwelling and other buildings are the 
result of his own labor, and probably no farm 
gives better evidence of skillful management 
than this one, with its commodious barns and 
handsome residence, nicely painted and repaired. 
In 1864 our subject was married to Catherine 
Price, a daughter of Joel and Sophia (Lees) 
Price, and a native of Jefferson County, Ohio. 
Mr. and Mrs. McCauley are members of the 
Plum Run Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which he is a class-leader and trustee. In his 



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polities he is a strong Prohibitionist. Mr. Mc- 
Cauley began life in very limited circumstances, 
and is self-made in every sense of the word. 
He and his worthy wife have a pleasant home, 
and are deservedly respected and esteemed. 



ILAS STEPHEN, a well-known citizen of 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County, 
was born in Jefferson County, Obio, De- 
cember 23, 1841. The hist of the fami- 
ly to settle in Harrison County was Silas Stephen, 
the grandfather of our subject, who located on 
a farm in Short Creek Township, about the year 
1808 or 1810. Here, like the other pioneers, he 
cleared his patch and erected a log cabin, in 
which he lived with his family. He set out an 
orchard soon after, and many of those trees are 
in a thriving condition to-day. Among his chil- 
dren was a son, Jonathan, born June 5, 1799, 
and who therefore was but a young lad when he 
came with his parents to Harrison County. He 
here grew to manhood, and February 24, 1825, 
married Elizabeth Salomons, who was born Jan- 
uary 22, 1808, and who still survives him. Mr. 
Stephen resided on the homestead until his 
death, he being then eighty-one years of age. 
Their union had resulted in the birth of thirteen 
children, one of whom, Zachariah, enlisted in 
Company C, Ninety- eighth Regiment, O. V. I., 
and died while in the service. 

The eighth child in the order of birth was 
our subject. He grew to man's estate with his 
parents, assisting them in the maintenance of 
the family, and in 1864 entered the service of 
the United States, enlisting in Company F, One 
Hundred and Seventieth Regiment, O. N. G. , 
and participating with his regiment in the en- 
gagements at Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry, 
Maryland Heights and Winchester. At the ex- 
piration of his term of enlistment he was honor- 
ably discharged at Columbus, Ohio,'and returned 
to his home, since which time he has devoted his 
attention to farming, and now resides on the old 
homestead. On May 7, 1889, he was united in 
marriage with Sarah R. Barcroft, a daughter of 



Joseph and Elizabeth (Hunter) Barcroft. Eliza- 
beth Hunter was born in Westmoreland County, 
Penn. , and came to Ohio with her parents in 
1835. She is now in the seventy -seventh year 
of her age. On November 6, 1886, Mr. Bar- 
croft died at Hopedale, Ohio; he was a native of 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and at the time of his 
death was in the seventy-second year of his age. 



P.HILIP CUMMINGS. In 1781 James 
Cummings was born in Kent County, 
Del., of Scotch-English ancestry. He 
grew to maturity in his native State, and 
married Miss Mary Peterson, a descendant of a 
prominent family in Delaware, where James 
Cummings was for years engaged as overseer of 
a large plantation. In the War of IS 12 he 
entered the service of the United States as a 
bugler, serving until the close of the struggle, 
and was present at Baltimore where Gen. Ross 
was shot. In 1815, after the close of the war, 
he and his family, having resolved to seek a 
home for themselves in the new country, con- 
cluded to come to Ohio, so with wagons they 
began the long, tedious journey through the 
wilderness, the only roads being Indian trails, 
and this journey, beset on all sides with the 
dangers incident to the times, lasted several 
weeks. Coming to Harrison County, they lo- 
cated near Cadiz, and in the spring of 1820 
they settled on a tract of Government land in 
Monroe Township, then a part of Tuscarawas 
County. Here they built a cabin, and began 
clearing their land. They were amoog the 
earliest settlers in Plum Run, and were the 
vanguard of those brave and unselfish men and 
women who with undaunted courage had pushed 
into the forest to rescue this country from the 
savages, to rescue for us the smiling region we 
now behold. Here James Cummings resided 
until his death, which occurred in 1845; his 
worthy wife died in Buchanan County, Iowa, 
in 1851, aged sixty years. He was an exem- 
plary citizen, and his public spirit manifested 
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member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
having united with it prior to coming to Ohio. 
He officiated as class leader and steward, and 
through his assiduous efforts the first church on 
Plum Run was built. He may, therefore, be 
called the father of the church. He was also 
active in educational matters, and was a thorough 
scholar for those times; was also a splendid 
singer, and was a great lover of vocal music. 
To this honored couple were born four sons and 
four daughters, of which family but two — our 
subject and George I. Cummings, of Miami 
County, Kas. — are now living. 

Philip Cummings, who is the fourth child in 
the family in order of birth, first saw the light 
of day in a little log cabin, in Monroe Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, January 28, 1821, being 
the first white child born on Plum Run, and the 
little cabin wherein he was born was the first 
one erected in the neighborhood, having been 
put up by his father, built of round logs and 
covering a space of 10x14 feet. In the interior 
the ground floor was a single room — the parlor, 
sitting-room, kitchen and dining-room of the 
family. The second story was divided from the 
first by puncheon (split logs), laid even with 
the edge of the roof, and this allowed a small 
space in which to sleep. The means whereby 
this room was reached was a rude ladder. A 
huge stick chimney towered upon the outside of 
the cabin, and the capacious fireplace was the 
only means of warmth and cooking. After he 
was old enough Philip began attending the dis- 
trict school, the privilege afforded for an educa- 
tion being very limited. The school-house was 
a log one, furnished with puncheon floor, split 
log benches, while a single puncheon extended 
around the room, on pegs driven into the wall, 
served as a desk. One of the logs on each side 
of the house was taken out, and over this open- 
ing was fastened greased paper, the only window 
panes the primitive building ever possessed; a 
huge fireplace, taking in a log, eight feet in 
length, threw out a fierce heat, that battled with 
the cold air which came in through the cracks 
and crevices. The school was maintained by 



popular subscription, paid by the settlers who 
had children to educate, while the teacher 
" boarded round." In the school-room the mas- 
ter reigned supreme, and not the least impor- 
tant factor in the successful session was the 
bundle of birch-rods and switches that stood in 
the corner, and which, with dreaded frequency, 
descended upon the luckless back of some of- 
fending pupil. Wolves, bears and deer roamed 
at will through the forest, and eyed with sus- 
picion and distrust the encroachment upon their 
native domain by these sturdy settlers, who 
claimed the virgin soil as their heritage. Mr. 
Cummings often saw the wild animals, and re- 
lates that it was a common experience to see 
twenty-five wild deer in a drove. The settlers, 
with their trusty rifles, laid many of them low, 
in which manner the larders was ofttimes filled, 
and in this manner the families were sustained. 
Mr. Cummings' father killed twenty-three of 
the deer during the first year's residence here. 
Home-made clothes were all the country af- 
forded, and, dressed in the rough linsey, the 
pioneers felt as well satisfied as though dressed 
in broadcloth. Wheat was the principal crop, 
and after having been harvested by hand with a 
sickle and cradle, and threshed with a flail, 
would be conveyed to distant market places, 
and there sold for a small sum (often twenty- 
five and thirty-seven and a half cents) per bushel. 
Sometimes a bushel of the wheat would be ex- 
changed for a pound of coffee, and this great 
luxury would be served in the family once a 
week, usually on Sunday morning. Amidst 
such scenes as these our subject grew to man- 
hood, remaining with his parents until he was 
of age, and assisting them in the duties of the 
farm and in the maintenance of the family, ex- 
periencing all the privations and hardships of 
those early times. He began life for himself as 
a laborer, he to receive $100 and his board and 
home-made clothing for a period of two years. 
He hoarded carefully his meager earnings, and 
in 1847 went to Iowa, where he took up 120 
acres of Government land, which was his first 
real estate. Soon thereafter he returned to his 






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old borne, intending soon to return to his west- 
ern home, but he traded his western land for 
the old homestead, and located thereon. A few 
years later he sold this and bought other land. 

In 1874 he settled on his present farm, upon 
which he erected bis handsome residence and 
the commodious outbuildings and barns. He 
now owns 400 acres of land, 320 of which are 
t'ne farm upon which be resides. The property 
is finely improved, and the broad, fertile fields 
give evidence of careful husbandry. Mr. Curu- 
mings is now the oldest native resident of this 
region, and has cleared and improved more land 
in this section than any other settler. He is a 
firm believer in the principles and policy of the 
Republican party, was an active Abolitionist in 
the exciting days before the war, and his was 
the only Abolition ballot cast in this region. He 
has held with credit the various positions in the 
township, and has been a member of the school 
board, and supervisor for twenty five years. Mr. 
Cummings has been thrice married, as follows: 
his first wife, Mary Anne Trimble, be married 
January 12, 1S47; she died March 11, 1856, 
leaving three children, two of whom are now 
living: Sarah A., married to Perry Dempster, 
and residing in Hardin County, Ohio, and Mary 
R. , married to John T. Carson, and residing in 
Monroe Township. On June 18, 1856, Mr. 
Cummings married Miss Rebecca Cox, who bore 
him five children, of whom two are now living, 
viz. : Ida M. , now Mrs. Amos Host, of Monroe 
Township, and William L., also a resident of 
Monroe Township. This Mrs. Cummings died 
March 18, 1872, and July 29, 1873, was solem- 
nized the union of Mr. Cummings with Susan E. 
Ellis, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and 
a daughter of Nathan and Margaret Ellis, pio- 
neers of that county. The union has been 
blessed with four sons and one daughter: Mel- 
ville, Manton Marble, Laurette N., Montcalm 
and Gillespie Blaine. Mr. and Mrs. Cummings 
and family reside in their handsome residence 
on Little Stillwater, where they have a pleasant 
home, surrounded by the comforts of life, and 
arc enjoying the fruits of their earlier labors. 



Mr. Cummings' religion consists of a practical 
application of the Golden Rule. He believes in 
the gospel of intellectual hospitality and the free- 
dom of thought, and is bound by no narrow ego- 
tisms or superstitions. He has been liberal in bis 
support of all public enterprises, and has done 
as much as any one citizen toward the advance- 
ment of his country. He is in every sense of 
the word a self-made man, having begun at the 
foot of the ladder and climbed upward. He has 
hewn his success out of the difficulties which 
surrounded him, and has the satisfaction of see- 
ing in a retrospective view a life well spent. 



YfACOB PETERMAN, one of the well- 
l I known citizens of Georgetown, Short 
\Jl Creek Township, Harrison County, was 
born in York County, Penn. , March 25, 
1827. When be was about one year old bis 
parents removed to Reading, Berks Co., Penn. 
His father, Jacob Peterman, who was a native 
of Pennsylvania, a cooper by trade and a nat- 
ural mechanic, was married to Mary Magda- 
line Gantz, a native of the Keystone State. 
They resided in Reading, Penn., until about 
1838, when they immigrated to Ohio, locating 
in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, where 
they settled and began farming. Here they re- 
sided until the death of Mr. Peterman in 1871, 
be being in his eighty-fifth year. His wife had 
previously died at Newtown, Ohio, in April, 
1857, aged seventy-one years. To them bad 
been born five sons and six daughters. 

Of this family Jacob, our subject, is the 
tenth child in the order of his birth. He came 
to Ohio with his parents, being then a lad of 
eleven years. He had the meager advantages 
for an education furnished by the schools of the 
early period, and the old log school-house is 
still fresh in his memory. He remained with 
his parents, assisting them in the duties of the 
farm until his nineteenth year, when he came to 
Georgetown and served an apprenticeship with 
a brother-in-law, Henry Lott, at blacksmithing. 
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(serving i» return for his services bis board and 
clothes. He then worked three years for bim 
by the month. On November 14, 1850, be was 
married to Miss Susanna Ramsey, a native of 
Green Townsbip, Harrison Co., Obio, and a 
daughter of George and Margaret (Kyle) Ram- 
sey. Both the Ramseys and Kyles were among 
tbe first settlers of the townsbip. Mrs. Peter- 
man was reared among tbe privations of tbe 
early period, and like ber husband, vividly re- 
calls the old log school-house, where she was 
first taught the rudiments of an education. In 
those early days tbe limited advantages were 
unlike, and not to be compared with those of 
the present day. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Peterman began housekeeping in George- 
town, where they have since resided. Mr. 
Peterman at once established himself in busi- 
ness there, and has since conducted it with 
abundant success. Their union has been blessed 
with six children: Leah Matilda, married to 
George Thomas Michael, and residing in Gar- 
rett County, Md. ; Mary Ann (deceased, aged 
four years) ; Asenath S. , now Mrs. John Park- 
inson, and residing at Little York, Jefferson Co., 
Ohio; Narcissa E. , married to William Wright, 
of Georgetown; Minnie F., twin of Narcissa 
E. ; Anna L., now Mrs. John S. Barkburst, of 
Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Peterman have 
an adopted son, John Branson Peterman, whom 
they took when an infant but fourteen days old, 
and he has known no other home. Mr. and 
Mrs. Peterman have a pleasant home at George- 
town surrounded by the comforts of life. They 
began life on limited means, with a capital of 
pluck and energy, and have, by their own per- 
sonal industry and economy, built themselves 
up. In L864 Mr. Peterman entered the service 
of the United States as a member of Company 
F, One Hundred and Seventieth Regiment, O. 
V. I., and participated with his regiment in the 
engagements at Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry, 
Winchester, Maryland Heights and others. At 
the close of his term of enlistment he was hon- 
orably discharged, and returned to his home. 
Mr. Peterman is a hearty supporter of the 



Republican party, and the family are highly re- 
spected and esteemed by all. [Since the above 
was written, Mr. Peterman has departed this life.] 



JOHN H. T. HILTON is a retired contractor 
and builder, having his residence at Frank- 
lin, Harrison County. Leonard Hilton, 
tbe progenitor of the Ohio family of that 
name, was born in Maryland in 1773, and when 
seventeen years of age came with his father to 
the Buckeye State, where the father entered 
Government land. Two years later they re- 
turned to Maryland, and there Leonard married 
Sarah Merriman, a native of the State. During 
the War of 1812 Leonard and his father-in-law 
took an active part in defense of American 
rights against the encroachments of "Albion 
the perfidious," and both passed unscathed 
through tbe desperate struggle. In 1826 
Leonard Hilton and bis wife and three children, 
together with a few families, started for the then 
Far West, and the little caravan moved together 
as far as the Ohio River, where they separated 
at Wellsburg — Leonard and his family pursuing 
their perilous journey alone as far as Feed 
Springs, Harrison Co., Ohio. Here Leonard 
leased a tract of land, on which he resided nine 
years, and thence removed to Tippecanoe, and 
later to Tuscarawas County, where he died at 
the advanced age of ninety-six years. After 
his reaching Ohio, six more children were born 
to him by his wife, Sarah Merriman, and five of 
these are still living. Mrs. Hilton passed from 
earth long before ber husband, and the latter 
was afterward twice married. 

John H. T. Hilton, who is the eldest son and 
second child of Leonard and Sarah (Merriman) 
Hilton, was born in Montgomery County, Md., 
November 23, 1819, and was, therefore, only 
seven years of age when he was brought to Ohio 
by his parents. He was inured to the hard- 
ships of pioneer life, and was educated in the 
log school-house then prevailing in all backwoods 
settlements. He worked many a long and 
tedious day at clearing, and when wheat was at 



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last raised, he sold it at twenty-live cents a 
bushel. He never had a pair of boots while on 
the home farm, and wore homespun clothing 
from childhood to his majority. At the age of 
nineteen he went to work for himself, engaging 
with a settler to clear off land at eight dollars 
per month. At twenty years of age he went to 
Uhrichsville, and for nearly three years served 
an apprenticeship with George Sterling, a pio- 
neer carpenter. He then returned to Feed 
Springs, where he established himself in his 
trade, and during the many years he followed it 
erected some of the best buildings in the 
county, including the Presbyterian and Method- 
ist meeting-houses at Feed Springs. On Octo- 
ber 11, 1842, Mr. Hilton married Icy Utterback, 
who was born near Feed Springs, September 20, 
1820, a daughter of William and Margaret Ut- 
terback. The year following, Mr. Hilton 
moved to Tippecanoe, in Washington Township, 
but about two years later returned to Franklin 
Township, and, in 1854, to Franklin village, 
where for many years he carried on his trade in 
connection with cabinet making and wagon- 
making. On May 21, 1873, Mrs. Hilton passed 
to her reward, at the age of fifty-two years, 
having been a lifelong member of the Methodist 
Protestant Church. The children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Hilton were nine in number, four of 
■whom are living, as follows: Mary E., wife of 
Elias Davis, postmaster at Tappan (Franklin); 
Henry O, a carpenter and builder at Urichs- 
ville, Ohio; Hannah M., married to Henry Ir- 
win, of Franklin, and Czatt, residing in Kansas. 
In 1875 Mr. Hilton married Martha Blackburn, 
who died in 1877, and for his third wife Mr. 
Hilton married, February 8, 1880, Jane Cope- 
land, a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, but 
who, when young, came with her parents. 
Thomas and Nancy (Dick) Copeland, to Frank- 
lin Township, Harrison County, where she grew 
to womanhood. 

Mr. Hilton manifested his patriotism during 
the Civil War by enlisting, on May 2, 1864, 
in Company D, One Hundred and Seventieth 
O. V. I., and taking part in the battles of Har- 



per's Ferry, Winchester, Maryland Heights, 
and in other engagements. He was formerly a 
Whig in politics, having cast his first presiden- 
tial vote for William Henry Harrison, but he is 
now a Prohibitionist. He and wife are members 
of the Methodist Protestant Church, and both 
stand high in the esteem of their neighbors. 



FiEANKLIN GAUDY. The well-known 
Gaudy family emigrated in the eighteenth 
century from England to Maryland, where 
they resided until Abram, the grandfather 
of Franklin, came to Ohio with his family in 
1802. Abram was married in Maryland and 
reared the following family: Isaiah, Eli, James, 
John, Ezra, Eleanor and Margaret. In his early 
life Abram was an ardent supporter of the rights 
of the colonies, and when the War for Inde- 
pendence broke out he was among the first to 
enlist, and all through that memorable struggle 
was active the entire time. On coming to Ohio 
he entered a large tract of land, and spent near- 
ly the whole of his time here in reclaiming it 
from the wilderness. A hardy and robust man, 
of simple habits, he lived to the good old age 
of one hundred years. Abram' s son John, fa- 
ther of Franklin, was born in Harrison County, 
Ohio, and here he passed much of his early life, 
though a portion of it was spent in Belmont 
County. In his youth he learned the potter's 
trade, which he followed for many years. He 
was first united in wedlock to Elizabeth Gray, of 
Belmont County, who died a short time after 
marriage, leaving one child, William, who en- 
listed in the Mexican War, and after escaping 
the dangers of the entire campaign, was, while 
en route home, seized with a fatal sickness and 
died in Cincinnati. On October 5, 1835, Mr. 
Gaudy was married to Chilnisse, daughter of 
Daniel Winder, one of the earliest settlers in 
this section, and of English descent. James 
Winder, the father of Daniel Winder, was a 
general in the Revolutionary War, and served 
throughout that glorious contest for liberty. 
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follows: Daniel. James, David and Sarah. James, 
the father, died in 1S28, aged eighty-two years. 

Daniel, the eldest son of James Winder, 
spent much of his early life in Pennsylvania, 
where he was married to Mary Kennedy, who 
was of Scotch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Winder 
early settled on a farm in Freeport Township, 
Harrison Co. , Ohio, where Mr. Winder became 
one of the well-known and successful men of his 
township, and was ever ready to assist in the 
cause of improvement and progressiveness. A 
member of the Whig party, he always supported 
it, and in religion, he, like his wife, was a firm 
believer in the doctrines of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, of which both were members, and 
in the faith of which they both died. Settling 
in the wilderness in a small log cabin, deprived 
of the educational benefits which may always be 
found in more settled communities, with the 
wild animals for neighbors and the Indians for 
visitors, the couple struggled through hardships 
that at the present day seem scarcely credible. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gaudy set- 
tled in Freeport, where the family have since re- 
sided, and where, since Mr. Gaudy's death, his 
widow still lives, well preserved at the age of 
seventy-seven years. For many years they had 
the management of the leading hotel of the 
town, and so popular did it become among the 
traveling public that it was made their favorite 
stopping place in this section. The children 
born to Mr. Gaudy were as follows: James, 
Elizabeth, Caroline, Sarah J., Alonzo, Clayton, 
Daniel, Franklin, all of whom are deceased, ex- 
cepting Elizabeth and Franklin, the subject of 
this sketch. Previous to 1850 Mr. Gaudy had 
supported the Democratic party, but after that 
time becoming dissatisfied with its actions, be- 
came a Republican. He was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Freeport, and 
November 7. 1862, died in that faith. 

Franklin Gaudy was born November 5, 1854, 
in Freeport, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he has 
since resided. He had the advantages of the 
village schools, in which he received his educa- 
tion. Soon after the death of his father the 



management of the family interests came to 
him when he was of sufficient age. This task 
he fulfilled faithfully, and its cares inculcated 
those business principles which have made his 
after life successful. Since 1881 he has been 
engaged in his present business as dealer in 
groceries and provisions, in the management of 
which he has shown exceptionally good business 
tact. Although in delicate health he has an in- 
domitable will, which never permits him to 
yield. He has an inventive mind, and has for 
several years been engaged on an invention for 
a fastener of buggy thills. It is known as the 
' ; Gaudy Thill Coupling, " and is meeting with 
a hearty appreciation of its merits. On Septem- 
ber 11, 1884, Mr. Gaudy was married to Miss 
Minnie Williams, of Freeport. He has been a 
life-long Republican, and has always lent his 
aid to the advancement of his party's interest 
and wellfare. He is now the only representa- 
tive of the family, and has the respect of all. 
He is a genial companion, and has friends in 
every place where he has ever been. 



d( OHN BRINDLEY, one of the oldest citi- 
zens of Cadiz, was born March 16, 1806, 
) in Harford County, Md., of which State 
his father, Benjamin, was also a native. 
Jesse Kent Brindley, grandfather of our sub- 
ject, and the founder of the family here, was 
born in Germany, where he grew to manhood 
and married. Toward the commencement of 
the Revolutionary War he came with his family 
to America and settled in Maryland. Soon after 
his arrival here his wife died, and for his second 
partner in life he married Julia Kent. Benja- 
min Brindley, his son, was by trade a wagon- 
maker, which he learned in Maryland, and which 
he followed for many years. While quite young 
he was married to Ellen Cooper, who died in 
1824, aged about sixty-five years, and their fam- 
ily consisted of ten children, of whom but two 
survive: Priscilla. now Mrs. Caleb Low. of 
Steubenville, Ohio, and John, the subject proper 
of this biographical memoir. In 1825 Benjamin 






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Brindley and his family came to Harrison 
County and located in Archer Township, where 
he purchased a farm, later removing to Green 
Township, where he remained until his death. 
He was engaged in farming for many years, and 
was also employed in the wagon-making trade. 
John Brindley spent his life at home until 
the age of nineteen, when he determined to 
start in life for himself. In 1830 he married 
Ann Brown, a daughter of Hugh aDd Jane 
Brown, residents of Archer Township, and after 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Brindley located in 
Archer Township, where they remained until 
1860, when they removed to Green Township, 
and here they lived until 1873, in which year 
they removed to Cadiz, there to pass the re- 
maining days of their lives. In 1832, while 
residing in Archer Township, Mr. Brindley met 
with an adventure which was nearly fatal to 
him : Across the creek, near the banks of which 
he had been engaged in cutting timber, a log 
had been felled, to which a floodgate had been 
suspended. During a freshet, in order to pre- 
vent the gate being destroyed by driftwood, 
with which the creek was filled, Mr. Brindley 
had stationed himself on one of the abutments 
of the gate, around and over which the water 
was increasing in volume. So swiftly did it 
rise that before he was aware of the danger to 
himself, he was swept away. Then began a 
terrific struggle between life and death. For a 
long time the task seemed hopeless, but by good 
fortune Mr. Brindley was finally cast into a tree 
top. Here he clung desperately, and when pres- 
ent safety was assured, on looking about him he 
descried his wife running frantically up and 
down the banks of the stream, looking for him. 
In vain did he call to her, the roar of the waters 
completely drowning his voice. He was finally 
rescued by a neighbor, who, at imminent danger 
to himself, rode his horse out to him and carried 
him to land. On October 6, 1889, the wife and 
mother passed away, at the age of eighty years. 
She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Brindley were thirteen in number, as follows: 



Hugh (living in Kansas), Benjamin, Ellen (Mrs. 
James Crawford), Frank, Albert, David, Na- 
thaniel, Wesley, Sarah (uow Mrs. Ray Finney), 
John, two infants unnamed, and Thomas living 
on the farm. Since the death of the mother the 
home duties have been under the care and man- 
agement of the daughter, Mrs. Finney, who, 
with her husband, makes her residence on the 
home place. The Brindley family have long 
been active Democrats, and Mr. John Brindley 
is no exception to the rule. He is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, having joined 
the same along with his wife in 1840. Mr. 
Brindley has been one of the hard-working men 
of his county; beginning life with but a few 
dollars, he has, by the practice of economy, good 
management, and above all, by the earnestness 
and perseverance which he displayed in what- 
ever he undertook, succeeded admirably, and 
now, at the age of more than four-score years, 
he is classed among the solid financial men of 
the county. The family are among the best 
known in this section, and fully merit the respect 
and esteem in which they have been so univer- 
sally held. 

Thomas Brindley, son of John Brindley, was 
born March 16, 1846, in Archer Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio. He spent most of his early life 
at the home of his parents, where he remained 
until he was twenty-two years of age. He then 
engaged in the merchant tailoring business in 
Cadiz, which he continued for nearly six years. 
On November 11, 1869, he was married to Hester 
A., daughter of Hamilton Birney, a resident of 
Archer Township, and after remaining in Cadiz 
a short time they went to Illinois, near Hay worth, 
where they remained about six years, afterward 
moving to Peabody, Kas. Here he engaged in 
farming and stock-raising, and after a stay there 
of six years he returned to Cadiz, taking charge 
of the home place where be now resides. The 
names and dates of the birth of his family are 
as follows: Clara B. , born December 10, 1870; 
Albert Hamilton, May 7, 1872, died August 10, 
1876; Lilia Rose, October 8, 1874; Mary Belle, 
March 18, 1876; Daisy Odella, November 12, 



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1878; Thomas Harold, April 27, 1884; Ethel 
McKey, September 14, 1887. Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas Brinclley and family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Chinch, at Cadiz, and in 
politics he supports the Democratic party. 



SAMUEL EDWARD CRAWFORD, a 

well-known business man of Cadiz, Har- 
rison County, was born in Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1853, and is 
a son of John Crawford, also a native of Har- 
rison County, and at present a resident of Cadiz 
Township. Edward Crawford, father of John, 
and a native of \irginia, was a farmer and an 
early pioneer of Ohio, in which State he died. 
Samuel E. Crawford received his early edu- 
cation at the common schools, and this he has 
supplemented with self-tuition. He was reared 
on the home farm, giving his aid toward its cul- 
tivation until June, 1874, when he was married 
to Miss Emma E. Barratt, a native of Notting- 
ham Township, Harrison County, and a daugh- 
ter of William H. Barratt. Two children, Everett 
B. and Rena O, have blessed this union. Until 
1S86 he continued to reside on a farm, and, al- 
though now a citizen of Cadiz, he still retains 
his farm of 100 acres in Archer Township. Mr. 
Crawford is Democratic in his political senti- 
ments; in religion he is, with his wife, a member 
of Asberry Chapel. He is held in high esteem 
by his fellow-townsmen, both for his integrity 
and enterprise in his business, as well as for the 
unimpeachable character of his private life. 



^ EORGE M. HARRAH, farmer, German 
Township, Harrison County, is a son of 
Adam N. and Nancy (Mills) Harrah, and 
was born April 7, 1845. Adam N. Harrah 
was a son of James G. Harrah, and was born in 
Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1818. James 
G. Harrah came, in 1800, to Jefferson County, 
Ohio, where he entered 040 acres of land, and 
remained about two years, when, his father hav- 
ing died, he returned home, and there stayed 



six years ; he then returned to Jefferson County, 
Ohio, and settled on his land. Adam N. Harrah 
married in 1840, and settled on the old home- 
stead. He reared a family of four children, viz. : 
Margaret, James (deceased), George M. and 
John L. Adam N. Harrah died in December, 
1888. On February 2, 1864, George M. Har- 
rah married Miss Nancy Barnhouse, who was 
born October 3, 1839, a daughter of William 
and Sarah (Kelley) Barnhouse, who came from 
Maryland among the early settlers of Carroll 
County, Ohio. After his marriage, Mr. Harrah 
stayed on the old homestead for six years, and 
then moved to Smithlield, Jefferson Count}', 
where he bought a small farm, but remained 
there only one year, when he sold, and came to 
where he now lives, and purchased 105 acres. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harrah are the parents of six chil- 
dren, viz. : William N., station agent on the 
P., C. & St. L. R. R., at Miller; Sarah, school 
teacher; Nancy K., Oscar B. , Melvin H. and 
Annie F., at home. Mr. Harrah has been su- 
pervisor of German Township for one term, and 
both he and his wife are consistent members of 
the Presbyterian Church. 



El R. CARSON, an enterprising farmer of 
Nottingham Township, Harrison County, 
I is a native of the same, born June 14, 
1837. His grandfather, John Carson, 
was born in Maryland, and there married Han- 
nah Rogers, a native of the same State, and 
about 1800 he and his wife came to Ohio and 
entered a tract of land comprising 160 acres on 
Section 4, Nottingham Township, Harrison 
County. Here he erected a small log cabin, 
and here he and his wife endured all those 
hardships known only to pioneers, until the 
year 1N'2:S, when the old log cabin was substi- 
tuted by a substantial and comfortable dwelling 
of stone, 30x40 feet, and three and one-half 
stmies in height. For a time, during his earlier 
years, Mr. Carson had been a school teacher, 
but the better part of his life was passed in im- 
proving his farm. He was an active Whig in 



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politics, and in religion held to the doctrines 
of the Disciples Church, of which both he and 
wife were members. In 1860 he departed this 
life, following his devoted and faithful wife, 
who had passed away some years before. 

Franklin Carson, son of John Carson, was 
born on the homestead, in Nottingham Town- 
ship, July 14, 1808, and his early life was passed 
in assisting in the improvement of the farm, his 
educational training being limited to but three 
months at the common school. On October 20, 

1829, he married Miss Sarah Hines, daughter of 
John and Rebecca (Deacon) Hines, who early 
came to Harrison County, Ohio, from West- 
moreland County, Penn. To the union of 
Franklin and Sarah Caroon came the following 
named children: Louisa A., born September 2, 

1830, deceased; John, born November 2, 1831, 
and now residing in Lucas County, Iowa; Han- 
nah, born December 6, 1833, deceased; William 
F., born August 4, 1835, now a resident of 
Lucas County, Iowa; Elijah E., born June 14, 
1837; Walter B., born August 20, 1838, de- 
ceased; Rebecca, born December 8, 1839, de- 
ceased; Harvey L., September 19, 1841, and 
died in hospital in St. Louis, Mo., during the 
Rebellion; and Isaac, born February 15, 1844, 
now a resident of Lucas County, Iowa. After 
his marriage Franklin Carson purchased an 
eighty-acre farm (on which Samuel Fulton now 
lives), and this was his home until the death of 
his wife in 1844, when he sold his place and 
bought 160 acres on Section 5, Nottingham 
Township, on which he passed his last days, 
and which is now owned by John Dunlap and 
Sarah Blair. On November 25, 1852, Franklin 
Carson married, for his second wife, Tabitha 
Hines, a sister of his former wife. On June 16, 
1N74, he was called to his final rest, dying in 
the faith of the Disciples Church, of which he 
had been an active member; he was a Republi- 
can, and his social standing was with the best of 
the residents of Nottingham Township. 

Elijah R. Carson was reared to manhood on 
the homestead in his native township, and was 
educated at the common schools and at Hope- 



dale College. He was married to Miss Drucilla 
P. Johnson, who was born in Nottingham Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, September 13, 1840, 
a daughter of Abiram and Lydia (Turner) John- 
son, natives of Maryland and pioneers of Not- 
tingham Township, and this union has been 
blessed with- children as follows: Amanda E., 
wife of William Monroe, of Carroll County, 
Ohio; William H. ; Sarah L., deceased; Lydia 
E. ; John F., died in infancy; Annie L., wife of 
W. B. Ramsey, of Williamson County, Tenn. ; 
and Mary M. Mr. Carson resided on the old 
farm until 1881, when he sold out and removed 
to Williamson' County, Tenn., and purchased a 
farm, but not being satisfied with the surround- 
ings returned to Harrison County, Ohio, and in 
1884 bought another farm, comprising 141 
acres, on Section 15, also in Nottingham Town- 
ship (originally entered by Thomas Toole), 
where he now has his home. Mr. Carson in 
politics is a Republican, and he and his wife are 
members of the Disciples Church. 




HAUCK, hardware merchant, Jewett, 
Rumley Township, Harrison County, is 
a son of John and Mahala (Stall) Hauck, 
natives of Ohio. John Hauck was a son 
of Andrew Hauck, who was born in Germany in 
1798, and when eighteen years of age came to 
Lancaster, Penn., where he was sold and com- 
pelled to work until he was twenty-one years 
old, to pay for his passage. He was married in 
Lancaster, Penn., to Miss Annie Hiney, a native 
of Germany. He was a tailor by trade, but on 
coming to Carrollton, Carroll County, among the 
early settlers, he here learned the silversmith's 
trade, which he followed until 1869, when he 
went to Albion, Ind. , and there lived with his 
daughter, Sarah. Mr. and Mrs. Hauck were 
the parents of six children, by name, John, Sa- 
rah, Mary, Catherine, Amos and Andrew. Mrs. 
Hauck died in 1867, and in 1883 Mr. Hauck 
passed away. He was a member of the Lu- 
theran Church for many years, was well known 
to the people of Carrollton, and highly respected 



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by all who knew him. John Hauck was born in 
Carrollton, Ohio, May 20, 1822, and passed his 
boyhood days on his father's farm, about two 
and a half miles from Carrollton. He married 
and settled on his father's farm, where he re- 
mained until 1858, when he moved to Carroll- 
ton, where he died November 10, 1860. His wife 
was born August 9, 1829, and died November 
21, 1860. They were the parents of five chil- 
dren, viz.: Albert, our subject; Andrew, de- 
ceased; Mary, wife of Isaac Dunlap, of Saline- 
ville, Ohio; Margaret, deceased, and M. L. , a 
merchant, in Jewett, Ohio. 

A. Hauck, the subject proper of these lines, 
was born in Carroll County, Ohio, October 13, 
1847. After his father's death he worked on a 
farm for two years, then entered a shoe shop in 
Carrollton as an apprentice, and served there 
for three years. He then proceeded to the 
western States, where he worked at the trade 
for some years, when he returned home. On 
April 20, 1873, he married Miss Samantha J. 
Stall, who was born January 20, 1854, a daugh- 
ter of John and Ann (Condo) Stall, and after 
marriage Mr. Hauck came to Jewett, where he 
followed his trade, and dealt in boots and shoes. 
In 1875 he erected the building he now occu- 
pies, and has been in mercantile business most 
of the time since; was in the printing business, 
and in the manufacturing of woolen yarn for 
one or two years. Mr. and Mrs. Hauck are the 
parents of two children: John Andrew, born 
March 1, 1874, and Mary Elizabeth, born March 
1, 1884. The parents are respected members 
of the Lutheran Church. 



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IV JTICHAEL HOTZ was born March 25, 
\m/\ 1825, in Germany. His father, Adam 
|| Hotz, was born in 1780, and spent the 
most of his early life in farming in his 
native county, where he was married to Elizabeth 
Schnellbaker, who bore him the following named 
children: Adam, Philip, Michael, Kelyon and 
Catherine. In 1831, with his family, Mr. Hotz 
came to America, landing at Baltimore, where 



he remained three years, and then came to Har- 
rison County, Ohio, settling in Washington 
Township, where he purchased a small tract on 
which he erected a small cabin. On this and 
adjoining farms the family found plenty to oc- 
cupy themselves, and all were compelled to labor 
hard that they might get a start in the world. 
In 1864 Mr. Hotz died, his wife having departed 
this life in 1862. 

Michael Hotz had but little time to devote to 
the cultivation of his mind in his younger days, 
but he understood hard work, and always de- 
voted himself to it. Little by little he succeeded 
in gathering some means, and finally purchased 
a small farm, which he improved and gradually 
increased. His financial success was due en- 
tirely to his own efforts, having commenced life 
with no assistance whatever. In 1850 Mr. Hotz 
was married to Ann Sinclair, of Harrison Coun- 
ty, and to this union have been born children as 
follows: Mary E., Kelyon, Eliza J., Catherine 
Jane, Emma, Charles W., William W., Clement 
O, Maggie, Eva M. and Sadie O. Mr. Hotz 
and family are members and liberal supporters 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In their 
political affiliations the family have always been 
Democratic. 



AMUEL PATTERSON, D. D., one of the 

oldest of the Presbyterian ministers, both 
in years and in service, in Harrison 
County, was born in what is now Carroll 
County, Ohio, June 2, 1827. His father, Will- 
iam Patterson, was born in 1802, in the town of 
Steubenville, Ohio, where he was educated and 
reared. Samuel, the father of William Patter- 
son, was born in County Down, Ireland, the 
family having moved from Scotland to Ireland 
to escape the religious persecutions. While 
quite young, Samuel Patterson came to America, 
and resided in Steubenville for some time. He 
was married to Mary Lisle, who bore him two 
children, William and Jane, and this wife dying, 
he was again married, and reared the following 
family: Maria, George and Samuel. In politics 



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Mr. Patterson was a Whig, and was among the 
first of the Abolition party. He was a stanch 
member of the Presbyterian Church, of which 
he was a member at his death. 

The early life of William Patterson was 
spent at Wintersville, Ohio, where he remained 
until he was twenty-three years of age, when he 
moved to Carroll County, Ohio, and purchased 
a farm, which he cleared himself. In his twenty- 
fifth year he was married to Mary, daughter of 
Guy Lowthers, a native of Ireland, and the 
young couple immediately settled on a farm, 
where they resided for some time, but finally 
moved to Richmond, Jefferson County. Their 
children were named Samuel, Alexander, Lizzie, 
John and Rachel. In 1838 Mrs. Patterson died, 
and for his second wife Mr. Patterson married 
Jane Young, who bore him the following named 
children: Isabelle, Robert Y. and Mary J. 
For his third wife Mr. Patterson married Ma- 
tilda Bailey, who survived him, Mr. Patterson 
dying November 25, 1862. In his politics a 
Whig, he early espoused the cause of the Abo- 
lition party, and was active in the promulgation 
of its principles. For many years he was elder 
in the Presbyterian Church, and was one of its 
active and energetic members. 

The early life of Samuel Patterson (our sub- 
ject), was spent in Carroll County, Ohio, where 
he received a preliminary education at the com- 
mon schools; afterward he attended the academy 
at Hagerstown, Md. For several years he en- 
gaged in teaching, and also attended the College 
of Richmond, Va., for four years. He then en- 
tered Washington and Jefferson College, Ya. , 
where he took his degree in 1853. Then, en- 
tering the Western Theological Seminary of Al 
legheny, Penn., he graduated with honors in 
May, 1856, and was licensed to preach May 18, 
1856, but received a call at Uhrichsville, April 
11, 1856, where he remained until 1858, and 
then accepted a call at Deersville, where he has 
since remained continuously for thirty two years. 
For several years past he has had charge of 
three churches — Deersville, Feed Springs and 
Lima. On October 28, 1856, the Doctor was mar- 



ried to Isabella Campbell, of Carroll County, 
Ohio, and to this union have been born three 
children: William O, Mary (dead), Samuel S. 
On the organization of the Prohibition party Mr. 
Patterson identified himself with its principles, 
taking an active part in its ranks, and in 1887 he 
was its candidate for State Senator. 



BRAHAM H. BUSBY. On January 18, 
1814, on the place where he now resides, 
'/T.\ Abraham H. Busby first saw the light. 
'/ His father, John Busby, was one of the 

earliest settlers of Harrison County, having 
come here in 1805, while the country was almost 
a wilderness. John was a native of Maryland, 
where his father died when the former was 
quite young. He brought his mother with him, 
she living with him until her death. When he 
attained manhood he wedded Agnes Wisner, 
who shared his toils and hardships in the work 
of clearing and beautifying their farm. He 
did much to develop the country, and was one 
of the most sturdy of pioneers. He served as 
justice of the peace for eighteen years, and by 
the honesty of his decisions, and the fairness of 
his judgments, gained and retained the highest 
regard of even his political opponents. A Dem- 
ocrat in politics, he ever continued to teach the 
doctrines of his party. Although not a member 
of a church, still his daily life was such as to 
command the approbation and admiration of 
all. He preceded his wife to the grave by about 
eighteen mouths, and they both now, at then- 
request, sleep peacefully on the farm which had 
been the scene of so many struggles and dis- 
couragements, as well as triumphs. He left a 
family of fourteen children, eleven of whom 
were girls, and of whom five now survive. 

Abraham H. Busby, who is the twelfth child 
in order of birth, remained with his father until 
the hitter's death. On May IS, 1848, he was 
married to the daughter of James and Elizabeth 
Marshall, who were natives of Pennsylvania, 
but whose ancestry were Irish. Immediately 
after his marriage Abraham H. Busby brought 



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his wife home, where they have since lived a 
period of over forty-one years, cheering each 
other and sharing their joys and sorrows. To 
this marriage were born six children, viz. : John 
B., who is one of the prominent lawyers of 
Harrison County, he having acquired his legal 
education under the tuition of Judge Pierce; 
Nancy Jane, who died March 5, 1885; Isaac 
Jackson; William R., now living in Archer 
Township; James W., now living near his 
father in Archer Township, assisting his father 
in the farm work, which he does in a manner 
that reflects credit upon him, and Anna Mary, 
now Mrs. Delmar Robinson. Mr. Busby is a 
Democrat in politics, and has voted his ticket at 
■every opportunity. Injured in the shoulder 
and badly afflicted with rheumatism, he is in- 
capacitated for the heavier duties of farm life. 
His wife also has been an invalid for the past 
nine years, but bears her suffering in a patient 
and cheerful manner. They rank among the 
progressive farmers of Archer Township, and are 
appreciated for their true worth. 



I OHN L. HARRAH This gentleman is now 
w I the only living representative of the Har- 
%J) rah family, which bad been so closely 
identified with the early settlement of Har- 
rison County. James G. Harrah, his grand- 
father, a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., 
was born December 2, 1778, and his life was 
spent on the farm, where he acquired that vigor 
of constitution which has so characterized the 
family. Early in life he married Margaret 
Neil, and in 1805 he came with his family to 
Jefferson County, Ohio, settling in Wayne 
Township. Here, in the midst of the wilder- 
ness, far removed from any other human habita- 
tion, he built his primitive cabin, his farm con- 
sisting of 720 acres, on which he spent many 
years of hard, unremitting toil. His children 
by his first wife were gained William, Charles, 
James, Elliott, John, Adam, Mary Ann, Sally 
and Harriet. The mother of these children died 
in 1835, and was buried in Beech Spring Ceme- 



tery; and in 1838 the father married, for his 

second wife, Mrs. Mary McNara, and in 1874 
she, too, passed from-eartb, being buried in Pine 
Fork Cemetery. On December 1, 1871, at the 
patriarchal age of ninety-three years, after a 
well-spent life, Mr. Harrah was called to his 
reward, and his remains now rest by the side of 
his first wife, in Beech Spring Cemetery. In his 
youth he had joined the Democratic party, or 
rather what afterward became the Democratic 
party, casting his first vote for Jefferson. In 
1816 he was elected a justice of the peace, which 
office he filled many years, but declined to ac- 
cept other positions. He and his family were 
members of the Presbyterian Church. 

Adam Harrah, son of the above, and father 
of the subject of these lines, was born in Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, October 28, 1818, and re- 
mained at home during his youth and early 
manhood, attending the schools of the neigh- 
borhood and assisting in the duties of the farm. 
In 1840 he was united in marriage with Nancy 
Mills, and immediately thereafter they came to 
the home place in Wayne Township, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio, where, for many years, they cared 
for their parents. The children born to this 
union were named as follows: James, Margaret, 
George and John L. In 18(58 Mr. Harrah 
moved with his family from Jefferson County 
to Harrison County, same State, where he pur- 
chased a farm in Green Township. Mrs. Har- 
rah died August 19, 1S74, and was buried in 
Beech Spring Cemetery, her decease having 
been brought about by a very melancholy event, 
one which caused her husband for the rest of 
his days much grief and suffering. He had cut 
his hand, and his wife in dressing the wound, 
accidentally cut her hand, death ensuing five days 
thereafter from blood poisoning. He uncom- 
plainingly bore his later-day sufferings, being 
well taken care of by his devoted children, who 
iwd every means to make his declining years 
happy and comfortable. He died at the old home 
place, December 5, 1888, and was placed by the 
side of his beloved wife. They were active 
and sympathetic members of the Presbyterian 



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Church, of which society they were among the 
leaders in their section, and were highly es- 
teemed by all. In politics he was a stanch 
Democrat, and was often honored by his party 
with positions of trust and honor, such as town- 
ship trustee, assessor and others. 

John L. Harrah, whose name heads this 
sketch, was born August 10, 1847, in Wayne 
Township, Jefferson Co., Ohio, and in his early 
days had the usual experience of farm life and 
country schooling. He now occupies the home 
place in Green Township, Harrison County, 
with his wife and child. On September 1, 
1869, he married Miss Susan F. Mansfield, of 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and one child, Freder- 
ick O, was born to them February 10, 1874. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harrah are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church at Beech Spring, where they 
are regular attendants, being faithful supporters 
pf the good work. In politics he is an enthusi- 
astic Democrat, and a practical worker of the 
party. While he well merits public confidence, 
and has frequently been offered political prefer- 
ment, still he has invariably generously left the 
honors of office to others. Mr. Harrah is one 
of the representative men of his township, and, 
having followed in the footsteps of his parents, 
has caused the name he bears to remain the 
synonym of honesty, integrity and true worth. 



JOHN P. and WILLIAM RITCHEY. No 
family in Harrison County has better 
claim to prominent place in this work than 
the one of whom we now write. The 
Ritchey family are of Scotch-Irish extraction, 
Adam Ritchey, the great-grandfather of the 
gentleman whose names head this sketch, hav- 
ing immigrated to America from the north of 
Ireland some time during the early half of the 
eighteenth century. He settled in Pennsylva- 
nia, where he married and reared a family. 
Four of his sons, viz. : John, Thomas, Isaac and 
William, served in the Revolutionary War on 
the side of the colonists, the latter two losing 
their lives in the service of their country, while 



John and Thomas served to the close of the 
struggle; another son, David, although he did 
not see active service, was a member of the 
"Minute Men." Andrew Ritchey, grandfather 
of our subjects, owing to a disabling injury re- 
ceived from a scythe, was unable to follow his 
brothers to the war, but remaining on the farm 
performed the various arduous duties thereof as 
best he could. He was born and reared in York 
County, Penn., where he married Ann Camp- 
bell, and a few years later they moved to Wash- 
ington County, same State, making it their final 
home, where the grandmother died of cholera 
in 1834, at an advanced age, the grandfather 
following her to the grave in 1838, when aged 
eighty years. They were the parents of eight 
children, named, respectively, David, John, An- 
drew, Charles, James, Hannah, Ann and Cath- 
erine, all now deceased. Of these Andrew came 
to Ohio in January, 1803, settling in what was 
then Jefferson (now Harrison) County, on a sec- 
tion of land that had been entered by the broth- 
ers in 1802. He brought with him his family, 
five horses, a cow and sufficient provisions to 
last them till the following spring, the journey 
being made in a wagon; the horses were sent 
back to Pennsylvania. They came a short time 
before the heavy snow- storm of that winter, 
none of the land being as yet cleared. When 
they were at last enabled to make a regular 
commencement on their new wild home, they 
made rapid progress in clearing their farm, their 
first log cabin being erected on the spot where 
is now the farm owned by John Hanna. Their 
first crop of wheat was what was known as 
"sick wheat," something not now known in 
Ohio, and they had to depend on corn, potatoes, 
pumpkins and turnips. Andrew Ritchey was 
twice married, first time to Nancy Trinnel, of 
York County, Penn., by whom he had seven 
children — three sons and four daughters — and 
in June, 1818, a few years after the death of 
this wife, he married Miss Margaret Boggs, of 
Belmont County, Ohio, by which union there 
were born eleven children — two sons and nine 
daughters — nine of whom died before reaching 




J. R Ritchey. 




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the age of twenty-one years; only four of them 
ever married and had families, and all are now 
deceased except the youngest three daughters. 
In 1805 Andrew's brother, Charles, came out, 
followed, in 1807, by another brother, John. 
Charles married Jane McWilliams, of Belmont 
County, Ohio, and had by her fifteen children — 
eight sons and seven daughters — and, of these, 
two of the sons died in boyhood, and two shortly 
after reaching maturity; eleven married, and 
ten are yet living (the majority of them in Lo- 
gan County, Ohio), three of them being now 
over three-score years of age. Charles Ritchey 
sold his farm in Ohio, in 1829, and moved to 
Washington County, Penn. ; in 1835, he sold out 
there, and following year came to Logan County, 
Ohio, where he died in 1839. Andrew Ritchey 
died in Short Creek Township in 1859. 

John Ritchey, the second son of Andrew 
and Ann (Campbell) Ritchey, and the father of 
John P. and William, was born December 8, 
1776, in York County, Penn., and when he was 
four "years old was brought to Washington 
County, same State, where he grew to manhood, 
his education being extremely limited. On 
January 10, 1809, he was married to Elizabeth 
(Brown) Patterson, who was born in 1781, in 
Pennsylvania, of which State her parents were 
for a long time residents, and on the farm which 
William Patterson had entered near Patterson's 
Mills, in 17S0, are still to be found descendants 
of the family. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. John Ritchey settled on that portion of 
the original land entry made by him and his 
brothers, as above spoken of, and which is now 
the beautiful, fertile farm owned and occupied 
by their sons, John P. and William, in Short 
Creek Township, Harrison County. The primi- 
tive log cabin put up in the neighborhood, after- 
ward considerably improved, was the abode of 
Mr. and Mrs. John Ritchey during the rest of 
their lives. They were the parents of five chil- 
dren, of whom the following is a brief record: 
David was born August 26, 1810, was married 
February 11, 1S40, to Susan Dossy, moved to 
Illinois, in 1845, and died June 19, 1847, in 



Mercer County, that State (their children were 
Mary Ann, born December 22, 1840; John, born 
September 15, 1842; George, born July 28, 
1844, and Elizabeth Jane, born February 28, 
1848); Mary Ann, born December 11, 1813, 
married Jonah Nicholls, and died in Illinois in 
1872, leaving four children; John P. and Will- 
iam, the subjects proper of this memoir, were 
born January 7, 1816, and May 24, 1821, re- 
spectively; James, born April 4, 1824, died 
in December, 1839. On March 24, 1852, at the 
age of seventy-six years, the father passed from 
earth, and November 11, 1859, the mother fol- 
lowed to the grave, aged seventy-eight years. 
They were originally members of the Associate 
Presbyterian Church, but later united with the 
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. 

John P. and William Ritchey helped in their 
boyhood in the improvement of the home farm, 
their school advantages, owing to the primitive 
condition of the country, being very limited. 
At the age of nineteen William left home in 
order to learn the trade of carpenter, but was 
soon after recalled, owing to the failing health 
of his brother, John P. Together, then, the 
two brothers carried on the farm, caring for 
their aged parents in their declining years, and 
at last saw them peacefully pass from earth. 
Previous to this, however, they had purchased 
the old homestead, which they have since occu- 
pied and improved. Some years ago the old 
log house was pulled down, and near where it 
stood is now the present residence erected by 
our subjects; they also put up the barn, wagon- 
shed and other outhouses. The farm com- 
prises 168 acres, situated one mile and a half 
from New Athens, and is now in a high state of 
cultivation. The chief management thereof is 
in the hands of William, who rents from his 
brother his portion. 

In 1860 William Ritchey was married to 
Miss Jane Leach, of Green Township, Harrison 
County, whose father, James Leach, came to 
that county at an early date, dying there in 
1860, his wife having preceded him to the grave 
in 1856. John P. has never married, and the 



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HARRISON COUNTY. 



brothers have a home in common, beneath the 
same roof. Both are members of the Demo- 
cratic party, and William -was twice elected to 
the position of supervisor, serving, however, 
but one term. John P. ran for the same office 
so early in the politics of the county that only 
eight votes were cast, although there were four 
candidates, who received, respectively, one, two, 
two and three votes. The family are adher- 
ents of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian 
Church, and are highly respected and esteemed 
in the community. 



f-^ AMUEL C. KELLY, one of the young 
and prominent business men of Freeport, 
Harrison County, was born November 28, 
1862, in Freeport, where he has always 
resided. His father, Samuel Kelly, was also 
born in Freeport, to which place his parents came 
at a very early date. The boyhood and youth of 
Samuel Kelly were spent at home attending the 
schools. In early life he was married to Han- 
nah McMath, who bore him two children, Theo- 
dore and William, both of whom, with their 
mother, are now deceased, and for his second 
wife he married Belinda McMath, sister of his 
first wife; she bore him the following named 
children: Ruth (Mrs. Harry Conaway), Frank 
and Samuel C. Mr. Kelly engaged in agricult- 
ure nearly the whole of his life, dying in 1862, 
and followed by his wife in 1869. He was a 
Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, and was a 
firm believer in the principles advocated by that 
party. In religious matters he was a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which 
faith he died. 

The early life of Samuel C. was spent in the 
pursuit of an education, in which he was suc- 
cessful. The village schools gave him a stimu- 
lus to close application to books, and constant 
study has enabled him since to keep abreast of 
the times in all economic and political questions. 
From his youth he manifested a deep interest 
in politics, and has, although a young man, 
tilled various offices in his section with honor 



and satisfaction. In 1886 he was elected mayor 
of his native place, to which he was re-elected 
in 1888, serving two terms. In educational mat- 
ters he has always taken an active interest, and 
has served on the board of education. As a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
he is a liberal contributor, and is ever ready 
to assist in any charitable act. On November 
12, 1886, he was married to Hattie Hastings, 
of Freeport, and to this union have been born 
two children. Mr. Kelly is now engaged in 
the general lumber business, and is also inter- 
ested in contracting and building. 



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L M ILTON W. FRIBLEY, a merchant of 
\f/\ Hopedale, Harrison County, was born 
J in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, December 
10, 1854, a son of Daniel and Leah 
(Edmunds) Fribley, former a native of North- 
umberland County, Penn., and latter a daughter 
of Edward and Susan Edmunds. Mr. and Mrs. 
Daniel Fribley were married in 1834, and they 
lived in Old Town Valley, Tuscarawas Co., 
Ohio, where she died in 1883, aged sixty-two 
years; Mr. Fribley is yet living near New Phil- 
adelphia, same county, where he carries on 
farming. They were the parents of nine chil- 
dren, of whom the following is a brief record: 
Edward J., lives in Assumption, 111.; James J. 
is in Baxter Springs, Kas. ; John W. died at 
Memphis, Tenn., in the War of the Rebellion; 
Cornelia is the widow of John L. Roll, and lives 
in New Philadelphia, Ohio; Ella is the wife of 
Lyman Hardman, a merchant in Uhrichsville, 
Ohio; Manilla is the wife of Rev. J. W. Toland, 
presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal 
Conference at Canton, Ohio; Lambert is a 
farmer in Tuscarawas County, near New Phila- 
delphia; Milton W. is the subject of this me- 
moir, and Charles is a candy manufacturer in 
Pana, 111. 

Milton W. Fribley was educated at the com- 
mon schools of his neighborhood, and also at 
the Union School in New Philadelphia. At the 
age of sixteen he began as a clerk in a store in 



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his native county, in which capacity he served 
some seven years, after which he opened a gen- 
eral news store at New Philadelphia, conducting 
same over a year. On October 10, 1888, he 
came to Hopedale, where he purchased the stock 
and store of M. J. Saunders, and has since suc- 
cessfully carried on a general merchandising 
business. Mr. Fribley was married May 6, 
1880, in New Philadelphia, Ohio, to Ella, daugh- 
ter of H. L. and Margaret Custer, and a native 
of Perry sville, Carroll Co., Ohio. She is a 
cousin of the late Gen. Custer of the United 
States Army. To this union two children were 
born, viz. : Clara Marie and General Custer, 
both at home. 



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N. CARMAN, farmer, German Township, 
Harrison County, is a son of Andrew and 
Isabelle (Maxwell) Carman, former of 
whom was a son of John Caiman, a native 
of Maryland, born of Welsh descent. John Car- 
man was born in 1785, and in 1817 came to 
Wayne Township, Jefferson Co., Ohio. He first 
located in Hopedale, but only stayed there for a 
short time, when he settled in Wayne Township, 
Jefferson County. He served through the War 
of 1812 and died in 1861, the father of ten chil- 
dren, viz. : Andrew, Samuel, Marshall, Mary, 
John, Elizabeth, Patience, Thomas, Jane and 
Cyrus. Andrew Carman was born in Maryland 
in 1810, and came with his father to Wayne 
Township, Jefferson County. He was twice 
married, and his first wife bore him two children: 
Selena and John; by his second wife he became 
the father of the following named children: 
Enoch and Oliver, both deceased; Lewis N. ; 
Andrew and Matilda, both deceased, and Ann, 
wife of John Walker, Hopedale, Ohio. 

Lewis N. Carman was born in Wayne Town- 
ship, Jefferson Co., Ohio, October 8, 1840. On 
October Hi, 1862, he entered Company E, Fifty- 
second Ohio Volunteers, and served in this com- 
pany until January 10, 1803, when he returned 
home and May 10, ISO 1, enlisted in Company B, 
One Hundred and Seventieth Regiment, and 



was finally discharged September 10, 1804. He 
returned home to Wayne Township, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio, where he worked for his uncle till 
March 4, 1869, when he married Miss Mahala 
A. Hobson, born March 23, 1840, a daughter of 
Caleb and Sarah A. (More) Hobson, of Salem 
Township, Jefferson Co., Ohio. In December, 
1871, he bought the farm in Salem Township, 
Jefferson County, where he remained until 1884, 
when he sold out and came to where he now is 
living, and bought one of the best stock farms 
in the township. Mr. and Mrs. Carman are 
the parents of four children, namely: Sarah B., 
deceased; J. W. and Oliver, at home, and Caleb, 
deceased. The parents are members of the 
Disciples Church. 



f(OHN TOOLE, a farmer of Nottingham 
k II Township, Harrison County, is a native of 
\Jj the same, born August 1, 1846. His fa- 
ther, Thomas Toole, was born in Virginia 
about the year 1794, and there married Miss 
Matilda Palmer, who was born, in 1803, in the 
same State. To this union were bom ten chil- 
dren, as follows: William, deceased; Margaret 
Todd, residing in Freeport Township, Harrison, 
Co., Ohio; Rachel Palmer, Elizabeth Johnson 
and Millie A. Roland, all three also residents of 
Freeport; Thomas, deceased; John, our sub- 
ject; Martha Scott, in Moorefield Township; 
Henry, in Nottingham Township, and James, 
who died in infancy. Thomas Toole, on com- 
ing to Ohio from Virginia, first located in 
Athens Township, Harrison County, but after a 
short time removed to Nottingham Township, 
where he purchased a tract of eighty acres on 
Section 15, now owned by E. R. Carson, but 
originally entered by a Mr. Fisher. From this 
soil Mr. Toole extracted the first stump, that of 
a hickory tree, and on this farm he died May 9, 
1804, his widow surviving him until October 10, 
1883, both dying in the faith of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

On December 30, 1869, John Toole married 
Miss Sarah J. Kent, who was born May 'J<>, 



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1850, a daughter of Absalom and Sarah Kent. 
Six children blessed this union, as follows: Ab- 
salom, born December 15, 1870; William T., 
born February 26, 1873; Flora M., born No- 
vember 4, 1875; George F., born November 11, 
1878; Harry B., born February 4, 1883, and 
Kinsey, born November 8, 1886. After his 
marriage, Mr. Toole settled on a farm he still 
owns on Section 21, in Nottingham Township, 
and there resided iintil 1885, when he removed 
to his present place, owned by Mrs. Ruth J. 
Kent. Mrs. Toole is a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church; in politics Mr. Toole is a 
Republican, and held the office of supervisor 
one term. 



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LIZABETH ENDSLEY, of Jewett, Har- 
rison County, is a daughter of Robert 
and Margaret (Northhammer) Birney. 
She was born upon the farm now owned 
by J. S. Birney, in German Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, March 3, 1822, and was reared to 
womanhood upon the old homestead, obtaining 
her education in the public schools of her na- 
tive township. On December 24, 1845, she 
married Robert Endsley, a son of James and 
Elizabeth (Walker) Endsley, and born in 1813. 
By this union there were live children, viz. : 
Mary M., wife of William C. Adams, of Archer 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio; Melissa, de- 
ceased; Lucinda J., wife of Eli Caven; Eliza- 
beth A., wife of Rev. R. H. Freshwater, of 
Steubenville, Ohio, and Rebecca Frances, wife 
of Rev. Charles A. Naylor. 

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Ends- 
ley spent some years in Archer Township, Har- 
rison County, and after the death of Mr. Ends- 
ley, in 1867, Mrs. Endsley removed to Scio, 
North Township, Harrison County, where she re- 
mained for a short time, after which she came 
to Jewett, in Rumley Township, same county, 
and purchased the property which she now owns, 
and where she still resides. Mrs. Endsley has 
been a life-long member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. Mr. Endsley was a member of 



the Presbyterian Church. He served as justice 
of the peace two terms, and was in all things 
highly respected; and of Mrs. Endsley we can 
most fittingly close this brief record of a quiet, 
uneventful life, with the words: "Her children 
shall rise up and call her blessed." 



QEORGE ROBISON, one of the most 
, highly esteemed citizens of Washington 
Township, Harrison County, was born 
, L July 6, 1817, in Jefferson County, Ohio. 
His father, John, was born in Virginia, where 
for several generations the family had resided. 
Soon after John Robison's arrival in Ohio, he 
was married to Mary Ford, a resident of Jeffer- 
son County. There the young couple com- 
menced their married life, and after remaining 
there eight or nine years removed to Franklin 
Township, where for several years they leased a 
farm, but finally purchased in Washington 
Township, where they remained until their 
death. Their children were John, William, 
James, George, Nancy, Nathan and Martha. 
John Robison was an energetic and enterprising 
man, and, like all the early settlers, was inured 
to hard work. He was a life-long Republican, and 
was always interested in the success of his party. 
He and his family were members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, and were at all times 
identified with the progressive and charitable 
movements of their society. In 1845 he passed 
from earth and was followed by his wife, who 
died in 1860. 

George Robison spent nearly his whole life 
in Harrison County, mostly in Washington 
Township. His youth was spent much as 
farmers' boys generally — engaged in tilling and 
improving the home place. January 11, 1839, 
he was married to Sarah, daughter of James 
Billingsly, who bore him, January 11, 1840, 
one child, Samantha, now Mrs. James Couthers. 
Mrs. Robison died September 13, 1872, and was 
buried at Deersville. Mr. Robison has been a 
Democrat for many years, and although a man 
of few words, still is one of deep convictions 



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ami steadfast opinions. He and his family were 
members of the Disciples Church. In gaining 
his property Mr. Robison can congratulate him- 
self on his success, and although paying the 
debt of another somewhat crippled him, still he 
has manfully and honestly labored on, and has 
discharged the debt, and his integrity stands 
unquestioned. His farm of 107 acres is under 
an excellent state of cultivation, and is equipped 
with good, substantial buildings. A whole- 
souled, honest man, he has won and retained 
the confidence and respect of all. 



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OHN MERRYMAN, the subject of this 
^ I sketch, was born July 26, 1823, in the 
\Jl township of Cadiz, county of Harrison, 
and State of Ohio. His parents were of 
German stock and residents of Maryland. His 
father, Micajah, who was born April 25, 1775, 
was a shoemaker by trade, which he followed 
until the breaking out of the "War of 1812, when 
he enlisted and served through the entire strug- 
gle. Soon after its close he came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, and located in Smithfield, where 
he remained a short time and then removed to 
Cadiz Township, during all of which time he con- 
tinued the trade of shoemaker. He next re- 
moved to Archer Township, where he purchased 
a small farm, built a small log cabin, and en- 
dured the hardships incident to pioneer life. 
He subsequently sold his farm and continued at 
his trade of shoemaking in various parts of the 
county, until, at the age of seventy-two, he died 
and was buried in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. 
Although a Democrat in politics, he was not an 
office seeker, but was ever a worker for the 
principles enunciated by Jefferson, and endorsed 
by Jackson. He and his wife were members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church of long stand- 
ing. His wife was born in Maryland in March, 
1795, a daughter of Martin and Mary Ann 
Snyder, residents of that State. In 1811 she 
was married to Micajah Merryman, and became 
the mother of eighteen children, fifteen of whom 
attained full age. Six are now living, one of 



whom, John, the subject of this sketch, is now 
a resident of Archer Township. 

The early life of John Merryman was spent 
in Cadiz Township, and he was married to Mary 
Shivers, daughter of John and Elizabeth Shiv- 
ers, who then resided in Cadiz Township. After 
marriage Mr. Merryman worked at his trade, 
both in Harrison and Tuscarawas Counties, and 
in May, 1806, purchased a portion of the farm 
on which he now resides. He has since made 
many additions, until at present he is the owner 
of 134 acres of as good land as there is in his 
section. Ten children were the issue of their 
marital relations: Martha, now Mrs. James B. 
Rogers, and living in Cadiz; Caroline; Alexander; 
Hannah, married to George English, and now de- 
ceased; Jackson, died at the age of two years; 
Elizabeth, now Mrs. Lincoln Blair and living in 
Stock Township; Jeremiah O, living in Notting- 
ham; La Fayette; Sarah M., now Mrs. James 
Love, and living in Sauk Centre, Minn. ; John, 
living at home. Mrs. John Merryman was born 
in Nottingham Township, August 22, 1824. Her 
parents were natives of Maryland, who came to 
this county at an early period, and were highly 
respected by all. Mr. Merryman is one of the 
stanchest of Democrats, and has held the office 
of school director for the past fifteen years; he 
takes great pride in the educational advancement 
of his township, county and State. 



JiACOB CRAMBLET (deceased), who in 
his lifetime was one of the leading farmers 
' and business men of Harrison County, was 
born in Maryland, February 9, 1825. His 
father, John Cramblet, was also an ativo of 
Maryland, where the family have long resided. 
There the early life of John was spent, and there 
it was that he acquired his educational and busi- 
ness training. Many years before his coming to 
Ohio, he was married to Margaret, daughter of 
Thomas Gladman, and to this union were born 
the following named children: Joel, Jacob, 
Thomas, Rachel Ann, Ellen and Margaret. They 
came to Franklin Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 






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in 1843, and purchased a farm on which John 
Cramblet and his wife spent the remainder of 
their lives. They were among the earliest mem- 
bers of the Christian Church; in politics Mr. 
Cramblet was Democratic, and although not as 
enthusiastic as some, still always supported the 
party. He and his wife now sleep side by side 
at Deersville. 

The early life of Jacob Cramblet was spent 
in Maryland and Jefferson County, Ohio. At 
the age of eighteen years he came with his fa- 
ther to Franklin Township, Harrison County, 
and from that time until his death was identi- 
fied with its progress in all ways. In 1853 he 
was married to Sarah McClintock, daughter of 
Thomas McClintock, a resident of Franklin 
Township, Harrison County, and the children 
that blessed this union were named as follows: 
John, George, Isabelle, Viola, Samantha, Mar- 
garet, Thomas and Sherman. He and family 
were members of the Christian Church, in which 
for many 3'ears preceding his death he was an 
elder and also an indefatigable worker. He was 
a Republican, and as such took an active part in 
the advancement of the interests of that party, be- 
ing always among those who took the lead. For 
six years he represented his district as county 
commissioner, and also served in other capacities 
and offices. As a politician he was of steady 
convictions, always dealt honorably with his op- 
ponents, and was always highly respected by 
them. In matters of public interest he was ever 
interested, and was always ready with time and 
money to assist in the prosecution of auy under- 
taking for the benefit of his section. He was a 
self-made man, and made his property by his 
own individual efforts. As a business man he 
was honored and resj>ected by all, and many 
in his section can testify to the assistance he 
gave in time of need. On December 12, 1886, 
mourned by a large circle of friends, he passed 
away. In his death the township lost one of its 
most energetic men, the church one of its most 
liberal supporters and earnest workers, and 
progress one its most zealous adherents. The 
loss to the family is irreparable. 



NATHANIEL A. WALLACE. Of the old 
settlers yet residing in Green Township, 
Harrison County, none are more promi- 
i ' nently identified with its history, or are 

better known than the subject of this sketch, who 
is a native of the township, born July 16, 1811. 
Thomas Wallace, grandfather of N. A., was a 
native of Scotland, "land of the mountain and 
the flood," from which country he emigrated to 
America with his family, settling in eastern 
Pennsylvania, where he and his wife remained 
until their death. Their family consisted of 
three sons and six daughters, of whom John, 
the father of the subject of these lines, was born 
in York County, Penn. On October 6, 1795, he 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Abel McCleary, 
of York County, Penn., and in the spring fol- 
lowing their marriage the young couple came to 
Ohio, and located in Warren Township, Jeffer- 
son County. Here they remained eight years, 
removing to Harrison County, same State, in 
1804, where he purchased a farm in Green 
Township, on which they lived until death called 
them from earth. Mrs. Wallace died February 
19, 1855, Mr. Wallace following her to the grave 
June 4, 1S63, and both lie buried in Beech 
Spring Cemetery. He was a supporter of the 
Whig part}', and took a lively interest in all 
public questions which came before the people 
at his time. The names of the children born to 
this honored couple, together with dates of birth, 
are as follows: William, October 3, 1796; Isaac, 
born October 9, 1798; Thomas, September 20, 
1800; Robert, October 26, 1802; Rebecca, June 
6, 1804; Margaret, July 16, 1806; John, May 
5, 1809; Nathaniel A. (our subject); Abraham, 
August 24, 1813; Elizabeth, March 22, 1821. 
The parents and all of the children were or are 
members of the Presbyterian Church. 

Nathaniel A. Wallace remained at home, as- 
sisting in the duties of the farm, and attending 
school, where he acquired a liberal education. 
For a time he was engaged in teaching, and 
then returned to the more pleasant pursuits of 
agriculture. On March 4, 1834, he was married 
to Jane, daughter of Robert Watson, of Athens 



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Township, Harrison County; she died February 
is. KSCiS. leaving no issue, and is buried in Beech 
Spring Cemetery. On September 2, 1869, Mr. 
Wallace married, for his second wife, Sarah 
Goodrich, daughter of George Goodrich, at one 
time a resident of Carroll County, Ohio; on 
October 9, 1873, she, too, passed away, and was 
laid to rest at New Hagerstown, Carroll County. 
To this union one child was born June 19, 1870, 
named Mary, who was married September 11, 
1889, to John Stringer. On June 24, 1S75, Mr. 
Wallace was again united in the bonds of wed- 
lock, on this occasion with Elizabeth, daughter 
of Oliver Marsh, a resident of Pennsylvania. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace are active members of the 
Beech Spring Presbyterian Church, and are ever 
in the van of all charitable movements. Polit- 
ically he was a Whig till the organization of the 
Republican party, which he has since strongly 
supported. Mr. Wallace is among the repre- 
sentative men of his section, and has by his in- 
tegrity won the confidence and esteem of all. 



EiMMETT N. HAVEEFIELD, of the firm 
of Haverfield & Givin, printers, and 
I dealers in fancy goods, novelties and 
watches, etc., Cadiz, was born in Har- 
rison County, Ohio, in December, 1859, and is a 
son of John N. and Emeline (Lavely) Haver- 
field. After completing a thorough literary and 
commercial education, our subject, at about the 
age of twenty one years, commenced business in 
the card and novelty line at Enfield, Harrison 
County, at which place, however, he did not long 
remain. In 1880 he came to Cadiz, where he 
established himself in business, and, in 1888, 
formed the present partnership firm of Haver- 
field & Givin, who are now conducting the most 
extensive business of the kind in the United 
States, and giving employment to some ninety 
hands. A paper or periodical is published in 
connection, also novelty works, and, altogether, 
the establishment reflects the highest credit on 
its founder, Mr. Haverfield, who was the first to 
engage in that pai'ticular line in the West. 



In. July, 1875, Emmett N. Haverfield was 
united in marriage with Miss Mary A., daughter 
of Robert Finical, and to this union were born 
two children, Eva Deane and Anna Fay. The 
parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and in politics Mr. Haverfield is a 
stanch Republican. 



JACOB M. DERRY, of Freeport, Harrison 
County, was born in Virginia, March 19, 
1842. His father, George Derry, was also 
a native of Virginia, and in that State he 
was married. He became the father of four 
sons and nine daughters. Coming to Ohio he 
settled in Moorefield Township, Harrison Coun- 
ty, where he died in 1854, a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church; his remains were 
placed beside those of his wife, who had passed 
away some years previously. If any class de- 
serves honor more than another, it surely is those 
who laid aside all chance and hope of business 
success to preserve the Union from disruption, 
and who, during those years of doubt and fear, 
never hesitated in their unflinching loyalty or 
unswerving duty. If to those who escaped free 
from wounds and with health unimpaired, we 
have the deepest feelings of respect and gratitude, 
how much more should we have for those who 
did not escape unscathed ? Of the latter class is 
our subject. Soon after attaining his majority 
he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty- 
sixth O. V. I. , Company B, and was assigned to 
the Sixth Army Corps. He participated in all 
the engagements of his regiment until Septem- 
ber 21, 1864, when, at Fisher's Hill, during a 
charge, he was wounded by a musket ball pass- 
ing through the knee. He was removed from 
the field to the hospital at Baltimore, when it 
was found necessary to amputate the leg, which 
was done October 30. He remained there until 
April, 1865, when he was sent to the hospital at 
Philadelphia, where he remained until June 28, 
of the same year, when he was sent home. Since 
his return he has resided in Freeport, where, 
until a few years ago, he followed the trade of 



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shoernaking. On June 28, 1868, Jacob M. Derry 
was married to Charlotte Steele, a daughter of 
Andrew Steele, of Freeport Township, and the 
issue of this marriage were Jessie (deceased), 
William (deceased), John F., Clyde, Minnie and 
Bessie. Mr. and Mrs. Derry are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Freeport. 
Prior to 1878 Mr. Derry was a Republican, but 
now gives his entire and hearty support to the 
Prohibition party. 



DANIEL CLARK, a farmer of Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County, is a son of 
_^ ' Joseph Clark, who is a son of Thomas 
Clark, a native of England, a lime burner 
by trade, and who resided near Silkton all his 
life. He was father of nine children, viz. : 
Matthew, Joseph, John, William, James, Robert, 
Diana, Mary J. and Elizabeth. Joseph Clark 
was born near Silkton, England, in 1797, and 
there grew to manhood. He spent seven years 
of his youthful days in preparing himself for 
the profession of veterinary surgeon, and learn- 
ing the trade of a butcher. About, the year 
1817 he was married at Barlem Church, near 
Silkton, to Miss Jane Smith, who was bom near 
Silkton, England, in March, 1793, a daughter of 
Thomas and Jane Smith, natives of England. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clark were born, before 
leaving England, three children, viz. : Eliza- 
beth Stambough, who resides in Wisconsin; 
Diana Mumaham, who lives in Canada, and 
Thomas, deceased. In Wellsburg, W. Va., were 
born seven children, named as follows: Ellen, 
Margaret, Joseph and Matthew, all four de- 
ceased; Ursula Trushel, who resides in Scio, 
Ohio; Mary Caves, deceased, and Daniel, our 
subject. About 1820 Joseph Clark came to the 
United States, and located at Wellsburg, W. Va., 
where he remained till 1838, when he removed 
to Harrison County, Ohio, and purchased a small 
farm in North Township, where he practiced 
his profession till his death, which occurred 
December 2, 1861; his wife survived him till 
July 16, 1889, having spent her last days with 



her son Daniel. Politically Mr. Clark was a 
Democrat, and served as supervisor for many 
years. He was well known to the people of 
North Township, and highly esteemed by all. 
Mrs. Clark was a life-long member of the En- 
glish Methodist Church. 

Daniel Clark was born in Wellsburg, W. 
Va. , April 30, 1830. When he was a small boy 
his parents removed to North Township, Harri- 
son Co., Ohio, where he grew to manhood and 
was educated at the common schools. On June 
7, 1860, he was married to Miss Mary Lack, 
who was born April 16, 1839, in Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison County, a daughter of Thomas 
and Susan (Lack) Lack, natives of Mercer Coun- 
ty, Penn. To this union have been born seven 
children, as follows: Mary J., born September 
22, 1861; Annie B., October 8, 1863; Charles 
H. , February 16, 1867; Henry H. , November 
10, 1868; Owen P., July 16, 1871; John S., 
December 6, 1874, and Rhoda S., December 28, 

1876, all residing at home. Mr. Clark, after 
his marriage, remained in North Township till 

1877, when he purchased the farm he now owns, 
which contains 167 acres on Sections 28 and 29, 
Nottingham Township. Politically he is a Pro- 
hibitionist, but formerly voted the Democratic 
ticket. Mrs. Clark is a consistent member of 
the Presbyterian Church. 



T AMES COPELAND was born August 7, 
w. I 1801, in Maryland. His, father, John 
%^) Copeland, was a native of Maryland, where 
he resided until 1805, when he came to 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and there purchased a 
small farm, on which he died in 1840. In his 
early manhood he married Isabelle Leach, who 
became the mother of nine children. In politics 
he was a Democrat, and was a member of the 
old Seceder Church. The early life of James 
Copeland was spent in Jefferson County, where 
he remained until 1830, when he came to Wash- 
ington Township, where he has since made his 
home. In 1837 he was married to Miss Mary 
A. Walters, daughter of Leonard Walters, of 



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Jefferson County, and one of the early settlers 
of that section, who was married to Rachel 
Ruby, who bore the following family: Thomas, 
Joseph, Mary A.., Catherine, Martha and Maria. 
Mr. Walters was Democratic in his politics. 
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Copeland resided 
in Franklin Township, Harrison County, until 
1854, when they removed to the farm in Wash- 
ington Township now occupied by the family. 
Mr. Copeland was a man of good native judg- 
ment, and. with the assistance of his wife, suc- 
ceeded well, financially. His political sentiments 
were Democratic, and he was an earnest worker 
in the party's ranks. A life-long member of the 
Lutheran Church, he was one of its prominent 
members. On April 30, 1859, he passed away, 
and was buried in Feed Springs Cemetery. His 
surviving children are Thomas W., Matilda, 
Rachel, Amanda, Isabelle, Leonard, S. S. and 
Nannie E. 

Thomas W. Copeland was born August 25, 
1838, in Franklin Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, where he spent his youth and received 
what education was given at the common schools. 
In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and 
Twenty -sixth O. V. I., Company C, and fol- 
lowed the fortunes of that regiment until May 
6, 1864, when he was wounded at the battle of 
the Wilderness. He fell into the enemy's hands, 
and was without treatment for his wound for 
several days, and lay exposed to the open air; 
all the shelter the wounded men had they built 
themselves. Upon his recovery he was sent to 
Andersonville, and then to Savannah, at which 
latter place he remained one month, and was re- 
turned to Andersonville, December 25, 1864, 
where he remained until the following April, 
when he was released and came home. On Au- 
gust 29, 1809, Mr. Copeland was married to 
Mary E. Ramsey, of Washington Township, and 
following are the names of the children born to 
this marriage: James A., Cora A., Samuel R., 
Lora S., Rachel E. and John G. During the 
war he changed his politics, and has ever since 
voted the Republican ticket. 

John Copeland enlisted, in 1861, in the first 



call for three-months men, in the Thirteenth 
0. V. I. He was assigned to the Army of the 
Cumberland, and served with them until taken 
prisoner on the march to Atlanta. Like his 
brother Thomas he was sent to Andersonville, 
where he remained until the close of the war. 
On his return to Columbus he was supposed to 
have been struck down by a highwayman, as he 
was found the following morning with his pock- 
ets picked, and in a state of insensibility from 
which he never rallied. His remains now rest 
in the National Cemetery at Columbus. 

S. S. Copeland has spent his entire life on 
the farm, and for a number of years has had 
the management of the home place. He is an 
active Republican, and is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias lodge at Tippecanoe. He 
is a young man, well and favorably known, and 
one who is tilling worthily the place made 
vacant by the death of his father. 



AMUEL SCOTT, a retired farmer of New 
Rumley, Harrison County, is a son of 
John and Elizabeth (Davidson) Scott, 
former of whom is a son of Charles 
Scott, a native of Ireland, born in 1745. Charles 
Scott was married to Agnes Patterson, and to 
them were born seven children: Charles, Alex- 
ander, John, Jennie, Nancy, Susan and another 
daughter, name not known. They came to 
America in 1791, and located in Washington 
County, Penn., where they entered quite a large 
tract of wild land. John Scott was born in Ire- 
land in 1779, being twelve years of age when 
he came to Washington County, Penn. He 
married in 1806, and soon after his marriage 
migrated to Jefferson County, Ohio, and settled 
near Little York, where he bought eighty acres of 
land. He remained on this land until 1814. when 
he sold and moved three miles north, and bought 
115 acres, on which there wasasmall grist-mill. 
He manufactured nearly all the gunpowder that 
was used in Jefferson County, in the early days. 
He remained in Jefferson County until 1857, 
when he moved to Carroll County, Ohio, and 



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bought a small piece of land of one of his sons, 
where he remained until his death, which oc- 
curred in 1863. His wife was born in Wash- 
ington County, Penn., in 1789, and died in 
1872. They were members of the Methodist 
Protestant Church. To their union were born 
nine children, as follows: Nancy and Mary (both 
deceased); Samuel, our subject; Eliza and Will- 
iam, both deceased; Charles, John and llhoda, 
in Carroll County, Ohio, and David, in Iowa. 

Samuel Scott was born in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, February 21, 1811, was reared to manhood 
on the old farm, and received a common-school 
education. He remained on the farm and in 
the mill helping his father until March 9, 1843, 
when he married Miss Eliza Wheeler, who was 
born May 20, 1814, to which union were born 
three children, viz.: Mary J., wife of Adam 
Shambaugh, in Iowa; Amanda, wife of Samuel 
Shambaugh, of Ruinley Township, and Eliza, 
wife of Charles Ong, in Kansas. Mrs. Scott 
died in 1849, and October 23, 1850, Mr. Scott 
married Margaret Pattou, who was born May 20, 
1813. Our subject, after his first marriage, set- 
tled near his father's place in Jefferson County, 
where he remained till 1847; he then moved to 
Kumley Township and bought the farm of 300 
acres, now owned by Samuel Shambaugh. He 
sold this farm in 1884 and moved to New Kum- 
ley, where he bought a line home. Our subject 
and wife are active members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Politically Mr. Scott is a 
Republican, but has never sought office, choos- 
ing rather to look after his farming interest, in 
which he has been very successful. 



P.ETER HINES. The Hines family in 
this country were originally natives of 
Westmoreland County, Penn., where, in 
1801, was born Jacob, the founder of 
the Hines family in Harrison County, Ohio. 
He remained at home until his marriage in 
early life with Susanna Brugh, also a resident 
of Westmoreland County. The young couple 
immediately sought out a home, and, having 



decided on coming to Ohio, where they arrived 
in 1830, they purchased a tract of 100 acres in 
Archer Township, Harrison County, and moved 
into a log cabin, which had been erected by the 
previous owners. By steady and continuous 
work, they made much of the land fertile, felling 
the trees and clearing up the debris. Betsy, 
George, Margaret, Bruce, Peter, Amos, John, 
Abbie and Susan are the names of the children 
born to them. In politics, Democratically in- 
clined, Mr. Hines held offices in his township, 
the duties of which he discharged to the full 
satisfaction of his constituents. At various 
times he was member of the board of education 
of his township, and also trustee; he and his 
wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. 
On December 21, 1854, he died and was buried 
in the Ridge Cemetery, his wife surviving him 
till she reached the patriarchal age of eighty- 
two, when she died October 20, 1885, and her 
remains were laid beside those of her husband. 
Peter Hines, the subject proper of these 
lines, remained at home, assisting in the man- 
agement of the home place, and enjoying the 
advantages of the common schools during the 
winter months. On October 22, 1857, he mar- 
ried Maria, daughter of John Webster, a resi- 
dent of Kumley Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
and after marriage they settled in the log cabin 
on the home place, in which they resided until 
he purchased the interests of the heirs. They 
then removed into their present residence. 
Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hines, 
viz.: Linwood, born in 1858, and Elmer H. , 
born in 1872. In politics Mr. Hines is a Dem- 
ocrat, and has been often honored by his fellow 
citizens with the various offices in their gift, 
among which may be mentioned school director 
and trustee. He and his family belong to the 
Presbyterian Church at Ridge. Mr. Hines is 
emphatically a self-made man, having by his 
own labor acquired all the property of which 
he now has such an abundance. His farm of 
221 acres is among the most fertile in his sec- 
tion, and is in excellent condition for general 
agricultural purposes. 



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THOMAS MILLHORN, one of the self- 
made men of Harrison County, was born 
October 15, 1853, in Guernsey County) 
Ohio. His father, James Millborn, was 
born in Jefferson County, same State, and tbe 
father of James was a native of Germany, wbo 
in bis youth came to America and settled in Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio, where be was married and 
reared a family of four sons and four daughters. 
He was a farmer by vocation, in politics a Re- 
publican, and in religion a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church. The youth of James Mill- 
horn was spent in Jefferson County, where he 
married Margaret E. Chaney, who bore bim the 
following family: John, Mary, Henry, Thomas, 
Ruth J. and Adolphus S. In 1867 Mrs. Mar- 
garet E. Millborn died, and Mr. Millborn was 
next married to Rachel West, whose children are 
Ellen, David and Harry. In politics Mr. Mill- 
horn is a Republican, in religion, a Methodist. 
He is now engaged in farming in Green Town- 
ship, Harrison County, of which he is a respected 
and worthy citizen. 

The early life of Thomas Millborn was spent 
on the home place until he was fourteen years 
of age, when he commenced life for himself. 
The earnings of bis first two years of labor be 
gave to his father, but after that he saved his 
money and invested it in stock. Here his 
shrewd business qualifications came into play, 
and he early displayed those faculties that have 
made a success of his life. Little by little, 
gaining something every year, he toiled on with 
no one to assist him until, in 1875, be chose as his 
helpmeet Sarah J. Guthrie, daughter of James 
Guthrie, an early settler of Harrison County, 
Ohio. To this union have been born the follow- 
ing named children: James B., born December 
31, 1876; Arthur E., born January 3, 1878; 
William, born March 21, 1879; AnnaB., born 
September 20. 1880; Charles, born November 
21, 1881, and Mary E., born August 11, 1883. 
The mother of these children died April 4, 1S84, 
and was buried at Deersville, and for his second 
wife Mr. Millborn married Mary M. , daughter 
of James McMillan, an early settler of Franklin 



Township, Harrison County. One child has 
blessed this union, Zelma Edna, born February 
12, 1890. In politics Mr. Millborn is a Repub- 
lican, and has ever taken an interest in political 
matters. He and his family are members of 
the Presbyterian Church of Deersville, of which 
they are regular attendants and liberal support- 
ers. Mr. Millborn' s life is an example of what 
may be accomplished by steadfastly continuing 
in pursuit of an object, and allowing nothing to 
intervene. Commencing with nothing, be now 
has 130 acres of well-improved land, situated 
about two miles from Deersville, under an excel- 
lent state of cultivation and improvement. It is 
well stocked with sheep and cattle, and is ex- 
ceedingly profitable to the owner. Mr. Mill- 
born is a well-knowu citizen, and one who has 
always held the respect and esteem of all. 



Tjll J. MASTERS was born June 11, 1814, 
/ / \\ in Guernsey County, Ohio. His father, 
/TTl\ James Masters, was also a native of that 
w/ county, whither his parents came in the 

early part of the present century. At an early 
age James was united in marriage with Miss 
Jane, a daughter of Samuel Cope, a resident of 
Guernsey County, and soon after his marriage 
the young couple settled on a farm in Guernsey 
County, where they remained until bis death, 
which occurred in 1852. After the decease of 
the husband and father the family removed to 
Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where 
they remained until 1863, in which year they 
came to Green Township. The children born 
to him were as follows: A. J. (our subject), and 
Rachel A. (now Mrs. Josiah Stephens), born De- 
cember 30, 1847. Mr. Masters was a strong 
supporter of tbe Republican party, and was hon- 
ored by his party with many positions of trust 
in his township. 

A. J. Masters spent the early portion of his 
life at the home of his mother, assisting her in 
the care and maintenance of the family. On 
May 20, 1875, he was married to Diana, daugh- 
ter of Hezekiah and Sarah (Stevens) Barkhurst, 



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who were residents of Jefferson County, Ohio, 
and to this union were born children as follows: 
Charles L., born February 26, 1876; Oliver B., 
born March 26, 1878; Etta Maude, born Sep- 
tember 24, 1879: Mary Elsie, born May 18, 
1881; Alvin Ross, born August 26, 1884; Harl 
Otto, born July 9, 1888. In politics a Repub- 
lican, Mr. Masters has always been an enthusi- 
astic supporter of that party, and as members of 
the Beech Spring Presbyterian Church, the 
family are among the foremost in the affairs of 
that society. Mr. Masters has, by his own in- 
dustry and economy, made a position for him- 
self in the financial circles of his section. He 
has won the respect and esteem of all by his 
true honesty and integrity, and as a general 
farmer ranks among the successful agriculturists 
in his neighborhood. 



If FENRY HAGEDORN, one of the well - 
1^1 known citizens of Cadiz, Harrison County, 
1| was born in Brunswick, Germany, in 
■f/ June, 1832. His father, Henry Hage- 

dorn, Sr. , who was a farmer by occupation, was 
married to Elizabeth Brockmire, who became 
the mother of five children, two of whom still 
remain in Germany; of the other three, Charles 
is in Wheeling, West Va. , August is in Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, and Henry is in Harrison 
County, Ohio. Both parents died in the land 
of their birth. 

Henry Hagedorn, the subject of this sketch, 
was but fourteen years of age when he landed 
in Baltimore, Md., from which city he at once 
proceeded to Wheeling, W. Va. He had re- 
ceived his schooling before coming to this coun- 
try, and at Wheeling entered upon an appren- 
ticeship at shoemaking, which has since been 
his sole occupation. After a residence of three 
years in Wheeling, he came to Steubenville, 
Ohio, where he followed his trade three years, 
and in 1854 he came to Cadiz, where he has 
since made his home. In 1858 he revisited 
Steubenville, and married Miss Louise Floto, 
daughter of Henry Floto, returning at once to 



Cadiz. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hage- 
dorn have been born twelve children, as follows: 
William, in June, 1860; Henry, in 1861; Amelia 
E. (Mrs. Leonard Hiller), October 13, 1S63; 
Emma, January 8, 1866; Frank Albert, June 
15, 1868; Charles L., April 15, 1871; Ella M., 
August 27, 1873 (deceased); one in 1875 (de- 
ceased); Carrie, in May, 1877 (deceased); Wil- 
helmina G., April 7, 1878 (deceased); Mabel L., 
March 28, 1880, and Mary Edith, July 4, 1881. 
In 1864 Mr. Hagedorn enlisted in the one-hun- 
dred-days service, Company K, One Hundred and 
Seventieth O. N. G. , and was at the battle of 
Snicker's Gap and also at Winchester, and after 
his discharge he returned to Cadiz, to his family 
and to his trade. Mr. Hagedorn is a member 
of McCready Post, G. A. R. For many years 
he has been a member of the United Presby- 
terian Church at Cadiz, and is active both in 
church and Sunday-school work. He believes 
in consistency in all things, and is known as a 
progressive citizen. His life has been a very 
busy one, and one of prosperity, the result of 
his industry, temperance and enterprise. In 
politics he is guided largely by his own judg- 
ment, but he has Republican proclivities as well 
as strong Prohibition tendencies. He and his 
family enjoy the respect of all who know them. 



dAMES C. EVANS was born December 12, 
1846, in Freeport, Harrison Co., Ohio, and 
/ is the youngest son of George W. Evans. 
His whole life has been spent in his native 
township, and he has, since attaining his majori- 
ty, been numbered among its enterprising and 
representative citizens. His business has been 
farming, in which he has served many years of 
practical work, and has added much to his suc- 
cess by his study of the subject in its different 
phases. On January 11, 1881, he was united 
in marriage to Anna Perdue, daughter of Will- 
iam Perdue, a resident of Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio, and one child, Osbee, was born to this 
union July 28, 1882. Immediately after his 
marriage he settled on the farm where he now 



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resides. Believing in the principles of the Dem- 
ocratic party, he has always supported it, except 
when his judgment dictated otherwise. He is 
an active and energetic man, of highest character 
and integrity, and merits and possesses the re- 
spect of all. With his wife he is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Freeport. 



IfOHN EAMSEY, farmer, Nottingham Town- 
w. || ship, Harrison County, was born near 
\J! Washington, Washington Co., Penn., No- 
vember 4, 1823, and is a son of William 
and Mary (Anderson) Ramsey. Our subject, 
when sixteen years of age, came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, with his parents, and here he 
was reared to manhood and educated at the 
common schools. In his youth he learned the 
trade of cooper, at which he worked for some 
time. He has been married three times; his 
first marriage was March 16, 1847, with Miss 
Sarah J. Hines, who was born on the farm 
where our subject now lives, a daughter of Isaac 
and Sarah (Patterson) Hines, and to this union 
were born eight children, viz.: Isaac L., de- 
ceased; Mary E. , deceased; William B.. born 
March 14, 1852, resides in Williamson County, 
Tenn.; John F., born December 20, 1853, re- 
sides in Cadiz Township; James P., born Feb- 
ruary 5, 1856, resides in Freeport Township; 
Harvey O, born April 19, 1859, resides at 
home; Robert F., born October 6, 1861, resides 
in Nottingham Township, and Martha A., born 
November 25, 1863, is deceased. Mrs. Ramsey 
died in 1865, and August 3, 1865, Mr. Ramsey 
married Miss Emily Ford, who was born in 
Harrison County, Ohio, in 1825. She died 
about 1880, and in 1882 our subject married 
Miss Angeline Hines, who was born October 31, 
1831, a daughter of Abraham and Hannah 
(Carson) Hines. Mr. Ramsey, since his first 
marriage, has resided on the farm he now owns, 
which contains 137A acres, and is situated in 
Section 6, Nottingham Township. Politically 
he is a Prohibitionist, and is one of the most 
active workers for the party in Harrison County. 



His first vote was cast with the old Liberty party, 
which he adhered to till the Republican party 
was organized, when he joined their ranks, and 
remained in them until 1886. In religion be is 
an active member of the Disciples Church. For 
the past few years he has been quite extensively 
engaged in raising strawberries and raspberries. 
Mr. Ramsey is well known to the people of the 
county as a man of integrity, and is highly 
esteemed and respected by all. 



*T=!j LIJAH W. BAKER. Of the rising young 
1^-1 men of Archer Township, Harrison 
IL^i County, none occupies a higher place in 
the estimation of their fellow-citizens 
than the gentleman whose name heads this 
sketch. Born January 4, 1847, in Green Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, a son of Rezin and 
Sarah (Thompson) Baker, he remained at the 
home place, attending the common schools and 
assisting in the duties of the farm until he was 
of age. On November 28, 1868, he was united 
in marriage with Mary E., daughter of James 
Maholen, a resident of Archer Township, this 
county. 

Soon after marriage he settled on the farm 
on which he now resides, in a small log cabin, 
where he remained until 1872, in which year he 
built his present commodious residence. All 
the improvements on the farm were made by 
him, and all his buildings are well adapted for 
the purpose for which they were built. In 
1877 he purchased additional land, making the 
dimensions of his farm a total of 104 acres. In 
company with M. V. Baker he purchased 151 
acres in Section 3, and, on dividing the property, 
he retained eighty acres, by additional purchases 
to which he now owns about 254 acres of excel- 
lent land; there are twenty acres of timber land, 
and about eighty of underlying coal. To him 
and his wife were born the following named 
children: Thomas M., born August 28, 1869; 
Rezin L. , born January 25, 1871; Axin Dora, 
born October 25, 1873, and Sarah E., born Feb- 
ruary 16, 1878, died June 19, 1880. Mr. Baker 






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is a Democrat in politics, and though not an 
office seeker he takes a very lively interest in 
politics. He has by his own efforts made his 
property, and is recognized as one of the sub- 
stantial citizens of Harrison County, both finan- 
cially and socially. He and his brother, John 
L. , are the sole surviving representatives of the 
Rezin Baker family, and each merits and retains 
the high respect and esteem in which their 
father was held. To such men as Mr. Baker 
Harrison County is indebted for its prominent 
position as regards both wealth and intelligence. 



f[OHN RILEY MELANY (deceased), who 
k 1 1 in his lifetime was one of the well-known 
y^j farmers of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, was born May 4, 1815, in Wash- 
ington County, Penn. His father, John Me- 
lany, was born in Pennsylvania, where he was 
married to Sarah Quigley, who bore him four 
children: James, Jane, John R. and Sarah, all 
of whom are now deceased. John Melany came 
to Harrison County, Ohio, at an early date, and 
settled in North Township, where he purchased 
a farm, which he and family largely improved. 
After many years' residence on this place, he 
sold out and removed to Franklin Township, 
where he euded his days. He was a Democrat 
in politics, and was a member of the Presbyte- 
rian Church at the Ridge. 

The youth of John Riley Melany was spent 
in Pennsylvania, where he remained until twenty- 
five years of age, when he came to Harrison 
County, Ohio. On August 24, 1848, he was 
married to Martha, daughter of Patrick Mc- 
Millan, who came from Ireland in 1821. when 
the daughter, Martha, was about five years of 
age. Mr. McMillan proceeded to Monroe Town- 
ship, Harrison County, where he entered a farm. 
His children were Catherine (deceased), John, 
Martha, James, Eliza and Susannah. Iu poli- 
tics Mr. McMillan was an active Democrat. He 
was an earnest member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and one of its liberal supporters. In 
August, 1843, he passed away, and was followed 



by his wife in 1852. After their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Melany settled in Monroe Town- 
ship, Harrison County, on the farm now occu- 
pied by their son, John, and remained there 
until 1866, when they removed to Franklin 
Township, where they have since resided. In 
politics Mr. Melany was a Democrat, and al- 
ways advocated the principles of his party. He 
was a prominent member of the Feed Springs 
Presbyterian Church, in which he was an elder 
for several years, and to which he contributed 
liberally of his means. Both he and his wife 
were much respected for their sterling worth, 
and they had, by their own industry, persever- 
ance and economy, succeeded in amassing a 
large property. Their children are named as 
follows: Susannah (Mrs. J. E. Hillyer), Ellen, 
John H. , Addison Q. and Elizabeth (Mrs. George 
W. Couir). Surrounded by his weeping family 
and condoling friends, Mr. Melany died March 
18, 1889, leaving a vacancy in the community 
which will not be easily filled. Since his death 
the farm has been under the management of the 
son, Addison, who is engaged in farming and 
stock-raising. On October 2, 1884, Addison 
married Mary M. Downs, daughter of John 
F. Downs. Mr. Melany is a Democrat, and 
himself and family are members of the Feed 
Springs Presbyterian Church. 



THE HENDERSON FAMILY. William 
Henderson, grandfather of William and 
James O. Henderson, farmers, of Cadiz 
Township, Harrison County, came from 
Pennsylvania in an early day, aud settled upon 
a piece of unimproved land iu what is now the 
State of Ohio. Later he removed to the place 
where the remainder of his life was spent, which 
land has ever since remained in the family pos- 
session. He was married to Nancy Wilkins, of 
what is now Carroll County, Ohio, who bore him 
ten children, all of whom have passed away, 
save three: Mrs. Sally Love, Mrs. Jane Patter- 
son (widow), and Mrs. Catharine Trimbull 



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(widow), all now residing near Athens, Harri- 
son County. 

Alexander Henderson, one of those deceased, 
was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, August 9, 1813, and when about nine 
years of age he came with his parents to the 
present Henderson farm. He received a good, 
practical education, and then, not being suf- 
ficiently robust for farm life, took up the pro- 
fession of school teacher, which he continued 
for several years; but his health improving, he 
abandoned the school-room for the pursuits of 
agriculture. In 1843 he was married to Miss 
Margaret Finical, a native of Washington 
County, Penn., but who came, when ten years 
of age, with her parents, Isaac and Margaret 
Finical, to Harrison County, Ohio. After their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Henderson made their 
home, until 1804, on the farm where Samuel 
Richey now resides, and then removed to the 
place where he died March 17, 1883, aged 
seventy years, and where his widow yet resides. 
At the time of his decease Mr. Henderson was 
the owner of 400 acres of well-cultivated land, 
situated some three and a half miles from Cadiz. 
He was a stanch Republican, and in his life- 
time had held various political positions of 
honor and trust in his county; he was county 
commissioner for six years, and also township 
trustee; for several years he was president of 
the First National Bank of Cadiz. He was the 
father of three children: William (a farmer in 
Cadiz Township), Alvin (now a physician in 
New York), and James O., on the home farm. 

William Henderson was born May 11, 
1844, on the first farm located by his parents in 
Harrison County, and received his education at 
the schools of his district. In 1S04 he responded 
to his country's call for troops by enlisting in 
Company K, One Hundred and Seventieth 
O.N.Gr. , and during the one-hundred-days serv- 
ice he was stationed near Washington, also in 
the Shenandoah Valley. He participated in the 
battle of Winchester and other engagements 
occurring in the valley, and was fortunate 
enough to escape being wounded. Receiving an 



honorable discharge, he returned home to the 
pursuits of peace. On December 7, 1871, Mr. 
Henderson was married to Miss Rachel H, 
daughter of James and Mary (Barnes) Robison, 
of Archer Township, Harrison County, and 
three children have been born to them, viz. : 
Margaret, Alvin and Grace Barnes, all living at 
home. Mr. Henderson is a member of the 
G. A. R. at Cadiz, and in politics is a Repub- 
lican. His farm of 320 acres is devoted chiefly 
to sheep -raising. 

James O. Henderson was born in Cadiz 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, February 20, 
1847, and secured his primary education at the 
common schools of his district, which was sup- 
plemented by an attendance at the colleges at 
New Athens and Hopedale, and the university at 
Ann Arbor, Mich. Iu 1874 he was united in 
marriage with Miss Belle, daughter of Charles 
Wells, of Cadiz Township, and they then settled 
on the farm where they have since resided — the 
old homestead of his father. This farm is a 
model one, highly improved and well watered, 
comprising 225 broad acres. In politics he fol- 
lows in the footsteps of his father, being a zeal- 
ous Republican, but he is no office-seeker, his 
time being devoted exclusively to the work of 
his farm. 

The Henderson family is a representative 
one in Harrison County, and it can be truthfully 
said that none commands higher esteem or a 
larger share of respect. 



IL W ICHAEL MILLIKEN, one of the most 
I \/ I respected and at one time one of the 
1] most robust and vigorous of the native- 
■{/ born agriculturists of Harrison County, 

first saw the light in Green Township, October 
25, 1812. His grandfather, Mark Milliken, was 
born in England, and when a young man came 
to the United States. His son, John, learned 
the trade of Bhoemaker, and was married to Han- 
nah Karbaugh, a native of Pennsylvania. They 
came to Ohio and settled apOD a piece of wild 
laud iu Green Township, Harrison County, where 



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they remained some time, and then removed (in 
1815) to the farm where their son, the subject 
of this sketch, now resides. Here the mother 
of Michael passed from earth at the age of sixty 
years, followed several years later by the father, 
who departed this life in 1856, when aged sev- 
enty-seven years. They were the parents of 
fourteen children, two of whom survive: Mrs. 
Abigail Blair and Michael, both now residents 
of Cadiz Township. 

Michael Milliken, whose name appears at 
the opening of this sketch, from the age of three 
years grew to manhood on his present farm, and, 
as soon as he was able to wield an ax, set to 
work to aid in clearing and improving the place. 
In 1838 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Charity Day. also a native of Harrison County, 
and four children have been born to them, viz. : 
William, residing in Nottingham Township, 
Harrison County; John, on the home farm; 
Adeline, Mrs. G. Christie, living in Iowa, and 
Hannah M. , Mrs. Albert Rogers, in Cadiz Town- 
ship, Harrison County. Politically Mr. Milli- 
ken was first a Whig, and afterward, on the for- 
mation of the party, a Republican. For several 
years his health has been failing, and in May, 
1889, he had the misfortune to be stricken with 
apoplexy. Mrs. Milliken, now seventy years of 
.age, although feeling somewhat the weight of 
years, is still in the enjoyment of comparatively 
good health. The home farm of 248 acres of 
choice land is devoted chiefly to sheep culture, 
and the dwelling is neat and commodious. 



M. McDOWELL. Among the earliest 
settlers of Harrison County was one of 
the sturdy race from Scotland, whose vir- 
tues and general worth have furnished 
the theme for many a well-known song and story. 
Samuel McDowell was born in Scotland in 1769, 
and while yet a youth, came to America, and 
proceeded to Pennsylvania, where he settled in 
Washington County, where he met and married 
Jane Moreland. Thinking the then " Far West " 
offered many advantages to the ambitious and 



industrious class, which were not found in the 
older settlements, they determined to seek their 
fortunes there, and accordingly came, with 
others, to Ohio, and, selecting a tract, entered it, 
and commenced to build their home. Here, in the 
wilderness, they struggled on bravely, thinking 
perhaps their descendants might enjoy the pleas- 
ures of life that were denied them. Little by 
little the forest gave way to their efforts, the 
wild animals forsook their former haunts, and 
the merry laugh of the children superseded the 
cry of the panther or the monotonous howling 
of the wolf. The farm on which the present 
McDowell family reside is that entered by the 
settler, and here were reared the following 
named children born to Samuel and his wife: 
Nancy (Mrs. James Mc Adams), Samuel, Will- 
iam, James, John, Sarah (Mrs. William Reetl), 
and S. J. (Mrs. Smith Watson), all now de- 
ceased except the youngest two. In politics a 
strong and unflinching Democrat, Samuel Mc- 
Dowell took a leading part in the county and 
township politics of his day. He was among 
the earliest members of the Nottingham Pres- 
byterian Church, in which faith he was reared 
in Scotland. 

William McDowell, son of Samuel, the pi- 
oneer, was born November 6, ISOS, in Athens 
Township, Harrison County, where he always 
resided. His life was one of hard work and 
economy, and he succeeded, financially/, far be- 
yond most men. Deprived during his early life 
of educational advantages, save those of the 
common schools, he, with untiring zeal, pur- 
sued in after life a long and thorough course of 
reading. By nature a keen observer, he readily 
acquired a knowledge of men and things exceed- 
ingly helpful to him in after life. On Septem- 
ber 19, 1S42, he married Hannah, a daughter 
of John W. Watters, a resident of Delaware 
County, and the issue of their marriage were 
John W. , deceased; Sarah J., now Mrs. John 
Culbertson; Mary A., now Mrs. T. E. Johnson; 
S. Madison, at home; Emma, now Mrs. Dr. 
Thompson; and Frances A. and Florence A. 
(twins) deceased. Until 1860 Mr. McDowell 




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was a supporter of the Democratic party, but 
then, believing the principles advocated by the 
Republican party more in accordance with his 
views, and better adapted to the best interests 
of the country and also humanity, he united 
with it; in religion he was an enthusiastic mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church at Nottingham. 
On May 21, 1869, he died, and was laid to rest 
near the scenes of his early youth. 

S. M. McDowell, the fourth child of William 
and Hannah McDowell, was born March 6, 1851, 
on the place where he has since made his home, 
and where now. with his aged mother, he still 
resides. The McDowell farm consists of 4O0 
acres, located in one of the most fertile sections 
of Ohio, and is under an excellent state of cul 
tivation, its management now devolving upon S. 
Madison McDowell, just named. Like his fa- 
ther, he has been a strong Republican, and al- 
ways supports that party. He is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church at New Athens, aud is 
consistent in his faith. The McDowell family 
have long been known as industrious, frugal, as 
well as successful, and are numbered among the 
financially strong residents of the county. 



LOUIS M. WILLETT, one of the well- 
known and prosperous farmers of Archer 
, Township, Harrison Co., Ohio., was born 
January 19, 1845, in Leesville, Carroll 
Co., Ohio. His father, James Willett, was born 
in Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, where he 
spent his early youth, but while quite young 
came with his parents to Carroll County, Ohio, 
where they settled. At the age of fifteen he 
entered an apprenticeship with a carpenter, and 
remained with him three years. In his twenty- 
third year he was married to Celinda Newell, 
of Carroll County, Ohio, and after marriage 
they settled in Leesville, Carroll County, where 
for several years Mr. Willett followed his trade, 
and finally purchased a farm, on which ho re- 
mained a short time. He then sold this and 
bought 160 acres, and engaged in business until 
he purchased the general store at Palmyra, 



where he resided four or five years, and then 
transferred his business to Tuscarawas County, 
where he remained six years, and then resided 
at Leavittsville, Carroll County, for several 
years. His family consisted of six children: 
Margaret Ann (deceased), Elizabeth, Martha, 
Mary, Louis and Franklin P. In 1853 Mrs. 
Willett died and was buried at Monroe. In 
1859 Mr. Willett was* married to Margaret 
Thompson, who bore him three children: John 
E., Evans and Clara. In 1871 Mr. Willett died 
and was laid to rest at Plainfield, Coshocton 
Co. , Ohio. He was a warm advocate of Demo- 
cratic principles, aud took quite an active interest 
in politics. He and his family were members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Louis M. Willett remained at home until he 
was eighteen years of age, when he determined 
to start in life for himself. His previous knowl- 
edge of carpentering fitted him for the employ- 
ment of building mechanic on the P., C. & St. 
L. R. R. , whose service he entered, and in whose 
employ he remained twelve years; but, his health 
failing, he was compelled to leave so arduous a 
work and to engage in selling dry goods and 
notions, which business he followed about ten 
years. Finally he purchased his farm of eighty- 
two acres in Archer Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, and since acquiring it he has improved it 
largely. In May, 1S64, Mr. Willett enlisted in 
the One Hundred and Seventieth O. V. I. , Com- 
pany B, and was assigned to the Eighth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. He was a participant 
in all the movements and battles of that corps, 
and though always in the line of duty escaped 
any injury; in September, 1864, he was mus- 
tered out and returned to Harrison County, 
Ohio. On February 14, L869, Mr. Willett was 
married to Elizabeth Allesworth, who was born 
September 8, 1846, a daughter of Lewis Alles- 
worth, of Jefferson County, Ohio, aud since 
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Willett have resided 
in Steubenville, Oonotton and at their present 
home. Their children are as follows: Luella, 
born March 28, 1870; Edgar, born February 21, 
1879; Daisy, born September 25, 1886. Mr. 



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Willett has always supported the Democratic 
ticket, and takes quite an interest in party poli- 
tics. He is a self-made man, having achieved 
bis present financial standing through his own 
efforts. Liberal in his views, generous in his 
nature, he has won the confidence of all. 




^ILLIAM D. COPELAND, a wealthy 
farmer, was born January 8, 1836, in 
Franklin Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where he still resides. The Cope- 
land family, of whom there is any record in 
this country, came from Ireland and located in 
Pennsylvania, where they resided many years, 
John Copeland, the first of this American fam- 
ily to come to Ohio, settled in Jefferson County 
about 1800, and there he died. His wife was 
Isabelle Leach, of Pennsylvania, and their chil- 
dren were Samuel, Thomas, Joseph, James, Da- 
vid, William and Archie. William Copeland 
came to Harrison County at the age of twenty- 
six years, and here, in 1833, married Mary 
Dempster, a daughter of Robert Dempster, of 
Pennsylvania, who first settled in Jefferson 
County, where he was married to Elizabeth 
Hunter, a daughter of John Hunter. In 1820 
Mr. Hunter came to Harrison County and pur- 
chased the farm now owned by Mrs. Mary Cope- 
land. This was cleared by himself, and the im- 
provements were made by him also. In politics 
Mr. Dempster was a Whig, and took a promi- 
nent part in the party work. He was a good 
friend of education, and subscribed liberally 
that a school might be started in his vicinity. 
For many years the meetings of the Presbyte- 
rian society were held at his house, and when the 
first church was built he was among the most 
liberal contributors. He was an earnest pro- 
gressive man, and exercised a beneficial influence 
in his section. Soon after their marriage, Mr. 
and Mrs. William Copeland settled on the farm on 
which their son, William D., now resides. Their 
children were named John W., William D. , Jo- 
seph, Albert, Elizabeth, Isabelle, Mary M. and 
Margaret J. In politics Mr. Copeland was a 



Democrat, and while not taking as active an in- 
terest as many, still he was always a supporter 
of the party. In 1870, after a life of exeption- 
al purity and good deeds, he passed away and 
was buried at Feed Springs. On March 10, 
1867, W. D. Copeland was married to Lucy 
Burns, daughter of John M. Burns, of Frank- 
lin Township, Harrison County. The Burns 
family came originally from Westmoreland Coun- 
ty, Penn., and settled in Smithfield, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio. John M. Burns married Elizabeth, 
daughter of John Hilbert, and they settled in 
German Township, Harrison County, and reared 
the following family: Frank Samantha (Mrs. 
Alex Henderson), Letitia (Mrs. Joseph Court- 
right) and Lomida (Mrs. Henry Taylor). Mr. 
Burns was a teacher by profession, which he 
followed nearly his whole life. In politics he 
was a Democrat, and was elected justice of the 
peace for several terms; in religion he was a 
leading member of the United Presbyterian 
Church. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Copeland settled in Franklin Township, Harri- 
son County, where Mr. Copeland engaged in 
farming and stock-raising. Their children are 
Flora B., W. Frank, Emmett D. and Perry H. 
Mr. Copeland is a Democrat in politics, and has 
always taken an active interest in the success 
of his party; has served with satisfaction as 
trustee of the township for two terms. He and 
his family are members of the Feed Springs 
Presbvterian Church, in which he is trustee. 




QUILA TIPTON, farmer, Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County, is a son of 
Aquila Tipton, who was a son of Aquila 
Tipton. It is not known where Aquila 
Tipton (first) was born, but the first known of 
him was at Mclntrie, Jefferson Co., Ohio, where 
he settled in a/very early day, and thence moved 
to Stock Township, Harrison County, where he 
entered 160 acres of land near Deersville, now 
owned by Abel Smith and Marion McElray. 
When he came to this property he had to cut 
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County, and here he spent his life in clearing 
the land. Politically he was a Whig. His son, 
Aqaila, was born on this farm, June 1,1800, and 
died on same May 30, 1875. Nancy Waller, 
wife of Aquila (second), was born December 26, 
1802, a daughter of George Waller, a native of 
Maryland, where Nancy, also, was born. By 
this union there were thirteen children, as fol- 
lows: Benjamin, born January 5, 1823; Mary J., 
born August 22, 1824, resides in Missouri; Sarah 
A., born August 24, 1826, is deceased; Ruth 
Hines, born January 15, 1829, resides inUhrichs- 
ville, Ohio; Rachel Abrams, born August 10, 
1830, lives in Oregon; Charlotte H. , born August 
4, 1832, is deceased; Jared, born September 4, 
1834, is deceased; Ephraim, born May 4, 1836, 
is deceased; Aquila, born May 24, 1838, is the 
subject of this sketch; Martha, born in 1840, is 
deceased; Nancy, born August 31, 1841; George 
W., born September 7, 1844, is a resident of 
Archer Township, and Thomas B., born Septem- 
ber 15, 1856, resides in Illinois. Mrs. Tipton 
departed this life May 4, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. 
Tipton were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church for many years; politically he was a 
Republican. 

Aquila Tipton, our subject, was born on the 
old farm first entered by his paternal grand- 
father, where he grew to manhood and was ed- 
ucated at the common schools. On April 28, 
1861, he was married to Miss Maria Scott, who 
was born July 25, 1S40, a daughter of Charles 
and Margaret (Dodds) Scott, former of whom 
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and latter 
in Ireland. Our subject and wife are parents 
of seven children, viz. : Oliver B. and Margaret 
I. (twins), born January 16, 1863, residing at 
home; Scott P., born April 18, 1805 ; Annie E., 
born May 7, 1867, wife of Jamison Cope, of Not- 
tingham Township; Horace S., born May 23, 
1871; Woody O, born October 16, 1875, and 
Can. A., born March 19, 1883, all three living 
at home. After his marriage Mr. Tipton re- 
moved to Guernsey County, where he remained 
one year, and then returned to Deersville, where 
he was employed for some time at various kinds 



of labor. He then purchased a part of the old 
farm on which he remained till October, 1882, 
when he bought the farm he now owns, which 
contains seventy-one and one-fourth acres in 
Section 6, Nottingham Township. Politically 
he is Democratic, and has held several public 
offices in his township. Mrs. Tipton is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



P.HILIP ROWLAND, a descendant of one 
of the earliest settlers of Harrison Coun- 
ty, was born May 25, 1825, in Notting- 
ham Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. The 
Rowland family had its origin in Maryland, 
where John, the grandfather of Philip, was 
born, and where many years of his life were spent. 
He was there married to Rachel Engle, and 
reared the following family: William, James, 
Mary, Levi, Betsy, John, Cyrus and Rebecca. 
Soon after his marriage he removed to what is 
now West Virginia, where he remained until 
1801, when he started on a journey westward, 
and after much search for a suitable abiding 
place, selected a tract in Mooretield Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, and then returned for his 
family. Their journey hither was made in a 
covered wagon, and many were the hardships 
and dangers they passed through before they 
arrived at their destination, the wagon on one 
occasion being upset while crossing a river, and 
the family narrowly escaping from drowning. 
They, however, reached their future home, and 
moved into a log cabin, which had been erected 
for them. The forest was in its primeval con- 
dition, and filled with Indians and all sorts of 
wild animals. Mr. Rowland served as a private 
in the Revolutionary War, and after the close 
of that struggle he served his Government as 
Indian spy for three years, his territory extend- 
ing along the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, his 
arms being the rifle, tomahawk and hunting 
knife. In company with a number of others he 
once was in pursuit of a band of Indian raiders, 
who had been committing depredations along 
the frontier, and had massacred a large uumber 



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of white settlers. Cautiously they followed the 
trail left by the Indians, and just as nightfall 
came upon them, but having an inferior force, 
they resolved to defer the attack until the follow- 
ing morning. Their plan was to surround the 
camp, and in the dawn of the morning, at a sig- 
nal, each was to fire into the camp, kill all they 
could, and then rush up and dispose of the re- 
mainder. But their plan was abortive, for just 
as it was getting light an Indian arose and 
walked around, and finally discovered the scouts. 
He immediately warned his comrades by the war 
whoop, but this was the last sound he ever made 
as he fell, the tomahawk of his foe buried deep 
in his brain. The entire band also, save two, 
were either captured or killed, with no casualty 
to the scouts. The danger in such service, the 
reader will easily perceive, was constant and 
great, and all honor is due to those who risked 
their all that the settlement of this western 
country might be successfully made. In 1848, 
at the age of ninety-three, Mr. Rowland passed 
away, and was soon followed by his wife. 

The early life of William Rowland was spent 
in Maryland and Moorefield Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio. His education was that of the com- 
mon schools, which were exceedingly primitive. 
He was united in marriage to Jane Fulton, 
daughter of Philip Fulton, and they immediately 
settled in Nottingham Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, where they remained until their death, 
having reared the following family: John, in 
Freeport; Levi, deceased; Philip, our subject; 
James, in Freeport; Sarah, deceased; William, 
in Freeport; Hannah, deceased; Rachel, de- 
ceased; Mary, Mrs. Elihu Petty; and Alexander, 
deceased. William Rowland was a hardwork- 
ing, industrious man, one worthy of the uni- 
versal respect in which he was held. 

Philip Rowland spent most of his youth in 
Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where 
he received the advantages afforded by the com- 
mon schools. In August, 1847, he was married 
to Piety Ann, daughter of Lewis and Ann Ford. 
Mrs. Rowland died in 1865, leaving the following 
named children: William L., Emily J., de- 



ceased), Siemens, Rebecca (deceased), Arvi- 
zona (deceased), and Newton (deceased). Mr. 
Rowland was afterward married to Julia Hart, 
daughter of Benjamin and Myrtilla Hart, resi- 
dents of Harrison County, and the children 
born to this marriage were named Benjamin, 
George (deceased), Myrtile, Philip and Burton. 
Since 1861 Mr. Rowland has been a resident of 
Freeport Township, where he has engaged in 
agriculture. His farm consists of 250 acres, 
situated about two miles from Freeport. Since 
the organization of the Prohibition party he 
has been prominently identified with it, and he 
and his family are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

William L. Rowland was born October 25, 
1850, and has spent nearly his whole time on 
the home farm. On October 5, 1880, he was 
married to Clara V., daughter of Levi McCave, 
and there have been born to him the following 
named children: Charles O. , Allison, Roy D. 
and Leanard (deceased). 



JACOB HUSTON, the subject of this sketch, 
was born January 25, 1834, in Moorefield 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. Here he 
spent his youth, in those occupations that 
usually fall to the lot of the boys on the farm, 
and his attendance at the schools that were then 
in existence was limited to an occasional short 
term in the winter season. On March 23, 1858, 
he was married to Sarah Ann Zemueraly, who 
bore him the following named children: Alex- 
ander, Mary Margaret (Mrs. William Packer) 
and Benjamin F. (deceased). He has always 
been an enterprising and eminently .successful 
man. His chief business has been that of farm- 
ing and stock-raising, dealing in various kinds 
of stock — buying and selling largely. In this 
business his excellent judgment, as well as his 
knowledge of men and affairs, has stood him in 
srood stead. He now resides on his farm, which 
is situated about four miles west of Freeport, 
Harrison County, and consists of about 635 
acres, all in a good state of cultivation. He has 



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been a remarkably strong man, one of great 
endurance. His success has been of bis own 
achieving, having begun life with little save his 
own physical and mental resources to assist him. 
Foremost in all matters tending to the benefit 
of his section, loyal to the interests of the peo- 
ple, he has always endeavored to keep abreast 
of the times. Since Mrs. Huston's death, his 
household has been managed by his sister. Mr. 
Huston is a Republican in his political belief, 
and always takes an active interest in his party. 
His father, Edward Huston, who was a native 
of Pennsylvania, was married, August 18, 1818, 
to Catherine Lamb, and his children were Rob- 
ert (deceased), Sarah (deceased), John L. (de- 
ceased), Christina, Susanna, Edward, Catherine 
(deceased), Jacob, William (deceased), Samuel 
(deceased), Mary Ann (deceased) and Alexandria 
and Benjamin, twins. Edward Huston came to 
Ohio with his parents in 1803, and with them 
settled in Moorefield, Harrison County. In 
politics he took an active part, and was always 
among those who worked for the success of the 
Republican party. On December 9, 1802, he 
passed away, and March 2, 1870, was followed 
to the grave by his wife. His father's family 
comprised the following: Isaac, Alexander, Ja- 
cob, Benjamin, Catherine, Elizabeth, Edward 
and Ruth. The Huston family, since their earliest 
coming into Harrison County, have been promi- 
nently identified with the progressive move- 
ments of the times, and have always had the 
respect of the entire community. 



D 



ANIEL VORHES, proprietor of the Vor- 
hes House, Hopedale, Green Township, 
1— / Harrison County, was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, February 13, 1837, and is 
a son of Isaac Vorhes, also a native of Jef- 
ferson County. John Vorhes, the father of 
Isaac, was a native of Pennsylvania, whose an- 
cestors early emigrated from Germany; he came, 
when a young man, to Ohio, and entered a piece 
of land in Jefferson County, in which county he 
ended his days. Isaac Vorhes grew to manhood 



near Smithfield, Jefferson County, attended 
school there, and there married Miss Sarah Ann 
Hedges, a daughter of John Hedges, and a native 
of Pennsylvania, who came, when but a little 
girl, to Jefferson County, Ohio, where she lost 
her parents through death. After their mar- 
riage, Isaac and his wife settled on a piece of 
wild land near Cadiz, in Harrison County, where 
they erected a log cabin for a shelter. Wolves 
and deer abounded, and the country was an 
utter wilderness. They remained here some 
time, clearing off the land, but eventually re- 
turned to Jefferson County, where they cleared 
another tract of land, and where they ended 
their days. Mrs. Vorhes was the first to pass 
away, at the age of seventy, the mother of 
thirteen children, viz. : John and Joseph, de- 
ceased; Samuel, at Unionport, Ohio; Crawford, 
in Allen County; Isaac, on the home place in 
Jefferson County; Daniel, our subject; Sarah 
Ann, who died at nineteen years of age; Eliza, 
deceased; Amanda, in Jefferson County; Mary, 
Mrs. Henry Rowlston; Harriet, in Jefferson 
County; Catherine, Mrs. Joshua Cole, and Jane, 
Mrs. William Cole, both of Jefferson. The 
aged father lived ten years after the death of 
the mother, passing away at the age of eighty- 
six years. 

Daniel Vorhes, the subject of this commem- 
orative sketch, grew to manhood on the home 
place, in Jefferson County, attending the com- 
mon schools of the neighborhood. In 1859 he 
married Miss Christina, daughter of Jacob and 
Nancy Copeland, and a native of Harrison 
County. After marriage the young couple con- 
tinued to reside in Jefferson County till 1860, 
in which year they came to Hopedale, Harrison 
County, and here took up their abode until 
1865. when they returned to the old home farm 
in Jefferson County. In 1872 they again re- 
moved to Harrison County, locating on the farm 
of Mr. Vorhes' father-in-law until 1873, when 
he bought his present place in Hopedale, whereon 
they have since resided. In 1864 Mr. Vorhes 
was a member of Company G, One Hundred and 
Fifty-seventh O. N. G., one-hundred-days men, 



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and was stationed at Relay House, Md., thence 
was sent to Port Delaware, and after receiving 
his discharge he returned to his family in Harri- 
son County. About the year 1883, for the ac- 
commodation of travelers, Mr. Yorhes estab- 
lished his hotel in Hopedale, now so well and 
favorably known to the traveling public, it having 
become the best hotel in the place, Mr. Vorhes 
making a most attentive and courteous landlord. 
To our subject and wife have been born three 
children, viz. : Mary Belle (deceased wife of 
John M. Frazier), and Nancy Ann Eliza and 
Lizzie, at home. Mr. Yorhes is a Democrat, but 
he does not allow politics to interfere with his 
business, to which he strictly attends. He has 
never sought office, although for four years he 
was postmaster at Hopedale, receiving the ap- 
pointment through the petition of neighbors and 
friends, unknown to himself. He served the 
office with acceptability until change of admin- 
istration. For some years he was a member of 
the G. A. R. at Cadiz, but on account of the 
distance and his advancing years he had to 
abandon the Post. 



JAMES FULTON, one of the well-known 
farmers of Green Township, Harrison 
County, was born in that township, Janu- 
ary 25, 1825. His father, John Fulton, 
was born August 26, 1777, in Maryland, near 
Havre de Grace, of which place his parents were 
residents, the ancestry having come from Scot- 
land. The early life of John Fulton was spent 
in assisting at home and attending .the schools 
in his neighborhood. When but a youth he was 
apprenticed to a carpenter and joiner, with whom 
lie worked until he had perfected his trade. On 
December 12, 1799, he was united in marriage 
with Lydia Mitchell, who was born August 26, 
1777, and was a daughter of Samuel Mitchell, a 
resident of Maryland. The children born to 
this union were as follows: Mary, born Septem- 
ber 13, 1800; Margaret, born February 21,1802; 
William, bom July 29, 1803, died July 30,1884; 
John, born November 26, 1805; Elizabeth, born 



December 2, 1808; Susannah, born January 1, 
1811; Miriam Jane, born January 29, 1813,died 
April 13, 1886; Sophia, born March 6, 1816, died 
July 27, 1889; Phoebe, born July 13, 1819; and 
James, born January 25, 1825. In politics Mr. 
Fulton was a Whig, and was highly interested 
in the party's success. He and his family were 
attendants and members of the Presbyterian 
Church, and their walk through life gave evi- 
dence of the sincerity of their convictions. Mr. 
Fulton came to Ohio in 1816, and purchased a 
farm in Green Township, Harrison County, on 
which he spent the remainder of his life. He 
died December 20, 1886, and was laid to rest in 
Beech Spring Cemetery; his wife sui'vived until 
July 18, 1844, when she passed away and was 
buried by the side of her husband. 

James Fulton, whose name stands at the 
head of this sketch, passed much of his early 
life at the paternal residence. On April 4, 
1855, he was married to Maria Louisa Simpson, 
a daughter of William Gibson, one of the 
wealthy farmers of Holmes Couuty, Ohio, and 
upon their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fulton set- 
tled on the place where Mr. Fulton now resides. 
The residence was then but the ordinary log 
cabin, but was soon replaced by the present 
commodious dwelling, which occupies a promi- 
nent place on the farm. It was built by Mr. 
Fulton entirely, and evinces workmanship sel- 
dom surpassed. The union of Mr. and Mrs. 
James Fulton has been blessed by the birth of 
the following named children: Oregon Jane, 
born May 18, 1856; William Quiucy, born Feb- 
ruary 8, 1858, died October 6, 1889; Margaret 
Elizabeth, born October 28, 1859, died Decem- 
ber 31, 1863; John Ellsworth, born August 17, 
1861; Jessie Tremont, born October 20, 1862; 
James L. G. , born December 23, 1865; Alex- 
ander M. , born December 18, 1867, and Albert 
Harrison, born March 28, 1871. Mr. Fulton 
was a supporter of the Whig party until the 
organization of the Republican, when he joined 
that party, and has since been one of its earnest 
and faithful supporters. He has been honored 
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offices of honor and trust acceptably. He and 
family are members of the Disciples Church at 
Hopedale, in which Mr. Fulton has been deacon 
for many years. On September 30, 1S75, Mrs. 
Fulton died, and was buried in the township 
cemetery. On October 12, 1889, Mr. Fulton was 
married to Charlotte Branson, daughter of 
George Pettis, a resident of Scio, Harrison 
County. Mr. Fulton is the sole representative 
of the Fulton family, whose history has been so 
closely connected with Green Township, and 
the family are highly respected and are well 
known in the section where they reside. 



FARRINGTON BAERICKLOW, farmer, 
Nottingham Township, Harrison County, 
was born in Athens Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, June 6, 1817. His father, 
Henry Barricklow, a native of New Jersey, in 
his youth migrated to Fayette County, Penn. , 
where he grew to manhood, and learned the 
trade of tailor. He was there married, to Miss 
Mary Oglivee, a native of Maryland, and to 
them were born eight children, viz. : Sarah, 
John, Joseph, Ann, Henry, Julia, Conrad and 
Farrington, the latter being the only one now 
living. Henry Barricklow came, in 1808, with 
his family to Ohio, and purchased 160 acres of 
land in Athens Township, Harrison County, 
where he erected a log cabin, in which he lived 
for some years, when the cabin was exchanged 
for a more comfortable residence. Mr. and Mrs. 
Barricklow resided on this farm during then- 
life. Politically, Mr. Barricklow was Demo- 
cratic, and served some years as justice of the 
peace in his township. 

Farrington Barricklow was reared to man- 
hood in Athens Township, Harrison County, and 
received his education at the common schools. 
He remained on the old farm until the death of 
his parents, when he came to Nottingham Town- 
ship, where he has since resided. By the strict- 
est economy he has accumulated a vast amount 
of wealth, and is known to be the wealthiest 
man in Harrison County. About 1875, while 



living on one of his farms in Nottingham Town- 
ship, in company with his sister, an attempt was 
made by four men to rob him of a large amount 
| of money they knew him to have in the house. 
It was just as darkness was coming on, and he 
had gone to his corn crib for a basket of corn) 
with which he was returning to the house, when 
he saw what he thought to be three boys ap- 
proaching, but, supposing them to be some of 
his neighbors' boys, he paid no attention to 
them, until two of them, one on each side, took 
him by the arms, while the third kept behind 
with a club, ready to strike him down, in case 
he made an attempt to defend himself or to get 
away, and the fourth stood guard on the road at 
some distance from the house. Mr. Barricklow 
could have jerked away from his captors, but 
dare not, for fear of being struck by the one 
behind him, so he let them have their own way. 
They quietly tied his hands behind him, and, 
taking him in the house, laid him on the bed, 
also placing his sister on the bed beside him, 
but did not tie her hands. They then threw 
the bed clothing over their victims' heads, and 
went to work at the safe, with a tamping sledge 
they had brought from the railroad with them, 
two of the party being railroad men, and the 
other two, our subject says, lived not 100 miles 
away. After they had pounded away at the 
safe till they had worked their way into the 
inner lining, near to where the money was, they 
grew tired or discouraged, and gave it up as a 
bad job; then went to searching the house to 
see what they could find, and succeeded in dis- 
covering forty dollars, which his sister had 
placed in a chest the day before, this being the 
only money they secured. They then left the 
house, and our subject then told his sister to 
get up and get a knife and cut the rope which 
bound his hands, which she did. He then se- 
cured a pitchfork (which he generally kept in 
the house as a weapon of defense), and stationed 
himself at the door. Soon he heard footsteps 
on the porch, approaching the door, and think- 
ing they were returning to renew the attack, 
just as a man opened the door, Mr. Barricklow 



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made a drive at him with the fork, and he says 

he struck him in the breast, as the man threw 

up his hands and cried out "Oh!" This was 

the last seen or heard of him, but Mr. Barrick- 

low says that two of them were known to him 

and his sister. 

Our subject, since his sister's death, which 

occurred about 1888, has resided alone nearly 

all of the time, and has been engaged in look- 
er o 

ing after his business. Politically, in earlier 
life, up to 1860, he voted with the Democrats, 
but being a strong Abolitionist, he joined the 
the ranks of the Republican party in that year. 



d | AMES ENDSLEY. At the beginning of 
the present century the Endsley family 
' came to Harrison County. James Endsley, 
the father of our subject, was a native of 
Lancaster County, Penn. , where his early youth 
was spent, and on the death of his father he as- 
sumed the duties laid down by him, and with 
great success. He and his mother removed 
from Pennsylvania and settled in Archer Town- 
ship, where they purchased 115 acres of wild 
land, having only a few places here and there 
cleared. A small log cabin stood on the place, 
and into this they moved. Before leaving 
Pennsylvania Mr. Endsley was married to 
Elizabeth Walker, a resident of Columbiana 
County, Penn., and their family cousisted of 
three sons and one daughter, all of whom are 
now deceased except James, who resides in 
Archer Township, this county. Mr. Endsley 
was an Old-line Democrat, and one of the lead- 
ing politicians of his section. He and his wife 
were members of the Presbyterian Church, and, 
irreproachable in his character, he was esteemed 
and honored by all. He died in 1869, his 
faithful wife having preceded him to the grave 
in 1865. They now sleep together in the 
Ridge Cemetery. 

James Endsley, the subject proper of these 
lines, was born September 7, 1817, in Archer 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he has 
since remained, and now (1890), at the age of 



seventy-two, still cultivates his farm. He has 
never married, but lived with his parents dur- 
ing their lifetime, striving to make their later 
years as pleasant to them as his thoughts 
could suggest. Since their death he has been 
living with a family in his residence, meantime 
carrying on the farm. He has 160 acres of 
land under excellent cultivation, with about 
twenty acres of woodland and forty with un- 
derlying coal. He also owns two and three- 
fourths sections of land in the southeastern 
part of Missouri. To a kind disposition he 
adds a benevolent heart, and is among those 
whose memory will long live after death. 



J/OHN M. STRINGER. The Stringer fam- 
ily was founded in this country (contem- 
I poraneously with the foundation of Phila- 
delphia) by one of the companions of Will- 
iam Penn. John, the grandfather of our sub- 
ject, was the grandson of the one mentioned 
above, and was born in 1776, in Chester County, 
Penn., and in the year 1800 with his family re- 
moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he pur- 
chased a large tract of land. In 181 1 he removed 
to a large farm near York, also in the State of 
Ohio, where he remained until his death, which 
occurred July 10, 1845, his remains being laid in 
Beech Spring Cemetery; his wife survived him 
a few years, passing away May 12, 1850, and 
was buried by his side. His family consisted 
of the following named children: William, 
James, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary and Re- 
becca. William, the father of our subject, was 
born August 19, 1803, in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
where his early life was spent, being reared in 
the duties and cares of the farm. On March 
19, 1829, he was united in marriage with Jane, 
a daughter of Richard Johnston, a resident of 
Harrison County, and after marriage they set- 
tled on a farm where they remained for many 
years, and where Mrs. Stringer passed away 
June 5, 1838, the mother of the following named 
children: Jane, John M., Johnston, Ann E. and 
William. In 1S39 Mr. Stringer was married to 



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Isabella, a daughter of Henry Ferguson, and 
the result of this union was Henry, Thomas J., 
Joseph E., Frederick M. , Sarah and Maria. On 
August 16, 1859, Mr. Stringer departed this 
life, and was buried in Beech Spring Cemetery; 
his wife survived him until October 15, 18S8, 
and was buried at Short Creek. 

John M. Stringer was born March 4, 1832, 
in Jefferson County, Ohio. His early life was 
spent in the pursuit of an education at the schools 
which his neighborhood afforded, and his mind 
was early inculcated with those principles of 
economy and industry which did so much toward 
the eminent success which he achieved. On 
September 5, 1861, he was united in marriage 
with Susanna Buchanan, who was born October 
9, 1841, a daughter of Joseph Buchanan, one 
of the earliest settlers in Harrison County. 
After his marriage Mr. Stringer commenced 
farming, a calling which he continued until his 
death. He lived in various places both in Jef- 
ferson and Harrison Counties, buying and sell- 
ing greatly to his financial advantage. He was 
among the most prosperous of his compeers, and 
every thing under his guidance seemed to turn 
to financial profit. His life was full of hard 
work. He was what may be called a self-made 
man, having by his own efforts amassed a large 
and handsome property. On May 4, 1889, he 
was summoned to his reward, and his remains 
now rest in Beech Spring Cemetery. His widow 
lives with her family in Green Township. Their 
family consists of the following named children : 
AVilliam J., of Jefferson County, Ohio, born Sep- 
tember 17, 1863; James L., born January 27, 
1865; John O, born August 5, 1867; Mary F., 
born January 12, 1870, married to Wesley Ram- 
sey, May 27, 1890; Johnston B. , born Septem- 
ber 16, 1872; Charles P., born April 15, 1874; 
LenaM. , born December 23, 1876; Ira M. , born 
October 5, 1879, and Orum H. , born October 8, 
1882. The Stringer family have been, since the 
settlement of the eastern part of Ohio, promi- 
nently identified with all movements of prog- 
ress, and have always been among the repre- 
sentative class of their section. The family 



have from its coming to America been members 
of the Presbyterian Church, and have always 
taken a deep interest in religious matters, ever 
giving freely to support such work. In politics 
they have been members of the Federal, Whig 
and Republican parties. They were among the 
leaders, and always regarded as men of keen 
political foresight. They have possessed the es- 
teem and respect of all, and their name was a 
synonym of truth, honesty and integrity. Mr. 
John M. Stringer's life was no exception to that 
of his family. Taught from his earliest youth 
the religious belief of his father, both by pre- 
cept and example, he through his whole career 
showed the impression they made on him. 
Combining a keen business sagacity with an ex- 
cellent judgment, honesty and perseverance, he 
at his death had won the respect of all and was 
universally lamented. 



EiNOCH C. COPELAND was born July 7, 
1845, in Franklin Township, Harrison 
j Co., Ohio. Here he spent his youth and 
received his education, and here he still 
has his residence. On January 31, 1808, he 
was united in marriage with Elizabeth Lukens, 
a daughter of Nathaniel Lukens, who was born 
in Maryland, and came to Ohio with his father, 
Eli. Nathaniel Lukens spent his youth in 
Franklin Township, where in his early manhood 
he married Louisa K., daughter of Zadoc Bliss. 
Their children were as follows: Alexander; 
Elizabeth, Mrs. Enoch Copeland; George, de- 
ceased; James, deceased; Alexander, in Kansas; 
Elmira, Mrs. Thomas Johnson; Frances M. , in 
Kansas; Julia A. .deceased. In 1869 Mr. Lukens 
went to Kingman County, Kas., where he still 
resides. After their marriage Mr. Copeland set- 
tled on his present farm, once owned by his 
grandfather, Thomas Copeland. Their family 
are Mary L. and Jennie N. In politics Mr. 
Copeland is a Democrat, and has always been a 
warm supporter of that party. He and family 
have always been among the prominent and lead- 
ing members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 



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at Franklin. His farm consists of 108 acres, sit- 
uated about two miles from Franklin, where he 
engages in general farming and stock-raising. 
Mr. Copeland has been long and favorably known 
in his section, and has, by his life, justly won 
the respect and esteem of all. 



T OHN HOLLAND. One mile north of the 
l. I town of Cadiz, Harrison County, resides 
%J) the subject of this brief memoir. Death 
in its resistless ravages has spared this 
pioneer, who now, with hair tinged with the 
frosts of seventy-five winters, is calmly awaiting 
the final call, which at the longest can be but a 
few years distant. He was born in Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, in September, 1814. 
His ancestors were English people, the exact date 
of whose coming to America is not recorded, but 
which must have been quite early in the eight- 
eenth century, since some three or four genera- 
tions of them have been born in America. Ga- 
briel Holland, St., was born in Maryland, where 
he was reared, and married to Miss Sarah Har- 
riman, who bore him eight children. Gabriel, 
with his wife and family, came to Harrison 
County, which was at that time just opened for 
settlement, and made a home in Archer Town- 
ship, where both he and his faithful wife died, 
and now lie buried. Of their children, one they 
named Gabriel, Jr. , who remained at the old home 
place, receiving the poor advantages and endur- 
ing the hardships of the pioneer times, and dur- 
ing his life many broad acres of Harrison 
County did he clear of its primal forest. He 
chose, as a consort, Miss Susannah, daughter of 
Michael and Elizabeth Conaway, of Archer 
Township, Harrison County, her parents having 
been, also, among the early comers of the 
county. For some time after their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Holland remained at the old Hol- 
land Farm, and then removed to No. 16, where 
our subject was born. They were happily mar- 
ried, and shared life's joys and sorrows until 
1861, when, at the age of seventy-seven years, 
the wife passed to the grave. She had borne 



eight children, by name as follows: John, re- 
siding in Cadiz Township, Harrison County; 
Sarah, deceased; Elizabeth, wife of A. Pick- 
ens, in Iowa; Mary Jane, deceased; Ellen, de- 
ceased; Nancy, wife of Martin Mahollum, of 
Archer Township, Harrison County; Mrs. Har- 
riet Lewis, a widow, living in Archer Town- 
ship, Harrison County, and Samuel, also in 
Archer Township. In 1871 the father followed 
the mother to the grave, at the ripe age of 
eighty-two years. Throughout his entire life, 
save a short time spent in tending the old-time 
mill, he was a farmer. Politically he was a 
Democrat, and for years was supervisor of his 
township. 

John Holland, our subject, was reared on 
the farm, the general duties of which occupied 
his life, and the only education, save that of ex- 
perience, was gotten at the old log school-house, 
a description of which may be found in almost 
every account of the pioneer days. We know 
of its slab benches, puncheon floor and greased 
paper windows. No sooner was he large enough 
than he was enrolled in the ranks of the "bread 
winners," and had to thus contribute to the 
support of the family. In 1840 he was married 
to Miss Esther West, daughter of Jonathan and 
Mary (Comfort) West, and who was born on the 
farm where our subject now lives. After their 
marriage, until 1866, they made their home in 
Archer Township, Harrison County, on a piece 
of land which they had purchased, and then, 
selling it, they removed to their present home 
in Cadiz Township. Their family consisted of 
eight children: Sarah Jane, now Mrs. J. Well- 
ing, of Guernsey County, Ohio; Samuel, de- 
ceased; Elizabeth, Mrs. D. B. Harrison, of Iowa; 
Martha, at home, unmarried; Susie (Mrs. C. 
McCune), who died February 22, 1889, aged 
thirty-five years: Gabriel, who was a railroad 
conductor, but died in 1889, leaving a widow 
and one child; Jonathan, in Cadiz, Harrison 
County, and Amanda, at home, unmarried. On 
April 13, 1889, the faithful wife and mother 
passed from earth, aged sixty-nine years, and 
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tin- can' of the home. Mr. Holland believes in 
persona] liberty of action, speech and thought, 
as laid down in the Constitution of the United 
States, and takes a firm stand in opposition to 
all secret societies, believing that all things 
should be transacted openly and without fear. 
Politically he is a Democrat. 



JOHN N. HANNA. The first of this fam- 
ily to come to Ohio was William Hanna, 
a native of Pennsylvania, who arrived here 
in 1805, and settled in Green Township, 
Harrison County. In early life he married, 
and his family numbered seven children, as fol- 
lows: Robert, John, Esther, Emma, James, 
Martha and Margaret. Mr. Hanna was, in poli- 
tics, an Old -line Whig, and in religion one of 
the earliest members of the Beech Spring Pres- 
byterian Church. At the age of fifty-six he 
departed this life, and was laid to rest in the 
cemetery at Beech Spring. He was a man of 
more than ordinary intelligence, and in his life- 
time had much influence in his community. 

James Hanna, son of the above, spent his 
early life on the farm of his father, learning, at 
the same time, carpentering, a trade the latter 
followed from early youth. In 1835 James 
Hanna married Cynthia, daughter of William 
Shannon, of Jefferson County, Ohio. He pur- 
chased a farm in German Township, Harrison 
County, on which he lived until 1S58, when he 
removed to Monroe County, Ind., where his 
death occurred October 12, 1886. His children 
were named William, Isaac, James, Robert Por- 
ter, John N., Samuel T., Moses K. , Delmar H, 
James S. , Mary and Jennie. Mr. Hanna was 
an enthusiastic Republican, and a sympathetic 
friend to the slave. He served his township as 
trustee for several terms with much success, and 
from his early youth was a member of the Beech 
Spring Church. 

John N. Hanna, the subject of these lines, 
was brought up on the home farm, and received 
his educational training at the district schools, 
until the age of sixteen, when he enlisted in the 



One Hundred and Seventeenth Ind. V. I., for six 
months, and at the expiration of his time he re- 
enlisted, this time in Company F, Eighty-sec- 
ond Ind. V. I., in which he had three brothers 
and one brother-in-law. His first active service 
was at the siege of Knoxville, and after his re- 
enlistment he was sent to join his regiment at 
Ringgold, Ga. , where he was attached to the 
Fourteenth Army Corps, Gen. Sherman, and 
participated in all the engagements of that 
army, from the time of his second enlistment 
to the close of the war, among which may be 
mentioned the siege of Atlanta, battles of Re- 
saca, Altoona, Burnt Hickory, Big Shanty, 
Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and 
Jonesboro. He was in the memorable "march 
to the sea," and was present at the grand 
review at Washington, being finally mustered 
out in August, 1865, when he returned home. 
On December 30, 1872, he was married to Nancy 
J., daughter of Jacob Copeland, of Hopedale, 
Harrison County, and after this event they lived 
in Indiana until 1875, when they came to Hope- 
dale, and have here since resided. The record 
of their children is as follows: Harry E. , born 
September 14, 1873, died November 16, 1875; 
Georgia F., born October 28, 1876, died April 
27, 1883; Sarah L., born April 24, 1879; Clem- 
ma E., born October 16, 18S2, and James H., 
born September 16, 1884. After leaving the 
army, Mr. Henna learned the carpenter's trade, 
which he has since successfully followed in con- 
nection with farming. His three brothers, who 
are mentioned as having belonged to the Eighty- 
second Ind. V. I., were William, who served 
until the close of the struggle, James, and Rob- 
ert, who served until just prior to the battle of 
Atlanta, when he was seized with dysentery, 
dying after a few days' illness. His body was 
laid to rest at the foot of Kenesaw Mountain. 
Mr. Hanna's brother-in-law, John C. Aliens- 
worth, was also a member of Company F, 
Eighty second Ind. Y. I., and served in the 
capacity of brigade quartermaster, with rank as 
lieutenant. He is now a surgeon in the National 
Surgical Institute at Atlanta, Georgia. 



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EORGE McAFEE. Among the residents 
of Archer Township none were more 
highly esteemed and honored than George 
McAfee, who was born January 27, 1813, 
in Westmoreland County, Penn. His father, 
James McAfee, was born in 1786 in the same 
State. The father of James came from Ireland 
in early life and settled in Pennsylvania. The 
father of our subject, at the age of twenty, left 
home and learned the carpenter's trade, which he 
followed for several years. In 1808 he was mar- 
ried to Mary Wible, a daughter of George Wible, 
who was a resident of Pennsylvania, and in 
1828 Mr. and Mrs. McAfee moved to Harrison 
County, Ohio, settling in North Township, where 
they purchased a large farm. He was for some 
time engaged in general mercantile business in 
Hanover, in which he was successful in an emi- 
nent degree. His family consisted of the fol- 
lowing named children: Sarah, Mary, George, 
James, John, Matilda, Hannah and Rachel. In 
politics Mr. McAfee was a Whig, always sup- 
porting tbat party and the principles it repre- 
sented, and he and his wife were leading mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 
1877, at the age of eighty-five years, his wife 
died, and he soon afterward, at the age of ninety- 
three, followed her, and was buried by her side 
in the cemetery at Rumley. 

George McAfee remained at home until he 
was of age, working on the farm and passing 
his early youth much the same as do the ordi- 
nary farm lads. His education was confined to 
what could be acquired at the common schools, 
but he there laid the foundation of that knowl- 
edge which proved so useful to him through 
life. In June, 1835, he was married to Jane 
Hixon, daughter of Abner Hixon, a resident of 
Hanover, and a prominent merchant and sur- 
veyor. In 1878 he purchased a large tract of 
land in Archer Township, and after buying and 
selling many times finally settled on the place 
where his widow now lives. His children were 
as follows: James, John, Abner, William (died 
in infancy), Sarah Jane, Mary Ann, Florence 
and Rosa. In politics, like his father Mr. Mc- 



Afee was a Whig, but on the organization of the 
Republican party immediately joined its ranks. 
He was not an active politician except in taking 
a lively interest in all campaigns. He and his 
wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and were never found wanting where 
mercy or duty called, but always responded with 
cheerfulness and heartiness. Mr. McAfee was 
one of the solid financial and respected farmers 
in his section. On November 20, 1889, he was 
suddenly stricken with apoplexy, and survived 
only a short time. He was laid to rest amidst 
the universal sorrow of all his friends. 




I'JLLIAM COPELAND, one of the self- 
made farmers of Franklin Township, 
Harrison Co., Ohio, was born here, 
September 4, 1837. His father, 
Thomas Copeland, was born in Jefferson Coun- 
ty, Ohio, and while quite young came to Har- 
rison County. He was married in Harrison 
County to Nancy A., daughter of William Dick, 
an old resident of the county, and the children 
born to this union were Jane, Mrs. John Hilton; 
Isabelle, Mrs. Nathaniel Lukens; John; Mary, 
deceased; and William. Mr. Copeland was a 
Democrat in politics, and was among the lead- 
ers of the party; he and family were members 
of the Presbyterian Church. He died July 4, 
1877, his widow April 1, 1880, and both are 
buried in Feed Springs Cemetery. 

The early life of William Copeland was spent 
on the home place, where he grew to manhood. 
In 1803 he was married to Mary, daughter of 
George Cruin, of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, and this marriage has been blessed with 
the following named children: George W., Rena, 
Thomas Beatty, Ida, Eva and Harvey. In pol- 
itics Mr. Copeland has always supported the 
Democratic ticket, and has taken quite an inter- 
est in the welfare of the party. He and family 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Franklin, and are among its stanch support- 
ers. Mr. Copeland is a self-made man, and has, 
by his own industry, succeeded in making a 



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743 



handsome competence. Commencing at the 
bottom he has gradually risen, and is now num- 
bered among the solid men of his section. On 
July 10, 1885, his son, George W., was married 
to Addie Marsh, who has borne him two children: 
Stella and Orilla. The family justly enjoy the 
confidence of the entire community. 




\ILLIAM EAMSEY, one of the old 
honored residents of Harrison County, 
lfj' and one of its most prosperous retired 
agriculturists, is a native of Washing- 
ton County, Penn., born May 1, 1817. His 
grandfather, James Ramsey, was born in Ire- 
land about the year 1744, and when about 
twelve years of age he came to America, settling 
in York County, Penn., where he carried on 
farming. There he married, and there he and 
his wife died, he in 1837 at the age of ninety- 
three years. He served through the Revolu- 
tionary War, and passed the memorable winter 
at Valley Forge with Washington. The mater- 
nal grandparents of William also came from 
Ireland, and were married in Pennsylvania. 

William Ramsey, the father of the subject of 
this sketch, also a native of Pennsylvania, was 
about twelve years of age when his father 
crossed the mountains, with his family, into 
Washington County, same State. He was 
brought up to farm life, and followed agricult- 
ural pursuits all his days. He was married to 
Miss Mary, daughter of Robert Anderson, of 
Washington County, Penn., and they remained 
on the farm in Washington County until 1837, 
in which year they moved to Nottingham Town- 
ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, where they located on 
a farm and made their home until the death of 
Mr. Ramsey which occurred when he was aged 
sixty-six years. He had been a volunteer in the 
War of 1812, serving but three weeks, however. 
His widow survived him fifteen years, dying in 
North Township, same county, at the age of 
seventy-eight years. Both were members of the 
Union Church. They were the parents of nine 
children, viz. : James, who died when a young 



man; Robert, who died in Iowa in ISS'.t; Will- 
iam; Thomas, in Coshocton County, Ohio; John, 
in Nottingham Township, Harrison County; 
Samuel, deceased; Margaret, wife of B. S. Ford; 
Mary, Mrs. John Mehanna, and Jane, latter 
deceased. 

William Ramsey, whose name appears at 
the opening of this sketch, was reared to 
practical farm life, and had but limited school 
advantages. In 1S37 he came to Harrison 
County, and in February, 1840, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Mary, daughter of John and Re- 
becca (Dickens) Hines, and a native of Harri- 
son County. Her parents were married about 
the year 1807, "east of the mountains," after- 
ward coming to Harrison County, when it was 
part of Jefferson, and her father here secured 
the lot on which the Harrison National Bank 
now stands; however, he soon after disposed 
of it, and turned his attention to farming. 
They had fourteen children born to them, five 
of whom are now living: Jeremiah and Da- 
vid, in Tippecanoe, Harrison County; James, 
in Kansas; Abram, in Nottingham Township, 
Harrison County, and Mary, Mrs. William Ram- 
sey. The mother died in 1859, and the father 
in 1871, at the age of ninety-three years. 

After their marriage our subject and wife 
located for a time in Archer Township, and 
then moved to Nottingham Township, to the 
farm he still owns, on which they put up all 
the buildings. Renting this property, they 
came, in 1874, to Cadiz, here to live in peace- 
ful retirement for the rest of their days. 
Eight, children came to bless their home, a brief 
record of whom is as follows: John was killed 
at Spottsylvania Courthouse, while engaged 
with the Confederates, at the age of twenty- 
one; James, William Robert, F. Marion and 
Anderson Deacons are farmers and stock rais- 
ers in Texas (they have twenty seven miles of 
fence — 20, 000 acres being fenced, besides 20, 000 
acres outside not fenced: two of these sons are 
civil engineers); Jennie is married to David 
Ogilvee, of Cadiz Township; Philene lives at 
home; Mary died when aged two years. In 



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1880 Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey spent the. winter 
in Texas with their sons, of whom only one is 
married. Politically, Mr. Ramsey is a Repub- 
lican; for six years he served as justice of the 
peace in Nottingham Township, and was elected 
for a third term, but failed to qualify. He and 
his wife are members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Cadiz. Their home on Lincoln 
Avenue is shared by their daughter, Philene, who, 
with true filial devotion, has remained with her 
parents to comfort their declining years. 



J(OHN CAMPBELL, the subject of this 
sketch, was born February 26, 1822, near 
/ the farm on which he resides in Green 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. His 
father, John Campbell, was a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, and the father of John Campbell, Sr.,was 
a native of Scotland, who, in the latter part of 
the eighteenth century, emigrated to America. 
They were members of the Campbell family so 
prominent in Scotland's history. Soon after his 
arrival in this country he settled in Pennsyl- 
vania, where he reared his family. The youth 
of John Campbell, father of our subject, was 
spent at the home of his parents, with whom he 
remained till their death. He soon after this 
event married Margaret Fogle, and then re- 
moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he re- 
mained about four years, coming then to Green 
Township, Harrison County. Their family were 
George, Nathaniel, Andrew, Elizabeth. Margaret, 
Abraham, Frederick, John, Hester, Robert, Hen- 
ry and John. In politics a stanch Democrat, 
Mr. Campbell always voted and worked accord- 
ing to his own convictions. He served his party 
and township in many of its minor offices, and 
discharged the various duties with marked suc- 
cess. From his youth he was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and during his 
residence in Green Township was closely identi- 
fied with the Bethel Church. In 1844 Mrs. 
Campbell died and was laid to rest in Bethel 
Cemetery. Mr. Campbell was some years later 
married to a lady in Tuscarawas County, where 



they remained until he returned to the home of 
his son, John, with whom his last days were 
spent, and who used every endeavor to make 
his closing moments pleasant and peaceful. At 
his death he was buried in Bethel Cemetery. 

Our subject's early life was spent in attend- 
ing to the duties of the farm, where he remained 
until he was eighteen years of age. In early 
life he chose, as his helpmeet, Malinda Dennis, 
a daughter of Jacob Dennis, a resident of Green 
Township, Harrison County, and soon after mar- 
riage the young couple settled on a farm in the 
neighborhood of where they now live, and then 
commenced practicing those principles of econ- 
omy and industry which have since character- 
ized them. Their present welfare is entirely 
due to their own efforts, having commenced life 
with nothing save willing hands and stout hearts. 
Their children were William; Rebecca, Mrs. 
William Ford; Jennie, Mrs. James Rutledge; 
Margaret, Mrs. Merchant Ault; John; Laura, 
Mrs. William Abraham; Edward; Josiah P. 
Scott; an infant that died unnamed; James and 
Nellie. In politics Mr. Campbell has always, 
till lately, supported the Democratic ticket, but 
is now a strong Prohibitionist. In his sixteenth 
year he united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and has ever since been one of its most 
constant attendants and strongest supporters. 
He has been highly honored by the congregation 
of his church, having held many positions of 
honor and trust in the society. The family are 
among the earliest settlers in their section, and 
among the most highly respected in the township. 



[OHN H. 

tlement 



HTJRFORD. In the early set- 
and development of Harrison 



\^J) County, Ohio, this gentleman has occupied 
a prominent place. The family are of En- 
glish ancestry, and came to America only a short 
time prior to the Revolution, in which the fam- 
ily played an important part. On their arrival 
they settled in Virginia, where they remained 
for many generations, engaged principally in 
agriculture. The father, John Hurford, spent 



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bis youth in the pursuit of those pleasures which 
are incident to every farm boy, and while quite 
young was married to Rachel Hayes, a resident 
of Virginia. Here they resided for some time 
and reared the following family: Even, Samuel, 
John H., Sarah, Mary and Rachel. In the 
early part of the present century, in company 
with his family, John Hurford came to Ohio 
and settled in Jefferson County, where he re- 
mained until his death, which occurred in 1840. 
He was buried in West Grove Cemetery beside 
his wife, who had preceded him to the grave 
many years. 

John H. Hurford came with his parents, 
while quite young, to Ohio, grew to manhood on 
the farm, sharing in its duties and pleasures. 
Here he remained until he was married to 
Asenath Hurford, a daughter of Joseph Hur- 
ford. He then removed to Green Township, 
where he remained until his death. His re- 
mains now rest in West Grove Cemetery by the 
side of his parents and children. His family 
were Asenath, deceased; Amy, Mrs. Col. Welch, 
in Green Township; Hayes", in Colorado; Matilda, 
Mrs. William P. Kyle; Joseph, in Green Town- 
ship; Algernon, deceased. In his political 
views he was a Whig, and afterward a Repub- 
lican. He and his family were members of the 
Society of Friends at West Grove, in full faith 
of whose principles he died. His widow sur- 
vived until January 30, 1886, when she was 
called away, and her remains were placed beside 
those of her husband. 

On October 24, 1S6G, Matilda Hurford, 
daughter of John H. Hurford, was married to 
William P. Kyle, and after their marriage they 
removed to a farm in Green Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, where they remained five years. 
They then removed to a farm near Unionville, 
where they remained a short time only, and then 
came to where they now reside. The issue of 
their union are Ulysses Grant, born AuguM 1 . 
1871; Asenath Jeanette, born January 18, 1873; 
Thomas Hayes, born December 7, 1870; Will- 
iam, born July 1, 1880; John A., born Novem 
ber 30, 1882, and Algernon, born August 12, 



1884 They at present reside on a well-im- 
proved farm, pleasantly situated about two 
miles from Unionville, and kept in a good state 
of cultivation. 




< MOS WEST. The West family, which 
l\ has been largely instrumental in the de- 
|^ velopment of the northwestern portion of 
Franklin Township, Harrison County, 
are of Irish descent, and came from Pennsyl- 
vania to Ohio in 1811. In his early manhood 
Jonathan West, the father of the present Frank- 
lin Township family, was married to Comfort 
Arnold, a daughter of Benjamin Arnold, of 
Pennsylvania. She bore him the following 
family: Amos, Rezin, Samuel, Jonathan, Mary, 
Esther, Actia, James, Elizabeth, Comfort and 
Sarah. After his arrival in Harrison County 
Jonathan West pursued his calling of gunsfnith, 
in connection with farming, having purchased a 
tract of land adjoining the present city of Cadiz, 
which farm he and his family largely cleared. 

The early life of Amos West was spent in 
Cadiz Township, in clearing and cultivating his 
father's farm. In 1832 he was united in mar- 
riage to Margaret Baker, daughter of Otho 
Baker, of Archer Township. Harrison Co. , Ohio, 
and the children born to this marriage were as 
follows: Mary (deceased), Samuel, Wilson S., 
Sarah (deceased), and Naomi (Mrs. John Ren- 
shaw). In politics Mr. West has been a life- 
long Democrat, casting his first vote for Jack- 
son, and ever since has taken an active part in 
his party's success. Soon after his marriage 
he entered a farm on which he resided for some 
time, and finally purchased his present resi- 
dence, where he has ever since remained. He 
is a man of strong constitution, and has endured 
a vast amount of hard work; and now, at the 
advanced age of seventy-nine years, he is enjoy- 
ing remarkably good health. His life has been a 
temperate one, and his present condition, phys- 
ically, is due to his good habits. Known far 
and wide, he is respected and esteemed, and 
is passing down life's pathway in the full 



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consciousness of a life well spent and of work 
well done. 

Wilson S. West was born August 7, 1842, 
in Franklin Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
where his early life was spent, and where he has 
ever been identified with the interests of the 
county. In 1808 he was married to Susannah 
Eenshaw, who has borne him the following 
named children: Amos, John, Alice, Orpha, 
Martha, Eobert, Bertie, Mary, Elsie, and Mar- 
garet. Like the family generally, Mr. West is 
a Democrat, and takes an active part in politics. 




L JI| RS. RUTH J. KENT, a wealthy widow 
\/| lady of Nottingham Township, Harri- 
1 son County, was born November 11, 
•// 1818, in Washington County, Penn., 

and is a daughter of William anil Mary (Crow) 
Robison, natives of the same county. Her 
father having died, Ruth J., when a young 
child, was brought to Harrison County, Ohio, 
by her mother. Here, August 30, 183."), she 
was married to John H. Kent, who was born in 
Harrison County, Ohio, March 16, 1812, and to 
this union was born one child, William R. . who 
died in infancy. After the marriage ceremony 
had been performed, and the officiating clergy- 
man had been paid his fee, Mr. Kent found 
himself the possessor of three dollars and fifty 
cents, with which capital he began the battle of 
life. In 1849, however, he was able to purchase 
eighty acres of land in Nottingham Township, 
on which Mrs. Kent now resides, and at his 
death, which occurred November 29, 1885, he 
owned 347 acres in the township, his total pos- 
sesions being valued at forty-live thousand dol- 
lars. 

In politics Mr. Kent was a Republican, and 
for many years he held the office of school 
director. He was an active nfember of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his widow 
is a faithful adherent. After the loss of their 
only child, Mr. and Mrs. Kent adopted and 
reared to womanhood Minnie McFadden, who 
was married May 8, 1887, to Ozias Cox. 



EZIN WEST was born April 19, 1812, 
in Cadiz Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
Yv where he spent his youth and where 
he grew to manhood. On December 10, 
1835, he was united in marriage with Nancy 
Arthurs, daughter of Gain Arthurs, of Harrison 
County. Mr. Arthurs was a native of Ireland, 
but was brought to America at an early age. He 
came to Ohio soon after his marriage with Rachel 
Hall, of Maryland, who bore him the following 
named children: Robert, William, James, Eliza, 
Mary J. , Amelia, Nancy, Sarah and Louisa. Mr. 
Arthurs was Democratic in politics, and in re- 
ligion held to the tenets of the Seceder Church, 
of which he was a consistent member. He was 
a mason by trade, which he followed till his 
death, which occurred February 1, 1876; his 
wife died in 1845. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. West com- 
menced their struggle for a livelihood on the 
place where they have since resided. The farm 
was then in its wild state, and the primitive log 
cabin was their home for many years, while they 
toiled to clear the farm and render it productive. 
What privations and hardships they endured, 
the present generation know but little of. 
Gradually, however, the tree-clad hills gave way 
to waving fields of grain, and the sterile slopes 
to the pastures where roam the peaceful flocks 
and herds, instead of the wild beasts of prey. 
From the original farm of eighty acres, which 
was paid for by the results of their hard work, 
their possessions grew to 400 acres, thus show- 
ing what industry and perseverance will ac- 
complish. A man of strong convictions and 
unflinching adherence to what he considered 
right, mo*'ed by his own judgment and convic- 
tions, Mr. West was of great influence among 
his neighbors and acquaintances. Honest as 
well as enterprising, he was ever foremost in 
the progressive movements of his county and 
township, and was always identified with the 
more intelligent class. His children are named 
Jonathan, Comfort, Rachel, Amos, Japatheth, 
Sarah E., William G., James M. and Esther. 
Of these Japatheth West married Lucinda 




JOHN H. KENT 



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Yant, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, who died 
September 21, 1883, leaving four children: 
James, John, Jesse and William; for his second 
wife he married Maitha J. linker, who has borne 
him two children. Amos AY est married Melissa 
Copeland, and he has the following family: Roy, 
Nettie, Nancy. Mahala, Grover Charles and 
Frank. William G. West was married April 
15, 1881, to Eebecca Wright, daughter of Syl- 
vanus Wright. He settled on the home place 
where he has since resided. His children are 
named Ellazina, Charles and Sadie. James M. 
West was married to Elizabeth Rinehart, of 
Franklin Township, Harrison County, and has 
reared the following family: James, Edward, 
Jennie and Clyde. The family have been and 
are enthusiastic Democrats, and have always 
been active in the promulgation and advance- 
ment of Democratic principles. As a family 
they are well known and highly esteemed, being 
recognized as among the best of the township. 



QEORGE W. CRAMBLET, the senior 
member of the firm of Cramblet & Leight- 
ner, millers at Franklin, Harrison Co., 
,i Ohio, was born in this village October 24, 
18 I s . and is a son of Jacob and Sarah (McClin- 
tock) Cramblet, of German extraction, and early 
settlers of Harrison County. In the log cabin 
erected by the pioneer parents, George W. was 
the second born in a family of eight children, 
and, in his homespun clothing passed his 
younger years in assisting his father in the cul- 
tivation of the home farm. His education was 
acquired at the district school, but this was sup- 
plemented by a diligent study in private. In 
December, 1868, he married Harriet West, a 
native of Harrison County, Ohio, and to this 
union have been born five children, named as 
follows: Jessie M. , Orlando S., Mary M. , Cora 
J. and Jacob. After farming in Harrison 
County, Ohio, until 1M74, Mr. Cramblet went to 
Kansas, where he passed rive years in Sumner 
County in farming and stock-raising. Return- 
ing to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1880, he en- 



gaged in farming in the vicinity of Tippecanoe, 
Washington Township, until the spring of 1884, 
when he entered into his present business in 
the village of Franklin. The mill is one of the 
best in the county, and contains machinery of 
the latest and most approved construction, con- 
sequently the product is of the best quality. 
Mr. and Mrs. Cramblet are members of the 
Disciples Church, and the family hold the re- 
spect of all their fellow-townspeople. In politics 
he is a Republican, and is quite active in his 
support of the party. 



Fli SBURYBIRNEY, who is one of the oldest 
/ ; |\ and best known farmers in Green Town- 
lr~}\ ship, Harrison County, is a son of Hugh 
■f/ and Elizabeth (Brown) Birney, natives 

of Ireland. Hugh Birney was a son of John, 
and in 1800 he married a Miss Brown; in 1S15 he 
came to Chester County, Penn. , in search of a 
home and liberty, but here he remained only 
four years, when, hearing of the advantages to 
be found in Ohio for a poor man, he came to 
Har son County and purchased 121- acres of 
land, afterward buying 160 acres additional. The 
land was wild, and he was obliged to put forth 
every effort to keep the "wolf from the door." 
He reared a family of nine children, viz. : Will- 
iam, who lives in Rumley Township, Harrison 
County, a farmer; Wesley, deceased; Rebecca, 
deceased; Martha, wife of Samuel Hitchcock, a 
farmer in Indiana; Jane, wife of George Leese, 
in Coshocton, Ohio; James in Nebraska; Eliza- 
beth, wife of Jacob Hitchcock, in Iowa; Samuel, 
in Colorado, and Asbury. Hugh Birney died in 
September, 1862. 

Asbury Birney was born March IT), 1815, 
where he now lives. He received his education 
in his native township in a log school-house, and 
as school advantages were comparatively meager 
in tho>e days, his early education was but 
limited; yet, being a man who read a good deal, 
lie. in that way, acquired a good business edu- 
cation. On April 23, 1840, he married Miss 
Ellen McCollough, who was born May 29, 1821, 



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a daughter of Hugh and Isabella (Cunningham) 
McCollough, natives of Ireland, who came to 
Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1810. Our subject 
and wife were the parents of the following 
named children: Isabella, who died May 22, 
1863; Oliver, a farmer in German Township; 
Almond, a farmer and dealer in stock, in La- 
bette County, Kas. ; Hugh W., who lives near 
his father, on the old homestead ; Elizabeth, wife 
of Joseph McCollough, a farmer iu Archer 
Township, Harrison County; Rebecca J., wife 
of Henry K. Ford, in Salem Township, Jeffer- 
son Co., Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Asbury Birney 
have been active members in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church since 1840. In 1875 he built 
one of the finest houses in Harrison County. 

H. W. Birney was born March 17, 1849, re 
ceived a practical business education in Green 
Township, and has passed his life on the old 
farm, with the exception of three years spent in 
lumbering. On June 15, 1883, he married Miss 
Estella Montgomery, and she dying in 1884, he 
married, February 9, 1886, Miss Hadassah, 
Jackman, who was born in Washington County, 
Penn., a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth 
(Gaddiz) Jackman, natives of Ireland. Mr. and 
Mrs. Birney are parents of one child, named 
Harry J. In 1884 Mr. Birney bought part of 
the old homestead, where he has built a fine 
house. His principal business is raising stock, 
in which he is very successful. He has acted as 
recording steward and trustee in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church for a number of years. 



J | AMES H. STONE, M. D., the oldest 
practicing physician at Franklin, Harri- 
) son County, Ohio, was born in Fredonia, 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y., February 13, 
1831. He is of old Puritan stock, and a de- 
scendant oE Thomas Stone, a signer of the 
Declaration of Independence, and also a hero of 
the Revolutionary War. Luther Stone, the 
father of James H, was born on the old battle- 
ground of Bennington, Vt., grew to manhood 
iu his native State, and there married Barbara 



Matteson, who was born in Scotland, and wbeu 
young came to America with her father and three 
brothers. Of these brothers one subsequently 
became the governor of the State of Illinois, an- 
other became circuit judge at Fredonia, and a 
third, demonstrator of anatomy in Jefferson 
Medical College of Philadelphia. Luther Stone 
and his wife removed from Vermont to New 
York State, where he was engaged in farming 
until his death, he dying in 1840, just after he 
had cast his vote for William Henry Harrison, 
as President of the United States. He was the 
father of seven children, of whom four are living. 

James H. Stone, the youngest of this family, 
was quite young when he lost his mother, and 
at the age of nine years was bereft of his father. 
He then lived on a farm with an uncle in Alle- 
gany County, N. Y., until he was twenty years 
of age, receiving, in the meantime, the advanta- 
ges of a public school education. This prelim- 
inary education was supplemented by an at- 
tendance at Buck's academy in Genesee County, 
N. Y., and here he paid his tuition fees from the 
funds he had earned by teaching school at odd 
times after quitting the public schools. Dur- 
ing his last term at the academy he commenced 
the study of medicine under the preceptorship 
of Dr. Frederick Turner, and by close applica- 
tion and assiduous study was soon enabled to 
enter Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New 
York, from which he graduated in 1856, re- 
ceiving his diploma from the eminent president, 
Dr. Austin Flint. He began the practice of his 
profession in his native State, but soon came to 
Ohio, and for awhile practiced in LeRoy, Har- 
rison County, then at Moorefield, and then at 
Hopedale. In 1860 he went to Georgetown, 
and thence to Harrisville, where he remained 
until 1865, when he removed to Bellaire, Bel- 
mont County, where he followed his profes- 
sion until 1869, when he returned to Harri- 
son County, and made a permanent settlement 
in Franklin, where he has built up a large and 
lucrative practice. 

In 1859 the Doctor married Miss Mary J. 
Rife, a native of Hopedale, Harrison Co., Ohio, 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



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and this union has been blessed with three chil- 
dren. The Doctor is a member of the Cadiz 
Lodge of Freemasons, of the Still Water Med- 
ical Society, and, with his family, of the Dis- 
ciples Church. He enjoys the respect of the 
community to the full, and is regarded as a 
physician of more than ordinary ability. 



AMUEL M. BLACKWOOD was born, in 
1810, in County Tyrone, Ireland, of which 
place his father, Thomas, was a native. 
Of the life of Thomas, but little that is 
authentic remains. His youth waB spent in 
working on the farm, a calling he followed until 
his death. In early life he was married, and 
he reared the following named children : John, 
Rachel, Jane, Thomas, James, William, Robert, 
Eliza, Margaret, Andrew and Samuel. The 
entire family, with the exception of Andrew, 
came at different times to America, and settled 
in Ohio. Samuel M. Blackwood, with his sister 
Margaret, came together, and settled in Guern- 
sey County, Ohio, where he purchased a farm, 
which had been partially improved by his 
brother. On December 18, 1844, Samuel M. 
Blackwood was married to Margaret Morgan, 
and they immediately commenced their married 
life in Guernsey County, Ohio, but subsequently 
moved to Lawrence County, Penn., where they 
remained six years, and then came to Harrison 
County, Ohio, and purchased the farm on which 
the family still reside. In financial matters 
Mr. Blackwood was a self-made man; he united 
keen business knowledge with industrious habits 
and economy, and as a result he became exceed- 
ingly successful. He confined his attention en- 
tirely to farming and stock-raising and dealing, 
engaging quite extensively in the latter business. 
In public matters he was enterprising and ener- 
getic, being always among those of the progres- 
sive class. He was well known for his inherent 
honesty and unimpeachable integrity. From a 
very early age he was a member of the Cove- 
nanter Church, whose members, while taking an 
active interest in the various public questions, 



never exercised their right of voting. On Oc- 
tober 21, 1889, Samuel L. Blackwood died, and 
was deeply mourned by a large circle of friends 
and relatives. He was a quiet, unassuming 
man, but one whose convictions were strong and 
whose judgment was reliable. Mrs. Blackwood 
still occupies the home place, which is managed 
by her sons. Mrs. Blackwood's children are 
William, Thomas and James (twins, deceased), 
Martha, John, Andrew, Margaret, Mary and 
Hugh M., the latter three being at home 



IT\> OBERT THOM. Early in the year 1840 
|W^ the subject of this sketch came from 
1^ Pennsylvania to Ohio, where he has 
■{) since been prominently identified with 

the progress and development of Harrison Coun- 
ty. He was born February 22, 1813, in Alle- 
gheny County, Penn., whither his father, Robert 
Thorn, came among the earliest pioneers, and 
where he learned and experienced the hardships 
of a settler's life. In his early youth Robert 
Thorn married Ann Smylie, daughter of John 
Smylie, of Pennsylvania, and the issue of this 
union was as follows: Esther, Mary, John, Will- 
iam, Huston, Jane, Robert and Sarah. Mr. 
Thorn was a follower of the Whig party, and 
was one of its active members. He died in 1855, 
and was followed three hours later by his wife; 
together they now rest in the cemetery of the 
church, of which they were constant attendants 
and consistent members. 

The early education of Robert Thorn, our 
subject, was received at the common schools of 
his home place, and such was his delight in in- 
tellectual pursuits that he entered the academy 
at New Hagerstown, Ohio, where, under the in- 
struction of Alexander Sweeny, he made rapid 
progress. In his twentieth year he engaged in 
teaching, a profession which he followed for 
about ten years, with flattering and unvarying 
success, in both Harrison and Tuscarawas Coun- 
ties, Ohio. In 1851 he was united in marriage 
to Elizabeth Torrence, whose parents, Thomas 
and Mary (Berry) Torrence, were among the 



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early settlers of Washington County, Penn. , 
their children being Robert, Elizabeth, John 
Samuel and Mary. Soon after their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Thom settled on the farm where 
they now reside, in Section 8, Franklin Town- 
ship, Harrison County, and which was then al- 
most an unbroken wilderness. By their steady 
and constant labor, they have gradually im- 
proved it, and now have a finely producing and 
well-stocked farm, the result of their many years 
of hardship and privation. Their success in 
life is due to their own efforts, as they com- 
menced life with only their industry and good 
health to assist them. They are now passing 
the latter days of their lives in the enjoyment of 
their savings, and are respected and esteemed 
by all, and quietly awaiting their tinal call. 
They are among the most devoted members of 
the United Presbyterian Church at Franklin. 
Mr. Thom had been identified with the Whig 
party, but on the organization of the Republican 
party united with that. An honest man and a 
worthy citizen, he has done much to advance 
the educational and other interests of his section. 



vr^YOBERT K. LAWRENCE, one of the 
IW( well-known and enterprising farmers of 
V Freeport Township, Harrison County, 
■fj was born here February 1, 1853. His 

early education was received at the common 
schools, where he laid a broad and deep founda- 
tion for his subsequent study and reading. 
While passing his leisure hours in school, his 
other time was spent in assisting in the cultiva- 
tion and improvement of the home place, which 
he still manages with excellent success. On 
November 6, 1884, he was married to Jane Har- 
bison, a resident of Washington County, Penn., 
daughter of Adam Harbison, who was born in 
Ireland, and was there united in marriage to 
Mary Morrison. In 1842 they came to America 
and settled in Pennsylvania, where they have 
since engaged in farming. In his political 
views Mr. Harbison was first a Whig and then a 
Republican. He and his family are members of 



the United Presbyterian Church, to which faith 
they still remain loyal. Their family are John, 
Jane, Matthew, Nancy and Samuel. 

After marriage Mr. Lawrence removed to 
Harrison County, where he has since remained 
with the exception of three years spent in 
Guernsey County. A Republican in sentiment, 
he is always one of the workers of the party, 
and he and his wife are members of the United 
Presbyterian Church. The Lawrence family 
came from Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania. 
The name of the founder of the family in Amer- 
ica was Alexander, the great-grandfather of our 
subject, who. in 1701), while still an infant, 
came with his parents on what was then cousid 
ered an exceedingly dangerous journey to Amer- 
ica in the ordinary sailing vessel of that day. 
He first located in Washington County, Penn. , 
and there, while yet a young man, he married 
Margaret McKee, who had also arrived from 
Ireland with her parents. She bore him the 
following named children: William, John, Ann, 
Margaret, Jane, Sarah, Isaac, James and Peter. 
Among the earliest of the settlers of Guernsey 
County, Ohio, was Alexander Lawrence, who 
entered a tract of land. Here he erected a 
small mill, and by steady application to bus- 
iness, and the exercise of shrewd business tact, 
succeeded in amassing what in those days was 
considered a fortune. He was an earnest Whig, 
and was prominent in his party. In religious 
matters he was a United Presbyterian in Lon- 
donderry, in which faith both he and his beloved 
wife passed to their reward. He died in 1859, 
at the age of ninety-three, and was laid beside 
his wife, who died in 1840. 

Isaac Lawrence, one of the best and most 
favorably known residents of his section, was 
born December 24, 1809, in Washington Coun- 
ty, Penn. On April 9, 1839, he was married to 
Nancy Karr, a daughter of John Karr, of Har- 
rison County, Ohio, and they began their mar- 
ried life in Guernsey County, where they re- 
mained until 1S57, when they removed to Har- 
rison County, where the family still reside. 
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were Sarah M. (Mrs. Joseph Brown), John (de- 
ceased), Ellen (deceased), Alexander (deceased), 
William W. (of Londonderry), Nancy (Mrs. 
Robert A. Blackwood), Mary J. (Mrs. Thomas 
Hughes) and Robert K. (the subject proper of 
this sketch). In politics Mr. Lawrence was 
numbered among the progressive men of his 
section, and was ever in the van to advance the 
interests of his county and people. In the 
Abolition cpnestion he took deep interest, and 
was a member of the Republican party froni 
its organization. He and his family were mem- 
bers of the United Presbyterian Church. The 
Lawrence family have always been and are still 
known as among the representative families of 
their township. Progressive and energetic, 
they have done fully their part in the upbuild- 
ing of the section in which they have lived, and 
have exerted a salutary influence upon the social, 
political and religious growth of their locality. 



.pVHOMAS C. McCLINTICK. In 1840 the 
family represented by the gentleman 
whose name stands at the head of this 
</ sketch came to Ohio from Westmoreland 
County, Penn., and purchased a farm in the 
southwest corner of Section 9, Franklin Town- 
ship, Harrison County. The father of the 
family, Jonathan McClintick, was born in West- 
moreland County, Penn. , where the family had 
long been engaged in agriculture. Here he 
received his education, and also those lessons 
of economy and industry, which have contrib- 
uted so largely to his success. In his early life 
he was married to Sarah Carruthers, a native of 
Ireland, who bore him the following named 
children: Samuel (now in Buchanan County, 
Iowa), Martha, Margaret and Eleanor A., all 
three deceased; an infant, unnamed, deceased, 
and Thomas C, our subject. Mr. McClintick 
was early identified with the Whig party, and 
was one of its earnest supporters, but united 
with the Republican party in its organization, 
and was recognized as one of its leaders. His 
church life was with the Presbyterians at Feed 



Springs, where for more than thirty years he 
was Sunday school superintendent. He was 
also honored with other offices, the duties of 
which he always faithfully discharged. His 
life was one of hard work and economy, as he 
was without means on his arrival here. He 
and his family succeeded finally in clearing the 
land which now constitutes one of the best 
farms in the neighborhood. On February 6, 
1889, he passed away and was laid to rest by 
the side of his wife, who died March 4, 1885. 

Thomas C. McClintick was born December 
23, 1844, in Franklin Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, where his youth has been spent and his 
education received. While attending the com- 
mon schools only, he has spent much of his 
leisure in intellectual pursuits. From his ma- 
jority he has supported the Republican party, 
and while not accepting office still has repeat- 
edly been urged to do so. A man of keen per- 
ceptions, of energetic and determined action, 
his worth in the affairs of his section has been 
highly appreciated. He and his family have 
been identified with the Feed Springs Presby- 
terian Church for the past several years, and 
like the family before him he is among its 
ardent supporters and attendants. His farm 
consists of 300 acres, all the result of the good 
management, and the hard work of himself and 
father. On December 24, 1808, he was united 
in marriage with Rebecca Easlick, daughter of 
Paser Easlick, of Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, and their children are Etta (Mrs. Jame r 
M. Downs), Lillie Dale, John O, Jesse A. 
M., Ella L. and Bertie A. 



fl( BSALOM KENT, a prosperous farmer m 
//V\ Nottingham Township, Harrison County, 
\r~\^ is a son of Absalom (3), who was a son 
•f) of Absalom (2), whose father was Absa- 

lom (1) a native of Virginia. At a very early 
day Absalom (2), who was born in Virginia 
in 1777, came to Harrison County, Ohio, 
and settled in Stock Township, where he en- 
tered a large tract of land, on which he resided 



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a number of years, and then removed to Illi- 
nois, where he died in 1875, the father o" the 
following named children: Absalom (3), Abner, 
John, Jacob, Jane and Mary. To each of his 
sons he gave 200 acres of land, being at the time 
of his death a very extensive holder of real es- 
tate. Absalom Kent (3). who was born iu Stock 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1810, was 
thrice married, first to Mary Walker, who bore him 
six children, viz. : Absalom (4), John H. (de- 
ceased), Joseph W., Stewart (deceased), William 
(deceased) and Tabitha. The mother of this 
family dying in 1848, for his second wife Mr. 
Kent married Sarah Traub, who bore him one 
child, Sarah J. (Mrs. Toole); his third marriage 
was with Margaret Worman, who bore one child, 
Mary Grimes, now a resident of Cadiz, Harri- 
son County. Politically Mr. Kent was a Re- 
publican, and in religion he was for many years 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
in which faith he died in 1870. 

G. B. Kent was born July 13, 1865, a son 
of Absalom Kent (4) and Jane A. (Lee) Kent, 
latter of whom was born July 17, 1837, a daugh- 
ter of Jesse and Harriet (Mason) Lee, natives 
of Virginia. Absalom Kent (4) was born in 
Stock Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, was 
reared on the home farm and received his edu- 
cation at the common schools. When twenty- 
four years old he was married to Miss Jane A. 
Lee, as above related, and this union was blessed 
with children as follows: Elias F., born June 
26, 1858; Mary E., born December 22, 1860; 
William P., born April 14, 1862; David A., 
born June 10, 1863; George B., whose name 
opens this paragraph; Jessie E., born Febru- 
ary 23, 1867; Charles E., born May 15, 1869; 
Elmer E., born July 31,1 872; Maud L., born July 
12, 1875; Sarah H, born April 2, 1877; Frank- 
lin L. , born May 10, 1879, and three that died 
in infancy unnamed. Soon after his marriage 
Mr. Kent purchased a farm of seventy-two and 
a half acres in Section 3, Nottingham Town- 
ship, on which he still resides. Politically he is 
a Republican, and has held several offices of 
trust and responsibility in his township. 



I 



LIAS W. DAVIS is a carpenter by 
trade, having his residence at Franklin 
j (Tappan P. O.), Harrison Co., Ohio. 
Jesse Davis, the progenitor of the Ohio 
family of that name, was born in Pennsylvania 
in 1812, and when quite young came with his 
parents to Ohio, settling near Georgetown, in 
Harrison County, Ohio. In 1830 Jesse was 
married to Mary Ann Wallcott, a native of Ohio, 
'and there were six children born to them, four 
of whom are still living. On September 26, 
1853, Mrs. Davis departed this life, and Mr. 
Davis was married, the second time, May 12, 
1859, to Elisabeth Ann Green. In 1867 /esse 
Davis moved to Iowa, where he died August 20, 
1879, and his second wife returned to Ohio 
where she died in New Philadelphia, April 17 
1880. 

Elias W. Davis is the second son and fourth 
child of Jesse and Mary Ann (Wallcott) Davis, 
and was born October 24, 1840, in Harrison 
County, Ohio. On July 3, 1866, he was mar- 
ried to Mary E. Hilton, who was born near Feed 
Springs. Harrison Co., Ohio, October 4, 1846, 
daughter of John H. T. and Icy Hilton. The 
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Elias W. Davis 
were four in number, two of whom are living, 
as follows: Laura M. (assistant postmaster at 
Tappan, Ohio) and Francis M., both residing 
with their parents. Mr. Davis was a soldier 
during the Civil War, having enlisted May 2, 
1864, in Company D, One Hundred and Seven- 
tieth O. V. I. In 1879 he was appointed post- 
master at Tappan, Ohio. He is a Republican 
in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for 
the lamented Lincoln. 



TT^JDWARD GARNER, farmer, was bom 

1*1 March 18, 1823, in Nottingham Town- 

iL^i ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he still 

resides. His father, Hezekiah Garner, a 

native of Maryland, was born about 1780. He 

reached manhood in his native State, and grew 

up a patriot, manfully defending his country 

against ''perfidious Albion" in the struggle of 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



,.,., 



1812. He was twice married, and by bis first 

wife was the father of three children: James 
and John, deceased, and Julia, widow of Hugh 
Rose, and a resident of Washington Township, 
Harrison County. His second marriage was 
with Sophia Tippit, who bore him eight chil- 
dren, viz.: Elizabeth, deceased; Mary Bell, in 
Coshocton County, Ohio; Susanna, deceased; 
Sarah Titus, in Nottingham Township; Nelson, 
deceased; Amanda Beall, also in Nottingham 
Township; Edward, our subject, and Thomas, 
in Washington Township. About the year 1818 
Hezekiah Garner came to Ohio and purchased 
a tract of 100 acres of land in Nottingham 
Township, Harrison County. Here, however, 
even in that early day, a rude log cabin had 
been erected, and about ten acres of the farm 
had been redeemed from the forest. Having 
had this much of a start, Mr. Garner was en- 
couraged to further efforts, and in a short time 
erected a dwelling, which in those days was 
considered as almost a palace. By strenuous 
efforts he succeeded in vanquishing the re- 
mainder of the huge trees that held possession 
of his land, and in their stead there now appear 
pleasant pastures and rich meadows. These, 
together with an unblemished name, he left to 
his posterity at the end of his toilsome but 
peaceful days, in 1866. 

Edward Garner, in the fall of 1866, married 
Miss Julia A. Merryman, a native of Cadiz 
Township, Harrison Co. , Ohio, born April 3, 
1831. This union has been blessed with the 
following children: Elizabeth and Amos, de- 
ceased; Sophia Rose, in Washington Township; 
Lucy Beall. in Nottingham Township; Merry- 
man; Amanda J. Yarnall, of Freeport Town- 
ship; Lavina A. Moore, of Moorefield Township; 
Oliver, in Nottingham Township; Emma A. Mc- 
Kibben, in Mooretield Township, and Mary B. 
and Edward L. , on the homestead. The mother 
of this family was called to her last resting 
place December 1 ( J, 1886, dying in the faith of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she 
had been an active member for many years. 
Mr. Garner is a Republican, and has always 



given his party an earnest and efficient support, 
although he has never sought office at its hands. 



dfEFFERSON C. GLOVER, Cadiz, Hani 
son County, was born in Bmithfield Town- 
_ I ship, Jefferson Co., Ohio, March 3, 1845, 
a son of Josiah and Mary (Barkhurst) 
Glover. His paternal grandfather, Josiah 
Glover, was born in Baltimore, Md., and when 
a young man came to Jefferson County, Ohio, 
where he became one of the founders of the 
town of Smithfield. Josiah and Mary (Bark- 
hurst) Glover were married in 1833, and they 
then settled on a farm where Mrs. Glover died 
in February, 1872, at the age of fifty -five years. 
She was of Maryland descent, and her parents 
were early settlers of Jefferson County. Mr. 
Glover, who followed agricultural pursuits with 
considerable success, and in an early day kept a 
hotel, is now at the advanced age of seventy- 
seven years living a retired life at the old home. 
To this honored couple were born eleven chil- 
dren, viz. : Sarah, wife of Augustus Carter, in 
Jefferson County; Nancy, deceased; Susan, wife 
of William Comley, also in Jefferson County; 
George W., in Cadiz, Ohio; Josephine, deceased 
wife of John C. Brown, formerly of Jefferson 
County; Jefferson O, whose name opens this 
sketch; Elizabeth, wife of Milton Hall, of Jef- 
ferson County; Esther, at home; Quincy, de- 
ceased; Leonora, wife of John C. Brown, above 
mentioned, and William L., on the old home 
farm. 

Jefferson C. Glover was reared like most 
farmer boys, working summers and attending 
the district school a few weeks winters. He re- 
mained under the parental roof until he was 
twenty-two years of age, when he came to Cadiz 
and opened a meat market which he carried on 
some time. From 1876 to 1880 he was propri- 
etor of the hostelry in Cadiz, now known as the 
Arcade Hotel, and then resumed the meat mar- 
ket business. Politically Mr. Glover is a Re- 
publican, and in the fall of 1883 he was elected 
sheriff of the county, being re-elected in 1885; 



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in 1888 he was elected first assistant sergeant- at- 
arms of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly of 
the State of Ohio, at Columbus, and he also 
served five consecutive years as chairman of the 
Republican Count} 7 Executive Committee. Mr. 
Glover was married in 1869 to Miss Caroline I. 
Snyder, daughter of Samuel Snyder, of Harri- 
son County, and by this union five children were 
born, of whom four are yet living, viz. : Charles 
E., George E., Walter J. and Clyde B. In 
1864 he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred 
and Fifty- seventh O. N. G., in Jefferson Coun- 
ty, and was sent to Fort Delaware, whence at 
the expiration of his term of enlistment he re- 
turned home. He is a member of J. S. Mc- 
Cready Post, No. 456, of Cadiz, Ohio. 




\ILLIAM LAMBDIN HOUSER, one of 
the leading citizens of Cadiz, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, and one of the most success- 
ful business men in tbe county, is a 
native of Cadiz, Ohio, born June 17, 1825, being 
descended from an old sturdy Kentucky ances- 
try. His mother, Susanah (Rarnsower) Houser, 
was born on (or at) Bennetts Creek, Frederick 
Co., Md., in the year 1791, died in Cadiz, March 
12, 1867; her husband, Henry Houser, was born 
in 1786, died September 23, 1S55. He served 
honorably in the War of 1812. William Lamb- 
din Houser has but one brother living, Wilson 
Lee Houser, born April 1, 1828, his home being 
in Cadiz, Ohio; he has two daughters, Mrs. Leora 
Stubbins and Mrs. Cora McCoy. 

Mr. Houser' s early educational advantages 
were limited to the district scbool, as he had to 
begin life in earnest before he had passed the 
age of boyhood, his only capital being industry, 
integrity, perseverance and self reliance. In 
those days, before railroads, the only mode of 
travel was by stage coaches. We find him en- 
gaged first iD the arduous but exciting duties of 
a stage driver, and in a short time he became 
manager of a number of stage lines. Later he 
operated for and with Samuel Slemmons (then a 



prominent business man of Cadiz), in buying 
and selling horses, a leading business there at 
that time. For many years past his interests 
and business have been increasing, until at pres- 
ent he has the controlling trade in buggies, car- 
riages, harness and horses in the county. In 
1887 he suffered serious loss by disastrous lire, 
which destroyed his large barns and depleted 
his stock. But with characteristic enterprise he 
rebuilt upon the same grounds on a larger scale. 
In his political preferments Mr. Houser is a Re- 
publican; for eight years he was a member of 
the town council of Cadiz. He was one of the 
organizers of and is a stockholder and director 
in the Farmers & Mechanics National Bank, of 
Cadiz, Ohio; also holds similar positions in the 
Cadiz Glass Company; is a member of and stock- 
holder in the Building & Loan Association, of 
Cadiz. Mr. Houser ; s noted for his benevolence 
and warm sympathy, his liberalty toward all de- 
serving objects, particularly churches, and kin- 
dred institutions, being proverbial. He was one 
of the foremost in developing gas and oil near 
Cadiz. Being himself deprived of a liberal ed- 
ucation by circumstances, he has spared no ex- 
pense in fitting his children for useful lives, by 
giving them all the advantages the present 
affords. On September 24, 1857, he was mar- 
ried by Rev. William Furgason, to Miss Sarah 
Virginia Hall, Washington, Guernsey Co. , Ohio, 
a must estimable lady, always foremost in every 
good work pertaining to the welfare of her 
church (Presbyterian) and the community in 
which she lives. She is a descendant of an old 
Maryland slave-holding family of planters, her 
parents being Edward and Henrietta Catharine 
(Roberts) Hall. The grandfather of Edward, 
Joshua Hall, an English sea captain, received a 
grant of land (in Baltimore County, Md.) from 
Lord Baltimore, which has but recently passed 
from the hands of the family. To him were 
born, by his second wife, two sons, Edward and 
William, at their home, Hallsboro, near Cockeys- 
ville, Baltimore Co., Md. Edward, born March 
4, 1760, served honorably in the last of the Rev- 
olutionary War in 1782. In the year 1803 he 



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came to Ohio, purchased a section of land near 
Smitbrield, Jefferson County, and divided it 
among four of his six sons: Richard, Harry, 
Christopher Spry and Edward, William and 
Thomas remaining in Maryland. Edward, born 
December 27, 1795, at Hallsboro, Baltimore Co., 
Md. (died March 9, 1891, at Washington, 
Guernsey Co., Ohio), married by Rev. Kithkart, 
at York Haven, Penn., December 20, 1827. 
Henrietta Catharine Roberts was born on Fells 
Point, Baltimore, Md., April 12, 1804 (at this 
date is still living); ber father. Francis Cateby 
Roberts, an English sea captain, belonged to a 
titled family, in London, England, her mother 
being Elizabeth Snyder Karg, born in Balti- 
more, who, after the death of her husband 
(captain of the brig " Thomas Jefferson," insured 
in the Marine Insurance Office, Baltimore, 
November 12, 1803, bound for Oporto, Spain; 
brig and all on board were lost, never having 
been heard of after leaving the port at Balti- 
more), married Charles Merrill Poor, a native 
of Greenland, N. H. The sisters and broth- 
ers living at this date (1891) from the union 
of Charles Merrill Poor and Elizabeth Snyder 
(Karg Roberts) Poor, are Mrs. Robert Jack- 
son Fleming, Harrisburg, Penn., Mr. George 

A. Poor, Vallejo, Gal., and Mrs. Henry S. Mc- 
Fadden, Cadiz, Ohio. To Edward and Henrietta 
Catharine (Roberts) Hall were born ten children 
(four of whom are living), viz. : Francis Spry, 
born October 3, 1828, lives at Washington, 
Guernsey Co., Ohio; Charles Grafton, born July 
24, 1830, died December 8, 1859, in California; 
Wilson Roberts, born July 8, 1832, died March 
16, 1849; Thomas Henry, an infant, deceased; 
Sarah Virginia, born October 6, 1835, Mrs. S. 
V. Houser, Cadiz, Ohio; Eliza Jane, born Feb- 
ruary 9, 1838, died January 12, 1865, in Har- 
risburg, Penn. ; Edward Harrison, born April 
12. 1840, died September 26, 1878 (served 
through the Rebellion honorably in Company 

B, First Ohio Cavalry); Richard Montgomery, 
born January 27, 1842, at home in Washington, 
(mernsey Co., Ohio; George Alfred, born De- 
cember 9, 1843, died March 31, 1849; Henrietta 



Frances, born October 28, 1852, wife of Dr. H. 
H. Harrison, of Wheeling, W. Va. 

To William Lambdin and Sarah Virginia 
(Hall) Houser were born seven children: Fran- 
ces Elizabeth, but recently returned from a three 
years' course at the Leipzig Conservatory of 
M usic, Germany, where she received a diploma 
with high honor (at her home in Columbus, Ohio, 
she ranks at the head with musicians); Mary Vir- 
ginia, who is pursuing her musical studies in 
Baltimore, Md. ; Ellsworth Wilson, engaged in 
the glass manufacturing business in Bridgeport, 
Ohio; William Henry, dentist; Thomas Edward, 
deceased; Isabel McFadden, completing her 
musical studies at the College of Music, New 
York, while attending Miss Maleby's Select 
School for young ladies, in Brooklyn; Henrietta 
Katharine, attending the Edgeworth School, in 
Baltimore, March, 1891. 



TUART BEEBE SHOT WELL was born 
in Washington Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, November 22, 1819. His paternal 
grandfather, Hugh Shotwell, was a native 
of New Jersey, and of English extraction. The 
family came to America as early as 1665, and 
were Quakers, although it is claimed that Hugh 
took part in the Revolutionary War. He (Hugh I 
married a Miss Arrison, who was not a member 
of the Society of Friends, and for marrying out- 
side of the pale Hugh was dismissed from the 
Society, and also was disinherited by his father. 
He subsequently settled (in 1792) in Browns- 
ville, Fayette Co., Penn., where he remained 
until 1813, when he came to Harrison County, 
Ohio, and here bought a farm five miles west of 
Cadiz, on which he lived until 1828, when he 
moved to Washington Township. Here his 
wife died in 1S37, and he in 1853. The chil- 
dren born to Hugh Shotwell were eight in num- 
ber, one of whom, William, the father of our 
subject, was born in 1796, in Fayette County, 
Penn., and married in February, 1819, Rhoda, 
Beebe, a native of Massachusetts, but then a. 



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resident of Harrison County, Ohio. Her father 
was Stuart Beebe, also a native of New Eng- 
land. 

Children, as follows, were the result of this 
union: Three died in infancy; Stuart B. is the 
subject of this sketch; William was a lawyer in 
Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, who died in De- 
cember, 1849; Theodore, the only surviving 
member of the family, is now in Minneapolis, 
Minn. ; Walter B. died in early manhood, and 
Rhoda Loretta married Smiley Sharon in 1854 
(Mr. Sharon died in 1870, his widow following 
him in 1888). 

AVilliam Shotwell was first a farmer, and 
afterward became a merchant of Cadiz, where 
he died in January, 1854, aggd fifty six years, 
his wife following in 1876, at the age of eighty- 
five years. 

Stuart Beebe Shotwell was reared on a farm, 
and his early education was acquired in an old 
log cabin fitted up for a school-house with 
greased-paper windows, saw-log slabs for seats, 
and "cat-and-clay '' chimney. He was an apt 
scholar, and stood at the head of every class. 
He entered Franklin College at New Athens, 
Ohio, in 1836, where he finished his education. 
In 1874 his alma mater honored him by confer- 
ring upon him the degree of LL. D. In 1840 
he commenced the study of law under Dewey & 
Stanton, of Cadiz, and two years later was ad- 
mitted to the bar. Shortly after Mr. Stanton 
(who afterward became War Secretary under 
Lincoln) left Cadiz, and moved to Steubenville, 
Mr. Shotwell taking his place in the law firm, 
and the partnership of Dewey & Shotwell was 
continued until the retirement of Mr. Dewey 
from law practice. In 1849 he was admitted to 
the Supreme Court of Ohio. Mr. Shotwell was 
originally a Whig, casting his first presidential 
vote for Henry Clay, but later became a Repub- 
lican. He was appointed United States com- 
missioner by the United States Court at Cleve- 
land, but resigned after serving several years. 
In I860 he was nominated, without solicitation, 
for State auditor, and, although defeated, ran 
ahead of his ticket. On the elevation of Judge 



Mcllvaine to the supreme court Mr. Shotwell 
was suggested as his successor. 

On May 8, 1851, Mr. Shotwell married Miss 
Nancy Gaston, daughter of Mr. James Gaston, 
of Columbiana County, Ohio, and niece of Dan- 
iel Kilgore, at that time a prominent business 
man of Cadiz. Five children were born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Shotwell, three of whom are living: 
AV alter G. , present prosecuting attorney of Har- 
rison County [brief sketch of whom follows]; 
Stuart B., of St. Paul, Minn., and Martha, at 
home. Mary, their eldest, and William James, 
the youngest, both died in childhood. Mr. Shot- 
well died December 3, 1890, aged seventy-one 
years. He was the oldest member of the Cadiz, 
bar, and one of the best known men in eastern 
Ohio. He was one of our best informed men on 
public affairs, was an extensive reader, took 
great interest in education, and was one who 
had the best interests of society and his country 
always at heart. 

Walter Gaston Shotwell was born December 
27, 1856, in Cadiz, Ohio. Until fifteen years 
of age he attended the public schools of Cadiz, 
spending his summers upon his grandfather's 
farm in Columbiana County, Ohio. In 1872 he 
entered Franklin College, where he graduated, 
first in his class, in 1877. The same year, after 
passing the required examination, he entered 
the senior class of Yale College, at New Haven, 
Conn., where he graduated in June, 1878. In 
August of that year, he commenced the study 
of law in his father's office in Cadiz, where he 
continued until October, 1880, when he was ad- 
mitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio. 
He immediately commenced the practice in 
Cadiz, where he has since continued. On De- 
cember 24, 1884, he was married to Belle Mc- 
llvaine, daughter of Judge George W. Mcll- 
vaine, then of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and 
they have one child, Margaret Mcllvaine. On 
July 4, 1887, Walter G. Shotwell was nominated 
by acclamation for prosecuting attorney of 
Harrison County by the Republican convention, 
and was afterward elected. He was renomi- 
nated and elected in 1890. 



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*JTV OBERT B. LAW, one of the well-knowu 
L*^f and prosperous farmers of North Town- 
[ \^ ship, Harrison Co., Ohio, was born in 
J) Monroe Township, same county, Octo- 

ber 4. 1846, and is a son of Matthew Law, who 
came from Ireland with his father, John Law. 
John Law married Elizabeth Lynn, and on 
bringing his family to America, entered a tract 
of wild land in Monroe Township, Harrison 
County, on which he erected a log cabin in about 
1828. Here John Law died in 1859, aged nine- 
ty-four years; his widow died shortly after at 
the house of her son Henry, in her eightieth 
year. They were the parents of nine children, 
viz. : Matthew, Henry, Charlotte (wife of Will- 
iam Beatty, living in Licking County, Ohio), 
Fannie (widow of John McMillan, resides in 
Harrison County, Ohio), Rebecca (deceased wife 
of Robert Irvine), Mrs. Margaret Simpson (in 
Stock Township), Mrs. Mary Simpson (who died 
in Illinois), Mrs. Jane Humphrey (a widow re- 
siding near Cadiz), and Mrs. Elizabeth Birney 
(widow of Robert Birney, and a resident of Har- 
rison County, Ohio). 

Matthew Law was reared on the home farm 
and educated at the common schools. He mar- 
ried Rebecca, daughter of Hugh Birney, of Green 
Township, Harrison County, and to this union 
were born four children, viz. : John, of Monroe 
Township; William B. and Robert B. , of North 
Township, and Jane, who died in infancy. The 
mother of these children died in September, 
1864, at forty-eight years of age, and the father 
died at the home of his son, Robert B., September 
0, 1879, at the age of seventy-one years. He was 
first a Whig but afterward a Democrat in poli- 
tics, and held various township offices, although 
he has never been an office seeker, his promi- 
nence and popularity being the sole causes of his 
incumbency. In religion he and his wife were 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Robert B. Law was educated at the common 
schools, and assisted in the care of the home 
f;mu until 1867, when he married Miss Eliza- 
beth J. Guiney, who was born near New Cum- 
berland, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, but who, when 



an infant, lost her mother, and was brought up 
by an uncle, James Forbus, of North Township, 
Harrison County. The union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert Law has been blessed with three chil- 
dren: William Reno, Charles M. and Jennie. 
After one year's residence on the home farm in 
Monroe Township, Mr. Law, in I860, came to 
his present place in North Township, which 
comprises 131 acres, adjoining the corporation 
of Connotton, and which is devoted chiefly to 
stock-raising. In politics Mr. Law is a stanch 
Democrat, and has held various positions of 
trust in the township, but he never sought them. 
He and his family are members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church, and his walk through 
life has been strictly an upright one. He is one 
of the enterprising men of the township, and 
ever ready to aid in the promotion of any proj- 
ect calculated to be of benefit to either town- 
ship or county. 



JACKSON KENNEDY, farmer, Moorefield, 
Harrison County, is a son of Return 
Matthew Kennedy, who was a son of 
Matthew, a native of Scotland. Matthew 
Kennedy was born in 1767, and grew to young 
manhood in his native county, but in an early 
day came to the United States, and first settled 
in the District of Columbia, near Georgetown. 
There he married Christina Hines, and in 1806 
he came to Jefferson County, Ohio, and settled 
near Mingo, where he rented a tract of land and 
erected a log cabin. He remained on this land 
until 1811, when he removed to Harrison Coun- 
ty and entered 160 acres on Section 31, Moore- 
field Township, and erected his second cabin. 
He remained on this land until 1814, when he 
removed to Section 13, Moorefield Township, 
and entered 320 acres, being the farm now 
owned by Salathiel Kennedy; here he erected his 
third cabin. He spent considerable of his time 
in drawing produce from his home to Baltimore 
and Washington, D. C. He was a very poor 
man, and had a family of seventeen children, 
named as follows: William C, Citizen J., John 



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L., Mary A., Napoleon B., Return M., David 
W., Ahio H., Thomas J., Elizabeth, Philip H., 
Jacob J., Abraham H., Christian H., Daniel 
and two that died in infancy. The older sons 
one time captured two fawns, and Mr. Kennedy 
took them to Washington, being accompanied 
by one of the boys. He presented the fawns to the 
President, and the President, seeing that he was a 
poor man, asked him if the boy was his son; being 
told that he was, and seeing that the boy had a 
very poor hat, the President purchased one and 
gave it to the boy; he then asked Mr. Kennedy if 
be had any more sons at home; Mr. Kennedy told 
him that he had only twelve more, so the Presi- 
dent bought twelve more hats for the sons at 
home — consequently Mr. Kennedy received a 
fair price for the fawns. Our subject's father 
once said that they were so destitute that many 
times he went to the gristmill with no clothing 
to cover his nakedness but a shirt, and a very 
poor one at that. Politically Matthew Ken- 
nedy was Democratic, and was one of the act- 
ive men of his party in his day. 

Return Matthew Kennedy was born in 
Georgetown, D. C, March 15, 1S03, and came 
with his parents to Ohio, where he grew to man- 
hood and received his education at the common 
subscription schools of the early days. On 
February 19, 1824, he married Miss Jane 
Moore, who was born September 20, 1792, a 
daughter of Robert and Margaret (Armstrong) 
Moore, and to this union were born six children, 
viz. : Mary A. and Howard (deceased), Robert, 
Jackson, Maria and Salathiel. About 1828 Mr. 
Kennedy removed to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
where he remained until 1849, when he returned 
to Moorefield Township, where he spent the re- 
mainder of his life. His wife died September 
25, 1S66, and May 9, 1867, he married Martha 
McCollough, who now resides in Moorefield 
Township. Mr. Kennedy died June 16, 1888. He 
was one of the leading men of the Democratic 
party of Moorerield Township, also one of the 
most progressive farmers and business men, and 
was very highly esteemed by all who knew him. 

Jackson Kennedy was born on the old Ken- 



nedy homestead in Moorerield Township, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, June 18, 1828, but grew to 
young manhood in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
where he received a practical business education. 
On April 3, 1851, he married Miss Eliza Car- 
rothers, who was born March 2, 1834, a daugh- 
ter of George Carrothers, and to this union 
were born seven children, viz.: W. S., Decem- 
ber 14, 1851, now in Uhrichsville, Ohio; Ange- 
line, born February 27, 1854, died November 
21, 1871; George C, born August 21, 1856, re- 
siding in Moorerield Township; Mary A., born 
April 29, 1859, died June 25, 1882; Robert A., 
M. D., born December 4, 1861, in Cleveland, 
Ohio; Clara J., born November 7, 1864, at 
home; William M., born October 4, 1869, living 
in Moorerield Township. After his marriage, 
Jackson Kennedy resided in Moorerield Town- 
ship till 1866, when he purchased a farm of 110 
acres in Nottingham Township, later purchased 
eighty acres, and erected on this farm one of 
the finest residences of Nottingham Township. 
Mrs. Kennedy departed this life in September, 
1874, and June 21, 1877, Mr. Kennedy married 
Mrs. Lucy Heffling, widow of Walker Heffling, 
and a daughter of Carvel and Mary (Latham) 
Kennedy. Carvel Kennedy was born in Har- 
ford County, Md., in 1808, a son of Joseph 
Kennedy, who was a slave holder in that State. 
Our subject's second union has been blessed 
with two sons (twins), born January 25, 1879. 
Mrs. Kennedy, by her first marriage, had two 
daughters, namely: Etta V., born November 
12, 1866, and residing in Chattanooga, Tenn., 
and Ella M., born February 10, 1871, residing 
at home. In 1885 our subject came to the 
town of Moorefield, where he has since resided. 
In April, 1889, he was elected a justice of the 
peace of Moorefield Township. Politically he 
is a Democrat, and like his father and grand- 
father, is one of the leading men, always taking 
an active part in all political matters, also in 
any public enterprise which is for the advance- 
ment and good of the public. He and his fam- 
ily are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 



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r OSES H. CONAWAY, late of Stock 
Township, Harrison County, was born 
August 6, 1817, on the farm on which 
he passed from earth October 3, 1890. 
His grandfather, Michael Conaway, was born in 
1737. He grew to manhood on the eastern 
shore of Chesapeake Bay, and became a success- 
ful sportsman, winning prizes in contests, shoot- 
ing duck on the wing, etc. He was also a sailor, 
commanding a small boat on the bay. One day, 
while crossing, his boat was struck by a cyclone 
that carried a waterspout, sinking the frail crafti 
and the passengers all went down with her, ex- 
cept Conaway and one other man, who rose and 
commenced to swim. They secured one oar to 
ride on, but Conaway gave it to the other man, 
and told him to save his life, as he had a family 
to support. This happened at 3 o'clock in the 
afternoon, and they swam till 3 o'clock the next 
morning, when they heard a fiddle playing on a 
passing ship. Having shouted for help, there 
was a yawl with two men in her sent to their 
assistance, but these men told them they could 
not take them in, whereupon Conaway grabbed 
the craft and told them to take in the other man 
or he would sink them. They did so, leaving 
him; but a long rope hung from the ship, which 
he got hold of, and the swift motion of the ship 
made him skip upon the water until he was 
taken in. Both were so badly exhausted that 
they could not stand when rescued. This ad- 
venture caused Mr. Conaway to leave the water. 

In addition to the above Mr. Moses H. Con- 
way, on June 15, 1890, committed to writing a 
family sketch, which, with some additional dates 
supplied by his widow, is substantially as fol- 
lows : 

" Biography of Aaron and M. H. Conaway, 
based on tradition, and now put on record: Our 
grandfather, Michael Conaway, was born of 
Scotch-Irish parents, in the State of Maryland, 
in 1737. Our grandmother's maiden name was 
Elizabeth Davis (Scotch). The name of our 
grandfather (by our mother's side) was Hoag- 
land (of German blood); his wife's name was 
Mary Hooey (of Irish extraction). Our father 



was Michael O. eldest son of M. O, and born 
in 1780, in Maryland; our mother was Martha 
Hoagland, born in 1780, in Maryland. They 
were married in 1805, and settled on the north 
branch of the Stillwater, eight miles from Cadiz, 
Ohio. Our grandfather's family were Michael 
O, John (married Betty Hoagland, and raised 
nine children), Charles (married Fannie Arnold, 
and raised nine children), Catharine (married 
Henry Barnes), Susan (married Gabriel Hol- 
land), Betty (married Archibald Virtue). Our 
grandfather's brothers were Samuel, who was a 
Methodist preacher, and Charles, who was the 
first Methodist preacher who ever preached in 
Pittsburgh, and the first to preach on Ohio soil; 
he died in 1847, at the age of ninety-six years, 
and lies buried in a shady grove of weeping 
elms, by the side of his brother M., on the 
farm now owned by M. H. Conaway, who 
holds the same land settled in 1806 by grand- 
father. Our uncles and aunts by mother's side 
were James Hoagland, who settled and lived in 
Harrison County, Ohio; Aaron Hoagland, who 
settled in Ashland County, Ohio; Moses, who 
lived in Holmes County, Ohio. 

"Our own father's family were nine chil- 
dren: Eli, born in 1806, died in 1832; Aaron, 
born in 1807, is now eighty-three years old, and 
lives in Harrison County, within two miles of 
his birthplace (he married, in 1830, Dorcas 
Busby, who still lives, and they raised fourteen 
children, only five of whom are now living); 
Betsy, married 'to George McKinney in 1828, 
and they raised five children, all daughters; 
Henry was a good physician, married Rosanna 
Mossholder, and raised three children; Rachel 
married Alexander Picken, and raised eight 
children, five of whom are living; Susan mar- 
ried Joel Smith, and raised three children (she 
still lives aged seventy-seven); Enoch, who was 
a good doctor, married Amanda Graufel, who 
died, leaving one daughter who still lives, and 
for his second wife he married Charlotte Lomau, 
who raised one daughter who still lives (he died 
in 1861 in West Virginia); also Mary Conaway. 
died in 1855. 



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' ' Moses H. Conaway still lives on the old 
farm, and is now seventy-three years old. He 
was married July 15, 1856, to Mary J. Crozier 
[a teacher], who was born February 15, 1829,. 
and they raised three sons, viz. : Willie C, born 
March 15, 1858, died April 18, 1863; Horace 
Mann, born April 2, 1860, and is now preaching 
for the Methodist Church (he has a wife and 
son); John Crozier, born November 19, 1862 (is 
still single and lives at home). The mother 
died November 19, 1862, and September 13, 
1883, Mr. Conaway was married to Kate Galla- 
her [a teacher], who' was born September 28, 
1843, by whom there is one daughter, Martha 
Estella, born December 19, 1881. 

"From the earliest records to the present 
day we find no member of all this kindred to 
have ever been criminals in court, while some 
have been eminent as justices, many as religion- 
ists and teachers and scholars, some as agnos- 
tics and free-thinkers." 



FjEANKLIN COLLEGE. For some time 
prior to the foundation of Franklin Col- 
lege at New Athens, an academy had 
been conducted in that town under the 
auspices of Rev. John Walker, a minister of the 
Secession Church. It bore the name of "Alma 
Mater," in active rivalry with a similar institu- 
tion at Cadiz. In the archives of Franklin Col- 
lege is found the record of a single meeting of 
the trustees of that academy held on September 
28, 1824, the names of those trustees being 
Rev. Salmon Cowles (president), John Mc- 
Cracken (secretary), Kev. John Walker, John 
Whan, John Wylie, Alexander Hammond, 
Alexander McNary, Daniel Brokaw and John 
Trimble. 

The principal business transacted at that 
meeting was the establishment of a rule regu- 
lating the payment of tuition fees, and some set- 
tlement of expenses in regard to the building, 
the one afterward occupied by Mrs. McCall as a 
dwelling. 

In the meantime the project for a college 



charter for the academy at Cadiz was actively 
agitated ; but by the superior tact and energy of 
Rev. John Walker, above referred to, the charter 
was obtained for the academy at New Athens, 
under the name of "Alma College," which was 
changed at the next meeting of the Legislature 
to "Franklin College." This charter is dated 
January 22, 1825, and contains a liberal grant 
of all the privileges and immunities usually 
granted to colleges. The names of the original 
corporators are Revs. JohnRea, Salmon Cowles, 
John Walker, David Jennings, William Hamilton, 
John McCracken, John Wylie, James Campbell, 
David Campbell, John Trimble, John Whan, Dan- 
iel Brokaw, Alexander McNary and Alexander 
Hammond. To these were added by election at the 
first meeting of the trustees, under this charter, 
(held April 5, 1825) Rev. Thomas Hanna, John 
McGlaughlin, Stephen Caldwell, Joseph Grimes 
and Matthew Simpson. At this same meeting 
of the board Rev. William McMillan, of Can- 
nonsburg, Penn., was elected president, with 
John Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, Penn., profes- 
sor of mathematics, and June 8, following, the 
college was formally organized. 

In these days of magnificent endowments 
and architectural display, a college with two 
professors in a one-storied house may seem a 
trifling and insignificant affair, yet, in this small 
college, during the administration of Prof. Mc- 
Millan (a period of less than seven years), were 
educated such men as Hon. John Welsh, of the 
supreme bench of Ohio; Hon. William Kennon, 
a member of Congress during Jackson's adminis- 
tration; Wilson Shannon, at one time governor 
of Ohio; Dr. Joseph Ray, the well-known writer 
on mathematics; besides giving to the church 
such men as Drs. Johnston, Bruce, Henderson, 
Walkinshaw and others. Dr. McMillan died in 
1832. Besides the educational work done dur- 
ing his administration measures were taken by 
the board, in 1829, for the erection of a new col- 
lege edifice, the site on the hill above the old 
academy building being selected, and the erec- 
tion of the building now occupied for common- 
school purposes was commenced, its completion 



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being effected about the spring of 1831. Dr. 
McMillan was succeeded in the presidency by 
Rev. Richard Campbell, of Pennsylvania, dur- 
ing whose administration the boarding-house in 
connection with the college was erected; but 
after conducting the affairs of the college for 
something over two years he was compelled to 
resign, owing to ill health. His successor was 
Rev. Johnson Welsh, a graduate of the institu- 
tion, but after a brief career as president he too, 
on account of physical disability, was obliged to 
resign. This was in 183G, and in the spring of 
the following year the board appointed Rev. 
Joseph Smith (then pastor of a church in St. 
Clairsville) to the presidency, and the college 
soon felt the effect of his presence in a large in- 
crease to the number of its students, and renewed 
life and energy in all its departments. The 
prospects of the college were now such as to 
justify the election of an additional professor, and 
in the fall of 1837, A. F. Ross, LL. D., then 
just graduated from the institution, was chosen 
as its first regular professor of languages. 

In the fall of 1838, on account of pro-slavery 
and anti- slavery sentiments, Dr. Smith resigned 
the presidency, and in 1S39 the board appointed 
in his stead Rev. Mr. Burnett, a young man 
of fine culture, a popular preacher and accurate 
scholar; but at the end of one year he resigned 
in discouragement in regard to the prospects of 
the college, as it had become much depleted in 
the number of its students. The resignation of 
Mr. Burnett was immediately followed by that 
of Prof. Armstrong and Prof. Ross, and for the 
same reason. Thus Franklin College found its- 
self at once without a faculty. In 1840 the 
board appointed Rev. Edwin H. Nevin, pres- 
ident; George K. Jenkins, professor of mathe- 
matbics, and Rev. Andrew Black, professor of 
languages. 

The college had become involved in debt, 
and the creditors sued for their claims. The 
anti slavery men (then in control) were unable 
to meet these claims, for various reasons, and 
the consequence was that the property of the 
college was taken in execution and sold by 



the sheriff. Thus Franklin College after her 
long struggles found herself without a borne. 
But this was not all: The college edifice, with 
its appurtenances, was purchased by the colo- 
nization or pro-slavery party, and, under the name 
of "Providence College," they succeeded in es- 
tablishing a rival institution. The anti-slavery 
men, however, were adequate to the crisis, and 
notwithstanding the demands that had already 
been made upon their liberality, they at once 
raised funds for the erection of a building for 
the accommodation of Franklin College, and to 
secure it from the claims of the old creditors, 
yet unliquidated, and for the satisfaction of which 
their property had been sacrificed. They lo- 
cated their edifice upon their church lot, thus 
vesting their title in the trustees of the church; 
and so Franklin College was accommodated with 
a home. The popular qualities of President 
Nevin and his associates in the faculty attracted 
at once all the students that resorted to the 
place, and Providence College, after a feeble 
effort to gain a hold upon the public patronage, 
was abandoned. 

President Nevin resigned in 1845, to accept 
the pastorate of a church in Cleveland, some 
changes also taking place in the professorships, 
and same year Rev. Alexander D. Clark as- 
sumed the duties of the presidency, under the 
appointment of the board. His administration 
of the affairs of the college for a period of six- 
teen years (his resignation occurring in 1861) 
was a prosperous and happy one. During the 
war, which had now broken out, the college 
maintained but a feeble existence, and the board 
made several efforts to obtain a successor to Dr. 
Clark in the presidency, but were unsuccessful; 
they, however, continued the college by tempor- 
ary arrangements with the remaining professors. 
and it was managed during this period under 
these arrangements, principally by Dr. Wishart, 
Rev. David Craig and Rev. A. R. McConnell. 
Under these circumstances but little success was 
to be expected, and as a matter of course the 
number of students gradually diminished, and 
the college property became in a measure dilapi- 



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dated. la 1867 the board appointed Rev. E. G. 
Campbell, president, Rev. Robert Armstrong, 
professor of languages, and T. M. Sewell, pro- 
fessor of mathematics, all of whom accepted the 
positions, and entered upon the business of 
" gathering up the fragments. " But Mr. Camp- 
bell, being encumbered with the cares and re- 
sponsibility of a congregation, was constrained 
to resign the presidency, in favor of some one 
who could devote his entire energies to the work, 
and a correspondence was commenced with A. 
F. Ross, LL. D. , which resulted in his inaugu- 
ration as president of Franklin College, April 
11, 1871; President Campbell was appointed 
vice-president with Profs. Armstrong and Se- 
well. Hon. John A. Bingham had, at a pre- 
vious meeting of the board, been appointed 
professor of international law and political 
science, which position he had accepted, and at 
a subsequent meeting, Robert Kidd, A. M., was 
appointed professor of elocution, accepting same. 
An apparatus, costing some $1,400, was pro- 
cured in the following June, and the buildings 
were repaired and comfortably furnished. 

One morning in 1876 Dr. Ross died sud- 
denly in his bed, and he was succeeded by Dr. 
George C. Vincent, of Pennsylvania, who took 
charge in June, 1877. He resigned in 1884, 
and Dr. William Brinkerhoff, of Hopedale, Ohio, 



was elected, but after a two years' incumbency, 
he died suddenly, in the night. Then Rev. J. 
G. Black, of Bellaire, was elected, who, after 
one year, resigned, and his successor is Dr. \V. 
A. Williams, D. D., formerly professor in Frank- 
lin, but then in Demos, Ohio, undjer whose ad- 
ministration the college has enjoyed unprec- 
edented prosperity. Dr. Williams is a young 
man, and has a large congregation (Presbyter- 
ian) at Centreville, where he lives. Rev. R. G. 
Campbell, D. D., is vice-president, and in the 
faculty of instruction is professor of Latin, 
Greek and German. 

When we take up the record of her Alumni, 
and inquire into the status of the men whose 
names are there enrolled, we feel fully satisfied 
that whatever Franklin College may have cost 
in effort, in self denial and pecuniary sacrifice, 
it has paid it back to society a hundred-fold. 
No institution can point to a prouder record. 
Her sons are found occupying positions of dis- 
tinction and usefulness all over the land. On 
the bench, at the bar, in the pulpit, in col- 
leges and seminaries of learning, in the halls of 
legislation, and in the national councils — every- 
where, "where men acquire renown," her sons 
are found maintaining their standing with the 
highest. With such a record, Franklin College 
justly deserves to live and continue to prosper. 



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UDGE ROBERT RALEY, 

whose sad and sudden taking 
away, in the fall of 1889, de- 
prived the community of one 
of its most distinguished citi- 
p zens, the legal profession one 
of its brightest lights, and the 
bench one of its purest and most 
able jurists, was born near Han- 
over, Columbiana Co. , Ohio, 
October 23, 1837. His paternal 
grandparents were Robert Ra- 
ley, born August 12, 1759, died 
October 14, 1849, and Sarah 
(Townsend) Raley, born January 
24, 1764, died June 10, 1819; 
and his parents were John Raley, born Novem- 
ber 27, 1790, died in May, 1868, and Melinda 
(Atkinson) Raley, born August 28, 1802, died 
April 3, 1845. 

Like many of the successful men of our 
country, Judge Robert Raley was reared to 
agricultural pursuits, and for a number of years 
performed the usual duties of a farmer's son. 
After leaving the farm he turned his attention 
to school teaching and surveying until losing, 
when he was twenty-one years old, his right arm 
by an accident in a threshing machine. He 
then turned his attention to the study of law, 
and in 1S(>'_! was admitted to the bar in Clinton 
County, Ohio. In 1863 he located in Carrollton 
and entered the law office of Judge John H. 



Tripp, as a law partner. At the October election 
of the following year he was elected prosecuting 
attorney of Carroll County, as a candidate on 
the Republican ticket, which office he held con- 
tinuously for ten years, being a close student all 
the while, many times burning the midnight oil 
over intricate points of law. He was methodical 
in his work, careful in his pleadings, and logical 
in his presentation of a case to both court and 
jury. He jealously guarded " the peace and 
dignity of the State" and endeavored to " let no 
guilty man escape." In the cause of temper- 
ance he was zealous and untiring, and succeeded, 
while prosecuting attorney, in closing almost 
every saloon in the county. In April, 1S67, he 
became a member of the law firm of Shober & 
Raley, and continued to grow in popularity as 
an able advocate until he had one side of almost 
every important case before the court. Upon 
the resignation, in 1886, of Judge William R. 
Day, of Canton, Mr. Raley was appointed, by 
Governor Foraker, to till the vacancy thus made 
in the common pleas bench of this district, and 
at the following election he was elected for five 
years. His kind deportment while judge called 
around him many warm friends from the bar of 
the district. 

On November 12, 1867, Judge Raley was 
united in marriage with Mis- Margaretta M. 
Sloan, of Hanoverton, Columbiana Co., Ohio. 
who was born May 19, 1840, a daughter of 
George and Jessie (Robertson) Sloan, former of 



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whom, a native of Ireland, and by occupation a 
storekeeper and miller, came to America when a 
young man and settled in Ohio. He was born 
September 2, 1798, and died December 14, 1870. 
His wife was born April 24, 1802, and died 
February 12, 1884; she was a daughter of James 
and Janet (Stuart) Robertson, former of whom 
was born May 5, 1776, died at Hanover, Ohio, 
December 14, 1856, and latter was born August 
12, 1774, died December 30, 1847. James 
Robertson was for many years a Presbyterian 
minister at the "Scotch Settlement,'" near 
Wellsville, Ohio. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Sloan settled in Hanover, Columbiana Co., 
Ohio, and became the parents of seven children 
— two sons and live daughters. 

Immediately after their marriage Judge 
Raley and his wife moved to their home in Car- 
rollton, where the widow yet resides. They had 
a family of six children, as follows: George 
Sloan, born September 7, 1868; John Frank, 
born February 9, 1870; Jessie Sloan, born 
January 18, 1872; Eliza Leigh, born February 
20, 1875, died March 12. 1879; Robert James, 
born December 22, 1877, and Charles Milton, 
born May 31, 1883. 

The domestic life of Judge Raley was an 
exceptionally happy one. Temperate in all 
things, the kindest of fathers and the most lov- 
ing of husbands, he took the greatest pride in 
the care of his home and the comfort of his 
family. His reason could not be swayed by 
pathetic appeals, and while his mind often 
appeared to be shaped after the cold logic of 
the law, yet his private library shows frequent 
references to the poets, and his office table was 
often fragrant with rare flowers in their season. 
His friends and his family knew him as a lov- 
ing, broad-minded man, whose clear, sound 
judgment quickly detected the shams and de- 
ceits of the world, and, while seeing them, yet 
exercised that patient, kindly forbearance and 
charity for the weaknesses of others that only a 
noble and generous man could have. He had that 
noble calmness of self-control, that determi- 
nation to see and do the right, that ability to I 



understand and pity the weak, not with a con- 
temptuous indifference but with a helpful sym- 
pathy that made him a power in the city in 
which he lived. He died on Thursday evening, 
October 10, 1889, in the very prime of life. He 
fell from a tree while picking apples, and re- 
ceived internal injuries, from the effects of which 
he died at near 8 o'clock the same evening, 
lacking thirteen days of being fifty-two years 
of age. The news of the accident was a great 
shock to the community, as but a few hours be- 
fore he had been mingling with his friends in 
his usual health and spirits. To his wife and 
children (for he left a daughter and four sons) 
the blow was simply overwhelming. The fun- 
eral was the most largely attended of any in Car- 
rollton since the war. From the church the 
funeral train moved to the cemetery, and the 
remains of the distinguished townsman were 
laid to rest with a prayer and benediction. 

Judge Raley was a man who had won for 
himself a high position in his profession, and a 
reputation for integrity and ability of which 
any man might be proud. Commencing life 
with none of the advantages of wealth, and with- 
out the help of influential friends, he, by his 
personal force, pushed forward until he had 
placed himself side by side with those who oc- 
cupied the front rank of his chosen profession. 
In seeking after the secret of his success, it 
is found in the following particulars: a deter- 
mination to succeed, a jealous regard for his 
personal honor, and a recognition of those 
moral and religious principles that must influ- 
ence every life that would become truly great. 
As a lawyer, he was known throughout Eastern 
Ohio as an advocate who never lost a case which 
consummate skill and a thorough knowledge of 
the law could win. As a jurist he was noted 
for the carefulness with which he prepared 
even the most minor points, and for his broad 
understanding of the law. As a citizen and 
neighbor he was profoundly respected by all 
and tenderly loved by many, to whom in the 
greatness of his heart he had extended substan- 
tial sympathy. In his religious predilections 



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Judge Kaley was formerly a member of the So- 
ciety of Friends, but during the last two years 
of his life he was a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. 



JOHN H. FIMPLE, senior member of the 
| widely known law firm of Fimple, Holder 
/ & De Ford, of Carrollton, Carroll Coun- 
ty, is a native of the county, having been 
born March 31, 1859, in Augusta Township, on 
the farm where his parents were then and are now 
living, and which they at present own. His par- 
ents, David and Hannah (Dumbleton) Fimple, 
were both native-born citizens of the United 
States, former of whom (at any rate on his moth- 
er's side) is believed to have been of German de- 
scent. He was born in Washington County, Penn. , 
and when about two years old (some time prior to 
Wll) came with his father's family to what is 
now Augusta Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
where they settled. Here David Fimple was 
married to Hannah Dumbleton, a lady of En- 
glish descent, some of her sisters being born in 
England, and whose parents came to this coun- 
try a short time prior to date of her birth. 

The early days of young Fimple, the subject 
of this sketch, were spent in working on the 
farm and in attending the district school of the 
neighborhood. He excelled in mathematics, and 
after completing his studies at this primary 
school he attended the high schools at Malvern 
and Minerva, in Carroll County, after which he 
entered college, completing a classical course at 
the Northwestern Ohio Normal School at Ada, 
Ohio, in 1880; subsequently he graduated at 
Mount Union College with the degree of A. B. , 
in the class of 1882, taking the honors of the 
class as a public debater in the Literary Society 
of the institution to which he belonged. While 
attending college he worked upon the home 
farm during the summer seasons, and also 
taught school for the purpose of earning means 
with which to complete his studies at college. 
After leaving college he was principal of the 
schools at Northfield, Summit Co., Ohio, for 



one year, and also worked upon the farm one 
year. Always having been inclined to the 
study of the law, in the spring of 1884 he en- 
tered the office of the late Judge Robert Raley, 
as a student. In the fall of 1884 he took an 
active part in the campaign for Blaine and 
Logan, and the following year (1885) was 
elected representative from Carroll County to 
the State Assembly for the term of two years. 
During his first year in the Legislature, on May 
4, 1886, Mr. Fimple was admitted to the bar, 
ranking second in the examination out of a 
class of forty-two, and immediately upon his 
admission to the bar he was offered and accepted 
a partnership in the practice of law with his 
former preceptor, Mr. Raley, which partnership 
continued until the latter' s appointment to the 
bench a short time afterward. Mr. Kaley' s 
appointment to the bench leaving the business 
of the firm in Mr. Fimple' s hands, he then 
practiced alone for awhile; but finding that, 
owing to his duties in the Legislature, his 
practice necessitated a partner, the firm of 
Fimple & Holder was formed, and subsequently 
Union C. De Ford, who had read law with 
Judge Raley and Mr. Fimple, was taken into 
partnership, the present firm of Fimple, Holder 
& De Ford then being formed. 

During his first term in theGeneral Assembly 
Mr. Fimple was active in temperance legislation, 
being the author of what was known as the 
"Fimple Local Option Bill," which, though the 
bill itself did not become a law, yet led to legis- 
lation which substantially embodied its provis- 
ions. In July, 1887, the faculty and trustees of 
Mount Union College conferred the degree of 
A. M. upon him, and during the same year he 
was re-elected to the Assembly for two years, 
during which time he served on the judiciary 
committee, and was also appointed by the 
speaker a member of a special committee which 
prepared and drafted the Constitutional Amend- 
ments submitted to a vote of the people at the 
general State election held in November, ISS'J. 
Shortly after the adjournment of the second 
session of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly, 



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and prior to the expiration of his official term, 
Mr. Pimple was appointed a principal examiner 
of land claims and contests in the general land 
office at Washington, by the Harrison adminis- 
tration, at a salary of two thousand dollars per 
year, which position he still holds, though he 
has by no means given up his law practice, nor 
the permanency of his residence in Carroll Coun- 
ty. He still retains an interest in the firm at 
Carrollton, and assists in the trial of important 
cases there; in fact he expects to abandon his 
official position at Washington at an early day, 
and give his attention exclusively to his law 
practice. Mr. Fimple is an avowed Protectionist, 
and has participated in several public debates in 
Carroll County and vicinity, and has spoken in 
nearly every political campaign since 1884. Al- 
though yet a young man, he stands second to 
none among his colleagues at the bar of Carroll 
County; and in the years that lie ahead of him 
the proper ambitions of his youth will no doubt 
be far excelled in the realities of the future. 
His ability as a debater, public orator and plead- 
er is acknowledged to be of the highest order; 
and the force with which his reasonings and 
arguments are advanced, whether on the plat- 
form as a debater, or at the bar of justice as a 
pleader, seldom fail to carry convincement. 

On December 3, 1888, Mr. Fimple was united 
in marriage with Miss Ida J. Patterson, of Au- 
gusta Township, Carroll County, daughter of 
John D. Patterson, and to them one child, Marie 
Hanora, was born December 8, 1890. In relig- 
ion Mrs. Pimple is a Presbyterian, and Mr. 
Pimple, though a believer in and inclined to the 
Methodist faith, is not a member of any church; 
socially he is a Knight Templar Mason, and also 
belongs to the Knights of Pythias. 




I AaILLIAM F. BUTLEE. The founder 

v/J °^ * ae Butler family, of which the 

li[ subject of this memoir is a member, 

was one John George Butler, who came 

from Germany at an early day, and served as a 

soldier in the Revolutionary War. After peace 



was declared he studied theology, and became a 
Lutheran minister, preaching through Penn- 
sylvania, Virginia and other Southern States. 
He died some time in the "twenties" (it is 
thought) at Cumberland, Md. He had been 
married to a Miss Miller, by whom he had five 
sons — George William, Paul, Gideon, George 
Whitefield (grandfather of our subject) and 
Jonathan — and one daughter, whose name is not 
now known. Of these, George Whitefield was 
a soldier in the War of 1812, a lieutenant of 
Pennsylvania Reserves. He was the first to 
come to Carroll County, Ohio, and by occupa- 
tion was a tanner; he died in 1873, the father of 
the following named children: Washington 
(father of our subject), Franklin, Jonathan and 
Jefferson, all deceased; Adams, in Newton, Jas- 
per Co., Iowa; Lafayette, in Marshall, Tex.; 
George, a farmer in Rush County, Kas. ; Mor- 
gan, in Goshen, Ind. ; Lizzie, now Mrs. Young, 
in North Carolina; Amanda, wife of Hon. M. P. 
O'Connor, of San Jose, Cal. ; Cynthia, deceased, 
and Hattie, wife of Dr. B. B. Moore, of Mar- 
shalltown, Iowa. Of these, Washington was 
born April 6, 1819, in what is now Carrollton, 
Ohio, where he was reared, learning the trade 
of tanner, which he carried on for many years, 
owning a tannery, which he sold out after enter- 
ing public life. He was in politics a Republican 
and Abolitionist, and served his county as deputy 
auditor, then as auditor (two terms), and again 
as deputy auditor, until his health failed; was 
deputy treasurer of the county about sixteen 
years, and also deputy clerk. He was elected a 
delegate to the second National Convention held 
in 1872, which nominated Grant for President. 
In 1864 Mr. Butler entered mercantile business 
in partnership with L. D. Rowley, under firm 
name of Rowley & Butler, opening in Carrollton 
a store for merchant tailoring and the sale of 
clothing, boots and shoes; in 1865 he bought out 
Rowley and took into partnership his son Will- 
iam, the style of the firm becoming W. Butler 
& Son, so continuing until the death of the 
father, which occurred in 1883, when he was 
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now mainly comprising general clothing and 
gents' furnishings, has been carried on solely by 
our subject. Washington Butler was married 
in 1848 to Miss Susanna Van Buskirk, daughter 
of Enos Van Buskirk, of Carroll County, and 
she is now residing on the homestead in Car- 
rol lton, Ohio; their family consisted of seven 
children: William F. ; George J. ; Ann E., wife 
of James W. Cellars; Mary F., wife of Rev. A. 
T. Aller (Presbyterian), in Norton, Kas. ; Jane 
Marshall, wife of George H. Aller, of Malvern, 
Carroll Co., Ohio; Joseph C. and Harry Sum- 
ner, all being residents of Carrollton, Ohio, save 
as where otherwise stated. 

William F. Butler, whose name opens this 
sketch, was born February 23, 1845, in Carroll- 
ton, Carroll Co., Ohio, and received his education 
at the common schools of the place. At the age 
of fifteen, after having spent a short time in 
draying, he commenced clerking with I. Crum- 
rine; in 18G2 with James Huston; in 1864 with 
his father and L. D. Rowley (firm name Row- 
ley & Butler), in the store which he now suc- 
cessfully carries on. On April 26, 1866, he was 
married to Miss Matilda, daughter of Gen. H. 
A. Stidger, of Carrollton. Gen. Stidger was a 
native of Virginia and a settler, in 1830, of 
Carrollton, where, soon after coming, he opened 
a store which he carried on until his death in 
1885, he having then attained a good old age; his 
widow resides on the old homestead in Carroll- 
ton. To Mr. and Mrs. Butler has been born 
one child, Charles Harvey, who still resides at 
home. Our subject is a member of the K. of 
P., and in his political predilections he is a Re- 
publican. In 1868 he was appointed chief of 
police, serving two years; was also constable 
and deputy sheriff, serving some seven years 
under David Skeeles and James A. George; was 
elected coroner in 1886, and acted, on the death 
of David T. Watt, as sheriff from January to 
July, 1887, or until the appointment of John 
N. Davis. He has been a representative at con- 
ventions — State and otherwise — and helped to 
nominate Ex-Gov. Foster. Physically Mr. 
Butler is tall and robust, weighing about 200 



pounds, and is gifted with a fine basso-pro- 
fundo voice, which has often been heard to 
advantage in public, particularly at entertain- 
ments given by local and political glee clubs. 
He is proverbially popular, has a wide acquaint- 
ance, and is generally pronounced to be a ster- 
ling, genial and sociable companion. 



f | AMES P. CUMMINGS, banker, Carrollton, 
^. I was born in Archer Township, Harrison 
%J) Co, Ohio, in September, 1820. Here he 
attended the common schools, and, his fa- 
ther being a farmer, did his share of work on 
the home place until 1837, when he moved to 
Carrollton, Carroll county, and here clerked in 
the store of Isaac Atkinson for several years, 
when he entered into partnership with Mr. At- 
kinson and the latter's son, Robert, the young 
men carrying on the store, while Mr. Atkinson 
himself operated a carding mill, etc. This con- 
tinued some years, when, Robert Atkinson, hav- 
ing turned his attention to politics, securing, 
through the influence of his friend, Gov. Chase, 
a seat in the Senate, our subject was left to 
carry on the business alone. Robert Atkinson 
studied law, and finally 7 secured a lucrative posi- 
tion in Washington. The partnership being now 
dissolved, Mr. Cummings opened out a general 
store in Carrollton, with Wilson L. Akers as 
partner, but the partnership was soon after dis- 
solved. Mr. Cummings had in all eleven part 
ners at different times, the last one being Mr. 
Couch. Selling their interest in the business 
at Carrollton, they moved to Columbus, Ohio, 
where they opened out in the wholesale and re- 
tail grocery trade, and Mr. Cummings then went 
into the same line of business along with Judge 
Jamison. In 1870 he returned to Carrollton, 
and established his present banking institution, 
in company with Mr. Couch (already referred 
to in this sketch), which partnership continued 
till May, 1888, when Mr. Couch died, leaving 
our subject to carry on the business alone. In 
IN 14 Mr. Cummings married, in Carrollton, 
Phiniah, daughter of George and Mary Beatty. 



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former of whom was the first auditor of Carroll 
County, and brother of the first sheriff. By this 
union five children were born, viz. : Addie 
(deceased), Mary, wife of M. M. Marshall, in 
Omaha, Neb. , Robert and Lucy (both deceased), 
and Emma, at home. Mr. Cummings is a repre- 
sentative, self-made man, having commenced 
life a poor farm boy, and his enviable success is 
due to his own indomitable perseverance, busi- 
ness ability and shrewdness. In politics he is a 
Republican, but no office seeker; in religion he 
is a Methodist. 



THOMAS HAYS, one of the leading attor- 
neys of Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ohio, was 
born May 25, 1834, in Franklin Town- 
ship, Columbiana Co., Ohio. He is of 
Scotch-Irish descent, his ancestors having emi- 
grated from Scotland to Ireland during the 
reign of James I of England and VI of Scot- 
land. The name was originally Hay, but when 
the family became quite numerous they were 
spoken of as the "Hays," and about A. D. 
1750 a part of the family adopted the name of 
Hays, and have written it that way ever since. 
His parents, James and Mary (McKernan) Hays, 
were natives of County Tyrone, Ireland, where 
they, in 1818, were married. In 1819 they 
immigrated to America, and after a stay of 
about three years in Beaver County, Penn. , 
they moved to Columbiana County, Ohio, where 
they took up Government land, and were among 
the earliest of the pioneers, the woods abound- 
ing at that time with wild animals, including all 
kinds of game. Here they ended their days, 
their deaths occurring in 1846 and 1877, re- 
spectively. They had eight children — five sons 
and three daughters — the eldest of whom, Will- 
iam H. (now deceased), was born in County Ty- 
rone, Ireland; six of this family are yet living. 
Thomas Hays, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch, is the sixth in his 
father's family in the order of birth, and first 
saw light in an old log cabin on the original 
homestead in Columbiana County, as above 



related. His early life was spent with his par- 
ents, assisting them in the duties of the farm, 
and attending the early district schools. When 
about eighteen years of age he commenced 
teaching in the district schools of the neighbor- 
hood, a profession he followed at various times 
for some ten winters, and the earnings so made 
he devoted to pay the expense of his studies at 
the New Lisbon High School, which he attended 
three years, supplementing same with a short 
course of study at Mount Union College. 
"While engaged in teaching he read law, and 
under the able tuition of Judge John Clarke, of 
New Lisbon, he advanced rapidly till in June, 
1862, he was qualified to pass a most creditable 
examination before one of the supreme judges, 
1 and was admitted to the bar with the privilege 
of practicing before all the courts of the State 
of Ohio. In 1S67 he was admitted at Cleveland 
to practice before the United States District 
Court. In May, 1863, Mr. Hays came to Car- 
rollton, and here established himself in the 
practice of his chosen profession. Politically 
he is a Democrat, and for two years was mayor 
of Carrollton; also for three years served as a 
member of the board of education. In 1863 he 
married, in Columbiana County, Miss Martha J. 
Williams, a descendant of a pioneer family of 
that county, and four children have blessed 
them, viz.: Mary J., Joseph F., Adda C. and 
William J. Mr. and Mrs. Hays are members of 
the Presbyterian Church, and she is prominent 
in woman's work in connection therewith. He 
is the architect of his own success, and the fam- 
ily enjoy the respect and esteem of a wide circle 
of friends and acquaintances. 



LEVI STEMPLE, one of the most popular 
, and enterprising hotel-keepers in Carroll 
[ and adjoining counties, is proprietor of 

the leading hostelry in Carrollton, known 
as the "Hotel Van-Horn." He is a native of 
Carroll County, having been born August 15, 
1839, in Washington Township, tenth in the 
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daughters bom to Jacob and Eva (Easterday) 
Stemple. Jacob Stemple was born in Preston 
County, Virginia, whence, in 1818, be moved to 
Ohio, settling in what is now Carroll County, 
where he and his wife both died. He was a 
farmer by occupation, and had participated in 
the War of 1812 under Gen. Harrison, serving 
as corporal, and later, as captain in the militia. 
Levi Stemple was reared to agricultural pur- 
suits, attending the public schools and also the 
academy at Carrollton. At the age of twenty 
years he commenced life for his own account, 
and for one year taught school. In 18(35 he 
was married to Mary Gearhart, a native of 
Washington Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
and daughter of John and Mary Gearhart, pio- 
neers of that section. To this union were born 
eight children, as follows: Ora, Alma, Otto, Ada, 
Verna, Lawrence G., Coila and Marna. Mr. 
and Mrs. Stemple resided on their farm which 
they carried on industriously until 1875, in 
which year they came to Carrollton, where he 
established his present prosperous hotel busi- 
ness, in which his urbanity and attentiveness as 
a host are too well known to the traveling pub- 
lic and others to call for any comment in this 
sketch. Mrs. Stemple is a member of the Re- 
formed church; in politics Mr. Stemple is a 
Republican. 



JOHN RICHARD WILLIAMS, M. D., one 
] of the rising young physicians of Carroll 
County, and one of the most successful in 
the profession in Carrollton, is a native of 
that town, born February 18, 1858. His father, 
Maj. Robert F. Williams, was born in Wash- 
ington Township, same county, and in 1833 
moved to Carrollton. Here, shortly after the 
breaking out of the Civil War, he organized a 
company of volunteers, of which he was made 
captain. It was mustered into the service at 
Camp Mingo, Ohio, August 22, 1802, and was 
attached to the Ninety-eighth O. V. I., which 
regiment took active part in many of the prin- 
cipal engagements, among the first being the 



bloody battle of Perryville, under Gen. A. M. 
McCook, a former townsman of Maj. Williams; 
it was also present at the battle of Chickamauga, 
and was with Sherman's army in the Atlanta 
campaign, participating in the engagements at. 
Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Rome, Dallas and 
Kenesaw Mountain. In the advance on Atlanta, 
Maj. Williams was wounded in the leg by a 
miuie-ball, and owing to the crowded state of 
the hospitals, and the sultry weather, gangrene 
set in, causing his death, which occurred August 
1(1, 1864, his commission as major being issued 
November 3, same year, although virtually pro- 
moted to that rank about a month before he was 
wounded. In 1846 he was married to Miss 
Mary McGuire, a native of Carrollton, a daughter 
of E. McGuire, and to them were born five chil- 
dren, one of whom died in infancy. The widowed 
mother is still living, in the enjoyment of good 
health. The following is a brief record of the 
four surviving children: John Richard, the 
eldest, is spoken of more fully farther on ; 
Emma, the second child, was born, raised and 
schooled in Carrollton, was teacher in the dis- 
trict and Union School, and also taught music 
(in 1885 she was married to Rev. W. A. Miller, 
then minister of the German Reformed Church, 
of Carrollton, and they have one child born to 
them called Mary); Robert C, the next in order 
of birth, was also born and raised in Carrollton, 
graduating in the Union School (he taught in 
the district and also the Union School; was a 
successful applicant at the competitive examina- 
tion held at Alliance, Ohio, under McKinley's 
term, for West Point. He graduated from West 
Point (Military Academy) in 1886, received his 
commission of second lieutenant of the Fifteenth 
Regiment, and was assigned to Fort Randall, 
Dak. In 1888 he was married to Miss Arta 
Parvin, of Cincinnati. He became the choice of 
the trustees of De Pauw University, Greencastle, 
Ind., for the chair of military science and tac- 
tics, to which place he was assigned by the war 
department in 1891, and which he now holds, 
also teaching surveying and other mathematical 
branches for the Academy); Mary Atlanta, the 



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youngest child, was born while the father was 
approaching Atlanta, was named by him, but he 
never reached home alive to see her (she was 
also schooled in the Union School at Carrollton, 
and taught district schools in Magnolia, Ohio. 
She was married in Carrollton, Ohio, to Charles 
Sterling, a carriage manufacturer of the firm of 
Sterling & Baxter, of Carrollton, and they have 
two children, Emma and Richard). 

John Richard Williams was eight years old 
when his father died. He was educated at the 
public schools of his native place, and in his 
boyhood was a clerk for some time; also for about 
three years served with a corps of engineers en- 
gaged in the construction of a railroad. In the 
spring of 1878 he began the study of medicine 
under the instruction of Dr. L. D. Stockon, of 
Carrollton, having previously taught in the dis- 
trict schools. In 1879-80-81 he attended lect- 
ures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New 
York, graduating therefrom in 1881. Return- 
ing to Carrollton, he here commenced the prac- 
tice of his chosen profession in partnership with 
Dr. Stockon, which business relation existed 
until the spring of 1890. The Doctor has built 
up a lucrative practice, the result of close and 
careful attention to business. 

In October, 1881, he was married to Irene, 
daughter of Dr. L. D. and Etta Stockon, of 
Carrollton, and one child, a daughter named 
Lois, has blessed their union. Dr. and Mrs. 
Williams are members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, at Carrollton; in politics he has 
always been a straight Republican, and has 
served his town as councilman; at present time 
he is a member of the board of education of Car- 
rollton special district, and clerk of that body. 




WALLACE L. HANDLEY, attorney, of 

Carrollton, Carroll County, was born 

lfj in Green Township, Harrison Co., 

Ohio, January 13, 1856, a son of 

David and Lydia (Fogle) Handley, both natives 

of the same township. His early life was spent 

on the farm and in attending the district and 



other schools. When twelve years of age he 
accompanied his parents to Uhrichsville, Ohio, 
where he further improved his rudimentary 
education at tbe public schools. After several 
years' stay at Uhrichsville, the family returned 
to Hopedale, in Harrison County, where our 
subject pursued a course of study at the Normal 
College, at the same time reading Blackstone 
and Kent. He was under the special charge of 
the late Cyrus McNeely, founder of the college 
at Hopedale, Ohio, to whom Mr. Handley will 
always be thankful for his assistance to bim. 
In 1877 he moved to Carrollton, where he con- 
tinued his studies of the law with S. M. Crain, 
and was admitted to the bar before the Supreme 
Court of Ohio in 1881, and at once established 
himself in business in Carrollton. 

In 1877 Mr. Handley was married to Anna 
J. Wathey, a native of Carroll County, and 
daughter of Zachary and Mary Wathey, early 
settlers of the county. To this union three 
children were born: Wintield H. , December 9, 
1878; Zachary A. (or "Archie"), December 13, 
1886; the other, a boy, was born and died April 
23, 1882; "Archie" died of cerebro spinal 
meningitis June 12, 1888. 

Mr. Wallace L. Handley is, politically, a 
Republican, and, in religion, is a Methodist, he 
and Mrs. Handley being members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church at Carrollton, Ohio. Mr. 
Handley takes considerable pride in the light- 
harness horse, and breeds some very good ones 
for pleasure and profit. 



ZACHARY WATHEY. The AVatbey fam- 
ily is one of the oldest and best known 
^ in Augusta Township. John Wathey, 

father of our subject, was born in Derby- 
shire, England, in 1786, and was one of a party 
who left their native land in the year 1818 to 
seek a home in the New World. After a voyage 
of seven weeks they landed at Baltimore, Md. ; 
there they purchased horses and wagons, and 
drove to and settled in wbat is now known as 
Augusta Township, Carroll County (this town- 



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ship at that time being a part of Columbiana 
County), Obio. Here they built for themselves 
homes, which, although log cabins of the primi- 
tive style, were yet to them the dearest spots on 
earth. Ann Richardson, who became his wife, 
was also a native of England, coming to this 
country in 1819, in which year they were mar- 
ried, began the struggle of life and under- 
went hardships of which the present generation 
know but little. To this union five children were 
born — three boys and two girls. In October, 
L828, sorrow entered the little circle, and death 
took the faithful wife and good mother from 
their midst. In 1829 Mr. Wathey was married 
to Edith Walton, of the same township, to which 
union two children were born: Henry and Mary 
Ann. John Wathey died in June, 1877. Mrs. 
Wathey, after rearing and caring for the chil- 
dren by Mr. Wathey' s first marriage, as her 
own, finally died at her daughter's home in 
Petrolia, Penn., in 1890. 

Zachary Wathey, whose name heads this 
biographical sketch, is a son of John, the pi- 
oneer, and was born July 18, 1822, on the farm 
alluded to above, and was reared in Augusta 
Township. As the advantages for obtaining an 
education at that time were limited, he did not 
receive the book education that the present gen- 
eration boast of; but by years of experience 
and dealing with practical people, he obtained 
what is most valuable — a practical business edu- 
cation. October 22, 1848, at the age of twenty- 
six, Mr. Wathey married Miss Mary Permar, 
who was reared in same township, and whose 
parents were of French descent. Soon after 
marriage they settled in Washington Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, where Mr. Wathey, with Jo- 
siah C. Shaw, engaged in the carding and 
milling business, and after living about eight 
years in Washington Township they returned to 
Augusta Township, and settled on their present 
beautiful farm in the year 1853. Three children 
have been the result of this union, two of whom 
are dead. Anna, the survivor, is married to W. 
L. Handley, of Carrollton. Mr. Wathey has a 
good farm, well supplied in every particular, 



and takes much pride in raising good stock. In 
politics he is a Republican, and at the last county 
election, November 4, 1890, was elected county 
commissioner. There are but few men who have 
more friends in Carroll County than Mr. Wathey. 



V 



JRGIL STOCKON, one of the best 
1 known citizens of Carrollton, and a mem- 
ber of one of the old established families 
of Carroll County, was born in New 
Hagerstown, Carroll Co., Ohio, April 25, 1848, 
a son of Dr. Samuel M. and Caroline (Win- 
chell) Stockon. 

The Stockon family in Harrison County 
trace their ancestry to England, the great- 
grandparents of our subject having come (it is 
believed) from that country to America. Grand- 
father Samuel Stockon was a resident of East 
Haddam, Conn., where he followed the trade 
of ship carpenter, and from there he moved, in 
1810, to Hartford, same State, his family con- 
sisting, at that time, of himself, his wife, Irene 
(Sears), and five daughters (by his first marriage), 
of whom Sally was married to a Mr. English; 
Caroline and the third daughter were married 
to brothers named Griggs, and the fourth 
daughter married a Mr. Petrie. The name of 
Mr. Stockon*s first wife is unknown, but it is on 
record that he married, in 1805, for his second 
wife, Mrs. Irene (Sears) Montfriedy, a widow. 
A Mr. Lefingwell was her first husband, by 
whom she had three sons, Richard, Elicia and 
one that died in childhood. By her second 
husband, Albert Montfriedy, she had two chil- 
dren, both boys, named Albert and John. By 
this second wife Samuel Stockon had four chil- 
dren, viz. : Julia, born in East Haddam, Conn., 
about 1807 (she lived in New York City until 
her marriage with Edward McLane, and they 
then moved to New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas 
Co., Obio): Samuel M. , born in Hartford, 
Conn.; Charles and Annie (Charles married 
Jane Wiuchell and came west the same time as 
his father did; Annie married Foreus Worth, 
and they then settled in Dunkirk, N. Y. , where 



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the family yet live). After Samuel Stockon 
moved to Hartford he went into the market 
gardening business, and enjoyed a large share 
of the city trade in that line. 

Samuel M. Stockon, father of Virgil, when 
fourteen years of age entered Dr. Cogswell's 
office in Hartford, Conn., as "office boy," and 
two years after was appointed to a school at 
Islip, L. I., where he taught two years, after 
which he returned to Dr. Cogswell's office and 
commenced the study of medicine. At the ex- 
piration of a year he went to East Granby, 
Conn., where he was under the perceptorship 
of Dr. Brown, also one year, and from there he 
proceeded to Barkley College, in New York 
City, where he continued the study of medicine, 
and acted as one of the under physicians in 
Bellevue Hospital, until after the cholera epi- 
demic of 1831-32, when he graduated from 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and com- 
menced the practice of his profession in Collins- 
ville, Conn. Here he remained one year, and 
was married September 15, 1833, to Caroline 
A. Winchell. The Winchell family have for 
several generations been natives and residents 
of Connecticut. Grandfather Elisha Winchell 
had three brothers: Luke, Eli and Grove, and 
one sister, Minnie Clark, all born and reared in 
Turkey Hill, Conn. , and his children were (boys) 
Elisha, Elias, Allen, Reuben, Shaler, Tryan, 
Sardes and Volny, and (girls) Mindraell, Vio- 
letta, Phceby and Mary. 

After marriage Dr. Stockon moved to Brim- 
field, Ohio, a small village located about five 
miles from Franklin (now known as Kent), Port- 
age County, where he practiced his profession 
two years; then moved to New Hagerstown, 
Carroll County, and from there, in 1850, moved 
to New Market (now Scico), Harrison Co. , Ohio, 
and thence in 1858 to Carrollton, Carroll Co., 
Ohio. In addition to his medical practice Dr. 
Stockon carried on for some years a private 
banking business in Carrollton, which he had 
established in 1876. On July 30, 1888, the 
Doctor passed from earth; his widow still sur- 
vives him. They were the parents of seven 



children, four of whom are yet living. In poli- 
tics Dr. Samuel M. Stockon was a Democrat. 

Virgil Stockon was about ten years of age 
when his parents came to Carrollton, in which 
town he attended the common schools, and in 
1806-67 he was a student at an academy in 
New Haven, Conn., where he finished his edu- 
cation. Having learned telegraphy, he followed 
that business four years on the Pan Handle 
Railroad, commencing at Washington, Penn., 
and then worked at various points on the line 
as far west as Indiana. In 1876 Mr. Stockon 
entered liis father's newly established bank, as 
cashier, and in 1878, in order to further qualify 
himself for his responsible position, he took a 
course in book-keeping at Columbus Business 
College, and since the death of his father he 
has continued the banking business for his own 
account. On October 19, 1886, he was married 
to Louella Kennedy, daughter of Rev. S. Y. 
and Susan (Piper) Kennedy, former of whom 
is a Methodist Episcopal minister in Ohio, and 
by this union were born two children, Susan 
and Caroline, both at home. Mr. Stockon is a 
member of the F. & A. M. and K. of P. ; in 
politics he is a Democrat. 



L 



D. STOCKON, M. D., one of the best 
known and most successful physicians of 
Carroll County, was born in New Hagers- 
town, Carroll Co., Ohio, November 4, 
1838, a son of Dr. Samuel M. and Caroline 
(Winchell) Stockon. 

The Stockon family in Harrison County 
trace their ancestry to England, the great-grand- 
parents of our subject having come (it is be- 
lieved) from that country to America. Grand- 
father Samuel Stockon was a resident of East 
Haddam, Conn., where he followed the trade of 
ship carpenter, and from there he moved, in 
1810, to Hartford, same State, his family con- 
sisting, at that time, of himself, his wife, Irene 
(Sears), and five daughters (by his first mar- 
riage), of whom Sallie was married to a Mr. 
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married to brothers named Griggs, and the 
fourth daughter married a Mr. Petrie. The 
name of Mr. Stockon's first wife is unknown, 
but it is on record that he married, in 1805, for 
his second wife, Mrs. Irene (Sears) Montfriedy, 
a widow. A Mr. Lefingwell was her first hus- 
band, by whom she had three sons, Richard, 
Elicia and one that died in childhood. By her 
second husband, Albert Montfriedy, she had two 
children, both boys, named Albert and John. 
By this second wife Samuel Stockon had four 
children, viz. : Julia, born in East Haddam, 
Conn., about 1S07 (she lived in New York City 
until her marriage with Edward McLane, and 
they then moved to New Philadelphia, Tusca- 
rawas Co. , Ohio) ; Samuel M. , born in Hartford, 
Conn. ; Charles and Annie (Charles married 
Jane "Winchell, and came west the same time 
as his father did; Annie married Forcus Worth, 
and they then settled in Dunkirk, N. Y. , where 
the family yet live). After Samuel Stockon 
moved to Hartford he went into the market 
gardening business, and enjoyed a large share 
of the city trade in that line. 

Samuel M. Stockon, father of our subject, 
when fourteen years of age entered Dr. Cogs- 
well' s office in Hartford, Conn., as office boy, 
and two years after he was appointed to a school 
at Islip, L. I., where he taught two years, 
after which he returned to Dr. Cogswell's office, 
and commenced the study of medicine. At the 
expiration of a year he went to East Granby, 
Conn., where he was under the preceptorship of 
Dr. Brown, also one year, and from there he 
proceeded to Barkley College, in New York 
City, where he continued the study of medicine, 
and acted as one of the under physicians in 
Bellevue Hospital until after the cholera epi- 
demic of 1831-32, when he graduated from 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and com- 
menced the practice of his profession at Collins- 
ville, Conn. Here he remained one year and 
was married, September 15, 1833, to Caroline 
A. Winchell, daughter of Allen Winchell. The 
Winchell family have for several genera- 
tions been natives and residents of Connecti- 



cut. Grandfather Elisha Winchell had three 
brothers — Luke, Eli and Grove — and one sister — 
Minnie Clark — all born and reared in Turkey 
Hill, Conn., and his children were (boys) 
Elisha, Elias, Allen, Beuben, Shaler, Tryan, 
Sardes and Volny, and (girls) Mindraell, Vio- 
letta, Phcebe and Mary. Allen Winchell was 
the father of eight children, viz. : Julia, Jane, 
Caroline A., Jerusha, Windwel, Allen P., Mary 
and James. 

After marriage Dr. Stockon, moved to Brim- 
field, Ohio, a small village located about five 
miles from Franklin (now known as Kent), 
Portage County, where he practiced his profes- 
sion two years; then moved to New Hagerstown, 
Carroll County. In 1858 he came to Carroll- 
ton. In addition to his medical practice Dr. 
Stockon carried on for some years a private 
banking business in Carroll ton, which he had 
established in 1870. On July 30, 1888, the 
Doctor passed from earth ; his widow is yet liv- 
ing, aged eighty-one years. They were the 
parents of seven children, four of whom sur- 
vive. In politics Dr. Samuel M. Stockon was a 
Democrat. 

L. D. Stockon received his primary educa- 
tion at the common schools of his native town, 
supplementing same with a course of study at 
Scio and Hopedale, in Harrison County. In 
1859 he began reading medicine under the pre- 
ceptorship of his father, Dr. Samuel Marvin 
Stockon. Having now completed his course of 
study, Dr. Stockon settled in Carrollton in the 
general practice of medicine, in connection 
with which he has carried on a drug store for 
about two years. In 1860 the Doctor was mar- 
ried to Miss Juliet, daughter of Osmon and 
Julia (Mathews) Thomas, of Streetsborough, 
Portage Co., Ohio, former a native of New 
York State, latter of Massachusetts; they were 
members of the Baptist Church, in which he 
served as deacon from the age of twenty-three 
years up to the time of his death, which oc- 
curred when he was eighty-two years of age. 
To Dr. and Mrs. Stockon were born six chil- 
dren, as follows: Caroline, who died of whooping 



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cough; Irene, wife of Dr. J. E. Williams, of Car- 
rollton, Ohio ; Flora M. , wife of L. E. Keiper, also 
of Carrollton; Daisy, who died of capillar}* bron- 
chitis; Samuel M. , who died of spinal menin- 
gitis when four years of age, and Samuel M. , 
at home, now (1891) aged thirteen years. Dr. 
Stockon's home, in which he has resided some 
thirty years, is situated on Main Street, and his 
drug store is equipped with all druggist's sun- 
dries, notions, wallpapers, etc. In politics the 
Doctor is a Democrat, and, socially, he is a mem- 
ber of the I. O. O. F. 



JOHN CAMPBELL, sheriff of Carroll Coun- 
ty, and one of its most popular citizens, 
was born on the family homestead in Har- 
rison Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, March 
23, 1849, the third son, and seventh in order of 
birth of the twelve children born to James R. 
and Catharine (Hueston) Campbell. His grand- 
father, William Campbell, emigrated from Scot- 
land to this country in an early day, settling in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, where he died. He had 
born to him five children, the eldest of whom, 
James R., the father of our subject, first saw the 
light in Jefferson County, where he grew to ma- 
turity, and married, at the age of twenty-four 
years, Catherine Hueston, a native of Carroll 
County, and of Scotch descent. After their mar- 
riage they settled on a tract of land in Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, which they at once 
set to work to clear and improve. They were 
among the early pioneers of that region, their 
dwelling being a primitive log cabin; and here 
they reared their family of five sons and seven 
daughters, all of whom grew to maturity and 
married. This honored couple passed from earth, 
respected and esteemed by all, he in October, 
1870, at the age of sixty-four years, and she iu 
October, 1885, aged seventy-two years; they 
were consistent members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church at Baxter's Ridge. 

John Campbell, the subject proper of this 
biographical sketch, received his education at 
the common schools of his district, having to 



walk two miles in winter time to the nearest 
school-house. At the death of his father he was 
appointed executor of the estate, and continued 
to live with his widowed mother, superintending 
the farm, three years. On December 31, 1874, 
he was united in marriage with Lieu Emma 
Woods, a native of Carroll County, daughter of 
Robert and Catharine (Finefrock) Woods, early 
pioneers of the county. After marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Campbell carried on farming in Har- 
rison Township until 187S, in which year he em- 
barked in the hardware business at Dell Roy, 
Monroe Township, same county, which he con- 
tinued until 1884, when he sold out and removed 
to Carrollton, where he engaged with the hard- 
ware firm of Huston & Son. 

In the Republican primaries of June, 1887, 
Mr. Campbell received the nomination for sheriff 
of Carroll County, for which office there were 
no less than five candidates, and in the fall he 
was elected by a handsome majority, his popu- 
larity being such that he ran ahead of his ticket, 
and so efficiently did he fulfill the duties of the 
office that he was re-elected without opposition 
in 1889, and is now serving his second term. 
To our subject and wife have been born three 
children: Jetta May, Robert W. and John Roy. 
The parents are both members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Carrollton. He is a mem- 
ber of the I. O. O. F., and has filled all the 
chairs of the lodge. In 1890 he was elected a 
member of the Board of Public Education at 
Carrollton. 



I OHN G. BYDER, contractor and builder, 
^. I one of the industrious and prosperous 
\^J) citizens of Carrollton. Carroll County, 
comes of German parentage, his father, 
Sebastian Byder, and his mother, Catharine 
(Gossman) Byder, having been natives of 
Wurtemberg, whence, when young, they came 
to America where they were married. In Penn- 
sylvania they remained some time, thence 
moved to Ohio, where in 1842 they settled on a 
farm in Knox Township, Columbiana County, 



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where they died ; he was by trade a tanner, 
which he followed the greater part of his life. 
They were the parents of two children, viz.: 
John G. and a daughter. 

John G. Byder, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch, was born in Columbiana 
County, Ohio, December 5, 1S39, and was 
reared on his father's farm, attending the pub- 
lic schools. When about the age of seventeen 
he went to Mt. Union, and from there, some 
time later, to Pittsburgh, where he served an 
apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and 
joiner, at which he worked till the breaking out 
of the Civil War, when, in response to the 
President's call for volunteers, he offered him- 
self, May 15, 1861, for the three months' serv- 
ice, but the quota having been tilled up, he 
went to Wheeling, W. Va. , where he enlisted in 
Company G, First Regiment, West Virginia 
Flying Artillery (he was first mustered into the 
Second Regiment of Infantry, and then trans- 
ferred). After a short stay in camp, his regi- 
ment was sent to Beverly, W. Va., thence to 
Elkwater, where it joined the forces of Gen. 
Rosecrans. It participated in the engagements 
at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater and Cross Keys, 
and in 1862 was transferred to the Army of the 
Potomac under Gen. Pope, being present at the 
second battle of Bull Run and in the fight at 
Culpeper Court House. In September, that 
year, Mr. Byder was seized with typhoid fever, 
and was sent to hospital at Washington, D. C. 
(the Odd Fellows' Hall having been extempor- 
ized for that purpose), where he remained some 
rive or sis months. On his recovery he rejoined 
his company, and took part in all the skirmishes 
and raids participated in by his regiment in West 
Virginia and Tennessee, including the affair at 
White Sulphur Springs. On June 15, 1864, our 
subject received an honorable discharge at 
Wheeling, and returned to Pittsburgh, whence, 
after a short sojourn he went to his father's 
home, and resumed the vocations of peace. 

In 1866 Mr. Byder was married to Margaret 
Buck, a native of Carroll County, and daughter 
of John G. and Mary (Houck) Buck, to which 



union five children have been born. In 1867 
our subject went to Salem, Ohio, where he 
carried on his trade till 1869, in which year he 
came to Carrol lton, where he has since success- 
fully followed his business. Among the build- 
ings he has put up in Carrollton may be men- 
tioned his own handsome residence and those of 
Judge Taylor, Dr. Stockon, Mrs. Fawcett and 
the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, besides the 
Van Horn House, Boegel's cigar store, rebuild- 
ing the Hoop House, putting a third story on the 
K. of P. hall, etc. Mr. Byder is a Republican; 
has been a member of the school board. The 
family are all members of the Lutheran Church. 



Fit NDREW N. GARTRELL, youngest son 
[I \\ of Upton B. and Margaret (McCullough) 
#r~l\ Gartrell, was born in Orange Township, 
// Carroll Co., Ohio, September 18, 1855. 

He was there educated in the district schools, 
being reared at the same time to agricultural 
pursuits, and October 2, 1878, he was married 
to Martha E. Bowers, a native of Harrison 
County, Ohio, born October 2, 1857, and whose 
parents John and Jane Bowers were old set- 
tlers of that county, her grandfather Bowers 
having been one of the first pioneers. Mrs. 
Gartrell had resided all her life in Harrison 
County, up to the time of her marriage, and the 
young couple then settled on their present farm, 
comprising eighty acres of prime land, and sit- 
uated about one mile north of Leesville, in 
Orange Township, Carroll County. Seven chil- 
dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gartrell (six of 
whom died in early infancy), as follows: a son, 
born December 13, 1879, died same day; a son, 
born December 26, 1880, and died January 11, 
1891; a son, born March IS, 1882, died March 
20, 1882; an infant, born July 31, 1883, died 
August 12, 18S3; Clara Belle, born February 
18, 1888, and died July 18, 1888; a daughter, 
born April 19, 1889, and died same day, and 
Edgar J. born October 26, 1885. Our subject 
and wife are members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, and in politics he is a Republican. 



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/^-EN. E. R. ECKLEY. In the land of 
_ the Teutons the Eckley family first 
\m|' sprung into existence, the name being 
2* essentially German. Thence a branch 
of them, some time in the long ago, migrated 
to English soil, where were born the more im- 
mediate ancestry of Gen. Eckley. The first of 
the family to come to America was John, who 
remained for a time in New York, and then 
moved to New Jersey. He had five sons, viz. : 
Barnabas, who became the founder of a large 
mercantile firm in Boston, Mass. ; John, who 
was chief justice of the courts of Pennsylvania; 
Ephraim, who changed the spelling of the name 
to " Akley, " was hanged in Long Island by the 
Tories (he was the grandfather of Prof. Akley, 
of Cleveland, Ohio); Peter, the grandfather 
of Gen. Eckley, and Joseph, who was with 
Washington at the capture of Trenton, accom- 
panied Crawford as a lieutenant on his expedi- 
tion against Sandusky Indians, and was sup- 
posed to have been killed. These brothers 
were all engaged in the Revolutionary War, 
Peter as a member of the New Jersey troops. 
At the battle of Harlem Plains he was shot in 
the leg, from which he never fully recovered. 
These brothers had a sister, named Elizabeth, 
who married Major Callaway, a particular 
friend of Daniel Boone, of Kentucky. A 
daughter of Boone and one of the Callaways 
were captured by the Indians, but were retaken 
by their fathers. The Government gave Boone 
and Callaway each a township tract of land in 
Missouri, and named two counties, respectively, 
Boone and Callaway. Both these men became 
members of the State Legislature of Missouri. 
In New Jersey Peter Eckley was married to 
Esther, daughter of Thomas Ralph, who had a 
son (Ephraim) an officer in the Revolution, and 
who was wounded at the battle of Princeton. The 
Ralphs moved to Westmoreland County. Penn., 
where Ephraim Ralph joined Col. Lockry's ex- 
pedition against the Indians. There were two 
detachments of troops, Ralph being second in 
command. The first detachment, under Lockry, 
led the advance, and the second was to land on 



a given signal. Simon Girty, the renegade 
white chief of the Indians, ambushed the first, 
exterminating it, and having discovered the 
signal for the second detachment to land, he 
gave it, and on their arrival he surrounded 
them, killing all, including Ralph, except three 
who returned home — Ralph's servant, by name 
John Orr, an Irishman, being one of them. 
He made his way from Detroit to Fort Pitt, 
accompanied only by his dog, and had little 
else to guide him on his retreat save the stars 
by night and the sun by day. Coming to 
Beaver River, he swam across, but as his dog 
did not follow, he recrossed the stream for his 
faithful four-footed friend. Arriving at Fort 
Pitt, Orr told his direful tale. He afterward 
became sheriff of Westmoreland County, Penn.. 
and was the first of the family of that name in 
western Pennsylvania. 

The grandparents of our subject remained 
some time in Pennsylvania, and in about the 
year 1800 they came to what is now the State of 
Ohio, whither their eldest son had preceded 
them. They finally settled in Richland County, 
same State, where they died, the grandfather at 
the age of eighty years, and the grandmother 
when ninety-two years old. They had a family 
of eleven children, the record of whom is as fol- 
lows: Lydia died at the age of twenty; Ephraim 
was the father of Gen. Eckley; Joseph died in 
Pennsylvania; George died in Illinois; Esther, 
wife of William Neely, in Illinois; Peter died 
in Hillsboro, Ohio; Charity is the deceased wife 
of Lewis Hardenbrook, of Mount Gilead, Ohio; 
Thomas died in Carroll County, Ohio; Eleanor 
is the deceased wife of Bartley Finley, of Mount 
Gilead, Ohio; Levi was at one time a member 
of the State Senate of Georgia, and afterward 
lieutenant-governor of the State, thence moved 
to Illinois and from there to San Francisco, Cal., 
where he kept a hotel and died; John was in 
Iowa when last heard from. 

Ephraim Eckley grew to manhood on his 
father's farm, and when Ohio was yet a Terri- 
tory he came hither, becoming a river trader, 
in the plying of which vocation he made no less 





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than twenty-two trips to New Orleans. He was 
wedded to Sarah Van Gilder, a descendant of 
an old Dutch family, ship-builders at Cape May, 
for whom a square in New York City is named. 
Jeremiah Van Gilder met and married a Miss 
Sarah Sharpe, of New Jersey. The Sharpe 
family were of English extraction, and were 
numerous in the eastern States. The parents 
of Mrs. Sarah (Van Gilder) Eckley died, the 
father in Allegheny County, Penn., and the 
mother in what is now Richland County, Ohio, 
whither she had come in 1816, when this region 
was a wilderness. She was twice married, and 
by her first husband, Jeremiah Van Gilder, she 
had five children — two sons and three daughters 
— who all lived to great ages: Sarah, the mother 
of Gen. Eckley, died aged ninety; Sophia, died 
aged eighty-six; Margaret, died earlier in life; 
John, died aged eighty- three; Peter died earlier 
in life. Until 1814 the Eckleys remained in 
what is now Jefferson County, Ohio, and then 
six families moved to Mohican Valley, the Van- 
Gilders following in 1816. Later they (the 
Eckleys) proceeded to Olney, 111., where the 
father of our subject died in 1863, at the age of 
eighty-four years, and the mother in 1870, aged 
ninety. They were the parents of seven chil- 
dren, viz. : Jeremiah, who died in New Orleans 
in February, 1831 (he was editor of the Feliciana 
Gazette); Peter, who moved to Indiana, then to 
Illinois, and finally to Iowa, where he died of 
" la grippe " in the spring of 1890, at the age 
of eighty-five years; Daniel, M. D., who prac- 
ticed medicine for half a century, and is now a 
resident of Minerva, Ohio; Lydia, deceased wife 
of Joshua Johnson, of Illinois; Ephraim Ralph, 
the subject proper of this commemorative sketch; 
Harvey, M. D., in Circleville, Ohio (who was 
with Houston in the Texan revolution of 1836, 
then moved to Jackson, La., where he was a 
merchant, and from there proceeded to Tennes- 
see, where he married; at the time of the Civil 
War he was arrested and imprisoned six months 
for his Union sentiments, being taken to Vicks- 
burg; after his release he returned to his home. 
He was afterward made collector for the West- 



ern District of Tennessee, which office he tilled 
for sixteen years; then moved to Kansas, where 
he now resides), and Milton, who died in Kansas. 
Gen. E. R. Eckley is a native of Jefferson 
County, Ohio, born December 9, 1811, and was 
consequently but three years of age when tile 
family moved to Mohican Valley, yet the Gen- 
eral says he still remembers that memorable trip 
made over three quarters of a century ago. In 
this new wild home he grew up, surrounded by 
dangers from many sources, and helped clear 
the farm, chopping down the "lords of the 
forest " and clearing away the brush, many a 
day. The first school he attended was held in 
the old traditional log school-house, with greased- 
paper windows, etc. , and his first teacher was a 
one-legged man who knew but little more than 
his scholars. Thus passed the boyhood and 
youth of our subject, and at the age of eighteen 
he became a teacher, also a clerk in a country 
store. About this time the " Yankees " began 
to come into the settlement, schools and other 
institutions were improved, New England ideas 
were disseminated in the community, and among 
the innovations introduced was the first "school 
inarm ' ' (a Miss Baird ) ever seen in those 
regions. In 1833 young Eckley made prepara- 
tions for a journey to Louisiana, but having re- 
ceived the offer of a clerkship in a store in Har- 
rison County, Ohio, he pretended to his people 
that he was going there (something he really 
had no intention of doing), but instead, he came 
to Carroll County, same State, where an uncle 
was desirous of having him teach school. This 
he did for one year, commencing in the fall of 
1833. In the meantime he began'reading law 
under Judge Johnson, now residing in Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, at the advanced age of eighty-seven 
years. In 1834 Mr. Eckley moved to Mansfield, 
Ohio, where he was acquainted with some of the 
lawyers of the place, aud here the business of a 
certain firm having gone into the hands of a re- 
ceiver, our subject was appointed "master," 
which found him occupation for another year. 
About this time the county surveyor was making 
arrangements to have some surveying done in 



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Indiana, and succeeded in getting Mr. Eckley 
to join his corps of assistants. The party pro- 
ceeded to the Hoosier State, but the summer 
having set in wet, they dreaded the ague, so 
prevalent in those days, and the members of the 
expedition, which was abandoned, were scat- 
tered to the four points of the compass, our 
subject returning to Richland County, where he 
spent the summer. He surveyed and laid out 
the first lots where the town of Crestline, in 
Crawford County, now stands. In the fall of 
1836 he came to Carrollton, Carroll County, 
where his home has since been made. Here he 
was admitted to the bar in October, 1837, and 
here he practiced his profession up to the break- 
ing out of the Civil War. In 1843 he was 
elected to the State Senate, representing the 
district composed of Carroll and Jefferson 
Counties, and in 1845 he was re-elected, his 
district being composed this time of Carroll and 
Tuscarawas Counties. For the next term he was 
out of the Senate, but in 1849 he was returned; 
this proved a stormy session, there being a revo- 
lution of parties, and four weeks were occupied 
in organizing. In 1851, when the new consti- 
tution was adopted, he was a Whig candidate 
for the lieutenant-governorship of Ohio, Samuel 
F. Vinton being the candidate for governor on 
the same ticket. Mr. Eckley, however, was un- 
successful in this. In 1853 he was sent to the 
House of Representatives from Carroll County, 
and was voted for as a Whig candidate for 
United States Senator by said Legislature. In 
1856 he was delegate to the Fremont Conven- 
tion, held at Philadelphia, and in 1860 was ap- 
pointed a rriVrnberof the convention which nomi- 
nated Lincoln, but was unable to attend. 

On June 10, 1861, the Civil War having now 
broken out, our subject was appointed lieuten- 
ant-colonel of the Twenty-sixth O. V. I., and 
in December following was promoted to colonel 
of the Eightieth O. V. I. He was in West 
Virginia with his command, whence he brought 
his regiment same year to Cincinnati, where it 
was turned over, and Col. Eckley then took 
command of a regiment at Camp Meigs. On 



February 17, 1862, they broke camp and pro- 
ceeded direct to Cairo, 111. On March 8, fol- 
lowing, they were ordered to proceed up the 
Ohio and land at Paducah. Here Sherman 
turned the camp over to Col. Eckley, and went 
to Pittsburg Landing. Our subject remained 
in camp at Paducah until April, and then moved 
farther up the river, but was met by a messenger 
boat with orders for him to stop at Dresden 
Roads, and allow neither friend nor foe to pass. 
Then orders came to fall back and fortify the 
road; missing Shiloh the command again pro- 
ceeded up the river, debarking at Hamburg. 
Col. Eckley was then assigned to the command 
of a brigade near Corinth, after which he was 
again given command of a brigade in the Army 
of the Mississippi, and followed Beauregard to 
Booneville, Miss. ; from here he fell back to 
within six miles of Corinth, remaining there in 
camp until the early fall of that year. On Sep- 
tember 19, 1862, his command were engaged at 
Inka, and, on October 3 and 4 following, they 
participated in the battle of Corinth. In 
March, 1863, he left his regiment and returned 
home. In the fall of that year he went to Con- 
gress, having been elected to same some time 
previously, where he served six years, having 
been elected three times. He was one of the 
twenty-two members who opposed the immedi- 
ate giving to the rebels full rights of citizen- 
ship. The General is now peacefully resting on 
his laurels, respected and honored by all who 
know him. 

Gen. E. R. Eckley was married, in 1837, to 
Martha L. Brown, of Carrollton, who is still 
alive, and there were born to them five children, 
viz.: Helen A., who married Dr. James West- 
fall, a surgeon in the Union Army; William J., 
who was a captain in the War of the Rebellion, 
and at its close was appointed a lieutenant in 
the regular army, joined his command in New 
Mexico, and died at Fort Sumner in 1S67; 
Harvey J., an attorney of Carrollton, Ohio; 
Ralph B., who died in infancy, and Martha L., 
who married Dr. W. C. Skeels, a physician of 
Carrollton. The Eckley family were originally 



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Episcopalians, but after coining west were gen- 
erally attached to the Presbyterians. 



J,OHN B. VAN FOSSEN, a native of Carroll 
County, Obio, was born in East Township, 
' December 29, 1844. His grandfather, Jesse 
Van Fossen, who was a Pennsylvania farm- 
er, married a Miss Donaldson, and soon thereafer 
they came to Carroll County, settling on a farm 
in East Township, where they both died. They 
were the parents of eight children — live sons 
and three daughters — of whom are still living 
Jesse J., in East Township; Levi, in Fox Town- 
ship, and Robert, near Cadiz, Harrison County. 
Another of the sons, David D., was brought up 
to farm life, and in 1839 was married to Miss 
Eleanor, daughter of John Boice, of Mechanics- 
town, Carroll Co., Ohio. The Boice family were 
among the early comers to this county. Mr. 
and Mrs. David D. Van Fossen made their home 
in Carroll County, and at the breaking out of 
the Civil War he enlisted in Company A, Thirty- 
second O. V. I., which was sent South, where 
he died of disease in Beverly, \V. Va., March 
21, 1802, at the age of forty-seven years, at which 
time he was corporal. His remains were brought 
home for interment, and they now rest in Glade 
Run Cemetery in Carroll County. Politically 
he was first a Whig, then a Free-Soiler, after- 
ward a Democrat, and finally a Republican. He 
was a strong Abolitionist, and took a zealous in- 
terest in the liberation of the slave. His widow 
is still living in Mechanicstown, calmly awaiting 
the summons to her long home. They had a 
family of seven children, the record of whom is 
as follows: Jesse C, died of consumption; Man- 
Jane is the deceased wife of Daniel Campbell; 
John B. is the subject of this sketch; Robert 
D. is in East Liverpool, Ohio; Ebenezer died 
in infancy; Sarah R. is living with her mother; 
Austin R. is a minister of the United Presby- 
terian Church, at Homestead, Penn. 

John B. Van Fossen spent his early boy- 
hood on the farm, and in attending the common 
schools of the neighborhood. At the age of 



seventeen years he enlisted in Company I, 

Ninety-eighth O. V. I., becoming sergeant, and 
serving as such till the close of the war. He 
was with Sherman in the march to the sea, and 
participated in all the battles in which his regi- 
ment fought, commencing with Perryville; was 
not wounded, although rifle balls passed through 
his clothing, and was never in hospital — in fact 
was on no occasion absent from his regiment 
except on duty. On June 1, 1865, he received 
an honorable discharge, and returned to his na- 
tive county and to the scenes of peace. Having 
decided on improving his education, which had 
been interfered with by the breaking out of the 
war, he attended Harlem Academy for a time, 
and soon thereafter commenced teaching, a pro- 
fession he followed several winters in the coun- 
ty, the summers being devoted to the duties of 
the farm. In 1870 Mr. Van Fossen became 
united in marriage with Miss Christiana, daugh- 
ter of Thomas George, of Carroll County, Ohio, 
and to them were born four children, as follows: 
David George and Sarah Geraldine, both at 
home, and Thomas H. and one unnamed, both 
deceased in infancy. In 1885 our subject was 
elected to the office of treasurer of Carroll 
County, to which he was re-elected in 1887. 
He and all his family are members of the 
United Presbyterian Church, and in politics he 
is a stanch Republican. Mr. Van Fossen is 
much respected in his community, and is 
recognized as one of the leading representative 
men of his count v. 




AVID H. LONG, proprietor of the lead- 
ing livery business in Carrollton, Carroll 
County, is a native of the county, born in 
Centre Township, January 1, 1838. His 
, who was a farmer, by name Jonathan 
came from Pennsylvania (where he was 
burn and reared) to Carroll County, and here 
married Nancy, daughter of Samuel Beatty, one 
of the pioneers of the county. After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Long settled in Centre Township, 
Carroll County, where they spent the remainder 



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of their lives, he dying in 1S70 at the age of 
seventy-two years, and his wife a few years 
later, at the same age. They were the parents 
of six children, of whom the following is a rec- 
ord: Keziah Jane Wood row lives in Denver, 
Colo. ; Mary is the wife of John Humbaugh, 
in Harrison Township, Carroll Co., Ohio; Sam- 
uel is in Texas; David H. is our subject; Will- 
iam is in Kansas; John died at the age of eight 
months. 

David H. Long was reared on his father's 
farm, receiving his education at the common 
schools of the district. In 1877 he opened out 
his present well-equipped livery business in 
Carrollton, which has a widespread reputation 
for the excellency of its ''turn-outs." When 
twenty-three years of age Mr. Long was married 
to Miss Mary E. Cameron, of Carroll County, 
but a native of Wellsburg, Brooke Co.,W. Va., 
and to this union have been born five chil- 
dren, viz. : Samuel, William (deceased), Nancy 
G., Ida R. and Charles (latter deceased). The 
parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church; Mr. Long is a member of the K. of 
P., and in politics is a Prohibitionist. 



DAVID O. RUTAN, prominent in Carroll 
1 County, is a dealer in live stock and 
' wool, with residence at Carrollton, and is 
a native of the county, having been born 
in Perry Township, August 10, 1843. His 
grandparents, Peter and Elizabeth Rutan, came 
in 1818 to the southern part of Carroll (at that 
time Harrison) County, the nearest settlement 
to them being three miles distant. They had a 
family of six children, of whom Alexander A. 
was born in Fayette County, Penn. He was a 
lad when his parents came to Ohio, and on 
their farm he grew to maturity, attending the 
subscription schools of the period. He here 
married Sarah Wortman, a native of New Bruns- 
wick, and who had come with her parents to 
Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander 
Rutan resided on the homestead until death 
;-eparated them, Mr. Rutan being called from 



earth in 1881 when aged seventy-five years. 
He was a man of sterling Christian princi- 
ples, a prosperous farmer, who merited the 
confidence of both neighbor and friend. Po- 
litically he was first a Whig, and afterward, on 
the formation of the party, a Republican, and he 
took an active interest in educational and other 
public movements. His widow, now seventy- 
four years of age, is a resident of Carrollton. 
They were blessed with a family of eleven 
children, of whom eight are yet living, David 
O. being the fifth in order of birth. 

David O. Rutan received his education in 
the early schools of his district, having to walk 
a couple of miles for a few weeks' attendance 
in winter time; attended Rural Seminary at 
Harlem Springs, Ohio, part of the winter of 
1864-65, also Scio College during winter of 
1867-68. In 1864 he enlisted in Company I, 
One Hundred and Fifty- seventh Regiment, O. N. 
G. , one hundred-days men, and served as corporal 
until mustered out September 2, same year. In 
January, 1865, he again enlisted, this time in 
Company A, One Hundred and Eighty sixth 
Regiment, O. V. I., which was attached to the 
Army of the Cumberland under Gen. Thomas. 
Mr. Rutan served till the close of the war, and 
was then honorably discharged. One brother, 
James S. Rutan, enlisted as a volunteer from 
Pennsylvania, and was commissioned first lieu- 
tenant; since the war he has served three 
terms as State senator from Pennsylvania, six 
years as United States marshal, and four 
years as collector at the port of Pittsburgh; he 
was appointed consul at Florence, Italy, by 
President Grant, but refused the appointment. 
Another brother, Samuel M. , enlisted in the 
Ninety- eighth O. V. I., serving as sergeant, 
and was wounded at Chickamauga. 

At the close of the war our subject settled 
to farm life in Carroll County, and in 1872 he 
moved to his present place of eighty- eight acres 
of land, all improved by his own labor, and on 
which he has erected a handsome residence. 
For the past twelve years Mr. Rutan has been 
dealing in stock and wool. In 1870 he was 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



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married to Anna H. Ebersole, a native of Car- 
roll County, and a daughter of John and Su- 
sanna Ebersole, to which union have been born 
five children, three of whom are now living, 
viz.: Arthur A., Helen F. and Sarah 0. The 
parents are members of the Presbyterian Church, 
in which Mr. Rutan is trustee; in politics he 
is a Republican, and in 1889 he was elected 
treasurer of Carroll County, receiving the 
largest majority in any election since the war. 
He is a member of Carrollton Lodge, No. 124, 
A. F. & A. M., and of Minerva Chapter, No. 
123: also of McAllister Post, No. 212, G A. R. 



JESSE MARSHALL, one of the well known 
rising young business men of Carrollton, 
Carroll County, was born in Washington 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. October 14, 
1853, and is descended of German ancestry 
who came from the Fatherland to this country 
at a very early day. Joshua Marshall, son of 
Aaron Marshall, of Virginia, and the paternal 
grandfather of our subject, was a native of 
Hancock or Brooke County, Va. (now West 
Virginia), whence he moved to Carroll County, 
Ohio, where he was a pioneer farmer. He was 
married to Mary Roudebush, who had come 
from east of the Alleghanies early in life, and 
by her had twelve children — six sons and six 
daughters. Joshua Marshall died in Washing- 
ton Township, Carroll County in 1875, aged 
eighty years; his widow is yet living in that 
township. Their son, Eli, the father of Jesse, 
was born in Washington Township, Carroll 
County, and was brought up to farm life, his 
education being limited to the common schools 
of his times. He was united in marriage with 
Sarah Jane, daughter of Jesse Roudebush, of 
the same township, and by her had three chil- 
dren, viz. : Jesse; Levi, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 
a minister of the Disciples Church, and Annie 
M. , wife of James N. Lawrence, on the home 
place. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Eli 
Marshall removed to the farm where the father 
died July 19, 1883, at the age of fifty-three 



years, after a lingering illness; the mother is 
still living on the home place. 

Jesse Marshall, the subject proper of these 
lines, in early boyhood had all the experiences 
of the average farmer's son. He had a good, 
substantial education at the common schools of 
the home district, from which he developed 
from one taught into one teaching, for some 
fifteen winters following that profession in Car 
roll County, the summers being occupied in 
the duties of the farm. Thus he continued 
until 1889, in which year he moved into Car- 
rollton, where he established his present produce 
business, in which he has been eminently suc- 
cessful. In 1878 Mr. Marshall married Miss 
Kittie, daughter of Christian Dennis, of Carroll 
County, and to this union has been born one 
child, Elmer Garfield, at home with his parents, 
a sufferer from spinal meningitis, being left a 
cripple for life. The life of Mr. Marshall has 
been an active one, and in his farming, school 
teaching and his present business, that of dealer 
in general produce — grain, flour, lime, etc. — he 
has contributed not a little to the general ad- 
vancement and prosperity of his county. He 
and his wife are members of the Disciples or 
Christian Church of Mt. Olivet, Washington 
Township, Carroll County, and in politics he is 
a Republican. 



¥ ACOB KINTNER. At an early day George 
^ I Kintner, then a lad of fourteen years, came 
\}\ from Germany to America and located on 
a tract of Penn's purchase, in Washington 
County, Penn., becoming the first settler in 
Somerset Township. He was there married to 
Mary Susanna Lamb, also a native of Germany, 
who had come with her parents to America. 
The young couple resided for a number of years 
in Washington County, then came to Ohio, 
where he entered Government land in Sugar 
Creek Township, Tuscarawas County; about the 
year 1800 he was killed by a falling tree; his 
widow survived him several years, and died in 
Pittsburgh, Penn. Seventeen children— eight 



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sons and nine daughters — were born to them, 
all of whom but one grew to maturity. 

The second youngest child was a son, named 
Christian, born in Washington Count} - , Perm., 
May J 4, 1784. His boyhood days were spent 
in his native county, and when a young man he 
came to Ohio, locating on the land his father 
had entered in Tuscarawas County. At the 
death of his father he returned to Pennsylvania, 
and purchased the homestead, where he re- 
mained a few years. About 1810 he married 
Elizabeth Moore, a native of Westmoreland 
County, Penn., born in 1790. In March, 1816, 
taking a team of oxen and loading a few house- 
hold effects into a covered wagon, they journeyed 
to Ohio, where they purchased a quarter section 
of land, now Centre Township, Carroll County, 
paying for the same five dollars per acre. There, 
in a littlecabin built of unhewn logs, with punch- 
eon floor and clapboard roof, they began life 
for themselves in their new home, three years 
previous to the organization of the village known 
as Centreville, and they were among the early 
pioneers of this region, the country where they 
settled being then a portion of Stark County. 
Christian Kintner was a progressive, public-spir- 
ited citizen, a consistent member of the Luth- 
eran Church, and was active in founding the 
first church of that denomination in Carrollton. 
His death occurred June 7, 1860, and that of 
his wife in 1848; they were the parents of ten 
children, of whom the following is a brief record : 
George was born October 2, 1811, and is now 
deceased; Andrew was born May 22, 1814; 
Mary, born June 30, 1816, is the deceased wife 
of George M. Henry (had seven children); 
Susanna, born May 25, 1818, is the deceased 
wife of Joseph Ebersole (had ten children); 
Elizabeth, born February 17, 1S20, is the de- 
ceased wife of Levi Simmons (had five children); 
Christian was born December 30, 1S22; Jacob is 
the subject proper of this sketch: Lydia died in 
infancy; Abraham was born Jul}' 29, 1S29; 
Jonas was born November 12, 1831. 

Jacob Kintner was born on the homestead 
near Carrollton, Ohio, November 6, 1S24. and 



grew to maturity with his parents, enduring the 
privations of the pioneer times, wore home-made 
clothing, and attended the district and subscrip- 
tion schools. The greater part of the country at 
that time was wild woodland, and in his boyhood 
he often saw herds of deer and flocks of wild 
turkeys. On February 6, 1849, Mr. Kintner 
was married to Miss Louisa, daughter of George 
and Mary Kintner, and their first residence 
upon the place where they now reside was a 
small log cabin. Eleven children have been 
born to them, their names and dates of birth 
being as follows: Benjamin A., December 7, 
1849, died May 17. 1887; Clement V., April 22, 
1851; Isaac N., December 21, 1852; Christian 
A.. October 15, 1S54; Elnorah A., July 19, 
1856, died in infancy; Mary Louisa, born Sep- 
tember 20, 1857, now Mrs. S. Abrahims; Will 
iam M., February 21, 1859; Annie E., July 7, 
1861, now Mrs. G. W. Tressel; Eli J. M., Oc- 
tober 26, 1865; James A., September 30, 1868, 
and Franklin, February 28, 1870. Mr. and 
Mrs. Kintner are respected and consistent mem- 
bers of the Reformed Church. Politically he is 
a Democrat, but is not bound by party ties. 
His farm of 150 acres lies adjoining the corpora- 
tion of Carrollton, and upon it stand a fine brick 
residence and commodious out-buildin^s. 




EV. SAMUEL L. DICKEY, D. D.. pas- 
tor of the Presbyterian Church at Harlem 
Springs, Ohio, was born November 2, 
1838, in Jefferson County, Ohio, a son 
of William and Elizabeth (Curry) Dickey, latter 
a daughter of James Curry, of Lancaster Coun- 
ty, Penn., and of Scotch-Irish descent. William 
Dickey was a native of County Antrim, Ireland, 
where he received his education. At the age of 
eighteen years he came alone to this country, 
and located in Lancaster, Penn., where he met 
and married Elizabeth Curry, who bore him the 
following named children: James O, deceased; 
John B., pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
Braddock, Penn. (he was educated in Frank- 
lin College, then went to the Western Theolog- 



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Leal Seminary, Allegheny City, where he gradu- 
ated); Rev. Samuel L. ; Mary A. (deceased); 
Martha .).. Margaret E. and Sarah C. (deceased). 
The father died in May, 1S77, the mother in 
March. 1S87, and both are buried at Richmond, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio. 

The early life of the subject proper of this 
aketofa was passed in Jefferson County, where he 
received his education at the common schools 
and at Richmond College. In 1868 he entered 
the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny 
Citv, and graduated in the class of 1870. Be- 
ing licensed to preach, he received, in the fall of 
the latter year, a call from the Presbyterian 
Church at Harlem Springs, whither he went, 
and was ordained and installed in August, 1871. 
The church was in a very weak condition when 
he went to it, but under his able ministry it has 
been greatly strengthened, and increased in 
membership. Through his efforts the present 
church building, 06x40, was erected in 1878. 
Rev. Dickey was president of the college at 
Harlem Springs from 1871 to 1875. October 
16, 1862, he became united in marriage with 
Elizabeth W., daughter of Roland and Rachel 
(Sweazey) Holmes, of Jefferson County, and 
their children are William R. and Bessie R. , 
both at home. Politically our subject is a Re- 
publican and Prohibitionist. In his ministerial 
work his zeal and labor have been rewarded by 
success beyond even his own expectations. 




,\ILLIAM STRATTON KNOX, editor 
of Tin Malvern Doings at Malvern, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, was born at Har- 
rnar (now Marietta), Washington Co., 
Ohio, October 31, 1860. At the age of six- 
teen he left school, and at nineteen had fin- 
ished learning his trade of iron molder in his 
father's foundry. He then engaged in the pm 
fession of printing, and, in the spring of 1881, 
established the Marietta Weekly L< j ad<>\ which 
he subsequently disposed of and went into 
tin' job printing business. In June, lssi, he 
moved his job office from Marietta to Minerva, 



Stark Co., Ohio, at which point he also estab- 
lished the Minerva News, which he conducted 
with success (in face of the fact that three 
other journals had failed) until December 18, 
1889, when he sold out, and March 13, 1890, 
established The Malvern Doings, the first news- 
paper enterprise of the place, and of this he 
has also made a success. Mr. Knox is an easy, 
graceful writer, and a shrewd business man, as 
well as a public-spirited citizen, who has won 
the esteem of all his neighbors. Mr. Knox was 
married May '20, 1886, to Miss Nellie M. Perdue, 
daughter of Capt. F. A. and Julia A. Perdue, 
and is the father of two children, named Will- 
iam Clifton and Tom Booth. 




EV. JAMES H. HAWK, pastor of the 
V First Presbyterian Church at Carrollton, 
Carroll County, was born September 3, 
1846, in Westmoreland County, Penn. 
His father, George Hawk, is a native of the 
same county, where he has always followed agri- 
cultural pursuits, and where he was married, in 
1842, to Martha McKallip, a native of County 
Down, Ireland, who, when a child, was brought 
by her parents to this country, and to Pennsyl- 
vania. Mr. and Mrs. George Hawk had a fam- 
ily of six children — three sons and three daugh- 
ters—and of these the subject of this sketch is 
the third in order of birth. His boyhood was 
passed in assisting his parents on the farm and 
attending the district schools, distant from his 
home about a mile and a half, and at the age of 
sixteen years he entered the academy at Leech- 
burg, Penn., being chosen, the following year, 
principal of the Leeehburg High School. In the 
year 1868 Mr. Hawk commenced a classical 
course at Westminster (Penn.) College, after 
which he spent some years as teacher, and in 
1871 he entered Allegheny Theological Semi- 
nary, at Allegheny, where he graduated in 1874, 
on the 23d day of April of which year he was 
ordained by the Clarion (Penn.) Presbytery. 

Immediately after ordination Mr. Hawk was 
installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 



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Riinersburg, Perm., which incumbency he filled 
seven years, when, having received a call to fill 
the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church at 
Greenfield, Ind., he proceeded thither in 1881. 
During his pastorate there the church received 
large accessions of membership, and when he 
left, at the end of three years, to respond to a 
call to the church in Franklin, Ohio, his de- 
parture was greatly regretted by members of 
the congregation. After a seven months' so- 
journ at Franklin, Mr. Hawk accepted a call to 
the charge of the church at Nelsonville, Ohio, 
whence, after a brief stay, he came, in 1886, to 
Carrollton, to enter upon his duties as pastor of 
the First Presbyterian Church. Here his assid- 
uous labors have been productive of much good, 
having been rewarded with numerous accessions 
and consequent large increase of membership, 
and the church is now in the enjoyment of an 
era of gratifying prosperity. He represented 
the Steubenville Presbytery at the General As- 
sembly of the Presbyterian Church, held at 
Saratoga, N. Y., in 1890. 

In June, 1869, our subject was united in 
marriage with Abbie Wilhelrn, a native of West- 
moreland County, Penn., and a descendant of 
the Steck family of that State, among whom are 
numbered many ministers of considerable prom- 
inence. Two children have been born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Hawk, viz. : Boynton L. , who died at 
the age of two years; and Harold Brooks, who 
was born February 1, 1879. Mr. Hawk, in his 
political preferments, is a Republican, and a 
strong supporter of protection. 



IMPSON J. HARVEY. In the spring of 
1836 there came to Carroll County from 
Washington County, Penn., Robert Har- 
vey and his family, industrious and frugal 
farming people. He was born June 15, 1789, 
in Carlisle, Cumberland Co. , Penn. , and March 
1, 1820, was married to Sarah Simpson, who 
was born April 11,1800, in Washington Coun- 
ty Penn. Robert Harvey resided in the last 
named county till 1836, when he came, as al- 



ready stated, to Carroll County, where he pur- 
chased a farm of 309 acres, and passed the rest 
of his active life. He died October 5, 1837, and 
his widow July 20, 1878. In their church con- 
nections they were Presbyterians, and in politics 
he was a Democrat. This honored couple did 
much toward the prosperity and advancement of 
Carroll County. Six children were born to 
them, three of whom are now living, including 
the subject of these lines, who is third in the 
family in the order of birth. 

Simpson J. Harvey was born on his father's 
farm in Washington County, Penn., Novem- 
ber 14, 1827, and was consequently nine years 
of age when he came with his parents to Car- 
roll County, sharing with them all the hardships 
of pioneer farm life, and attending three months, 
in winter time, the old log school-house of the 
period. After the death of his father he, along 
with a brother, R. R. Harvey, took charge of 
the farm for their widowed mother, now owned 
by himself and brother, and together conduct 
it with much judgment and skill. On May 24, 
1860, he was married to Mary J. Hampson, a 
native of Carrollton, and daughter of George 
Y. and Catharine (Frush) Hampson, who came 
to Belmont County, Ohio, from Huntingdon 
County, Penn., and about 1833 moved to Car- 
rollton, where Mr. Hampson worked at the.c«r 
penter's trade, among other buildings he put 
up in the place being the Presbyterian Church, 
and also worked on the first court-house and 
jail. Febuary 22, 1847, Mrs. Hampson died at 
the age of thirty-one years, and April 30, 1876, 
Mr. Hampson was called from earth, having 
attained the advanced age of fourscore and two 
years. He was a Democrat in politics, served 
as sheriff and treasurer of Carroll County, and 
was a prominent man in his day. Seven chil- 
dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hampson, three 
of whom are yet living. 

After their marriage our subject and wife 
settled on their present farm in Centre Town- 
ship, which comprises 157 acres of well im- 
proved land, in a great measure devoted to the 
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Carrollton. Here were born their tbree chil- 
dren as follows: Robert Elmer, now a clerk in 
the surgeon-general's office, Pension Bureau, 
Washington, D. C. ; Carrie May, wife of J. F. 
Leyde, in Augusta Township, Carroll County, 
and George Harupson, in the office of the Alle- 
gheny Railroad in Pittsburgh. The parents are 
members of the Presbyterian Church, in which 
Mr. Harvey has been an elder many years, and 
teacher and superintendent of the Sabbath- 
school half a century. In his political prefer- 
ments he is a Democrat with Prohibition pro- 
clivities, and served as trustee five years, as- 
sessor two years, judge of election, and as mem- 
ber of the school board nine years. He is one 
of Carroll County's most influential citizens. 



ffty EORGE HINES, a thoroughly represent- 
- ative pioneer of Carroll County, where 
V>| he has resided for over fifty-eight years, 
h^ is a native of Ireland, born December 
23, 1806. His parents had a family of nine 
children, viz. : William, Samuel, John, Abigail, 
George, Mary Ann, Thomas, Elizabeth and Rob- 
ert. Samuel came to this country and died 
many years ago in the town of Newburg, on the 
Hudson River, in the State of New York. The 
father was a weaver by trade, which he followed 
in his native land, and taught his sons, George 
having carried on the same line of business till 
coming to America. 

In 1832 our subject was married to Miss 
Mary Kennedy, also a native of the Emerald 
Isle, soon after which event they immigrated to 
these shores, locating, November 12, 1832, in 
Ohio, in what is now Augusta Township, Car- 
roll County. Here they built a log cabin in the 
wilderness, and commenced the work of clear- 
ing a farm. Prior to coming here, however, 
Mr. Hines worked two years as a laborer at 
Wheeling, W. Va. Six children were born to our 
subject and wife, viz. : James and George, liv- 
ing. Edward, who died while serving in the War of 
the Rebellion, and Thomas, Mary A. and Nancy, 
also deceased. The mother of these children 



died in 1854, and in 1857 Mr. Hines was mar 
ried to Mrs. Long, who died in 1868; his pres- 
ent wife he married in 1876. For the past four- 
teen years they have lived in the village of Me- 
chanicstown, where they have a fine, commodi- 
ous dwelling, Mr. Hines having retired from the 
arduous labor of the farm. 




IRAM S. BERLIEN. The family, of 
whom the subject of this memoir is a 
worthy representative in Carroll County, 
date their origin to a sturdy race of 
Saxons, the great-grandparents of Hiram S. 
Berlien having come to this country from Sax- 
ony, Germany, many years ago. In 1821 Abra- 
ham Berlien came with his wife and two children 
from Westmoreland County, Penn., to Ohio, 
and entered Government land in Tuscarawas 
County; land that is now situated in the north- 
east portion of Monroe Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty. He was born in Westmoreland County, 
Penn., March 12, 1796, and was married to 
Anna Maria Geiger, a native of Maryland, born 
May 11, 1798, who came to Pennsylvania with 
her parents when a child. Abraham Berlien 
died March 23, 1872, his widow December 22, 
1876; they were the parents of seven children 
— four sons and three daughters — as follows: 
Angeline, Susannah, Hiram S., Daniel G., John 
J., Esther A. and Joseph M. 

Hiram S. Berlien was born on his father's 
farm in Monroe Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
May 3, 1824, and experienced all the hardships 
incident to pioneer life in a sparsely settled 
region. The forests in those days were the 
"happy hunting grounds" of sportsmen, for 
game of all kinds was abundant, the bear, the 
deer and the wild turkey being common sport. 
Hiram S., when a boy, wore clothes made by 
his industrious mother of stout "homespun," 
woven at home, and many a time did he help to 
pull and scutch flax. In securing a compara- 
tively limited education, he had to walk three 
miles through the woods in winter time, in 
order to attend the nearest school, and he 



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remembers well the boys locking the " dominie" 
out of the school-house for four days, because 
he refused to grant them holidays at Christmas 
and New Year. Hiram S. remained at home, 
assisting on the farm, until he was twenty-four 
years old. In February, 1852, he was married 
to Hester A. Foster, a native of Carroll County, 
and daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Paterson) 
Foster, early settlers of this part of Ohio from 
Pennsylvania, and for some time residents of 
Harrison Township, Carroll County. After 
marriage Hiram S. Berlien taught school for 
four years, and then learned shoemaking, at 
which he worked twenty years in connection 
with teaching. In 1870 he bought his present 
farm of sixty-five acres, situated one and a half 
miles west of Carrollton, and moved thereon. 
Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Berlien, viz. : Annie M. , married to Robert 
McCrea, and living in Columbus, Neb. ; Eliza 
P., widow of the late Theo. F. Westfall; 
Joseph M., in Perry Township, Carroll County; 
Doiinda J., married to Thomas J. McQueen, a 
resident of Sherrodsville, Ohio; and Thomas 
Foster, living with his parents. Mrs. Berlien 
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; 
in politics Mr. Berlien is a stanch Democrat. 
When fourteen years of age he had the mis- 
fortune to lose a leg in a threshing machine. 



JfOHN FINEFROCK, one of the oldest and 
best known citizens of Brown Township, 
I Carroll County, was born in Lancaster, 
Penn. , December 30, 1821, and is of Ger- 
man extraction. His parents came from Penn- 
sylvania to Ohio, when our subject was an in- 
fant of eighteen months, and located in Rose 
Township, Carroll County. The father of our 
subject, also named John, was born in Pennsyl- 
vania, and there married Elizabeth Harple, who 
was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, but came 
to America when but a child. When these par- 
ents settled in Rose Township it was one vast 
wilderness, and the forest was tilled with wolves, 
bears and deer. They purchased a tract of land, 



on which was a small log cabin, and here they 
made their home until 1850. when they moved 
to Stark County, and settled near Wayneaburg. 
They died January 8 and January 9, 1881, with- 
in eight hours of each other, and aged, respect- 
ively, eighty nine and eighty-two yeai - s, their 
deaths occurring at the home of our subject, who 
was at that time a resident of Stark County. 
They had been lifelong members of the Evan- 
gelical Lutheran Church. Their union had been 
blessed with ten children, all of whom grew to 
maturity. 

John Finefrock, who was the third child born 
to his parents, passed his boyhood days amid 
the pioneer scenes of Rose Township, where he 
received a rudimentary education in the little 
log school-house. In 1843 he married Luseta 
Snider, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daugh- 
ter of John and Elizabeth (Schroyer) Snider, 
natives of Pennsylvania, born of German de- 
scent, and who had a family of eleven children; 
they came to Ohio in 1829, and settled in Rose 
Township, Carroll County, and there ended their 
days, dying in 1861 and 1S63, respectively. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Finefrock began life for 
themselves in Rose Township on a capital com- 
prised of pluck, determination and energy, Mr. 
Finefrock working many a day in the hayfield, 
mowing with a scythe from daylight to dark for 
fifty cents per day; but he was economical, and 
in due course of time was able to purchase a 
piece of land, on which he and family resided 
until 1850, when they moved to Brown Town- 
ship, where they remained nine years; then re- 
turned to Rose Township, where they passed 
three and a half years, and then went to Wash- 
ington Township and thence to Stark County, 
where they lived ten years, part of the time in 
Canton, and in 1886 came to their present home 
in Oneida, Carroll County, in which county the 
whole of their life has been passed, with the 
exception of the ten years in Stark County. To 
the union of Mr. and Mrs. Finefrock have been 
born nine children, as follows: Martin L. , now 
in Kansas; Milton, who died when eight mouths 
old; Silas, a machinist at Minerva, Ohio; Calvin, 



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a hardware merchant at Waynesburg, Ohio; 
Amanda, who died at the age of thirteen years; 
At well, in Rose Township; LucretiaA., married 
to Franklin Robinson, at Waynesburg; Homer, 
in business at Minerva; Ida May, wife of Frank 
Weymer, of Brown Township, Carroll County. 
Mr. and Mrs. Finefrock are members of the 
Lutheran Church, and stand deservedly high in 
the esteem of their neighbors. Politically Mr. 
Finefrock is a Democrat, and takes an active in- 
terest in political matters, but has never been an 
office seeker. 



El PHRA.IM HARSH, another of the well- 
known and prosperous agriculturists of 
I Carroll County, of which he is a native, 
comes of an honored pioneer family of 
the county. At an early day Henry Harsh came 
with his family from Washington County, Penn., 
to Ohio, and settled in what is now Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, on land he had en- 
tered. Here he died, the father of a numerous 
family, of whom one son, Jonathan, was born 
in "Washington County, Penn., in 1800. He 
was but a lad when his parents brought him to 
Ohio, and here, in his boyhood, he did his full 
share of work on the pioneer homestead, his edu- 
cational advantages being necessarily very lim- 
ited. He was married in Ohio to Margaret Wea- 
ver, a native of Pennsylvania, who came hither 
with her parents, and, after marriage, Mr. and 
Mrs. Harsh settled in Harrison Township, on an 
unimproved farm, their hrst shelter being a 
couple of quilts fastened to trees, while they 
were putting up a cabin; wild animals roamed 
the forest, and wolves "made night hideous" 
with their howlings around the humble dwelling. 
Seven children were born to this couple — four 
sons and three daughters — as follows: Lovina, 
Rebecca, Nicholas, Melancthon, Josiah, Ephraim 
and Elizabeth. 

Ephraim Harsh, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch, was born July 2, 1835, 
in the old log cabin which his parents first put 
up on their farm in Harrison Township, his 



clothes being made by his mother of old- 
fashioned "homespun," which she also wove, 
an art she was quite proficient in. Ephraim at 
tended the common schools of the district a few 
weeks in the winter time, and labored on the 
farm the remainder of the year. In IMi'J he 
was married to Emily Scott, a native of Harri- 
son Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, and they at 
once commenced farm life together, on a place 
he rented in that township. In 1807 she died, 
having given birth to two children, viz. : Clara 
Belle, who died at the age of thirteen years, and 
Margaret A. In 1887 Mr. Harsh purchased his 
present fine farm of forty-five acres, situated 
some two and a half miles from Carrollton, 
furnished with all modern improvements, includ- 
ing a substantial dwelling and commodious out- 
buildings. In his political preferments he is a 
Republican, and served as assessor of Harrison 
Township one term, and of Centre Township 
two terms; has also been supervisor and school 
director; in his church connections he is, as was 
his beloved wife, a consistent Presbyterian. 
Mr. Harsh is a worthy and enterprising citizen, 
and is at all times liberal in support of public 
improvements. 



H/ENRY H. WHITCRAFT, one of the 
leading business men of Carrollton, Car- 
roll County, is a native of the county. 
• born in Monroe Township, November 
30, 1840. John Whitcraft, his grandfather, 
was a native of Ireland, where he grew to man 
hood and married Miss Harper, who was also 
born in the Emerald Isle. They became the 
parents of seven or eight children, of whom but 
one is now living — Mrs. Jane Rouse, in Hock- 
ing County, Ohio. In 1814 John Whitcraft 
and his wife came to Carroll County (then a 
part of Harrison County), where he carried on 
farming, and where they both died, he in 1854 
and she in 1834. In 1818 ho had entered a 
tract of wild land, the original deed for which. 
sigDed by President James Monroe, is still in 
possession of the subject of this sketch; this 



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was the last piece of land entered by John 
Whitcraft, and lies about four miles from Lees 
ville, in Carroll County. Of bis children, John 
H. Whitcraft, the father of Henry H , was born 
in Harrison County, and removed with his 
father to Carroll County soon after, where he 
was reared and educated. He was married in 
1834 to Mary Alban, daughter of William Alban, 
near Canal Fulton, Stark Co. , Ohio. Mrs. 
Whitcraft' s brothers were Judge Alban, in Wis- 
consin, Captain Alban, in Findlay, Ohio, and 
James, who was colonel of the Eighteenth Wis- 
consin Infantry, and was killed at the battle of 
Shiloh. The Alban family were early settlers 
of Stark County, but are now scattered; one 
branch is living in Massillon, same county. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. John H. Whit- 
craft located four miles from Leesville, in Car- 
roll County. In 1853 he was elected sheriff of 
the county, serving until 1857; was one of the 
electoral college from this district when Hayes 
was elected to the presidency, and, as may be 
inferred, he was a Whig and then a Republican, 
at one time a member of the Know-nothin£r 
party. In 1884 he passed from earth, at the 
age of seventy-two years. His life was an act- 
ive one, and bis occupations various. He was a 
farmer and stock-dealer, and in early life was 
a drover to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. His 
widow still lives in Carrollton, now aged seventy- 
eight years; she is a member of the Presby- 
terian Church, as was also her husband. Seven 
children were born to this worthy couple, as 
follows: Matilda, widow of Capt. Isaac Ulman, 
in Massillon, Ohio; Elizabeth, who died in 1858, 
unmarried; William Alban, who was first lieu- 
tenant of Company A, Twenty-fifth O. V. I., 
and was killed in action; Henry H, the subject 
proper of this sketch; Amanda, who died when 
ten years of age; James P., engineer on the W. 
& L. E. R. R. , with residence at Cambridge, 
Ohio, and Mary Martha, now Mrs. William W. 
Cressinger, in Brown Township, Carroll County. 

Henry H. Whitcraft was brought up on a 
farm in early life, attending the common 
schools of the county and the high school in 



Carrollton. finishing his studies at Hagerstown. 
He then took up teaching, having a school un- 
der his charge at the breaking out of the Civil 
War, when. November 7, 1861, he enlisted in 
Company A, Eightieth O. V. I., under Capt. 
Ulman, becoming sergeant of the company. 
He served until February, 1863, and at the 
battle of Iuka, September 19, 1862, he was 
wounded by a musket ball which disabled his 
left arm. After his discharge, in 1863, he 
rested two or three months, and then re-entered 
the service, receiving a position in the commis- 
sariat department, in which he served to the 
close of the struggle. He then returned to 
Carrollton, and for one term taught school, tak- 
ing care also of his farm. Under Gen. A. G. 
McCook he was for some years assessor of in- 
ternal revenue, and thus was Mr. Whitcraft 
occupied until 1875, when he opened out his 
present lumber yard, and in 1879 he pur- 
chased a planing-mill, which he continues to 
operate in connection with his lumber business. 
In 1868 he married, in Carrollton, Miss Naucy, 
daughter of Judge James McLaughlin (de- 
ceased). The McLaughlins, who were of 
Scotch- Irish extraction, came from western 
Pennsylvania to Fox Township, Carroll County, 
at an early day, but they are now much scat- 
tered. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Whitcraft 
were born six children, viz. : Mary, now Mrs. 
W T illiam Shepard, in Carrollton; Alice, now Mrs. 
William Forsythe, also in Carrollton; John, 
Emma, Grace and James, all at home. Mr. 
Whitcraft has attained well earned success by 
his own efforts and perseverance. In politics 
he is a strong Republican. 



P)ETER GAMBERT. In the year 1836 
there came from Prussia to America John 
(a carpenter by trade) and Catharine 
(Peosh) Gambert, bringing with them 
their three children, Elizabeth, John and Peter, 
and landing in New York they proceeded to 
Somerset County, Penn. Here they followed 
agricultural pursuits seven years, and then, in 



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18 13, came to Carroll County, a week's journey, 
and located on a farm near Carrollton, where 
they spent the remainder of their days, the 
mother dying in 1854, at the age of sixty-six 
years, and the father at the home of his son 
Peter, in 1871, when seventy-six years old. 
John Gamhert was descended from a long line 
of honorable Prussian ancestry, and served as a J 
soldier for his country, in the war of the early 
part of this century, against the French. The 
family were adherents of the Lutheran Church, 
and in politics, Mr. Gambert was a member of 
the Old-line Whig party, afterward a Repub- 
lican. Of their children, Elizabeth married 
Elijah Fadly, and is a resident of Somerset 
County, Penn., where also John lives, and Peter 
is the subject proper of this sketch. 

Peter Gambert was born in Prussia, Feb- 
ruary 22, 1824, his early boyhood being spent 
in his native land. After coming to this coun- 
try, he assisted his parents in the duties of the 
farm, chopping down the " monarchs of the 
forest," and clearing away the brush. In his 
native land he had been educated at the public 
schools, and in the land of his adoption he at- 
tended the subscription schools of the neighbor- 
hood for a few weeks. On June 5, 1845, he was 
married to Margaret Abrahms, a native of 
Carroll County, and daughter of George and 
Margaret (Black) Abrahms, pioneers of Wash- 
ington Township, that county, and, after mar- 
riage, he rented a farm in Washington Town- 
ship, which he carried on, giving, in payment 
for rent, half the crops. By industry and econ- 
omy he was then enabled to buy a farm in the 
same township, and by close application to 
business, and shrewd and fortunate dealings in 
real estate, he, in course of time, accumulated 
considerable property, being now owner of 225 
acres of well- improved land in Carroll County. 
After a residence of eleven years in Harrison 
Township, Mr. and Mrs. Gambert moved, in 
1809, to their present pleasant home, situated 
about a mile and a half from Carrollton. They 
are the parents of two sons and two daughters, 
viz. : George, at home with his parents; Cath- 



erine A., in Harrison Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, widow of Eli R. Roudebush; John, in 
Somerset County, Penn., and Emma, at home 
with her parents. The family worship at the 
Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Gambeit is an 
elder; politically he is a Republican, and has 
served his township as trustee. 



f[OSHTJA LATIMER, a representative farm- 
w. II er of Orange Township, Carroll County, 
\J) was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
July 2, 1853, a son of Arthur and Mar- 
garet (Leggett) Latimer, natives of eastern 
Ohio. Arthur Latimer was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, and was one of the prominent 
farmers of that place. After marrying, he 
moved to Harrison County, Ohio, but, not con- 
tented, he finally moved to Tuscarawas County, 
where he has followed agricultural pursuits 
ever since. Mrs. Latimer is the daughter of 
Joshua Leggett, who was one of the most ex- 
tensive and prosperous farmers of Tuscarawas 
County. Mrs. Latimer is of Scotch-Irish de- 
scent, her paternal ancestors having come from 
Scotland, and her maternal ancestors from Ire- 
land. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer have a family of 
six children, viz. : Joshua, Nancy Jane, Mary, 
Alice, Emma and William. 

Joshua Latimer, the subject of this biograph 
ical sketch, lived with his father on the farm in 
Tuscarawas County, attending the school in the 
district, and obtaining what education was pos- 
sible during the winters, when he could not 
work the farm; but, like all boys who were 
compelled to work in the spring and fall, he 
was not able to obtain the education for which 
he craved. At the age of twenty-five, April 2, 
1878, Joshua married Miss Melissa J. Maugun, 
whose parents were pioneer farmers of Carroll 
County. Mrs. Latimer is of Scotch-English 
descent, and was born in 1850. Mr. and Mrs. 
Latimer have had three children to bless their 
home, named as follows: Eva Jane, born April 
20, 1880; James, born April 28, 1882, and Min- 
nie, April 14, 18S4. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer 



have lived in Carroll County ever since their 
marriage, with the exception of four years which 
they spent on the old homestead. Mr. Latimer 
is the owner of ninety- six acres of good, produc- 
tive land, which has been made so by continual 
hard work. In politics Mr. Latimer is a Re- 
publican, and Las always consistently voted 
that ticket. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer are among 
the best known people in Carroll County, as 
their parents were old settlers and representa- 
tive citizens. They have many friends, both in 
Carroll and Tuscarawas Counties, who regard 
them as honorable and upright citizens. 



¥<ACOB M. WESTFALL, auditor of Carroll 
^. 1 1 County, and whose courtesy and popular- 
ly,/ ity are proverbial, is a native of the 
county, having been born in Brown Town- 
ship, April 18, 1840. His antecedents came 
from Germany to America at an early day, and 
Abraham Westfall, grandfather of our subject, 
was born in New York State, whence he re- 
moved to Pennsylvania after the Revolutionary 
War, in which he served some seven years, par- 
ticipating in several battles, in which he was 
thrice wounded. In 1818 he came to what is 
now Washington Township, Carroll County, 
settling on a farm (for he was a farmer by oc- 
cupation), where he died, and he now rests in a 
private burial ground, located on a farm at 
present owned by John S. Pottorf, in Augusta 
Township, same county. John Westfall, father 
of Jacob M., was a native of New York State, 
but was reared in Washington County, Penn., 
and when he came to this part of Ohio with his 
father, he was eighteen years old. Some few 
years later he was married to Amy, a daughter 
of Samuel Beatty, and a native of Columbiana 
County, Ohio, but almost a life-long resident of 
Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. John Westfall 
were the parents of eleven children, and ere the 
eldest was out of his " teens ' ' the father was 
called from earth, dying in 1847, in Carroll 
County. In his political preferments he had 
always been a Whig. The widowed mother 



had now real occasion for the exercise of that 
shrewd business management and keen foresight, 
for which she was remarkable. A heavy in- 
debtedness rested on the farm at the time of her 
husband's decease, but this by systematic hard 
work, prudence and economy, she succeeded in 
wiping out, and at the same time reared with 
true motherly care her numerous family. She 
clothed, fed and schooled them, spun the wool 
and wove the yarn into "homespun," which 
she deftly cut and sewed into the necessary 
garments; so also did she toil with the flax, 
planting, pulling and otherwise preparing. In 
1879, at the age of seventy-four years, this 
noble mother peacefully laid down life' s burden 
and took her journey to the "long home," 
whither six of her children had preceded her, 
having been cut down in the spring of life, by 
the terrible scourge consumption. She was a 
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and her remains were laid to rest bo- 
side those of her husband, at Mount Zion, 
Augusta Township. The children born to this 
honored pioneer couple, were as follows: Cath- 
erine Ann, Samuel G., David H., Mary, Nancy 
Elnora and Keziah J., all deceased; John 
Beatty, in Augusta Township, Carroll County; 
Jacob M. , of whom this sketch mainly treats; 
Eunice Diana, wife of Alfred Brothers, in South 
Bend, Ind. ; Adeline, wife of George W. Yant, 
in Missouri, and Abraham V., in Brown Town- 
ship, Carroll County. 

Jacob M. Westfall passed his early life on 
his father's farm, and in attending the common 
schools of his neighborhood. At about the age 
of eighteen he became a teacher, and so con- 
tinued for some seventeen years, in Carroll 
County, his summer months being mainly spent 
in agricultural pursuits. In 1802 Mr. Westfall 
enlisted in Company I, Ninety-eighth O. V. I., 
under Capt. Williams, which regiment was sent 
to Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1803 he was 
discharged, on account of disabilities, but in 
May, 1804, he re-enlisted, this time in Company 
K, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh O. N. G., 
one hundred-days men, under Capt. Reed. 



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This regiment was sent to Baltimore, thence to 
Fort Delaware, and at the expiration of his term 
of service, our subject returned to Carroll 
County. In 1869 he was united in marriage 
with Elizabeth Denny, daughter of Robert and 
Mary Ann Denny, of Harrison Township, Car- 
rol] County, and live children came to bless their 
union, viz.: Harry David, Ida J., Mary G., 
John H. and Nova Elizabeth. Mr. Westfall, in 
politics, is a Republican, and has held various 
township offices, such as assessor, etc., and in 
1887 he was elected to the position of county 
auditor, being re-elected in 1890; his son Harry 
is deputy auditor, having received the appoint- 
ment from the court. In the summer following 
his election Mr. Westfall moved with his family 
to Carrollton. On May 5, 1888, Mrs. Westfall 
died, in Brown Township, and after coming to 
Carrollton Mr. Westfall married, March 14, 
1889, Mrs. Lucy Winkler (nee Poole), a native 
of Frederick County, Md. , where she met and 
married Mr. Winkler, who was in the milling 
business in Frederick City, Md. In about one 
year after this union they moved to Carrollton, 
Ohio, and followed the milling business hero 
about live years. Mr. Winkler's health failed, 
and he moved back to Frederick County, Md. , 
where he died, without issue. He had been a 
conscript in the Confederate Army, but deserted 
from the ranks. After his death the widow 
(Mrs. Winkler) came back to Carrollton, Ohio, 
where she married. Mr. and Mrs. Westfall are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Carrollton, and he is a member of David Reed 
Post, G. A. R., at Malvern, Carroll County. 



1 ACKSON HARSH, one of the leading pro- 
^. I gressive business men and farmers of Car- 
}^j roll County, was born November 5, 1830, 
in Washington County, Penn., a son of 
Philip and Sarah (Booker) Harsh. The family 
come of German ancestry who, on their arrival 
in this country, made their permanent settlement 
in Pennsylvania, being among the pioneers of 
Washington County. Little, however, is known 



of them save that they were honest, industrious 
and thrifty tillers of the soil. 

Philip Harsh, grandfather of Jackson, was 
born and reared in the Keystone State, and at 
an early age was married to a daughter of one 
of the pioneers, whose name has been lost in 
the vistas of time. They reared the following 
named children : William, Lewis, Leonard, Phil- 
ip, Levi, Margaret and Rebecca. The family 
resided in Washington County, Penn., until 
1834, when they came to Carroll County, and 
purchased land in Harrison Township, which had 
been previously entered by Samuel Coxon, and 
here grandfather Harsh and his wife died and 
were laid to rest. He was a prominent member 
of the Reformed Church, and was a Whig. 

Philip Harsh, father of our subject, was born 
and reared in Pennsylvania, where he was mar- 
ried to Sarah Booker, daughter of Solomon 
Booker, also a resident of Pennsylvania, to which 
union were born children, as follows: Jackson, 
John, Frances, Leonard, Milton, Lovina, Sam- 
uel, Sarah, Catherine and Lucettie. Mr. Harsh 
was chiefly engaged in farming, and for many 
years dealt in stock. He is emphatically a self- 
made man, having commenced for himself with 
a capital of but a few dollars. In 1875 he and 
some of his family removed to Kansas, where, in 
company with three of his sons and one daugh- 
ter, he is at present carrying on an extensive 
stock ranch. He takes an active interest in pol- 
itics, and was first a Whig, afterward, on the 
formation of the party, a Republican. 

Jackson Harsh, the subject proper of this 
sketch, passed his early life in Harrison Town- 
ship, Carroll County, acquiring a good sound 
common-school education. His first venture 
was the purchase of live-stock, which he dis- 
posed of at a good profit, and this branch of 
farm industry he has continued to the present. 
During the War of the Rebellion he was a suc- 
cessful contractor in supplying horses and mules 
to the army, under Gen. Meigs, and since the 
close of the campaign ho has been an extensive 
dealer in wool, buying from 200,000 to 331,000 
pounds in a single season. In 1809 he pur- 



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chased bis present home, on which he has since 
made many improvements; his estate, which 
comprises 514 acres of prime land, being situ- 
ated chiefly in Harrison Township, and a por- 
tion in Lee Township. Mr. Harsh has been 
twice married; first time, October 19, 1854, to 
Alvira, daughter of Jacob Strayer. Mrs. Harsh 
died four months after marriage, and October 5, 
1867, Mr. Harsh became xinited in marriage with 
Anna, daughter of Robert Craven, and she has 
borne him six children, viz. : William, Edward, 
Mary, Annie, Frank and Sarah. The mother 
of these children died August 10, 1889. Mr. 
Harsh in his political preferments is an active 
Republican, and has taken a leading part in the 
affairs of the party. 



El LI COUCH (deceased), who in his life- 
time was one of Carroll County's most 
I progressive citizens, and one of the lead- 
ing business men of Carrollton, was born 
November 22, 1825, in Waynesburg, Ohio, 
whence, when he was a few months old, his par- 
ents moved to Steubenville, same State. His 
father, Benjamin Couch, who was a native of 
Pennsylvania, was drowned in the Ohio by the 
sinking of a vessel at Steubenville, not long 
after moving to that town. After this sad event 
his widow returned to Waynesburg with her 
two children. 

Our subject passed his boyhood in attending 
the common schools of his day, and being an 
apt scholar he advanced rapidly in his studies, 
his native talent greatly aiding him in his efforts 
to obtain a thorough education. At the age of 
fifteen he became a clerk in Waynesburg, first 
for R. K. Grey, and later was with Reynolds & 
Co., with whom he remained some fifteen years. 
Iu 1855 he came to Carrollton and entered into 
partnership with his brother-in-law, J. P. Cum- 
mings, in general merchandising, which contin- 
ued for thirty- three years, when the firm sold 
out and removed to Columbus, where for a short 
time they carried on a wholesale and retail gro- 
cery business, after which they returned (in 



1870) to Carrollton, and here reopened in their 
old line of trade. They also established the 
banking institution in Carrollton still carried on 
by Mr. Cummings, and in this Mr. Couch con- 
tinued up to the time of his decease, which oc- 
curred May 2, 1888, at Lexington, Ky. On 
Monday, week preceding his death, Mr. Couch 
and his wife started on their visit to Lexington, 
Ky., apparently in the best of health and their 
usual happy spirits. On Sunday morning pre- 
ceding his death he attended the Presbyterian 
Church, as he was rigidly attentive to religious 
matters as well as business affairs. He was a 
consistent member of the Presbyterian Church 
for about thirty years, alway T s regular in attend- 
ance, the Bible being his close companion. He 
was endowed with an unusually mirthful and 
generous disposition, with a kind word for rich 
and poor, and ever ready to lend a helping hand 
to those in need of assistance. Through years 
of active business life Mr. Couch accumulated 
considerable means. He was an exceptionally 
shrewd business man of high business qualifica- 
tions, and his advice was frequently sought by 
his numerous friends. His death cast a gloom 
over the entire community. He left a widow 
(who still resides in Carrollton) and three daugh- 
ters and two sons, all of whom reside in Ohio, 
except John R. Couch, who is prominently iden- 
tified with the lumber and real estate business 
in Lexington, Ky. His remains were interred 
in the Carrollton Cemetery, conducted by the 
Masonic fraternity, assisted by Rev. Hawk, the 
lodges of Minerva and other places participating. 






AMES MOREHEAD, for sixty-eight years 

ya resident of his native county, Carroll, 
was born June 8, 1822, in Lee Township, 
and, having been reared exclusively to 
farm life, has followed agricultural pursuits from 
the time he was able to hold a plow. His grand 
father, Andrew Morehead, was born in the north 
of Ireland, where the family had long resided, 
and was a farmer by occupation. In about the 
year 1800 he came to America with his wife and 




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children, ami for some thirty years resided in 
Pennsylvania, when he moved to Stark County, 
Ohio, where he died. The names of his chil- 
dren are Thomas, William, John, Andrew, 
Mary and Ellen. Of these, Thomas, the father 
of James, was a native of County Donegal, Ire- 
laud, having been born in 1790. Coming to 
these shores with the rest of his father's family 
he journeyed westward and settled in Carroll 
County, Ohio, where, in 1815, he entered 1-13 
acres of land near where Dr. J. B. Moody now 
lives. To this he moved, and here kept " bach- 
elor' s hall" for a few years, and then became 
wedded to Mary, daughter of James Hill, of 
Carroll County. Their family consisted of nine 
children, as follows: Abraham, deceased; James; 
Nancy, wife of David Richards; Crawford, de- 
ceased; Ellen, wife of James Finnicum; Rich- 
ard, deceased; John, in Forest Hill, Cal. ; 
Thomas, and an infant. The father died in 
1844, and was laid beside his wife whom death 
had called from him in 1836. They were mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church at Harlem 
Springs, of which he was one of the organizers 
and liberal supporters. In his political prefer- 
ments he took an active interest in the success 
of the Whig party. 

James Morehead whose name appears at the 
head of this biographical memoir, attended in 
the winters of his boyhood the old log school- 
house, which had been built on the Morehead 
home place, and the great fireplace of which 
was every morning piled up with logs which 
were brought in the night before. On August 
20, 1846, Mr. Morehead married Mary, daughter 
of Jacob and Catherine Hawk, of Lee Township, 
Carroll County, and by her has had three chil- 
dren: Sylvester, Jacob A. and Mary C, now 
Mrs. James Fawcett, of Lee Township, Carroll 
County. After marriage our subject and wife 
remained on the home place of his father until 
1853, when Mr. Morehead purchased a farm in 
Perry Township, Carroll County, on which they 
resided until 1873. In that year they removed 
to Harlem Springs, in Lee Township, where he 
built his present commodious residence (26x26 



feet in dimensions), which is finished throughout 
in an elegant and substantial manner. His 
farm, comprising 480 acres of well-improved 
land, is situate about four miles from the village 
of Harlem Springs, 10(1 acres being in Perry 
Township. Mr. and Mrs. Morehead are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church at that place, 
of which he has been trustee. In his political 
point of view he has always voted, in Govern- 
ment and State matters, the Republican ticket, 
but in municipal elections he casts his suffrage 
with the men and measures he considers best for 
the community at large. 



TAMES GRAHAM, a worthy representative 
i I of the sturdy race who have made the 
\JJ North of Ireland famous in history, has 
been a resident for over forty years of 
Carroll County, where his industry and fru- 
gality have won for him success and independ- 
ence. He is a native of County Antrim, born 
March 11, 1816, to John and Margaret (Mc- 
Gregor) Graham, natives, respectively, of Ire- 
land and Scotland. The mother had come to 
Ireland from Scotland, at the time of the re- 
ligious persecutions in the latter country, and 
took up her residence in County Down, where 
she met and was married to John Graham. 
They were well-to do farmers, and both died in 
County Antrim, the parents of eight children 
(four sons and four daughters), of whom the 
subject of this sketch is the sixth in order of 
birth. 

James Graham was educated in his native 
land for the ministry, and as a consequence his 
school advantages were above the ordinary. 
He resided at home, helping his parents on the 
farm, and when old age came to them conducted 
the same until their deaths, the mother dying in 
1839, the father in 1841. Our subject was 
married August 11, 1841, to Jane Clark, a 
native of County Antrim, born in July, 1816, a 
daughter of James and Isabella (Hunter) Clark, 
both natives of Ireland, he of Country An- 
trim, and she of County Down; they were 



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the parents of ten children (six sons and four 
daughters), Mrs. Graham being the seventh in 
order of birth. James and Isabella Clark died, 
the former in 1831, and the latter in 1841. 

After their marriage, our subject and wife 
commenced farming for their own account, but 
in 1847 the potato blight having caused a 
famine which brought such terrible distress to 
Ireland, they decided to emigrate to America, 
the land of liberty and plenty. Accordingly 
in that year they sold their possessions, and set 
sail for New York, bringing their three chil- 
dren, but they were fated yet to meet with mis- 
fortune, for hardly had they left the shores of 
their native land ere they lost by death their 
second child, a daughter of three summers. 
Then the voyage, which lasted six weeks, 
terminated disastrously, for just as they were 
nearing New York harbor the vessel was 
wrecked, and the passengers escaped with barely 
their lives and what money they had, their bag- 
gage being lost. Under a heavy load of diffi- 
culties the family proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, 
thence, after a short sojourn, to Carroll County, 
they being led to come to Ohio through Mrs. 
Graham having four brothers and he a sister 
living in the State. In Fox Township Mr. 
Graham bought a farm, and here by toil, perse- 
verance and economy they made for themselves 
a comfortable home and became prosperous, 
to-day owning a considerable amount of prop- 
erty in Carroll County, Carrollton and in Ire- 
land. In the fall of 1889 Mr. Graham and his 
faithful wife, who has for so many years shared 
adversity and prosperity with him, retired to 
Carrollton, here to live retired from the ardu- 
ous labors of farm life. They are the parents 
of seven children (five of whom are yet living), 
viz. : Isabella, now Mrs. John Wright, of Car- 
rollton; Margaret, deceased; Eliza Jane, at 
home; John H., a prosperous farmer of Scroggs- 
field, Carroll County; Robert G. , a farmer in 
Lee Township; William J., pastor of the United 
Presbyterian Church at Midway, Penn., and 
Mary Agnes, who died at the age of three years 
and four months. The parents are members of 



the United Presbyterian Church, in which they 
were brought up in childhood; in politics 
Mr. Graham is a Prohibitionist. He has re- 
visited his native land three times, where, as is 
already stated, he owns property. 



Tfry OBERT A. PATTERSON, restaurateur, 
Y»\/ of Carrollton, Ohio, was born in Harrison 
1^ Township, Carroll County. July 30, 
■f/ 1857, and is a son of Robert and Mar- 

garet (Long) Patterson, the former a native of 
County Tyrone, Ireland, born June 24, 1801. 
John Patterson, the father of Robert, married 
Mary Scott, who bore him four children: Jane, 
Robert, John and Rebecca. The family came 
to the United States in 1807, in a sailing vessel, 
and located in Washington County, Penn. , 
where they remained until 1819, when they 
came to Ohio and settled in Harrison Township, 
Carroll County, where John, the father, died in 
1827; his widow died, in 1852, in Harrison 
Township, and both were members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. To Robert and Mar- 
garet Patterson were born the following chil- 
dren: Joseph F., Robert A., Milton L. and an 
infant that died unnamed. 

Robert A. Patterson attended the common 
school of his district until 1875, when he was 
injured in boyish frolic, resulting in curva- 
ture of the spine. In 1S77 he entered the Can- 
nonsburg Academy (now Dell Roy) where he 
remained two years, and then returned to his 
home in Harrison Township. In the summer 
of 1881 he learned photography of P. C. Bax- 
ter, of Carrollton, and pursued that business for 
two years. On May 4, 1SS2, he married Isabella, 
daughter of Thomas F. and Henrietta (Allen) 
Talbott. Thomas Talbott was born near Rich- 
mond, Jefferson Co., Ohio, and died in Carroll 
County, February 15, 1873, aged sixty -five 
years, four months and seven days; Mrs. Hen- 
rietta Talbott was born in Carroll County and 
died September 14, 1803. aged forty-nine years, 
ten months and twenty-two days. They were 
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whom Mrs. Patterson is the thirteenth child, 
and all of whom grew to maturity, with but one 
exception. Mrs. Patterson was born in Lee 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, February 20, 1855, 
of which township her parents were early set- 
tlers, and where her father followed the voca- 
tion of miller and millwright. 

In November, 1882, Mr. Patterson went to 
Banoverton, Ohio, and followed the photograph 
business about a year, and then returned to the 
farm, on which he remained until September 
'27, 18S7, when he purchased his present busi- 
ness at Carrollton, in which he has met with 
decided success. Mr. Patterson is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics 
is a Democrat. 

The Talbott family are descended from a 
long line of English nobility, the American 
family tracing its origin to Lord John Talbott, 
the ninth Earl of Shrewsbury. The grand- 
father of Mrs. Patterson came from Maryland, 
and was the founder of Richmond, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio; her grandmother, Talbott, who was 
born in England, lived to be one hundred and 
two years and ten months of age, and died in 
Jefferson County. At her centennial birthday 
there were six generations of her descendants 
present, and between that event and her death 
she read the New Testament through three times. 



T/HOMAS McCRAY (deceased) was born 
in Washington County, Penn., in 1805. 
His father, Robert McCray, was a na- 
tive of Ireland, where he was reared and 
educated, and, when he had reached his majori- 
ty, he and his brother, William, set off together 
to seek their fortunes in the ''wide, wide 
world." After traveling, considerably, they 
finally landed in America, settling, in course of 
time, in Washington County, Peun., where they 
passed the remainder of their lives. Soon after 
coming to Pennsylvania Robert McCray mar- 
ried, aud took up farming for his life's work, in 
which he met with success. He was a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



Thomas McCray received a good common 
school education, and was reared to agricultural 
pursuits in his native county, his life being spent 
on the home farm until he came of age. In 
the year 1837 he was united in marriage with 
Hannah, daughter of Jacob Buxton, of the same 
county, and, in 1848, they came to Carroll County 
Ohio, where Mr. McCray purchased the farm 
now occupied by Levi. The land had been en- 
tered some time previously, but was still in a 
very wild and primitive condition, requiring 
many years of industrious toil to bring it to its 
present excellent state of fertility and improve- 
ment. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas McCray were as follows: Levi; Mary 
A., Mrs. James Shotwell; Elizabeth, Mrs. 
James McGee; John, Robert and Friend. Mr. 
McCray was a prominent member of the 
Methodist Protestant Church, in which, for many 
years, he was a class leader; in politics he was a 
Democrat, and always took a lively interest in 
the workings of the party. He was not blessed 
with a great abundance of wealth, but he never 
failed to generously contribute his share toward 
the support of every public enterprise: in fact 
his life was one of usefulness, his memory be- 
ing held in the highest esteem and regard by all. 

Levi McCray, the eldest son, now carries 
on the old home place, and is not behind his 
father in the success of his labors. In 1S65 he 
was married to Ruth, daughter of the late Will- 
iam Hanlin, and to this union have been born 
four children, as follows: Grant, Elizabeth, 
William and Virgil. Mr. McCray is a member 
of the Methodist Protestant Church, and in 
politics is a leader in the Republican party. He 
is a representative citizen, much respected for 
his integrity and moral worth. 

William Hanlin was born in Washington 
County, Penn., August 23, 1808, a son of Alex- 
ander and Betsy (Scott) Hanlin, natives of Ire- 
land. They came to America about the year 
1795, and settled in Washington County, Penn., 
where they carried on general farming and stock 
raising, and, in course of years, died. The 
names of their children are Alexander, William, 



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Frank, James, John, George, Charles, Grant, 
Stewart and Eliza. The parents were members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, in his 
political preferments, Mr. Hanlin was a Repub- 
lican. William Hanlin resided in the county 
of his birth, engaged in farming, until 1846, 
in which year he came to Carroll County, where 
lie purchased a farm in Washington Township, 
and resided many years. While in the Key- 
stone State he there married Jane Scott, who 
bore him the following named children: Alex- 
ander, Fanny E. , John S. , Ruth, Rebecca E., 
and Susan J. The mother of these children 
died October 3, 1854, and, in 1865, Mr. Hanlin 
was united in marriage with Mrs. Thomas Mc- 
Cray. He died August 16, 18S5, a member of 
the Methodist Protestant Church, in which he 
had been trustee, steward and class leader; in 
politics he was first a Whig, and afterward, on 
the formation of the party, a Republican. 



JOHN FAWCETT. Among the families 
^. I whose names are identified with the pioneer 
\y, period of Carroll County, none occupy a 
more prominent place or are more widely 
known than the Fawcett family. The history 
of this family in America dates back to 1816, at 
which time John Fawcett, a prominent citizen 
of the county of Fermanagh, Ireland, immi- 
grated with his family to Ohio and located on a 
tract of land entered from the Government in 
Union Township, Carroll County, at that time a 
portion of Harrison County. They were among 
the earliest pioneers of that region, and the first 
Irish people to locate there. Being a prominent 
family in their native land, their example was 
soon followed by many of their relatives and 
neighbors, who settled near them in the new 
country, and finally this settlement in Union 
Township came to be known as "Little Ireland." 
John Fawcett and his wife, Letitia (Armstrong) 
Fawcett, resided in their adopted country until 
death. They were the parents of two sons and 
six daughters. The second child in this family 
was Charles, who was born in County Ferma- 



nagh, Ireland, September 12, 1 793. His younger 
days were spent in his native country assisting 
his parents with the home duties, and after the 
settlement of the family in Ohio he remained 
with them, assisting in the clearing of the land 
and the laying out of the farm. About the year 
181S he married Margerie Brooks, who had im- 
migrated with her parents from the same count}' 
in Ireland to which he owed his nativity. The 
young couple at once began life for themselves, 
encountering all the privations and dangers 
that surrounded the pioneers. Their first resi- 
dence was a small cabin of rough logs with a 
puncheon floor and clapboard roof, a huge fire- 
place, and a single door that swung upon its 
wooden hinges. Their union was blessed with 
eleven children — six sons and five daughters — all 
of whom grew to maturity. 

John, their second child, was born upon his 
father's farm in Union Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, September 24, 1822, and grew to maturity 
surrounded by the dangers and limited to the 
advantages that fell to the lot of pioneer boys. 
He walked a long distance to attend the sub- 
scription school held in some old log cabin. 
His mother, like all pioneer wives, spun and 
wove the clothing for her family, and such were 
the habiliments of his youth. Ofttimes he would 
go with his father to the nearest market-place, 
Steubenville, thirty miles distant, with a load of 
wheat, which had been threshed with a flail, and 
this they would sell for a mere nothing, or ex- 
change it for groceries or other necessaries of life. 
On such occasions they wore "the Carroll County 
uniform," the home-made linsey pants and red 
wampus. 

On October 16, 1845, he was united in marriage 
with Rosanna Crazier, a native of Cadiz, Ohio, 
and purchased forty acres of land in Union 
Township, and, locating thereon in a little log 
cabin, began life upon a capital consisting of 
naught but a liberal supply of pluck and energy. 
They lived happily together until February 26, 
1860, when the death angel visited the happy 
home and called to "the better world" the faith 
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at her death was in her thirty-seventh year. She 
was a consistent member of the Pleasant Hill 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and a zealous 
worker for the cause of her Master. This union 
had been blessed by three sous and one daughter, 
viz.: Robert C, Charles G., Margerie J. (now 
Mrs. Fred Brant), and Joseph M. April 11, 
1861, Mr. Fawcett married Jane Patterson, a 
native of Harrison County, Ohio, and daughter 
of Joseph and Jemima Patterson, worthy peo- 
ple of Irish and German extraction and early 
pioneers of Harrison County. To them have 
been born three sons and one daughter, viz. : 
James A., Henry K., John T. and Rosanna J., 
the last of whom died at the age of four months. 
Mr. Fawcett has always been prominently iden- 
tified with all public enterprises and the general 
advancement and improvement of the county. 
A zealous Republican, he has ever been promi- 
nent in political affairs, and has served in var- 
ious positions of trust and honor. He and his 
worthy wife are members of the Pleasant Hill 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is a 
steward and class leader, and their standing in 
the community is best told by the respect and 
esteem so universally bestowed upon them. 




^ILLIAM HOLMES, a member of one 
of the oldest families in Harrison 
M[ Township, Carroll County, is a native 
of the same, born April 24, 1824. In 
the year 1770, his great-grandfather, a native 
of England, left that country with his family, 
sailing for America, where they settled. One 
son, John, spent the earlier part of his life in 
his native land, England, and after coming with 
the rest of the family to Pennsylvania, was there 
married to Sarah Norris, a native of that State, 
who bore him four children — three sons and 
one daughter. At an early day he settled with 
his family in Washington County, remaining 
for some years, and then, in company with 
others, came to what is now Carroll County, 
Ohio, where he engaged in farming till 1835, 
and then removed to Seneca County, same State. 



where he died at the age of eighty-one. In 
politics he was a Whig, in religion a Presby- 
terian, having been an elder in the church many 
years. He served in the War of 1812, and was 
in some of the expeditions sent against the 
Indians. 

William Holmes, father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born in 1801, in Washington 
County, Penn., and remained under the parental 
roof until of age, his boyhood and youth being 
spent on the farm, and in attending, as oppor 
tunity offered, the subscription schools of the 
neighborhood. He was first married in 1820, 
to Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Joseph, one of 
the earliest settlers of Washington County, 
Penn., and to this union were born four chil 
dren, viz. : Mary, Elizabeth, William and John. 
For his second wife he was married to Eliza A. 
Davis, who bore him ten sons and eight daugh- 
ters, and for his third he was wedded to Martha 
Wiseman, which union produced two sons and 
two daughters. William Holmes came to Car- 
roll County with his father, John Holmes, and 
in 1870 removed 'to Illinois, where he resided 
until his death, which occurred February 1". 
1883. In politics he was a Democrat, and was 
twice elected auditor of his county, besides 
serving in other official capacities. For many 
years he was proprietor of the Jefferson ian Press, 
at Carrollton, the organ of his party, and which 
exercised an influence more than local. In re- 
ligion he and his family were leading and con- 
sistent Presbyterians. 

William Holmes, son of William and Eliza- 
beth (Joseph) Holmes, and who is the snbjeci 
proper of this sketch, has spent his entire life 
in Harrison Township, Carroll County, his edu- 
cation being secured at the subscription and 
common schools of the district. His occupation 
has been all his life that of a farmer and stock- 
raiser, and from small beginnings, materially 
aided by his faithful wife, he has increased his 
possessions until now he is the owner of 1 '■' 
acres of prime land, all highly improved and 
well stocked, situated three miles from Carrollton. 
On March 12, 1845, he was married to Rebecca> 



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daughter of James Boggs, of whom mention is 
made in the sketch of Ezra Boggs, and by this 
union nine children have been born, viz. : Eliza- 
beth, Mrs. Wallen Beatty, a resident of Rose 
Township; Mary J., Mrs. John J. Lotz, of 
Harrison Township; James B., in Minerva, 
Stark Co., Ohio; Isaac N., on the home farm; 
Rebecca Almeda, Mrs. James A. Ulman, in 
Muskingum County, Ohio; William Dalzell, at 
home; Armintha O, deceased; Martha Melissa, 
Mrs. Cassius Orin, in Harrison Township, and 
L. G., at home. 

In politics Mr. Holmes was a Democrat un- 
til 1856, when he united with the Republican 
party, of which he has since been a prominent 
member. In 1S58 he was elected commissioner 
of his county, serving most efficiently two terms. 
In his township he has held most of the offices 
in the gift of the people, and has always dis- 
charged his several duties with fidelity and care. 
In his youth he was a Presbyterian, but after- 
ward joined the Reformed Church, of which his 
family are also members. To such worthy men 
as Mr. Holmes is Carroll County indebted for 
her rapid development, socially and financially, 
as well as in religion and education. 



d JUNIUS C. FERRALL. The first of the 
Ferrall family to settle in Carrol County, 
' Ohio, was the grandfather of Junius C.', 
by name James Ferrall, a well-known pio- 
neer hunter, farmer and merchant. He was a 
son of William and Judith Ferrall, former of 
whom was a native of North Carolina, and a 
son of an Irishman, who immigrated to this 
country many years ago. James Ferrall, who 
was a native of Lynchburg, Va., came to this 
then western wilderness from Pennsylvania, to 
hunt deer and other game, but returned to the 
Keystone State, where he married Susannah Sny- 
der. About 1829 they came to Carroll County, 
locating on a farm near Mechanicstown, in Fox 
Township. After a time they moved to Harri- 
son Township, same county, where they died. 
He was a strong Democrat, and was a member 



of the first board of commissioners of Carroll 
County. They had a family of five children, 
of whom two daughters are deceased; those 
living are Edwin, father of Junius C. ; Calvin, 
in Salineville, Columbiana Co., Ohio, anil John, 
in Harrison Township, Carroll County. 

Edwin Ferrall was some seven or eight years 
old when he came with his parents to Carroll 
County, and here he grew up to farm life. In 
1850 he was married to Mary A., daughter of 
Robert Huston, who came to Carroll County as 
a pioneer in 1827, and to this union four chil- 
dren were born, as follows: Junius O, the sub- 
ject proper of this biographical sketch; Robert 
J., deceased; Lannes L., in Arizona, and An- 
son E. , at home. Edwin Ferrall is in politics 
a Democrat, and in 1857 he was elected sheriff 
of Carroll County, being re-elected in 1859, and 
in 1S73 he was chosen State senator. 

Junius C. Ferrall was born in Carroll Coun- 
ty, Ohio, three miles west of Carrollton, Decern 
ber 0, 1851, and his early boyhood was spent on 
a farm. When he was six years of age his fa- 
ther, having been elected sheriff of the county, 
the family moved to Carrollton, where, at the 
age of ten or twelve, our subject entered a print- 
ing office, where he was initiated into the myster- 
ies of the " art preservative." This he continued, 
off and on, for a period of two years, attending 
school occasionally, and then entered the college 
at Harlem Springs, where he finished his edu 
cation. At the age of eighteen he was a part- 
ner with his father in business in Carrollton. 
the firm being E. Ferrall & Son. Desiring to 
see something of the world, Mr. Ferrall set out 
for the Far West, landing in Colorado; after 
ward traveled in the interests of a wholesale gro- 
cery house in Pittsburgh, Penn., for five years. 
at the eud of which time he returned to Car 
rollton, where he formed a partnership with a 
Mr. Smith in the retail dry-goods business, firm 
name being Smith & Ferrall. Mr. Ferrall, after 
a time bought out Mr. Smith (who went to 
California), and continued the business alone for 
some years. The next partnership entered into 
by our subject was with Mr. Shepherd, who had 



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been for many years a clerk with him, the style 
of the tirui being Ferrall & Shepherd, who dow 
canv on one of the leading general stores in 
Oarrollton. In 1SS4 he was a candidate on the 
Democratic ticket for Presidential elector, and 
in November, 1887, he was chosen probate 
judge, which office he still holds, having been 
re-elected in November, 1890. On September 
27, 1877, he was united in marriage with Miss 
Emma M., daughter of Alexander Simpson, and 
four children have been born to them, by name 
Ida A., Edwin S., Esma A. and Mary L. Mr. 
Ferrall is a member of the K. of P. 



J JONATHAN NIHART, one of the repre- 
sentative, prosperous citizens of Centre 
' Township. Carroll County, was born on 
the old family homestead in that town- 
ship, May 18, 1832, a son of Christian and 
Susanna (Harsh) Nihart, natives of Washington 
County, Penn. His grandparents, Christian 
and Christina Nihart, were natives of Germany, 
and came to America about the year 18(H), 
locating in Washington County, Penn. ; and in 
1810 moved to Ohio, where they took up land 
in a part of Columbiana County that is now em- 
braced in Carroll County. Here they cleared 
their farm, erecting thereon a small log cabin, 
in which they spent the remainder of their active 
lives; they died within twenty-four hours of 
each other, and at their death were both over 
eighty years of age. Of their children, Chris- 
tian was born in Washington County, Penn., 
January 25, 1803, and was therefore seven years 
old when his parents brought him to this part 
of Ohio. He experienced all the hardships of 
pioneer life in his boyhood and early manhood, 
laboring on the farm and attending the sub- 
scription schools. About the year 1825 he was 
married to Susanna Harsh, a native of Washing- 
ton County, Penn. , and a daughter of Louis 
and Barbara Harsh, early pioneers of this part 
of Ohio, having come here when she was a 
child. Mr. and Mrs. Christian Nihart resided 
on the farm in Carroll County until their 



respective deaths, he dying February 2. 1880, at 
the age of seventy-two years, and she February 
1, 1883, when aged seventy live years. They 
were both members of the Reformed Church, 
and he was prominent in religious and educa- 
tional matters; politically he was an ardent 
Democrat, and held various public positions of 
trust. Six children — two suns and four daugh- 
ters — were born to this honored couple, of whom 
are yet living the subject of this sketch (being 
fourth in the family in order of birth) and three 
sisters. 

Jonathan Nihart industriously assisted his 
parents on the old home farm, attending for a 
few weeks in winter time the schools of the dis- 
trict, until his marriage, in 1868, with Nancy, 
daughter of Levi Miller. She died July 9, 
1875, the mother of three children, two of 
whom were taken from earth in their infancy, 
the surviving one being Elmer H. On October 
10, 1875, our subject was married to his second 
wife in the person of Mary E., daughter of 
James and Sarah (Mills) Shephard, all natives 
of Carroll County. She is a grand-daughter of 
William Mills, an early settler of this part of 
the State, born of Welsh descent, who served 
as a soldier in the War of 1S12, and is buried 
at Carrolltou. Mrs. Nihart was first married 
April 5, 1806, to James Blazer, by whom she 
had two children, Sarah S. and Myra I. By 
this second marriage of Jonathan Nihart there 
were born five children, viz. : William O, Nina 
May, Emma, Annie and Edna. The parents are 
members of the Reformed Church; politically 
Mr. Nihart is a Democrat, and has served on the 
school board, nine years. He is the owner of 
100 acres of prime land, situated two miles from 
Carrollton, on the Mechanicstown road. 



¥ ACOB D. LANE, a well known, popular 
. I citizen of Carrolltou. and deputy surveyor 
\JJ of Carroll County, was born in Washington 
County, Penn.. in 1832. a son of Joseph 
and Anna (Dager) Lane. He comes of Scotch- 
Irish ancestry, who immigrated to America in 



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an early day, settling in Maryland, and his great- 
grandfather Lane enlisted himself on the side 
of the patriot colonists in the war for inde- 
pendence. John Lane, grandfather of our 
subject, on account of his holding strong anti- 
slavery sentiments, and his parents being slave- 
holders, left the parental home in Maryland 
while yet a young man, and took up his resi- 
dence in Pennsylvania, where he was married to 
a Miss Baker. They both died in the Keystone 
State, the parents of four children, viz. : three 
sons, John (who went to Indiana), Daniel (who 
died in Washington County, Penn.), and Joseph 
(who came to Ohio in 1837), and one daughter, 
all now deceased. The father of this family 
served in the War of 1812, and was a Whig. 

Joseph Lane, the second son of John Lane, 
was a tradesman and farmer, which latter occu- 
pation he followed after coming, in 1837, to Car- 
roll County, Ohio, and settling in what is now 
Centre Township. Prior to this he had married, 
in Pennsylvania, Miss Anna, daughter of Jacob 
Dager, by which union were born two children: 
Jacob D.. the subject of this sketch, and John 
E. , living in Centre Township on the old home- 
stead. The parents died in that township, the 
mother in December, 1883, when aged seventy- 
six years, and the father in March, 1884, at the 
age of seventy-eight years; they were members 
of the Reformed Church, and in politics Mr. 
Lane was first a Whig, and afterward became 
a Republican, on the organization of that party. 

Jacob D. Lane, as will be seen, was about 
five years old when his parents brought him to 
Ohio. They settled on a piece of wild, unim- 
proved land, their first dwelling being a primi- 
tive log cabin, and here our subject was reared 
a pioneer farmer boy, his primary education 
being naturally very limited. In early man- 
hood he taught school some five years, and then 
attended select school at Carrollton. Ho was a 
diligent student and apt scholar, making rapid 
progress in the various branches of his educa- 
tion. He then commenced]studying surveying, 
readily perfecting himself in the profession, and 
this he followed in connection with farming. In 



1865 he was elected county surveyor of Carroll 
County, serving four three-year terms consecu- 
tively, \and was afterward, in 1889, appointed to 
his present position of deputy surveyor. In 
]857 Mr. Lane was married to Miss Keziah 
Jane, daughter of Mahlon Beatty, of Carroll 
County, and she died December 13, 1885, leav- 
ing two children: Ida E., now the wife of J. T. 
Kennedy, of Carrollton; and Ed G., a civil en- 
gineer and draughtsman, in Canton, Ohio. On 
June 8, 1887, Mr. Lane took, for his second 
wife, Mrs. Anna Fouts, a native of Carrollton, 
and daughter of John R. and Mary Arbuckle, 
old settlers of that town. During the spring 
Mr. Lane rented his farm, and moved to Car- 
rollton, where he and his wife have since made 
their home. Politically, he is a Republican, 
and in religion is a member of the Reformed 
Church, Mrs. Lane being a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church. 



JjOHN H. STEPHENSON, M. D.. for 
years one of the most prominent and suc- 
' cessful physicians of this section, was 
born at Burgettstown, Washington Co., 
Penn., July 22, 1817, and died at his home, 
at Leesville, Carroll Co., Ohio, November 23, 
1890. 

His greatgrandfather, Richard Stephenson, 
came from England to Virginia in the early 
history of that colony. Here Col. James 
Stephenson, grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, was born. He and two brothers were 
officers in the Revolutionary Army, and were, in 
boyhood and manhood, friends and associates of 
Washington; their half-brother was Col. Will- 
iam Crawford, who commanded ''Crawford's 
Expedition " against the Sandusky Indians, and 
was captured and burned at the stake at Upper 
Sandusky, in 1782. In 17S9 James Stephenson 
removed with his family to western Pennsylvania, 
where he resided until his death. One of his 
sons, Joseph, the father of Dr. Stephenson, re- 
moved with his family to Ohio, and, after a few 
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County, settled at Carrollton, in 1833. He bad 
learned the carpenter's trade in Pennsylvania, 
and during a large part of his life was engaged 
in building. In early manhood he had married 
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary McCrary, 
who were of Scotch descent; and to this union 
were born six children: John H., Martha, Mary, 
Benjamin, James H. and Alexander S. , all of 
whom are now dead but the last named. The 
mother died April 3, 1853, after which the 
father made his home with his son John until 
his death, which occurred July 3, 1872. He 
was a consistent member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and in politics was a Democrat. 

John H. Stephenson received a common 
school and brief academic education, after which 
he worked a few years at carpentering, with his 
father. He then began the study of medicine, 
and, after reading under the preceptorship of 
Dr. C. V. McMillen and Dr. J. S. Hunter, of 
Carrollton, he attended lectures for two winters 
at the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, 
where he was graduated in 1845. Ho first lo- 
cated in the practice of his profession at New- 
market (now Scio), Harrison County; also prac- 
ticed a short time at Cadiz. In 1848 he re- 
moved to Leesburg, where he spent the remain- 
der of his life, engaged in the active practice of 
medicine almost to the time of his death. In 
1845 Dr. Stephenson was married to Thyrza, 
daughter of Dr. Geo. W. Duffield, of New Jef- 
ferson, Ohio; she died in 1850, leaving two 
children: George D. and Chastina. both now 
deceased. His second wife was Eda. daughter 
of Dr. Thomas Cummings, of Leesburg, who 
died leaving one child, Thyrza. In 1858 he 
was united in marriage with Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of the late Hon. James Forbes, of New Ha- 
gerstown, Ohio; Mrs. Stephenson, with three 
children born of this marriage — James F. 
Emma, and Myrta — survives her husband. 

Politically Dr. Stephenson was in early life 
a Whig, but, on the dissolution of the Whig 
party, he joined the Republican party, to which 
In' was an adherent until his death. He was a 
man of vigorous intellect, strong likes and dis- 



likes, of kind and charitable instincts, and of 
the strictest integrity. His religions views were 
Calvanistic, and for some years previous to his 
death he was a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. 



dfOHN H. MOOKE, one of the most progres- 
sive and prosperous agriculturists of Cen- 
' tre Township, Carroll County, deserves 

a prominent place in this volume. 
In 1818 Thomas and Sarah (Lindsey) Moore 
came with their family from Washington County, 
Penn., to Ohio, and located in the northeast 
corner of what is now Centre Township, Carroll 
County, but at that time part of Columbiana 
County, where they took up Government land, 
on which they passed the remainder of their 
lives. They were both natives of Ireland, where 
they married and lived until about the year 
1796, when they immigrated to America, and 
after a short stay in Maryland proceeded to 
Washington County, Penn., thence in course of 
time, as above related, to Ohio. Mrs. Moore 
died in Ohio, the mother of eight children, and 
Mr. Moore married a second time, having, by 
this last union, five children. The eldest child 
but one, by the first marriage, was John, born 
August 19, 1797, in Maryland. He grew to 
maturity under the parental roof, and was well 
schooled in all the privations and hardships in- 
cident to early times. They lived near Patter- 
son's Mills, in Pennsylvania, and during his 
early manhood he worked in these mills, re- 
ceiving seven dollars per month. When a 
young man he and his brother walked all the 
way from their home in Pennsylvania to Centre 
Township, Carroll County, a distance of forty - 
live miles, making the journey in one day, and 
carrying their axes with them. The land they 
set to work to clear had been entered by their 
father the previous year, and here they opened 
out a small tract, where they erected a little 
cabin, in which the family lived when they 
came out. In the fall of 1822 John Moore re- 
turned to Washington County, Penn., and there, 



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October 30. married Nancy Hunter, a native of 
Ireland, who had come with her parents to this 
country, when a child. The young couple came 
at once to their new home in the wilds of Ohio, 
taking up their residence in a small log cabin 
which is still standing, all their capital in their 
start in life being a liberal supply of pluck, 
determination and indomitable perseverance. 
Mrs. Moore, who was a woman possessed of 
much energy as well as skill in all household 
duties, died February 12, 1875, in the eighty- 
fourth year of her age, Mr. Moore surviving 
her until April 1, 1884, both being consistent 
members of the Presbyterian Church. They 
were the parents of six children, of whom four 
are yet living, viz.: Eliza J., now the widow of 
John R. Buck, and a resident of Brown Town- 
ship, Carroll County; Thomas A., on the old 
homestead; Mattie, widow of Robert N. Gra- 
ham, who died in the Civil War (she is now a 
resident of Malvern, Carroll County), and John H. 
John H. Moore, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch, was born on the old 
Moore homestead in Centre Township, Carroll 
County, March 23, 1833, and his boyhood was 
passed in assisting his parents on the farm, and 
attending the common schools of the neighbor- 
hood. On November 7, 1865, he was married 
to Caroline M. McCaskey, a native of Jefferson 
County, Ohio, and a daughter of Robert and 
Surah (McCausland) McCaskey, former a native 
of County Donegal, Ireland, and latter of Car- 
roll County, born of one of the earliest pioneer 
families of the county. Robert McCaskey im- 
migrated to America with his parents when 
eighteen years of age, locating near Salem, Jef- 
ferson County, and about the year 1838 settled 
in Rose Township, Carroll County. After mar- 
riage our subject and wife resided on the Moore 
homestead in Centre Township until October, 
1880, when they moved to their present farm in 
the same township, comprising 100 acres in two 
divisions, all well improved, and on which in the 
summer of 1SS4 they erected their handsome 
and commodious residence. To them have been 
born four children, as follows: Cora Alice, who 



died December 20, 1878, at the age of twelve 
years ; Robert Nelson, William A. and Nettie M. , 
at home. The entire family are members of 
the United Presbyterian Church at Scroggsrield. 
Politically Mr. Moore is a Republican; for the 
past sis years he has served as township trustee, 
and for nine years as a member of the school 
board. 



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DWARD WILSON, for thirty-eight years 
an honored resident and successful agri- 
culturist of Lee Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty, was born March 1, 1819, in Fayette 
County, Penn., a son of William and Elizabeth 
(Pegg) Wilson, former a native of Maryland 
and latter of Pennsylvania. Edward Wilson, 
grandfather of our subject, and a Marylander 
by birth, married in his native State, and had 
born to him the following named children: 
Thomas, William, Peter, Alexander, George, 
Samuel, Mary, Malinda and Eliza. In 1825 
the parents of this family came with them 
to Ohio, locating in Jefferson County until the 
year 1839. The grandfather then moved to 
Mount Vernon, same State, where he died. 
William Wilson, father of our subject, lived in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, from the time of his 
coming, in 1S25, till his removal, in 1839, to 
Meigs County, same State, where he died in 
188-4. In politics he was a Whig and afterward 
a Republican. While a resident of Pennsylva- 
nia he had married Elizabeth Pegg, who bore 
him children as follows: Edward, Martha. 
Agnes and John. The mother of the family 
dying, Mr. Wilson soon thereafter married Jane 
Winn, and by her had seven children, viz. : 
Dawson, Alice, Elizabeth, Mary, Emanuel, Bar- 
bara and William. 

Edward Wilson, the subject proper of this 
biographical sketch, accompanied his parents to 
Ohio and remained in Jefferson County till after 
his marriage, in 1840, with Ann Maple, when 
they moved to the village of Hopedale, in Har- 
rison County, same State, where he carried on 
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and in 1841 came to Richmond. Jefferson Coun- 
ty, then, four years later, to Amsterdam, same 
ei unity. Here for live years he was engaged in 
his business, at the end of which time he re- 
moved with his family to Salem (Jefferson 
County), where they remained until 1852; in 
April, same year, he removed with his family to 
Dr. Moody's farm, in Lee Township, Carroll 
■County, where he worked at his trade (tanning) 
under the employ of David Moody until 1861, 
in which year Mr. Wilson purchased the farm 
in Lee Township, Carroll County, where he yet 
resides. He and his family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Chestnut Ridge, 
and in politics he has always been a firm Re- 
publican, preferring to support men and meas- 
ures, however, rather than party. Save his na- 
tive energy and good business qualifications Mr. 
Wilson had little to commence life on, but per- 
severance, industry and economy have placed 
him in the ranks of the most successful men of 
the county, well known and universally re- 
spected. The children born to him and his 
wife are four in number, viz. : Margaret, James 
H. , John A. and Sarah. 

William Maple, father of Mrs. Wilson, was 
horn in Maryland, moved with his father to 
Pennsylvania, where he married Rebecca Brown 
in the year 1801; in 1806 he came to Ohio, 
where he reared a family of fourteen children — 
four sons, ten daughters. He settled on a wild 
tract of land in Springfield Township, Jefferson 
County, which he cleared with his own indus- 
trious hands. In his religious convictions he was 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in his political proclivities he was a sound 
Democrat. 

James H. Wilson, eldest son of Edward and 
Ann (Maple) Wilson, was born on November 25, 
1M7, in Springfield Township, Jefferson Co. , 
Ohio, and was brought when but a boy to Car- 
roll County. On March 12, 1865, when seven- 
teen years and five months old, he enlisted in 
Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh 
Regiment, O. V. I., serving until the close of 
the war, when lie was honorably discharged. 



His education was secured at the common 
schools and at Harlem Springs College, at the 
end of which curriculum be began, at the age of 
twenty% to teach school, a profession he followed 
twenty-one consecutive years in Carroll County. 
On August 24, 1871, Mr. Wilson was married 
to Mary A., a daughter of Samuel Dumbleton, 
of Augusta, Carroll Co., Ohio, and after this 
event they located on the home place in Lee 
Township five years; then moved into Augusta 
Township, same county, where they remained 
until 1887, in which year they came to their 
present residence in Lee Township. Mr. and 
Mrs. Wilson and family — Ollie A., Wilber S.. 
Thomas E. and Minnie L. — are members of the 
Presbyterian Church at Harlem Springs, and in 
politics he'is a Republican. He is engaged in 
general farming and stock-raising, and ranks 
among the leading agriculturists in his section. 
John A. Wilson, second son of Edward and 
Ann (Maple) Wilson, was born in Springfield 
Township, Jefferson Co., Ohio, December 12, 
1849, being also educated at the common schools 
and at Harlem Springs College. Like his 
brother he applied himself to the profession of 
teaching, which he followed several years in 
Carroll County. On March 23, 1880, he was 
united in marriage with Emma F., daughter of 
Steen Mclntyre, and they have two children, 
Charles E. and Harrison S. Mr. and Mrs. 
Wilson are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church; in his political inclinations he is a Re 
publican, and has served his township as tins 
tee. He resides on the old homestead, and at 
present is engaged in the occupation of farming. 



| AMES R. NEELY, clerk of the court of 
l. I Carroll County, is a native of the same, 
\J) born in Orange Township. The family 
originated in Ireland, whence a branch of 
them emigrated to this country, prior to the 
Revolution, settling in Pennsylvania. 

James R. Neely, the subject of these lines, 
at the age of thirteen, started out into the world 
to "seek his fortune" among strangers, work 



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ing on farms in summer, and attending school 
during the winter months. This routine con- 
tinued until he was nearly twenty years old, 
when he commenced teaching in winter, con- 
tinuing his own education in summers. For 
fifteen years he followed the profession, three 
years in one room (No. 4) of the Carrollton 
schools, having "charge of the floor." In Sep- 
tember, 1887, he removed to Brown Township, 
same county, where he made his home for a 
time. On June 16, 1888, he was nominated 
for, and November 6, following, he was elected 
to his present position of county clerk, being 
the first incumbent elected to that office in the 
new court-house. On July 2, 1885, Mr. Neely 
was married to Miss Laura E. , daughter of 
ex-Commissioner T. M. (Jreighton, of Malvern, 
Brown Township, Carroll County, and two sons 
have blessed this union, James Creighton and 
Alexander Lehr, both living. Mr. Neely is 
well known to be a man of energy and push, 
and in the discharge of his duties as county 
clerk he is careful and conscientious. He is, so- 
cially, a member of the F. & A. M. and of the 
K. of P. Although himself a man of peace, he 
yet has military blood in his veins, for he had five 
uncles in the army all at one time (three of whom 
died for their country), and also two cousins. 




^ILLIAM BROWN, one of the promi- 
nent farmers of Rose Township, Car- 
roll Co. , Ohio, was born in Tuscarawas 
County, July 24, 1847. His father, 
Basil Brown, also a native of Carroll County, 
was born in 1824, and the father of Basil, Will- 
iam Brown, was a native of Pennsylvania, in 
which State he married Sarah Swarengen, who 
bore him five children. In the War , of 1812 
Mr. Brown held the rank of colonel of militia, 
and served through the Indian campaign in Ohio, 
Indiana and other parts of the then Far West, 
and was later extensively engaged in the con- 
struction of the public improvements in eastern 
Ohio. He eventually purchased and settled 



on a farm near the village of Dell Roy, Carroll 
County, where he passed the remainder of his 
life, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a 
Democrat in politics, and in religion w;ts a 
Presbyterian. Basil Brown, on the death of 
his parents, entered the family of Daniel Kim- 
mell, with whom he remained thirteen years, 
quitting them when he had reached his major- 
ity, and starting penniless in the world to seek 
his fortune, in which effort, through persever- 
ance, integrity and the exercise of a sound judg- 
ment, he met with success. While still quite 
young he married Sarah Woy, daughter of 
George Woy, of Pennsylvania, and one of the 
early settlers of Carroll County, Ohio, having 
entered the farm on which the last days of Basil 
were spent. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Brown settled in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
where Basil was engaged in agriculture until 
1855, when he came to Rose Township, Carroll 
County, and purchased a farm. Basil Brown 
was an active member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, and for many years was a class 
leader. In politics he was a Democrat, and did 
much to aid the success of his party; he was 
an enthusiastic Union man during the War of 
the Rebellion. Throughout his life he was re- 
garded as a man of great executive ability, and 
as an enterprising and worthy citizen. His 
death took place June 22, 1S66, and his remains 
were laid to rest in his native township. His 
widow now makes her home with our subject. 

William Brown, our subject, passed the ear- 
lier days of his life in Tuscarawas County, but 
his education was acquired at the schools of 
Rose Township, Carroll County, which he sup- 
plemented with a course of self- instruction. 
October 26, 1869, he was married to Anna E. T 
daughter of Elmer Fry, of Rose Township, and 
this union resulted in the birth of three chil- 
dren, as follows: Letitia (Mrs. E. B. Close), 
Effie A. and John C. When he purchased his 
present farm it was almost entirely unimproved 
and without buildings worthy of mention; it is 
now, under Mr. Brown's skillful management, 
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buildings are the result of bis own architectural 
skill and genius. The dwelling, which was built 
in 1880, is a large square frame, with an "L," 
and is most conveniently arranged as well as 
pleasantly located. In 1880 Mr. Brown erected 
one of the most complete barns in the county, 
44x ( JG feet, with a basement, for the accom- 
modation of stock, unsurpassed in arrangements 
for comfort and labor saving. In politics Mr. 
Brown has always been a Democrat, has served 
several terms as township trustee and three 
terms as township treasurer. He is an ardent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which he has been a class leader for twenty- 
four consecutive years, and is also a willing 
helper in every progressive movement. 



Kr\ ] OBERT G. GRAHAM, one of the most 
li*^ prosperous native-born farmers of Car- 
1^ roll County, was born in Fox Township, 
■// September 8, 1852, a son of James and 

Jane (Clark) Graham, former of whom, a native 
of the north of Ireland, came to Ohio and for 
some years carried on a farm in Fox Township, 
Carroll County. Our subject's boyhood was 
passed in working on his father's farm, and in 
attending the common schools of his district, 
which was supplemented by a course of study at 
a select school in Scroggsfield, under the man- 
agement of James Hunter. Since leaving school 
he has devoted his leisure time to making him- 
self conversant with social and religious subjects, 
as well as the many phases of the question of 
political economy, and is recognized as the best- 
read man in his section. Mr. Graham was mar- 
ried June 5, 18S4, to Alpharetta Cox, who was 
born November 7, 1 S5it, a daughter of Isaac and 
Lydia A. (Pottorf) Cox, of East Township, Car- 
roll County, and this union has been blessed 
with three children, viz.: Clarke J., born May 
5, 1885; Eva J., born September 11, 1887, and 
Alpharetta, born September 30, 188U. After 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Graham settled on the 
place in Lee Township, where he now lives, and 
which he has largely improved. The buildings 



are commodious and neat, the dwelling-bouse, 
erected iD 1886, being especially so. It is 50x30 
feet in dimensions, two stories high, and finished 
in maple, cherry and chestnut, the roof being 
slated. His farm comprises 100 acres of well- 
improved land, where he carries on general 
farming, and in addition to this he has 120 acres 
under cultivation near Amsterdam. He aud his 
family are consistent members of the United 
Presbyterian Church at Scroggsfield, of which 
they are liberal supporters, and they are held in 
high esteem for their social qualities and deeds 
of beneficence. In his political preferments Mr. 
Graham was formerly a Republican, but for the 
past six years has voted the Prohibition ticket, 
of which party he is a leading and zealous mem- 
ber. He has always been in the van of the array 
of representative and progressive men in his 
native county, and is well deserving of the respect 
in which he is held. 



TOBIAS ROUDEBUSH, one of the well- 
known leading farmers of Washington 
Township, Carroll County, was born here 
April 2, 1831, a son of Jesse and Hulda 
(Ray) Roudebush, a record of whom is given in 
the sketch of Abraham Roudebush. Our sub- 
ject was reared to farm life in his native town- 
ship, and educated at the district schools of the 
same. On May 24, 1855, he was united in 
marriage with Margaret J. Mick, also a native 
of Carroll County, born in Fox Township, April 
14, 1833, a daughter of Henry and Margaret 
(Gallagher) Mick, natives of Virginia. To 
this union have been born eleven children, viz. : 
Mary A. aud Henry M. deceased; Sarah J., 
residing at home; Mrs. Angeline George, in Fox 
Township, Carroll County; Maggie E., at home; 
Sheridan, deceased; Grant, married December 
25, 1890, by Rev. Hargest, at the home of the 
bride, to Miss Jennie N. Nisewonger; Elmer, 
Leonard and Mahlon, at home, and one that 
died in infancy. 

Mr. and Mrs. Roudebush, after their mar- 
riage, resided on the old homestead of his par- 



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ents for some time, then purchased tbe farm 
now owned by F. E. McCausland. in Washing- 
ton Township, where he resided until March 19, 
1873, when he bought the farm which he now 
occupies, containing 200 acres of prime land, 
situated about six and a half miles northeast of 
Carrollton; this was the first farm entered in 
Washington Township. Politically Mr. Roude- 
bush is a Republican, and at the present time 
he is serving his township as trustee. He and 
his wife are members of the Disciples Church. 



JOHN A. THOMPSON, one of the progres- 
sive young native-born agriculturists of 
I Loudon Township, Carroll County, was 
born November 24, I860, on the farm 
where he has ever since lived. His father, 
Samuel Thompson, was born January 1, 1812, 
in Ireland, whence, when in his "teens," he 
emigrated to this country. He first located at 
Pittsburgh, Penn., where he was a drayman four 
years; then proceeded to Washington County, 
same State, and here married, in March, 
1837, Miss Jane Palmer, also a native of the 
Emerald Isle, born about the year 1811. Soon 
after marriage they came to Ohio, where he 
purchased the farm of 120 acres, in Loudon 
Township, now owned by his son, John A. 
There was a small cabin standing on this land, 
in which they lived till 1842, when he put up 
the building which stands near the present fine 
residence, erected in 1874. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Samuel Thompson were born four children, viz. : 
Mary P., living at the paternal home; Mrs. Sa- 
rah Frazier, in Kansas; Mrs. Martha J. Wag- 
goner, in Loudon Township, and Rachel, who 
died April 7, 1871. Mrs. Thompson dying in 
1844, Mr. Thompson married for his second 
wife, November 12, 1845, Miss Mary J. Scott, 
born in Washington County, Penn., May 29, 
1823, a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Mc- 
Curdy) Scott, natives of Ireland. Six children 
were the result of this union, a record of whom 
is as follows: Joseph S., lives in Loudon 
Township; Margaret M. , Samuel G. and Hans 



are deceased; John A. is the subject of these 
lines; Eliza is deceased. The father died Au- 
gust 25, 1885, the mother, April 22, 1886, both 
members of the United Presbyterian Church, 
which he had joined at the time of the union in 
1858, having been for years previously an ad- 
herent of the Seceder Church. At his death he 
was owner of 427i acres of land. 

John A. Thompson, whose name opens this 
biographical memoir, was brought up to farm 
life, and received a liberal education at the com- 
mon schools. On December 25, 1890, he was 
united in marriage with Miss Maggie O. A. Mc- 
Nary, of Germano, Ohio. He and his half-sister, 
Mary P., are the only members of the two 
families who live on the old homestead. 




^ILLIAM BOYD, one of the most hon- 
ored citizens of Fox Township, Car- 
lf( roll County, a retired agriculturist and 
now a capitalist, with residence at Me- 
chanicstown, was born in Maryland, December 
2, 1S28. Alexander Boyd, his grandfather, was 
a native of Ireland, whence he emigrated to 
America in 1798, locating in New York for a 
time, afterward moving to Washington County, 
Penn., and from there to Carroll County, Ohio, 
where he died. Andrew Boyd, father of our 
subject, was born in the Keystone State in 1800, 
and was there married to Miss Mary Bell, of 
that State, a lady of Irish descent. In the 
spring of 1829 he came to Ohio and entered 160 
acres of wild land in Carroll County (now near 
Mechanicstown), on which he built a log cabin, 
and set to work to clear a farm, becoming a suc- 
cessful agriculturist. In connection with farm- 
ing he carried on a store in Mechanicstown, and 
he prospered in all his undertakings. In the 
fall of 1873 he passed from earth, followed, in 
1876, by his faithful wife, who had borne him 
ten children. The parents and grandparents of 
our subject were all buried in Mechanicstown 
Cemetery. 

William Boyd, the subject proper of these 
lines, was about five months old when brought 



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by bis parents to Ohio, and was reared to farm 
life, attending, during the winter months, the 
common schools of the district. On February 
10, 1852, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Al- 
lison, who was born February 20, 1832, in Penn- 
sylvania, of Irish parentage. Mr. and Mrs. 
Boyd lived on the old farm until 1S73, in which 
year they sold the property and moved into Me- 
chauicstown, where they have an elegant resi- 
dence, in which they are quietly enjoying the 
fruits of their toil. They are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, and in politics Mr. Boyd 
is a stanch Republican. 



It It ENEY SMITH, farmer, Harrison Town- 
P"^ ship, Carrol] County. The family, of 
1 which this gentleman is a worthy repre- 
•fj sentative, can be traced to Germany, 

where Henry Smith, the grandfather of our sub- 
ject, was born. AVhen he reached his majority 
he came to America and settled in Lancaster 
County, Penn. , where he married, and reared the 
following named children: John, Martin, Lewis 
and Mary. On the breaking out of the War of j 
the Revolution, he allied himself on the side of 
the Colonists, and rendered valuable and effi- 
cient aid to them in their struggle for independ- 
ence. In 1812 two of his sons entered the 
service of their country, serving during the war 
of that period, and little else is known of the 
family. Lewis, the youngest son, was born in 
1790 in Lancaster County, Penn., and was there 
married to Susanna, daughter of Jacob Fisher, 
a resident of Pennsylvania, and a native of 
Germany, to which union were born the follow- 
ing named children: Susanna, Nancy and Cath- 
erine, all deceased, and John, Henry and Eliza- 
beth. In 1815 the family came to Ohio, travel- 
ing by wagon, and bringing their goods and 
chattels with them. They located in what is 
now Centre Township, Carroll County, for eight 
or nine years, and then Mr. Smith entered the 
farm now occupied by his son, Henry, in Hani- 
son Township. The father died in 1871, and 
was laid to rest by the side of his wife, who had 



preceded him to the grave in 1862. In religion 
he was a member of the Lutheran Church, in 
politics first a Whig, ami afterward, on the for- 
mation of the party, a Republican. 

Henry Smith, whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch, was born May 2, 1825, in 
Centre Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, and his 
boyhood and early youth were passed alternate- 
ly on the farm and in the common schools of 
his district. He remained under the paternal 
roof, assisting on the farm, and also taking 
building contracts, as well as other odd jobs, 
until the death of his father, when he bought 
the interests of the heirs. In 1873 he was mar- 
ried to Lydia Ann Baxter, who was born in Car- 
roll County, Ohio, in 1836, a daughter of Ben- 
jamin and Mandy Ann Baxter, natives of Vir- 
ginia, who were married in Carroll County, 
Ohio. For many years Mrs. Henry Smith has 
been a leading member of the Lutheran Church, 
of which he has been deacon; in politics he has 
always been a Republican. 




SBERY TOBAN, who represents one of 
the well-known and highly respected 
1^ families of Fox Township, Carroll 
County, wa9 born October 14, 1817, iu 
Cecil County, Md. , in which State his father, 
Asbery Toban, was also born. The Toban 
family can be traced back to the grandparents, 
who came to America at a very early period from 
Ireland, and occupied a farm in Maryland. The 
paternal grandmother of our subject was brought 
to this country and sold as a chattel to a Mr. 
Dillon, but was finally liberated and married 
Mr. Toban. Asbery Toban, Sr. , father of our 
subject, was reared in Maryland, where he at- 
tended the old subscription school, and laid for 
himself the foundation of that success which 
marked his later life. At the age of maturity 
he met and married Miss Mary Leason, who was 
a native of the same State, and who was reared 
and educated in the same vicinity as was Mr. 
Toban. As well as can be ascertained the Lea- 
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in Maryland for fifteen years, during which 
time he was engaged as a charcoal burner, Mr. 
and Mrs. Toban moved to Chester County, 
Penn. , where Mr. Toban followed his old occupa- 
tion. They then moved to Washington County, 
Penn., where Mr. Toban died about the year 1860, 
the father of eleven children, five of whom are 
still living, our subject being the second child. 
Asbery Toban, Jr., whose name heads this 
article, until the age of ten lived in Maryland. 
Then his father moved to Pennsylvania, where 
Asbery obtained his education by attending the 
subscription school about three months in the 
winter of each year; the remainder of the time 
was occupied by hard work, either on his 
father's farm or by working for the farmers in 
the neighborhood. At that time wages were 
small, and he worked many months for three 
dollars per month. At the age of nineteen As- 
bery married Miss Rachel Donaldson, who was 
a native of Washington County, Penn. After 
working his father-in-law's farm for three years 
Mr. Toban in 1836, settled in Fox Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, and bought a farm of eighty 
acres. Here in the midst of the wilderness he 
and his wife commenced life together in earnest; 
a log hut was their refuge, and here were born 
to bless their home a family of live children, 
named as follows: Elijah, William, Thomas, 
Rachel A. and David. After a few years of 
happiness, mingled with the hardships which 
are incident to pioneer life, death entered the 
little family and took away the wife and mother. 
Mr. Toban married, for his second wife, Sarah 
Ann Burgett, a native of Fox Township, whose 
parents were of English descent, and the re- 
sults of this union were children as follows: 
George, John, Robert, Charlie, Tipton, Samuel, 
Mary, Joseph, and two who died in infancy. 
Mr. Toban has a line farm of 160 acres, which 
is well improved with a fine new residence and 
other buildings. In politics he is a Republican, 
and has been honored by his party with several 
township offices. Both he and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Toban, 
by his energy and honesty, has won for himself | 



a position among the representative citizens and 
prosperous agriculturists of Carroll County. 



\ E. HUSTON, a prominent citizen of Car- 
rollton, and senior member of the firm of 
Huston & Fawcett, proprietors of the 
most extensive general hardware store in 
Carroll County, was born November 22, 1849, 
in Mechanicstown, Carroll Co., Ohio, of Scotch- 
Irish and English descent. His father, James 
Huston, who was born in Allegheny County, 
Penn., April 17, 1813, was one of the pioneer 
merchants of Carroll County, he having come to 
Ohio when a young man. He first located on a 
farm in Fox Township, where, later, he became 
a miller, and finally established himself in a 
general store at Mechanicstown, which he con- 
ducted several years, until 1853, when he moved 
to Carrollton, and here opened out in the same 
line on a more extensive scale, to which, one 
year thereafter, he added the grain business. 
In 1868 he purchased a hardware store, also in 
Carrollton, and formed a partnership with his 
son V. E. , under the firm name of J. Huston & 
Son. This continued till 1886, when the father 
withdrew, and Mr. R. C. Fawcett was received 
as a partner, the style of the firm being Huston 
& Fawcett. James Huston was married in 183S, 
to Christine Emsley, a native of England, and 
three children have been born to this union, 
viz. : Amanda, deceased wife of Cyrus A. Shober; 
Emma, wife of R. C. Fawcett, and V. E. On 
January 3, 1887, the father closed his eyes to 
earth, at the age of seventy-four years, after a 
busy life which he had made prosperous by 
honest toil, indomitable perseverance and strict 
integrity, having begun life a poor boy, with no 
capita] save willing hands and a stout heart. 
Politically he had been originally a Democrat, 
but for some years before his death he voted the 
Prohibition ticket. 

V. E. Huston received his education at the 
common schools of his district, also at the col- 
lege at Harlem Springs, and after leaving there 
he entered his father's store as clerk, continuing 




James Huston. 



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with him in that capacity until becoming a 
partner with him in the hardware business, as 
above related. In 1872 Mr. Huston was mar- 
ried to Miss Ida J. McCoy, daughter of Judge 
McCoy, of Carrollton, and Margaret (Drucka- 
miller) McCoy, and by this union were born the 
following named six children: James E., Charles 
V., William M. , Christine E., Amanda S., and 
Roy, who died at the age of two years. Mr. 
Huston in his political leanings is a stauch 
Democrat, but has never accepted office. Mrs. 
Huston is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 



IjOSEPH C. LONG, a leading agriculturist 
w. I and prominent progressive citizen of Car- 
\yj roll County, Ohio, of which he has been a 
resident ever since its organization, is a 
native of Pennsylvania, born in Washington 
County, December 25, 1820. His grandfather, 
Thomas Long, a native of County Donegal, Ire- 
land, and a weaver by trade, reared a family of 
six sons and one daughter, with whom (except- 
ing John, who came to America some years 
earlier) he emigrated to New Brunswick, Can- 
ada, where, for several years, they carried on 
farming, and where he died. Of the children 
born to Thomas Long all are now dead except 
one son, James, and one daughter, Margaret. 
John, the father of our subject, also a native of 
Ireland, was there married February 6, 1818, to 
Jane Carson, of the same place. In 1819 he 
emigrated to the United States. On their voy- 
age they stopped for a few days at St. John, 
where the captain's family resided, to which 
place they had a pleasant voyage. After this 
delay they resumed their voyage, during which 
they encountered much rough weather, followed 
by a terrible storm, which continued for several 
days with such violence that the crew despaired 
of reaching land. (At one time a boat, or 
something on deck, crushed in one of the hatches 
not far from the berth occupied by Mr. and 
Mrs. Long, which deluged their berth. Mr. 
Long sprang to his feet, half-leg deep in water, 
and called to his wife to get up. She replied it 



was of no use, for they were going to the bot- 
tom anyhow). But, as all storms have done, 
this one abated also, and they reached Wash- 
ington City, where they disembarked, having 
been ten weeks on the voyage. From Wash- 
ington they made their way as best they could 
to Washington County, Penn., where they had 
some old acquaintances that had preceded them. 
They remained in this part of the country 
eleven years, engaged in farming, during which 
time they had born to them two children: 
Joseph O, December 26, 1820, and Margaret, 
August 7, 1823. In 1830 Mr. Long bought 
eighty acres of unimproved land in what is 
now Washington Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. 
During the summer Mr. Long cleared a small 
piece of ground and built a cabin, removing to 
it in November. On this farm he lived twenty 
years, at which time he had it in good cultiva- 
tion and comfortable surroundings, but the ter- 
ritory was too small. In 1851 he bought 160 
acres of land in comfortable repair, in Pleasant 
Valley, Harrison Township, Carroll County, to 
which he removed in the same fall. Soon after- 
ward he sold the Washington Township farm; 
in 1864 he bought 120 acres adjoining his home 
farm. On July 31, 1866, his wife died in the 
eightieth year of her age. After the death of 
his wife he retired from business, transferring 
the management of affairs to his son, J. C. 
Long. He then spent his time in social inter- 
course with his neighbors, looking after light 
chores about the house, etc., but principally in 
reading the Scriptures, history and general 
literature, all of which he greatly enjoyed. His 
strength steadily declined, until October 17, 
1876, when he passed away without a struggle 
or a pain, and was interred by the side of his 
deceased wife; they now rest side by side in the 
Carrollton Cemetery, to await the resurrection 
of the dead. In politics Mr. Long was a stanch 
Democrat, and in religion, prior to coming to 
this country, an Episcopal Methodist, but after- 
ward united with the Protestant Methodist 
Church, of which he was one of the original or- 
ganizers in Carroll County. 



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Joseph C. Long, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch, as will be seen was ten 
years old when be came to Carroll County with 
his parents. His boyhood was passed almost 
exclusively in the arduous duties of the farm, 
nine days being the extent of his school train- 
ing; but his natural ability, coupled with a deter- 
mination to secure an education, amply compen- 
sated him for his lack of schooling. At this time 
schools were scarce and far between, and he was 
obliged to travel two miles to get there. All his 
spare moments were devoted to the pursuit of 
knowledge, with the assistance of his father; and, 
having a taste for mathematics, he early com- 
menced the study of the higher branches, finally 
taking up surveying, a subject he succeeded in 
thoroughly mastering. In the fall of 1851 he 
was elected county surveyor of Carroll County, 
which office he filled for six years. He also pur- 
sued a course of study in medicine under one of 
the ablest physicians of his section, and attended 
lectures at Cleveland Medical College. After Mr. 
Long returned from medical lectures, he could not 
find an acceptable location in which to practice, 
without removing out of convenient reach of his 
parents, who were comf ortabl y settled, and did not 
wish to remove. The surrounding country was 
fully supplied with physicians, good men who 
did not wish to remove. Our subject thought 
it was his duty to remain with his parents, at 
least for a while; so he went to work on the 
farm again, and the longer he worked on the 
farm the less he thought of practicing medicine, 
until he abandoned the idea of practicing medi- 
cine, and remained on the farm. Mr. Long has 
retired from the management of the farm, trans- 
ferring that to his son, Chalmers H, owing to 
the infirmatives of declining years and failing 
strength. Mr. Long's reading has been most 
extensive and versatile, covering various fields 
of science and literature. His library is one of 
the best in the county, well supplied with a 
choice selection of works on various subjects. 

On May 11, 1847, Joseph C. Long was mar- 
ried to Mary O, daughter of Samuel and Martha 
C. Huston, of Washington Township, Carroll 



Co., Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Long have been 
born four children, viz. : Margaret Jane, now 
Mrs. J. B. Wilkin; Martha Levinia, now Mrs. 
Samuel Wilkin; Mary Louisa (Mrs. James Long, 
who died June 7, 1877, aged twenty years, seven 
months and four days); and Chalmers H. , who 
married Jane, daughter of Alexander and Cath- 
erine Marshal, and resides on the farm with his 
father. In politics Joseph C. Long is a Dem- 
ocrat, in religion a Protestant Methodist. 



JOHN G. BUCK, jeweler and proprietor of 
foundry, one of the well-known business 
men of Carrollton, Carroll County, is a 
native of that town, born August 7, 1847. 
His father, John G. Buck, was a native of Ger- 
many, where he learned the trade of butcher, 
and was married. He and his wife immigrated 
to the United States, and first located at Steu- 
benville, Ohio. Mr. Buck afterward wedded 
Mary Houck, a native of Carroll County, and a 
descendant of an old pioneer family. For six 
years they resided at Steubenville, at the end of 
which time they removed to Carrollton. Here 
he followed the trade of butcher, and for years 
kept one of the early hotels of the place. He 
died in Carrollton about the year 1869. 

John G. Buck, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch, at ten years of age be- 
gan life for himself, going to New Philadel- 
phia, Tuscarawas County, where he worked in 
a foundry three years, and. returning to Car- 
rollton, served an apprenticeship of a year and 
a half at the watchmaker's trade; thence he 
moved to Salem, Ohio, where he worked at the 
same business six years under instruction. After 
this he followed his trade, as journeyman, a 
year and a half in Canfield, Mahoning County, 
but in 1869 he returned to Carrollton and es- 
tablished himself in the jewelry trade, which he 
has since successfully continued. He has re- 
cently taken a course of study for practice as 
an optician, and he has now added that branch — 
adjusting spectacles, etc., to the eye — to his 
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same place in his present foundry business, 
erecting a substantial brick building, for the 
manufacture of stoves, grates, warm air fur- 
naces, etc. In 1869 he was married to Phania 
Toot, a native of Carroll County, who has borne 
him three children — one son and two daughters. 
In politics Mr. Buck is a Democrat, and in his 
affiliations he is a member of Lodge No. 256, 
K. of P., at Leesburg, Carroll County. He ever 
takes a pleasurable pride in reviewing his past 
active life, and tracing his business success to 
his own energy, economy and good judgment. 





OBERT CROSIER FAWCETT. of the 
firm of Huston & Fawcett, hardware 
merchants, Carrollton, is a native of 
Carroll County, Ohio, born January 24, 
1S47. and was reared to early manhood on the 
farm of his father, John Fawcett, attending the 
common schools of his neighborhood, and, sub- 
sequently, the union schools at Carrollton, Ohio; 
he graduated in the class of 1S47, at Washing- 
ton College, in Pennsylvania. He then took up 
the study of law, reading under Shober & Raley, 
of Carrollton, and was admitted to the bar in 
1 s ^0. For a time he practiced his profession in 
Waynesbnrg, Stark County. From 1880 until 
1884 he was superintendent of schools at Waynes- 
bnrg, and then came to Carrollton, where for one 
and a half years he was superintendent of common 
schools. In the winter of 1884 he was examined l>y 
the State board of examiners, and now holds a 
State certificate for life. In the winter of 1886 
he entered into partnership with V. E. Huston, 
in hardware and clothing business, in Carroll- 
ton. which firm succeeded the firm of Huston 
& Son, and, having disposed of the clothing 
department of their business, they have since 
carried exclusively the largest stock of hard- 
ware in the county. In L884 Mr. Fawcett was 
married to Mrs. Emma Sellers, daughter of 
James and Christina Huston, of Carrollton, 
Ohio. In politics Mr. Fawcett is a moderate 
Republican, but is no politician, and has neither 
held nor sought office. 



DAIR FAMILY. This family has been 

an important factor in the making of the 

history of Scotland and England, and 

also played an important part in the 

great American Revolution. 

Sir Robert Adair, born May 24, 1763. died 
October 3, 1855, was a noted English ambas- 
sador to the courts of Vienna, Brussels and Con- 
stantinople. He negotiated the treaty of the 
Dardanelles, and retired in 1835 with the rank 
of privy counselor. Robin Adair and others of 
the same family have left an impress upon the 
period in which they lived. 

Cornelius Adair emigrated froin Edinburgh,. 
Scotland, to North Carolina, and one of his sons 
removed from there to Augusta County, Ya. r 
before the War of the Revolution. One of the 
early settlers in North Carolina, whose name 
won at least a casual mention in history, was 
John Adair, the patriotic entry-taker (tax col- 
lector) of the District of Washington. In 1780 
Gen. Sevier was recruiting the army with which 
he defeated Gen. Ferguson at Kings Mountain. 
His exchequer was low from frequent drafts of 
a similar nature, and he could not borrow money 
enough to finish fitting out the expedition. John 
Adair was the only man in the territory who 
had any money, and the plans of Gen. Sevier 
were likely to fail for lack of money to buy horses 
and equipments. Gen. Sevier suggested to John 
Adair that he should loan him the funds of the 
State that were in his possession. And the fol- 
lowing, as recorded by tradition, was Adair's 
answer: "Colonel Sevier, I have no right to 
make any such disposition of this money. It 
belongs to the impoverished treasury of North 
Carolina, but if the country is overrun by the 
British, liberty is gone. Let the money go too. 
Take it. if by its use the enemy is driven from 
the country. I can trust that country to vindi- 
cate and justify my conduct. Take it. " Sevier 
took it — twelve thousand seven hundred and 
thirty- five dollars, and the result was Kings 
Mountain. Ellen Adair, one of the daughters 
of Gen. Adair, of Florida, is the central figure 
in the famous painting ordered after Webster's. 



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defense of Massachusetts, to decorate the walls 
of Faneuil Hall. 

Cornelius' son in Augusta County, Va. , was 
the father of John, William, Cornelius, James 
and two daughters. John removed to the vicin- 
ity of Carlisle, Penn. William married Mary 
Rawlston, and also removed to Carlisle, Penn. 
John raised a family of two boys and one girl. 
James was a bachelor, and made his home with 
William. Cornelius and one married sister 
moved to Kentucky. 

John Adair, who commanded the Kentucky 
troops at the battle of New Orleans, was the 
predecessor of Henry Clay in the United States 
Senate, and was inaugurated governor of Ken- 
tucky in 1820 — was one of the men who have 
builded well their part of our American Govern- 
ment. William remained a few years at Carl- 
isle, Penn. , then removed to Ohio, thence to 
northern Indiana and thence to Iowa. William 
was a school teacher and followed the business 
of making pumps in the summer time. He en- 
listed at Carlisle, Penn., and served as a soldier 
in the War of 1812. 

The children of William and Mary Rawlston 
Adair were William, George W., John Newton, 
and one daughter, Mary. William and George 
W. located in Shell Rock, Iowa, and founded 
the Shell Rock flouring and woolen mills. Mary 
made her home with her elder brothers. John 
Newton Adair was born at Carlisle, Penn., Au- 
gust 25, 1811. He removed to Washington 
County, Penn., with William Dempster, where 
he learned the trade of hatter. After learning 
his trade he removed to Amsterdam, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio, where he worked as a journeyman 
hatter; was married to Mary Chaddock, Febru- 
ary 11, 1834, and settled in Leesburg, Carroll 
Co., Ohio. Mary Chaddock was born August 
11, 1815. The Chaddock family came from 
Maryland to eastern Ohio. 

The children of John N. and Mary C. Adair 
are William Adair, born March 17, 1835 (he 
was educated in the village schools and appren- 
ticed to the wagon and carriage trade at an early 
age, at which trade he worked for nine years. 



He read law with Robert E. Knight, Esq., and 
was admitted as an attorney and counselor at 
law May 1, 1862. He was elected to the Ohio 
Legislature from Carroll County, Ohio, in 1869 
and again in 1871. In 1873 he was elected as 
the delegate from Carroll County to the Constitu- 
tional Convention. Mr. Adair is the author of 
the "Adair Law," the original Civil Damage 
Liquor Law, and the first statute holding the 
real property or premises liable for damage 
against the owner or lessee. He has always 
been an active Republican, and has been repeat- 
edly elected mayor of Leesburg. Mr. Adair 
was given an honorary membership in the 
First African Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Columbus, Ohio, in recognition of his labors in 
the passage of the XVth Amendment to the 
United States Constitution. He was one of the 
original directors in the W. ct L. E. R. R., and 
president of the H. B. & J. R. R. now the W. 
& L. E. R. R. from Bowerston, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, to Wheeling, W. Va. He was married 
September 3, 1856, to Martha J. Leeper,and they 
have one son, Emmet M., who was born February 
8, 1864. He was educated in the Leesville public 
school, the New Hagerstown Academy, and is a 
graduate of the Chautauqua Literary and Scien- 
tific.Circle, class of 1886. He read law with his 
father, William Adair, Esq., and was admitted as 
an attorney and counselor at law by the Supreme 
Court of Ohio, October 9, 1890. He is practic- 
ing law with his father in Leesville); Elizabeth 
Ann Adair, born October 14, 1836, died Novem- 
ber, 1854; James Adison Adair, born April 17, 
1838, died September 11, 1840; Joseph Chad- 
dock Adair, born January 13, 1841 (married 
Martha Roby at Leesburg, Ohio, and removed 
to Holton, Jackson Co., Kas., in 1S70, where 
he lived until 1SS5, when they removed to To- 
peka, Shawnee Co., Kas. Mr. Adair is noted 
for his many good qualities, and has always 
been a leader in the community in which he 
lived. In 1880 he was United States deputy 
marshal, deputy sheriff, city marshal, constable 
and census-taker in Holton City, Jackson Co., 
Kas. Their children who are living are four 



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accomplished daughters: Misses Adda, Manie, 
Hattie and Julia. Adda graduated with honor 
from the Holton High school, in which she is 
now a teacher of acknowledged ability; she is 
an excellent musician, and an artist of power and 
originality. Manie is a student of the Kansas 
City School of Elocution and Oratory, and is an 
artist whose future is full of promise. Hattie 
is a successful teacher in the Kansas public 
schools. Julia is a student in the Topeka City 
High School). Mary Chaddock Adair died Jan- 
uary 21, 1841. John Newton Adair and Miss Ma- 
linda Price were married August 11, 1S41. Ma- 
linda Price was born March 12, 1818. John 
Newton Adair was a man of earnest convictions, 
and fearless in their expression. For fifteen 
years he was one of the leading merchants in 
Leesburg, and engaged in the purchase of 
horses, cattle and sheep, and drove them across 
the Alleghany Mountains to eastern markets. 
He was a justice of the peace for many years, 
and had before his court such noted attorneys 
as Edwin M. Stanton and John A. Bingham. 
He took an active interest in the maintenance of 
the common-school system, and was assessor of 
Orange Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, for twenty 
years. He was an Old-line Whig and a Repub- 
lican. He died of apoplexy November 18, 1881. 

The children of John N. and Malinda Adair 
are the following, of whom a brief record is 
given : 

Mary Eliza Adair, born August 13, 1842, 
and married to Samuel L. Harper (Mr. Harper 
was noted for his mechanical ability, and at the 
time of his death, July, 1890, he was superin- 
tendent of the iron department of the Columbus 
Buggy Company. One son was born to the 
above union, Charles \V. Harper, who gradu- 
ated from the New Philadelphia High School at 
the age of seventeen years, and after removing 
to Columbus, Ohio (where his residence now is), 
and achieving success in the journalistic pro- 
fession — he is business manager of the Colum- 
bus Daily Press — he returned to the home of 
his youth and married Miss Kate Paterick, at 
New Philadelphia). 



Bazzle Wells Adair was born March 0, 1844, 
and was married to Mary Strickmaker August 
15, 1871; their children are Charles E., born 
May 1, 1N76, now assistant postmaster at Lees- 
burg, Carroll Co., Ohio; John G., born July 
7, 1880, and Carra B. Adair, born December 11, 
1883. Mr. Adair enlisted in Company A, 
Eightieth O. V. V. I., February 18, 1864. He 
was with Sherman on the march to the sea, at 
the grand review in Washington, and thence 
proceeded to Little Rock, Ark., where he was 
mustered out of the service and returned to 
Columbus, Ohio, for final discharge, August 25, 
1865. He took part in the battles of Resaca, 
Bentonville and Salt Ketchee Swamp. He was 
elected recording clerk of the House of Repre- 
sentatives of the Ohio Legislature for the term 
beginning January 1, 1872. He is a builder 
and architect of acknowledged ability, having 
erected the two finest brick residences in Carroll 
County, Ohio. He read law with his brother, 
Hon. William Adair, and was admitted as an 
attorney and counselor at law in 1878; has 
been prominent in Republican party councils, 
and was a warm supporter of and delegate to 
the conventions which nominated J. T. TJpde- 
graf and William McKinley, Jr., for Congress. 
Mr. Adair was appointed postmaster at Lees- 
burg (Leesville P. O.) by Chester A. Arthur; 
was removed by Grover Cleveland and reap- 
pointed by Benjamin Harrison to the same office, 
which he now holds. 

Alice S. Adair was born February 18, 1846, 
and was married to Ira C. Rogers in 1863. Mr. 
Rogers enlisted in 1862 in the Ninety-eighth 
O. V. V. I., and was detailed to join the Six 
teenth Regular Band at Louisville, Ky. In 
1864 the band was ordered to the United States 
barracks at Chicago, whore he remained until 
the close of the war. He is now in the employ 
of the post-office department at Chicago, 111. 
Their children are Burton, who married Mata 
Newton, and is engaged in the fancy poultry 
business; Lulu V., who was an accomplished 
musician; Frank, who is editor of the Amateur 
Electrician, Chicago, Illinois. 



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Thomas G. Adair and Albert G. Adair 
(twins), born December 23, 1847, have both at- 
tained a well-merited proficiency in the trade of 
plain and ornamental plastering. They are 
•original thinkers in science and religion, and 
■close students and observers, from a liberal 
point of view, of the literature of the times. 

Josephine Adair was born May 9, 1850. She 
received an education in the common scbools; 
■was married to Joseph Lingle, May 12, 1870, 
and removed to Chicago, 111., thence to Clear 
Lake, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa. Mr. Lingle has 
been very successful as a contractor and builder. 
Their children are Louie, Linnie and Ivie. 

Alonzo E. Adair was born January 10, 1853. 
He received a common-school education, and 
worked at the trade of brick mason in the day 
time, and read law with his brother, Hon. Will- 
iam Adair, at night. In 1878 he was admitted 
as an attorney and counselor at law. On No- 
vember 24, 1885, he was married to Miss Ella 
Finney, of Pittsburgh, Penn., and now resides 
at Columbus, Ohio. Their children are Mary 
Maliuda and John A. 

Edgar A. Adair was born June 10, 1855, and 
was married December 15, 1S77, to Miss Ida 
Moore. He is a brick mason and builder of 
acknowledged ability and mechanical ingenuity. 




\ILLIAM H. BUCHANAN, of Monroe 
Township, Carroll County, was born in 
Union Township, same county, July 
20, 1835, a son of John and Mary W. 
(Pittenger) Buchanan, natives of Harrison Coun- 
ty, Ohio. Their children's names are William 
H., Samuel, Nancy, Susannah and John N. 
The boyhood days of our subject were passed 
in the district schools, at Hopedale College, 
Harrison County, also Richmond College, Jef- 
ferson County, and in June, 1861, he graduat- 
ed from Mt. Union College, Stark Co., Ohio, 
in the classical course, and taught in the dis- 
trict schools for a number of years, having com- 
menced in 1854. In 1850 he experienced the 
Christian religion. In 1860 he was given an 



exhorter's license, and in 1861 was given a 
local preacher's license. On March ID, 1871, 
he was ordained deacon by Bishop D. W. Clark, 
and March 21, 1875, he was ordained elder 
by Bishop Thomas Bowman, of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. On August 12, 1862, Mr. 
Buchanan enlisted under Capt. Williams, of 
Carrollton, in Company I, Ninety-eighth O. V. I., 
and served till Juue 7, 1865. At the battle of 
Perry ville, Ky., October 8, 1862, he received a 
severe wound in the left temple, was left on the 
battlefield for dead, and was taken prisoner by 
the rebels but was soon paroled and exchanged. 
From the effects of this wound he lay in the 
hospital one year. He was in the battles of 
Buzzard Roost, Ga., February 25-27, 1864; Res- 
aca, Ga., May 13-16, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, 
Ga., July 20, 1864, and at Jonesboro, Ga., Sep- 
tember 1, 1864, he received a severe wound, one 
ball entering his right ear, which was extracted 
on the left side of his nose, near tho corner of 
the eye. This ball, which he has in his posses- 
sion, is in size one and one sixteenth inches in 
length, nine-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, 
and was made in Springfield, Mass. ; another ball 
passed through his right shoulder. 

Mr. Buchanan, in the fall of 1865. removed 
to Carrollton, where he commenced the study 
of medicine, but, his health failing, he was 
obliged to give it up. He then commenced to 
teach in Carrollton Academy, teaching three 
successive years, and also served ten years as 
county examiner of Carroll County. In the 
fall of 1870 he was elected treasurer of the 
county, and served two terms. He was also 
agent for the American Bible Society for several 
years. On April 10, 1873, he purchased the 
farm he now owns, which contains 162 acres, 
in Monroe Township, Carroll County, and his 
present fine residence was erected in 1887. Mr. 
Buchanan has been twice married, first time 
in August, 1862, to Miss Sarah L. Gilbert, a 
daughter of Hull and Tersa (Wheeler) Gilbert, 
of Portage County, Ohio, to which union were 
born Clarence E., of Loudon Township, Car- 
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Loudon Township, and a twin brother, John L., 
at home. The mother of these children died 
December 0, 1870. She had been a very active 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
from her youth, and was a graduate of Mt. Union 
College, of Stark County. On March 20, 1872, 
Mr. Buchanan married Miss Ruth A. Ford, a 
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Riley) Ford, 
of Jefferson County, Ohio, and born May 17, 
1844. Mr. Buchanan is a Prohibitionist, but his 
first vote was cast with the Whig party; he was 
also a Republican for several years. 



El LISHA McGUIRE, than whom there is 
no better known or more popular citizen 
I in Carroll County, was born in Jefferson 

County, Ohio, December, 4, 1812. His 
father, John McGuire, who was a native of Vir- 
ginia, born of Scotch-Irish ancestry, came to 
Jefferson County in its pioneer days, and here 
married September 29, 1803, Sarah Milligan, a 
native of that county, and daughter of one of its 
pioneers. After their marriage they located on 
a farm near Steubenville, on which they resided 
until 1810, when they moved to that part of 
Columbiana County which afterward became a 
portion of Carroll County. Here they carried 
on farming, in what is now Union Township, for 
twelve years, at the end of which time they came 
into the village of Carrollton (then known as 
Centreville), where they passed the remainder of 
their days. Nine children — six sons and three 
daughters — were born to them, of whom the 
subject of this sketch is fifth in order of birth, 
and the only survivor. 

Elisha McGuire' s boyhood was not different 
from that of any other pioneer boy, he having 
to assist in the arduous duties of the farm, sur- 
rounded by many hardships, difficulties and 
dangers. When old enough he commenced at- 
tending the "subscription schools," the school- 
house being the primitive small log shanty, with 
still more primitive furnishing — puncheon floor, 
split-log benches and greased-paper windows, 
while a huge fireplace threw out a cheerful glow 



over the scene, and a bundle of suggestive birch 
rods stood in corner, an important factor in the 
making of a successful school. To attend this 
old-time institution our subject had to walk some 
three miles, and then for only a few weeks dur- 
ing winter. All his clothing was home-made, 
even to his shoes, for the pioneers made their 
own foot-wear for themselves and families. Thus 
Elisha lived under the parental roof until he 
was sixteen years of age, when he was bound 
out as an apprentice at Springfield, Jefferson 
County, to John Morrison, the village black- 
smith and wagon-maker. After serving three 
years he commenced work as a journeyman, and 
in 1833 he came to Carrollton, where he estab- 
lished a wagon and plow manufacturing estab- 
lishment, in which industry he did an extensive 
business. In 1840 he was Democratic candidate 
for sheriff of Carroll County, and although the 
county was strongly Whig, he was elected on 
his ticket; so creditably did he fulfill the duties 
of the office that, at the expiration of his term, 
he was re-elected. The contest was a lively 
one, and Mr. McGuire made the canvass on 
horseback, as was the custom in early times. At 
the termination of his second term he returned 
to his manufacturing interests, and established 
a foundry business, which he has since carried 
on. In July, 1852, he commenced, agreeable 
to his own proposition, carrying the mails and 
passengers between Steubenville and Massillou, 
in Stark County, the mode of conveyance being 
four-horse coaches, there being at that time no 
railroad through this region. He sold his inter- 
est out, however, the following year to the Ohio 
Stage Company, and devoted his time and at- 
tention to carrying the cross-country mails from 
Carrollton to Wheeling, New Lisbon, Cadiz, 
New Philadelphia, Wellsville, Summitville, etc., 
which service continued until 1854. 

On July 10, 1835, Mr. McGuire was united 
in marriage with Hannah Baxter, a native of 
Brooke County, Va., born December 22, 1810. 
Her parents, Richard and Elizabeth Baxter (the 
former also a native of Brooke County and latter 
of Washington County, Penn.), moved to near 



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Centreville (now Carrollton), Ohio, when she was 
three months old. Here they took up Govern- 
ment land, and carried on farming during the 
remainder of their lives. To Mr. and Mrs. Mc- 
Guire were born nine children, of whom four 
are yet living, viz. : Mary, widow of Capt. E.F. 
Williams, formerly of Company I, Ninety-eighth 
Eegiment O. V. I. (she resides at Carrollton, 
and has had five children); Edith, now Mrs. 
James P. Whitcraft, lives in Cambridge, Ohio 
(six children have been born to her); Annie R. 
is the widow of John W. Gould, who died in 
Allegheny, Penn., October 13, 1889, being fore- 
man, at the time, of the manufactory of Baker & 
Co. (she is a resident of Carrollton, and has three 
children); Frank W. McGuire is now foreman 
of the Cleveland Malleable Iron Works, at 
Cleveland, Ohio (he married Clara Belle Hoops, 
of Carrollton, who died March 12, 1887, leaving 
one child). Richard Baxter McGuire, the fourth 
in the family in order of birth, enlisted in 1861, 
in Company I, Ninety-eighth O. V.I. , and partic- 
ipated in the battles of Perryville aud Chatta- 
nooga, besides several skirmishes and minor en- 
gagements. At Chattanooga he was shot through 
the left wrist with a minie ball, and being 
granted thirty days' leave of absence be set out 
for his home, but on the way lockjaw set in, and 
he died at his home, October 15, 1863. He had 
been commissioned second lieutenant February 
1, same year, and was a brave and gallant soldier, 
beloved at home and popular with comrades in 
arms. His remains now lie in the cemetery at 
Carrollton. 

Elisha McGuire is a zealous supporter of the 
Democratic party, and in addition to his service 
as sheriff he has been assessor and treasurer of 
Centre Township, and a member of the Carroll- 
ton Board of Education; in his church connec- 
tions he is a Presbyterian. He ranks among the 
earliest business men of the town, and has been 
prominently identified with all public move- 
ments tending toward the advancement and im- 
provement of the place. AVhen he came to Car- 
rollton, it was called Centreville, and consisted 
of a few log cabins, one of which stood on the 



site of the present Presbyterian Church; and 
the early tavern of the village, a two-story log 
building, stood on the corner now occupied by 
Stockon's Bank. Mr. McGuire took an active 
interest in securing the construction of theCon- 
notton Valley Railroad, of which he was elected 
a director, later superintendent, and finally pres- 
ident. For six years he was in the hotel business 
at Carrollton, as proprietor of the Hoops House, 
and he is a thoroughly representative citizen. 



THOMAS G. DONALDSON, a prominent 
agriculturist and leading citizen of Fox 
Township, Carroll County, was born 
September 18, 1841, at Scroggsfield, 
Ohio. His father, Rev. John Donaldson, a na- 
tive of Scotland, born in 1787, was reared on 
his father's farm, and received his primary edu- 
cation at the principal schools of the neighbor- 
hood, which was supplemented by a course of 
study at the world-famed seat of learning, the 
University of Edinburgh, where he took his 
degree in the classical course. The bent of his 
study was theology, and after leaving college he 
was licensed to preach the gospel in the Seces- 
sion Church of Scotland. In 1816 he came to 
the United States, having as a fellow passenger 
on the vessel an old college classmate, Rev. 
Peter Bullions, D. D., the author of the far- 
famed Bullions' Latin and Greek Grammars and 
Readers. After his arrival in this country he 
(Rev. John Donaldson) was married to Miss 
Hildred Goodwillie, a daughter of Rev. David 
Goodwillie, of Barnet, Vt. , to which union were 
born seven children, of whom Beatrice Spear 
R. B. Donaldson, David Donaldson and John 
A. Donaldson are yet living. One of the sons, 
William, went to California about the year 
1850, and has not been heard from for upward 
of thirty years. The other children died in in- 
fancy. Rev. John Donaldson first preached 
in the land of his adoption, in Vermont, and 
other Eastern points, but finally came to Ohio, 
here to labor in the vineyard. After coming to 
Ohio, his first pastorate was over the congrega- 



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tion of Truro (now Reynoldsburg), near Colum- 
bus, Ohio. After laboring here for several 
years he removed, and about the year 1824, be- 
came pastor of the united charge of Scroggsfield, 
Yellow Creek and Glade Run. His first wife had 
died at their home on the farm on which his son, 
Thomas G. , now resides, and afterward he be- 
came united in marriage with Miss Jane Hamuli, 
whose parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and 
the result of this union was two children, 
Francis M. and Thomas G. The father died 
December 31, 1871, in his eighty-fifth year, 
and the mother June 28, 1884, in her eighty- 
fourth year. Mr. Donaldson's life had been 
one of untiring, unselfish devotion to the cause 
of Christ, and of honorable example to his fel- 
low-men, ever conspicuous for his uprightness 
and integrity, and he was an avowed champion 
of education, in fact everything tending to the 
improvement of the condition of the community 
at large. 

The subject proper of this biographical 
memoir was reared among the scenes of a quiet, 
rural home, blessed in having before him in 
childhood, boyhood and youth, the example of 
a parent, who instructed his young mind how to 
appreciate noble deeds and a life of rectitude. 
After attending select school he commenced 
teaching, a profession he followed several years. 
On September 25, 1865, he, Thomas G. Donald- 
son, was married to Sarah R. George (daughter 
of Andrews George, of Scroggstield, Ohio, by 
his first wife, Annie Robbins), who was born 
November 17, 1845, and who is the mother of 
eleven children, two of whom: Annie and Fran- 
cis, are deceased. The names and dates of birth 
of those yet living, and who are still under the 
paternal roof, are as follows: John G., April 16, 
1867; Jennie E., January 22, 1871; A. G., 
March 16, 1875; Sarah Bell, April 14, 1877; 
Minnie D., February 23, 1879; Walter M., 
June 20, 1881; Ida E., September 21, 1883; 
Thomas R., May 17, 1886, and Bertha N., 
August 25, 1889. 

Mr. Donaldson is the owner of 167 acres of 
prime land in Fox Township, and carries on 



general farming, his attention being largely de- 
voted to the breeding of fine- wool sheep. He 
and his family are members of the United Pres- 
byterian Church. Mr. Donaldson is a stanch 
Republican, and has filled many offices of trust 
in his township, having been a justice of the 
peace twenty years, and a director of the Carroll 
County Agricultural Association six years. 



/?^ EORGE J. BUTLER, probably the oldest 
I _ dry-goods merchant in Carrollton, Carroll 
\L^J County, having been engaged in that line 

h^ of business in the place twenty-four years, 
was born there February 10, 1849. His grand- 
father, George Whitefield Butler, was a native 
of Maryland, and when twenty-five years of age 
he came to the new county of Carroll. By trade 
he was a tanner, and he established the first 
tannery in Carroll County, which he carried on 
for years, but which has long since become a 
thing of the past. He was the father of twelve 
children, viz. : Washington (deceased), father 
of George J. ; Franklin, who died at Des Moines, 
Iowa; Jonathan, who passed from earth in Cali- 
fornia; Morgan, living in Goshen, Ind. ; Lafay- 
ette, in Marshall, Tex. ; George, in Kansas; 
Adams, in Newton, Iowa; Amanda, wife of 
Miles O'Connor, in San Jose, Cal. ; Harriet, 
wife of B. B. Moore, in Marshalltown, Iowa; 
Elizabeth, in North Carolina; Cynthia Ann and 
Jefferson, who died in infancy. The parents of 
this family both died in Carrollton, the mother in 
1868, and the father in 1873; he was postmas- 
ter at Carrollton during the war. 

Washington Butler was born April 6, 1819, 
in Carrollton, Ohio, and worked in his tannery 
until elected auditor of his native county, an 
office he creditably filled many years. In 1864 
he formed a partnership with L. D. Rowley, 
and for years carried on a clothing store, includ- 
ing boots and shoes, hats and caps and mer- 
chant tailoring, in Carrollton. He departed this 
life in April, 1883, at the age of sixty- four years. 
In politics he was a stanch Republican. The 
widowed mother is still living in Carrollton, now 



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in her sixty sixth year. Their family consisted 
of seven children, as follows: William F., in 
Carrollton; Ann Elizabeth, wife of James W. 
Cellers, also in Carrollton; George J., whose 
name heads this sketch; Mary F., wife of Rev. 
Absalom T. Aller, in Kansas; Marshal J., wife 
of George H. Aller. in Malvern, Carroll Coun- 
ty; Joseph C. and Harry S. , both in Carroll 
County. 

George J. Butler, the subject of this bio- 
graphical record, received the usual common- 
school training in his boyhood days, and at 
eighteen years of age became clerk for James 
Huston, in Carrollton, continuing with the lat- 
ter's successors, Beadle & Co., McCullough & 
Ferrall, and later with Isaac Crumrine, whom he 
bought out in 1879, and has since successfully 
carried on a general store in his native town. 
In 1S73 he married Miss Sarah E., daughter of 
David and Ruhama Skeeles, and a native of 
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, by which union one 
child, Gertrude Amanda, has been born. Mr. 
and Mrs. Butler are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, at Carrollton; in politics he 
is a Republican, and has filled the office of city 
and township treasurer four years; was a mem- 
ber of the board of education two years, and is 
now a member of the town council. 

Harry Sumner Butler, youngest brother of 
George J., was born in Carrollton January 12, 
1864, the common schools of which place heat- 
tended as circumstances permitted. When a 
lad he entered the arena of business life in the 
role of a newsboy, the first of that genus to ap- 
pear on the streets of Carrollton, and among 
the papers he vended may be mentioned the 
Cleveland Leader and the Commercial Gazette. 
He then entered the store of his father, in Car- 
rollton, as clerk, where he remained some years, 
at the end of which time he commenced clerking 
for his brother, George J., with whom he has, 
since continued. On October 26, 1886, Mr. 
Harry S. Butler was united in marriage with 
Miss Mary Morris, of Coshocton, Ohio, daugh- 
ter of J. L. Morris, and by this union one child, 
Miriam, has been born. Mr. Butler in religion 



is a Presbyterian, in politics a Republican, and 
he is a member of the Knights of Pythias. 



JOHN SHAWVER. This family in Car- 
roll County trace their ancestry to Ger- 
many, antecedents having emigrated from 
that country to America at a very remote 
period. The first, of whom something of definite 
data can be obtained, was the grandfather of 
our subject, who came to Ohio from the East, 
and entered land, which now lies within the 
boundaries of Loudon Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty. After clearing a farm here he moved to 
Logan County, same State, and there settled on 
a farm where he died. George Shawver, a son 
of this pioneer, was born on the old homestead 
in Carroll County, in 1810, and here worked in- 
dustriously on his father's farm, attending, dur- 
ing a few weeks in winter time, the schools of the 
neighborhood. In 1832 he was married to Miss 
Elisabeth Slates, daughter of John and Elisabeth 
Slates, pioneers of what is now Loudon Town- 
ship, Carroll County. To this union were born 
eight children, as follows: Catherine, living in 
Perry Township, Carroll County; William, de- 
ceased; Mary, in Perry Township; Sarah, in 
Loudon Township, Carroll County; John, our 
subject; Daniel, farming on the old home place; 
Elizabeth and Jane, both in Loudon Township. 
George Shawver by trade was a carpenter and 
stone mason, at which he worked while his boys 
operated the farm. He was a man of much 
energy and preseverance, living an exemplary 
life, one he endeavored to make worthy of being 
followed by his children. He and his wife both 
died in Loudon Township, in 1883 and 1887, 
respectively, members of the Lutheran Church; 
in politics he was a Democrat. 

John Shawver, of whom this memoir more 
especially treats, was born in Loudon Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, April 4, 1841, and his boy- 
hood was passed much in the manner of other 
farmer lads in his day. He received a good 
common-school education, and at the age of 
twenty-one, January 1, 1S62, he was united in 



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marriage with Miss Eliza Ann, daughter of John 
W. aud Susanna Slates, who were early settlers 
of Carroll County, and born of English ancestry. 
Soon after their marriage our subject and wife 
moved to Perry Township, same county, where 
be has a fine farm of 182J acres, greatly im- 
proved by him during his twenty-nine years' resi- 
dence thereon. He learned of his father the trade 
of carpenter, which he has always followed in con- 
nection with farming, being also a builder and 
contractor. To Mr. and Mrs. Shawver have 
been born three children, viz. : William, a far- 
mer in Perry Township, and married to Clara 
D. Crim; John, at home with his parents, and 
Mary, married to John Lewis, also a farmer in 
Perry Township. Politically Mr. Shawver is a 
Democrat, and has held various positions of 
trust in his township; he and his wife are mem- 
bers of the Lutheran Church. 




,\ILLIAM R. TIPTON was born in Perry 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, August 
17, 1837, and has been a resident of 
the same ever since. His father, Miles 
Tipton, was born in Pennsylvania January 30, 
1809, and when a boy came from that State to 
Ohio, settling in Harrison County, whence, after 
a residence there of about twenty-one years, he 
moved to Carroll County, where he bought the 
farm on which his son, William It., is now 
living. Miles Tipton married Susanna Ross, 
whose parents were old settlers of that county, 
and whose ancestors also came to Ohio from 
Pennsylvania, settling in Harrison County about 
the time of the War of 1812. Mr. Ross, father 
of Mrs. Miles Tipton, came from Ireland when 
he was but thirteen years old and held the po- 
sition of pay-master in the War of 1812. Mrs. 
Ross was born in Pennsylvania, May 14, 1798, 
her parents having come from Germany at a 
very early period. Miles Tipton died in Car- 
roll County,Ohio, May 3, 1876, at the age of sixty- 
seven years, three months, three days, his widow 
passing away in the same county, August 3, 



1889, when aged ninety-three, having been un- 
usually strong and active up to within a few 
days of her death. They were the parents of 
four children, viz.: Hannah E., born July G, 
1832; Albert O., born July 17, 1835; William 
R., our subject, and Cyrus G. , born March 31, 
1840. Of these Hannah E. , Albert O. and Will- 
iam R. are all married and living on farms in 
Carroll County, and Cyrus G. makes his home 
in the present State of Washington. 

William R. Tipton was brought up on his 
father's farm, securing his education at the 
district school. At the breaking out of the 
Civil War he went to the front, enlisting in Feb- 
ruary, 1804, in the Signal Corps, U.S. A., and took 
an active part in the Atlanta campaign. After 
Atlanta was taken, Mr. Tipton was transferred 
to the Army of the Cumberland, which marched 
through east Tennessee; was next sent to Nash- 
ville, then to New Orleans and afterward to 
Texas. Being mustered out April 25, 1866, 
Mr. Tipton returned home and has been farm 
ing ever since. On October 13, 1869, he was 
married to Miss Mary A. Chaddock, also a native 
of Carroll County, Ohio, born January 15, 1839, 
a daughter of Joseph and Mahala (Jenkins) 
Chaddock, the former of whom was born Octo- 
ber 25, 1806, and latter October 25. 1813. They 
were married November 18, 1834, and both 
died in 1877, he in May, and she August 31. 
Mr. Chaddock came from Jefferson County, 
Ohio, to Carroll in 1837, and here passed the 
rest of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Tipton have had 
three children to bless their home, viz. : Miles 
Ross, born June 25, 1871; Laura, born October 
10, 1873, and W. T. S., born May 12, 1876. 
Mr. Tipton has a farm of 255 acres of splendid 
land, all well watered. He is a hard-working 
man, having accomplished a great deal by his 
own energy and good management. Mrs. Tip- 
ton holds to the Presbyterian faith, while Mr. 
Tipton is a "liberalist; " politically he is a 
Republican. Socially, Mr. and Mrs. Tipton have 
a host of friends, and many there are who have 
enjoyed the hospitality of their home. They 
believe in doing good, helping when they can, 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



and the latch string always hangs out to friends 
and strangers. 




^ILLIAM S. LEWIS, a progressive 
farmer and member of one of the old- 
est and most highly respected families 
of Carroll County, is a native of the 
same, born (when it was a portion of Tuscara- 
was County) in Harrison Township, March 12, 
1819. He is second in the order of birth of the 
six children of John and Mary (Stinger) Lewis, 
former of whom came in 1813 from Pennsyl- 
vania to Ohio, and entered a tract of land in 
what is now Harrison Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty; soon thereafter he married Mary Stinger, a 
native of the Keystone State, and whose family 
had joined the pioneers in Carroll County. 
John Lewis in course of a short time added by 
purchase to the tract of land he had entered, 
and erected one of the firstmills in that section, 
to which the pioneers would come from far and 
near to have their grist ground. In the year 
1830 the family moved into Brown Township, 
where Mr. Lewis entered a tract of land on 
what afterward became known as "Lewis' 
Kidge," and here he erected a log cabin, and 
began clearing up a farm. John Lewis and his 
wife passed the remainder of their lives on this 
place, he dying July 13, 1832, and his widow 
September 1, 1856. 

William S. Lewis was ten years of age when 
he came with his parents to Brown Township, 
where he attended the subscription schools a 
few weeks in the winter time. At the age of 
nineteen years he commenced life as a farm 
laborer, receiving eight dollars per month dur- 
ing harvest time, and four dollars per month 
throughout the remainder of the season. Mr. 
Lewis was united in marriage December 13, 
1838, with Miss Mary A. Miller, who was born 
in Cumberland County, Penn., daughter of 
Jacob and Jane Miller, and who came to Ohio 
with her parents when she was twelve years of 
age. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lewis set- 
tled on their present farm, where, with the ex- 



ception of three years, they have since resided. 
Six children have been born to them (live of 
whom are now living), viz. : Sarah J. , born 
December 19, 1839; Buth, born March 11, 
1841, died December 4, 1843; Mary Anne, born 
April 11, 1843; Bartholomew, born October 28, 
1845; William Clark, born October 6, 1847, and 
Huldah I., born May, 7, 1854. The family are 
members of the Lutheran Church, and in his 
political preferments Mr. Lewis is a Democrat. 




ILLIAM SLATES, whose well-culti- 
vated farm is situated on Section 12, 
Loudon Township, Carroll County, was 
born in Loudoun County, Va. (near 
Harper's Ferry), December 29, 1823, a grand- 
son of Frederick Slates, a native of Germany, 
who, in an early day immigrated to the United 
States, settling in Virginia, where he passed the 
remainder of his life. Adam Slates, father of 
William, was also a native of Loudoun County, 
Va., and there married Savilla Winner, of Vir- 
ginia, who bore him five children, viz. : George, 
deceased; William; Mary Walters, in Perry 
Township, Carroll County; Mrs. Elizabeth Saw- 
vel, and Solomon, latter deceased. 

William Slates when a boy lost his father 
by death, and until he was sixteen years of age 
he remained in Virginia. Then coming to Ohio, 
he here worked as a common laborer, and, re- 
turning to Virginia, he found employment for 
one year with John Snow, who had married the 
widowed mother of Mr. Slates. In 1847 our 
subject purchased, in Loudon Township, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio, the farm he now owns, contain- 
ing 150 acres, and which had been entered by 
Jacob Gotschall, January 15, 1814, Mr. Slates 
having in his possession the original warrant, 
signed by James Madison, President of the 
United States. Mr. Slates has since bought 
another piece of land, covering 213 acres, 
making in all 363 acres. On June 1, 1847, he 
married Miss Mary Hosterman, who was born 
November 1, 1827, a daughter of Peter and 
Catherine (Shell) Hosterman, and by this union 



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833 



there have been born nine children, a record of 
whom is as follows: Franklin, born July 23, 
lslS, resides in Loudon Township, Carroll 
County; Minerva, born October 2, 1850, is de- 
ceased; two, unnamed, that died in infancy, were 
born January '2(3, 1853, and January 11, 1854, 
respectively; Samantha, born March 4, 1855, 
and Arminthia, born March 5, 1858, are both 
deceased; Linaeus, born December 21, 1800, 
resides in Perry Township, Carroll County; Nel- 
son E., born January 5, 1804, is in Loudon 
Township, and Laura, born June 18, 1800, is at 
home. Mr. and Mrs. Slates are members of the 
Lutheran Church, and politically he is a Repub- 
lican. He has made man}' improvements on 
his property, and recently erected one of the 
most commodious barns in the county. 



JAMES SHEPHERD was born in County 
Cavan, Ireland, September 4, 1790. On 
February 27, 1815, he was married by an 
Episcopalian minister, to Miss Mary Rey- 
nolds, daughter of Joseph and Alice Reynolds, 
and in the following August they started for 
America, landing after a long and tedious voyage 
in Philadelphia, Penn. After spending two weeks 
in the city, they gave their goods into the care 
of a regular baggage teamster and making Steu- 
benville, Ohio, the point of destination, pro- 
ceeded with other friends to walk across the 
mountains. On reaching Pittsburgh, they sold 
a part of their goods to pay for bringing the 
remainder by boat down the river. Late in 
autumn they reached the home of their uncle, 
George Reynolds, who later became judge in 
Carroll County. They found, on reaching this 
place, that their wealth in cash amounted to just 
eighteen cents. Mr. Shepherd left his young 
wife with her uncle, and spent the winter in 
Pennsylvania, threshing wheat with a flail. By 
hard work and rigid economy they accumulated 
money enough to enter eighty acres of land in 
Loudon Township. 

On Saturday, March 31, 1817, they moved 
into their rude log cabin, which had been con- 



structed without a nail, iron hinge or pane of 
glass. Mrs. Shepherd always spoke of that as 
a happy day, when they entered their home, 
earned and paid for by their own industry. 
Their first horse died before it was paid for and 
soon after another met the same fate. Mr. 
Shepherd had in Ireland learned the trade of 
weaver. He raised flax which they wove into 
linen and sold. One fine web of forty yards he 
carried on his shoulder to Canton, and received 
forty dollars; paid one dollar for two yards of 
calico, and with the remainder he entered another 
tract of land. To them were given fourteen 
children, one of whom died in infancy, the others 
growing to years of maturity. John died in 
Monroe County, Ohio; George lives in Clinton 
County, Mo. ; Samuel is in Kingman County, 
Kas. ; Elijah, Francis, Rev. James, Ann, wife 
of William Taylor, are all deceased; Alice, relict 
of Rev. Theopholis Kneen, resides at Harlem 
Springs, Lee Township; Jane, wife of Rev. A. 
H. Powell, died in Plattsburg, Mo.; Mary, wife 
of Phillip Jolley, died near Harlem Springs; 
Joseph resides in Tacoma, Wash. ; William 
died in Missouri. The children were taught by 
their mother to read, before they were allowed 
to enter school. Intemperance in any form was 
discarded by every member of the family. False- 
hood was not permitted even in fun. These 
parents endured incredible hardships, but were 
always honest, prompt and true; and lived to 
see their children in comfortable homes. The 
father died June 2, 1872, and the mother March 
17, 1875. They and their thirteen children 
were all members and liberal supporters of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. 
Shepherd was a stanch Democrat. 

Wesley, the youngest of the children, resides 
on the old homestead. He passed his boyhood 
in common school ; afterward spent some time 
in the college at Mount Union, Ohio. On Octo- 
ber 7, 1873, he married Miss Helen, daughter 
of Dr. J. B. France, of Harlem Springs, and 
they are the parents of three children: Edgar, 
Grace and Paul. Mr. Shepherd is Republican 
in his political views. 



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LIJAH SHEPHERD, fourth son of James 
and Mary Reynolds Shepherd, late of 
London Township, Carroll County, was 
born April 8, 1821. He was a diligent 
student, and received such advantages as the 
common school afforded; afterward he taught 
with success during the winter months. On Feb- 
ruary 12, 1846, he was married to Miss Jane 
Kneen, a native of the Isle of Man, and daugh- 
ter of William and Mary (Kenyon) Kneen. They 
settled on the farm where the family still reside, 
which farm was formerly included in what was 
known as the "Barrens." It was mostly covered 
with a low growth of brush, and had very little 
improvements. They worked diligently, erected 
comfortable buildings and developed one of the 
best fruit farms in the county. The record of 
their children is as follows: Eleanor died in 
infancy; Simon married Miss Anna McClave 
and lives near John; Anna and Theopholis died 
young; Mary and William are graduates of 
Harlem Springs College, and Frank, educated 
at the same college. The father died November 
10, 1887. He was a prominent and liberal 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in 
politics he was independent. 



rii BRAM ROUDEBUSH. One of our 
/ / \\ greatest Americans has said that the his- 
Ifj^ tory of any country resolves itself into 
■f/ biographies of its stout, earnest and 

representative citizens, and of such an one is 
the present memoir written. Abram Roudebush, 
who is one of the oldest and most honored resi- 
dents of Brown Township, Carroll County, was 
born in West Virginia October 10, 1S08, a son 
of Tobias and Sarah (Wetzel) Roudebush, 
former of whom was born in Virginia, near the 
city of Harrisburg, where he was married. 
Their children by name were Mary, Anna, 
Abram, Catherine, Tobias, Jesse, Jacob, Susan, 
Lydia, Joseph and Christena. In 1816 Tobias 
Roudebush and his family came to Ohio, settling 
in what is now Washington Township, Carroll 



County, and here in the virgin forest he erected 
his log cabin, one of an exceedingly primitive 
character, having but one door and one window, 
the floof being made of " puncheons " and the 
chimney of sticks and mud. Here the family 
industriously struggled amid many difficulties 
and dangers, until success crowned their efforts, 
and they found trackless woods converted into 
fertile fields and meadows. Here Tobias Rou- 
debush passed from earth at the advanced age 
of eighty-two, his wife dying some years after 
him when aged eighty-one years. They were 
members from the time of its organization of 
the Disciples Church at Mt. Olivet, and in 
politics he was among the early organizers of 
the Whig party. 

Abram Roudebush, the subject proper of 
this sketch, was, as will be seen, eight years old 
when he came with his parents to Ohio, and here 
he has since resided. His schooling was neces- 
sarily limited, being confined to a few weeks' at- 
tendance in winter time at the primitive educa- 
tional establishment of the neighborhood, which 
in this case was an old log cabin with the rudest 
and most uncomfortable furnishings, having at 
one end a spacious fireplace in which would 
blaze some huge logs cut from one of the mag- 
nificent " giants of the forest." On April 28, 
1831, Mr. Roudebush was united in marriage 
with Sarah, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth 
Minks, and born in Virginia. To this union 
the following named children were born: Peter, 
Henry, George, Catherine A. (wife of George 
Gamber), Joseph, Sarah (Mrs. Charles Wasmer, 
and Jennie (Mrs. Hammond Rookenbroad). Of 
these children, Peter died at the age of thirty 
years, and Joseph in 1863, while in the army, 
when twentv vears old. After their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Roudebush resided in Washington 
Township, Carroll County, until 1852, in which 
year he purchased the farm in Brown Township, 
where he now resides. His wife died November 
21, 1882. He is emphatically a self-made man, 
and has been a leading citizen of the county 
ever since its organization, always taking an 
active interest in its prosperity and growth. 



CARROLL COUNTY. 






v*T\ OBERT L. GEORGE. Perhaps there 
|W^ are few people in Carroll County, Ohio, 
1^ better known or more highly respected 
■f/ for thrift and integrity than the nu- 

merous members of the family of George. They 
can trace their origin back to Robert George, 
who, with some companions, left his native 
country of Ireland and settled in the New World. 
They soon located in Fox Township, Carroll 
County, where, in the midst of the wilderness, 
they built up a home, and brought with them 
those religious principles which have ever since 
been the grand characteristics of the people of 
Fox Township. Thomas George, the father of 
our subject, was born in Cumberland County, 
Penn. , but when a mere child was moved with his 
father's family to Carroll County, Ohio, in 1809, 
where he grew to manhood in the midst of soli- 
tude itself. At that time schooling was a lux- 
ury, but Thomas managed to obtain a fair edu- 
cation from the old subscription school. After 
reaching manhood he married Miss Walker, 
who was born and reared in Jefferson County, 
Ohio. They settled on a farm near what is now 
Mechanicstown, where they commenced to clear 
away the forest, which they replaced with beau- 
tiful fields. The woods teemed with wild life. 
Deer fearlesslv roamed about the little lo<* 
cabin, while bears and wolves frequented the 
more secluded regions. Nine children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. George, five of whom are 
living, named as follows: John C, Thomas, 
Robert, Sarah and Christina. After a long life 
of hardship Mr. George died, in 1875, on the 
Ohio farm, his wife having preceded him in 
1874. Mr. George was a public-spirited man, 
one who always took a leading interest in all 
movements which were to better the condition 
of his fellow-men, whether at home or abroad. 
He was for many years school director, also 
justice of the peace. Thus the old pioneers 
are fast passing away, and but a very few are 
left to tell of the scenes and the trials which 
were incidental to pioneer life: but they have 
left behind them monuments which will live 
throughout time. 



Robert L. George, the subject of this Bketch, 
was born in Fox Township, Carroll County, 
June 2, 1851. He attended the district school 
about three months out of the twelve, and 
worked on the farm during the summer season. 
At the age of twenty-four, in 1876, he married 
Miss Dorrance, who was born and reared in 
Jefferson County, Ohio. William Dorrance, 
her father, was a native of Ireland, but settled 
in Ohio at an early period. Four children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. George, viz. : Blanche, 
born January 1, 1N77; Montford, July 14, 
1880; Anna O., June 25, 1885; Earl F., July 
21, 1889. In religion Mr. George is a United 
Presbyterian, and in politics a Republican. He 
has a fine farm of 160 acres, which is provided 
with a fine residence, barns, etc., and he pays 
special attention to the raising of stock, in 
which he has made a success. Like his father, 
he feels it a duty and privilege to help build up 
his county, feeling that it is the duty of every 
citizen to do what is within his power to make 
the community prosperous and his country cor- 
respondingly better. 



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EMEEL O. RIPPETH was born in Orange 
Township, Carroll County, Ohio, May 31, 
1846, and S. W. Rippeth, his father, was 
also born in Carroll County. The Rippeth 
family are of Irish descent, and their ancestors, 
on coming from their native land, made their 
first settlement in Carroll County. Samuel W. 
Rippeth was the father of nine children, as fol- 
lows: Lemuel O. ; Mary, deceased; John A., who 
is a farmer in Orange Township; Charles M., 
who is a merchant at Leesville; Albert, who is 
a salesman; James A., who is living at Canton, 
Ohio; Frank L., a farmer in Orange Township; 
Delia, at home, and Jeremiah, deceased. L. O. 
Rippeth, the subject of this sketch, lived at 
home on the farm until he was married, in 1868, 
to Miss Henrietta Pearch, whose parents, Joseph 
and Sarah Pearch, live in Monroe Township, 
and are old settlers of Carroll County. Mr. 
Rippeth is the possessor of a farm of 184 acres, 



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situated about two miles north of Leesville, and 
like many others in Orange Township is well 
adapted for the raising of all farm products. 
Politically he is a Democrat. Mr. Rippeth has 
many friends, and is very popular and much 
respected throughout the county. 



J|ACOB HELFRICH. Like a giant tree in 
a forest of weather-worn oaks, the name 
we have just written stands prominent on 
the roll of those noble pioneers whose 
lives were passed in bringing Carroll to its pres- 
ent enviable position in the magnificent galaxy 
of Ohio's counties. He was born in Germany 
March 17, 1818, one of a family of eleven chil- 
dren, the record of the remaining ten being as 
follows: Twin boys died in infancy; Peter, a 
farmer, and Philip, a blacksmith, died in Craw- 
ford County, Ohio; Nicholas died at Fort 
Wayne, Ind. ; YVendall and Andrew both died 
in Germany; Henry and Micbael live in Craw- 
ford County, Ohio; Margaret died in Germany. 
Jacob Helfrich, when eighteen years of age, 
his father having provided him with money 
sufficient to bring him to America, set sail in 
company with several other emigrants in April, 
1837, and after a long voyage of 105 days 
landed at Baltimore, Md. Some dozen of these 
emigrants, including our subject, all young men, 
walked to Wheeling, W. Va. (their baggage 
going by wagon), where he worked three mouths 
at his trade; thence went by river to Steuben - 
ville, Ohio, from which place he came by stage 
to Carrollton, there being at the time (1837) but 
a few hundred inhabitants in the place. Farther 
than this the stage was unable to proceed on 
account of the mud, so Mr. Helfrich remained 
in Carrollton, a stranger in a strange laud, and 
immediately commenced working at his trade, 
that of shoemaker, at which he had served an 
apprenticeship in Germany. Two of his 
brothers had preceded him to Ohio, settling in 
Crawford County, and Mr. Helfrich, being de- 
sirous of once more seeing them, walked all the 
way to their place and back. Their father, 



Nicholas Helfrich, who had been a public 
officer in Germany during the greater part of 
his life, died there in 1840, and the widowed 
mother afterward came to Ohio, where she died 
in 1850 at the home of her sons, in Crawford 
County. 

In about two years after Jacob Helfrich' s 
settlement in Carrollton he opened out a shoe 
business for his own account, which he has since 
continued in, from time to time enlarging his 
premises and stock as his trade expanded, and 
in 1855 he moved to his present place. On 
April 15, 1841, he was married to Catharine 
Stemple, daughter of Jacob Stemple, of Car- 
roll County, and their union was blessed with 
nine children, of whom the following is a brief 
record: Margaret is the widow of Charles 
Cronenwett, formerly residing in Sandusky 
County, Ohio, now of Carrollton, Ohio; Eva 

C. is the wife of Rev. E. Cronenwett, of Butler, 
Penn. ; Susanna is the widow of Rev. F. E. 
Harsh, and lives in Carrollton, Ohio; Barbara, 
is married to Dr. C. R. Ziegler, of Carrollton; 
Jacob M. is deceased; Mary E. is the wife of 
J. Henry Troutman, of Butler, Penn. ; John 
W. is more fully spoken of farther on; Sarah 

D. is the wife of J. L. Frederick, of Greenville, 
Penn. ; Albert is deceased. In politics Mr. 
Helfrich was first a Whig, afterward a Repub- 
lican, but of late years he has supported the 
Democratic party. For six years he was a jus- 
tice of the peace, and in all things tending to 
the advancement and prosperity of his town and 
county he has ever been found in the front 
ranks, not the least among the progressive 
movements in which he took prominent part 
being the Carrollton & Oneida Railroad. In 
1859 the Carrollton & Oneida Railroad (now 
Carrollton Branch of the C. C. & S. Railroad) 
was sold to a company composed of John Eber- 
sole, Henry A. Stidger, James Huston, James 
P. Cummings, Jacob Helfrich and James Cam- 
eron. The road at this time was broken down 
by heavy engines, and had deteriorated year by 
year through lack of necessary repairs. The 
new company soon had the road repaired and 




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in running order. They rigged up a passenger 
ear and a couple of flats ("gondolas") with 
couplings, purchased motive power in the shape 
of stout horses, and turned the much-vaunted 
Carroll County railroad into a horse-ear line un- 
der the new name of the " Carrollton & Oneida 
Railroad." On June ( J, 1800, the stockholders 
of the road met for the election of directors, 
Jacob Helfricb being elected one of tbem, and 
general ticket agent. The work of rebuilding 
and fitting up the road was pushed to comple- 
tion, and on September 11, 1807, a steam engine 
arrived for the road, and was a profitable in- 
vestment for the company; in 1873 the road 
bed was donated to parties who made a narrow 
gauge road. His connection ceased hern. 

At a reunion of the Helfricb family to be 
held at the homestead in Carrollton, on April 
L5, 1891, there are expected to be present one 
son, six daughters, twenty-five grandchildren, 
one great-grandchild, four sons-in-law, and two 
daughters-in-law. Tbere have passed to their 
long homes two sons and six grandchildren. 



JjOHN W. HELFRICH, son of Jacob Hel- 
I frich, one of the best known and most 
I highly respected citizens of Carrollton, was 
born January 17, 1855, in Carrollton, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio. He was educated at the common 
and first ward schools of his native town, and 
first learned the trade of shoemaker, at which he 
worked three years. At the age of sixteen he 
commenced an apprenticeship in Carrollton to 
the watch and clock business, and in Cleveland 
he spent two years perfecting himself in the 
trade. In 1877 he located in Dell Roy, in Car- 
roll County, where he remained a few months 
and then settled finally in Carrollton, where he 
opened out the best watch, clock and jewelry 
repair business in the county; and his superior 
skill in his line has brought him a well-merited 
patronage from both far and near. His connec- 
tion with the Connotton Valley Railway as official 
jeweler of the road (a position he yet holds) since 
1877 has increased his business very much. 



Since then he has furnished and kept in order 
all the depot clocks, the fine chronometer engine 
clocks, as well as the Howard tower clock at the 
Canton depot. When the Cleveland & Canton 
changed their gauge, everything in the clock line 
was thoroughly overhauled and placed in order,, 
and all of the clocks are in as good condition as 
when placed thirteen years ago. He supplied 
tbe fine tower clock and bell for Carroll County 
court-house, also the one for the railroad depot 
at Canton, Ohio, and the signal service at Car- 
rollton is managed by him. 

On September 1, 1887, Mr. Helfricb was 
married to Miss Hattie May Wert, of Sulphur 
Springs, Crawford Co., Ohio, a daughter of J. 
B. and Leonora (Ziegler) Wert, former of whom 
is a merchant at Sulphur Springs. One year 
ago Mr. and Mrs. Helfricb went to Cleveland, 
Ohio, where they studied for and both graduated 
as opticians at Dr. Julius King's establishment. 
They then returned to Carrollton, where they 
have since followed that branch of the business 
in connection with his regular watch and jewelry 
business. One child, named John Wert, has 
been born to our subject and wife. In his polit- 
ical preferments Mr. Helfricb' is a Democrat, but 
is no partisan, and bas invariably declined nom- 
ination to office, as his business demands all his 
time and attention. 




JLLIAM S. TOPE, one of tbe young 
and rising young business men of Dell 
lf[ Roy, was born in Union Townsbip, 
Carroll County, Ohio, February 4, 1857. 
His father, Jacob Tope, was born in Carroll 
County, Ohio, where bis entire life was spent. 
He early devoted himself to study and assisting 
in the duties of the farm. Soon after coming of 
age he married Ann Jane, daughter of Robert 
Parker, one of tbe early settlers of Monroe 
Townsbip. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Tope settled on a farm in Union Townsbip. where 
they lived a short time, and then moved to 
Monroe Township, where they lived until the 
husband' 8 death, January '24, 1803. His fam- 
ily consisted of three children: William S., 






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Robert J. and Joseph V., all of whom are now 
living. In politics Mr. Tope was a Democrat, 
and took an active and leading part in the 
party's welfare. A member of the Lutheran 
Church, he did much for its advancement and 
development. While engaged in farming, still 
Mr. Tope was one of the well-posted men of 
his section, and one who was always enterpris- 
ing and progressive. 

The early life of William S. Tope was spent 
on the home place, where his life alternated be- 
tween farm duties and attendance at the common 
schools. Mr. Tope's education, however, did 
not cease with his leaving school, but has been 
added much to by study and reading during his 
leisure. February 6, 1879, he was united in 
marriage to Dane, daughter of James Campbell, 
of Harrison Township, and three children have 
been born to add to the felicity of this union, as 
follows: Oliver, April 10, 1880; Jackson, March 
26, 1882; and Anna, May 9, 1884 In 1885 
Mr. Tope, in connection with his brother, opened 
a hardware store in Dell Roy, which he has since 
conducted in a business-like and satisfactory 
manner. In politics Mr. Tope has always been 
a member of the Republican party, and has 
served as township treasurer for five consecutive 
years, and at present is in that position. In 
church matters Mr. Tope and family are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church. As one of 
the leading and energetic men of his town Mr. 
Tope holds an enviable position, and is highly 
respected and esteemed by all. 



JOSIAH E. DOWNS, the leading repre- 
^. I sentative of the family of that name which 
%Jj has so long been prominent in the history 
and development of Rose Township, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio, was born in Rose Township 
March S, 1830. His father, Josiah Downs, was 
a native of Virginia. John Downs, father of 
Josiah, and grandfather of Josiah E., was born 
in Maryland, married Sarah Underbill, of the 
same State, and later settled in Virginia; to 
this union were born George, William, Josiah, 



Theophilus, Mary, Charity and Elizabeth. The 
family came to Ohio, and were among the earli- 
est settlers of Stark County, where the father 
entered a farm, on which he and wife passed the 
remaining days of their life. He was a member 
of the Episcopalian Church, and in politics was 
a Democrat. 

Josiah Downs, father of our subject, came to 
Ohio with his parents, and some time afterward 
entered eighty acres where Josiah E. now re- 
sides, and on which he erected a log cabin in 
1824. He married Elizabeth Elson, daughter 
of Henry Elson, and this union was blessed with 
two children: Sarah A. (deceased) and Josiah 
E. (our subject). The father died in 1829, and 
the widow continued to conduct the farm until 
her second marriage, in 1842, with Levi Williams. 

Josiah E. Downs received the usual amount 
of schooling inculcated in his early days, and at 
the age of eighteen assumed the management of 
the home farm, which he has since greatly im- 
proved and brought to its present condition of 
fertility. November 5, 1850, he married Han- 
nah, daughter of James Miller, who was born in 
Brooke County, W. Va., January 11, 1801, and 
who married Rachel Knots, and soon after came 
to Ohio. To the marriage of Mr. Miller were 
born six children, viz. : William, Druscilla and 
Hannah (twins), Isaac, James and Jonathan. 
In politics Mr. Miller was a Whig, originally, 
but later became a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. 
Downs, immediately on marrying, settled down 
to housekeeping on the home farm, on which 
they still reside. The children born to them 
are named as follows: Sarah (Mrs. Daniel Da- 
vis), James, Amanda (Mrs. William Sweany), 
Jonathan, Rachel J. (Mrs. John Moreland), 
Druscilla (Mrs. Charles Leydia). Ruth (Mis. 
Philip Ward), Edson C. and Dallas D. Like 
his father Mr. Downs has always taken an act- 
ive part in politics, acting with the Democratic 
party. While connected with no church, he is 
yet a liberal supporter of all measures tending 
to the advancement of the cause of religion in 
his township and county, and his deeds of char- 
ity are unstinted, although not made public. 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



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,\ILLIAM DeFORD, for fifty-six years 
an industrious farmer of Washington 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, was born 
near Uniontown, Fayette Co., Penn., 
April 28, 1807. Jean De Ford and his wife, 
Marie, nee Marchand, were Huguenots, or 
French Protestants, and the only members of 
their family that were. On the revocation of 
the Edict of Nantes by the French tyrant, Louis 
XIV.. in 1686, they fled from the city of Toul- 
ouse, France, to save their lives, to Kent County, 
Md., where freedom of conscience was enjoyed. 
They were then very young, in the twenties 
only. They had just been married, and had no 
children when they landed in Maryland in 1686, 
or 1687. After coming to America they had 
born to them thirteen sons and one daughter. 
The daughter married a merchant in Philadel- 
phia, named Merchant. From the thirteen sons 
all the De Fords in America are descended. The 
first settler, Jean (or John) De Ford, was the 
great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 
John De Ford, grandfather of William, was an 
officer in the Revolutionary War, and was ruined 
by it, the bulk of his fortune consisting of a 
large bundle of Continental money, which was 
worthless at the close of the struggle. He then 
migrated from Kent County, Md., to Fayette 
County, Penn. , then called Westmoreland 
County, Va. He had two sons, John and Mer- 
chant. He lived near Redstone Creek, Penn., 
and was killed by an accident. He had taken 
a grist on a horse to a mill on that creek, and 
was taking it home, leading the horse. Having 
to cross the creek, he threw himself across the 
horse in front of the grist to be carried over. 
Being a large heavy man, his weight thus rest- 
ing on his chest burst a blood vessel in his body, 
and he bled to death. 

The Huguenot Bible brought from France 
by the De Fords was bound in canvas-covered 
boards, with bronze hinges and clasps, with our 
subject's first ancestor's family set down in it 
by himself. It is now in Baltimore. The second 
cousin of William, John De Ford, still owns the 
land on which the first settler lived, near Circle- 



ville, Kent Co., Md. A large number of the 
descendants of the original De Ford family still 
reside near Toulouse, France. 

John De Ford, father of William, was eight- 
een years old, when his parents came to Penn- 
sylvania, and after a time he worked for a Mr. 
Stevens several years. In 1799 he became 
united in marriage with Miss Nancy Hopwood, 
who was born in Maryland in L785, a daughter 
of John Hopwood, a Baptist minister, then a 
resident of Fayette County, Penn. To them 
were born six children, as follows: Hannah, de- 
ceased; John, in Washington Township, Carroll 
County; William; Mrs. Harriet Bromfield, re- 
siding in Kansas; Elizabeth and Daniel, de- 
ceased. The mother died in 1815, a worthy 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and a few years later Mr. Do Ford married Miss 
Lydia Bromfield, a native of Pennsylvania. 
This union was blessed with one son, who re- 
sides near Kansas City, and whose mother died 
in 183S. In 1811 Mr. De Ford came to Ohio, 
and entered 160 acres of land in what is now 
Augusta Township, Carroll County, and then 
returned to his home in Pennsylvania. He was 
a hard-working, economical man, and as soon 
as he could save money enough to buy, he would 
come to Ohio and enter a piece of land; the last 
transaction of this nature being in 1826, having 
by that time accumulated 900 acres in all. For 
forty years he kept a hotel at the foot of Laurel 
Hill, in Fayette County, Penn., near Hopwood, 
named after the grandfather of our subject, but 
now called Monroe. In 1S42 he came to Ohio, 
finally settling on the farm where his son John 
now lives, in Washington Township, Carroll 
County, and here he died on Christmas day, 
1S73, at the age of one hundred and two years. 
For many years he was a member of the Protfsi 
ant Methodist Church, and in politics he was 
Democratic. 

William De Ford, whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch, was reared to manhood in 
Fayette County, Penn., and attended the com- 
mon schools and Madison College, at Uniontown, 
Penn., of which Rev. Henry B. Baseon was then 



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president. In 1822 he made his first visit to 
Ohio, in order to see some friends in Wooster, 
returning to Pennsylvania. In 1835 he came to 
Ohio, and at once settled on his present farm. 
On April 28, 1838, he was married to Miss Mary 
D. Williams, who was born in New Jersey in 
1801, a daughter of George and Elizabeth 
(Acres) Williams, and by her he had two sons, 
Nathan, a merchant miller in Rochester, Ohio, 
and John, a farmer in Augusta Township, Car- 
roll County. On September 10, 1875, Mrs. De- 
Ford was called from earth. 

Mr. Do Ford was a Democrat till 1861, at 
which time, owing to the slavery question, he 
united with the Republican party. In 1863 he 
was elected to represent the people of Carroll 
County in the State Legislature, and was re- 
elected, serving until 1867. He has also served 
as a justice of the peace. During the Civil War 
he took an active part in raising troops through- 
out Carroll County. Mr. De Ford is a member 
of the Protestant Methodist Church. 




OBERT PARKER, a prosperous farmer 
of Monroe Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, was born in County Cavan, Ire- 
land, in June, 1807. His father was 
James, a son of James, whose children were 
Andrew, James, Alexander and Sarah. James, 
father of Robert, grew to manhood in Ireland 
and married Miss Isabelle Wilson, and to them 
were born Alexander, a resident of Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio; Robert; John, a resident of Lees- 
ville, Ohio; Andrew, deceased; James, a resi- 
dent of Harrison County, Ohio; Joseph, a resi- 
dent of Iowa; Wilson, a railroad man of Chi- 
cago, 111. ; Letta, deceased; Martha J. Simpson, 
of Harrison County: Margaret Gilmore, of Mt. 
Vernon, Ohio, and William, deceased. In 1829 
Mr. Parker came to the United States, and 
landed at Baltimore, Md. ; from Baltimore he 
made his way by stage coach to Pittsburgh, 
Penn. : from Pittsburgh he took a boat to Steu- 
benville. Ohio, and from Steubenville he went to 
Leesville, Ohio, near which place he purchased 



a nice farm, ou which he resided till his death in 
1839. His widow died in 1881. 

Robert Parker grew to manhood in his native 
country, and married Miss Sarah McCauley, who 
was born in 1811. To this union have been 
born Elizabeth Palmer, who resides in Orange 
Township, Carroll County; Ann J. Marshall, in 
Carroll Connty; Mary Smith, in Leesville, Ohio; 
Matilda Booth, in Harrison Township, Carroll 
County; Wilson, Martha Wilson, and Joseph, 
at home, and Nancy Gould, at Dell Roy, Car- 
roll County. Mr. Parker came to Ohio in 1829, 
and entered eighty acres of land in Monroe 
Township, Carroll County, where he erected a 
log cabin, and where he resided for five years, 
when he sold and purchased eighty acres near 
where he now resides, on which he erected the 
second cabin, and resided there till 1842, when 
he purchased the farm he now owns, which 
contains over 200 acres, on which he has erected 
fine buildings. Politically he is a Republican. 




,ILLIAM L. McLAUGHLIN, another 
of the native-born, solid and successful 
farmers of Lee Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, was born January 12, 1823, on 
the farm where he has ever since resided. 
James McLaughlin, his grandfather, was a 
native of Scotland, which country he left, dur- 
ing the religious persecutions, for Ireland, 
whence he came to America about the middle of 
the eighteenth century, settling in Washington 
County, Penn. , where he died. He married Mar- 
garet Mitchell, who bore him the following 
named children: William, John, James, Robert, 
Thomas, Samuel, Nancy, Jane and Margaret. 
He participated in the French-Indian War, and 
was with Gen. Braddock at the latter' s defeat. 
Robert McLaughlin, father of William L., was 
born February 16, 1782, in Washington County, 
Penn., where his early life was spent, and where, 
January 18, 1810, he was married to Nancy 
Lindsay, who was born December 19, 1786, 
and the result of this union was eleven children, 
as follows: Martha (deceased), Margaret, James 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



MM 



(deceased), Jane (Mrs. John Orabb), John, 
Nancy (Mrs. Thomas Crabb), Robert, William 
L., Thomas (deceased), Eliza A. (Mrs. David 
Bloody), and Ross (deceased). In 1S10 Robert 
McLaughlin came to what afterward became 
Carroll County, Ohio, and here entered land to 
which he moved his family in the following 
year. The place was at that time a wilderness, 
inhabited for the most part by panthers and 
other wild beasts, but by assiduous labor they 
soon hewed out a comfortable home. The 
family were originally members of the Seceder 
Church, but later joined the Union or Associate 
Reformed Church, of which body Mr. Mc- 
Laughlin was a consistent and useful member. 
In his political proclivities he was first a Whig 
and then a Republican, taking an active part 
in the formation of the latter party, and was well 
posted on the troublesome Abolition question. 
He was justice of the peace, and also assessor of 
his township for several years. A self-made 
man, he succeeded, by his own industry, in 
amassing a handsome competency. His early 
experiences in the county were one continual 
struggle with poverty, the food of the family 
consisting for a long time solely of the proceeds 
of his hunting expeditions. With farming he 
united carpentering, and carried on both occu- 
pations for many years. He passed from earth 
February 5, 1869, his wife February 24, 1870, 
and they are buried side by side at Seroggsfield. 
William L. McLaughlin, son of Robert and 
Nancy (Lindsay) McLaughlin, received his edu- 
cation in the primitive school-house of the 
neighborhood, but for the most part he is self- 
read, and at the age of twenty-two he com- 
menced to teach school, a profession he fol- 
lowed for five years. In February, 1S54, he 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Mc- 
Allister, of Washington Township, Carroll 
County, and the result of this union was one 
child, Ann E., now Mrs. Charles Irvine, of Co- 
lumbiana County. This wife dying May 1, 
1858, our subject married, October 13, 185S, 
Jane, daughter of James Anderson, and by her 
had the following named children: Robert A., 



in Fox Township, Carroll County; Violet Jane, 
now Mrs. William Ramsey, of Fox Township; 
Ambrose E., in Washington Township, Carroll 
County; Ella F., wife of James M. Dennis; 
William, deceased; Sheridan B. ; Horace G. ; 
James R. ; Samuel C. and William D. The 
family are members of the United Presby- 
terian Church, of which Mr. McLaughlin is a 
libera] supporter. In politics he was first a 
Whig and afterward a Republican, on the 
formation of that body, and takes an active part 
in the elections; in 1880 he was land appraiser, 
and has been trustee of his township. 



ri( LFRED A. STEWART, one of the most 
// \\ prominent and prosperous young farm- 
ir\^ ers of Carroll County, Ohio, is a native 
■f/ of the same, born in Perry Township 

June 4, 1858. His paternal grandfather, whose 
immediate ancestry came from England to Amer- 
ica prior to the War of 1812, migrated from 
Maryland to Ohio, and settled on wild land in 
what is now Carroll County, where he built a 
log house and prepared to clear a farm from the 
unbroken forest. A son of this old pioneer, 
named Edward, born February 21, 1824, on the 
old farm (which is now in Perry Township), 
married Martha Davis, whose parents were old 
settlers of Carroll County, and by this union 
were born eleven children, eight of whom are 
yet living. 

Alfred A. Stewart spent his boyhood on his 
father's farm, attending the subscription and 
district schools, and when old enough learned 
the trade of a tanner. On October 16, 1879, he 
married Miss Laura B. Vasbinder, who was 
born in Jewett, Harrison Co., Ohio, April 27, 
1861, to Samuel B. and Nancy (Buchanan) Vas- 
binder, both natives of Harrison County, Ohio, 
former born July 2, 1834 (he learned the shoe- 
maker's trade at Cadiz, Ohio), latter born June 
17, 1839; they were married February 11, 1858, 
and when Mrs. Stewart was four years of age 
they moved to New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas 
County, where they resided until 1875, in which 



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year the family moved to Perrysville. The par- 
ents are at present living at Leavittsville, Car- 
roll County. To Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are born 
five children, viz. : Ella May, born August 12, 
1880; John Buchanan, born January 8, 1882; 
Ralph Melville, born January 19, 1884; Homer 
Arthur, born June 21, 1SS6, died February 24, 
1887, and Harry Ross, born December 18, 1887. 
Politically Mr. Stewart is a Republican, and 
has always taken an active interest in all mat- 
ters pertaining to the advancement of his county 
and township. Both he and his wife are mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are 
respected by a wide circle of friends. Their 
farm of 100 acres of well improved land, situ- 
ated near Perrysville, is one of the best in the 
county; it is well watered, and has an abundance 
of fruit and other trees and shrubbery. 



AMUEL THOMPSON TELFER (de- 
ceased), one of the early settlers of Carroll 
County, Ohio, was born March 14, 1816, 
in Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Alex- 
anderTelfer, a native of Scotland, came to Amer- 
ica about the middle of the eighteenth century, 
and settled in Pennsylvania, where he died. His 
family consisted of three sons and one daughter, 
all of whom settled in the Keystone State. 
Samuel Telfer, father of Samuel T. , was also a 
native of Pennsylvania, where he was reared 
and received his education. In early manhood 
he commenced teaching, a profession he fol- 
lowed after coming to Ohio in 1841 ; he was also 
a surveyor, and did much work in that line for 
the people of Carroll County. Samuel Telfer 
was married to Elizabeth McWilliams, born Sep- 
tember 28, 1792, a daughter of Nathaniel Mc- 
Williams, an early settler of Ohio. By this 
union there was one child, Samuel Thompson. 
The parents died, the father in 1860, and the 
mother in 1871, and are resting side by side in 
the cemetery at Amsterdam, in Jefferson County, 
They were members of the Presbyterian Church 
at Harlem, of which he was one of the organizers 
and chief supporters; in politics he was a stanch 



Democrat, taking an active interest in the move- 
ments of his party. 

Samuel Thompson Telfer received a liberal 
education in his native State, and was engaged 
in teaching several years. He came to Ohio 
with his parents, in 1841, and here, August 14, 
1851, married Mary Ann, daughter of Nathaniel 
Fields, who came from New England to Penn- 
sylvania, and there married Elizabeth Hager- 
man, who bore him the following-named chil- 
dren: John, Samuel, David, Mary Ann, Nancy, 
Thomas, Nathaniel, Elizabeth and Emma. Mr. 
and Mrs. Nathaniel Fields and family came to 
Ohio in 1842, and settled in Lee Township, Car- 
roll County, where he purchased a farm. The 
parents died here, the father in 1854. and the 
mother in 1867, and were buried in the ceme- 
tery at Amsterdam. They were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in his political 
preferment Mr. Fields was first a Whig and 
then a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. 
Telfer after their marriage settled on the farm 
in Lee Township, Carroll County, where she and 
her son, John W., yet reside. This farm had 
been originally entered by John McGarran, who 
partially cleared it, but the main part was 
brought under cultivation by the Telfer family. 
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Telfer were 
Samuel F. and Nathaniel H, both deceased, 
and John W. The father died in 1856, and is 
buried in the cemetery at Amsterdam. He was 
a member of the Presbyterian Church at Harlem 
Springs (as are his widow and son, John W.), 
and in politics he was a sound Democrat wilh 
Abolition proclivities. He served as clerk and 
treasurer of his township several years. 

John W. Telfer, the only surviving son of 
Samuel T. and Mary Ann (Fields) Telfer, was 
born in 1856, and received a liberal education at 
the common schools of his district. He has 
managed the home farm ever since he has been 
old enough to assume control, and is engaged 
in general farming and stock-raising. He is an 
active politician, a member of the Republican 
party, and was elected a justice of the peace in 
1886, serving one term. 



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fPV ICHARD E. LAWRENCE. On the 
roll of the old pioneer fanners of Leo 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, who 
' have joined " the silent majority," no 

name is held in higher esteem than that of 
William Lawrence, father of the gentleman 
whose name heads this memoir. James Law- 
rence, father of William, married in his native 
land (Ireland) Mary, daughter of James Noble, 
and in 1842, with their family, they set sail for 
America, but owing to storms and adverse winds 
their vessel was driven on one of the islands 
that fringe the north and northwest coast of 
Scotland. Finally they succeeded in reaching 
their original starting point, where they re- 
mained. James, one of the sons, made another 
venture to cross the Atlantic, which he safely 
accomplished, landing in New York, whence he 
proceeded to Ohio, and in the following year the 
rest of the family came outj also landing in 
New York. Thence they journeyed to Phila- 
delphia, where they took a canal boat for Pitts- 
burgh, the trip occupying two weeks; from 
there they came by boat to Steubenville, Ohio, 
and thence by wagon to Carroll County, where 
they purchased a farm in Lee Township, which 
they immediately commenced to clear and culti- 
vate. Here, January 23, 1875, James Law- 
rence. Sr. , died; he was a member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, and in politics a Demo- 
crat. His father, also named James, was mar- 
tied in Ireland to Susan Hays, who bore him 
the following named children: James, Richard, 
Elizabeth and Sarah. The parents died in Ire- 
land, where, during their lives, they had been 
engaged in farming. 

William Lawrence was a native of the Em- 
erald Isle, having been born January 2, 1823. 
He came to America and to Lee Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, along with his parents in 
18 13. and here passed his life, his early days 
being ehierly occupied in performing the ardu- 
ous duties incident to pioneer farm life. On 
June 7, 1853, he was married to Ann, daughter 
of David Noble, a native of Pennsylvania and a 
resident of Ohio, and immediately after their 



marriage they settled on the farm in Lee Town- 
ship, where the family now reside. To Mr. and 
Mrs. William Lawrence were born six children, 
named as follows: Susan (deceased), Sadie, 
David N., Richard E., James P. and Letitia J. 
The family are all identified with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Harlem Springs, of which 
Mr. Lawrence had been a warm supporter, and 
zealous worker in. As an agriculturist he was 
most successful, for, beginning, as he did at the 
time of his marriage at the bottom of the lad- 
der, he, unaided, climbed to the top, and at his 
death, June 17, 1888, left a large property. 

Richard E. Lawrence received his primary 
education at the common schools, which was 
supplemented by a thorough course of study at 
Harlem College, where he remained several 
terms. At the age of eighteen he commenced 
teaching, a profession he followed about sis 
years, being recognized as one of the leading 
educators of his section. Politically he is a 
supporter of the Democratic party, and is a 
member of the local committee. He attends 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a highly 
respected and progressive citizen. 



If SAIAH B. SHEPHERD, a native-born pro- 
gressive farmer of Lee Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, was born January 8, 1840. His 
grandfather, John Shepherd, a native of 
Ireland, was married there, and had a family 
of five children — three sons and two daughters. 
His lifetime was spent in following the plow, 
and he died in his native Erin, when his son 
George was a small boy. The latter was born 
in June, 1777, in County Cavan, Ireland, where 
he was apprenticed to the weaver's trade at the 
age of fourteen years, which he continued un- 
til he was nineteen years old. He then com- 
menced farming, which occupation he followed 
up to the time of his leaving his native land. 
He was married in Ireland, in 1809, to Jane 
Paggett, who bore him two children: Jane and 
John Early. In 1811 Mr. Shepherd and his 
family embarked in a sailing vessel for the 



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shores of America, the voyage occupying six 
■weeks and three days. During the fourth week 
they encountered a severe storm, which carried 
away their canvas, and for four days the ship 
pitched and rolled helplessly about, with noth- 
ing to steady her save an improvised sail. The 
hatches during the time were covered with tar- 
paulins, and none except able-bodied men were 
allowed on deck. In the meanwhile, to still 
further add to their distress, the vessel sprung 
a leak, and when the- storm had abated they 
found three feet of water in the hold, which 
took fifteen hours incessant pumping to dis- 
charge. The storm- tossed ship and her wearied 
living freight finally reached New York, whence 
Mr. Shepherd and family at once proceeded to 
Wilmington, Md., where Mrs. Shepherd died in 
March, 1812. Here Mr. George Shepherd car- 
ried on his trade of weaving for about three 
years, and then came with his family to Lee 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, where he entered 
a piece of land, now the farm, occupied by 
Simon E. Shepherd, at that time an unbroken 
wilderness. The Shepherds came in a covered 
wagon, which, on their arrival, they utilized as a 
home, while they were erecting a log house. 
Before leaving Wilmington, Mr. Shepherd had 
married, in May, 1813, Elizabeth Whitford, 
who bore him the following named children : 
Mary, Nancy, Sarah, Aaron, Eliza, Martha, 
Keziah, Elizabeth. George, Peter, Isaiah B. and 
Letitia. The parents died, the father in 1874, 
and the mother in 1881, and are buried in the 
cemetery at Simmonds. They were among the 
organizers of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at that place, of which they were members un- 
til 1846. Politically he was a Whig, then a 
Democrat, and he took an active part in the 
organization of Carroll County. 

Isaiah B. Shepherd, the subject, proper of 
this sketch, attended, in his boyhood, the com- 
mon schools of his district, and took up farming 
as a life occupation. On October 27, 1859, he 
was married to Ann, daughter of Simeon Drake, 
and after marriage they remained on the old 
home place of his parents three and a half 



years, removing then to the farm of his father- 
in-law. In 1864 Mr. Shepherd enlisted in 
Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-first O. 
V. I. , which was sent to the Shenandoah Valley, 
and he participated in all the movements of his 
regiment. Through exposure he was seized 
with pleurisy, from which he is still a sufferer. 
In 1865 he received an honorable discharge, 
and returned home. The children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Shepherd are named as follows: Mary 
A., Teresa (now Mrs. Edwin Guess), Edgar W., 
Bertha A., Herbert G., Oscar H. and Simeon 
D. The family are all members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church at Harlem Springs. Polit- 
ically Mr. Shepherd was a Stephen A. Douglas 
Democrat, and is now an active Prohibitionist. 




ILLIAM TRIPP, M. D., one of the 
leading physicians and specialists of 
Carroll County, having his residence 
in Carrollton, was born in Cannons- 
burg, Washington Co., Penn. His father was 
a farmer by occupation, and in 1834 moved with 
his family from Pennsylvania to Cai'roll County, 
the name of the county town having just been 
changed from Centreville to Carrollton. The 
Doctor is one of nine children born to his par- 
ents, six of whom are living, viz. : Judge John 
H. and Dr. William, in Carrollton; Judge James, 
in Jackson Count)', Ohio; Samuel, in Montgom- 
ery County, Iowa; Isabella Ingram and Elisabeth 
Belknap, both in Jones County, Iowa. Those de- 
ceased are Stephen J., killed at Champion Hills, 
near Vicksburg, Miss. , while serving in the Thirty- 
second O. V. I., during the Civil War in July, 
1863; an infant deceased in Pennsylvania, and 
Sarah J., deceased. Of the above named, five 
sons took part in the Civil War: John H. was 
a draftmaster in 1862-63; James was first lieu- 
tenant, in 1864, in the Second Independent 
Battery Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; Samuel 
enlisted in 1862 in Company H, Ninety-eighth 
Regiment, O. V. I., and was wounded at Chicka- 
mauga, Ga. , September 20, 1S63; Stephen J. 
was killed at Champion Hills, near Vicksburg, 





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Miss., as above related, and was buried at Jeffer- 
son Barracks, below St. Louis, Mo. ; the record 
of William will be found in his personal sketch 
immediately following. The parents both died 
near Carrollton, Ohio. 

The first nine years of our subject's life were 
spent in his native State, his primary education 
being obtained in the common schools; thence he 
went to McCormick's Academy in Carrollton, 
ami then attended a similar institution in Colum- 
biana County, Ohio. At the age of sixteen 
years he began the study of medicine with Dr. 
Hunter, of Carrollton, and when seventeen be- 
gan teaching school during the winter months, 
which he continued for some years in order to 
obtain funds wherewith to prosecute his medical 
studies. Ata'bout the age of twenty- four (in 1850), 
he took a regular course of study at the Cleve- 
land Medical College, graduating from the same 
in March, 1851; in the meantime he practiced 
medicine to some extent, so as to enable him to 
meet the heavy expenses incidental to the proper 
study of the profession. The Doctor commenced 
practice at Bolivar, Tuscarawas Co. , Ohio, con- 
tinuing at that place thirteen years. 

In 1862 he was commissioned, by Governor 
Tod, surgeon of Camp Mingo, Ohio, to examine 
men for enlistment into the One Hundred and 
Twenty-sixth Regiment, O. V. I. , having been 
previously recommended as surgeon of the regi- 
ment by the military committees of four of the 
counties composing the military district of six 
counties. He did not go with the regiment be- 
cause seven companies of same were ordered to 
West Virginia before the three other companies 
were enlisted, and consequently he had not fin- 
ished the work the Governor had commissioned 
him to do. When the work was done the Doctor 
returned to his home at Bolivar, and in the 
spring of 1863 he bought a drug store in Car- 
rollton, and removed to that town with his fam- 
ily. On January 4, 1864, Governor Tod again 
sent him a commission as assistant-surgeon in 
the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, 
O. V. I., for three years, and was immedi- 
ately ordered to Camp Cleveland, Ohio, to ex- 



amine men for all arms of the service, together 
with six companies for his own new regiment — 
the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth. In March. 
1 86 1. Dr. Tripp was ordered to Johnson's Island, 
with his regiment, and June 2, same year, he 
was, by special order, relieved from duty with 
the regiment and placed in charge of the hos- 
pital on the island. On October 19, 1864, Gov. 
Brough sent him a commission as surgeon of 
the One Hundred and Eighty-second Regiment, 
O. V. I., which he did not accept, believing the 
war to be near its close. He remained in charge 
of the hospital, and was mustered out of service 
at Camp Chase, Ohio, on July 17, 1865. He 
then returned to his home in Carrollton, and 
afterward removed to New Philadelphia, Ohio, 
where he remained but a short time, owing to 
sickness in his family, and so returned to Car- 
rollton, where he has practiced his profession 
successfully. In 1877 he was elected treasurer 
of Carroll County, and re-elected in 1879, re- 
tiring from office in September, 1882 — four 
years' service as treasurer. Since then, in con 
sequence of bronchial disease, contracted while 
in the military service, he has pursued his pro- 
fession only in chronic and special cases. 

The Doctor was married July 4, 1849, to 
Miss Deborah Smith, daughter of Milton Smith, 
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and May 26, 1850, 
a son was born, but mother and child both died 
in twenty days after the child's birth. On June 
10, 1852, Dr. Tripp was married to Mrs.Mahala 
E. Soper, of Michigan, by which union two 
daughters were born, the elder of whom, Eva, 
died in infancy, and the younger, Lillie M., is 
now the wife of Rev. Edward Lay port, a minister 
of the First Presbyterian Church of Akron, 
Ohio. Mrs.Layport's mother died February 2:1 
1855, leaving the Doctor with the care of a daugli 
ter only a few months old. On May 20, 1 856, our 
subject was married by Rev. J. McEldowney,D. 
D., to Miss Sarah M. Smith, daughter of Sam 
uel V. Smith, of Jackson County, Mich. It will 
thus be seen that on May 20, 1891, the Doctor 
and his wife will have glided down the stream 
of time together for thirty five years They 



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have been alone in their own home since the 
marriage of their daughter, Lillie M., which 
took place October 16, 1879. In religion Dr. 
Tripp and his wife united in December, 1850, 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Bolivar, 
Ohio, since which time they have endeavored to 
live consistent Christian lives. In politics the 
Doctor is a Republican. 

Dr. Tripp's present solid reputation, both 
socially and professionally, well illustrates what 
can be attained by patient purpose, resolute 
working and indomitable perseverance; and his 
life bears testimony to what it is possible for 
man, with such attributes, to accomplish. In 
order to attend school, the Doctor had actually 
to earn the necessary means, as he had no one 
able to assist him, financially, though not a few 
were willing to do so; thus from the bottom 
rung of the ladder he has, single-handed, worked 
his way upward. 



IiACOB S. POTTORF, one of the leading 
^. I farmers of Brown Township, Carroll Co., 
\J) Ohio, was born April 5, 1816, in the State 
of Pennsylvania. Andrew Pottorf, father 
of Jacob S., was also a native of Pennsylvania 
and of German descent. In his younger days 
Andrew was apprenticed to the blacksmith's 
trade, in his native State, and followed that call- 
ing nearly the whole of his life. He was married, 
in Pennsylvania, to Mary Snyder, who bore him 
the following children: Kate, Henry, Sarah, 
John, Jacob S., Andrew and George. In 1822 
the family came to Ohio and settled in Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, where Mr. Pottorf 
entered land and erected the usual primitive log 
cabin, sheltering his family, while awaiting the 
completion of the structure, in the four-horse 
wagon which brought them to the county. He 
nest proceeded to clear away the forest, and by 
degrees developed one of the finest farms in the 
neighborhood, in the meantime following his 
vocation of blacksmith. He lost his wife in 
1834. and his own death took place in 1870; he 



was a member of the Lutheran Church, and in 
politics a Democrat. 

Jacob S. Pottorf was but six years of age 
when he was brought to Ohio by bis parents. 
His facilities for an education were limited, but 
he used them for all they were worth. He ably 
aided his father in improving the home farm 
until September 13, 1838, when he married 
Hannah, a daughter of John Gilmore. Mr. Gil- 
more was a native of Ireland, who, on coming to 
America, willingly took up arms in defense of 
his adopted country against the encroachments 
of England in 1812. In Ireland he married 
Margaret McCoy, also a native of Ireland, who 
bore him the following children: James, John, 
William, Alexander, Henry, Kennedy, Mary 
Ann and Hannah. Mr. Gilmore was an early 
settler of Carroll County. 

After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Pottorf lived 
for two years in Harrison Township, Carroll 
County, on one farm, and then moved to 
another, on which they remained for sometime, 
and eventually, in 1850, settled on their present 
place in Brown Township. The children born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Pottorf were named as fol- 
lows: Lizzie (deceased), Mary (Mrs. Herbert 
Shepherd), Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Condo), Kenne- 
dy, Emory (deceased) and Lulu (Mrs. William 
Blythe). Mr. Pottorf is a thorough Republican, 
and has filled several township offices, including 
that of land appraiser in 1870. He is a repre- 
sentative man and a leading citizen. 



^TV OBERT THOMPSON, one of the solid, 
L*^ wide-awake farmers of Loudon Town- 
V ship, Carroll County, was born on the 
■/J farm he now owns January 17, 1S46. 

His father, Andrew Thompson, was born in 
County Armagh, Ireland, March 7, 1799, where 
he grew to manhood and received a country- 
school education. When yet a young man he 
immigrated to the United States, coming to 
Ohio, where he followed his trade, that of shoe- 
maker, for some time in New Rumley, Harrison 
County. On March 17, 1832, he was married 



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851 



to Miss Jane Sloane, after which event he pur- 
chased a part of the farm now owned by his son 
Robert, where he erected a log cabin, and spent 
the balance of his life in clearing the land. He 
died July 12, 1881, his widow December 22, 
1889. They were members of the United Pres- 
byterian Church, and in politics Mr. Thompson 
was a Republican. Their children were seven 
in number, viz. : George, in Loudon Township, 
Carroll County; Mary Waggoner, in Jefferson 
County, Ohio; Sarah, who died August 17, 1845; 
Elizabeth Barr, a resident of North Township, 
Harrison County; William, residing with the 
subject of this sketch; Robert, and Andrew, who 
died October 24, 1870. 

Robert Thompson grew to manhood on the 
farm where he now resides, and received a good 
practical business education at the common 
school in his own district, Carroll County, Ohio. 
On January 4, 1877, he married Miss Sarah J. 
Palmer, daughter of James Palmer, and born 
October 9, 1848, which union has been blessed 
with seven children, as follows: Mary, Jesse P., 
Andrew L., Harvey G., Charles S., Helen L., 
and Esther R. In 1882 Mr. Thompson erected 
his present fine brick residence. Both he and 
his wife are members of the United Presbyterian 
Church of Jefferson, Harrison County; in poli- 
tics Mr. Thompson is an earnest Prohibitionist. 



JfOHN M. STEMPLE, boot and shoe mer- 
I chant, of Dell Roy, Ohio, was born Sep- 
__} tember 14, 1848, in Allen County, Ohio. 
His father, David Stemple, was born in 
Washington Township, Carroll Co. , Ohio, where 
his youth was spent, which was very similar to 
that of the average boy on the farm, occupied 
by the duties that are to be done, and also in 
attending the schools of his section. While yet 
a young man he was married to Mary Miller, 
daughter of Adam Miller. Soon after their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stemple removed to 
Allen County. Ohio, where they remained until 
L865, when, on the death of Mrs. Stemple, the 
family returned to Carroll County, where they 



still remain. Their family consisted of John 
M. , David L., Lizzie (Mrs. Van B. Foutz). 
Laura (Mrs. F. M. Harsh), and Corrinth N. (de- 
ceased). In politics Mr. Stemple is a Repub- 
lican, and has ever taken an active and impor- 
tant part in the canvass of his party. He and 
family are members of the Lutheran Church, 
and are constant attendants of its services. Mr. 
Stemple now resides in Carrollton, where he is 
passing the later days of his life, an invalid. 

John M. Stemple spent the first seventeen 
years of his life in Allen County, where he at- 
tended the .common schools. On his arrival in 
Carroll County he entered the business course 
of Harlem Springs College. He then entered 
the employment of 'James Huston & Son, of 
Carrollton, and remained in their employ four 
years, when he went to Allen County to attend 
a store that had been opened there. Here he 
remained one year, when he came to Dell Roy 
and engaged in the hardware business with J. 
M. Helfrick in 1876. This partnership contin- 
ued two years, when John Campbell purchased 
the interest of Mr. Helfrick, and the business 
was continued until 18S3, when Mr. Campbell 
sold out to Mr. Stemple. Soon after this, owing 
to ill health, Mr. Stemple sold out, and for the 
next two years devoted himself to regaining his 
health. In 1888 he commenced the business in 
which he is still engaged, carrying an extensive 
and complete line of boots and shoes. Mr. 
Stemple has been longer in business than any 
other merchant in Dell Roy, and has done prob- 
ably more than any other for the development 
and upbuilding of the town. To him, indeed, 
is chiefly due its organization. He is an earnest 
and energetic citizen, and one in whom the resi 
dents have the fullest confidence, and for whom 
they entertain the utmost respect and esteem. 
In politics Mr. Stemple is a Republican, ami he 
has always taken a leading part in promoting the 
interests of his party. He and wife are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church, and he is as 
enterprising in that field as elsewhere. On No- 
vember 25, 1882, he was married to Cora B., 
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Township, and this union has been made the 
more happy by the birth of the following chil- 
dren: Mary L. , born January 2, 1884, and died 
December 13, 1886; James L., born December 
23, 1887, and Elda M., born July 22, 1890. 



QEORGE BARRICK, one of the well- 
, known and highly respected retired agri- 
culturists of Fox Township, Carroll 
, ^ County, having his residence in Mechan- 
icstown, was born April 14, 183S. His grand- 
father was by birth a German, and, when 
young, came with his parents to this country, 
settling in Pennsylvania, where Samuel (father 
of our subject), was born and reared. He 
(Samuel) was married in that State to Miss Hat- 
tie Crum (mother of our subject), also a native 
of the Keystone State, born of German an- 
cestry. At the age of twenty-one Samuel Bar- 
rick came to what afterward became Carroll 
County Ohio, where he bought a farm, at that 
time but little improved, the dwelling thereon 
being an unhewn-log cabin. This place he set 
to work to clear, and soon had it reduced to a 
fertile farm, made, by his care and industry to 
" blossom as the rose," which farm he carried 
on, in connection with his trade, that of car- 
penter, which he had learned in the East. In 
1844 Mrs. Barrick died, and, in 1847, Mr. Bar- 
rick married a Miss Riggs, a native of Michi- 
gan, who bore him seven children — six daugh- 
ters and one son. Mr. Barrick died in 1877; 
his widow is still living. 

The early life of the subject of these lines 
was spent in Carroll County with his father, 
and, at the age of nine years, he went to live 
with a farmer in Harrison County, adjoining Car- 
roll, where he attended the district school and 
worked on a farm. On April 1, 1862, he was 
married to Miss Mary Ann McBurney, who bore 
him two children, William L. and Maggie, both 
now deceased. In 1865 Mr. Barrick moved to 
Fox Township, where he successfully carried on 
agricultural pursuits for several years, and then 
took up his residence in the village of Mechan- 



icstown, where he is now living, retired from act- 
ive work, but giving close attention to his 
financial interests. He and, his amiable wife 
are members of the United Presbyterian Church, 
and in politics he is a Republican. 



I AMES A. BELKNAP, the subject of this 
t. I sketch, is the representative of one of the 
SkJ^i leading families in Orange Township, 
Carroll County, and was born January 29, 
1855. His father, David A. Belknap, who was 
also born in Orange Township, showed in early 
life a strong inclination toward mental pursuits, 
and was ever an attentive and industrious stu- 
dent. He was an exceedingly well posted man, 
and one in whom the people had confidence, both 
as to judgment and honesty. His life was largely 
spent on the farm, where he brought into practice 
his knowledge of science as well as that of ex- 
perience, the result being all he desired. While 
a successful agriculturist, still he did not fail to 
take a leading part in the advancement of the 
interests of his township in its educational, relig- 
ious, social and financial development. His well- 
known spirit of progressiveness made him one of 
the leaders in every movement, and his purse 
was always open to deeds of charity and benev- 
olence. He was a Republican in politics, and 
was an active member of the party. In early 
manhood he was married to Miss Mary A. Roby, 
daughter of Richard Roby, of Orange Township. 
The children born to this union are as follows: 
James A., Lemuel, Maxwell, Joseph, Alice, 
Lizzie, Mattie, Robert, Anna and Ora. Mr. 
Belknap was a self-made man, leaving at his 
death, in 1875, 180 acres of excellent land. 

The early life of James A. Belknap was that 
of the ordinary farmer boy — attending the duties 
of the farm during their season, and the winter 
school during any leisure he might have. He, 
however, inherited much of his father's love for 
study, and the school which was too often the dread 
of the farmer's boy was his delight. Thus, by 
self-study, ia addition to what instruction he re- 
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thorough knowledge of the English branches 
and quite an acqaintance with the higher studies. 

Since old enough to vote Mr. Belknap has sup 
ported the Republican ticket, as it best coincides 
with his ideas. Since the death of his father he 
has had the management of the home place, 
which he has carried on in a highly satisfactory 
manner. December 30, 1880, he married Edith 
Barrick, daughter of Henry Barrick, whose 
sketch appears elsewhere. One child, John, has 
blessed their union. Mr. Belknap is one of the 
rising and intelligent young men of his section. 




WILLIAM B. CRAWFORD. Among 
\/\\// the respected families of Augusta Town- 

Mj ship, Carroll County, prominent for hon- 
esty and straightforwardness, as well as 
for success in business affairs, none are more con- 
spicuous than the Crawfords. They can trace 
their ancestors as far back as William Crawford, 
Sr. , grandfather of the subject of this biograph- 
ical sketch; he was a farmer in Ireland, but 
immigrated to America in 1800, where he and 
his little family found a home in Washington 
County, Fenn., where he followed farming as a 
means of support until he died. William Craw- 
ford, the father of William B., was born in 
County Down, Ireland, in 1794, and when six 
years of age came with his parents to America. 
In Pennsylvania he received his education; at 
the same time he was obliged to help his father 
on the farm. On reaching maturity he married 
Miss Isabell Orr, who was a native of Washing- 
ton County, Penn. In 1840 Mr. and Mrs. 
Crawford left their home in Pennsylvania for 
one in East Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. After 
a long life of hardships, interspersed with golden 
moments of sunshine, Mr. Crawford quietly 
passed away in 1872. Mrs. Crawford still lives 
to mourn her husband's death. Mr. Crawford 
was a leading man of his time, was elected 
trustee and to other offices by his fellow-citizens, 
and was a man respected by all. 

William B. Crawford, the gentleman whose 
name heads this article, is the eldest of the ten 



children born to his parents, and first saw the 
light in East Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
August 8, 1843. There, in the vicinity of his 
home, he received his earliest instruction by 
attending the district school; but, not being 
contented with this amount of education, he at- 
tended the academy at New Hagerstown, Ohio, 
two terms. Mr. Crawford then taught school 
for a number of terms, and thus perfected his 
own education by instructing others. At the 
age of twenty-five he married Miss Harriet 
Elvinah Rinehart, who was reared in Washing- 
ton Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. The Rine- 
hart family are of German descent, as the name 
plainly signifies. To this union were born six 
children, two of whom are now deceased. Soon 
after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Crawford moved to 
East Township, Carroll County, where they 
lived three years, after which Mr. Crawford 
bought his present farm, and has been a resident 
of Augusta Township ever since. Mr. Crawford 
has a well-improved farm of 146 acres. He is 
a grain-producer and stock-raiser, taking much 
pride in raising blooded stock, such as Short- 
horn cattle, Spanish Merino sheep, etc. In 
politics Mr. Crawford is a Republican, and has 
held the offices of township trustee, treasurer, 
etc., and once was nominated for member of the 
board of equalization in this district. Mr. and 
Mrs. Crawford are members of the United Pres- 
byterian Church, and have a large circle of 
friends, who are unanimous in expressing their 
high regard and esteem. 



1 [OHN C. FORBES, who is one of the most 
l. I extensive farmers of Orange Township, 
\U) Carroll County, was born August 20,1833. 
in New Hagerstown, Carroll Co., Ohio, a 
son of James and Elizabeth (Johnston) Forbes, 
former a native of Ireland, and latter of Penn- 
sylvania. The father came from his native 
country at an early day, and when eighteen 
years old located in Pennsylvania; but conclud- 
ing to try his fortune farther west he moved to 
Ohio, and in 1823 settled in what afterward 



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became Carroll County, where he carried on a 
general store in connection with farming. He 
was a leading citizen, and took an active part 
in all public movements. While in Pennsyl- 
vania he was married to Miss Elizabeth John- 
ston, who bore him ten children — three sons and 
seven daughters — viz. : Andrew, Nancy, Sarah, 
Thomas, John C, Elizabeth, Catherine, Amanda, 
Margaret and Emma. The father died in Au- 
gust, 1803, in New Philadelphia, Ohio, the 
mother in October, 1858, at the same place. 

John C. Forbes spent bis early life in New 
Hagerstown, attending the schools of the place, 
and learning the practical lessons of farm life. 
As an agriculturist he has met with merited sue- 
cess, being now the owner of 200 acres of the 
most fertile and best improved land in Orange 
Township, composed of both upland and low- 
land, and well adapted for the production of all 
kinds of cereals. The buildings thereon, in- 
cluding one of the finest brick residences in the 
county, barns, etc., are elegant, commodious and 
comfortable, and the lessons of industry and 
economy which were inculcated on him in his 
youth, it is very evident Mr. Forbes has not al- 
lowed to remain in a condition of "innocuous 
desuetude." In addition to general agriculture 
he also deals in stock and wool. At the age of 
thirty he was married to Miss Nancy Morrison, 
whose parents came from Pennsylvania at an 
early period, and were old pioneers of Carroll 
and residents of Orange Township. The re- 
sults of this union were four children, viz. : 
Catherine. Sarah, Frank and Emma, of whom 
Emma and Catherine are deceased and the other 
two are at home. The mother died June 22, 
1871, and in October, 1873, Mr. Forbes took, 
for his second wife, Angeline Harsh Strayer, 
whose parents were natives of Jefferson Count}', 
Ohio, and old settlers of Carroll. They were of 
English ancestry, who came to America at a very 
early period. Mrs. Forbes has spent her whole 
life in Carroll County, her childhood and early 
youth having been passed on her father's farm. 
Mr. and Mrs. Forbes are well and favorably 
known, having a large circle of friends both at 



home and abroad. They are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, and in politics he has al- 
ways been a Democrat. 



*Tr\ ICHARD HEMMING, one of the oldest 
IW^ and most respected residents of Hard- 
ly son Township, Carroll County, was born 
■f/ in Washington County, Penn.. March 

18, 1823. William Hemming, his grandfather, 
was a native of England, and came to America 
at a very early day, settling in Maryland, where 
he was married to Sisson Stephens, who bore 
him the following named children: Thomas, 
Mary, Richard, George, Henry, Samuel, Nancy, 
Sally, Amos and Anna. In 1790 William Hem- 
ming removed with his family to Washington 
County, Penn. , where he carried on farming 
until 1830, in which year he came to what in a 
few years afterward became Harrison Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio. He had been all his life a 
Democrat, a zealous worker in his party. 

Richard Hemming, father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born near the city of Baltimore, 
Md., in 1787, and was nine years old when his 
parents moved to Washington County, Penn., 
where he attended school and also learned the 
practical lessons of farm life. He was there 
married to Eleanor Leggett, and in 1830 they 
came to Ohio, purchasing the farm whereon 
their son Richard is at present living, most of 
the improvements on which they made them- 
selves, with the assistance of their children. 
They had born to them the following named 
children: Mary. William, Eleanor, Richard and 
Jesse. The father died March 23, 1859, the 
mother February 25, 1849, and they both lie 
buried at Carrollton, in Carroll County; they 
were leading members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, and in politics he was a Democrat. 
Richard Hemming, whose name opens this 
sketch, was seven years old when his parents 
brought him to Ohio, and his education was ob- 
tained in the subscription and common schools 
of the neighborhood, thorough practical farm- 
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boybood and youth. Ou March 4, 1844, be 
was united in marriage with Lydia, daughter of 
Elias and Sarah Harsh, and she bore him chil- 
dren named as follows: George W., Sarah E., 
Elias R, Enoch N., Abrabam H., Daniel W., 
Mary C, Clara M. and Julia A. Tbe entire 
family are members of tbe Lutheran C'burcb, 
and in politics Mr. Hemming is a Ejemocrat. 




LBERT HERBERT. Among tbe bus- 
iness men of Sherrodsville, in Carroll 
County, who have been identified with 
every progressive movement for the de- 
veloping and building up of the village, none, 
probably, has been more active in the work than 
Mr. Herbert. His father was a native of Wales. 
whence, when he was eighteen years old, he 
came to America alone, his capital consisting of 
willing hands and a stout heart. He first began 
working in the mines in Luzerne County, Penn., 
occupying his leisure time in acquiring an edu 
cation. In early manhood he was united in 
marriage with Catherine Jones, a native of 
Wales, and their children were as follows: Jane, 
John, Albert, Evan, Edward, William, Ellen, 
Mary A., Emma and Lewis. The father de- 
parted this life in 1867, the mother having pre- 
ceded him to the grave two years previously. 
Mr. Herbert was a stanch supporter of the Re- 
publican party, and as soon as he had made 
himself conversant with the various phases of 
politics he became of considerable assistance in 
disseminating the doctrine of Republicanism 
among his fellow miners, by whom he was much 
respected. He was a consistent and useful 
member of the Congregational Church. 

Albert Herbert, whose name heads this 
sketch, was engaged in the mines of Luzerne 
County, Penn., occupying various positions un- 
til he became "boss" of a mine, in which 
capacity he served with ability and satisfaction 
to both employer and employes. Here he re- 
mained until 1880, when he went to Colorado, 
remaining one year; then came to Sherrodsville, 
where for a time he was engaged in mining, 



after which he opened the grocery and provision 
store, which he at present carries on. In 1883 
he was married to Miss Frank (born in Carroll 
ton, Ohio), daughter of Charles and Jennie 
(Rue) Hardesty, of Centre Township, Carroll 
County, and one child was born to them, which 
lived but a short time. Mr. Herbert is emphat- 
ically a self-made man, and enjoys the confi- 
dence and esteem of a wide circle of friends. 
He and his family are members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church, and in politics he is a 
stanch Republican. 



rt( BRAHAM E. MILLER, one of the most 
l/l\ prosperous farmers of Union Township, 
frW Carroll Co., Ohio, was born in Cum- 
•f/ berland County, Penn., November 12, 

1813, and is a son of Jacob and Jane (Thorley) 
Miller, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 
1823, and settled in Monroe Township, Carroll 
County, where Jacob, who was a man of supe- 
rior education for those early days, soon became 
a conspicuous factor in the advancement and de- 
velopment of the new country, and was particu- 
larly active in educational and religious mat- 
ters, and was also the first postmaster appointed 
for Leavitt. He and bis worthy wife passed 
their remaining days in tbe township of their 
adoption. Of their eight children, six of whom 
are still living, the subject of this sketch is the 
second in order of birth. 

In 1845 Abraham E. Miller married Isabelle 
Stewart, who was born in Union Township, Car- 
roll County, August 17, 181'J. Her parents 
were Thomas and Delilah (Thomas) Stewart, 
natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Mary- 
land, and early settlers in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. 
Miller, immediately after marriage, located on a 
farm in Monroe Township, and Mrs. Miller has 
in her possession to-day a pair of blankets which 
she spun and wove from flax raised on the 
ground where the village of Dell Roy now stands. 
In 1S49 Mr. and Mis. Miller removed to their 
present farm in Union Township, aud are now 
the parents of four children. Both the parents 



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have been for over forty years members of the 
Reformed Lutheran Church, and have led lives 
consistent with its teachings. In politics Mr. 
Miller is a Democrat, and for over thirty years 
has served as justice of the peace. 



I OHN B. MOODY physician and farmer, one 
k I of the best known and most enterprising 
\J) citizens of Lee Township, Carroll County, 
is a native of Beaver County, Penn., born 
July, 1810. His grandfather, James Moody, was 
a native of Ireland, whence he came to this coun- 
try when a lad. In Philadelphia, Penn. , he mar- 
ried Elizabeth Reed, also a native of the Emerald 
Isle, and the children born to this union were 
David, John, Joseph, Jane and Mary Elizabeth; 
for his second wife he married Mary Herron, 
who bore him the following named children: 
James, Margaret, Alexander and Samuel. Mr. 
Moody followed farming in Pennsylvania, and 
in 1812 came to Jefferson County, Ohio, where 
he entered land, clearing it with his own hands. 
He was among the earliest members of the Se- 
ceder Church, and in politics he took a prom- 
inent part in the ranks of the Whig party. He 
died in 1847, his widow following him to the 
grave not long thereafter. 

David Moody, a son of James by his first 
marriage, and who became the father of John 
B. , was a native of Washington County, Penn. 
He spent his early life in his native State, at- 
tending the common schools and learning the 
tanner' s trade, which he followed through life. 
He was married in Pennsylvania to Mary, 
daughter of John Boyd, a native of Ireland, and 
a Revolutionary soldier. In April, 1817, Mr. 
Moody came to Ohio, and settled in what was 
then Rock Township, Harrison County, but 
what on the formation of Carroll County* be- 
came Lee Township, Carroll County, the town- 
ship being so named for the first settler therein. 
At the time of Mr. Moody's coming wolves, deer 
and wild turkeys were numerous, and here he 

•Carroll County \\;i^ erected oat of Columbiana, Stark, 
Tuscarawas, Harrison and Jefferson Counties, i>y Act passed 
December 25, 1832, to take effect January l, 1833. 



had a cabin built and four or five acres of land 
cleared. He died April 5, 1850, his wife hav- 
ing preceded him to the grave January 17, 
1835, and they sleep their last sleep in the ceme- 
tery at Carrollton. They were members of the 
Presbyterian Church at that place; in politics 
he was a Whig, and served his township as 
trustee, and assessor. Mr. and Mrs. Moody 
were the parents of the following named chil- 
dren: John B., M. D., the subject proper of 
this sketch; Eliza; Martha, deceased; Nancy, 
Mrs. John McLaughlin; James and Sarah, both 
deceased, and David, in Lee Township, Carroll 
County. 

Dr. John B. Moody spent his early life in 
Lee Township, Carroll County, receiving his 
education in the common schools, which he 
afterward supplemented by an extended course 
of reading under a private instructor. At the 
age of eighteen he commenced his medical 
studies with Dr. McElroy, who possessed an 
excellent library. He then placed himself under 
the preceptorship of Dr. Keeler, a German 
physician, for about three years, at the end of 
which time he was licensed to practice, and has 
so continued with unqualified success for the 
past thirty-five years, at the same time carrying 
on his farm, where he resides, in the vicinity of 
Harlem Springs, in Lee Township. The Doc- 
tor is one of the leading supporters of the Pres- 
byterian Church at Harlem Springs, of which he 
has been an elder for twenty-five years. In 
politics he was originally a Whig, casting his 
first vote for Gen. Harrison, and since the for- 
mation of the Republican party he has stood in 
its front rank, second to none among its leaders 
in his part of the county. For over twenty 
years he served as a justice of the peace, and 
has held other positions of trust in Lee Town- 
ship, which he has always filled faithfully and 
conscientiously. Dr. Moody may be justly 
classed among the representative self-made men 
of Carroll County, and among the most success- 
ful, being now the possessor of over 1,000 acres 
of fine farm land, all accumulated by his own 
individual labors. 




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1=SjRANK J. GANG. In the year 1S32 there 
!J emigrated from Germany to American 
soil Xavier and Mary (Shoefer) Gang, 
who settled in what is now Brown Town- 
ship. Carroll Co., Ohio, where Xavier followed 
his trade, that of weaver, making cloth for the 
home made clothing of the pioneers. Before 
very long they were enabled to purchase a small 
tract of land near Malvern, which they at once 
set to work to improve, erecting a log cabin in 
the woods, and they soon had about them a 
fairly well cultivated farm. In the primitive 
dwelling they lived several years, when they 
bought a better farm of forty acres within one 
mile of Malvern, on which they died, Mr. Gang 
in 1856. at the age of fifty-three years, and 
Mrs. Gang in 1882, when aged seventy-two 
years. They were consistent members of the 
Catholic Church. They were the parents of 
eleven children, the subject of this sketch being 
second in order of birth. 

Frank J. Gang was born in Brown Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, December 20, 1838, and 
was brought up to the laborious duties of pio- 
neer farm life, his educational advantages be- 
ing limited to the district schools of the neigh- 
borhood, a few weeks' attendance in winter 
time. He assisted his parents in a filial man- 
ner, aiding in clearing the farm and in maintain- 
ing the family, a condition of things that con- 
tinued until he was twenty-two years of age, 
when he began life for himself as a day laborer, 
many a time working in the harvest held, cut- 
ting grain with a sickle and cradling oats, for 
twenty-five cents per acre. He was frugal and 
careful, and, in course of time had enough 
means saved wherewith to commence farming 
for his own account. In 1872 he purchased his 
present place in Brown Township, now a line 
farm of 125 acres, all well improved, with com- 
fortable and commodious buildings thereon, the 
besl and most convenient stock barn in the 
township having been erected by him in 1889. 
He gives much attention to the raising of stock, 
especially tine-bred horses, driving, saddle and 
draft, Flint Morgans, Clydesdales and Normans, 



and at present has thirteen very valuable ani- 
mals in his barns. He sold, some time ago, a 
couple of two-year old colts for $300 each. Mr. 
Gang also raises fine-bred cattle, such as Short- 
horns and Holsteins (the latter registered/), and 
he has also a flock of sixty sheep of high grade. 
On October 22, 1863, Mr. Gang was united 
in marriage with Catherine Locker, a native of 
Waynesburg, Ohio, daughter of George and 
Magdalen Locker, and to this union were born 
twelve children: George (died in infancy), born 
September 4, 1864; Mary M. , born September 
6, 1865; Emma L., born June 18, 1867; William, 
born August 19, 1868; Joseph E., born May 6, 
1870; Francis X., born February 25, 1872; 
Rosa H, born November 8, 1874; Charles L., 
born February 1, 1876; Margaret T., born Feb- 
ruary 11, 1878; Anna E., born July 8, 1880; 
Alice B. (died in infancy), born December 25, 
1882, and Henry A., born March 4, 1886. The 
family worship at the Catholic Church; in poli- 
tics Mr. Gang is a Democrat, is liberal in his 
views, and has served as supervisor and school 
director. He is in the purest sense a self-made 
man, and he and his worthy wife are held in 
high esteem in the community. 



IfSAAC R. HOLMES, one of the leading 
agriculturists and popular citizens of Orange 
[ Township, Carroll County, is a native of 
the same, born March 11, 1849. He is a 
son of Samuel and Emily E. (Pumphrey) 
Holmes, of whom a biographical sketch appears 
elsewhere in this volume. He was primarily 
educated at the common schools of his district, 
and when eighteen years of age he entered the 
normal school at Hopedale, where he remained 
a few terms, and then studied at the college in 
Scio several terms, during all of which educa- 
tional experience he proved himself an apt 
scholar and diligent student. 

On October 2, 1877, he was married to 
Alice A. , born near Leesville, Ohio, September 21 . 
LS55, daughter of Thomas Leggett; her mother 
was a daughter of Squire Brown, of near Apple 



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Creek, Wayne Co., Ohio, and after marriage 
the young couple settled on the farm where 
they at present reside, which comprises 240 
acres of choice land, all in an excellent state of 
cultivation. This farm is underlaid with coal, 
and one of the largest mines in the county is 
being operated thereon. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Holmes have been born three children, viz. : 
Florence, Thomas and Edna. The family are 
members of the Presbyterian Church, and in 
politics Mr. Holmes is a solid Republican. 



Tr^jREDERICK BUEL, a representative, 

I^J progressive citizen of Malvern, Brown 

1^ Township, Carroll Co. , Ohio, is a native 

of Germany, born in Wurtemberg, June 

10, 1836. His father, David Buel (who spelled 

his name Buhl), a tailor by trade, emigrated 

with his wife and three children, Fredericka, 

Caroline and our subject, from Wurtemberg to 

America, 183 l J, and located at Lodi, in Brown 

Township, Carroll County. 

Frederick Buel is the eldest son and second 
of five children born to his parents, of whom 
two. David G. and Henry, were born in America. 
He began life young, for at the early age of 
eleven years we find him for a time driving 
horses on the canal between Cleveland and 
Portsmouth, Ohio. He attended the public 
schools in Malvern (which at that time contained 
but a few houses), also the seminary, and in 185U 
he entered Mount Union College, during and 
after which, up to 1861, he taught school. In 
May of that year he enlisted in Company F, 
Fourth Regiment, O. V. I., and was mustered 
out August 18, 1801; then, November 4. same 
year, he re-enlisted, this time in Company A, 
Eightieth Regiment, O. V. I.. This regiment 
was organized at Camp Meigs, and was sent to 
Paducah, Ky. , thence to Corinth, Miss., where 
it saw considerable service at the siege and bat- 
tle October 4 and 5, 1802, and participated in 
several engagements, including Raymond, Jack- 
son (Miss.), siege of Vicksburg, Mission Ridge 
and was with Sherman in his march to the sea. 



Mr. Buel was made second lieutenant January 
15, 1803, promoted to first lieutenant April 27, 
same year, and was mustered out at Savannah, 
Ga. , at expiration of term of service, December 
21, 1S04. In April, 1801, he had embarked in 
mercantile business in Malvern, which he car- 
ried on until 1871, when he sold out and en- 
gaged in his present business as a lumber 
merchant, in which he has met with marked 
success. On April 21, 1864, Mr. Buel was 
married to Julia A. Fishel, daughter of Henry 
and Margaret (McClurg) Fishel, and thirteen 
children were born to this union, five of whom 
died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Buel are mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which he is steward and class leader; politically 
he is a Republican, and has been and is now 
township treasurer, also a town councilman and 
member of the school board. 

Joseph Fishel, senior member of the firm of 
Fishel & Buel, dealers in lumber and builders' 
materials, at Malvern Ohio, was born in Brown 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, February 1, 1833, 
and is a son of Henry and Margaret (McClurg) 
Fishel, natives of Pennsylvania, but who were 
married in Ohio and who settled on the north 
fork of Yellow Creek, in Jefferson County. 
They came to Ohio when the country was alto- 
gether new, and after marriage settled in their 
little cabin, which was of primitive build, with 
quilts hung up in the doorway, which afforded 
no defense against the prowling and ferocious 
wolves, among whom they were compelled to 
throw fire-brands, in order to drive them away. 
Mr. Fishel succeeded, however, in carving out 
of the wilderness a farm, what was afterward the 
equal of any in the township, and later became 
the proprietor of a hotel at Pekin, as well as 
postmaster at that place. These parents ended 
their days in Brown Township — both members 
of the Presbyterian Church. 

Joseph Fishel was the seventh in a family of 
thirteen children, and was educated at the pio- 
neer log school house, dressed in his homespun 
clothing, although he enjoyed advantages some- 
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labored on the home farm until he was seven- 
teen years old, when he was indentured for a term 
of three years to learn the cabinet-maker's trade 
under Addison Coyn. In 1855 he moved to 
Malvern, where for sixteen years he was engaged 
at general work and undertaking, when, about 
1870, he became interested in the firm of Fishel 
& Walker, shingle and lumber manufacturers. 
February 25, 1871, the present firm of Fishel & 
Buel was established, but in 1880 they were 
burned out, with a loss often thousand dollars, but 
they immediately rebuilt,and are now conducting 
a most prosperous business. In 1S53 Mr. Fishel 
married Miss Fredericka Buel, who, when six 
years of age, was brought to America from her 
native Germany by her parents, David and 
Fredericka Buhl, now well-known and respected 
citizens of Brown Township. Two children have 
blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Fishel, viz. : 
Caroline, now Mrs. Nelson Lewton, and Harriet, 
now Mrs. Henry Haskey. Mr. Fishel is an 
elder in the Presbyterian Church, and in politics 
is a Kepublican. 



THOMAS RUTLEDGE. Among the self- 
made men of Union Township, Carroll 
County, none are probably better known 
than the subject of this sketch. He was 
born in Washington County, Penn., a son of 
Thomas Rutledge, a native of County Down, 
Ireland. William Rutledge, his grandfather, 
also a native of Ireland, was there married to 
Jane Crozier, who bore him the following 
named children: Edward, Robert, Elizabeth, 
Margaret, Mary, John, William, James and 
Thomas. The last named of these children 
received his education in his native land, and 
during his early manhood was there married 
to Jane Brooks, who bore him the following 
named children: Robert, Margaret, Jane, Re- 
becca, Eliza, W. H. and Thomas. 

Thomas, the father of our subject, came to 
America in 1832, and settled in Washington 
County, Penn., where, a few years later, he 
passed away, leaving his family of small chil- 



dren to the care of his widow, who, soon after 
her severe loss, brought the family to Carroll 
County, Ohio, where they have since resided. 

The youth of Thomas, our subject, was 
occupied, not in attending school, but in assist- 
ing in supplying the necessaries for the family 
support, a duty he manfully performed. No- 
vember 23, 1839, Mr. Rutledge married Miss 
Matilda, daughter of John and Mary (Moody) 
Maple, and to this union have been born the fol- 
lowing children: John M., Mary F. (Mrs. W. F. 
Smeltz), Charles E., Homer and Ida J. (twins), 
Robert B., Clement O. and James D. Mr. and 
Mrs. Rutledge immediately after marriage set- 
tled on the farm which they at present occupy, 
but to which they have since repeatedly added, 
until it now comprises 177 acres. The place is 
in a good state of tillage, and well improved 
with excellent buildings and fences. Mr. Rut- 
ledge is a member of the Methodist Protestant 
Church, and has largely assisted in the support 
of the society, and in the erection of a house of 
worship, by a liberal contribution of his means. 
He has also filled nearly all the offices of the 
congregation, and in his walk through life has 
shown himself to be consistent and sincere in 
his adherence to the doctrines of the church. 
In his politics Mr. Rutledge is Republican, and 
has always manifested a lively interest in ad- 
vancing the cause of the party. 



J (AMES H. BENEDUM, a leading young 
merchant, was born in Orange Township, 
J Carroll Co., Ohio, February 15, 1858. 
He is a son of C. E. and Martena K. 
(Boss) Benedum, a sketch of whom is given 
elsewhere. His early life was spent alternately 
in the school and at the store of his father, at 
which places he acquired the rudiments of 
knowledge, and also those of the trade in which 
he is now engaged. At the age of nineteen he 
entered the store of his father, and after learn- 
ing the business undertook the management of 
it, and has since conducted it with credit to him- 
self. During the past few years he has had the 



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entire management, and has added to the stock 
a complete assortment of all lines kept in a 
first-class stove, tin and hardware store. He 
also does general tinning business, and is found 
in the front rank of his business. On November 
30, 1887, he was married to Thyrza, daughter 
of Dr. J. H. and Edith (Cummings) Stephen- 
son, of Leesville, and one child, John Stephen- 
son, was born to this union April 21, 1889. In 
politics Mr. Benedum is a Prohibitionist, and 
takes an active and prominent part in the pro- 
mulgation of the principles of his party, and is 
always willing to aid, with both time and money, 
the party which his judgment deems to be the 
correct one. Prominent in the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, he always aids any worthy enter- 
prise the church may be engaged in. He is 
a young man of sterling principles, one who ever 
strives to aid the progress and improvement of 
his county and township. 



JAMES KELLY. The Kelly family in Car- 
roll County trace their history back to the 
time when their ancestry left the verdure- 
clad fields of Ireland. The grandfather 
of the subject of this memoir came at an early 
day to America from Erin, here to seek his 
fortune, and settled in what is now West Vir- 
ginia, where he brought up a large family of 
children, among them being Philip (father of 
James), who first saw the light in 1804 Philip 
Kelly, after spending his early days on his 
father's farm in Virginia, having a desire to set- 
tle in the West, moved to Ohio after his mar- 
riage with Miss Mary Barnhouse, daughter of 
Francis and Martha Barnhouse, and a native of 
Baltimore, Md. , also born in 1S04. After pros- 
pecting for a suitable place in eastern Ohio, 
they concluded to settle in the fertile county of 
Carroll, and therefore bought a farm in what is 
now known as Perry Township. Eight children 
came to bless their home — six boys and two girls 
— viz. : William, Francis, Richard, Philip, Nancy 
Jane, James, Sarah and Daniel, all now de- 



ceased except Richard, who is a farmer in Perry 
Township, Carroll County, and James. 

James Kelly, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born on the farm in Perry Township 
in 1842, and here spent his boyhood days. It 
was there he learned the first lessons of indus- 
try and economy, which are the true secrets of 
success. James attended the district school in 
the winter time, and, like other farmer boys, 
had to work during the busy summer season. 
At the age of twenty-four he was wedded to 
Miss Charity Walters, whose parents came from 
Pennsylvania and settled in Carroll County at a 
very early period, becoming identified with the 
early pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly are the 
parents of three children, named as follows: 
Ada F., born November 1G, 1866; Emma O, 
born November 15, 1809; and William H. , born 
September 29, 1873, all at home. Mr. Kelly 
has a farm of eighty-one acres, which is well 
improved and watered, having an abundance of 
many kinds of fruit and other trees, and by 
hard labor he has made his farm one of the 
most productive in Perry Township. Politically 
he is a Democrat, and has held positions of 
trust. His neighbors look upon him as a man 
among men, and upon his wife as a lady who 
has gained the esteem of a wide circle of friends. 
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly are members of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church. 



AMUEL BLACK, M. D., a leading physi- 
cian and prominent agriculturist of Mon- 
roe Township, Carroll County, was born 
near Brandy wine, Del., at Du Pont's 
Mills February 7, 1813. Andrew Black, his 
father, was a native of Ireland, born in County 
Tyrone in 1774, and in 1S0O came to the United 
States, settling in Delaware, where he worked 
for a time in Du Pont's woolen mills, near Wil- 
mington. In 1812 he was married in Delaware 
to Miss Jane Livingston, who was born in 
County Cavan, Ireland, and to this union were 
born the following named children: John, re- 
siding in Kansas; Henry, in Knox County, Ohio; 






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Margaret, who married William Marshall, and 
resides in Hocking County, Ohio; Mary, de- 
ceased, and Samuel. On February 17, 1820, 
the father came to Ohio and entered one-fourth 
of Section 34, in what afterward became Carroll 
County (then in Tuscarawas). Here he erected 
a log cabin and cleared a small portion of the 
land; then, having leased the place, he moved 
to Steubenville, same State, where he worked at 
his trade, and in the constructing of pikes; he 
also had a store in the town. Here he remained 
eight years, after which he returned to Carroll 
County, where he passed the remainder of his 
days, dying in 1862, his wife having preceded 
him to the grave, while in Steubenville, in 
August, 1825. In politics Mr. Black was first 
a Whig, and afterward, on the organization of 
the party, a Republican. 

Samuel Black, the gentleman whose name 
opens this sketch, received his primary educa- 
tion at the subscription schools of the neighbor- 
hood of where he lived in Tuscarawas County, 
and when twelve years old, on the death of his 
mother, he was sent to Wheeling, W. Va. , where 
he completed his education. When twenty-four 
years old he commenced the reading of medicine 
with Dr. Stockon, of New Hagerstown, Ohio, 
and in 184-1 he commenced the practice of his 
chosen profession in Putnam County, Ohio, but 
shortly afterward he removed to New Rumley, 
Harrison County, same State, where he remained 
till 1851, in which year he came to his present 
home, where he has since been successfully en- 
gaged in general practice and in farming. On 
May 3, 1842, Dr. Black was married to Miss 
Sarah Davis, a native of Wellsburg, W. Va., 
born November 27, 1812, daughter of William 
and May (McGuire) Davis, to which union were 
born seven children, of whom the following is a 
record: Mary and John are deceased; Ruth is 
married to Thomas Dunlap, and they are liv- 
ing in Monroe Township; William (an attorney 
at law) and Margaret (twins) and Kate and 
Luke Mc (a physician) all reside at the parental 
home. Dr. Black's farm comprises 389 acres of 
prime land in Monroe Township. He and his 



wife are members of the Catholic Church; in 
politics the Doctor is a Democrat. 



THOMAS McOAUSLAND, for over three- 
quarters of a century a resident of Lee 
Township, Carroll County, was born 
there February 20, 1814, on the farm 
where he now resides. His father, Joseph Mc- 
Causland, a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, 
was there married to Mary Lindsey, and the 
young couple then embarked for America in a 
sailing vessel, this being in the year 1796. 
Landing at Wilmington, Del., they proceeded 
thence to Elkton, Md., where they sojourned 
about one year; then moved to Washington 
County, Penn., and from there to Jefferson 
County, Ohio, remaining there until 1807, in 
which year they came to Rock Township, Harri- 
son County (now Lee Township, Carroll County), 
settling on a farm which had been entered by Mr. 
McCausland the previous year. Here he built a 
log cabin 20x20 feet, and cleared the farm with 
his own hands. The names of the children born 
to them are as follows: Lindsey, George, John, 
Joseph, William, James, Sarah and Thomas, all 
now deceased except the last two named. The 
mother died in October, 1842, and the father in 
December, 1845, members of the Presbyterian 
Church. He was an Old-line Whig, and one of 
the representative, progressive men of the age 
in which he lived. 

Thomas McCausland, the subject proper of 
this sketch, at the age of seventeen commenced 
farming and driving teams, which he continues 
up to the present time. On March 30, 1837, 
he was married to Susan Buckius, and by her 
had the following named children: John; Ann 
J. (deceased); Mary L. , now Mrs. William 
Blazer; Erasmus J. ; Thomas; Susan M., now Mrs. 
Bazaleel Blazer; Emma S., now Mrs. John S. 
Andrews, and Florence, latter at home. The 
mother of this family was called from earth 
March 14, 1869. Mr. McCausland and his chil- 
dren are members of the Presbyterian Church 
at Harlem Springs, as was also Mrs. McCaus- 



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land. In his political convictions our subject 
was originally an Old -line Whig, and since the 
organization of the party, a stanch Republican. 
He is a progressive agriculturist, carrying on 
general farming and stock-raising. 

Thomas McCausland, his youngest son, was 
born February 12, 1847, in Lee Township, Car- 
roll County, Ohio, and has since resided here. 
On January 5, 1870, he was married to Eliza- 
beth, daughter of James and Martha (Moody) 
Brown, and to this union have been born three 
children. : John F, Charles B. and Bessie B. Mr. 
McCausland, like his father, is an active Repub- 
lican, and he has been trustee of his township. 



I/SAAC BEMENDERFER. It can be said 
I of Harrison Township, Carroll County, that 
[ no other township in this section can boast 
of a greater number of solid, well-to-do, 
progressive farmer-citizens; and among the 
most prominent of these is the gentleman whose 
name opens this biographical sketch. 

The more immediate ancestry of theBemen- 
derfer family in Carroll County came from Ger- 
many to America in the early part of the eight- 
eenth century, and settled in Pennsylvania, 
where they followed agricultural pursuits. 
John Bemenderfer, grandfather of our subject, 
by birth a Pennsylvania!!, served in the Revolu- 
tionary War, rendering considerable aid to the 
Colonial Army as a scout, a position to which 
his woodcraft and acquaintance with the Indian 
mode of warfare admirably fitted him. He was 
a member of the Lutheran Church, a man of 
good deeds and charitable acts, and he passed 
away in the county of his birth, being laid to 
rest by the side of other members of the family. 
A son of his, named Peter, was born in 
Lancaster County, Penn., in 1777, and there 
passed the earlier part of his life under the 
parental care of a noble father and a Christian 
mother, attending, during the winter season, the 
schools of the neighborhood. In 1S04 he was 
married to Susan Rahn, a resident of LancaMer 



County, and daughter of Philip Rahn, and 
soon thereafter the young couple moved to 
Adams County, same State, where Mr. Bemen- 
derfer worked at his trade, that of a builder, 
many years. In 1805 they located near Fred- 
ericktown, Md , and remained seven years. 
They then proceeded to Loudoun County, Va., 
where he purchased a farm and a grist-mill, 
which he operated some sixteen years, at the 
end of which time, in 1828, they moved to 
Stark County, Ohio, remaining nine years, and 
then came to Carroll County, where Mr. Bem- 
enderfer purchased the farm now occupied by 
his son Isaac. Here Mr. Bemenderfer passed 
away March 23, 1858, his widow surviving un- 
til January 30, 1862. They were the parents 
of the following named children: William, 
Catherine, Elizabeth, William, Samuel, Peter, 
Susan (Mrs. Charles Upperman), Joseph, John, 
Sarah, Henry and Isaac, all now deceased ex- 
cepting Susan, who resides in Elkhart County, 
Ind. ; John, in De Kalb County, Ind. ; Henry, 
in Elkhart County, Ind., and Isaac. The par- 
ents were leading members of the Lutheran 
Church, and in politics he was a Democrat. 
They were enterprising citizens, kind neighbors, 
respected by all who knew them. 

Isaac Bemenderfer, the subject proper of 
this sketch, passed his boyhood up to his ninth 
year in Stark County, Ohio, where he was born 
November 19, 1828. He attended the district 
schools, and assisted his parents in the arduous 
duties of the farm. On February 1-1, 1856, he 
was married to Emeline, daughter of James and 
Margaret (Simpson) Boggs, and by her had two 
children, viz. : James, at home with his parents, 
and Wilson Orr, deceased. Politically Mr. 
Bemenderfer is a Democrat, and he and his 
family are members of the Presbyterian Church 
at New Harrisburg, of which he has been trus- 
tee several years. His farm comprises 200 
acres of prime land, in an excellent state of culti- 
vation, and the buildings thereon, all put up by 
him, are neat and commodious, snugly ensconced 
in a beautiful valley, surrounded by picturesque 
green-clad hills. 



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QEORGE D. CRUMRINE, one of the 
progressive, native-bora merchants of 
Carroll County, was born in the town of 
.' Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ohio, December 
21, 1859, of Pennsylvanian ancestry. The first 
of the family to come to Ohio was the grand- 
father of George D., who died in western Ohio; 
the grandmother died in Carroll County. They 
were the parents of ten children, named as fol- 
lows: Henry, George, Peter, William, Martin, 
John, Eliza, David, Isaac and Sarah. Of these 
David died in the army, and Isaac, the father of 
George D., was born in Carroll Co., Md. 
When a boy he came with his parents to Car- 
roll County, Ohio, where he grew up on a farm 
until eighteen years of age, when he went to 
Canton, same State, and there learned the trade 
of a blacksmith, which he followed several years, 
then moved to Carrollton, and opened the first 
hardware store in the place, in a brick building, 
where a hotel was kept, located west of the 
Stemple House. This he carried on until dur- 
ing the Civil War, when he sold out and opened 
another store, where G. J. Butler now carries on 
trade. Mr. Crumrine later established yet 
another business, where his son, George D., now 
is; he was also proprietor of an elevator and 
warehouse from 1878 to 1887. He married 
Miss Susannah Aller, who bore him seven chil- 
dren, viz.: Two deceased in infancy; Mary, 
wife of George H. Swift, conductor on the 
Cleveland & Canton Railroad; Sarah, wife of 
S. J. Cameron, in Carrollton; Annie, wife of 
H. A. Kennedy, assistant superintendent of the 
Cleveland & Canton Railroad; George D., and 
Charles, in Carrollton. On September 11, 1887, 
the father died, at the age of sixty four years; 
he was a hard-working man throughout life, 
and, by his own individual toil, won a creditable 
competency; he was a member of the Lutheran 
Church, and in politics was a Democrat. The 
mother still lives in Carrollton, now at the ad- 
vanced age of seventy-one years. 

Their son, George D., received a good com- 
mon-school education, and, as soon as he was 
old enough, he commenced to assist his father 



in the store, and, after the latter' s decease, he 
succeeded to the business, which comprises gen- 
eral merchandise. In 1882 he was married to 
Miss Margaretta, daughter of David Skeels, of 
Carrollton, and by this union were bora two 
children: David I. and Lizzie, who died at the 
age of eighteen months. Mr. and Mrs. Crum- 
rine are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church; in politics he is a Democrat, and is a 
member of the K. of P. 



IjOHN WILSON GEORGE, proprietor of 
v I gents' furnishing store in Carrollton, Car- 
\yj roll County, was born in Scroggsfield, 
Carroll County, Ohio, March 20, 1841, a 
grandson of Robert George, an old resident of 
Scroggsfield, and a son of Andrews George; now 
living near that village. 

The subject of this sketch was reared on his 
father's farm, and received his education at the 
common and select schools. When sixteen years 
of age he commenced as clerk in his father's 
store, subsequently becoming a partner, the style 
of the firm being Andrews George & Son. This 
continued four years when John W. commenced 
business on his own account, which he carried 
on three years; he then sold out and bought a 
farm in Carroll County, which he operated, be- 
coming a raiser of general stock, and making a 
specialty of Spanish Merino sheep. Not having 
been blessed with good health and also having 
had much sickness in his family, Mr. George 
sold his farm, and in 1887 moved to Carrollton, 
where he purchased a stock of clothing and 
gents' furnishing goods, in which line he has 
since continued, having the most complete assort- 
ment of the kind in the town. 

In 1864 he was married to Miss Maria A., 
daughter of the late Hamilton Walker, of Car- 
roll County, whose widow now resides in Fox 
Township, two miles from Scroggsfield. By this 
union six children were born, as follows: Anna, 
who died in the fall of 1886, aged eighteen 
years; Mary Hamilton, Walker, Herbert, Mitch- 
ell and Clarence, all attending school. The 



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parents and older children are members of the 
United Presbyterian Church of Carrollton; polit- 
ically Mr. George is a Republican, and for four 
years he was clerk of Fox Township. He is 
recognized as one of the leading business men 
of Carrollton, and his enterprise and progress- 
iveness are appreciated by his fellow-citizens. 




I( LEXANDER GAMBLE. Probably no 
V man in southern Carroll County is more 
^ widely or favorably known than the sub- 
ject of this biographical notice. He 
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, June 17, 
1814, and is a son of William and Nancy (Mc- 
Knight) Gamble, who came to Ohio from Ire- 
land in 1801, settling first in the extreme part 
the State, afterward moving to Harrison 
County, in 1815, and entering a piece of land, 
the same farm being still in the Gamble family. 
The early hardships of Mr. and Mrs. Gamble 
were many. They first moved into a barn, glad 
to get any place which would shelter them from 
the storms, and, what were worse, the wild 
animals and Indians, which were numerous at 
that early period. The elder Gamble was a soldier 
in the War of 1812. Mr. Gamble was a farmer, 
and followed the business successfully, giving to 
each of his five children eighty acres of land 
in Harrison and Carroll Counties. He died in 
Harrison County, July 15, 1845; his wife, 
mother of our subject, July 5, 1843. Seven 
children were the result of the union of Will- 
iam and Nancy Gamble, of whom two died on 
the ocean while on their way to America. 

Alexander Gamble, the subject of this 
sketch, was reared on his father's farm amid 
the scenes of a new country, the same being oc- 
cupied by his son, J. D. Gamble, at present. 
He attended the old log school-house, and when 
he reached the age of twenty-two married Miss 
Mary Graham, whose parents, Richard and 
Mary Graham, were natives of Ireland, but 
came to Ohio in 1834. Mrs. Gamble was fif- 
teen years old when she came with her parents 
to the New "World. The Gamble family in- 



cluded seven children, two of whom died iu 
infancy; the others were named William T., 
J. D., Jane, Mary A. and Isabella. Of these 
William T. died at Danville, Va., during 
the Civil War; J. D. is married and lives on 
the old homestead; Jane is married to Isaac 
Merrick, a farmer in Carroll County; Mary A. 
is married to David Bower, a carpenter, and Isa- 
bella is married to William Price, a hardware 
merchant. Mr. Gamble is owner of 202 acres 
of land in Harrison County and 60 acres in Car- 
roll County. He is one of the oldest settlers in 
this part of the country, and during his life has 
seen many changes, and has done a great deal of 
hard work in improving his farms. He is a 
Republican, and cast his first presidential vote 
for William Henry Harrison. 




JLLIAM J. CALDWELL, one of the 
foremost farmers of Brown Township, 
Carroll County, is a native of Ireland, 
was born August 20, 1825, and is a 
son of Robert, a native of County Donegal. 
William Caldwell, the father of Robert, was a 
farmer, and reared six children, John, William. 
James, Nancy, Margaret and Robert. The last 
named married Martha McNair, who bore him 
the following children: Alexander (a Presby- 
terian minister who had charge of one parish 
forty years), Robert, Mary A., Jane and Will- 
iam J. He was also a farmer, and passed his 
entire life in his native land. 

William J. Caldwell, the subject proper of 
this sketch, remained in the Emerald Isle until 
twenty one years of age, by which time he had 
already achieved a reputation for shrewdness 
and business sagacity. Finding that the Old 
World did not offer sufficient inducements for an 
active young man who had his fortune to make, 
he turned his face toward the New World, the 
Mecca of all fortune hunters. After a voyage 
of thirty-three days he landed in Philadelphia, 
where he remained ten years. During his stay 
in that city he married, June 20, 1853, Isabelle 
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years later the young couple came to Carroll 
County, Ohio, aud purchased a farm in Brown 
Township, and commenced lif e' s work in earnest, 
and by careful husbandry have succeeded each 
year in adding to their possessions, until they 
now own a farm of 270 acres, in a fine state 
of cultivation. The dwelling is conveniently 
arranged and spacious, and furnished in a style 
seldom equaled even in cities; the farm build- 
ings are commodious and models of neatness, 
and all the surroundings indicate wealth and 
relinement, all the result of the labor of the 
family. The children are Robert L., Belle H., 
Martha A., John S., William C, Jennie, James 
C, Alexander and. Anna B. 

For many years the family have been among 
the leading members of the Presbyterian Church, 
and are also well known in the social circles of 
the county. Identifying himself with the Demo- 
cratic party, Mr. Caldwell has ever supported 
it by earnest work, but has never yielded to any 
solicitation to accept political preferment. 



J [AMES CRAWFORD (deceased) was born 
in what is now Augusta Township, Carroll 
/ Co., Ohio, in the year 1818, and was 
prominent as a citizen and fruitman until 
his death, which occurred April 7, 1877. His 
father, James Crawford, Sr. , was a native of 
County Donegal, Ireland, who, when a young 
man, came to this country and first located in 
Washington County, Penn., where he was mar- 
ried to Margaret Allender, a native of County 
Deny, Ireland, who came to Penn Valley, 
Penn., in 1785, and soon after this event they 
came to the then Far West and settled in the 
township and county named above, formerly 
known as the territory northwest of the Ohio 
and above the mouth of the Kentucky rivers, 
which were then swarming with bears, deer, 
wolves, and. not unfrequently, panthers. In 
this wilderness Mr. Crawford entered 100 acres 
of laud, directed by an act of Congress to be 
Mild at the Steubenville general land office, and 



erected a log cabin, where after a long life of 
hardships, yet of usefulness, he passed away. 

James Crawford, whose name opens this 
sketch, was born on the tract of land just 
alluded to, and on it grew to manhood, after 
reaching which estate he married Miss Anne 
Crawford, who was born in Beaver County, 
Penn., May 7, 1824, a daughter of George and 
Jane McRoney Crawford, former born in Ire- 
land, latter a native of Lancaster Connty, Penn. 
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Crawford settled 
on the old homestead in Augusta Township, 
where there were born to them seven children, 
of whom four only are now living, named as 
follows: James M. , Johnson B., John T. and 
Lowman I. Mrs. Crawford still resides on the 
old homestead with three of her sons, who are 
practical farmers. The soil is fertile, and the 
farm is now improved with a fine brick dwelling 
and spacious barns. The farm, under the man- 
agement of the sons, is kept in most excellent 
condition, and is devoted to fruit, grain-grow- 
ing and stock-raising. The young men stand 
out prominently as successful and representative 
farmers, and are growing up in the habits of 
their respected father — those of industry and 
integrity. In politics they are Democratic; 
their religion is that of the United Presbyterian 
Church, of the session of which at Glade Run 
Mr. Crawford (deceased) had been a member for 
many years. 



d/UDGE C. C. ADAMS, one of the most 
prominent, prosperous and successful 
/ farmers and stock-raisers of Fox Town- 
ship, Carroll County, was born in Ohio, 
January 26, 1826, a son of John and Betsy 
(Kimins) Adams, the former a native of London, 
England, latter of Pennsylvania, born of Irish 
descent. The father, when a young man (about 
the year 1815), set sail from England for 
America, but was shipwrecked on one of the 
West India Islands, losing all that he had. 
However, he found his way ultimately to these 
shores, and in course of time located in Wash- 



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ington County, Penn., where he taught school, 
followed surveying and also preached the gos- 
pel. He was there married to Miss Kimins, 
and shortly afterward they moved to Ohio, set- 
tling in what is now Fox Township, Carroll 
County, where he entered eighty acres of land, 
afterward buying other lands. Here he built a 
log cabin in the then wilderness, and set to 
work to clear a farm. This was about the year 
1829, when wild, animals and game were plenti- 
ful. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
John Adams, viz.: Abraham, Catherine, C. C, 
Henrietta, John and Harriet, all now deceased 
except C. C. The father died in 1865, the 
mother in 1874. Mr. Adams was a well-read 
and educated man, and in early times was a 
drawer of deeds, keeper of abstracts, etc., for 
the people of his section. For many years he 
was an officer of his township, and continued to 
teach and preach up to the close of his life. 

Judge C. C. Adams was reared on the farm 
his father had entered, attending the subscrip- 
tiou schools of the neighborhood, and at the age 
of seventeen years he learned the trade of 
blacksmith at Carrollton, and worked at that 
business for twenty years. In August, 1847, he 
was married to Miss Ellen Lewton, whose par- 
ents were old settlers of Carroll County, and to 
this union were born a large family, of whom 
those now living in Carroll County are P. W. , 
Eli, Minnie, George and John. The mother 
died in 1881, and in 1882 the father married, 
for his second wife, Miss Morrow, a ■lady of 
Irish descent, and who was reared in Carroll 
County, a school teacher by profession, having 
taught several years in Carrollton. 

Judge Adams is owner of a fine farm of 340 
acres, and in his stock-raising interests he 
makes a specialty of tine-bred sheep. In his 
political preferments he is a Republican; he is a 
member of the United Presbyterian Church, 
and has filled with marked ability many town- 
ship offices; having studied law he was admitted 
to the bar in 1858, and entered upon the 
practice which he yet continues; in 1870 he 
was elected probate judge of his county (Car- 



roll), and re-elected for a second term, in itself 
an evidence of the esteem and confidence in 
which he is held by the community. 




|\ILLIAM TATTERS (deceased), late of 
Augusta, Carroll Co., Ohio, was born 
May 14, 1816, at Dufton, near Apple- 
by, in Westmoreland County, England, 
and was a son of William Tatters, who was 
the father of six children: William, John, 
Jonathan, Christopher, Isabelle and Sarah, all 
now deceased. Our subject resided in England 
till he was thirty-two years of age, being 
engaged in mining lead. In 1848 he migrated 
to the United States and remained a short time 
in Pittsburgh, when he removed to New Castle, 
Penn., where he remained till 1866; he then 
came to Carroll County, Ohio. Here, Novem- 
ber 14, 1867, he married Miss Elizabeth Don- 
aldson, who was born August 31, 1817, in 
Perthshire, Scotland, a daughter of James. and 
Hannah (Andrews) Donaldson. James Donald- 
son was born in Scotland February 15, 1795; 
there he grew to manhood and learned the 
mason's trade. About 1810 he married Hannah 
Andrews, who was born June 12, 1798, a 
daughter of Thomas Andrews. To this union 
were born fourteen children, as follows: Eliza- 
beth, who married William Tatters; Thomas A. 
(first) deceased; Jennette Leyda and Hannah, 
residing in Augusta; David, Ann, William, 
Thomas (second) and Mary (all deceased); 
James, who resides in Ray County, Mo. ; John, 
deceased; Mildred Leyda, in Missouri, and Isa- 
belle Montooth, twins; Milton, deceased. In 
the spring of 1827 Mr. Donaldson immigrated to 
the United States, and came to Carroll County, 
Ohio, and purchased eighty acres of land near 
Scroggsfield, on which he resided till 1836, 
when he removed to Augusta Township, and 
purchased 200 acres; on this tract of land he 
erected a small cabin, in which he resided for 
some time, when he erected a fine stone house, 
in which he died September 13, 1851. His wife 
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the Presbyterian Church; politically he was a 
Democrat. 

Our subject and wife after their marriage re- 
mained four years on a farm in East Township; 
ia J 871 he purchased a farm in the southeastern 
part of Augusta Township, it being now owned 
by George Tope. He resided on this farm till 
1882, when he sold it and removed to the town 
of Augusta, where he purchased a fine residence, 
in which he resided till his death, February 18, 
1889. Politically he was a Democrat, and was 
also a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
Mrs. Tatters resides in Augusta, is now seventy- 
three years of age, and is hale and hearty. She 
also is an active member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and is highly respected in the commu- 
nity for her many Christian virtues, and chiefly 
for her genuine piety. 



THOMAS J. GEORGE was born June 23, 
1854, in Fox Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, and was reared on his father's farm, 
near Mechanicstown. There he received 
his first lessons, which he has followed during 
his manhood years, and which, to a great extent 
are the cause of his success and respect among 
hie fellow-citizens. There, under the tutorship 
of his father, he learned the habits of industry 
and honesty, which he has lived up to, and which 
mark the progress of many of our representative 
men. Mr. George obtained his education at the 
district school by applying himself three months 
out of the year, as the remainder of the time 
was consumed in the cultivation of the fields. 
At the age of twenty-seven, December 4, 1881, 
Mr. George married Miss Roudebush, who was 
reared in Washington Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio. Her .parents were among the earliest 
settlers that came to eastern Ohio, and have been 
among the most prominent citizens of Washing- 
ton Township. Three children resulted to the 
union of Mr. and Mrs. George, and were named 
as follows: William A., Elmer B. and Oscar 
Civile. Soon after marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
George moved to their present farm, which is 



the old homestead where Mr. George was born. 
They have a well-improved farm of 100 acres, 
which is provided with fine buildings and all 
modern improvements. Although Mr. George 
rents his farm he still lives there, where he is 
actively connected with the wagon-making busi- 
ness. In politics he is a Republican, and lives 
up to the principles of that party. Although 
Mr. and Mrs. George are among the younger 
citizens of Fox Township, yet they justly deserve 
a place among its representative citizens. They 
have always done their part to advance public 
enterprises and build up their county. 




ASHINGTON HARDGROVE (de- 
ceased) was born in 1798, in Mary- 
land, of which State his father, Rich- 
ard Hardgrove, was also a native, hav- 
ing been born of English parentage. Richard 
was married to Lovina Canada, a Marylauder, 
and to them were born the following named 
children: Rachel, George, Hamilton, James 
and Washington. The father died in 1799, 
having been a resident of Maryland all his life, 
the mother May 6, 1855. After his death his 
widow removed to Greene County, Penn., where 
she resided until 1818, in which year she came 
to Ohio, where our subject, in company with 
his brother-in-law, John Morrison, entered 160 
acres of land in what is now Carroll County, 
eighty of which are now owned by the heirs of 
Washington Hardgrove. 

In 1823 the subject of this sketch was mar- 
ried to Priscilla Clarke, who was born in Salem 
Township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, April 13, 1809, 
a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Burtnett) 
Clarke, of Greene County, Penn. , and to this 
union nine children were born, of whom the fol- 
lowing is a brief record: Rachel was born 
July 11, 1828, died May 9, 1848; John C. is in 
Michigan; George H. is in East Township, Car- 
roll County; Elizabeth L. is the wife of Joseph 
Yoder, in Fox Township, Carroll County; Sarah 
A. lives at home; Richard H. is in Fox Town- 
ship; Daniel B. in East Township; Mary R. is 



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married to Dr. George Welsh, of Cadiz, Ohio; 
Rosa J. is the wife of George Ray, in East 
Township. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Hardgrove settled on the farm in East Town- 
ship, where his widow and daughter, Sarah A., 
still reside, and where he died July 26, 1881, 
at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He 
lived a Christian life, and was buried in the 
Mechanicstown Cemetery. Politically he wa9 a 
Republican, and served several terms as town- 
ship trustee. Some of the members of the family 
are Presbyterians, and others are members of 
the Disciples Church. 



JiOHN H. BROOKS is one of the representa- 
tive farmers of Union Township, Carroll 
' County, and is a descendant of one of the 
early families of Carroll County. In the 
year 1818 Henry Brooks, a native of County 
Fermanagh, Ireland, left his native land with 
his family and started for America, but Mr. 
Brooks died on ship-board ere they had reached 
this country, and was buried in the blue Atlantic. 
The family, however, landed and proceeded 
westward, finally locating in Carroll County, 
Ohio, where they took up and settled on a tract 
of Government land. They were among the 
earliest pioneers of that region, which, in the 
vocabulary of the early times, was known as 
Little Ireland, owing to the nativity of the set- 
tlers, who were mostly Irishmen who had emi- 
grated from the Emerald Isle, and taken up 
land in this new country, which at that time was 
a portion of Harrison County. Thomas F. 
Brooks, a grandson of Henry Brooks, before 
mentioned, was born on the Brooks homestead 
in Union Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, April 
9, 1826. He grew to maturity with his parents 
in the new country, wearing the home-made 
clothing, and attending the subscription schools 
of the early times. In 1847 he married Eliza- 
beth Crozier, a native of Cadiz, Ohio, but who, 
when she was sixteen years of age, came with 
her parents, John and Ann (Ginn) Crozier, to 
Carroll County, where the parents died. The 



young couple located in the wilderness of Union 
Township, in a small log cabin, and resided in 
that township until the spring of 1883, when 
they moved to Carrollton, where Mrs. Brooks 
died August 29, 1884, leaving two sons and one 
daughter. The following year Mr. Brooks mar- 
ried Margaret Stubbins, of Cadiz, Ohio, and 
they now reside in their pleasant home in the 
town of Carrollton. 

John H. Brooks, whose name heads this 
sketch, is the third child and eldest son of 
Thomas and Elizabeth (Crozier) Brooks, and 
was born on his father's faim in Union Town- 
ship, January 12, 1854. There he spent his 
boyhood days, assisting his parents, and received 
the advantages of a practical education in the 
public schools of his neighborhood. In Sep- 
tember, 1875, he married Eliza A. Lindsey, a 
native of Union Township, and a daughter of 
John and Mary (Rutledge) Lindsey, natives of 
Ireland. In 1880 he purchased and located on 
his present fine farm of 236 acres, about two 
miles south of Carrollton, and is recognized as 
one of the leading successful farmers of Union 
Township. Politically he is a Republican, and 
has held various positions of trust and honor, to 
which he has been elected by his fellow-towns- 
men. To Mr. and Mrs. Brooks have been born 
four children, viz.: Thomas H. , William M., 
Letitia E. and Ferd. C. The family are re- 
spected members of the Pleasant Hill Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Brooks is trustee 
and class leader, and assistant superintendent 
of the Sabbath-school, while Mrs. Brooks takes 
an active interest in all charitable and benevo- 
lent movements. 



l\ JJ RS. CATHERINE COLAR, widow of 
^g/\ the late William Colar, who died in 
I] Loudon Township, Carroll County, Feb- 
■f/ ruary 4, 1881, was born in what is now 

German Township, Harrison County (then a part 
of Jefferson County), February 11, 1824. Her 
father, Conrad Slates, a native of Loudoun Coun- 
ty, Va. , born November 25, 1798, was married 



in that State, in IS 18. to Miss Hannah Funk, who 
was born in Maryland, October 31, 1800. By 
this union there were twelve children, of whom 
the following is a record: John W., born Janu- 
ary 25, 1820, is in Gerruano, Ohio; Mrs. Dru- 
silla Hibbs, born March 6, 1822, lives in Loudon 
Township, Carroll County; Mrs. Margaret Bur- 
lier, born July 8, 1824, is deceased; Samuel, born 
November 12, 1820, is in Iowa; Catharine C. , is 
the subject of this biographical memoir; Mrs. 
Leah Albaugh, born October 5, 1831, lives in 
Indiana; Solomon, born December 20, 1833, re- 
sides in Kilgore, Loudon Township; Joseph, 
born June 22, 1836, is in Kansas; Mrs. Martha 
Lucas, born October 26, 1838, is deceased; Mrs. 
Mary A. Hamilton, born November 10, 1840, and 
Harvey, born May 17, 1843. both live in Nodoway 
County, Mo., and one was still-born. About the 
year 1819 Mr. and Mrs. Slates came to Ohio, 
where he purchased three-quarters of Section 1, 
in what is now Loudon Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty, and here put up a cabin on the quarter where 
George T. Bnrrier now lives. In this Mr. Slates 
resided for some years, and then erected a 
hewed-log house, where he lived the rest of his 
life. He served as a justice of the peace several 
years, and he and his wife were members of the 
Lutheran Church. 

The subject of our sketch grew to woman- 
hood on the old farm, the extent of her educa- 
tion being three months at the district schools, 
as most of her time was spent at the spinning 
wheel, in hoeing corn, raking hay, following the 
harrow, reaping wheat or other occupations on 
the farm. On February 20, 1848, she became 
united in marriage with William Colar, who was 
born in what is now German Township, Har- 
rison County, February 11, 1824. His father, 
Christian Henry Colar, was born in 1783, in 
Wurternberg, Germany, where he received a 
good practical education, and at the age of sev- 
enteen enlisted in the German army, soon being 
promoted by degrees of rank from private to 
captain. He served sixteen years, and after 
leaving the army he married his first wife, who 
bore him two children, but they and the mother 



died soon after the birth of the second child. 
About the year 1835 Mr. Colar sailed for the 
United States, and while in New York City he 
found employment in an extensive sugar-honse. 
Here he remained some time, and then came to 
Harrison County, Ohio, where he purchased 
thirty-five acres of land, which he cleared and 
improved, and on which he passed the rest of 
his days. He was married in what is now Har- 
rison County to his second wife, in the person 
of Miss Barbara Burner, a native of Virginia, 
who bore him twelve children, viz.: Henry, re- 
siding in Loudon Township, Carroll Comity; 
William and Andrew, deceased; Jacob, also in 
Loudon Township; Obediah, deceased; Emman- 
uel and Mrs. Barbara Burrier, both in Loudon 
Township; Elizabeth, deceased; Mrs. Susan 
Burrier, in Perry Township, Carroll County: 
Mrs. Christian States, in Dell Roy, Carroll Coun- 
ty; Mrs. Mary Burrier, in Kilgore, and Kegina, 
who died in infancy'. Mr. Colar taught school 
for several years in Harrison County, and was a 
member of the Lutheran Church for a long 
period. 

To Mr. and Mrs. William Colar were born five 
children, as follows: Harvey, deceased; Mrs. 
Mary E. Crumrine and Mrs. Sarah J. Richards, 
both in Loudon Township, Carroll County; 
Mrs. Drusilla Philpott, in Teeumseh, Johnson 
Co., Neb., and Mrs. Martha E. Crumrine, in 
Perry Township. Carroll Co., Ohio. Our sub- 
ject and her husband, after their marriage, took 
up their residence in Loudon Township, on the 
farm now owned by Mrs. Colar. Mr. Colar, at 
the time of his death, owned 232 acres of land; 
in his political convictions he was a Democrat. 



'Kr\, ICHARD LAWRENCE, one of the early 
y\( settlers of Lee Township, Carroll Co., 
\v Ohio, and a representative practical 
■f/ farmer, was born January 26, 1S26, in 

Ireland, a son of James and Mary (Noble) Law- 
rence, also natives of the ''land of Moore." 
James Lawrence, grandfather of Richard, was 
i married in that country to Susan Havs, who 



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bore him children as follows: James, Richard, 
Elizabeth and Sarah. The parents died in Ire- 
land, where, during their lives, tbey had been 
engaged in farming. James Lawrence, father 
of the subject of this memoir, married, in his 
native land, Mary, daughter of James Noble, 
and in 1S42, with their family, they set sail for 
America, but owing to storms and adverse winds 
the vessel was driven on one of the islands that 
fringe the north and northwest coast of Scotland; 
finally they succeeded in reaching their original 
starting point, where they remained. James, 
one of the sons, made another venture to cross 
the Atlantic, which he safely accomplished, 
landing at New York, whence he came to Ohio. 
In the following year the rest of the family 
came out, also landing at New York, thence 
proceeding to Philadelphia, where they took a 
canal boat for Pittsburgh, the trip occupying 
two weeks; from there came by boat to Steuben 
ville, Ohio, and thence by wagon to Carroll 
County, where they purchased a farm in Lee 
Township, which they set to work to clear. 
Here, on January '23, 1875, James Lawrence, 
Sr., died; he was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and in politics a Democrat. 
Richard Lawrence, whose early life was 
passed on his father's farm in his native land, 
and in attending the parish schools, came to the 
United States with the majority of the family in 
1843, making his home in Lee Township, Car- 
roll County. On January 10, 1850, he was 
married to Ann, daughter of John and Margaret 
(Fee) Park, of Trumbull County, Ohio, and 
this union has been blessed with the following 
named children: Mary, now Mrs. David Noble; 
James A. ; John P., deceased; Margaret A., now 
Mrs. John Cogswell; William; Lillie; Cora, de- 
ceased; Richard A. and Helen. The family are 
all members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Harlem Springs, in which Mr. Lawrence has 
served as class leader and trustee. Politically 
he has always supported the Democratic party, 
and has served his township as assessor and in 
other positions of trust. He has a right to feel 
proud of his success, having commenced life a 



poor lad, and has by industry and economy be- 
come one of the solid men of the countv. 




BRAHAM BATTIN, a prosperous farmer 
of East Township, Carroll County, was 
X\ born in New Garden, Columbiana Co., 
Ohio, April 19, 1821. His grandfather, 
Richard Battin, who was a Quaker, left the 
Southern States for Ohio, on account of his 
aversion to slavery, and entered 160 acres of 
land in Columbiana County. Here he resided 
several years, and then removed to what is now 
East Township, Carroll County (then a part of 
Columbiana), and here entered three and one- 
half quarters of land, where he passed the rest 
of his life. He died about the year 1830, aged 
seventy-five years. By profession he was a 
school teacher, which he followed in winter time, 
in connection with farming, the school-house 
being where the subject of this sketch now re- 
sides. His children were James, John, Jona- 
than, Joshua and Ann. James Battin, son of 
Richard, and father of Abraham, was born either 
in Georgia or in South Carolina in 1776. He 
was married in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 
1819, to Margaret Walton, a native of Bucks 
County, Penn., and daughter of Abraham and 
Ann Walton. To this union were born four 
children, viz. : Abraham, Catherine, Elisha and 
Rachel (latter deceased). In 1826 Mr. Battin 
removed to what is now East Township, Carroll 
County, and purchased of his father the farm 
which our subject now owns, and which then 
comprised eighty acres, now ninety, the ten acres 
having been added by Abraham. He died on 
this farm in 1833, his wife in 1845; they were 
both members of the Society of Friends, and in 
politics he was a Whig. 

Abraham Battin, the eldest son of James and 
Margaret (Walton) Battin, grew to manhood on 
the farm where he now resides, and where his 
life has been spent clearing the land and mak- 
ing improvements. On June 26, 1845, he was 
married to Miss Ann McGeary, who was born 
in County Tyrone. Ireland, in February, 1S26, 



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a daughter of John and Ann McGeary, also na- 
tives of the Emerald Isle, who came to Ohio 
about the year 1830. To this union have been 
born twelve children, of whom the following is 
a brief record: Mary A., now Mrs. Barnabas 
McKenna, lives in Wellsville, Ohio; James M. 
is a resident of Canton, Ohio; John is in East 
Township, Carroll County; George, in Bureau 
County, 111. ; Margaret, now Mrs. James Boyle, 
lives in Columbiana County, Ohio; William, in 
Pittsburgh, Penn. ; Elizabeth E., married to 
William Burns, is a resident of Salineville, Ohio; 
Thomas A. is in Bureau-County, 111. ; Catharine E. 
is the wife of David O'Reilly, of East Township; 
Maria is the wife of Joseph Bryan; Charles and 
Emma are at home. Mr. Battin and the entire 
family are members of the Catholic Church; in 
politics he is a Democrat, and has held several 
offices of trust in his township. 




\ILLIAM L. LEE (deceased), in his 
lifetime one of the best known resi- 
dents of Lee Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty, was born in that township August 
27, 1816, a son of Alexander Lee, a sketch of 
whom appears elsewhere in this work. The 
early life of our subject was passed on the home 
place of his father until his marriage, August 
13, 1844, with Elizabeth Bebout. John Bebout, 
her father, was a native of New Jersey, whence 
in his youth he moved to Pennsylvania, where 
he was married to Rebecca Howey, who bore 
him the following named five children: Ira, 
Elizabeth, John (in Mechanicstown, Carroll 
County), Jane A. and Emma. Mr. Bebout came 
to Ohio in 1836, settling in Washington Town- 
ship, Carroll County, where he died. He was 
a member of the Presbyterian Church at Carroll - 
ton, and in politics cast his suffrage with the 
Whig party. 

Mr. and Mrs. Lee immediately after mar- 
riage took up their residence on the farm where, 
March 5, 1880, he closed a life of usefulness 
and untiring labor, and where his widow still 
lives. He was a member of the Presbyterian 



Church, and in his political convictions an en- 
thusiastic Whig until the dissolution of that 
party, when he united with the Democrats. He 
was successful in all his ventures, and respected 
no less for his integrity than for his benevolence, 
leaving at his decease a large circle of friends 
to mourn his departure from their midst. The 
children born to this honored couple are Re- 
becca M. , Josephine (now Mrs. Galen Glenn). 
and Mary, who was married January 1, 1884, 
to John J. Miller, son of William and Ellen 
Miller, and has two children: Warren L. and 
Bessie. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his polit- 
ical proclivities are Republican. 



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DMUND ROBERTSON. Among the 
early settlers and most esteemed of the 
farming community of Loudon Town- 
ship, Carroll County, stands this gentle- 
man, who is a native of Loudoun County, Va., 
born January 11, 1811. His father, William 
Robertson, was a native of Maryland, where he 
grew to early manhood, and while yet a young 
man moved to Loudoun County, Va. , where he 
married and reared a family of se\en children. 
About the year 1812 he came to Short Creek 
Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, and, the war of 
that period having broken out, he enlisted, serv- 
ing his country some time. Returning home 
from the field of Mars to the peaceful pursuits 
of the farm, Mr. Robertson remained in Short 
Creek Township for several years, and then re- 
moved to Terre Haute, Ind., where he spent the 
latter days of his life. He was well known to 
the people of Short Creek Township in its early 
times, and was highly respected. In politics he 
was a Democrat. 

Edmund Robertson, the subject proper 
of this commemorative record, attained to man- 
hood's estate in Harrison Count y, receiving a 
liberal education at the common schools of 
the period. He has been twice married: on 
first occasion to Miss Sophia Hilbert, daugh- 
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he had four children, viz. : Jackson, now 
a resident of Illinois; William N., residing in 
German Township, Harrison Co., Ohio; Eliza- 
beth Woods and Isabella Galbraith. Mr. Rob- 
ertson's second wife was Lydia Hilbert, sister to 
his first, aud to this union were also born four 
children, named as follows: Amos B., a resident 
of Cadiz Junction, Ohio; Emily Baker; Ed- 
mund P. (deceased) and Cordillia S. Harding. 
After his first marriage Mr. Robertson resided 
in Harrison County some years, and about 1850 
he purchased the farm he now owns, comprising 
in all 111 acres of fertile land, sixty-six being in 
Loudon Township, Carroll County, and forty- 
five in Rumley Township, Harrison County, 
most of which he cleared with his own hands. 
In politics Mr. Robertson is a Democrat. 



JiOHN H. TRIPP was born July 6, 1820, 
on the farm of his mother's father, John 
I Haft, on which Hustonville now stands, in 
Washington County, Penn. , and situated 
one and a half miles south of Cannonsburg, on 
the Washington Pike. His father, William Tripp, 
was one of twelve children — six brothers and six 
sisters — all qf whom reached adult years. These 
children were brought by their parents, Job 
and Mary (nee Martin) Tripp, from the Wyom- 
ing Valley to Washington County, Penn., in 
1806, after the Wyoming massacre by the In- 
dians, under the lead of Butler, prior to the 
Revolution, in which all their adult male ances- 
tors, on the paternal and maternal sides (who, 
by tradition, were Welsh),, were destroyed, save 

one, Tripp, who was, at the time of the 

massacre, a delegate from the little colony, then 
on the banks of the Susquehanna River, back to 
the Connecticut Legislature, to which the junior 
colony appealed for protection. But the feuds 
that arose between it and the followers of Penn, 
down at Philadelphia, stirred the Indians to 
commit the Wyoming horror. 

John H. Tripp was the eldest of a family of 
eight children when his father removed them 
from Cannonsburg, Penn., to Carroll County, 



Ohio, in March, 1834. He had secured such an 
education as the select schools at Cannons-burg 
could furnish. Standing at the head of his 
classes the last three years, he had the promise 
of his relatives to step into the collegiate shoes 
of his mother's youngest brother, Stephen, who 
was ten years the senior, then attending Jeffer- 
son College at Cannonsburg; but financial dis- 
asters, in constructing miles of turnpike without 
their expected pay, and other mishaps, com- 
pelled the sale of two farms, on one of which 
Hustonville now stands, and the proceeds were 
swept into the financial vortex, thereby prevent- 
ing young Tripp from realizing his cherished 
hopes. In Ohio he started to district school 
under one Richard Dandy, a good old Irishman; 
but, on the second day, he found himself a 
teacher, at the request of Mr. Dandy, instead 
of a scholar. He then took his books home, 
and for four years received no schooling, save 
that which his father gave in orthography, 
reading, arithmetic and penmanship, at nights, 
reading carefully Rollin's Ancient History, Hal- 
lam's Middle Ages, and other histories and biog- 
raphies that his limited opportunities furnished. 
In the fall of 183S, at the age of eighteen, 
he attended the select school of Prof. John P. 
Grewell (near Hanover, Columbiana Co., Ohio) 
now a prominent physician and literary gentle- 
men at Oskaloosa, Iowa. After three years' 
absence, during two of which he attended school, 
our subject returned to Carroll County, taught a 
district school, and commenced reading law in 
the office of Gen. E. R. Eckley; and in the 
winter of 18-11-42 he kept North Union School, 
which nearly all the full-grown young men of 
the township attended. In 1843, on an exam- 
ination by a committee of nine, appointed by 
the Supreme Court, at Steubenville, with 
Daniel Collier as chairman, he was, with one 
Mr. Semple, afterward judge of common pleas 
court at Coshocton, admitted to practice law. 

After a partnership of one year with Gen. 
Eckley, who was then State Senator, Johu H. 
Tripp was married, in December, 1844, to Miss 
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nine, to which union one daughter, Mary, and 
one son, William H. , were born, the former of 
whom died in 1889, and the latter is now post- 
master at Carrollton, Ohio. In 1845 Mr. Tripp 
was elected prosecuting attorney, and served 
two terms. In 1850 he was elected Representa- 
tive to the State Legislature, and, with Gen. 
Eckley in the Senate, voted for "Ben'' Wade 
for United States Senator. In 1851 he was a 
candidate for Probate Judge, was beaten by A. 
W. Morrison, and in 1854, he ran against Judge 
Morrison, and was elected by several hundred 
majority, and re-elected in 1857. In January, 
1853, William McCoy (afterward Jiidge) and 
Mr. Tripp purchased the Free Press of one 
Allen Green, who had permitted the office to 
freezeout, Tripp & McCoy continuing until 1857, 
when they sold out to Jacob Weyand, afterward 
a captain in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 
O. V. I. 

In February, 1861, Mr. Tripp retired by ex- 
piration of term of office, and went into the law 
practice with B. F. Potts, after which the war 
broke out, and the latter joined the Union forces, 
serving as captain, colonel, then general, becom- 
ing, after the war, governor of Montana. Mr. 
Tripp continued in the practice with little to do 
while the war first started, but, in 1862, he was 
appointed, by Gov. Tod, draft-master for the 
county, without solicitation or his knowledge till 
his commission came. He drafted several town- 
ships for 125 six-months men, and succeeded in 
taking about one hundred to Camp Mansfield, 
the remaining twenty-five leaving the county for 
other localities. On return of the draft-roll 
Gov. Tod offered him a lieutenant's commission 
to raise a company of volunteers, which he de- 
clined, saying, "I am too much of a coward;'' 
with a smile on his face, the Governor replied, 
"I will risk that; " then Mr. Tripp told him of 
his late inflammatory rheumatism trouble, and 
protested that he could not serve with credit to 
himself or the company. Afterward all of his 
four brothers — William, James, Stephen J. and 
Samuel — enlisted in the United States service, 
and Stephen fell before the enemy's shell but- 



tery at Champion Hills, dying in St. Louis; 
Samuel was wounded at Chickamauga. In 1863 
Robert Raley, late judge of common pleas court, 
came to his office, was elected prosecuting at- 
torney in 1864, but remained as a partner until 
1867. Hon. I. H. Taylor was his law partner 
in 1869, until he was appointed clerk of com- 
mon pleas court soon after. In 1876 Mr. Tripp 
purchased of George H. Teter a one-half inter- 
est in the Free Press printing office, and in 1880 
was Chosen one of the two delegates, with Hon. 
Asa W . Jones, of Youngstown, to the Republican 
National Convention at Chicago; he voted thirty- 
three times for James G. Blaine and three times 
for James A. Garfield, for presidential candidate. 
In 1877 H. J. Eckley entered his office as a 
partner, and was elected prosecuting attorney 
in 1879, remaining in partnership till November, 
1880. In February, 1881, Mr. Tripp purchased 
of S. J. Cameron the other half interest in the 
Free Press, and continues the editor and owner 
of the paper to the present date. 

In consequence of Carroll being the smallest 
of the three counties comprising the Ninth 
Judicial District, and having only two judges 
till 18S6, Mr. Tripp was ambitious for a seat on 
the bench always backed by his own county, but 
he failed, by reason of the other countieo sup- 
porting Judge Nichols. Judge Day became the 
third judge, but resigned after one year; then Mr. 
Tripp united with the bar for the appointment of 
Judge Raley, although he had in his previous 
contest with Judge Nichols beaten Mr. Raley (who 
was also a candidate before the people of his coun- 
ty) more than two to one, when one William Tip- 
ton, a personal enemy of Mr. Tripp, and a dele- 
gate for Mr. Raley, stubbornly refused to vote 
for Mr. Tripp, and, after several close ballots, Mr. 
Nichols, of Columbiana, succeeded. On the 
sad death of Judge Raley, H. J. Eckley and 
John H. Tripp became candidates for the Gov- 
ernor's appointment to the judgeship, when the 
bar of the district deemed it best to recommenil 
Hon. I. H. Taylor, late member of Congress, 
who was appointed by Governor Foraker in 
1889, and since elected judge. In 1887 Mr. 



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Tripp took into partnership in bis law office R. 
E. McDonald, who was, in 1889, elected the third 
prosecuting attorney of the county after himself, 
from his office. Mr. Tripp has been the friend of 
all the young men who have entered his office. 
Now, at the age of seventy, he is in the enjoy- 
ment of robust health, giving two days of the 
week to the Free Press and the remainder to his 
life-long profession. 




B. BAKER. The family of Bakers, of 

whom the gentleman whose name heads 
this commemorative sketch is a worthy 
representative, were among the earliest 
settlers of Carroll County, Ohio. The parents 
•of our subject, Otho and Nancy (Buchanan) 
Baker, were born in Harrison County, Ohio, but 
soon after marriage moved to Carroll County, 
where Otho died April 19, 1887, and Mrs. Baker 
died April 4, 1888. Otho was reared in Harri- 
son County, and, after growing to manhood, 
being possessed of fine ability, natural and 
acquired, soon attained a prominent position 
among its citizens, took an active part in public 
affairs, and was officially identified with its pro- 
gressive interests. 

A. B. Baker (born August 2, 1843) was reared 
in Carroll County, was educated in its schools, 
and has been actively connected with its agri- 
cultural interests his entire life. Mr. Baker is 
a man of great vivacity, and is regarded as one 
of the township's most wide-awake, enterpris- 
ing men. He was married January 6, 1872, to 
Miss Laura D. Scott (born January 16, 1853), 
whose parents, Charles A. and Phebe A. Scott, 
are among the best known influential farmers 
of Orange Township, Carroll County, having 
lived there upward of a half a century. Seven 
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. 
Baker, and are named as follows: Dassa Dell 
(deceased); Otto D., born June 15, 1873; Wil- 
bur M., born September 14, 1876; Charley O., 
born July 10, 1879 ; Harry A. , born July 4,1881; 
John W., born August 14, 1887, and Hazel D., 
born September 13, 1890. Mr. Baker's farm 



consists of 152 acres of the most fertile land, 
finely located for the yielding of all kinds of prod- 
uce. Mr. Baker turns his attention not only to 
agricultural pursuits, but to the raising of stock, 
and his property has fine buildings, a new wind- 
mill and all kinds of modern implements that a 
well- regulated farm would contain. Politically 
Mr. Baker is a Democrat, but not of the radical 
kind, and always in local elections endeavors to 
support the deserving man, rather than the 
party. Among the farmers of the locality Mr. 
Baker holds a prominent position, and is always 
ready to advance any cause for public benefit. 



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NOS HOSTERMAN, one of the wide- 
awake, well-to-do farmers of Loudon 
Township, Carroll County, was born in 
that township March 20, 1840. His 
paternal great-grandfather, Peter Hosterman, 
was a native of Northumberland County, Penn., 
where he must have served some time as a jus- 
tice of the peace, as our subject has in his pos- 
session law books and dockets which belonged 
to him. He resided, as nearly as can be ascer- 
tained, in Northumberland County all his life. 
Jacob Hosterman, grandfather of Enos, was also 
born in that county, the date of his birth being 
December 20, 17S2. He was married to Eliza- 
beth Winnings, who was born January 8, 1786, 
and died July 12, 1838, by which union there 
were ten children, viz. : Mrs. Margaret Wag- 
goner, John, Mrs. Elizabeth Narrigan, Peter, 
Jacob, Mrs. Mary A. Gotschall, David, Samuel, 
Mrs. Catharine Gotschall (a resident of Indiana) 
and William, all now deceased but Catharine. 
In 1805 Jacob Hosterman moved to Ohio and 
located in what is now German Township, Har- 
rison County, where he died August 8, 1850. 
He and his wife were members of the Lutheran 
Church; politically he was a Democrat. 

David Hosterman, father of Enos, was born 
in German Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, Au- 
gust 6, 1815, where he attended the common 
schools and grew to manhood. On November 



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22, 1837, he married Miss Elizabeth Hibbs, who 
was born September 10, 1815, a daughter of 
Isaac and Mary (Lucas) Hibbs, and to this union 
one son, Enos, the subject proper of this sketch, 
was born. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. David 
Hosterman came to Kilgore, Ohio, where for 
some time he followed his trade, that of cooper 
and carpenter, and at the same time carried on 
a small grocery, his stock gradually increasing 
until he ultimately had a good trade in general 
merchandise in Carroll County, and he contin- 
ued this business in Kilgore for about twenty 
years. He died at the home of his son Enos, 
June 13, 1887, his wife having preceded him 
July 3, 1880. They were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church; in politics he was 
a Democrat, and in 1884 he was appointed post- 
master at Kilgore. 

Enos Hosterman was reared to manhood in 
the village of Kilgore, where he attended the 
common schools. February 14, 1865, he en- 
listed in Company A, One Hundred and Eighty- 
Sixth O. V. I., and was mustered out Septem- 
ber 18, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn. In Kilgore 
he worked at his trade — cooper and carpenter — 
and, since 1866, he has operated a threshing 
machine, in company with Eli Albaugh. On 
July 4, 1881, he moved to his farm, comprising 
seventy-five acres, and which used to be the old 
Kilgore camp-meeting ground. Mr. Hoster- 
man was married March 20, 1860, to Catharine 
A. Philpott, who was bom March 20, 1842, a 
daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Everly) 
Philpott. Charles Philpott, by trade a tailor, 
was born in Frederick County, Md., in 1808, 
and died in Kilgore, Ohio, in 1864; Elizabeth 
Everly was born in Pennsylvania in September, 
1818, and is now residing in Kilgore, Ohio; 
they were married at Magnolia, Ohio. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Hosterman have been given four chil- 
dren, viz.: Mrs. Albertha Colar, born June 11, 
1867, now in Loudon Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty; David E., born August 11, 1870; Jennie 
M. , born March 3, 1877, and Floyd, born June 20, 
1882, the three last named still living at home. 
The parents are members of the Methodist 



Episcopal Church. Mr. Hosterman is a Demo- 
crat, and, after his father's death he was ap- 
pointed postmaster at Kilgore; he served nine 
years as justice of the peace in Loudon Township. 



JfACOB JASPER KIRBY, farmer, is a na- 
tive of Perry Township, Carroll Co. .Ohio, 
' and was born July 24, 1854, a son of 
Ephraim and Elizabeth (Bear) Kirby, of 
Scotch and German descent, respectively. Of 
the Kirby family it may safely be said that there 
is not another in Perry Township that has a 
wider reputation for integrity, or that enjoys a 
larger measure of the esteem of its citizens. 
The farm on which Mr. Kirby was born is that 
originally entered by his father and three uncles 
when Perry Township was a wilderness, and 
here he has grown to manhood amid the scenes 
of his boyhood days; albeit they have been of a 
changing and varying character. He obtained 
a good practical education in the district school 
in the vicinity of Perrysville, Ohio, and, in after 
life, put this education to good use in the prac- 
tice of his vocation. In the fall of 1888 he 
married Miss Mary M. Hagey, a native of St. 
Joseph County, Ind. One child, Byron Clay- 
ton, was born to bless this union, May 28, 1889. 
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby are numer- 
ous, and are warm in their affection, while he 
stands especially high in the esteem of his fel- 
low-citizens, and is looked upon as one of the 
representative farmers of Perry Township. 
Further details, relating to the Kirby family, 
will be found in the sketch of Harry W. Kirby. 



4 



MrRS. CATHARINE WOOD, the oldest 
lady living in Loudon Township, Car- 
roll County, being over eighty-nine 
years of age, was born June 11, 1801, 
three miles from Fredericktown, Md., a daughter 
of Martin Keplinger, who was a son of Jacob 
Keplinger, who immigrated from Germany to 
the United States with his family about I860, 
settling near Fredericktown, Md., where he died. 



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Martin Keplinger was born in Germany in 1754, 
and was consequently about six years old when 
he arrived in Maryland, where he was reared to 
manhood. He was married to Rebecca Wilson, 
who was born near Fredericktown about the 
year 1772, and to them were born children as 
follows: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Rachel, Leah and 
Catharine, the subject of this sketch. Martin 
Keplinger resided in Maryland for a few years 
after his marriage, and then removed to Fayette 
County, Penn., near Uniontown, where he died 
in 1828; his wife died in Loudon Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, in 1852. 

Catharine Keplinger grew to womanhood in 
Pennsylvania, and was there married to Joseph 
Wood, who was born June 22, 1802, in Fayette 
County, Penn., where he was educated at the 
common schools. In 1832 they came to Ohio, 
and he here purchased the farm now owned by 
our subject, which comprises 160 acres; soon 
afterward he bought another tract of 160 acres. 
They lived in a primitive log cabin for some 
time, and then put up a hewed- log house. This 
farm Mr. "Wood spent the remainder of his use- 
ful life in clearing and improving. He died in 
187(1, having been always a stanch Democrat. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Wood were born the following 
named children: Ellis, Rachel, Matilda, Sarah, 
Henry and Louisa (all deceased), Rebecca and 
Martha J., who both reside at home, and Mrs. 
Eliza A.Gotshall, who lives in Harrison County, 
Ohio. Mrs. Wood has resided on the old home- 
stead ever since the year 1832, a period of over 
fifty-eight years. 



AMUEL JACKMAN, another of the pros- 
perous, native-born farmers of Lee Town- 
ship, Carroll County, was born June 1, 
1855, a son of Samuel and Margaret 
(Jackman) Jackman. The grandfather of our 
subject, by name Richard Jackman, was a native 
of Ireland, whence he emigrated to this country 
when a boy, coming to Island Creek, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio, where he entered land and carried on 
farming the remainder of his life. His children 



were named as follows: Margaret, Jane, Mary, 
Joseph, Samuel and Susan. He was a consist- 
ent and influential member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and in politics an active 
Democrat. His son, Samuel, father of tbe subject 
of this sketch, first saw the light June 12, 1813, 
in Jefferson County, where he remained until 
twenty-two years of age. His education was 
such as farmers' sons received in his day, sup- 
plemented by a course of reading and the pri- 
vate study of political and religious subjects. 
He was married at the age of twenty-two years 
to Margaret, born June 12, 1813, daughter of 
Thomas Jackman, of Jefferson County, and she 
bore him the following named children: Joseph, 
Elizabeth and Thomas B. (both deceased), Mar- 
garet, Mary (deceased), Samuel and Emeline 
(latter deceased). Tbe father died March 9, 
1885, and sleeps his last sleep in the cemetery 
at Harlem Springs; the mother died October 5, 
1890; from early life she was a member of tbe 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Samuel settled 
on the farm in Carroll County, which had 
been entered by his father, and which is now in 
possession of his son, Samuel, our subject. He 
was a liberal supporter of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church at Green Hill, and in his political 
proclivities was an ardent advocate of the Dem- 
ocratic party. He held various offices of trust 
in his township, and filled the position of justice 
of the peace nine years. 

Samuel Jackman, whose name heads this 
sketch, received a liberal education in his native 
township, where his life has been spent. He was 
here married, January 30, 1884, to Sarah E., 
daughter of John P. Miller, of Jefferson Coun- 
ty, Ohio, and by her has the following named chil- 
dren : Carena May, Thomas B. , Samuel and Nora 
E. After marriage our subject and wife settled 
on the home place, where they have since resided, 
and he is engaged in farming and stock-raising, 
also to some extent in the breeding of fast 
horses. They are prominent members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Harlem Springs, 
and, politically, his suffrage has always been with 
the Democratic party. 



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*fT^, OBERT McLAUGHLIN, son of Robert 
|W( and Nancy (Lindsay) McLaughlin, and 
[ \v brother of William L. McLaughlin, is an 
■J) enterprising and successful native-born 

citizen farmer of Lee Township, Carroll County, 
and first saw the light December 10, 1820. He 
was reared where he was born, and received his 
education at the neighboring schools. On March 
22, 1849, he became united in marriage with Is- 
abella G., daughter of John and Sarah (Crabbs) 
Robins, the former a soldier in the AVarof 1812, 
and after their marriage the young couple settled 
down to life on the farm, where they now reside, 
and which they greatly improved. The build- 
ings are of his own construction, and consist of a 
commodious barn and one of the best farm resi- 
dences in the township. Mr. McLaughlin is one 
of the leading members of the United Presby- 
terian Church at Scroggsfield, in which for the 
past forty years he has been an elder. He has 
been a liberal supporter of this society and of 
all benevolent projects. Politically he was an 
Old-time Whig, and then a Republican, on the 
formation of that party, to which he has since 
given his steady support. Largely a self made 
man, Mr. McLaughlin has, by his business qual- 
ifications and assiduous labor, made a success 
of life, and he is respected and esteemed by all. 



r ¥ ENRY ANDREW SWEASEY stands in 

P"^l the front rank of the progressive farmers 

1[ of Carroll County, and is a native of the 

■f/ same, born in Monroe Township, Septem- 

ber 23, 1837. His grandfather was a native of 
Germany, where he married a Miss Gretchin, 
and in an early day they came to America, set- 
tling in New Jersey, where he purchased a farm 
on which they resided until their death. Their 
children were named as follows: Henry, John, 
Elizabeth, Sarah, Daniel and Peter. He was a 
member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics 

' he was a Whig. The son, Daniel, the father of 
our subject, was born in 1803 near Flernington, 
N. J., and attended the common schools of the 
neighborhood. At the age of twenty-three he 



was married to Sarah Smith, of the same place, 
and after a few years they came to Ohio, arriv- 
ing in 1830 in what afterward became Carroll 
County, where he purchased a farm in Monroe 
Township. This farm was but little improved 
when they took up their abode on it, the dwell- 
ing being but a primitive log shanty, which, 
with its puncheon floor, paper windows and 
chimney made of sticks and mud, formed a 
striking contrast to the present handsome and 
comfortable residences in the township. Daniel 
Sweasey had born to him the following named 
children: Eliza, Mrs. James Awwiller; Ellen, 
Mrs. Henry Black; Josephus (deceased); Mary, 
Mrs. John Rainsberger; Henry A. and William 
(latter deceased). The father died in 1884, the 
mother in 1874, both members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of which he was a prominent 
officer. In politics he was first a Whig, then a 
member of the Know-nothing party, and after- 
ward a Republican. 

Henry A. Sweasey, whose name opens this 
sketch, received his primary education at the 
common schools of his district, then attended 
for a time the high school at Carrollton and 
New Hagerstowu Academy, which was supple- 
mented by one term of study at Mount Union 
College, proving himself throughout to be a 
close student, an apt scholar, possessed of more 
than ordinary acumen and ability. On Febru- 
ary 7, 1861, he was married to Eve, daughter of 
Samuel Barrick, of Monroe Township, Carroll 
County, and the young couple settled on the 
farm of Mr. Sweasey' s father, moving into the 
log cabin which had been erected by the latter 
more than half a century before. Here they 
remained four years, and then came to Harrison 
Township, where they lived for three years on 
what is known as the Robinson Farm, after 
which they moved to their present place of resi- 
dence, the property comprising 105 acres of 
well improved land. The dwelling has been 
entirely remodeled, and a large barn for stock 
and grain has been erected. 

Five children Lave been born to Mr. and 
Mis. Sweasey, namely: George M. , deceased; 



Lillie, Mrs. Joseph V. Tope; Sarah H., Mrs. 
Harvy Marshall; Frank H. and Addie O., both 
deceased. The parents are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Baxter's Ridge, 
of which Mr. Sweasey has been trustee, steward, 
etc. Politically he is a Republican, and has 
served as trustee and assessor of his township, 
both of which positions he has satisfactorily 
rilled with remarkable success. 



rr=V F. CLARK was born January 19, 1836, 
y£$! m Orange Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. 
1^ The family can trace their origin to 
■f/ Jesse (the grandfather of R. F.), who 

was born in Virginia, where the family had for 
many years resided. Jesse's early life was 
passed in the pursuit of farming, interspersed 
with au occasional day or so at school. He grew 
to manhood in Virginia, and was married to Jane 
Grant, of Maryland. She bore him the follow- 
ing children: Sarah, John, William, Maria, 
Frances, Robert and Grant. Jesse, with his 
family, consisting of a wife and three chil- 
dren, in 1808 started for Ohio in a \vagon, cut- 
ting their way through the small growth that 
obstructed their path. They finally arrived 
near the present village of Leesville, where 
they remained about two years, and then pur- 
chased a farm near Bowerston, which they oc- 
cupied for two years, and partially cleared. 
They then purchased a farm adjoining the tract 
they first entered. When the call for volunteers 
was made, in 1812, he enlisted in the defense 
of the frontier, and, in company with other 
hardy and brave men, marched under the com- 
mand of Gen. Harrison, leaving their defense- 
less families to struggle along as best they 
could, some of whom were nearly out of food 
when the volunteers returned. Besides the 
scarcity of food, which threatened a famine, the 
mothers had to care for the little ones and de- 
fend themselves from the wild beasts, which 
were exceedingly plentiful at that time. Mr. 
Clark was a Whig, and took a strong stand on 



the slavery question. He was among the 
founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Leesville, in whose faith he died. At the age 
of two years William Clark, father of our sub- 
ject, was brought to Ohio. The remainder of 
his life was spent mostly within the confines of 
Orange Township. He remained at home, work- 
ing on the farm, until he was twenty two, when 
he set out for himself, and worked on the canal 
for eight dollars per month. At this work he 
continued until he had earned enough to pur- 
chase a small farm, which, after improving, he 
sold, and purchased a larger one, of 160 acres, 
on which he remained until his death. This 
farm he and family improved entirely. In 1830 
he was married to Ursula, daughter of William 
Rouse, of Orange Township, and to this union 
were born the following children: Jane, Henry 
F. , David, R. Frank and Anna M. In politics 
Mr. Clark was first a leading Whig, but, on the or- 
ganization of the Republican party, he became 
a member thereof. He was called upon to till 
many political offices in his township, the duties 
of which he discharged with credit to himself 
and to the benefit of his township. On May 
15, 1881, he died, and was laid to rest by the side 
of his wife, who died January 18, 1861. 

R. Frank Clark has spent his whole life in 
the township of his birth, and has, since his 
arrival at a suitable age, been engaged in farm 
ing, and now has under his control some 550 
acres. He has always been among the stanchest 
of Republicans, and is an earnest and progressive 
citizen. He inherits the good judgment of his 
ancestry, as well as their financial ability, and 
is keeping up the reputation the family gained 
by their honesty and virtue. On December 31, 
1860, he married Isabelle L., daughter of H. 
C. Roby, of Orange Township. Their chil- 
dren were C. F., at home; Edward M. deceased; 
Clyde H, Thaddeus S., Alice B., William D.. 
Ursula E., Jesse F. and Rush. The family are 
well known in the histor} r and growth of Orange 
Township, and have exercised an important and 
beneficial influence in molding the spirit and 
opinion of the community. 



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883 



JACOB TRUSHELL. The Trushell family 
is one of the best known in Perry Town- 
ship, Carrol] County. Valentine Trushell, 
father of Jacob, was born in Pennsylvania, 
whence he came to Ohio when about eleven years 
old, settling in Harrison County. The country 
at the time he came here was indeed a wilder- 
ness. Neighbors were few and far between, 
and the only real enjoyment the pioneer had was 
clearing the forests and providing for a wife and 
family. Mr. Trushell was one of this class, a 
hard-working, energetic, honest man, who be- 
lieved in bringing up his family in the path of 
honesty and industry. He passed from earth 
October 14, 1880. His first wife died in 1845, 
his second wife died in 1876. He was blessed 
with a family of sixteen children — five boys and 
eleven girls — five of whom are dead, the re- 
mainder being residents of Ohio, except one 
daughter, who lives in Nebraska. The Trushells 
are of German descent, the ancestry having come 
from Germany at a very early date. 

Jacob Trushell, the subject of this sketch, 
was born on his father's farm in Harrison Coun- 
ty. Ohio, October 3, 1848, and his boyhood days 
and early manhood were passed in that county 
under the paternal roof. When twenty-three 
years of age Jacob moved to Carroll County, 
where he has a well-improved farm of 167 acr.es, 
situated one and a half miles from the town of 
Perrysville, in Perry Township. He has lived 
on this farm about nineteen years, and by good 
management and hard labor has made many im- 
provements. The place is well provided with 
many kinds of fruit trees and shrubs, and with 
numerous springs of pure water. Mr. and Mrs. 
Trushell have an elegant dwelling, which they 
built a short time ago at a great expense. It is 
one of the finest in Carroll County, built in the 
latest style, and supplied with all modern im- 
■ provements. On October 29, 1871, Mr. Trushell 
was married to Miss C. A. Simmons, and on No- 
vember 14, same year, moved to the farm on which 
they now live. By this union one child was born, 
named Guy, who is at home helping his father. 
Mr. Trushell is a hard-working, self-made man. 



Politically he has always been a Democrat, and 
has held the office of school director. He and 
his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and they occupy, socially, a high posi- 
tion among a large circle of friends. 




i BRAHAM ADAMS (deceased) was born 
[\ in Columbiana County, Ohio, October 
28, 1821, and was a son of John Adams, 
in relation to whom further mention will 
be found in the sketch of C. C. Adams, of Fox 
Township, printed elsewhere in this work. 
i Abraham Adams was reared to farming in Car- 
roll County, Ohio, and was educated at the 
common schools of that early day, absorbing 
all the learning that the tutors of his time could 
impart. November 18, 1855, he married Miss 
Mary A., daughter of John Bellman. After 
his marriage, Mr. Adams resided in Fox Town- 
ship, Carroll County, until 1860, when he pur- 
chased the farm of 263 acres in Washington 
Township, now owned by his widow, and which 
lies three and a half miles north of Carrollton. 
Here Mr. Adams died April 12, 1881, a consist- 
ent member of the Disciples Church. In politics 
he was a Republican, and served nine years as 
infirmary director. 

Mrs. Mary A. Adams was born August •">. 
1827, and still resides on the farm left by her 
husband, and is comforted in her declining 
years by an adopted son, John D. , and an adopted 
daughter, Rebecca J. Burson. 



qEORGE DECKMAN, furniture manufact- 
urer, of Malvern, Carroll Co., Ohio, was 
born in Prussia, May 7, 1833, the second 
,-> of eleven children born to Solomon 
Charles and Wilhelmina (Miller) Deckman, who 
in 1836 came to America and located in Phila- 
delphia, Penn., where the father followed his 
trade of shoemaking until 1854, when he came 
to Ohio and settled in Stark County, where, in 
conjunction with farming, he followed his trade 
until 1864, when he moved to Indiana, Steuben 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



County, where he died in 1886, at the age of 
seventy- six years; his widow is aged eighty. 

George Deckman was but Ihree years of age 
when brought to America by his parents. He 
was educated at the public schools of Philadel- 
phia until sixteen years old, when he was bound 
out to serve an apprenticeship of live years at 
wood, bone and ivory turning. In 1854 he 
shipped before the mast on the United States 
man-of-war, "Independence." and cruised in the 
Pacific Ocean, visiting among other places, the 
Sandwich Islands. After serving three years 
and four months he was honorably discharged. 
On his return to Philadelphia he found his par- 
ents had removed to Ohio, and in 1858 he 
came to Canton, this State, and there followed 
his trade until 1859, when he moved to Minerva, 
Carroll County; in 1S61 he established himself 
in the manufacture of furniture, and the follow- 
ing year moved to Malvern, where he erected 
buildings, employed eleven hands, and turned 
out every variety of furniture. In May, 1864, 
George Deckman enlisted in Company K, One 
Hundred and Fifty-seventh O. V. I. This regi- 
ment was organized at Camp Chase, May 15, 
1864, and on the 17th of the same month was 
ordered to report to Gen. Wallace, at Baltimore. 
It was assigned to Gen. Tyler's command, and 
after remaining in camp a few weeks was 
ordered by the War Department to Fort Dela- 
ware, where it performed guard duty over 
12,000 to 14,000 prisoners until the expiration 
of its term of enlistment, when it was mustered 
out at Camp Chase, September 2, 1864. 

Three brothers of our subject also served in 
the army, as follows: Conrad Deckman enlisted 
June 5, 1861, in Company F, Fourth O. V. I., 
and served three years; William Deckman entered 
Company F, Fourth O. V. I., June 5, 1861, and 
served three years, and took part in both battles 
of Winchester, and also at Antietam, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilder- 
ness and at Spottsylvania. He died immediately 
after his return home. John Adam Deckman 
entered Company D, Nineteenth Ohio Volun 
teer Infantry, September 10, 1 86 1 . with the 



rank of corporal, and took part in the battles of 
Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, 
Mission Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Nashville 
and others, and was mustered out in 1865. On 
his return from the army George Deckman re- 
sumed his business of furniture manufacturing, 
which he still successfully conducts. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and has filled the offices 
of township treasurer, township trustee, school 
director and councilman. He is a member of 
the I. O. O. F., and of the David Reed Post, 
No. 142, G. A. R., at Malvern. 

The marriage of George Deckman took 
place in 1857, to Miss Mary B., daughter of 
Jacob and Margaret (Swigart) Young, of Stark 
County, Ohio, and early pioneers from Pennsyl- 
vania. To this union five sons and three 
daughters have been born, as follows: Mary 
E., Charles J., William H, Elizabeth M., 
George Stephen, Kittie A., John E. and Arthur 
W. , all living, and, of these, three sons and two 
daughters are married. In religion the family 
are of the Presbyterian faith. 



JAMES HOLDER, of the firm of Fimple, 
Holder & De Ford, attorneys at law, Car- 
rollton, Carroll County, is a native of that 
county, having been born August 13, 1844, 
in Lee Township. His ancestry were Scotch-Irish 
and German, and his father, Jesse Holder, was 
a native of Pennsylvania, who, in early times, 
followed the medical profession. He married 
Miss Margaret Guyer, by whom he had thirteen 
children; she died in Carroll County, and Mr. 
Holder afterward married, for his second wife, 
Miss Nancy Williams. They made their home 
in Lee Township, where Mr. Holder died, June 
26, 1878, at the age of eighty-eight years; his 
widow still resides in Lee Township, the mother 
of nine children. 

James Holder, a son of Jesse Holder by his 
second marriage, grew to early manhood in Lee 
Township, receiving a good primary education 
at the common schools of the neighborhood. 





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In 1862 Mr. Holder enlisted in Company D, 
Eightieth O. V. I., serving for the integrity of 
the Union until wounded, May 14, 1SG3, at 
Jackson, Miss., where he lost his right arm by 
a cannon shot. The limb was amputated above 
the elbow, and next day he was captured by the 
Confederates, held on the field some time, and 
then sent to Atlanta, Ga., thence to Libby prison, 
at which place he was paroled and sent to 
Annapolis, Md., where be remained until his 
wounds were healed, when he returned to his 
home in Carroll County. Mr. Holder, after a 
rest from his severe war experiences, attended 
school at Harlem Springs College, in order to 
acquaint himself with the higher branches of 
study, and after a close application to his books 
entered the field of teaching, being for two years 
very successful in that profession in Carroll 
County. In 1866 he was elected county re- 
corder, a position he held nine consecutive years, 
during which time he read law with Judge Mc- 
Coy, of Carrollton, and commenced the practice 
of his profession in that town. In 1884 he was 
elected probate judge of Carroll County. Upon 
going out of office he resumed the practice of 
his profession and formed a law partnership with 
Hon. John H. Fimple, then representative for 
the district, and now connected with the general 
land office at Washington; afterward Mr. U. C. 
De Ford was admitted into the firm, the style of 
the same now being Fimple, Holder & De Ford. 

In 1873 Mr. Holder married Martha, daughter 
of the late Robert Guiney, of Carroll County, 
who was a native of the north of Ireland, com- 
ing to this country at the age of twenty-one, 
and first settling in Pennsylvania, in 1801, being 
the younger of two brothers, who were the only 
surviving members of the family, the elder 
remaining on his native soil. Mr. Guiney was 
an "old-time" Presbyterian elder for half a 
ceuturv, and it is scarcely necessary to add that 
Mrs. Holder adheres to the faith of her fore- 
fathers. Mr. Holder, as will be readily seen by 
perusing this brief sketch, is a self-made man, 
in the literal sense; in early manhood he worked 
on a farm, at tliree dollars per month, and by 



hard work, enterprise and perseverance, he at- 
tained his present, and honorable, position. 



dfOHN RAY, a prosperous farmer of Wash- 
ington Township, Carroll County, was born 
I in Washington Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, December 15, 1833, a son of Charles 
and Catherine (Fox) Ray, former a native of 
Washington County, Penn. , born in 1803, latter 
of Columbiana County, Ohio. Charles Ray was 
the youngest in a family of six children, and 
when he was a small boy his father died, after 
which event he came to Ohio, along with Jesse 
Roudebush, with whom he resided some years. 
He learned the trade of brick-layer, at which he 
worked for a time in Cleveland, then a small 
town. This was prior to his marriage. He was 
twice married, his first wife having been Cath- 
erine Fox, who bore him the following named 
seven children: Thomas, a resident of Perry 
Township, Carroll County; John, in Washing- 
ton Township, Carroll Co., Ohio; Joseph and 
Mrs. Mary A. Hanes, in Michigan; Mrs. Eliza- 
beth Roudebush, in Washington Township, Car- 
roll County; Mrs. Mary J. Ballantine, in East 
Liverpool, Ohio; and Mrs. Rachel Hardgrove, 
in Fox Township, Carroll County. Mr. Ray's 
second marriage was with Rachel Foster, and 
by her he had one son, Andrew G., who is now 
a resident of East Liverpool, Ohio.. 

Soon after his first marriage Mr. Ray pur- 
chased forty acres of wild land in Fox Town 
ship, the greater part of which he cleared with 
his own hands, cutting down most of the timber 
after his days' work at his trade was done. 
After a few years he sold his land, and traveled 
from place to place about the country, residing 
part of the time in Virginia. He died in Au- 
gusta Township, Carroll County, in 1884. He 
was well known to the people of Washington 
Township, and was much respected. In politics 
he was a Republican, and in his religious con- 
victions a member of the Disciples Church, as 
is his widow, who is now a resident of East 
Liverpool, Ohio. 



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John Ray, the subject of this sketch, resided 
under the parental roof, attending the common 
schools until fifteen years of age, when he went 
to Columbiana County, Ohio, and resided with 
an uncle, John Walters. On November 25, 
1853, lie was married, in Carroll County, Ohio, 
to Huldah J. Roudebush, who was born August 
22, 1832, in Washington Township, Carroll 
County, a daughter of Abraham and Melinda 
Rondebush, and this union has been blessed 
with four children, viz.: George G., born No- 
vember 5, 1854, resides in East Township; 
Isaiah, born June 7, 1858, and Albert A., born 
June 27, 1861, both live at home; and Mrs. 
Flora A. Guess, born November 11, 1867, is a 
resident of Lee Township. 

Mr. Ray resided in Washington, Lee and 
Centre Townships until 1859, when he pur- 
chased the farm where he now resides, contain- 
ing 114 acres, and is situated in Section 2, 
Washington Township. The dwelling in which 
he lives was erected when the land was first 
entered, but has since been repaired and im- 
proved by Mr. Ray. Politically, he is a Re- 
publican, and he and his wife are members of 
the Disciples Church. 



JOSIAH B. McCULLY, one of the prosper- 
ous, native-born agriculturists of Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, was born De- 
cember 14, 1830. Thomas McCully, his 
grandfather, was a native of Ireland, coming to 
American soil some time during the middle of 
the eighteenth century, and settling in Pennsyl- 
vania, where he followed farming. His children 
were named John, James, Thomas, William, 
Jesse, Josiah, Jennie, Peggy, Mary and Elizabeth. 
Thomas McCully, father of Josiah B., was 
born in Allegheny County, Penn., December 14, 
1797, in which State he followed farming chiefly. 
He was married in 1822 to Anna Young, who 
bore him the following named children: Sarah, 
Eliza, Lavina, Margaret, Mary J., Anna M. , 
Josiah B. and William. In 1830 he came to 
Ohio and settled on the farm whereon his son, 



Josiah B. ,now resides, in Harrison Township, at 
that time but very little improved. On it stood 
an old-time log house, in which they lived and 
reared to maturity their famil_y. Mrs. Thomas 
McCully died in 1844, and October 6, 1877, Mr. 
McCully followed her to the grave; they are 
laid side by side in the cemetery at Carrollton. 
In politics he was a prominent Democrat. 

Josiah B. McCully, the subject proper of 
this biographical memoir, was reared to farm 
life, attending in his boyhood the common schools 
of the district. On May 14, 1868, he was married 
to Lydia, daughter of Frederick and Mary Ann 
Lotz, of Harrison Township, and to this union 
have been born the following named children: 
Anna M. , Emma B. and Helen Grace. While 
nominally a Democrat in polities, Mr. McCully 
is an independent voter, at all times using his 
own judgment in the exercise of his franchise. 
His family are members of the Reformed Church. 
Mr. McCully owns a fine farm of 140 acres, ad- 
mirably adapted for general farming and stock- 
raising. He has always proved himself to be a 
progressive man, taking deep interest in the af- 
fairs of his township and county; a friend of 
education he has never ceased to labor zealously 
for the improvement of the district school. He 
and his faithful wife began life's journey to- 
gether with little save willing hands and stout 
hearts, and by hard work and good management, 
coupled with economy and sound judgment, they 
have succeeded in accumulating a comfortable 
competence, and securing the respect and esteem 
of a wide circle of friends. 



PLIILIP BEAMER (deceased) in his life- 
time commanded the respect of the com- 
munity at large, on account of his well- 
known traits of honesty, integrity ami 
virtue. He was born April 22, 1822, in Tuscara- 
was County, Ohio, to which county his father, 
Adam Beamer, had come from Maryland, where 
the Beamer family had long made their resi- 
dence, and where the father was married to 
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family of Monroe Township, in this county. 
After bis marriage be located in Tuscarawas 
County, and tbere remained until bis removal 
to Indiana, wbere be died in 1866. Tbe chil- 
dren born to bim were as follows: Philip, Mor- 
ris, Barbara (Mrs. William Roof), Samuel, 
George, Solomon, Jeremiah, Elizabeth and 
Catherine. In politics be was a Democrat, one 
of the quiet thinkers of the party, and be stead- 
fastly refused to accept any official position, 
although repeatedly pressed on him. 

Philip Beamer, of whom this biographical 
sketch more particularly treats, passed his early 
life in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, wbere be at- 
tended tbe district schools, devoting bis entire 
attention to tbe cultivation of his mind. He 
also took an active interest in farming, making 
himself thoroughly conversant with all the de- 
tails of agricultural pursuits, which afterward 
became his life work. On November 1, 1849, 
Mr. Beamer was married to Sarah, daughter of 
Peter Eick, and soon thereafter the young couple 
took up their residence in Monroe Township, 
Carroll County, where they remained until 
186-1, in which year they purchased the proper- 
ty in Harrison Township, where Mrs. Beamer 
yet resides. Mr. Beamer departed this life 
March 18, 1871, his death resulting from in- 
juries received from tbe kick of a horse. His 
funeral was largely attended, showing the re- 
spect and esteem in which be was held by bis 
fellow-citizens, and he was laid to rest in Big 
Springs Cemetery. In his death the family lost 
a kind and affectionate husband and father, and 
the county one of its most enterprising citizens. 
He was largely a self made man, his first busi- 
ness venture being the entering of 120 acres of 
land in Indiana, which he held for some time, 
and finally sold, after which he purchased the 
farm in Harrison Township. In youth he unit- 
ed with tbe Presbyterian Church, of which he 
was a member at the time of his death, and for 
a long time he rilled the position of trustee of 
same. Politically be was a Democrat. 

Mr. and Mis. Philip Beamer had tbe follow- 
ing named children: Adam; Mary R. , Mrs. 



Samuel Westfall; Ella, Mrs. Cadmus Tope; 
Peter, deceased, and Wallace. Of these Adam 
was married, September 14, 1880, to Ruth A., 
daughter of William C. Scott, of Union Town- 
ship, Carroll County, and the children born to 
them are William E., Sarah and Mary. Adam 
is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Dell 
Roy, and in his political preferments be is a 
Republican. Wallace, tbe youngest son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Philip Beamer, was married October 
27, 1887, to Mary, daughter of James McCaus- 
land, of Lee Township, Carroll County. He is 
a member of tbe United Presbyterian Church, 
and in politics is a Republican. 



JACOB MOORE, one of the oldest and 
most prosperous farmers of Wasbingtou 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, is a native 
of Washington County, Penn., and was 
born September 25, 1812. Jacob Moore, the 
father of our subject, was also born in Wash- 
ington County, Penn., in 1774, and was a son 
of John Moore, who was born in Germany in 
1744, and came to the United States when a 
young man, settling in Washington County, 
Penn., where he married Annie Settaker, who 
bore him one son, Jacob, alluded to above. 
John later took part as a private in the Revolu- 
tionary War, and did bis duty well and faithfully. 
In 1814 he came to Ohio and purchased of 
Daniel Marshall, a tract of land in Centre 
Township, Carroll County, which tract he 
cleared and resided upon until his death, about 
1845, being then over one hundred years of age. 
His widow followed him in 1858, at the age of 
ninety-eight years. Both were members of the 
Lutheran Church. 

Jacob Moore the father of the gentleman 
whose name heads this sketch, was reared and 
educated in Pennsylvania, and there married 
Miss Catherine Monninger, who was born in 
Washington County, that State, in 1774, a 
daughter of John Monninger, also a native of 
Pennsylvania. To this union were born six 



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children, in Washington County, and in the fol- 
lowing order: Mary (deceased), Nancy (deceased), 
John (residing in Carrollton, Ohio), George (de- 
ceased), Jacob (our subject), and Peter (deceased). 
In 1818 Jacob Moore, Sr., came to Ohio and 
entered a tract of land in Centre Township, 
Carroll County, on which he resided until 1873, 
having cleared the land and made all the neces- 
sary improvements to render it productive and 
habitable. In the year last named he removed 
to Hanover, Ohio, where he died in 1875, a 
member of the Lutheran Church, his wife hav- 
ing departed in 1830, a member of the Presby- 
terian Church. Mr. Moore had gallantly served 
his country as a private in the War of 1812. 
Jacob Moore, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was but six years of age when he was 
brought to Ohio, and walked all the way from 
Pennsylvania, the greater part barefooted and 
through snow; of such stuff were the early 
pioneers made. He was reared and educated 
in Carroll County, receiving a practical business 
education. On March 17, 1832, he married Miss 
Elizabeth Sunneckder, who was born in 1810, 
in Washington County, Penn., where the mar- 
riage took place. To this union were born 
Mary Strayer, of Washington Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio; Catherine Essie, of Columbiana Coun- 
ty, Ohio; Jonathan, of Salineville, Ohio; Absalom, 
deceased; Maria Devoe, of Centre Township, 
Carroll Co. , Ohio, and Rebecca J. King, of 
Saline City, Ind. After his marriage Mr. 
Moore remained in Washington County, Penn.,, 
until 1841, engaged in farming; then came to 
Ohio and purchased eighty acres in Union Town- 
ship, where he remained a few years; then 
removed to Centre Township and purchased a 
farm of 230 acres, a portion of the farm lying 
in Washington Township, his residence being in 
the latter township, located about two and a half 
miles north of Carrollton. On January 3, 1886, 
Mr. Moore had the misfortune to lose the com- 
panionship of his beloved wife, since when he 
has remained single. Politically he is a Demo- 
crat, and in religion adheres to the tenets of 
the German Reformed Church. 



THE THOMPSON FAMILY. One of the 
very early settlers of Carroll County, Ohio, 
was Thomas Thompson, a native of Mary- 
land, and a farmer by occupation, who 
reared the following named children: Wakeman, 
James, Thomas, Samuel, Morgan, Nathan, Nan- 
cy. Mary, Elizabeth and Clara. The father 
bought a farm in Carroll County, where he died; 
he was an Old-time Whig, taking an active part 
in the workings of the party. Of his children, 
Morgan was born March 17, 1809, in Maryland. 
and came to Carroll County with his parents. 
He was married to Margaret, daughter of Mat- 
thew Dunlap, and by her had the following 
named children: William H. ; John D., who died 
December 4, 1862, from the effects of exposure 
while serving his country in the Civil War, hav- 
ing enlisted in the Eightieth O. V. I. ; Matthew 
D. ; James M. ; Ann, now Mrs. Conrad Zutavern, 
and Ezra. Some time after their marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Morgan Thompson removed to Logan 
County, same State, where they remained four 
or five years; they returned to Carroll County, 
and here purchased the farm in Lee Township on 
which they died, the mother May 25, 1879, and 
the father February 18, 1882. They were mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics 
he was originally a Whig, and afterward on the 
formation of the party, a Republican. 

William H. Thompson, eldest son of Mor- 
gan and Margaret Thompson, was born in 1837, 
and spent his early life on the home farm. De- 
cember 10, 1861, he enlisted in the Eightieth 
O. V. I., serving under Gen. Sherman, and re- 
ceiving his discharge at Savannah, Ga. On 
March 2, 1869, he was married to Nancy, daugh- 
ter of Alexander Fawcett of Lee Township, Car- 
roll County, and she died in 1873, leaving two 
children, Anna B. and Harvey M. She is buried 
at Maysville, Mo. Mr. Thompson is a Presby- 
terian in religion, and a Republican in politics. 
Matthew B. Thompson, third son of Morgan 
Thompson, was born May 22, 1842, in Logan 
County, Ohio, but has spent the most of his life 
in Lee Township, Carroll County, where he re- 
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Republican, taking a leading part in the work- 
ings of the party, and has held various offices 
in his township, such as clerk and treasurer. 
On October 1, 1889, he was appointed by Presi- 
dent Harrison postmaster at Harlem Springs, 
which office he fills most acceptably. He is a 
member of Lodge No. 491, I. O. O. F. at Car- 
rollton; of Kilgore Lodge, No. 523, F. & A. M. ; 
of Minerva Chapter No. 123, R. A. M. ; of Can- 
ton Commandery No. 38, K. T. , and of Kilgore 
Lodge No. 342, K. of P. 

James M. Thompson, fourth son of Morgan 
Thompson, was born September 29, 1845, and 
received his education at the common schools 
and at Harlem College. In August, 1804, he 
enlisted in Company D., Sixty-sixth O. V. I., 
and was assigned to Sherman's army. On No- 
vember 12, 1868, he was married to Mary D. , 
daughter of James Tinliu, a native of Scotland, 
after which event the young couple remained on 
the Thompson home place until 1889, when they 
moved to their present residence in Lee Town- 
skip. They are the parents of the following 
named children: William S., Laura M., Mary 
J. and John. The family are all members of 
the Presbyterian Church at Harlem Springs, 
and in his political predilections Mr. Thompson 
is strongly for the Republican party. 

Ezra Thompson, youngest son of Morgan 
Thompson was born November 19, 1852, and 
has been a life-long resident of Lee Township, 
where he manages the home farm of the family, 
on which he lives; he has also been interested 
in coal mining. Like his brothers he takes an 
active interest in politics, and is one of the stal- 
wart Republicans of his township. A born 
Presbyterian, he follows with fidelity in his relig- 
ious convictions in the footsteps of his ancestry. 



EORGE T. DUNBAR, the subject of this 
biographical sketch, was born in Mercer 
County, Penn., April 17, 1815, and his 
& father, Nicholas Dunbar, in Lancaster 
County, Penn., March 25, 1773. The Dunbar 
family are of Irish descent, the great-grand- 



parents having come to this country at an early 
period. Nicholas Dunbar, who was a weaver, 
married Miss Sarah Taylor, who was born in 
Pennsylvania. Her father was a native of Eng- 
land and her mother of Germany. After mar- 
riage they moved from Lancaster County to 
Mercer County, where George was born, being 
one of a family of eleven children. Nicholas 
Dunbar moved to Ohio when our subject was 
but three years old. He settled on a farm in 
Carroll County, but did not enter the land on 
which George is living at present until 1829. 
At that time Carroll County was a wilderness. 
Nicholas built a log cabin and commenced to 
clear away the forest. After a long life of hard- 
ships he died October 21, 1856, upon the farm 
he entered; his wife died February 16, 1862. 

George Dunbar was a boy of fifteen years when 
his father brought him to Fox Township, where 
he attended the subscription schools in the neigh- 
borhood, and obtained what education he could 
at that early time. June 23, 1842, at the age 
of twenty-seven, he married Miss Catherine 
Hawk, who was of German descent, and five 
children were born to them : Two of them are 
dead; William was born April 23, 1844; John W. 
was born February 4, 1846, and Mary J., March 
13, 1850. Mrs.Dunbar died September 7, 1852. 
and Mr. Dunbar married his second wife, Miss 
Rachel Close, June 16,1853. She was born in Jef- 
ferson County, September 6, 1818, and her par- 
ents were among the first families that came to 
Ohio. At that time bears were very common, and 
Indians were dreaded more than the wild beasts. 
Mrs. Dunbar relates an incident of early life in 
the wilderness in which her father took an active 
part. Mr. Close went out after his cows one 
evening and while in the woods he met a female 
bear with her cubs. He undertook to climb a 
tree, but she followed him and caught his foot 
as he was climbing to get away from her. In 
her anger she tore his foot nearly off, but he 
succeeded in getting away without more harm. 
George Dunbar, our subject, remembers seeing 
dogH running the deer in front of the old log 
cabin. Of the second union three children were 



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born: James, April 14, 1854; Joseph C, Octo- 
ber, 16, 1855; Francis T., June 24, 1858. Mr. 
Dunbar has a farm of 231 acres, which he has 
spent many years in improving. When he 
first came to his present farm there was no 
cleared land within three miles; it was all one 
dense forest, where solitude reigned. He is a 
member of the Church of United Brethren in 
Christ, and in politics is a Democrat. 



JS. BOBBINS was born in Lee Township, 
Carroll County, May 3, 1834. His father, 
John Bobbins, and his grandfather, Will- 
iam Bobbins, were natives of Maryland. 
William was a soldier in the Bevolutionary War, 
also in the W r ar of 1812. He reared a large 
family in Maryland, but, not contented with that 
country, he emigrated with his family to the 
West and located in the fertile country of Lee 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, and entered a farm 
where he and his wife died. John Bobbins was 
a young man of twenty-two when he came to 
Ohio; there he met and married Miss Crabbs, 
whose parents were old settlers and of Euglish 
descent. Ten children were born to them — seven 
girls and three boys— named as follows: Eliza- 
beth, Ann (deceased), William, Mary, Henry, 
Sarah, Isabel G.(died September 8,1890), John, 
Rachel, and Eliza Jane (deceased). The father 
died August 12, 1853, and the mother Septem- 
ber 3, 1842, in Lee Township. Mr. Bobbins 
was a leading man of his time, and was looked 
to for counsel by his many friends. He was a 
soldier in the War of 1812. 

J. S. Robbins was reared on his father's 
farm, and attended the district school. At the 
age of seventeen he began to teach, which voca- 
tion he followed for Bix years in Lee Township. 
At the age of twenty-three, August 26, 1856, 
he married Miss Sarah Jane Conley, who was 
born June 21, 1834. Her parents were natives 
of Pennsylvania, and were of English descent. 
After marriage Mr. Robbins moved to the West 
and bought a farm, but returned in 1859, and 
located in Jefferson County, Ohio; after remain- 



ing there twelve years he moved to his present 
farm in Carroll County. Four boys and two 
girls were born to him, viz. : Emery C. , born 
June 8, 1858; Ross T., June 16, 1860; Patter- 
son E„ May 12, 1862; Frank S., September 25, 
1868; Maggie J. , June 29, 1867; LoraE., March 
15, 1871. 

Mrs. Robbins died April 23, 1881, and April 
6, 1882, Mr. Robbins married, for his second wife, 
Miss Maggie Wright, who was born August 21, 
1843, her parents being of Irish descent. Two 
children have been born to this union: John M. , 
March 28, 1884, and Walter A., April 18, 1886. 
Mr. Robbins has a well-improved farm of 220 
acres, situated within the limits of Wattsville. 
He is a stock-raiser, and makes a specialty of 
sheep. Mr. Robbins' success is attributed to 
hard work and good management, and he has 
lived an upright, honest life. 



J| R. WIGGINS. Among the prominent 
young farmers of Fox Township none are 
I more conspicuous than the above named 
gentleman, who was born in Fox Town- 
ship, Carroll Co. , Ohio, October 29, 1845. The 
Wiggins family are of old English stock, but 
the father and grandfather came from Penn- 
sylvania. The father of J. R. is a farmer in 
Carroll County, and was one of the earliest set- 
tlers. He came west and located, when the 
country was new, on the farm where J. R., the 
subject of this sketch, was born. Like many 
boys, J. R. Wiggins worked on the farm in 
summer, and attended the district school in the 
winter time, but, desirous to obtain a better edu- 
cation, he entered Harlem College, at the age 
of fourteen, and graduated in the spring of 
1870. Mr. Wiggins, in connection with his col- 
lege course, taught school. After graduation 
he married Miss Jennie M. Ault, whose parents 
lived in Jefferson County, Ohio, and were old 
settlers in that part of the State. Her paternal 
grandfather came from Germany, and settled in 
Pennsylvania, where her father was born, lived 
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December 25, 1S49. She also attended Harlem 
College, where she met Mr. Wiggins. They are 
living at present on a large farm, about one mile 
south of Seroggsiield, and have a family of 
eight children to make them happy: Minnie E., 
born June 17, 1872; Sadie M. , born December 
11, 1874; Flora A., born June 19, 1877; John 
M., born September 17, 1879; George W., born 
November 24, 1881; Maggie L., born January 
30, 1885; Clara A., born April 27, 1887; Wayne, 
born December 28, 1890; all are at home. Mr. 
Wiggins has a fine stock farm of 210 acres in 
Fox Township, and 28 acres in Harlem Springs. 
His farm is finely adapted to the raising of 
sheep, in which Mr. Wiggins takes much pride. 
He has taken special pains to secure the best 
breeds, and spares no pains in keeping them up 
to the standard. Mr. Wiggins is a Democrat, 
and is among the best known and highly re- 
spected citizens of Carroll County; he and his 
wife are members of the Presbyterian Church . 



AMUEL SMITH, one of the oldest na- 
tive-born residents of Monroe Township, 
Carroll County, than whom there is none 
held in higher esteem in his section, is 
well worthy of prominent mention in this vol- 
ume. He was born February 22, 1810, a son of 
Michael and Eve (Sinister) Smith, former a na- 
tive of Lancaster County, Penn. , born March 
7, 1767, and latter a -native of Washington 
County, Penn., born January 19, 1779, a daugh- 
ter of Daniel Sinister. The paternal grand- 
father of our subject was Peter Smith, a native 
of England, who moved from there to Germany, 
where he married a Miss Slomp, and soon there- 
after they emigrated to the United States, tak- 
ing up their residence in Lancaster County, 
Penn., for some years, when they moved to 
Westmoreland County, same State, and there 
passed the later days of their lives. They were 
members of the Lutheran Church, and in poli- 
tics Mr. Smith was an Old-line Democrat. The 
sons born to this pioneer couple were Michael, 



Peter and Christopher, latter of whom served 
through the Revolutionary War. 

Michael Smith, father of Samuel, lived in 
Westmoreland County, Penn., some years, and 
then moved to Washington County, where he 
married Miss Eve Shuster, who bore him thir- 
teen children, of whom the following is a record: 
Catherine, born September 16, 1799; Elizabeth, 
June 15, 1803; Daniel, October 20, 1805; John, 
December 13, 180(3; Margaret, July 20, 1808; 
Samuel, February 22, 1810; Peter, February 
10, 1812; Henry, July 28, 1813; Jacob, April 
4, 1815; Charlotte, June 22, 1816; Sarah, April 
15, 1818; Michael, April 25, 1820; Mary, August 
18, 1S23, all now deceased excepting Samuel, 
Charlotte (who lives in Missouri) and Mary (a 
resident of Crawford County, Ohio). In 1808 
Michael Smith brought his family to Ohio, and 
entered 160 acres of wild land in Section 12, in 
what is now Monroe Township, Carroll County, 
and which is the farm whereon Samuel now re- 
sides. Here the father put up a rude cabin, in 
which he lived several years, and then erected a 
hewed-log dwelling. When he came to this part 
of Ohio he found it a bewildering forest, teaming 
with wild animals of many kinds, game being 
plentiful, and he had to cut his own roads 
through the woods as he moved onward toward 
his new home. He passed from earth May 30, 
1843, his faithful wife following him to the grave 
August 15, 1871. For years they had been 
members of the Lutheran Church, and in poli- 
tics he was a stanch Democrat. 

Samuel Smith, of whom this sketch more 
particularly relates, was reared on the old home- 
stead, where he was born, attending, in his boy- 
hood, for a few weeks in winter time, the prim- 
itive subscription schools of the neighborhood. 
In his youth he learned carpentering, which he 
followed about sixteen years, his winters being 
spent in cabinet-making, his work as carpenter 
being mostly done in Pittsburgh, Penn., and 
along the Ohio River. On March 13, 1834, he 
married Miss Rachel Mangun, a native of Mary- 
land, born November 24, 1812, a daughter of 
James and Mary (German) Mangun, and this 



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union was blessed with five children, whose 
names and dates of birth are as follows: James, 
June 30, 1835; Josiah W., June 3, 1837; Mary 
E., March 16, 1840; John. November 7, 1843; 
Daniel, November 2, 1846, all now deceased, 
Josiah W. having been killed in the War of the 
Rebellion. The mother of this family died 
March 16, 1867, an active member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and September 14, 1869, Mr. 
Smith married Miss Sarah A. Madden, who was 
born in Ohio, a daughter of John and Sarah 
(Ricbardson) Madden, natives of Maryland. 

On October 25, 1844, Mr. Smith purchased 
the old homestead, on which he has since re- 
sided, and afterward he bought 118 acres, mak- 
ing a fine farm of 266 acres, situated about one 
mile and a half west of Dell Roy; the present 
buildings were all erected by him. He and his 
wife are members of the Presbyterian Church; 
in politics Mr. Smith is a Democrat, and he has 
held several township offices. 




\ILLIAM SCOTT, one of the oldest and 
most highly esteemed agriculturists of 
Mj Monroe Township, Carroll County, of 
which he has been a resident for over 
seventy- eight years, was born in Pennsylvania, 
in January, 1805. His father, William Scott, 
was born in Ireland in 1764, and in 1790 came 
to the United States, taking up his residence in 
Washington County, Penn. , till 1812, when he 
moved with his family to what is now Monroe 
Township, Carroll County, entering the quarter 
section of land now owned by his son William. 
Here he erected a rude cabin, in which he re- 
sided some few years, and then put up a hewed- 
log house, wherein he died, in 1849, the mother 
dying in 1862. 

William Scott, the subject of these lines, was 
seven years old when he came with his parents 
to Monroe Township, where he was educated 
and reared to farm life. He has been twice 
married, first in 1839, to Ruth Scott, who died 
October 16, 1886, aged eighty years, and in 
1887 he was united in marriage with Mrs. Mar- 



garet Snowden, nee Baxter. Mrs. Scott belongs 
to the Methodist Church, having united with 
that church when sixteen years of age. Mr. 
Scott is now owner of 290 acres of land, all well 
improved and provided with comfortable dwell- 
ing and out-houses. Politically, he was first a 
Whig, and afterward, on the formation of the 
party, he became a stanch Republican. 



THOMAS LEGGETT, than whom there is 
no more prominent a citizen in Carroll 
County, or more progressive and success- 
ful an agriculturist, is a native of Ohio, 
born in Tuscarawas County November 16, 1832. 
The Leggett family are of Scotch descent, and 
can be traced to two brothers who left their 
Highland home in Scotland for the shores of 
America, landing at Baltimore, Md. After 
remaining there a short time they pushed farther 
westward, and settled in Washington County, 
Penn. One of these brothers, by name Thomas 
Leggett, the grandfather of our subject, was 
married in Washington County, Penn., to Pa- 
melia Dempster. He was a man of fine 
physique, standing six feet tall, of stalwart 
frame, and possessed of great courage and 
perseverance. By industry and economy he 
amassed a large fortune. He was noted for his 
positiveness of character and the tenacity with 
which he stood by his word — principles which 
he impressed upon his eleven children (seven 
sons and four daughters, all of whom became 
wealthy), and which have been fully inherited 
by his descendants. 

Joshua Leggett, father of Thomas, was 
born November 20, 1807, in Washington County, 
Penn., and there he resided until his marriage, 
March 4, 1830, with Miss Jane Guthrie, a native 
of Pennsylvania, whose parents came from Ire- 
land, her father having participated in the 
Rebellion in that country on the side of the 
Protestants. Soon after their marriage Joshua 
Leggett and his young wife moved to a farm 
which his father had entered, near Rockford, 
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first fine wool sheep to Eastern Obio, and the 
Leggett family have ever since made a specialty 
of that class of live stock. Mr. and Mrs. 
Joshua Leggett were the parents of nine chil- 
dren — five sons and four daughters — viz. : Rob- 
ert G., a farmer in Orange Township, Carroll 
County; William, a wealthy land owner in 
Tennessee; James, at home; Joshua, a farmer 
in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Thomas, the sub- 
ject of this memoir; Margaret, wife of Arthur 
Latimore, who lives in Tuscarawas County; 
Martha, married to John L. Kennedy, ex treas- 
urer of Tuscarawas County; Pamelia, wife of 
Ira W. Kennedy; Sarah E», wife of Horace 
Riker, owner of about 500 acres of mining land, 
and one of the wealthiest men in the vicinity of 
Barnhill, Tuscarawas County. 

Thomas Leggett, whose name heads this 
sketch, attended the old log school-house of 
the neighborhood of his father's place, which 
primary education was supplemented by a course 
of study at New Hagerstown Academy, where 
he remained till he was eighteen years of age. 
He then taught school in the vicinity of his 
home for a time, gaining the respect of his 
scholars by oral persuasion rather than by the 
use of the birch-rod. On April 20, 1854. Mr. 
Leggett was united in marriage with Miss Han- 
nah A. Brown, a daughter of John and Sarah 
(Mercer) Brown, who were married in Wayne 
County, Ohio, and brought up eight children — 
two sons and six daughters — of whom the 
daughters are all married and settled, one in 
Kansas, three in Indiana, and two (including 
Mrs. Leggett) in Ohio. The elder son, Rev. 
M. W. Brown, is a Presbyterian minister, and 
is spending his declining years in Delaware, 
Ohio; the younger son, L. F. Brown, who was 
a soldier in the Civil War, is now a business 
man in Louisburg, Kas. The father of this 
family was a native of Pennsylvania, and came 
to Ohio with his parents, who entered a large 
tract of laud in Wayne County at a very early 
date, when Indians, wolves, deer and bears 
were numerous. Grandfather Brown's will was 
the first one probated in the county. On Mrs. 



Leggett's mother's side, her great-great-grand- 
father, who was a Protestant, was killed by the 
Catholics in France, whence his widow fled with 
her infant daughter to Ireland for safety. This 
child, whose name was Margaret Bouquette, 
when grown to womanhood came to America 
and married a Mr. Thompson, and a daughter 
by this union, named Isabella Thompson, mar- 
ried William Mercer, a near relative of Gen. 
Mercer, of Revolutionary fame. William Mer- 
cer (Mrs. Leggett's grandfather) was a soldier 
in the War of 1812. 

After marriage Mr. Leggett followed agri- 
cultural pursuits on a farm west of Lees- 
burg, in Orange Township, Carroll County, 
and also was interested in wool growing; but in 
1880 he bought his present farm, which is situ- 
ated about half a mile southeast of Leesburg. 
Mr. and Mrs. Leggett have had born to them 
six children, of whom the following is a brief 
record: Armeda A. is married to I. R. Holmes, 
who became well-to-do by buying a farm under- 
laid with coal in Orange Township, Carroll 
County, north of Leesburg; Cyrus M. is mar- 
ried to Mary Harrison, and lives on the old farm; 
Lorin B. is married to Theodocia Conway, and 
is living at home; Charles E. is married to Mat- 
tie Lee, and lives on a farm south of Lees- 
burg; Joshua W. is a student at Wooster Uni- 
versity; Emma E. died when seven years of age. 
Mr. Leggett owns 800 acres of highly improved 
land in Carroll and Tuscarawas Counties, and 
the farm on which he resides in Orange Town- 
ship (on which there are a fine residence, com- 
modious barns, etc.) is considered one of the 
best in Carroll County. He turns his attention 
mainly to the breeding of sheep, and he takes 
great pride in his fine flock of 700, all tine wool 
sheep, thoroughly up to the standard in breed 
and in quality of wool. He and his father 
have shipped their wool for a number of years 
to one buyer, and by way of a compliment an 
Eastern manufacturer, who comes West annu- 
ally to buy Mr. Leggett's wool, presented him 
with a suit of clothes manufactured from wool 
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highly of the quality of the staple, as well as 
the care and honesty in handling his wool. 

Politically Mr. Leggett is a stanch Repub- 
lican, and he has frequently been honored with 
positions of trust by his pai'ty, such as town- 
ship trustee, an office he held for seven years in 
succession, and justice of the peace until he 
became candidate for representative. In 1877 
he was nominated, after a spirited and exciting 
canvass over five competitors, and was elected to 
represent his county in the State Legislature, 
serving one term with such fidelity and ability 
that he was re-elected in 1879. Mr. Leggett' s 
popularity was so great that he polled a larger 
vote than did the chief magistrate of the State, 
thus leading the ticket in his county by several 
hundred votes. "While in the Legislature he 
"was the author of several beneficial laws, viz. : 
the Tramp law, the Oleomargarine law, and a 
bill to permit the selling of land on the prem- 
ises. While he was chairman of the committee 
on public buildings and lands, he was instru- 
mental in giving the Kentucky & Marysville 
Railroad right of way across disputed State 
lands. Mr. and Mrs. Leggett have been active 
members of the Presbyterian Church for more 
than a quarter of a century, and in 1S74 he 
represented the presbytery of Steubenville at the 
General Assembly held in St. Louis, Missouri. 



If If UGH WILSON is a native of Ireland, ; 

rP^i and is the son of Richard Wilson, a 

1[ gamekeeper, who died in Ireland. Mrs. 

•(/ Wilson, mother of our subject, came to 

this country at the age of seventy -five, and lived 

until she was ninety years old. Mr. and Mrs. 

Wilson were the parents of eleven children. 

Hugh Wilson, the subject of this biographical 
sketch, was born in July, 1833. He spent his 
early days in Ireland, attending school there 
until twelve years of age, when he, with his 
uncle, came to America, and in 1845 settled in 
Columbiana County, Ohio, where Hugh attended 
the winter school, and worked on the farm for 
his uncle, summers. At the age of seventeen 



he began work on the river, followed it for a 
few years, and soon after married Miss Lewis, 
who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, of which 
her parents were old settlers. Mr. Wilson soon 
moved to Salineville. Ohio, where he encaged 
in the butchering business, and kept market for 
ten years; he then bought his present farm, and 
carried on his meat business in Fox Township, 
Carroll County, in connection with his farming 
interests about thirteen years. Mrs. Wilson died 
in 1S74, the mother of seven children, viz.: 
Maryetta, Willis, Janorah, Christena L., Pheby 
A. , William E. and Ella M. In 1875 Mr. Wilson 
married Miss Andrews, and of this union eight 
children were born: Hugh G., LoydieL., Mattie 
B., Ada B., Nellie V., Frank A., John M. and Sam- 
uel L. Loydie L., Mattie B. and Samuel L. are 
dead. Mr. Wilson has a stock farm of 160 acres, 
which is well improved with fine buildings, etc. ; 
his farm is well watered, and is provided with 
two orchards. Starting as he did, without any- 
thing, Mr. Wilson has succeeded in gathering a 
good deal of earthly wealth, and among the 
prominent men of Fox Township he holds a 
conspicuous place. 




ILLIAM STEARNS, a leading agri- 
culturist of Lee Township, Carroll 
County, was born in Pennsylvania May 
19, 1811. His father, Samuel Stearns, 
also a native of the Keystone State, was married 
there to Elizabeth Poole, a resident of that State, 
and by her had the following named children: 
Catherine, Samuel, Mary, Elisabeth, Jane, Sarah, 
William, Jacob, Anna, Rebecca and Priscilla. 
The father came with his family to Ohio in 1820, 
locating in Harrison County until 1840, when he 
moved to Morgan County, same State, where he 
died. He was a member of the Lutheran Church ; 
in politics a Whig and Republican, and by oc- 
cupation a farmer. 

William Stearns has been a resident of Car- 
roll County ever since coming here, in 18'20, and 
has followed farming on his fine property, con- 
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from Harlem Springs. In 1844 be was married 
to Susanna Abel, daughter of Conrad Abel, of 
Carroll County, and by this union four children 
were born, viz. : Mary E., Rebecca, Sarah D. and 
Samuel C. Conrad Abel was born in Loudoun 
County, Va., July 14, 1786, and was married to 
Mary Schriver, also a native of Virginia, born 
June 1,1788, who bore him twelve children — sis 
sons and six daughters. Mr. Abel came to Ohio 
in 1814, and settled in Carroll County, where he 
purchased a farm and followed agricultural pur- 
suits up to the time of bis death; he always 
voted the Whig ticket. Mr. Stearns has by 
perseverance and economy succeeded in amassing 
a handsome competency. When he came to his 
farm it was in a comparatively wild state, but by 
dint of hard labor and honest industry he soon 
brought it into a fine state of cultivation. In 
politics he is a solid Democrat, and in religion a 
prominent member of tbe Lutheran Church. 



rp*V OBERT C. SCOTT, wool merchant, Kil- 
|i<^ gore, Carroll County, was born in Jef- 
f\ ferson County. Ohio, October 24, 1847, 
■f/ a son of Robert Scott, of Germano, Har- 

rison Co. , Ohio, a sketch of whom appears else- 
where. When he was five years old his parents 
removed to Carroll County, where he grew to 
manhood, receiving his more advanced educa- 
tion in tbe college at Harlem Springs. At the 
age of seventeen he entered his father's grist- 
mill, in order to learn tbe trade of miller, and 
in 1871 he moved into the town of Kilgore, 
where he embarked in the buying and shipping 
of farm produce. Since 1805 he has been more 
or less engaged in the wool trade, which he has 
carried on exclusively from 18S2 to the present 
time, buying on an average 75,000 pounds 
per annum. On October 30, 1873, Mr. Scott 
was married to Miss Almira Shipps, who was 
born August 30, 1853, in Loudon Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, a daughter of James and Mar- 
garet (Simmons) Shipps, former a native of Vir- 
ginia, latter of Harrison County, Ohio. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Scott have been born five children, as 



follows: Maggie O., deceased; Robert C. , Jr.; 
James M. and Emery E., both at home; and an 
infant, deceased. The parents are members of 
the Presbyterian Church, and in politics Mr. 
Scott is a Republican. 



IiOHN M. GARTRELL, another of the 
w. I representative, prominent and progressive 
yjl agriculturists of Orange Township, Car- 
roll County, is a native of the same, hav- 
ing been born April 11, 1833. His father, 
Lawson Gartrell, was born near Baltimore, 
Md., August 20, 1802, and in 1812 came with 
his parents to Jefferson County, Ohio, where 
they remained one year, and then removed to 
what is now Carroll County, and purchased land 
in Orange Township. Lawson was brought up 
on the farm, attending during the winter sea- 
son the subscription schools of the neighbor- 
hood, and in 1826 he was married to Elizabeth, 
daughter of Jacob Glass, a native of Pennsyl- 
vania and an early settler of Ohio. After mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Gartrell settled on a farm 
which he had purchased of Mr. Glass, and here 
they passed the rest of their days. The chil- 
dren born to them were as follows: Martha A., 
Mary E., John M. , Matilda, Naomi, Jacob and 
Catherine, all now deceased, except Martha A., 
John M. and Catherine. The father died March 
24, 1865; the mother is yet living. He was one 
of the successful citizens of the township, and a 
prominent business men. Politically he was a 
Whig, and in religion he had been a consistent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
from its organization, as have also been his 
widow and surviving children. 

John M. Gartrell, of whom this sketch 
mainly treats, had, in early life, the usual ex- 
periences of a farmer boy — hard, practical work 
with a certain amount of common-school edu- 
cation sandwiched in during the winter months. 
But Mr. Gartrell was not slow to learn, and to- 
day there are few better informed men in the 
county, and few who have made a better suc- 
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small beginning. Mr. Gartrell's farm now 
consists of nearly 500 acres of choice farming 
land in Orange Township. On November 15, 
1860, he was married to Rebecca, daughter of 
Benjamin and Elizabeth Price, and to this 
union were born children, as follows: Carrie, 
wife of Hugh Downing; Thomas G. ; Meredith 
P. and Charles B. The mother of this family 
dying April 5, 1872, Mr. Gartrell was united in 
marriage January 2, 1873, with Matilda, daugh- 
ter of James and Mary Rippeth, of Orange 
Township, Carroll County, and the issue of this 
union has been four children, viz. : Samuel J. , 
James L., Mary E. and Albert L. Mr. Gar- 
trell and family are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of which be has been class 
leader and steward; in politics he has always 
supported the Republican party. 



(PSf TJY S. DUDGEON, another of the native- 
-. born, prosperous farmers of Loudon 
V^i Township, Carroll County, was born Jan- 
^ uary 3, 1833, on the farm he now owns 
in the above-named township, where he grew to 
manhood and received his education at the com- 
mon schools. His father, Guy Dudgeon, was 
born in County Donegal, Ireland, November 9, 
1803, a son of Richard Dudgeon,and was reared 
in his native country, where he received a good 
practical business education. When eighteen 
years of age he immigrated to the United States, 
and his first winter in the land of his adoption 
was spent in Pennsylvania. In the following 
spring he came to Ohio, and entered land, which 
by toil and industry developed into the fertile 
farm now owned by the subject of this sketch. 
After entering his land he taught school for some 
time, then for about twenty years he rilled a po- 
sition as clerk for John Scott, in Amsterdam, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio. He married Miss Sophia 
Charlotte Shober, who was born in Loudoun 
County, Va. , June 9, 1804, and this union has 
been blessed with five children, viz. : Guy S. ; 
Charlotte Algeo, born August 8, 1836, now de- 
ceased; Sarah J. Smith, born December 29,1839, 



a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio; Mary E. 
Seaton, born June 19, 1843, now deceased, and 
Leah Walker, born June 6, 1846, a resident of 
Amsterdam, Ohio. Mr. Dudgeon, after his mar- 
riage, built a log cabin on his land, where he 
resided some years, and then erected a more 
substantial dwelling, the one now occupied by 
his son Guy S. Mr. Dudgeon departed this 
life November 7, 1885, his wife having preceded 
him to the grave February 27, 1872. They 
were both members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church; politically he was first a Whig and 
then a Republican, and for several years he 
served as justice of the peace. 

Guy S. Dudgeon, the immediate subject of 
this biographical record, taught school for some 
time after securing his own education. On 
November 16, 1871, he married Miss Mary J. 
Rankin, who was born September 19, 1849, a 
daughter of Thomas and Ann J. (Tennant) 
Rankin, former of whom was born in Washing- 
ton County, Penn., in 1820, and the latter in 
New York City in 1823. To this union were 
born, on the dates given, the following named 
three children: Sophia J., January 25, 1873; 
Mary E., April 11, 1876, and Thomas I., Jan- 
uary 8, 1881. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Dudgeon settled on the farm where they 
now reside, and in 1880 he erected one of the 
finest and most commodious barns to be seen in 
Loudon township. Our subject and wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in 
politics he is a Republican, and has been elected 
to the office of justice of the peace, as well as 
several other positions of trust in his township, 
but has declined to serve, as the duties of the 
farm demand all his best attention. 



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OHN A. RIPPETH, one of the leading 

y young farmers of Orange Township, Car- 
roll County, was born September 2, 1847. 
His father is Samuel W. Rippeth, one of 
the early residents of Orange Township, a sketch 
of whom is given elsewhere. The life of John 
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agriculture and stock-raising. He has, by bard 
work, industry and economy, made a great 
success iu bis cbosen field of labor, and tbougb 
he began with little, yet he now possesses a 
large and well-improved farm situated near the 
village of Leesville. He received bis education 
at the district school, which he left at the age 
of eighteen to study the practicalities of life. 
He is a Republican, and has always been among 
the strong supporters of that party. February 
29, 1872, he married Marget Gamble, daughter 
of John Gamble, a sketch of whom appears 
elsewhere. His family are Carrie, Albert, 
Harry and Effie. Mr. Eippetb is a self-made 
man and one of the representative citizens of 
his township. 



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AVID CAHILL, a representative of one 
the oldest families in Carroll County, 
was born in Perry Township, No- 
vember 10, 1824. His father, Griffith, 
was born near the present site of Mt. Pleasant, 
where, for a short time, the family stopped. 
Philip, the father of Griffith, was a native of 
Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in farming. 
The family were of Irish descent. While a 
resident of Pennsylvania Philip was married to 
Mary McGuire, who bore him the following 
family: Joseph, Philip, John, David, Griffith, 
Jesse, Mary, Catherine and Elizabeth. After 
Mrs. Cahill died, Mr. Cabill chose, for his second 
wife, Ruth West, whose family were identified 
with the early history of Harrison County. The 
issue of the second marriage was Elisha, 
Elijah, William, James, Levi, Rachel and 
Joshua. After coming to Ohio Mr. Cahill re- 
mained some time near Mt. Pleasant, but in 
1813 came with his family to Carroll County, 
and settled on a farm he had entered in Perry 
Township, where his subsequent life was spent. 
The farm consisted of 320 acres and was cleared 
by the family. He was a Whig in politics and 
a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He passed away at the age of ninety 
and his wife at eighty seven years. The early 



life of Griffith was spent in Carroll County, 
where be received bis physical and mental 
training. He was married at the age of twenty- 
one to Mary McQueen, a daughter of William 
McQueen, an early settler of Carroll County. 
They remained on the home place until June 12, 
1830, when Mr. Cabill was killed by an acci- 
dental discharge of a gun. From that time 
on until the marriage of Mrs. Cahill the work 
on the farm was done by David, who began at 
the age of six years. The family were as fol- 
lows: Rachel, David, Robinson and Lovina. 
Mr. Cahill was a Whig and a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

At the asre of eighteen David Cahill started 
in life for himself, and worked out as a farmer 
for a few years, and then entered the employ- 
ment of a merchant, with whom he remained 
one year. He then engaged in river traffic, 
running as far south as New Orleans. This he 
continued until October 17, 1861, when he was 
married to Julia A., daughter of Francis and 
Mary Worley, of Highland County, Ohio. After 
his marriage he settled on a farm, where he re- 
mained until 1870, when bis wife died. Soon 
afterward, on the failure of bis health, he dis- 
posed of his property and came to bis "native 
heath.'' He soon settled in Leesville, where he 
has since remained. In politics Mr. Cahill has 
been a Republican, and is an earnest supporter 
of that party. He is a self-made man, and has 
made an excellent success financially. Re- 
spected and esteemed, he is now passing his last 
days in the enjoyment of his earnings. 



AMUEL STENGER is a native of Car- 
roll County, Ohio, having been born in 
Loudon Township July 9, 1833. His 
father, George Stenger, was born in 
Franklin County, Penn., March 4, 1791. Will- 
iam Stenger, grandfather of our subject, was a 
native of Germany, but came to Pennsylvania 
at an early age, and settled on the farm where 
George Stenger was born. George spent his 
childhood days in Pennsylvania until seven 



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years of age, when the mother with her family 
moved to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1798. Here 
he received his education. In 1821 he moved 
to Loudon Township, Carroll County. At the 
age of thirty George Stenger married Miss 
Harner, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1798, 
her parents being of German descent. Soon 
after marriage they settled on a farm in Loudon 
Township, where Samuel Stenger, our subject, 
was born. There is at present on the farm a 
pear tree which was brought from Virginia and 
set out in the year 1800. A family of fourteen 
children was born to Mr. and Mrs. Stenger, two 
of whom died in infancy. George Stenger 
learned the cabinet-making trade, which he fol- 
lowed until he came to Carroll County, and then 
farmed as a source of livelihood. After a long 
and active life he passed away in January, 1S73, 
his wife having preceded him in 1863. At the 
time Mr. Stenger settled in Carroll County the 
country was a wilderness, wild animals fre- 
quented the forest, while the air teemed with 
wild fowl, and Mr. Stenger shot deer on his own 
farm. He always did his share to help lift up 
mankind, and thus bettered the world by his 
having lived. 

Samuel Stenger, the subject of this sketch, 
was reared amid the scenes of a country home. 
He attended subscription school at first, and 
afterward the district school, where he fitted 
himself for future usefulness. At the age of 
twenty-six, in October, 1859, he married Miss 
Sarah A. Weir, who was born and reared in 
Washington Township, Carroll County. Eight 
children were the result of this union, one of 
whom died in infancy. Five sons and two 
daughters grew to maturity, named as follows: 
William T., Robert G., E. E., George W., C. 
O. , Mary V. and Maggie M. After living 
twenty years on his farm in Loudon Township, 
Mr. Stenger moved to Kilgore, Loudon Town- 
ship, where he was interested in a mill for 
three years, after which he moved to Mechan- 
icstown, Fox Township, where he was engaged 
as an agent for thirty years to sell farming 
implements. March 1, 1887, he moved to his 



farm, which is located near the depot, where 
Mr. Stenger has been station agent ever since. 
In connection with his business as railway 
agent, he is a manufacturer of hard and soft 
wood charcoal at Mechanicstown, Ohio. In 
1886 Mr. Stenger built him an elegant residence, 
which is one of the finest in Mechanicstown. In 
politics he is a Republican, and has held several 
offices of trust. Mr. Stenger is a Mason, also an 
Odd Fellow, and is a member of the Railway 
Agents' Association. Mr. and Mrs. Stenger are 
united with the Presbyterian Church, and are 
highly respected by all who know them. 



QEORGE W. WIGGINS, stock-raiser and 
, farmer, of Fox Township, Carroll County, 
was born November 25, 1818, in Chester 
, ^ County, Penn., and Isaac Wiggins, his 
father, was born in the same county in 1781. The 
Wigginses are of old English descent, and both 
grandparents of our subject were of old Quaker 
stock. Isaac was reared in Chester County, 
and when he reached manhood he married Miss 
Rachel Green. After marriage, for ten years, 
Isaac worked at the carpenter's trade in the 
East, but not being satisfied with the country he 
started for the West and in 1819 entered a piece 
of land in what is now Fox Township, Carroll 
County. About 1832 Mr. Wiggins platted Har- 
lem Springs, and thus was the founder of that 
place. His early married life was full of hard- 
ships, and his trip across the mountains of Penn- 
sylvania into Ohio was most dangerous; but 
trials were overcome by determination, and suc- 
cess was his reward. Isaac Wiggins was the 
father of three boys and three girls, who were 
born in the old log house that long since has be- 
come extinct. The boys were named Thomas, 
Abel and George W. ; the girls were Sarah R., 
Rachel and Eliza Anne. All are dead except 
George W. Wiggins, the subject of this bio- 
graphical notice. Isaac Wiggins was one of the 
most prominent men of his time. He was jus- 
tice of the peace, the postmaster for a number 
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of the hotel at that place. After coming west 
Mr. Wiggins first practiced medicine and made 
a successful doctor. He died August 16, 1849, 
and his wife in 1862. 

George W. Wiggins at the age of two years 
was brought by his parents across the mountains 
to Fox Township, Carroll County, and here his 
early days were spent working on his father's 
farm in summer and attending the subscription 
school in winter. The old school-house con- 
tained no windows, nothing but greased paper 
to let in the light. February 6, 1845, he mar- 
ried Miss Sarah Moody, and four children were 
born to this union: John R., October 29, 1845, 
Isaac W., June 21, 1848; Eachel A., October 
22, 1851, and David M., October 15, 1853. All 
are dead but John R.. who is a farmer in Fox 
Township. Mrs. Wiggins died June 28, 1886, 
and June 5, 1888, Mr. Wiggins married his 
second wife, Mary Jane Bowers, who was born 
in Carroll County, Ohio, February 4, 1835. 
Mrs. Wiggins' father was born in Pennsylvania 
and is of German descent; he is still living at 
the ripe age of eighty-two, and his wife is also 
living, aged seventy- four, and is of Irish descent. 
Mr. Wiggins has a stock farm of 250 acres, 
which is well improved with all modern conven- 
iences and implements; he has a fine brick resi- 
dence and well-built barns, stables, etc., and 
takes great pride in raising blooded stock. His 
sheep are the Delaine Merino stock, and his cat- 
tle belong to the Holstein variety. Among the 
prominent and progressive men of Fox Town- 
ship Mr. Wiggins holds a conspicuous position. 
He and his wife are members of the Presbyte- 
rian Church, and both have a host of friends who 
rejoice in their success. 



CHRISTIAN WETZEL, one of the oldest 
and best known residents of Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, and one of the 
representative agriculturists of this sec- 
tion, was born in Germany, December 14, 1S19. 
His father, John G. Wetzel, also a native of that 
country, was reared in Horrheim, Wurtemberg, 



and followed the hereditary vocation of the family 
— farming. When yet a youth he was married in 
his native land to Christina Steinbron, who bore 
him the following named children: Gotlieb, 
Jacob, Christian, Frederick, Catherine and 
Christina. In 1839 Mr. Wetzel set sail with his 
family for America, and after a voyage of some 
weeks they arrived safely at New York, whence 
they proceeded at once to Ohio, locating in Har- 
rison Township, Carroll County, where he pur- 
chased a farm on which he passed the rest of 
his life.dying May 14,1877, his wife having pre- 
ceded him to the grave September 21, 1851. 
They sleep their last sleep in the cemetery at 
Emanuels Church, Rose Township. He was a 
member, from his youth up, of the Lutheran 
Church; in politics he was first a Whig and 
afterward, on the formation of the party, a 
Republican. 

Christian Wetzel was nineteen years of age 
when he came with his parents to Ohio. He 
was fortunate in having obtained his school train- 
ing in the Fatherland, where education was more 
thorough than in America, and he has wisely 
taken care, that, in his after life, his opportu- 
nities in that respect have not been thrown away. 
He was engaged in farming on the home place 
until April 25, 1844, when he became united in 
marriage with Catherine, daughter of Lewis and 
Susanna (Fisher) Smith. They then started out 
hand in hand on life's voyage, with little capital, 
save willing hands and a determination to suc- 
ceed; and they did — as witness the fine farm, 
comfortable residence and commodiousout-builil- 
ings. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel 
are as follows: Henry, Christian, Elizabeth, 
Catherine, John F., George L. , Jacob, Rebecca 
and Mary J. The mother died June 29, 1888, 
a member of the United Brethren in Christ. 

Politically Mr. Wetzel was early identified 
with the W 7 hig party, and afterward with the 
Republican. He has served in nearly all the 
township offices, and was for twenty-one con- 
secutive years school director. He is an out- 
spoken champion of education, and has always 
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the young in the common schools. He and his 
family are members of the United Brethren in 
Christ, of which society he served as trustee for 
many years, and was instrumental in organizing 
the present church at Macedonia. Mr. Wetzel 
ranks among the most prominent and progressive 
farmers of his section of the county, and is gen- 
erally held in high esteem. 



JiOHN A. KLOTZ, one of the enterprising 
I farmers of Brown Township, Carroll 
I County, was born in Rose Township, De- 
cember 26, 1844. His father, Jacob, was 
born in Alsace (now in Germany), April 27, 
1804, and was a son of Jacob, who had born 
to him four children: Jacob, John, Catherine 
and Elizabeth, and died at an advanced age in 
his native land. Jacob Klotz, the father of 
John A., soon after coming of age was married 
in the old country to Christina Gutbub, and in 
1833 came to the New World in a sailing vessel, 
the voyage taking several weeks. Landing 
in Philadelphia, the young couple made their 
home there for several months, then went to 
Pittsburgh, whence they came to Carroll Coun- 
ty, Ohio, and purchased a farm in Rose Town- 
ship, Mr. Klotz pursuing his trade of shoemaker, 
in conjunction with farming. He next came to 
Brown Township and purchased the farm now 
occupied by John A. He was a stanch Demo- 
crat and an intelligent voter. His religion was 
that of the Lutheran Church, of which he was 
an elder for several years. The children born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Klotz were Magdelena, 
Jacob, Christina, Sophia. Lewis, Philip, Mary, 
John A., George and Clara. On November 
11, 1886, Mr. Klotz passed from earth, and his 
remains were interred beside those of his wife, 
who died November 27, 1870. He was an en- 
terprising and progressive citizen, but as a man 
was quiet and unostentatious, and he held the 
respect and esteem of all who knew him. 

John A. Klotz was reared from childhood in 
Brown Township, which has ever been his home. 
March 12, 1868, he married Miss Elizabeth 



Starkey, daughter of John Starkey, of Stark 
County, Ohio. Mr. Starkey was born in Swit- 
zerland, September 20, 1815. He came to the 
United States in 1840, where he married 
Barbara Heim. and they settled in Stark County, 
Ohio, where they reared the following family: 
Henry, Elizabeth, Daniel, Catherine, John, 
Samuel, Philip and Susan (twins), Frank, Mary 
M., Clara and Laura. He was a Democrat, 
and was a member of the German Reformed 
Church: he was an enterprising and success- 
ful farmer. His death took place January 26, 
1884. His widow still resides in Stark County. 
Mr. and Mrs. Klotz for awhile after marriage 
resided on a rented farm in Brown Township, 
and then purchased the old home place, which 
they still occupy, and which is situated about two 
miles from Malvern, and is in a most excellent 
state of cultivation. They are members of the 
German Reformed Church, and, like their par- 
ents, have always liberally supported that 
society; but, unlike his father, Mr. Klotz has 
always supported the Republican party. To 
Mr. and Mrs. Klotz have been born three chil- 
dren: E. G., Clara B. and Laura A., the last 
named being now deceased. 



1/ T ENRY LEYDA (deceased), late of Augus- 
f ~a ta, Ohio, was born in Washington County, 
1 Penn., September 26, 1817, a son of 
•f/ John Leyda. Our subject was reared to 

manhood on a farm in Carroll County, Ohio, 
and educated at the district school, his parents 
having come to this State at an early day. In 
1845 he married Jennet Donaldson, who was 
born in Scotland April 14, 1821, a daughter of 
James Donaldson. [See sketch of Elizabeth 
Tatters.] To this union were born ten children, 
viz. : Susan, residing at home; Mary H. , wife of 
Eli Dennis, of Augusta; James H, residing in 
Tuscarawas County, Ohio; John L., in Ray 
County, Mo.; Thomas G. , deceased; Annie J., 
wife of George Grim, of West Virginia; Mil- 
dred, wife of Frank Duel, of Harrison Town- 
ship, Carroll County; Eliza, wife of George 



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Roudebush, of Augusta Township; William A.., 
residing in Minerva; Jesse H., deceased. Mr. 
Leyda and his wife settled on a farm of 124 acres 
in Augusta Township, Carroll County, Ohio, 
where he resided till his death, March 2, 1879. 
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and politically was a Democrat. Mrs. Leyda 
remained on the farm for five years after her 
husband's death, and has since resided in the 
town of Augusta, where she is an active member 
of the Presbyterian Church, and enjoys the re- 
spect of all who know her. 



THOMAS P. CRAWFORD, M. D., of 
Augusta, Carroll County, was born in 
East Township, that county, August 25, 
1849. He was reared to manhood on the 
farm, and received his education at the district 
schools and the New Wilmington College of 
Pennsylvania. He then spent about four years 
in teaching in the district schools, and in 1872 
commenced to read medicine- with Dr. James 
Westfall, of Minerva. In 1874 he entered the 
Wooster Medical College, of Cleveland, from 
which he graduated in 1877. When he returned 
from college he entered upon practice at Me- 
chanicstown, Carroll Co., Ohio, where he re- 
mained three years and then removed to Mal- 
vern, and in 1883 came to Augusta, where he 
has since been in active and most successful 
practice. On May 28, 1874, he married Miss 
Sadilla M. Milbourn, who was born May 31, 
1853, a daughter of Samuel and Agnes J. 
(Myers) Milbourn. To this union was born one 
son, Samuel Milbourn Crawford. Mrs. Craw- 
ford died December 3, 1881, an active and 
devout member of the Disciples Church. Dr. 
Crawford is a member of the United Presbyte- 
rian Church. Politically he is a Republican, 
and is one of the leading and most influential 
men of Augusta Township. Samuel Milbourn 
was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, March 
1, 1826. His father, Samuel, was born in Vir- 
ginia, and was a son of Andrew, also a native 
of Virginia. Samuel, Sr., grew to manhood in 



his native State, and married Jane Craig. Their 
children were as follows: Andrew, Lydia and 
David and Absalom (twins) are residing in Colum- 
biana County, Ohio; Jacob is deceased; Jonathan 
and Samuel are in Augusta, Ohio, and Isaac is in 
Alliance, Ohio. Samuel Milbourn in a very 
early day came to Ohio and entered a tract of 
land in Columbiana County, near Hanover, 
where he resided all his life. Politically he was 
a Whig. His son, Samuel, Jr., resided on the 
farm till he was grown to manhood, or till he 
was eighteen years old, when he commenced to 
learn the carpenter's trade, which he has con- 
tinually worked at, his field of labor being 
mostly in Carroll County, Ohio. On May 1, 
1851, he married Miss Agnes J. Myers, who 
was born in 1829, a daughter of John and 
Rachel (Wolfkail) Myers. To this union was 
born one daughter, Sadilla, deceased wife of 
Dr. Thomas P. Crawford, our subject. Polit- 
ically Mr. Milbourn is a Republican, and he and 
his wife are members of the Disciples Church. 




* OBERT WOODS, a highly respected 
farmer of Brown Township, Carroll 
County, was born in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, July 31, 1817. The Woods fam- 
ily is of English origin, and those of its mem- 
bers who first came to America settled in Vir- 
ginia before the Revolutionary War. The 
father of our subject, William Woods, was born 
in that State August 20, 1788, and was one of 
the early settlers of Jefferson County, Ohio. In 
1817 he came to Carroll County, entered a farm 
in Harrison Township when the country was new 
and set to work to develop a farm, for many 
years making his home in the primitive log 
cabin. While a resident of Jefferson County he 
married Mary Pugh, daughter of Aaron Pugh, 
an early settler of the county, and to this union 
were born Elizabeth, Isaac, George, John, Rob- 
ert, Jane, Mary, Margaret, Nancy Ann and 
Thomas. Mr. Woods was an active Democrat, 
and held many positions of trust in his town- 
ship. He was an earnest worker in the Method- 



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ist Episcopal Church, and was the founder of 
Woods' Chapel, dying in the faith in 1856, his 
wife having preceded him seven months. He 
was eminently successful in business, as a re- 
sult of his energy and economy, and was, alto- 
gether, an enterprising and respected citizen. 

Robert Woods, whose name stands at the 
head of this sketch, was brought to Carroll 
County, while yet a babe, and here has ever 
since resided. His education was such as could 
be procured at the old-time log school-house, 
and his business training that of the home farm. 
June 5, 1840, he married Catherine Finefrock, 
resided in Harrison Township a short time, 
and then came to his present place in Brown 
Township, which had been entered by his father, 
and which has been highly improved by Robert 
and his sons, both as to its tillage and its com- 
modious and convenient buildings. The chil- 
dren born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods are 
named as follows: Mary J., Franklin, Oliver, 
Cordelia, Lemma, Melissa and Alice M. 

In politics Mr. Woods has ever been a Dem- 
ocrat, as far as national affairs are concerned, 
but in township and county politics he makes 
selections of such candidates as he may think 
best qualified to fill the respective offices. He 
has, for many years, been a member of the con- 
gregation of Woods' Chape], and is a represent- 
ative citizen, enjoying the respect and confidence 
of the community and fully sustains the reputa- 
tion of the family name. 



JiOHN BUCHANAN, one of the most pros- 
perous agriculturists of Loudon Township, 
/ Carroll County, was born in what is now 

Rutnley Township, Harrison County, June 
3, 1807. His grandfather, Samuel Buchanan, 
Sr., was a native of Scotland, and in an early day 
crossed over to the north of Ireland, where he 
was engaged for some time in mercantile busi- 
ness in the city of Londonderry. About the 
year 1790 he emigrated to the United States, 
and settled near Chambersburg, Penn. He 
made several trips to Ireland, returning with 



immigrants, paying their fare, and then hiring 
them at this end to work out the price of their 
passage, etc. When the Revolutionary War 
broke out he.enlisted on the side of the patriots, 
soon thereafter being promoted to captain, and 
served about four years. He was once taken 
prisoner, but was released after three days. At 
the close of his service he returned to near 
Chambersburg, where he continued to reside up 
to his death in 1791. His children were nine 
in number, viz. : George, Thomas, Joseph, 
Ross, Jonathan, Samuel, Mary, Margaret and 
Jane. Of these, Samuel was born near Cham- 
bersburg, Penn., in 1773, and when twelve 
years old he moved to Washington County, same 
State, where he received a common-school edu- 
cation, and was married, in 1797, to Miss Mary 
Neeper, of Pittsburgh, Penn., born in 17S4. 
By this union there were six children, viz. : 
Jane and Maria (deceased), John, Margaret, 
Joseph and Nancy (deceased). On April 10, 
1805, Samuel and his family came to Ohio, 
where he entered land which is now the farm 
owned by Beatty Anderson, near Jewett. Here 
he erected a rough cabin, and spent the re- 
mainder of his days in improving his land. 

John Buchanan was brought up-{o practical 
farm life from his early boyhood, receiving but 
three months' schooling. In 1832 he married 
Miss Mary W. Pittinger, who bore him five 
children, viz.: William H. , in Monroe Town- 
ship, Carroll County; Samuel, in Union Town- 
ship; Mrs. Nancy Vasbinder, in Monroe Town- 
ship; Mrs. Susan Rutledge, deceased; and John 
N. , in Monroe Township. Mr. Buchanan pur- 
chased, in 1835, a farm in Union Township, 
Carroll County, containing 242 acres, where he 
resided until 1870, when he removed to Carroll- 
ton, and here lived a retired life until 1880, in 
which year he returned to his farm in Union 
Township, where he remained till 1884, and 
then purchased the farm of 168 acres he now 
owns in Loudon Township. His first wife 
dying in 1860, our subject married, in 1861, 
Miss Mary J. Riley, daughter of John and 
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Township in 1829. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as 
was his first wife from her youth. In politics 
he was a Whig until 1855, when he joined the 
Republican party, with whom he cast his suffrage 
till 1887 when he joined the Prohibitionists. He 
has held several township offices, and is a man 
of influence in the community. 



AMUEL B. BAKER, farmer and pro- 
prietor of saw-mill in Orange Township, 
Carroll County, was born October 2, 
1838, in Harrison County, Ohio, a son of 
Otho and Nancy (Buchanan) Baker, former of 
whom was also of Harrison County. The fa- 
ther lived the greater part of his life in that 
county, and was there married to Miss Nancy 
Buchanan, whose grandparents came from Ger- 
many to this country, her parents being natives 
of Pennsylvania, whence they moved to Ohio in 
early times. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Baker had 
seven children, all boys, as follows: Samuel B. ; 
Zachariah; A. B. ; John, a practicing physician in 
Illinois; Cyrus; Joseph (deceased), and one that 
died in infancy. The father died in Perry Town- 
ship, Carroll County, April 19, 1887, and the 
mother April 4, 1888. 

Samuel B. Baker, whose name heads this 
biography, was a year old when his parents 
brought him to Orange Township, and he here 
received a good business education, also a thor- 
ough practical training in the science of agri- 
culture on his father's farm. In March, 1862, 
he was married to Miss Ann Coffee, who was 
born in Carroll County, and whose parents, John 
and Elizabeth (Rutledge) Coffee, came from 
Ireland, and by this union were born six chil- 
dren, viz. : John Otho, Samuel Joseph, William 
Emerson, Emmet Ellsworth, and two sons who 
died in infancy. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. 
Baker moved to their present farm, which com- 
prises 133 acres of highly improved land in 
Section 23, having a fine residence thereon and 
a commodious barn. It is well stocked, watered, 
and equipped with all necessary implements of 



husbandry. Mr. Baker is not only a practical 
farmer, but for the past twenty -five years has 
given much of his attention to saw-milling, his 
first mill being driven by water-power, and his 
present one by steam. He is an extensive 
manufacturer of lumber, supplying the most of 
his neighbors with all their wants in that line. 



d/AMES CALDWELL was born in Brown 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, September 
J 9, 1831. William Caldwell, his father, 
was born in Washington County, Penn. 
The Caldwell family can trace their origin as 
far back as James Caldwell, the paternal grand- 
father of our subject, who was a native of Ire- 
land. In Ireland James Caldwell was a farmer, 
and shortly after marriage he moved to Washing- 
ton County, Penn., where he reared a large 
family. After a long life of hardships and pri- 
vations in the New World, he died on the farm 
he entered in Pennsylvania. William Caldwell, 
father of the gentleman whose name heads this 
article, spent his early years in the vicinity of 
his father's farm, and obtained his education in 
Washington County, Penn. After reaching 
manhood he met and married Miss Mary Love, 
who was a native of Ireland, and of Scotch de- 
scent. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell 
sought a new home in the West, and in 1824 set- 
tled in the wilds of Brown Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, where they entered a farm of eighty 
acres. In this wilderness they built a log cabin 
and settled down to undergo all the trials and 
hardships which are incident to pioneer life. In 
the midst of this wilderness two children were 
born: James and Robert. Mr. Caldwell was a 
progressive farmer, and did many deeds of kind- 
ness for his neighbors. In 1865, when aged sev- 
enty, he died, and his wife followed him fifteen 
years later, in 1S80, at the age of eighty-six. 

James Caldwell, our subject, spent his early 
days on his father's farm, and attended the dis- 
trict school in the neighborhood. At the age of 
thirty Mr. Caldwell married Miss Eliza Love, 
who was born in Philadelphia, Penn., and was 



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of Scotch descent. After marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Caldwell moved to the old Caldwell home- 
stead, and in 1S76 they came to their present 
farm in Augusta Township. Three children 
have been born to them: Mary, John and Will- 
iam. Mr. Caldwell has a farm of 170 acres, 
which is well improved with a brick residence 
and spacious farm buildings. In politics Mr. 
Caldwell is a Republican, and is an active mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church. He and his wife 
are among the most prominent citizens of Au- 
gusta Township. They have made their success 
by hard labor and good management. Many 
are their friends who wish them success in the 
future, and happiness in this the autumn of their 
earthly pilgrimage. 



JjOSEPH DICKSON. The Dickson family 
can trace their history back to when their 
' ancestors left Ireland and settled in Mary- 
land, where William Dickson, father of 
our subject, was born. William Dickson spent 
the fore part of his life there on his father's 
farm. He attended school when he was able to 
leave the farm, which occurred only during the 
cold months of winter, as in the summer his 
time was occupied in cultivating the soil. At 
the age of twenty he left his old home and 
moved to Pittsburgh, Penn., where he met and 
married Miss Moody. After living in Pennsyl- 
vania about ten years, he moved west and set- 
tled on Dr. Moody's farm in Lee Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio. Mr. Dickson lived in Lee 
Township but a short time, and then moved to 
his farm in Fox Township, where he spent the 
remainder of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson 
were the parents of three children, viz. : one 
died at an early age; David Dickson is a farmer 
in Kansas, and Joseph is the subject of this 
sketch. Mr. William Dickson died May 12, 
1886. When he moved to Fox Township the 
country was new. A log cabin was soon con- 
structed, where the little family received shelter 
and protection; the clearing away of the forest, 



William, by perseverance and by the help of his 
boys, accomplished after years of toil. 

Joseph Dickson was born February 27, 1841. 
His first six years were spent in the southern 
half of Fox Township, on the Wiggins' Farm, 
and then moved to the farm which he now cul- 
tivates. January 2, 1868, he married Miss Mc- 
Allister, whose parents were of Scotch descent; 
three children were born to them : William and 
Ora May, both deceased, and David, born March 
18, 1872. Mrs. Dickson died June 28, 1879, 
and Mr. Dickson subsequently married Miss 
Lizzie Leeper. Her parents live in Pennsylva- 
nia, and are of Irish descent. To this union 
was born one child, which died in infancy. Mr. 
Dickson has a well-improved farm of 206 acres, 
and can say that the improvements are the re- 
sult of his own labors. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson 
are members of the United Presbyterian Church, 
and they are surrounded by many friends. 



Kjr^, EV. WILLIAM C. McCAETY, a local 
|«ff minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
\v Church, in Perry Township, Carroll 
■f) County, was born in Lancaster County, 

Penn., March 29, 1817. His father, David L. 
McCarty, was a native of Northumberland Coun- 
ty, born of English ancestry, who came to 
America at an early day. By trade he was a 
hatter, at which he worked up to the time of 
his decease, dying in his native State. He was 
married to Miss Mary Campbell, also a native of 
the Keystone State, who died in Carroll County, 
and by this union were born four children, all 
sons, viz.: James L., George, Robert and Will- 
liam O, of whom James L. was a farmer by oc- 
cupation, and died in Orange Township, Carroll 
County; George died in Monroe Township, Car- 
roll County, when a boy, and Robert, who was 
a lawyer, died in Harrison County. 

William C. McCarty, the subject of this 
memoir, remained in Pennsylvania until he was 
sixteen years of age (1832), when be came with 
his widowed mother to Carroll County, locating 
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trict schools, where he imbibed as much learn- 
ing as those early educational establishments 
were capable of imparting, which was materi- 
ally supplemented by close study at home in his 
leisure hours. He arid two other young men 
were the first to form a grammar class in Mon- 
roe Township, Carroll County, and, by working 
during daytime and reciting twice a week at 
night, they were enabled to secure an education 
that fitted them for future usefulness. Our sub- 
ject next attended the school at Leesville, same 
county, being under the preceptorship of Amos 
Carr. Thus he continued studying at odd times 
in evenings, and working by day, until he found 
himself well prepared to enter upon his field of 
labor. He was ordained October 9, 1849, and, 
after entering the ministry, he pursued the 
course marked out by the church. 

On July 3, 1848, Mr. McCarty was married to 
Miss Minerva Carper, whose parents lived in 
Lewis County, Va. After a severe illness she 
died at Staunton, Va., May 2, 1860, and our 
subject, February 14, 1861, returned to Carroll 
County, and, locating in Monroe Township, there 
married, November 27, 1862, Miss Margaret, 
daughter of Thomas and Phebe James, former 
of English descent, latter of German, and since 
this marriage Mr. McCarty has followed his 
chosen ministerial work in Perry Township. 
By this union three children were born: Eva 
May, Batelle and Wesley James, of whom 
the following is a brief record: Eva May was 
married to Harvey N. Heastan, a farmer in Har- 
rison County; Batelle is a teacher in Harrison 
County, having graduated from the college at 
Scio in June, 1890; Wesley James, after gradu- 
ating in the commercial course at the college at 
Scio, entered Eastman's Business College at 
Poughkeepsie, N. ¥., from which he graduated 
with high honors, being second best in the class 
of 1890 (at present he is teaching penmanship 
and commercial law in Buffalo, N. Y.). 

Rev. W. C. McCarty in his political prefer- 
ments is a straight Republican. He owns a 
well-improved farm of eighty acres in Perry 
Township, well watered and covered with many 



kinds of fruit and other trees and shrubs. He 
and his amiable wife enjoy the respect and es- 
teem of a large circle of fast friends. 



TJT'V OBERT B. WEIR, although a young 
y*\ man, yet, by his good management and 

1^ industrious habits, has justly won for 
■fj himself a place among the representative 

men of Fox Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. 
Thomas Weir, his father, was a native of Penn- 
sylvania, where be grew up to manhood. In 
Washington County he attended the schools, and 
obtained his education as best he could by three 
months' schooling in the winter time, as he, like 
all boys of his time, was compelled to work on 
the farm during the summer months. He mar- 
ried Miss May Dennison, also a native of Penn- 
sylvania, and of old English descent. After 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Weir moved to the West, 
where they located in Washington Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, on a farm. It was here that 
Robert B. was born, one of a family of nine 
children. After a long and successful life, in 
which the father did much toward the upbuild- 
ing of his township, he quietly and peacefully 
passed away in the fall of 1862, and the mother 
followed him to that higher and better life in 
the fall of 1889. Hand in hand they traversed 
life's pathway together, and hand in hand they 
strewed that pathway with flowers of kindness, 
rendering to every one his just dues. In short, 
they lived not for self alone, but to help in bet- 
tering the condition of mankind. 

Robert B. Weir, the subject of this sketch, 
was born August 19, 1851, and was reared in 
the rural scenery of his father's home, where he 
grew to manhood, 'obtaining his education at the 
old district school. He worked on his father's 
farm until the age of twenty-eight, when he 
married Miss McClain. Mr. and Mrs. Weir 
lived on the old farm until the fall of 1882, when 
they moved to their present farm, which is 
located about one and a half miles east of Me- 
chanicstown. This farm contains 100 acres, 
is highly improved, and well watered, and is 



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provided with a fruitful orchard. Mr. Weir is a 
stock-raiser, and pays special attention to the 
raisingof blooded animals. He is also the owner 
of the hotel property in Mechanicstown, having 
conducted the hotel two years prior to the last 
two years spent on his farm, and will resume his 
hotel business in spring of 1891. Mr. Weir is 
a stanch Republican, and has always been con- 
nected with that party. He and wife are active 
members of the Presbyterian Church. Like his 
father, he feels it a duty to help aid every enter- 
prise which means a bettering of the condition 
of the people, and an advancement of the inter- 
ests of his township and county. 



DAVID McCLAIN was born in Carroll 
County, Ohio, November 13, 1835. His 
^ ' paternal grandfather was a native of Ire- 
land, but at an early period left his na- 
tive country and settled in Pennsylvania, where 
he reared a family. It was in Washington 
County, that State, that Samuel McClain, fa- 
ther of our subject, first saw light. He was born 
in the year 1796, and was brought up on his fa- 
ther's farm; he obtained a fair education by at- 
tending a three months' school in the winter 
time, as at that time the boys were compelled to 
work hard nine months out of the year. He 
married Miss Jane Donaldson, who was a native 
of Pennsylvania, where she was reared; her 
parents came from Ireland, and had a stormy 
voyage of thirteen weeks in crossing the ocean. 
They settled in Pennsylvania, where they pur- 
sued farming as a means of livelihood. In 1822 
Samuel McClain moved his family to Fox Town- 
ship, where he entered a farm of 160 acres. 
Here he soon constructed a ldg cabin to protect 
bis little family from the storms, and, what was 
worse, the wild beasts which at that early period 
were quite numerous. Deer were as common as 
the rabbit is at the present time, while bears, 
although not so common, were seen and shot 
by many of the settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Mc- 
Clain were the parents of seven children — three 
girls and four boys — all of whom are dead but 



two of the boys. After a long life of hardship 
and some pleasure Mr. McClain died August 
23, 1873, and Mrs. McClain departed this life 
September 27, 1860. 

David McClain. the subject of this biographi- 
cal sketch, was reared on the old farm which his 
father had entered, and was educated in an old 
log schoolhouse that was built on the home place. 
At the age of twenty he married Miss Lydia A. 
Hestin, who was reared in Carroll County, and 
whose parents were of Quaker descent. Mr. and 
Mrs. McClain moved to the old farm, but after liv- 
ing there three years, moved to a farm which Mr. 
McClain had bought. On that farm they lived till 
188S, when they moved to Mechanicstown, where 
Mr. McClain is at present engaged in the hotel 
business. Four children are the result of Mr. 
McClain' s marriage, and they are named as fol- 
lows: Elgaretta F., Sarella J., Howard Atwood 
and George B. At the breaking out of the Civil 
War Mr. McClain responded to his country's 
call, and in 1862 was mustered in at Steuben- 
ville, Ohio. After serving his country faithfully 
he was discharged in 1S63, because of disability. 
Although Mr. McClain was never wounded, yet 
he was knocked down by a bursting shell. Af- 
ter being discharged he returned home, and con- 
tinued farming until he engaged in the hotel 
business at Mechanicstown. Mr. McClain has 
a fine farm of 100 acres, which is situated about 
one mile from Mechanicstown. He has always 
been a Presbyterian, and in politics a Repub- 
lican. Among the representative citizens of Me- 
chanicstown and vicinity, probably none are more 
prominent or favorably known than Mr. and 
Mrs. McClain. 



OWEN BURGETT. The Burgett family 
can trace their origin to Philip Burgett, 
' grandfather of our subject, who was born 
in eastern Pennsylvania, and from there 
moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he fol- 
lowed farming as a source of livelihood. Philip 
Burgett was one of those sturdy Americans who 
did not believe in English oppression, conse- 



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qnently took an active part in the War of 1812. 
At the time he came to Ohio the country was a 
wilderness, which teemed with wild beasts and 
wild birds. He entered the land, built him a 
log cabin, cleared away the forest and laid the 
foundation for coming generations to improve 
upon. Finally death came to the early settler, 
and he succumbed. George Burgett, the father 
of Owen, was born in Washington County, Penn., 
but at an early period his father moved to Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio, where George Burgett re- 
ceived his education and early training. After 
reaching manhood he married Miss Mary Jane 
Bobb, who was a native of Chester County, 
Penn., where her father was a farmer, but left 
that State at an early date, and settled in Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, where Miss Mary Jane Bobb 
received her education. The Robb family were 
of German and Irish extraction. Shortly after 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Burgett moved to a farm 
near what is now known as Salineville, Ohio; 
there they reared a family of eleven children — 
eight boys and three girls. Wild animals at 
that time were very common. The wild deer 
was then at home where now the fields hang 
heavily laden with the golden grain. Mr. Bur- 
gett was a farmer all his life, was a hard worker 
and a highly respected citizen. May 6, 1861, 
he passed away, and his wife followed him April 
18, 1874. Mr. Burgett was a Republican in 
politics, but previous to the formation of that 
party was an Old-line W T hig. 

Owen Burgett, the subject of this biograph- 
ical notice, was born in a log cabin in eastern 
Fox Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, March 10, 
1S44. He spent his youthful days on his fa- 
ther's farm, attended school in the log house of 
the district about three months out of every 
twelve, working on his father's farm the re- 
mainder of the time. At the breaking out of 
the Civil War, Owen, although but seventeen 
years of age, volunteered his services, and was 
mustered in August 2U, 1861. He participated 
in about thirteen battles, and after serving for 
three years, was mustered out, August '29, 1864. 
He then returned to his old home, where, at the 



age of twenty-five, he married Miss Elizabeth 
H. Crissinger, who was born in Brown Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, May 20, 1850. Her 
paternal grandparents were natives of Germany. 
After marriage they settled on their present 
beautiful farm. Six children were born to bless 
this union, viz.: John W., Willard M., Mary 
E., Edna P., Laura E. and Anna E. Mr. Bur- 
gett has a finely improved farm of eighty acres, 
with a beautiful residence, which was built in 
1880. He pays special attention to the raising 
of small fruits of all description. His farm, 
besides being productive, possesses three veins 
of coal and a fine quality of fire-clay. Mr. Bur- 
gett is a practical man. He is a member of the 
I. O. O. F. and also G. A. R., and he and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Church. 
They have a wide circle of warm friends. 



1 OHN R. SLATES, whose farm of eighty 
w. I acres is located in Section 13, Loudon 
\J) Township, Carroll County, is a native of 
that township, born March 19, 1853. His 
father, John W. Slates, was born in the same 
township, January 25, 1820, and received a 
good practical, common-school education. On 
November 22, 1838, he was married to Miss 
Susan Hibbs, who was born April 25, 1818, also 
in Loudon Township, a daughter of Isaac and 
Mary (Lucas) Hibbs, of whom mention is made 
in the sketch of Mrs. Drusilla Hibbs. To this 
union were born thirteen children, named as 
follows: Isaac, Adam, Eliza Ann, Clark, Cassie 
Jane. Albert, Mary Bell, Delos, John R., Vio- 
lette, Merica, William and Susanna. After 
marriage Mr. Slates rented a farm in Loudon 
Township, till his removal to Germano, in Har- 
rison County, same State, where he now resides. 
He and his wife are members of the Lutheran 
Church at Germano; he is a Democrat. 

John B. Slates was educated at the common 
schools, and in his youth learned the trade of 
brickmaker. On September 12, 1875, he was 
married to Miss Nancy J. Shawver, who was 
born where she now lives, September 13, 1855, 



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a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Slates) 
Shawver, a sketch of whom will be found in that 
of Daniel George Shawver. To Mr. and Mrs. 
John R. Slates have been born two children: 
Laura M. and Homer A. Since his marriage 
our subject has been engaged in farming. He 
and his wife are members of the Lutheran 
Church, in politics he is a pronounced Democrat. 
[Since the above was written Mr. Slates has 
sold his farm, and purchased property at No. 
198 Navarre Street, Canton, Stark County, Ohio, 
where he will move April 1, 1S91.] 



fill LEXANDER BRANDON, of Washington 
// \\ Township, Carroll County, was born in 
\r~\± County Donegal, Ireland, in 1820, and 
•f/ is a son of Hugh and Anna (Scott) 

Brandon, natives of the same county. In 1852 
Alexander, our subject, came to the United 
States, landing in New York City, thence going 
to Connecticut, where he worked on a farm 
until 1854, when he came to Ohio and worked 
on a farm in Carroll County for W. C. Scott, 
until 1871, with the exception of three years 
passed in the army during the Rebellion of the 
Southern States. August 12, 1862, he enlisted 
in Company H, Ninety- eight Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, and served until the close of the war. 
On his return he resumed his labors under the 
employment of Mr. Scott, and on quitting him, 
in 1871, married Mary Tennis, who was born in 
County Donegal, Ireland, in 1843, a daughter 
of James and Ellen (Long) Tennis. This union 
has been blessed with six children, named as 
follows: Ellen, Anna, Bessie, Scott, James, 
and William A. who died in September, 1874. 
The year of his marriage Mr. Brandon pur- 
chased a farm of ninety-four acres in Washing- 
ton Township, about one mile west of Eckley, 
on which he still resides, and which he has de- 
veloped to its fullest capacity for cultivation. 

In politics Mr. Brandon is a Republican, 
and he and wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. The life of Mr. Brandon 



has been a just and honest one, and he holds 
the respect of all who know him. 



I J; McCOY, a prominent business man 
w. I and successful farmer of Orange Township, 
\y) Carroll County, was born May 15, 1833, in 
that township, a son of Jeremiah and Eliza- 
beth McCoy. His father, who was a native of 
Pennsylvania, after reaching manhood came to 
Ohio, and located in Jefferson County, but soon 
after moved to Carroll County. On August 16, 
1832, he was married to Elizabeth Rippeth, 
daughter of James Rippeth, and not long after 
their marriage the husband died. The son, J. 
J., was born six months after his father's death, 
and was brought up at the home of his maternal 
grandfather, receiving only a common-school 
education. Mr. McCoy evinced in his boyhood 
and youth a great love for reading, and beiDg a 
lad of more than ordinary mind, he did not per- 
mit his limited opportunities to strangle his am- 
bition for knowledge, but soon gathered around 
him the most extensive library in the county, 
containing leading works on science, art, religion 
and fiction, besides the writings of many liberal 
authors not often found in private or public col- 
lections. In all the scope of his reading the 
general tenor of his whole mind seems to have 
been to get at the realities of inspiration. Hav- 
ing in his early days been brought up under the 
almost impenetrable gloom of superstition by 
prejudiced but kind and religious guardians, his 
progress was slow, until after years, when, under 
more favorable circumstances, he began, with 
unbiased mind, to deal with the weighty ques- 
tions of morals and religion, advancing step by 
step until to-day, on all these questions, he stands 
in sympathy with the advanced thinkers of the 
age. Yet he is an unassuming man, and cares 
not for praise or honor. 

On September 20, 1860, Mr. McCoy married 
Miss Phoebe Millisack, of Leesburg, Ohio, 
who has for many years wisely and prudently 
carried all the responsibilities of a good mother, 
and raised to womanhood four angel girls — 






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Sarah, Mary, Lila and Patty — who once made 
an unbroken circle, the harmony of which 
human nature never excelled until death came 
and laid its seemingly unkind hand upon three, 
and as gently as the mingling of dissolving 
views made the change from this world of short 
stay to an endless, progressive and spiritual 
home, leaving but Sarah, the eldest sister, in 
earth-life, but in delicate health. This amiable 
young lady has of late married Ira Cowen, of 
Norwalk, Ohio, an estimable gentleman, who has 
so completely mastered locomotive engineering 
that he feels, with his competency, it is a moral 
duty binding him to continue the sacred respon- 
sibility of guarding well the flying engine upon 
whose good management the lives and welfare 
of so many thousands depend. His strict devo- 
tion to his calling, his high regard for all man- 
kind, and his tender affection for those near 
him, have secured him recognition as a worthy 
and highly respected gentleman. Mrs. Phcebe 
McCoy is a daughter of Jacob Millisack, one of 
the pioneer merchants of Leesburg, Ohio. He 
came to Ohio in 1820, and soon after married 
Sarah Holmes, a daughter of Isaac Holmes, and 
to them were born eleven children: Patty, 
Thomas J., Wesley, Jeremiah, Isaac, Mary, 
Jacob, Phcebe, William, Wilber and Edward. 
He remained a resident of Leesburg until 
1864, and then moved to the city of Ottumwa, 
Iowa. ' ' Throughout his entire life his soul 
hated oppression, and his reason revolted 
against injustice, and all thought or act giving 
countenance to either met with no approbation 
of his. During the prolonged and heated agi- 
tation on the slavery question from 1840 to 
1SG0, when church" doors and home doors all 
over the land were barred and bolted against 
such men and women as William Lloyd Garri- 
son. Wendell Phillips, Abbe Kelly Foster and 
Lucretia Mott, in the quiet little village of 
Leesburg, Ohio, they always found a home. 
and to these comfortable quarters it was the 
generous hand of Jacob Millisack that wel- 
comed them; his bountiful table fed them: his 
protecting roof sheltered them, and all this was 



at a time when mob law was prevalent over the 
land and indignation rife, with threats of eggs, 
brickbats and murder against these noble men 
and women of now immortal fame. For many 
years he cried out against the sins of the 
church, and labored zealously for its reform. 
He denounced unceasingly its sinful connection 
with slavery, and defiantly spoke against the 
doctrine of eternal punishment, fore-ordination 
and election. He bitterly declaimed against the 
infallibility and supremacy of the pope, and 
believed the only salvation was in doing right. 
All these things for which ho so zealously 
labored have come to pass. The church within 
the last forty years has unloaded many of its 
crushing embarrassments, and to day, in the 
light of human reason, stands high; slavery and 
all its abominations are most entirely wiped 
from off the face of the earth; the barbarous 
and blasphemous doctrine of eternal punish- 
ment is no longer entertained by the intelligent 
clergy of any church; the doctrine of election 
and fore-ordination, under a recent and brief 
agitation of the church, has been compelled to 
go with the many unreasonable things of the 
past, and the whole world is fast learning that 
to atone for sin is to pay its penalties." Jacob 
Millisack is now living in Ottumwa, Iowa, in 
his ninety-second year of life, a well and hearty 
man, and looks back with pleasure over his well 
spent life of almost a century. Mr. McCoy 
has been a life-long Republican, but no partisan. 



I OSEPH HEWIT, for sixty-six years a res- 
^. I ident of that part of Ohio which, in 1833, 
\J became Carroll County, was born May 1, 
1817, in Washington County, Penn. His 
great-great-grandfather, George Hewit, a native 
of France, had barn to him in that country a son 
named William Ludwic, who in an early day 
came to America, settling in Maryland, where 
he died. Philip, a son of William Ludwic, was 
born in that State about 1733, where he mar- 
ried Elizabeth Mong, by whom he had twelve 
children, as follows: Henry, Lewis, George, 



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Philip, Catherine, Sarah, Margaret, Mary, 
Susan, Elizabeth, Esther, and one whose name 
is not known. In an early day Philip removed 
to Washington County, Penn., and entered a 
large tract of land, on which he resided until 
his death, which occurred about the year L825. 

George Hewit, the father of our subject, was 
born in Washington County, Penn., November 
28, 1785, and in that State married, September 
10, 1810, Miss Annie Dager, who was born in 
Washington County, Penn., in 1790. This 
union was blessed by the birth of four children, 
viz. : Mrs. Susanna Ebersole and Mrs. Rebecca 
Fishel, both deceased; Joseph; and Mrs. Nancy 
Shepherd, a resident of Carrolton. On May 5, 
1822, Mr. Hewit came to Ohio and entered 320 
acres of land in Washington Township, Carroll 
County. Here he passed his life, making im- 
provements and increasing the value of his 
property, dying in 1878, his wife having pre- 
ceded him to the grave in 1819. They were 
members of the German Reformed Church. 
Politically Mr. Hewit was a Republican, and 
for several years he was justice of the peace in 
Washington Township. 

Joseph Hewit, our subject, was live years old 
when he came to Washington Township, where 
he was educated at the subscription schools of 
the early days, and was reared to farm life. On 
February 20, 1840, he was united in marriage 
with Malinda Littell, a native of Fayette Coun- 
ty, Penn., born August 2, 1822, a daughter of 
Samuel and Catharine (Custer) Littell, also na- 
tives of Fayette County, Penn. This union 
has been blessed with nine children, viz. : George 
and Samuel, both deceased; Mrs. Catharine A. 
Eckley, residing in Malvern, Carroll Co., Ohio; 
John M., also in Malvern; Mrs. Mary E. Beadle, 
in Carrollton, Ohio; Mrs. Malinda Beadle; 
Mrs. L. B. Allmon; Joseph D., in Lima, Ohio; 
and A. G., a resident of Washington Township. 
Mr. Hewit, after his marriage, came to the farm 
where he now resides, containing eighty-two 
acres, and located three miles north of Car- 
rollton. He and his wife are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church; politically he is a 



Republican, and has served several years as a 
justice of the peace. 




YLVESTER S. WALLACE was born in 
Washington County, Penn., October 20, 
1821. His father, Thomas, was a native 
of the same county, where he spent his 
youth and married Dorcas Tripp, an aunt of 
John H. Tripp of Carrollton, and under whose 
name the history of the family is given. The 
family of Mr. Wallace were John, Sylvester S. 
Margaret and Rebecca, all now deceased except 
Sylvester. In 1828 Mr. Wallace with his fam- 
ily came to Carroll County, Ohio, and settled in 
Union Township, but entered a small tract of 
land in Orange Township, on to which he short- 
ly moved, and which was cleared by himself and 
family. The history of the family struggles is 
that of all the early settlers, and their success 
was like that of nearly all who came into the 
county at that time — of their own making. Mr. 
Wallace was a Whig, and one of the early or- 
ganizers and workers of the party. He was a 
member of the Lutheran Church, of which he 
was a liberal supporter. He was prominently 
identified with the leading interests of the com- 
munity in which he resided, and was always a 
willing and energetic supporter of all public en- 
terprises. In 1837 Mrs. Wallace died, and was 
followed, in 1846, by her husband. They now 
rest side by side in the cemetery at New Hagers- 
town. The early life of Sylvester S. Wallace 
was spent in Pennsylvania, though the form- 
ative period was spent under the benef- 
icent influence of one of the most excellent 
schools of eastern Ohio, where so many received 
the initiation into an intellectual life — the Acad- 
emy of New Hagerstown. Here he remained 
until he was about eighteen years of age, when 
he commenced the carpenter- and-builder's trade, 
which he has since followed successfully for 
nearly forty years, save the time he was serving 
in the defense of his country. In October, 1861, 
he enlisted in the Eightieth O. V. V. I., Company 
A, and was sent with the regiment to the Army 



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of the Mississippi, and participated in all the 
movements and engagements of the regiment; 
was on the march to the sea, and, at Iuka, he 
was promoted to be first lieutenant for gallant 
conduct on the field, and later, at the battle of 
Corinth, was again promoted, his rank being that 
of captain. He was discharged with his regi- 
ment at Columbus, Ohio, and returned home and 
took up his business, which he had relinquished 
to take part in the battles for the Union. From 
the casting of his first vote, Mr. Wallace was a 
Whig, but, on the organization of the Repub- 
lican party, joined it, and has since been one of 
its most enthusiastic members. He and family 
are members of the Presbyterian Church in 
New Hagerstown, and take an active part in the 
management of its spiritual as well as financial 
success. On April 13, 1847, Mr. Wallace was 
united in marriage with Jane, daughter of Al- 
exander Brann. The family of Mr. and Mrs. 
Wallace are Rebecca (Mrs. William H. Wey- 
andt, whose husband was killed by the cars on 
the P., C. & St. L. Railroad, January 28, 1891), 
Mary (Mrs. Samuel Crawford), Thomas, Ann E. 
(Mrs. Marion Tucker), Charles, Mattie and 
James. Mr. Wallace has ever taken a leading 
part in the religious and educational advance- 
ment of his township, and is one of its well- 
known and respected citizens. He has been for 
some years juryman of the United States Court 
at Cleveland, Ohio. 



THOMAS R. TAYLOR, one of the lead- 
ing merchants in Harlem Springs, Ohio, 
is a native of County Fermanagh, Ire- 
land, born August 3, 1845. His grand- 
father, William Taylor, had a family of seven 
children: Richard, Jonathan, Thomas, Cather- 
ine, Bessie, Jane and William, and died in Ire- 
land at the patriarchal age of one hundred and 
three years. He and his family were members 
of the Episcopal Church. Of his children, 
Richard, born in the Emerald Isle in 1798, 
spent his early life in the land of his birth, and 
received his education there, being brought up 



to agricultural pursuits. He married, in Ire- 
land, Alice Reynolds, and by her had the follow- 
ing named children: Elizabeth, Mrs. William 
Taylor, in Harlem Springs, Ohio; William, a 
resident of Turney's Station, Clinton Co., Mo.; 
Joseph, in Kansas; Mary Ann, Mrs. Elisha 
Chase, and Richard W., both in Kansas; Cath- 
erine died in 1857, at the age of sixteen; Alicia 
D., Mrs. John Patton, in Madison, Monroe Co., 
Mo., and Thomas R., in Harlem Springs. In 
1852 Richard Taylor came to America with his 
family, landing in New York City, where they 
remained about a year, and then came to Lou- 
don Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, and here he 
purchased a farm, on which he remained till 
1866, in which year he bought another farm in 
Lee Township, whither they removed, settling 
thereon. The parents died, the father Febru- 
ary 6, 1884, the mother December 1, 1863, and 
are buried in the cemetery at Simmonds Ridge. 
Mr. Taylor was a member and liberal supporter 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Harlem 
Springs, and in politics he was a Democrat, 
always evincing great interest in the working of 
his party. 

Thomas R. Taylor was seven years old when 
he came with his parents to American soil, and 
received his primary education in Carroll Coun- 
ty, Ohio, which was supplemented by a few 
terms at the college in Harlem Springs. On 
June 11, 1873, he was married to Emma E. , 
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fawcett) 
Riley (the former came to this country with her 
parents in the year 1816, being eight years old, 
and died in 18S9 in her eighty-first year), and 
the young couple immediately located on a farm 
in Lee Township, where they remained till 
1S85, in which year they came to Harlem 
Springs, where he engaged in mercantile bus- 
iness, which he still continues in. In 1868 Mr. 
Taylor commenced teaching, a profession he fol- 
lowed five successive winters in Carroll County. 
The record of the children born to him and his 
wife is as follows: Alice H, born November 1, 
1874, and died June 16, 1875; John Riley, 
born April 7, 1S76; Mary Edna, born June 5, 



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1878; Nellie, bora March 16, 1889, died August 
18, 1889. The parents are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Harlem Springs, 
of which he is steward and trustee. In politics 
he is a zealous Prohibitionist, and has supported 
the Democratic party. 



llOHN EASTEKDAY, a representative farm- 
^. 1 1 er of Carroll County, was born in Harrison 
\J) County, Ohio, January 10, 1837, a son of 
John and Eve (Swinehart) Easterday, 
former of whom was born in Pennsylvania in 
1792. George Easterday, grandfather of our 
subject, was also a native of Pennsylvania, the 
family having been settlers there in early Colo- 
nial days. Little is known of his family save 
that it consisted of five sons and two daughters, 
all of whom except John (the father of our 
subject) remained in Pennsylvania, where their 
descendants are yet living. In the spring of 
1830 the grandfather and his family came to 
Ohio and settled in Harrison County, where he 
remained till 1855, when he moved to Carroll 
County, and here purchased the farm where the 
family still reside. While in Pennsylvania 
John was married to Eve Swinehart, who bore 
him the following named children: Magdalene, 
married to Washington Borland; George; Adam 
and David (deceased); John; Margaret, married 
to Michael Trushel; Samuel; Elizabeth, married 
to Joseph Smith, and Eve A., wife of Henry 
Cogan. The father died November 19, 1873, 
the mother December 28, 1880, and they lie 
buried at Bowerston. They were members and 
liberal supporters of the Lutheran Church, and 
in politics he was a stanch Republican. 

John Easterday, whose name opens this 
sketch, passed his early life and youth in Har- 
rison County, attending the common schools in 
the winter season and assisting on his father's 
farm during the summers. When he was 
eighteen years of age he came with his father's 
family to Carroll County, where he has since 
successfully carried on farming. On April 24, 
1860, he was married to Rebecca, daughter of 



Valentine and Susan Trushel, and who was born 
in North Township, Harrison County, December 
19, 1839, to which union have been born the 
following named children: George W. and 
Mary N. (deceased), E. A. (married E. E. 
Emory), Sarah M. (wife of James W. Smith), 
Martin L., Clara E. and Malinda A. Mr. 
Easterday and his family are members of the 
Lutheran Church, which he joined when twenty- 
one years of age. In politics he is a life-long 
Republican, and has held various township 
offices. The Easterday family are leaders in 
the social life of Orange Township, and are 
known for their sterling qualities and benevo- 
lence of character. 



THOMAS K. PRICE was born July 6, 
1810, in Union County, Ohio. His father, 
Benjamin, was born in 180S in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, and moved to Orange Town- 
ship in 1812, where nearly all his life was spent. 
The name of Benjamin's father was Thomas, a 
sketch of whom is given elsewhere. Benjamin 
spent his youth on the farm and in attending 
the subscription schools. He was married in 
early life to Elizabeth Scran, a resident of 
Orange Township, who bore him the following 
children: Melinda (Mrs. John Tidrick), Mary 
(Mrs. David Burchtield), Rebecca (Mrs. John 
M. Gartrell), Thomas K., Elizabeth (Mrs. John 
Thompson), James M. , Amy M. (Mrs. John 
Lathers) and Martha (Mrs. Joseph Burchtield). 
He was a farmer, and one of the hard-working 
men of his section. He was a Whig, and a lead- 
ing member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
In 1838 he moved to Union Count}', where he 
remained four or five years, and then returned to 
Carroll County, where he died April 3, 1889; 
his wife died in 1886. He was a leading citizen 
and an enterprising man. 

The youth of Thomas K. was spent, until he 
was four years old, in the western part of Ohio, 
when, his family coming to Carroll County, he 
came with them. At the age of twenty-one he 
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country's call for volunteers, enlisting, in 1861, 
in the Eightieth O. V. I., Company D. This 
regiment was sent to the Army of the West, and 
was engaged in nearly all of the engagements of 
that corps. Mr. Price followed every movement 
of the regiment, and was always where duty 
called. In 1864 he veteranized and served till 
the close of the war, his regiment being mustered 
out at Little Rock, Ark., in August, 1865. He 
then returned home and engaged in farming. 
August 15, 1867, he married Mary, daughter of 
Joseph Pearch. Four children have blessed 
this union, viz.: James H., Sarah E. , John B. 
and Emmett. Mr. Price has always voted the 
Republican ticket, and is a man who is steadfast 
in his opinions, basing them on reason and 
forming them only after careful consideration. 
He is among the self-made men of his section, 
having himself made his entire property, con- 
sisting of 144 acres. Like his father, Mr. Price 
has ever identified himself with leading events 
and has always been a supporter of any enter- 
prise for the benefit and advancement of his 
section. To such men are largely due the 
growth and advancement of the township and 
county, and as such they deserve a prominent 
place in this Commemorative Record. 



djOHN R. McLANE, one of the leading 
farmers of Lee Township, Carroll County, 
/ was born in that township August 30, 

1829. John McLane, his grandfather 
[who spelled his name McClain], was a native of 
Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and 
was engaged in farming. He was there mar- 
ried to Sarah Maple, of the same State, and the 
children born to them were James, Robert, 
John, William, Samuel, Thomas, Patience, Anne, 
Sarah, Keziah and Elizabeth. In 1812 Grand- 
father McLane moved with his family to Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, where he entered the farm on 
which he died in 1855, his wife having preceded 
him to the grave shortly before. They were 
members of the Lutheran Church, and in his 



political convictions he was a Democrat. His 
son John, the father of John R., was also a 
native of the Keystone State, born in 1806, and 
was therefore six years old when he came to Ohio. 
He married Martha Rollins, of Carroll County, 
daughter of William Rollins, who had been a 
soldier in the Revolutionary War under Wash- 
ington. After their marriage the young couple 
settled on a farm in Carroll County, Ohio, which 
had been entered by his father, and here the wife 
died in 1840, the mother of the following 
named children: William, deceased; John R., 
our subject; Betsy A., deceased; Sarah; Keziah, 
deceased; Daniel; James; Rebecca and Martha. 
For his second wife John McLane chose Miss 
Emeline Low, who bore him six children: 
Thomas, Harriet, Robert, Louis B. , Abraham 
and Ida. In I860 Mr. McLane moved to Iowa, 
where he died in 1864. He was a member, as 
is his family, of the Disciples Church, in which 
he was an elder for several years; in politics he 
was a zealous Democrat and served as trustee 
and in other offices of the township. 

John R. McLane, of whom this sketch 
chiefly treats, received a liberal education at the 
common schools of his district, and remained 
under the parental roof until the age of fifteen, 
when he left home and worked by the month, 
giving the entire proceeds of his labor to his 
father until he was twenty-one years old, at 
which time he commenced for himself. He is 
the owner of a highly cultivated farm of 212 
acres, situated about a mile from Harlem Springs 
in Lee Township. On March 23, 1854, Mr. 
McLane was married to Adeline, daughter of 
Thomas F. Talbot, of Carroll County, and the 
record of the children born to them is as fol- 
lows: Martha A., deceased; Henrietta, Mrs. 
Samuel E. Telfer; George W., married to Etta 
Maple; Ross T. ; Eliza M. ; Anna B. ; Jennie V. 
and Frank J. The parents and family are 
members of the Disciples Church, and in poli- 
tics Mr. McLane has always been a Democrat; 
but for the past six years he has voted for the 
Prohibition ticket; he has been trustee of his 
township several terms. 



T OHN A. BALDWIN. The Baldwin fam- 
^. I ily trace their ancestry to the branch that 
MJ/ came from England in the middle of the • 

eighteenth century and made a settlement 
near Alexandria, Va. , where they long made 
their home. William, the earliest one of whom 
we have authentic record, came with his parents 
to America. He was early apprenticed to a 
blacksmith, with whom he remained four years 
completely mastering the details of the business. 
He then entered business for himself, and mar- 
ried Elizabeth Mann, who bore him a family as 
follows: John, Simmonds, Lewis, Hiram, 
Sarah, Eliza and Rees. Of these children, 
Bees, the father of our subject, was instructed 
in the trade of his father. Not being satisfied, 
however, with that he engaged in river traffic 
on the Potomac. He married a native of Vir- 
ginia, Elizabeth A., daughter of John Irwin, 
who was also engaged in similar business. In 
1828 Rees came to Harrisville, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, where he remained until 1833, when he 
brought his family to Carroll County, and pur- 
chased what is now known as the Baldwin farm. 
Here he lived and died, spending his time and 
energy in working at his trade, and in the im- 
provement and cultivation of the farm. He 
was a Whig, as was his father, and afterward 
united with the Republican party. He was 
justice of the peace for many years, was also 
trustee, clerk, assessor, etc. His children were 
Jane (Mrs. James Crooks), William, David, 
Elizabeth, Mary (deceased), Ellen, Rees (de- 
ceased) and John A. He was an active member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which 
he was trustee. July 24, 1883, he passed away. 
John A. Baldwin was born June 10, 1848, 
in Orange Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, where 
he has since made his home. His education 
was received partly at the common schools, and 
partly as the result of self instruction, aug- 
mented by attendance at Mt. Union and New- 
comerstown, Ohio. At the age of eighteen he 
commenced teaching, a profession which he 
followed twenty-three years. He was principal 
of schools at Leesville for twelve consecutive 



years, giving complete satisfaction. April 22, 
1876, he married Melvina, daughter of Benja- 
min Beans, and to this union were born the 
following children: Nellie, born February 16, 
1877; died March 19, 1877; Lena M., borp 
September 10, 1878, and Bonnie M. , born June 
14, 1882. Mr. Baldwin has always been a 
strong Republican, occupies a leading position 
in the councils of his party in the county, and 
has held nearly all the offices in his township 
and village. He is a well-known business man, 
and is agent for a large line of companies, both 
in life and fire insurance; being of a speculative 
turn of mind, he made in 1890 a large invest- 
ment in the Edna Piano and Organ Co. , of Mon- 
roeville, Ohio, and was chosen president of the 
company. 



AMTJEL HOLMES, one of the old set- 
tlers of Carroll County, a connecting link, 
so to speak, between the past and the 
present, was born in what is now Harrison 
County, Ohio, May 30, 1811. Obediah Holmes, 
his grandfather, was a native of New York, 
where he was married to Mary Clunn, who bore 
him children as follows: John, William, Obe- 
diah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Samuel, Elizabeth 
and Margaret. Mr. Holmes was by trade a ship 
carpenter, which he followed in New York and 
Pennsylvania, and finally moved to Brooke 
County, Va., where he died. He was a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 
politics a Whig. 

Isaac Holmes, father of Samuel, was born 
April 29, 1764, in New Jersey, where he passed 
his boyhood and youth, removing from there 
with his parents to Brooke County, Va. There 
he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of 
George and Martha (Klung) McNabe, and to 
this union were born the following named chil- 
dren: Martha, Clunn, Sarah, Mary, Nancy, Su- 
sanna, George W., Samuel, Elizabeth and John 
M. In 1796 Isaac Holmes came to Ohio, and 
located near what is now known as Mount 
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purchased a farm in Short Creek Township, 
Harrison County, on which he lived until 1814, 
when he sold and moved into the "wilderness," 
buying the farm, in what is now Orange Town- 
ship, Carroll County, on which he passed the 
rest of his life. He died June ( J, 1851, and his 
wife November 15, 1857, both consistent mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. 
Holmes having been one of the founders of the 
society at Leesville. His house was at one 
time the headquarters of the ministers of that 
denomination; in fact, long before the church 
building was erected, it was used as a place of 
worship, and the first quarterly meeting was 
held therein. At the time this honored couple 
settled on the property just mentioned, the 
farm was composed entirely of wild land (save 
about fifteen or twenty acres around the house) 
and was cleared by them, assisted by the other 
members of the family. 

Samuel Holmes, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was three years old when his parents 
moved to what is now Orange Township, and 
his early education, very primitive in its charac- 
ter, was obtained at the subscription schools, 
being confined to a few weeks' attendance in 
winter time, and he had a considerable distance 
to tramp through the snow in the dense woods. 
On December 7, 1841, he was married to Emily 
E., daughter of Rezin Pumphrey, a native of 
Virginia, who came to Harrison County, Ohio, 
in 1828, settling in Franklin Township. Mr. 
Pumphrey was married to Ann Boone, a native 
of Maryland, and by her had children as follows: 
Eliza, Boone, Alfred, Robison, Emily E., Flem- 
ing and Susanna. To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 
Holmes were born five children, viz. : Eliza A., 
Elizabeth A., Susan A., Isaac R. and Wilbur 
F., all yet living except Eliza A. After their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Holmes settled on the 
property where they have since resided. The 
entire family are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and in his political prefer- 
ments Mr. Holmes was first a Whig, voting for 
Henry Clay, and since the formation of the 
party, he has been a stanch Republican. 




ILLIAM B. REED, one of the leading 
native-born residents of Brown Town- 
If; ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, first saw light 
February 6, 1822, and with the excep- 
tion of the time spent, in the service of his 
country during the War of the Rebellion, he 
has been a resident of the township ever since. 

In 1806 John Reed and his family immi- 
grated from Braddock, Penn. , to Ohio, and on 
the first night after arrival at their destination 
they camped out under a large elm tree. This 
honored pioneer entered Government land,where 
he and his wife passed the remainder of their 
lives. They were the parents of four children — 
three sons and one daughter — and of them the 
third in order of birth was John, born January 
9, 1796, in Carlisle, Penn. He came to Ohio 
with his parents and shared with them all the 
hardships of pioneer life. On December 27, 
1820, he became united in marriage with Jane 
Thompson, who was born September 10, 179U, 
and came to Ohio in 1806 with her parents, 
William and Marjory (McCammey) Thompson. 
After marriage the young couple located on a 
tract of land in Brown Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty (then in Stark County), where they resided 
until 1863, when they sold their place and came 
to Malvern, where they died, he in 1872 and she 
in 1866. They were a worthy, hard-working 
couple, who did much toward the advancement 
of their adopted county. Their family consisted 
of four sons and five daughters, of whom Will- 
iam B. is the eldest. 

He was brought up to farming amid the 
rugged experiences of pioneer life, and attended, 
as opportunity offered, the subscription schools 
of his day. Where is now the thriving village 
of Malvern was then a mere wilderness, and in 
November, 1836, he helped to lay out the place. 
On May 30, 1850, Mr. Reed married Sarah 
Hewitt, also a native of Brown Township, Car- 
roll County, born February 19, 1827, a daugh- 
ter of James and Elizabeth (Thompson) Hewitt. 
To this union were born five children — four sons 
and one daughter ( four of whom are now living), 
viz. : John H., James T., William R., David M. 



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and Cony May. They remained on the farm 
until 185 ( J, when they sold and moved into the 
village of Malvern, where Mr. Reed embarked 
in mercantile business. 

In 1864 Mr. Reed was instrumental in or- 
ganizing a company of volunteer militia, of 
which he was elected and commissioned captain, 
and which was mustered into the service at 
Camp Chase as Company K, One Hundred and 
Fifty-seventh Regiment O.V. I. This regiment 
was sent to Fort Delaware for guard duty, and 
at the end of four months our subject was hon- 
orably discharged. Returning home he resumed 
control of his business in Malvern, and carried 
it on successfully until 1867, when he sold out, 
and has since lived a retired life. Socially Mr. 
Reed is a member of the F. & A. M. , and is a 
Royal Arch Mason ; is a member of David Reed 
Post, No. 142, G. A. R. Politically he is an 
active Republican, and has acceptably tilled va- 
rious township offices. He and his wife are 
members of the Presbyterian Church. 



FRICE FAMILY history. The Prices and 
Hatfields are supposed to have laid out 
the city of Baltimore, Md. In 1704 
Christopher Price leased Price's com- 
mons, now an important part of the city, for 
ninety-nine years; but beyond this fact we have 
only conjectures and suggestions. The family 
is of English-Welsh descent — perhaps of the 
middle class — and the qualities of the founder 
have been reproduced in the descendants. Mr. 
Price exchanged his lease of land for a horse, 
which he mounted and rode over the mountains 
to Lexington, Ky., where he became the father 
of a respectable and numerous family. His 
descendants showed no aptitude for public af- 
fairs, but were the solid and substantial men of 
their various communities, and acquired good 
homes and respectability. Among them was 
Gov. Price, the founder of Leesville, and the 
head of a large family well known in its vicin- 
ity. When on a visit to Pennsylvania he met 
Miss Sarah Rippeth, who afterward became 



his wife. They returned to Lexington. Ivy. . 
and to them were born Kit, William, James, 
John, Joseph, Basil, Joshua, Benjamin, Linda 
(who married John N. Adair, a merchant and 
hatter), Anna (who married Dr. Lawtliers). 
Sarah (who married Mr. Smith), Elizabeth (who 
married Dr. Watkins), and Rebecca (who mar- 
ried Mr. Brisbin). They were possessed of 
more than ordinary ability, and of all the good 
families we can recall we know of none who 
have gone beyond them in mettle, or the in- 
fluence they exerted in local affairs. 

In about 1812 Gov. Price and his wife rode 
horseback from Lexington, and stopped in a 
small cabin where the cemetery is now located. 
He bought a tract of land, and returned to Lex- 
ington. On their return it is likely they came 
up the river to Steubenville. It was thinly 
settled then, but he was a pioneer who was used 
to hard work, and at once felled the trees, and 
built him a log house opposite the one occupied 
now by Levi Pearch. He next built a house of 
brick on the lot where the Methodist Episcopal 
Church now stands. It was torn down, and 
many of the brick were used in the building of 
the church. They made their linen from the 
flax they grew, and their sugar in their camp. 
Mr. Price was a farmer, but much of his time was 
spent in clearing land. He laid out Leesville. 
and at a public dinner the lots were sold at 
auction. In early life he was a Baptist, but later 
became a Lniversalist, and often visited Akron 
to attend their meetings, taking an active part in 
them. He lived a life of usefulness, and died 
honored by all. His sons settled principally 
near Leesville, but a few have gone West, of 
whom we have no record. 

James Price deserves special mention, be- 
cause he is the father of a large family of chil- 
dren who are identified with the history of Lees- 
• ville. He first saw the light of day at Lexing- 
ton, Ky., November 17, 1799, and is now in 
his ninety-second year. He came up the river 
with his father when about two years old, in a 
row-boat. When they stopped for dinner he 
was left on the bank, and was not missed until 




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they were several miles up the stream. He 
aided in clearing the land wben a hoy, and 
afterward learned the trade of -cabinetmaker, 
of which he was master. On June 14, 1821, he 
married Mary Holmes, daughter of Isaac and 
Elizabeth Holmes, and their married life was of 
an affectionate character. She died October 2, 
1865, and a few years later he married Mrs. 
Gartrell. This marriage, like the former, re- 
sulted happily. Mrs. Price is still living, but 
is an invalid requiring constant attention. His 
life has been a long one. He has seen cities 
established where forests stood, and the few 
friendly Indians gradually disappear in the face 
of modern civilization. He is older than the 
State of Ohio, and has seen State after State 
added to the cluster that forms the greatest 
Republic of the world. He has seen the comforts 
of those whom he was interested in increase, and 
pianos and organs take the place of spinning 
wheels. He is a grand old man, with a life as 
good as it has been long. Ninety-two years is 
not a small space of time, but in all these years 
he never broke a law of his country. Well may 
his children feel proud of such an ancestor, and 
Leesville honor him whose daily life added to 
the dignity of private citizenship. He is not a 
man of big pretensions and great ideas of his 
own importance, but a modest, intellectual man 
who has reached his ideal and embodied the 
truths of Christianity in his life without its 
form. His children are Clun, Sarah, Elizabeth, 
John, Susan, Samuel E., Bazaleel, Isaac T. , 
Rezin and James O, of whom we give sketches. 
Clun Price was born April 2, 1822; he re- 
ceived a common-school education and took up 
the study of medicine with Dr. Smith, of 
Moorefield, Ohio; afterward graduated from the 
Cincinnati Medical College. With his profess- 
ion came a competency, and he married Miss 
Linda Hines, and located at Birmingham. He 
is the father of Merideth O, Galen, John, Will, 
Tude and Linnie. The men are all familiar 
with the dry-goods business, which they follow. 
The daughters are women of whom their rela- 
tives are justly proud. In politics Mr. Price is 



a Republican, as are all the Prices with but few 
exceptions. In religion he is a leader in the 
Methodist Church. 

Sarah, born November 3, 1823, has been a 
popular woman, entertaining, and the possessor 
of a peculiar goodness that gave distinction to 
her home and family. On April 20, 1843, she 
married Amos Carr, a teacher, surveyor and 
merchant. He was a natural leader among 
men, influential because he was worthy of the 
confidence imposed in him. Their children are 
Lorin, Ermina, Annie, Ada V. , Lish and Lou. 
. . . .Lorin was born in 1851. We can pay him 
no greater compliment than to say that he 
inherited many of the traits of character of his 
worthy father. His early life was spent in 
school, and, following the footsteps of his 
father, he engaged in the mercantile business. 
He completed the study of law, was admitted to 
the bar, but abandoned his profession to accept 
a clerkship in the Ohio House of Representa- 
tives. His political influence secured him, later, 
a position in the railroad mail service which he 
now holds, and is among the most proficient. 
In November, 1875, he married Lillian Hunt, 
and they have a family of two boys and one 
girl, now in school at Canton .... Ermina, born 
February 2, 1856. More than ordinary gifts 
were bestowed upon her, and she was carefully 
educated for the position she now holds among 
the cultured and the refined. In 1871 she 
married Alfred Canaga, of the United States 
Navy, now professor of naval tactics at Cornell 
University. They have one boy, Bruce, around 
whom their hopes cluster .... Annie was born 
October 25, 1858, and early in life married C. 
M. Rippeth, a successful and popular merchant. 
They have one child, Mina, yet in school, who 
stands high in her classes. . . .Ada V., born De- 
cember 24, 1859, was educated at Baltimore 
(Md.) public schools, Scio College, and Valpa- 
raiso (Ind.) Normal, from which institution she 
graduated. She is a woman of intellectual 
attainments, who has found pleasure and profit 
in scholarly pursuits. She is also the possessor 
of a womanly character scarcely rivaled, and has 



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many friends, among pupils and parents .... 
Lish was born May 15, 1865, attended Lees- 
ville schools, and afterward graduated from 
Campbell University, Holton, Kas. She mar- 
ried W. F. Holmes, a popular farmer near 
Leesville . . . . Lou, born April 24, 1867, grad- 
uated from the Clinton (Mo.) public schools, 
attaining the highest grade of scholarship. On 
October 22, 1888, she married A. D. Walker, an 
attorney at law and speculator, of Holton, Kas. 

Susan Price, born August 20, 1825, died 
October 16, 1855. Between these dates might 
be recorded the events of a noble life whose 
many acts of kindness endeared her to her peo- 
ple and friends. 

Elizabeth, born January 17, 1827, married 
Ecton Koby, son of John H. Koby, both of 
whom are dead. Their representatives are 
Maud (who married Webster Herron, whose 
industry has placed him at the head of one of 
the largest industries of Columbus), Eva (who 
married Charles Wheaton, of South Bend, 
Ind.), and Meritt (who is a salesman in one of 
the Territories). 

Johu Price, born October 12, 1829, became 
a millwright when a young man, and went 
West IjO make his way by virtue of his own 
energies. He secured employment at Taylor- 
ville, 111. , and soon formed a partnership in the 
milling business. His success has been com- 
mensurate with his zeal; his business has 
extended over several States, and is lucrative. 
He married Miss Hattie Cogle, and they are 
without children. 

Samuel E. Price, born October 31, 1831, 
received his education at Hopedale College, 
where he was known as the " bachelor student." 
After leaving school he taught for awhile, and 
later read law with Judge Hance, of New Phila- 
delphia. He married Miss Carrie Smith, 
principal of the New Philadelphia schools, and 
moved to Clinton, Mo., to practice his profes- 
sion. He and his wife have been active in edu- 
cational work — he as president of the board of 
education, and she as principal. In his pro- 
fession he has shown marked ability and him- 



self to be a man of method aod firmness, prompt 
in discharge of duties intrusted to him. He 
has won the confidence of business men, and 
reaped for himself the rewards which an honor- 
able profession always brings to those who 
faithfully discharge its duties. He is, perhaps, 
the only lawyer in Missouri who neither smokes, 
chews nor swears. His equal would be hard to 
find, for in many ways has he taught us all 
lessons of moral and financial wisdom. He has 
one son studying architecture in Colorado 
Springs. 

Bazaleel Price, born October 8, 1833, re- 
ceived a common-school education, and began 
life as a clerk in his brother-in-law's (Amos 
Carr) store, at Leesville. and later became pro- 
prietor. He was a competent, courteous sales- 
man, a gentleman in language and deportment, 
and for many years was well known in Harrison 
and Carroll Counties as a merchant without re- 
proach. In business matters he was a man of 
strict integrity, who yielded not to the consider- 
ation of policy,, and but few men can look back 
upon a more useful and honorable career. He 
was a strong Abolitionist, and did valuable serv- 
ice in the anti-slavery cause. He was an en- 
thusiastic Republican until Horace Greeley en- 
gaged in a sham battle with the nation's " hero," 
Grant, when he supported him, and has since 
voted the Democratic ticket. He neither wished 
nor sought an office, but without his knowledge 
he was nominated for auditor. There was a big 
majority against him, but he cut it down one- 
half, receiving: at his home the largest vote ever 
given any candidate from the township. On 
August 7, 1856, he married Miss Jennie Burr, 
daughter of the late Dr. Joseph S. Burr, and 
they have three children, Orrin, Wendell and 
William. . . .Orrin was born February 24, 1S5Q, 
married Miss Clara Finney, October 30, 1879. 
For years he has had charge of one of the de- 
partments of Joseph Home's dry -goods store, 
who does the largest business of any company 
in Pittsburgh. He commands over one thous- 
and three hundred dollars a year, and is 
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has a similar position with Giddings Bros. 
& Bent, of Colorado Springs .... Wendell, born 
October 15, 1860, graduated from the North- 
ern Ohio University in 1883. On August 
28, 1889, he married Miss Florence Head, an 
accomplished musician, and graduate of the 
same school. Mr. Price is now principal of 
Leesville public school. 

James C. Price was born November 15, 1835. 
At the age of eighteen he learned the trade of 
brick- laying, and followed the business of con- 
tracting of churches, schools and public build- 
ings. In 1859, during the Pike's Peak gold 
excitement, he with three others from the vicin- 
ity of Leesville, thinking how nice it would be 
to dig the gold out of the hill in place of toiling 
for it here, after some one else had done the 
digging, concluded to try their luck as gold 
hunters, and, collecting a few things together, 
they started by way of Steubenville, taking deck 
passage to St. Louis and Kansas City, where 
they bought an outfit for the trip, consisting of 
a wagon, two yoke of cattle and one year's pro- 
visions. Having arrangements all complete, 
they connected themselves, for safety, with a 
wagon train of fourteen teams and seventy men, 
with plenty to eat and drink on the long and 
tedious journey of seven weeks across the 
plains. They pulled in to what is now Denver 
City, then only a Government post-office. After 
resting themselves and teams for a few days, 
they pushed on to the gold fields, only to meet 
thousands disgusted with the prospect of finding 
gold, and devising all manner of means to make 
their way back to the States. So great was 
their disappointment that out of the seventy of 
the party only four remained, and they were 
soon separated. Mr. Price, with a young man 
from Vermont, opened up a claim in what was 
then called Kussel's Gulch, where they worked 
five men at two dollars and fifty cents a day 
and board. One being enough to look after 
the working of the claim, Mr. Price spent 
his time prospecting between Mountain City 
and Pike's Peak, and to the head of the 
Arkansas Biver. In the fall they returned 



to the States for winter quarters, again returning 
to the mines as before. In 18b 1 Mr. Price re- 
turned to Ohio, and in 1862 enlisted in the Forty- 
third O. V. I. At the close of the war he did 
contract work in Cadiz, Uhrichsville and New 
Philadelphia. He married Miss Martha En- 
glish, of Mastersville, and has since made his 
home at Leesville, where he is the proprietor 
of the United States Hotel. Their children are 
Burdell, Neva, De Forest and Fay. 

Judge Isaac T. Price was born November 
27, 1837. Blessed with a liberal education, he 
took up the study of law. He was admitted to 
the bar in Ohio, moved to Holton, Kas., where 
he soon found clients and friends. His ability 
was of a high order, and easily won his election 
three times as probate judge. He has a family 
of four girls: Effie, Ella, Myrtle and Floy, all 
of whom are educated and conscientiously 
trained for the duties of life. 

Bezin Price, born February 26, 1840, by 
trade is a wood-workman. For a number of 
years he was engaged in the furniture and 
undertaking business. He is now employed in 
the Edna Piano and Organ factory, at Monroe- 
ville. He enlisted in the late Bebellion, and 
endured his share of hardships of army life. 
He married Miss Jennie Kail, daughter of 
Mary E. Kail, the popular poetess and song 
writer, and they have an interesting family of 
three daughters and two sons, viz. : Effie (at 
present a music teacher), Pearl, Meritt, Orlo 
(all three yet in school) and Marie (not two 
years old). 

Merideth C. Price was born May 25, 1846, 
and when two years old was adopted by his 
grandfather, James Price, Sr. , under whose 
care he grew to manhood. Fired with patriot- 
ism he laid down his books at his country's call, 
and enlisted in February, 1864, when a boy of 
seventeen, in Company A, Eightieth O. V. I., 
and was assigned a place as drummer boy. 
What he lacked in years he made up in pluck, 
and with the rest shared the many hardships of 
war, particularly the famous march to the sea. 
At the close of the war July 8, 18(55, he received 



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his discbarge. When he returned home he en- 
tered Mount Union College, and there remained 
until 1867, when he took charge of the dry- 
goods business of his uncle, Baz. W. Price. 
He remained with his uncle until 1874, when he 
engaged in the jewelry and music business, 
where the office of his present building is lo- 
cated. There he remained one year, when he 
bought out a stock of general merchandise in the 
old Millisack corner, and remained until the fall 
of 1878, when he purchased the Crawford corner 
and erected a model business block at a cost of 
nearly ten thousand dollars. Seeing the advant- 
age of a newspaper, he established the Times, and 
later on also published the Plaindealer from the 
Times office. On December 5, he sold his stock 
to A. F. Kail for twenty thousand dollars, and be- 
came the largest stockholder and also manager 
of the Edna Piano and Organ Company, of Mon- 
roeville, whose buildings and stock represent a 
capital of sixty thousand dollars. He is the best 
known business man of Leesville, whose enter- 
prise has been largely due to his efforts. He is 
by far the largest real-estate owner in town, 
paying more than double the tax of any other 
citizen. More than a dozen times has he been 
elected to offices of trust. Sometimes the con- 
test was spirited, yet, strange to say, he was 
never defeated. Mr. Price has been a favorite, 
not only with voters, but with all who knew him, 
with the families he visited and the men he 
associated with in business. He is a good con- 
versationalist, with marked persuasive powers, 
to which his success as a salesman has been 
largely due. His business shows him to be a 
man of an unparalleled energy that has enabled 
him to dispatch an amazing amount of business, 
and to inspire his employes with the same en- 
thusiasm. These mixtures — energy, ability, 
tact, a thorough knowledge of men and busi- 
ness — were the foundation upon which he built. 
He grasped at deals no other man would attempt, 
and when failure was predicted he succeeded. 
It is characteristic of him that he has always 
been warm-hearted, generous and liberal, often 
accommodating others at a sacrifice to himself, 



and, as has been truthfully said of him, no man 
was ever refused a favor when it was within his 
power to grant it. These have won for him the 
admiration of all, and he will long be remem- 
bered, not by his building which stands a 
monument to his push and energy, but by the 
many acts of benevolence and kindness that 
others like to recall, and which increase with 
time as rivalry and envy cease to exist. We 
clip the following from the county papers, which 
show what others think and say of M. C. Price: 

M. C. Price. When, in 1872. B. W. Price sold bis 
dry-goods business and goodwill to Rippeth <fc (an. 
M. C. Price, who for many years had charge of his 
business, undertook to establish a jewelry and - musical 
trade. It was not long an experiment, but a success. 
His genial nature made him friends and customers, 
and his business training from childhood gave him the 
ability to change his stock often. He changed his 
business to dry goods and clothing, which was like- 
wise a triumph. He began to think of owning a 
building of his own suited to the demands of this 
growing trade. He never talked of what he was 
going to do, but always did what was unexpected. 
The corner occupied by the Crawford Hotel was pur- 
chased, removed, and in its stead was erected his late 
store — the pride of the town and the best in our count}-. 
His business was conducted on the broadest scale. 
Bold and impetuous, he bought the stocks of other 
merchants who had failed, and car-loads of organs, 
machinery, buggies and sewing machines, farms and 
real estate of all kinds with a dash that seemed reck- 
less, but his unbounded energy always found a cus- 
tomer for what he 'had to sell. 

Nothing but extraordinary talent and a thorough 
knowledge of the wants of the people could build up 
a business like he had, which is the largest of any vil- 
lage in eastern Ohio; but he surprised us all Monday 
by selling it out to take charge of the sales depart- 
ment of the Edna Piano and Organ Company, of 
Monroeville, in which he is largely interested. He has 
a good thing, and knows it, and enters this new enter- 
prise with the utmost zeal, and will push it with the 
skill that has made him successful when others t ailed. 
It has been truthfully said that he never tried to crush 
a rival, but only to lead; he aimed not to drive to the 
wall a small business, but rather to assist, and both 
business men and customers regret to lose him, and 
wish him the success in the future that has attended 
him in the past. 

For years M. C. Price has been the central figure 
in Leesville's business circle, the head and shoulders 
of push and improvement. Some fifteen or more 
years ago, from being a clerk in his uncle's store he 
launched out for himself in merchandising. We all 
know of his almost phenomenal rise, until he attained 
the enviable position he now holds. A short lime ago 
he sold his entire stock to A. F. Kail, and became one 
of the incorporators and heaviest stockholders in the 
Edna Organ Company, located at Monroeville, Ohio. 
At a recent meeting of the incorporation he was unan- 
imously chosen general superintendent and manager 
of sales, two positions for which he is admirably 
adapted. Being virtually a self-made man, he com- 
bines the qualifications of a careful, conscientious 





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business man. with pusli and energy, and is eminently 
suited to these posts of trust. 



JOHN GRUNDER, one of the oldest, best 
known and highly esteemed agriculturists 
of Brown Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, but 
now retired and residing in Minerva, is a 
native of the township, born on the old home- 
stead September 11, 1830. At an early day his 
grandfather, Jacob Grander, came from Switz- 
erland with his family of two sons and three 
daughters (his wife bad died in Switzerland) to 
American soil and settled in Brown Township, 
Carroll (then Colnmbiana) County, where he 
entered Government land, the place being at 
that time a very forest wilderness — wolves, deer, 
panthers, bears and other wild animals roaming 
the woods comparatively unmolested. Here he 
passed the remainder of his useful life, dying at 
the advanced age of eighty-seven years. As 
said above, he brought with him two sons and 
three daughters, and of these one son and one 
daughter remained in Philadelphia, which city 
the family had stopped at after arrival in the 
country. The second child in order of birth was 
Jacob, who was born in Switzerland in 1798, 
and came with his father to Brown Township. 
He married Elizabeth Kail, also a native of 
Switzerland, who came to America with her 
parents, John and Elizabeth Kail, locating in 
Washington Township, now in Carroll County, 
and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Grander then built for 
themselves a log cabin on his father's farm, but 
on the death of her parents they moved to the 
Kail homestead in Washington Township. Here 
they resided the rest of their days, Mr. Gran- 
der dying in 1882, his wife having preceded him 
to the grave about the year 1842, at the age of 
thirty-seven years. He was a member of the 
German Reformed Church, and in polities was 
first an Old-line Whig, then a Republican and 
was an ardent Abolitionist. This honored 
couple were the parents of seven children — three 
sons and four daughters — six of whom are yet 
living, a brief record of whom is as follows: 



Mary is the wife of Christopher Dumbleton, of 
Augusta Township, Carroll County; John is the 
subject proper of this sketch ; Catherine is mar- 
ried to William Cameron, also in Augusta 
Township; Susan is the wife of Joseph Snively, 
of Washington Township, Carroll County; 
Daniel lives on the Kail homestead in Carroll 
County; Jacob lives in Brown Township. 

John Grander, the gentleman whose name 
opens this sketch, was ten years old when his 
parents moved into Washington Township. He 
attended the subscription school of the neighbor- 
hood as opportunity offered, and when old enough 
began to assist his parents in the duties of the 
farm. He would often take the horse (for they 
had but one) and ride to mill with a grist, or to 
Lisbon for groceries, etc. He remembers many 
a time in his boyhood pulling and scutching flax, 
which his mother would weave into clothes. He 
wore homespun, and plowed with a yoke of 
oxen, the plow being a home-made wooden one — 
everything, in fact, about the farm was of a very 
primitive character. On January 18, 1855, he 
was married to Ann Dumbleton, a native of Car- 
roll County, Ohio, born in Augusta Township. 
Her parents, John and Sarah Dumbleton, were 
natives of England, whence they emigrated to 
this country in an early day, becoming early 
residents of Augusta, afterward settling in 
Brown Township, in a little log cabin. Mr. 
Dumbleton commenced life with an old shilling 
his grandfather had given him, and he followed 
his trade, that of carpenter, up to the time of 
his marriage. 

For six years after marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Grander lived on rented land, and then bought 
210 acres, all well improved, the property being 
part of the homestead. In April, 18S9, they 
moved into the village of Minerva, where they 
now reside. They had born to them four sons, 
named as follows: Lawrence, in Brown Town- 
ship; Alvin, a member of the hardware firm of 
Roller, Taylor & Grander, in Minerva; Jesse, 
on the farm, and James, in Minerva. Politically 
Mr. Grander is an active Republican, and has 
been superintendent and school director. 



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It RWIN W. THOMPSON, one of the wealthy 
and well-known farmers of Brown Town- 
__[ ship, Carroll County, was born June 12, 
1836, and is a son of Robert Thompson. 
His life long days have been passed on the farm 
he at present occupies. He early began his busi- 
ness career, and his success has been most satis- 
factory as well as creditable to himself. Octo- 
ber 12, 1887, he married Miss Corda, daughter 
of Robert and Mary Ann (Hildreth) Barnes, 
former of Iowa, but at one time a resident of 
Waynesburg, Ohio, latter of New York. 

Mr. and Mrs. Thompson began their mar- 
ried life in the house which had been erected 
by Mr. Thompson's father, and which is one of 
the landmarks in the beautiful valley in which 
it is located. Mr. Thompson has just completed 
a large stock and grain barn, which is a model 
in its wav, and is considered to be one of the 
finest in that section of the country. Mr. Thomp- 
son has been a life-long member of the Presby- 
terian Church, and has ever taken an active 
interest in its advancement, and has been a 
liberal contributor to its support, of which church 
Mrs. Thompson is also a member. Mr. Thomp- 
son also takes a lively interest in all movements 
looking to the improvement of his locality, and 
to the enhancement of the comfort and happi- 
ness of his neighbors. His farm comprises 430 
acres, and is very productive under his careful 
supervision and management. 




It DAM CLARK JACKMAN, for fifty- six 
\\ years a resident of Lee Township, Car- 
|^ roll Co. , Ohio, where he was born De- 
cember 24, 1S34, is one of the most 
progressive and successful agriculturists in this 
part of the State. His grandfather, John Jack- 
man, was a native of Ireland, and came to the 
United States at an early date. He was mar- 
ried to Margaret Morton, and they made their 
first settlement in West Virginia, where they re- 
mained till 1S02, in which year they came to 
the newly created State, Ohio, locating in Jef- 
ferson County until 1806, when they entered 



land now known as the " Cogsil Farm." The 
names of their children are as follows: Jane, 
Edward, John, Robert and Adam. The father 
died in 1830; in politics he was a Whig. Adam 
Jackman, father of the subject of this bio- 
graphical sketch, was born in West Virginia, 
where his early life was spent, and in 1802 
came to Jefferson County, Ohio, with his par- 
ents. He here married Mary, daughter of Isaac 
Miller, a resident of Jefferson County, and to 
this union were born Margaret, now in Canton, 
Ohio; Robert, in Waynesburg, Ohio; Isaac M., 
in De Kalb County, Ind. ; Susan, deceased; 
Adam C. ; Mary A., in Amsterdam, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio, and John, in Lee Township, Carroll 
County. In 1816 Adam Jackman moved to 
Stark County, same State, where he remained 
six years, and then came to Lee Township, 
where he passed the remainder of his life, dy- 
ing in 1863, his widow following him to "the 
better land" in 1878. They were members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which So- 
ciety, at Harlem Springs, he was one of the 
founders, and he held various offices in the 
same; in politics he was a firm Democrat, and 
before moving to Stark County he was elected 
justice of the peace; while in that county he 
was chosen to a similar position, in which he 
served six years; on his return to Lee Town- 
ship he was re-elected, serving twenty-one con- 
secutive years, and during all this long incum- 
bency he never had a decision reversed. 

Adam Clark Jackman attended the common 
schools of his neighborhood during winters, 
performing his share in the duties of the farm 
in the summer months. On August 27, 1856, 
he was united in the bonds of matrimony with 
Rachel, daughter of John and Sarah Robins, of 
Lee Township, Carroll County, and they have 
been blessed with the following named children: 
Edwin Janes, deceased; John Robins; Sarah 
Ida; Mary Alice, and Sherden Baker. The 
family are leading members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Chestnut Ridge. Mr. Jack- 
man, in addition to plain farming, pays con- 
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some of his time to the breeding of trotting 
horses. His farm is situated about three miles 
from Harlem Springs, and is under excellent 
cultivation. In politics Mr. Jackman is a 
Democrat, has served his party faithfully, and 
ha^ lilled the office of trustee several terms. 



J I AMES A. LAWRENCE, another of the 
| prominent and progressive young farmers 
r of Lee Township, Carroll County, was 
born in Carroll County, Ohio, April 7, 
1855. a son of Richard and Ann (Park) Law- 
rence. He received his education at the common 
schools of the neighborhood, and at the college 
in Harlem Springs, which he attended several 
terms. At the age of twenty he commenced 
teaching, a profession he followed in connection 
with farming for eight years. On April 30, 
1877, he was married to Miss Mina M. born 
October 10, 1858, daughter of Charles and Mary 
(Parks) Oliver, of Trumbull County, Ohio. Mr. 
Oliver is a native of Holland, and while a young 
man he commenced a seafaring life, a vocation 
he followed much after coming to America, 
chiefly on the Great Lakes, but is now retired 
on a farm, where he is peacefully spending his 
latter years. After coming to the United States 
he became united in marriage with Mary Parks, 
who bore him twelve children, named as follows: 
William C. , Jennie, Maggie, Mary A., Frank 
F., Mina M., David D., Emma, Edwin, Edward, 
Ella and Nettie. The family are all members 
of the Disciples Church, and in politics Mr. 
Oliver is a Democrat of the old Jacksonian type. 
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence 
settled on the farm which he still occupies in 
Lee Township, and where he carries on with 
well deserved success agriculture in all its 
branches, including the raising of stock. Two 
children have been born to them, Mary Blanche, 
born January 31, 1885, and Homer Kingsley, 
born January 23, 1887. Mr. Lawrence and 
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Harlem Springs, in which he has 
held various offices, such as class leader and 



steward, and of the Sunday-school of which he 
is superintendent. In 1883 he was elected 
lay delegate from Harlem Springs charge to 
the East Ohio Confererice which met at Canton. 
He has always been an uncompromising Dem- 
ocrat, but has never failed to command the 
confidence and esteem of his political oppo- 
nents; for three and one-half years he has 
acceptably filled the office of township clerk, 
and has also served as assessor, two terms. -In 
18S9 he was elected appraiser of his township, 
running sixty-six ahead of his ticket, the vote 
for governor, at same election giving a Repub- 
lican majority of twenty-four. Well known, 
his many excellent qualities have endeared him 
to a large circle of friends, and he takes a just 
pride in the financial success his honest efforts 
have secured him. 



^TS) G- RAMSEY, a highly respected agri- 
h^\( culturist and ex-school teacher, of Fox 
j^ Township, Carroll County, was born in 
•f/ Washington County, Penn., November 

18, 1817, a son of Mitchell and Ann (George) 
Ramsey, both of Scotch-Irish descent, and na- 
tives of Pennsylvania. The father was reared 
to agricultural pursuits on his father's farm, and 
all his life followed husbandry. He was married 
in Washington County, Penn., to Miss Anna 
George, who bore him seven children — four 
sons and three daughters, viz. : R. G., James, 
Thomas, Mary, William, Christina and Ann 
Eliza. The father died in 1857, and the mother 
in 1882. Mr. Ramsey was a leading farmer of 
Washington County, Penn., and took an active 
interest in all measures tending to the public 
good, being recognized as a most useful, able 
and progressive citizen. 

The subject of this sketch attended, in his 
boyhood and early youth, the subscription 
schools of his neighborhood, proving himself a 
diligent student and apt scholar; and his fond- 
ness for books and desire to drink deep at the 
" Pierian Spring" were so great that he would 
spend his evenings at study, often far into the 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



night. When he considered himself competent, 
he turned his attention to school teaching. When 
twenty- seven years old (in 1844) he and his 
brother, James, came to Ohio, where each bought 
a farm, that of our subject comprising 160 acres 
of well-improved land, provided with a com- 
fortable dwelling, commodious barns, etc., and 
situated in Fox Township, Carroll County. Mr. 
Ramsey was married in 1844 to Miss Margaret 
Ann McLaughlin, born June 3, 1824, whose 
parents, James and Nancy McLaughlin, were 
early settlers of the county, and to this union 
were born eight children, as follows: James (de- 
ceased), James W. , Robert M. , Anna M. , Will- 
iam A., Nancy M., John M. and Lizzie Jane. 
The family are members of the United Presby- 
terian Church; in politics Mr. Ramsey is a 
stanch Republican, and has served in many offices 
of trust and responsibility, both in Church and 
State. He has been eminently successful, both 
as an agriculturist and as a' school teacher, and 
in connection with the first-named vocation he 
gives special attention to the raising of blooded 
stock, more particularly sheep. Prior to coming 
to Ohio, and for several years afterward, he 
taught school, his system of teaching and ami- 
ability of character being such as to endear him 
to his pupils, many of whom, now perhaps gray- 
haired men and women, still hold him in the 
most affectionate respect. 



rt( LBERT R. HAINES, one of the most 
[j \\ prominent and influential citizens of Car- 
l/§\ roll County, was born in Brown Town- 
■fj ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, September 15, 

1826, and his home has since been made within 
the confines of his native county. His antece- 
dents or ancestors have to some degree been lost 
in the obscurity of the past. The first clearly 
defined ancestor of all the Haines (who spell their 
names " Haines"), was Jacob Haines (mentioned 
in the Bancroft History of the United States), 
who crossed the Atlantic in the same ship with 
William Penn, early in the seventeenth century, 
and settled Philadelphia. He was a Quaker, 



and like William Penn, a follower of George 
Fox, the Quaker minister and the founder of 
that denomination or sect of Christians. They 
were persecuted in England for their religious 
belief, and were called " dissenters, " and on this 
account they emigrated to America. 

Jacob Haines was a single man when he ar- 
rived on this continent; but certain it is that he 
married a woman of the colony, and of the same 
religious persuasion as himself. The offspring 
of this marriage were sons — Joshua, John, 
Isaac and Jacob. These sons intermarried and 
had sons and daughters, who resided in Chester 
County, Penn., for several generations. Short- 
ly prior to the Revolutionary War there were 
three sons of one Jacob Haines (a lineal descend- 
ant of the Jacob Haines who emigrated with 
William Penn from England, as above stated), 
whose names were Joshua, John, Isaac and 
Jacob. These sons emigrated to different parts 
of the colonies and never met each other again. 

Joshua, the grandfather of Abner Haines, who 
was a lawyer and judge of the courts of Preble 
County, Ohio, and who served a term in the 
Ohio Senate with the subject of this sketch, had 
sons — John (father of Judge Abner Haines), 
Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, Joshua, Job and Nehe- 
miah. The brothers of Judge Abner Haines 
were Joshua, Job, Samuel and Jacob. Of the 
other brothers our information is that John and 
Isaac emigrated to the colony of Virginia, 
where they settled and raised families, and 
whose descendants are now scattered over the 
continent. Many of them were engaged in 
iron works and became wealthy. The other 
brother, Jacob, emigrated to the colony of Mary- 
land, and settled in Frederick County, where he 
raised a family, many of whom emigrated west, 
mostly to Ohio. Albert R. Haines is a great- 
grandson of one Jacob Haines who resided in 
Frederick County, Md., and died in the year 
1820, and whose wife, Esther, died in the year 
1804. We believe by careful investigation and 
research that Jacob Haines, great-grandfather 
of Albert R. Haines, is the same Jacob Haines 
who emigrated from Chester County, Penn., to 




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Frederick County, Mil, at an early date. The 
offspring of Jacob and Lis wife, whose name was 
Esther, were sons — John, Abraham, Isaac, 
Jacob and Henry. John, Abraham and Isaac 
emigrated to Ohio in about the year 1816, and 
settled in Stark and Carroll Counties. Jacob 
ilied while young, and Henry died at an ad- 
vanced age in Frederick County, Md. John 
Haines entered into matrimony with Margaret 
Castleberry, in Frederick County, Md. , about 
the year 1797. " She was a daughter of Benja- 
min and Julia Castleberry, who afterward emi- 
grated to Carroll County, Ohio." He was the 
grandfather of Albert R. Haines, and reared a 
family of sons and daughters, their sons being 
Josepb, Jacob and John, and the daughters, 
Rachel, Elizabeth, Margaret, Susan, Catherine 
and Julia. 

Joseph, the father of Albert R. Haines, was 
born in Frederick County, Md. , in the year 
1799, and emigrated with his father and family 
to Ohio (as stated above), in the year 1816, and 
settled near Pekin, Carroll County, on a farm 
when the country was a dense forest with little 
or no improvement, on which fine and well-im- 
proved farm some of the children of the above 
named John Haines, Jr., still reside. In about 
the year 1822 Joseph Haines married Hannah 
Shriver, who lived in the neighborhood. She 
was a daughter of John and Catherine Shriver, 
who emigrated at an early date from Frederick 
County, Md., and brought with them a large 
family of sons and daughters, first settling in 
Columbiana County, Ohio, near New Lisbon, 
and soon after in Stark County, where they died. 
Joseph and Hannah Haines settled on a small 
farm about a mile northwest, of Pekin. There 
were born to them " )ur sons and six daughters, 
the sons being Albert R., John S., Thomas E. 
and Henry, and the daughters Rachel Anne, 
Catherine, Rebecca, Margaret Matilda, Joetta 
and Elizabeth B. The survivors of the family 
at this writing are Albert R., Thomas E., Re- 
becca, Margaret Matilda and Elizabeth B. , and 
of these Albert R. and Margaret Matilda (mar- 
ried to J. D. Thompson) are settled in Carroll 



County, near Malvern, the others being settled 
through Iowa, Montana and Colorado. The 
house in which they were all born still stands in 
a good state of preservation. 

Albert R. Haines, at the age of twenty-two, 
made his first trip away from home, which was 
to Wayne County, 111. He traveled by buggy, 
on foot, and by steamboat on the Ohio river. 
About the first business he did for himself was 
to teach school in Fairfield, the county seat of 
Wayne County. The country was quite new, 
and there were but few school- houses; he taught 
in a room in a court-house. His father taking 
sick he was called home, but his father had died 
and was buried the day before he reached home. 
He then for several years worked the home farm 
and taught school in the neighborhood, after 
which he clerked in the store of Joseph Poole & 
Co., in Minerva, Ohio, and later for Morledge 
& Perdue; then after a short time he entered 
into partnership with William and Jeremiah 
Unkefer in a general store, and continued 
several years. In the fall of the year 185") Mr. 
Haines removed to Malvern, where he conducted 
a general country store, keeping everything the 
farmers needed, and buying all kinds of prod- 
uce. The store belonged to a joint-stock 
company, he being general agent and stock- 
holder. The business prospered, and in a few 
years, after several changes he bought out the 
whole business, and conducted it upon his own 
account. After being fairly successful he 
bought the farm upon which he now resides, 
called " Church Hill Farm," moved upon it, and 
improved it in a modern way, and it is now one 
of the finest resident farms in the county. 
After removing to the farm", besides conducting 
it, he took considerable interest in politics, and 
several times engaged in mercantile pursuits in 
Malvern. In the fall of 1857, while in business 
in Malvern, he was married to Almira Harsh, 
daughter of Leonard Harsh, Esq., of Harrison 
Township, Carroll County. They were united 
in marriage at the residence of her father on 
the farm upon which she was born, Rev. Alex- 
ander Swaney officiating. 



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Leonard Harsh was born in Washington 
■County, Penn., whence he moved to Carroll 
County when a young man, and lived until his 
•death on the farm upon which he settled. He was 
a man of more than ordinary ability in his day; 
he acted as justice of the peace for twenty- 
live years; was a member of the State Board 
■of Equalization, and a member of the General 
Assembly of Ohio for two terms, at different 
times. In every respect Mr. Harsh was a 
thorough business man, and accumulated con- 
siderable means. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Haines made a trip to New York and other 
eastern cities. There were born to them four 
daughters: Lula Hannah, Jettie Lilian, Minnie 
Albert and Carrie Elizabeth, Lula and Jettie 
ibeing born in Malvern, and Minnie and Carrie 
■on Church Hill Farm. Lula and Carrie grad- 
uated at the Female Seminary of Steubenville, 
Ohio; Jettie attended the University at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and Minnie spent two years at Steu- 
benville and one at Wooster, Ohio, Lula was 
married to J. T. Wallace, of Ouray, Colo. ; they 
now reside in Denver, same State, and have one 
son, Albert Haines Wallace. Jettie married 
Williard J. Combs, of Malvern, Ohio, and now 
resides in Altoona, Iowa. 

This family in religion is Presbyterian, and 
in politics Democratic. Mr. Haines' ancestors 
for generations back were strong adherents of 
the Democratic party, and were true and con- 
sistent professors of religion, his father having 
been an elder and exhorter in the Disciples 
Church for twenty-five years or more. Mr. 
Haines has always been an aggressive, working 
and sound Democrat. He was ever elated over 
victories, and never discouraged by defeat. He 
has attended many County and State conven- 
tions; was presidential elector on the Greeley 
ticket in 1872; visited Samuel J. Tilden at his 
Gramacy Park residence in New York City in 
1870, who he believed was elected instead of R. 
33. Hayes; attended the inauguration of Grover 
Cleveland in Washington in 1885; represented 
the Eighteenth Congressional District as dele- 
gate to the National Democratic Convention 



held in the city of St. Louis in 1888, where 
Grover Cleveland was renominated; was elected 
to offices in his township and county, and rep- 
resented the Twenty-first Senatorial District, 
called the " Carroll- Stark District." He is a 
strong advocate of the working classes and 
farmers; is liberal with his political party, also 
the church and his family. His business often 
called him from home, which gave him quite a 
knowledge of this country. He traveled 
through the eastern, southern and western 
States, journeying over and along the Rocky 
Mountains and through Canada. In the fall of 
1889 he crossed the Atlantic, landing at Queens- 
town, Ireland, traveled through England, 
France, Italy, Switzerland and Scotland, visited 
the great cities of the world, London, Paris, 
Genoa, Rome, Venice, Glasgow, etc. His wife 
and daughters have also visited the Atlantic 
coast cities, taking in Washington City, Niagara 
Falls, etc. They have also traveled through 
the western States and Territories, and along 
the range of the Rocky Mountains, visiting and 
spending some time at the great National Yel- 
lowstone Park in Wyoming Territory, also 
Helena, Salt Lake City, Leadville, Ouray, Den- 
ver, Chicago, and many other large and impor- 
tant cities. Mr. Haines has taken but little 
part or interest in military matters. In this he 
believes, as did his illustrious ancestors, that the 
general diffusion of civilization, education, 
morals and religion ought to so elevate and 
enlighten all nations that they "should learn 
war no more," but live in perpetual peace and 
prosperity. He believes that countries and 
governments, morally and religiously, have no 
more right to settle their differences of opinion 
and disputes by the shedding of blood than 
communities and individuals have; but that 
all matters of dispute and misunderstanding 
should and can better be settled and adjusted 
by the justice and wisdom of the people, 
through their leaders and representatives, by 
civil law and arbitration. He is Quaker 
enough to proclaim every day, " Peace hath 
her victories, no less renowned than war," aod 



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philosopher enough to believe with Franklin 
that ' ' There never was a good war, or a bad 
peace. ' ' 

Mr. Haines joined the Ancient Order of Free 
and Accepted Masons when young, and has 
ever since been a zealous member. He holds 
that it was founded upon the Bible, or old 
Scriptures, and that it stands pre-eminently 
higher than any other human society or organi- 
zation, except the church militant, or the Chris- 
tain Church, which he believes holds a place 
far above all other organizations, its influence 
being worldwide, and for the good and salva- 
tion of all. He believes that its influence and 
power for good are much curtailed and injured 
through the lack of honest, faithful, zealous, 
wise and good leaders. Mr. Haines is opposed 
to capital punishment, or punishment by death, 
believing it be uncivilized and unchristian; he 
believes it to be wrong to take human life for 
crime committed, but holds that fallen and err- 
ing humanity should be confined, educated, 
civilized, moralized and Christianized, holding 
that the means and time spent in their convic- 
tion and execution,with other millions of money 
misappropriated, would more than reform, 
convert and save all the criminals of any land 
or country. He also believes in the evolution 
of man and religion. He believes that the 
Grand Architect of the Universe, the Creator of 
all things, He who made ho mistakes, will do 
justice to all. Mr. Haines never used tobacco 
in any form, and is opposed to the use of liquor 
as a beverage. 

Mr. Haines never accumulated a fortune. 
He and his family always lived well and in com- 
fort, and they now own and reside on a nice 
farm in the Sandy Valley. They are well located, 
and have pleasant surroundings. He also owns 
the clay and coal land near Malvern, out of 
which the clay and coal are taken to the Malvern 
Clay Company plant, in which he is an officer 
and stockholder. He also owns several thou- 
sand acres of land in the State of Arkansas, 
with other assets. In conclusion we will say 
that Mr. Haines' only education was received 



in the common schools of his neighborhood, 
where his chances were limited. He is a great 
lover of country life; has a great attachment 
for his own country, his neighborhood, his 
friends and his family — with him, in fact, "there 
is no place like home." 




JLLIAM DRAKE, a worthy representa- 
tive of one of the oldest families of 
M( Lee Township, Carroll County, was 
born July 6, 1841, in that township. 
His grandfather, Cheseman Drake, a native of 
New York, where he resided several years, came 
to Ohio at an early day, dying soon after his 
arrival. Simeon Drake, father of William was 
born in East Springfield, Ohio, and his child- 
hood was spent in Jefferson County until he was 
six years of age, when his family came to Car- 
roll County. In 1833 he was married to Rachel, 
daughter of Thomas Scarlett, and she bore him 
the following named children: Eliza, deceased; 
Ann, Mrs. I. B. Shepherd; William; Rebecca, 
deceased; John; Oliver; and Kate, Mrs. Alex. 
Rennie. The family are members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church at Harlem, of which 
Mr. Drake was one of the founders, a trustee, 
steward, etc. In politics he was first a Whig, 
and afterward, on the formation of the party, a 
Republican. He died March 3, 1874, having 
been preceded to " the other shore " by his wife, 
October 3, 1855. As a financier he was em- 
inently successful, as proven by his exceptional 
prosperity through life. 

William Drake, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was brought up to farm life, attending 
in the winter months the common schools of 
his district. When the war for the Union broke 
out, Mr. Drake hesitated not for a moment to 
offer his services to his country, and enlisted 
December 9, 1861, in Company D, Eightieth O. 
V. V. I., participating in all the battles in which 
his regiment was engaged, including Mission 
Ridge, Iuka, Corinth, Jackson, Champion Hills, 
and the sieges of Corinth, Yicksburg and Reseca. 
Through the explosion of a cannon he lost his 



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hearing in the right ear, the left being also af- 
fected. The regiment was finally sent to Little 
Rock, Ark., where he was mustered out, Au- 
gust 13, 1865, and on the 27th of the same 
month retirrned home, where he resumed the 
labors of peace. On August 20, 1868, he be- 
came united in marriage with Nancy A., daugh- 
ter of the late "William Jackman. of Lee Town- 
ship, Carroll County, who when a child of two 
years was brought from Ireland to Ohio, by his 
father, Henry, who became one of the early 
settlers of Jefferson County. The family of 
Henry Jackman were named William, Henry, 
Andrew, Mary, Nancy and Christian. The 
early life of William Jackman was spent in Jef- 
ferson County, where he was married to Rebec- 
ca Shannon, who bore him seven children, as 
follows: Thomas, Andrew, John, William, 
Nancy, Mary J. and Eliza. For his second wife 
Mr. William Jackman wedded Jane Boyd, and 
to this union were born Nancy A., Violetta and 
Christiana. The family are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also Mr. 
Jackman. In his political relations he was first 
an Old-time Whig, and then a stanch Repub- 
lican from the time of the organization of that 
party. He departed this life in March, 1864. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. William 
Drake settled on the farm in Lee Township, 
where they now reside. The names of their 
children are as follows: John M. (deceased), 
Sarah J., Jessie E., William D. , Thomas B., 
Howard I. and Clement C. All the family are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
in which Mr. Drake has been class leader for 
many years, also trustee and treasurer. Until 
within the past few years he always supported 
the Democratic party, but transferred his vote 
and interest to the Prohibitionists. He has 
served in various offices of trust in his township, 
and in 1869 was nominated for sheriff of the 
county; in 1888 he was nominated by the Pro- 
hibition party for sheriff. Mr. Drake has been 
exclusively engaged in agricultural pursuits, 
and is recognized as one of the progressive and 
influential men of Carroll County. 



JiOHN H. MOORE, produce dealer and 
grain merchant, Leesville, Carroll County, 
I is a native of the county, born April 24, 
1835, in Orange Township. His great- 
grandfather, Elijah Moore, was a native of Eng- 
land, and when young came to this country with 
his parents who settled in Maryland, where they 
followed agricultural pursuits. His boyhood 
and youth were spent on the farm, and soon 
after attaining his majority he was married to 
Ede Harris, by whom he had the following 
named children: James, Horatio, Mary, Eliza- 
beth and Adeline. In 1815 Elijah Moore came 
to Ohio and entered land on which a portion of 
the village of Leesville now stands. He here 
died at an advanced age, and was soon followed 
to the grave by his wife, both being interred in 
the cemetery at Leesville. They were members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he 
was one of the organizers in this section, and in 
politics he was a Whig. 

James Moore, grandfather of our subject, 
was born in Maryland in 1797, and was eight- 
een years old when he came to Ohio with his 
parents. He was married when quite a youth 
to Precious Ann, daughter of Leslie Roby, a 
native of Maryland (a sketch of whom will be 
found elsewhere in this work), and to this union 
were born seven children, viz. : Ellen J. , Atto- 
way, Caleb P., William H. , Thomas J., Mary 
J. and George H. During his residence in 
Ohio Mr. Moore was engaged exclusively in 
farming and stock-raising, and in 1837 he 
passed from earth, followed by his faithful wife 
in 1877. They were consistent members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he 
was a straight Whig. 

Caleb P. Moore, father of John H. , was born 
in Maryland, where he learned the building 
trade, which he followed through life. He 
came to Ohio about the same time as his 
father's family, and settled near the village of 
Leesville, where he was a well-known and pro- 
gressive citizen, held in much esteem by all. 
On March 12, 1834, he was married at Leesville, 
Ohio, to Sarah A., daughter of John Gidley, and 



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by her had the following named children: John 
H., Louisa J., Mary M. , William D. and James 
M, The father died in 1848; the mother is 
still living at an advanced age. 

John H. Moore, of whom this sketch more 
particularly treats, received his school training 
in his native township. He then learned the 
blacksmith and iron-molder trades, and worked 
in the Leesville Foundry, part of the time as 
proprietor of the same, up to the year 1878, ex- 
cepting the year 1S70, when he was one of the 
proprietors of the Sherrodsville Flouring-mills, 
and from 1871 to 1875 he was owner and man- 
ager of the coopering interests at Leesville, 
which up to that time still retained some impor- 
tance as a business. Since 1878 he has been 
engaged in his present business, that of dealer 
in grain and feed, etc., in which he has met with 
a reasonable degree of success; and among the 
producers resident in a large area of the sur- 
rounding country Mr. Moore is widely and favor- 
ably known for his recognized honesty and fair- 
ness in his many dealings, and has made hosts of 
friends. 

He was married October 29, 1857, to Lin- 
dred, daughter of Fendel B. and Nancy Roby, 
of near Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio. The chil- 
dren born to this union were Caleb and John 
(deceased), Ida M. (Mrs. Edgar Adair) and Lidu 
(at home). In the political affairs of the country 
Mr. Moore takes an active interest, and has al- 
ways been an earnest Republican; socially he has 
been a leading member of Orange Lodge, No. 
406, F. & A. M., for the past twenty years, and 
for a number of years he rendered the lodge 
valuable and efficient service as master. 



'ONRAD PEARCH, a farmer of Monroe 
Township, was born in Monroe Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, January 4, 1827, a son 
of John and Elizabeth (Barrick) Pearch. 
His father, John Pearch, was born in Northum- 
berland County, Penn., March 29, 1803, and Con- 
rad Pearch (2), the father of the latter, was born 
in Northumberland County, Penn., August 24, 



1781. Conrad Pearch (1), the father of Conrad 
Pearch (2), was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Ger- 
many, in 1755, and in 1773 came to the United 
States to escape conscription into the German 
army. After his arrival here he was compelled 
to work several years, under the ' ' apprentice- 
ship" system, in payment for his passage. He 
resided in Pennsylvania, married, and reared 
the following named children: John, Joseph, 
Conrad, Catherine and Hannah. By trade Con- 
rad Pearch (1) was a wheelwright, but became a 
farmer, and in 1815 came to Ohio and entered 
the land now owned by Catherine Pearch, where 
he resided until his death, which occurred in 
1839; he was a member of the Lutheran Church. 
His son, Conrad (2), grew to manhood in Penn- 
sylvania, and learned the trade of a wheelwright. 
He married Barbara Essig, who was born March 
4, 1774, and to them were born John, Adam, 
Abraham, Catherine, Jacob, Elizabeth and Jo- 
seph. . In 1815 the father of these children came 
to Ohio in company with his father, and occu- 
pied a quarter section of land. Within a few 
years he erected the residence now occupied by 
his daughter, Catherine Pearch, a sketch of 
whom follows this memoir. He fell dead in his 
barn March 13, 1860. His wife died March 4, 
1849. They were members of the Lutheran 
Church, and politically Mr. Pearch was a Whig 
till 1855, when he became a Republican. 

John Pearch, son of Conrad, last mentioned, 
was twelve years of age when he came to Ohio. 
In 1826 ho married Miss Elizabeth Barrick, 
who was born in October, 1801, a daughter of 
John Barrick, a native of Maryland, and to this 
union were born Conrad, our subject; Cather- 
ine, who resides in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; 
George, deceased; Ann Mary, deceased; John, 
deceased; Jacob, who resides in Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio; Elizabeth, deceased, and Barbara 
Barrick, who resides in Monroe Township. Mrs. 
Elizabeth Pearch, died January 27, 1841, and 
in 1842 Mr. Pearch married Miss Ann M. Bar- 
rick, a sister of his first wife, and who was born 
June 5, 1S14, and died in 1875. To this second 
union were born eight children, viz. : Margaret 



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and Hulda, both deceased; Luther, Melancthon 
and Allen, all three in Sherrodsville; James, in 
Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Lovina and Emma, 
both deceased. Politically Mr. Pearch was a 
Republican; in religion he was a member of the 
Lutheran Church, in which faith he died at Sher- 
rodsville, July 16, 1887. 

Conrad Pearch, whose name opens this 
sketch, grew to manhood in Orange Township, 
and was educated at the district school. On 
June 21, 1849, he married Miss Eliza J. McDivitt, 
who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, April 
25, 1826, daughter of Samuel and Christina 
(Humphrey) McDivitt, to which union were born 
five children, viz. : Margaret A. Rainsberger, 
William J., Elizabeth Beamer, Wintield S., and 
Alice A. Capes. Oq March 31, 1859, Mr. 
Pearch purchased the farm where he now resides, 
containing 113 acres, on which he has made 
many improvements and has erected a fine resi- 
dence. Politically he is a Republican, and has 
served twelve years as justice of the peace. He 
and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and give evidence, in all their 
acts, of the sincerity of their faith. 



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Mi ISS CATHERINE PEARCH, of Mon- 
roe Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, was 
born in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1811, 
a daughter of Conrad and Barbara 
(Essig) Pearch. She was four years old when 
her parents came to Ohio and entered the farm 
of 160 acres, which she now owns. She is one 
of the oldest ladies in Monroe Township, and 
has resided here for seventy-seven years. 



T OHN S. GEORGE was born in Lee Town- 
w. I ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, April 24, 1824. 
\Jl His father, Thomas George, was one of 
those pushing, energetic men who came 
from Washington County, Penn., to find a home 
and fortune in the fertile country of eastern 
Ohio. The George family can trace their origin 
to Alexander George, who left the Emerald Isle 



at a very early period, and became a farmer in 
Pennsylvania. Thomas George, full of the de- 
sire of adventure, coupled with the prospects of 
a home and fortune, left his native State, and 
entered a farm of 160 acres in Lee Township, 
Carroll County. He married Miss Rachel 
Crosky, who was also reared in Pennsylvania, 
and whose parents were of Irish descent. They 
built for themselves a home in the wilderness, 
and a log cabin was their haven of rest. A fam- 
ily of thirteen children was born to them to 
make their otherwise lonesome home a happy 
one. The bear, the wolf and the deer were very 
plentiful at that time, and the wild savage still 
lingered around their old hunting grounds. 
John S. George remembers of hearing his 
mother tell of how she was frightened one night 
by several Indians calling at her lonely home 
for something to eat. Thomas George died in 
Iowa, and Mrs. George in Carroll County. 

John S. George, the subject of this bio- 
graphical sketch, spent the first fifteen years of 
his life on his father's farm, going to the dis- 
trict school in the neighborhood three months 
out of the twelve, and working on the farm in 
the summer time. At the age of fifteen he com- 
menced learning tailoring, of Joseph G. Ken- 
nedy, of Carrollton, Ohio, and after finishing 
his trade, he spent one year at Cadiz and two 
years in Pittsburgh, Penn. ; after which he 
opened a shop at Scroggsfield, Carroll Co. , Ohio, 
where he met and married Miss Sarah J., daugh- 
ter of Robert George (of Scroggsfield, Ohio) and 
Sarah (Ramsey) George (of Washington County, 
Penn.), and who were old pioneers of Carroll 
County. Our subject soon left Scroggsfield, 
and settled in Mechanicstown, where he carried 
on his business for twenty years, in connection 
with farming, and in 1851 moved to his present 
place in Mechanicstown, where he has since re- 
mained. He has a farm of eighty acres of well 
improved laud within the limits of the town. 
In religion he is a member of the United Pres- 
byterian Church, and in politics a Prohibitionist. 
Mr. George's success is the result of labor, 
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and be ever feels it a duty and a privilege to 
help advance any cause tending to the public 
good. Although he never has had any children 
to educate, yet he recognizes the school-house 
and church to be the greatest civilizers mankind 
is blessed with. 



fiOSEPH LOTZ is another of the progres- 
w I sive, well-to-do, native-born agriculturists 
\Jj of Harrison Township, Carroll County. 
His father, Peter Henry Lotz, was born 
near Wetzlar, Prussia, whence, at the age of 
twenty-four years, his father having died, he and 
his mother and two sisters emigrated to Amer- 
ica, taking up their residence in Pennsylvania. 
Here they remained, engaged in farming (which 
had been the occupation of the family in the 
Fatherland), until 1818, in which year Peter H. 
Lotz and his mother came to Ohio, his sisters re- 
maining in Pennsylvania. Here Peter H. Lotz en- 
tered land that is now the fine farm in Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, owned and occupied 
by Calvin Lotz. The place was, when entered 
by Peter H. Lotz, a perfect wilderness, but, 
with the assistance of the family, he soon suc- 
ceeded in reducing it to a condition of fertility. 
Their journey hither was made in a one-horse 
wagon, which contained all their effects, and, 
after many days of weary travel, they arrived 
at their cabin, which had neither floor, door nor 
windows, simple openings in the sides of the 
building answering the purpose of the latter; 
however, it was not long before their busy hands 
transformed it into a comfortable and com- 
modious dwelling. Peter Lotz had married, in 
Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Netz, who bore him 
fourteen children, five of whom are yet living, 
viz. : Adam, Joseph, Calvin, Mrs. Maria Pottorf, 
and Mrs. Elizabeth Aller. The father died in 
1873, at the age of ninety-two years, and was 
buried in Carrollton, Ohio, the mother passing 
from earth in 1881, when eighty-eight years old. 
They were consistent members of the German 
Reformed Church, in which he was an elder, 
and had been a deacon during the greater part 



of his residence in Harrison Township; in his 
political convictions he was a Democrat, a leader 
in the party in his township. 

Joseph Lotz, son of Peter Henry and Eliza- 
beth (Netz) Lotz, was burn July 12, 1830, and 
was reared on the farm which his father had 
entered, and is now owned and occupied by 
Calvin Lotz. Our subject was married April 
19, 1855, to Miss Sarah Ann Moore, daughter 
of John and Mary (Weaver) Moore, natives of 
Pennsylvania, who came about the year 1817 
to Carroll County, Ohio, where Mrs. Lotz was 
born August 21, 1830; her father is still a resi- 
dent of Carrollton, now aged eighty-six years, 
his wife having died November 8, 1879, at the 
age of seventy-four years, and is buried in 
Carrollton, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Lotz were 
born three sons: Cassius Elmer, born Arjril 29, 
1850, who was twice married — first, to Mary 
Maple, October 18, 1877, a daughter of David 
Maple (to them four children were born: Perry 
J., Delia May, Leola Belle and Mary Helen); 
the mother died in November, 1888, and a year 
later Mr. Jjotz married Urzilla, widow of Ed- 
ward Gantz, and daughter of William Buryer. . . 
Madison Cincinnatus, the second son, was born 
May 11, 1857, and married November 13, 1890, 
Sarah Anna Ohl, daughter of Jacob Ohl, of 
Manchester, Summit County, Ohio .... Howard, 
the youngest son, was born December 24, 1860, 
was married on New Year's day, 1889, to 
Maggie Kail, of Perrysville, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
daughter of Hiram Kail (one daughter has been 
born to this union, Nellie Corinth). Mr. Lotz, 
our subject, is the owner of 100 acres of well- 
improved land. He and his family are members 
of the Reformed Church at Carrollton, and 
toward the erection of the church building in 
that town he donated the handsome sum of 
$500. Mr. Lotz is an elder in his church, and 
his son, Madison, is deacon in the same. The 
sons are all members of the Cold Spring Run 
Grange, No. 1363. Mr. Lotz at all times- 
takes an active interest in the material develop- 
ment of his section of the county, as well as 
in its social, religious and educational growth. 



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and be is noted for bis liberality toward all good 
purposes. Politically be bas always been an 
enthusiastic Democrat, deservedly occupying a 
leading position in tbe party. 



proprietor of tbe well- 



OHN SCOTT, 

cnown hardware and furniture establish- 



SL/J ment of Leesville, Carroll Co., Ohio, was 
born and passed bis early youth in Han- 
over Township, Washington Co., Penn. He is 
of Scotch descent, his immediate ancestry hav- 
ing come from Scotland to America about the 
year 1790. 

Joseph Scott, the grandfather of the subject 
of our sketch, and who came to America at 
about that period, married and settled among 
what, at that time, was the wild woods of Wash- 
ington County, Penn., taking up land by what 
was commonly known as the ''tomahawk right." 
With tbe assistance of ever-willing neighbors, a 
log shanty for these new settlers was speedily 
erected, in which they found protection, and, 
although deprived of many of tbe luxuries of 
life, were soon able to expand to tbe dimensions 
of a comfortable home. The story of the 
struggles, hardships and privations of the early 
pioneers has often been told ; and this earnest 
and self-reliant couple were not more fortunate 
than their comrades in the arduous task of sub- 
duing tbe wilderness. Here these grandpar- 
ents, by their industry and nobleness of charac- 
ter, became wealthy and highly respected, and 
here the remainder of their lives was passed; 
surrounded by children and friends, they died at 
a ripe old age in the full faith of the Old-school 
Presbyterian Church, in which they had been 
brought up from their infancy; in politics the 
grandfather was a Democrat. There were born 
to bis marriage two sons and three daughters, 
all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. 

Benjamin Scott, tbe father of tbe subject of 
this sketch, was born, in 1792, in Washington 
County, Penn. Working in his father's mill he 
learned and followed the milling trade for some 
years. While 'still a young man be married 



Susan, daughter of Hugh McKinley, also of 
Washington County, Penn, and the couple set- 
tled on a farm near the home of his parents, 
and the mill having by purchase been trans- 
ferred to a new ownership, he thenceforth 
devoted his entire attention to agricultural pur- 
suits, in which be met with gratifying success. 
The names of the nine children born to this 
couple are as follows: Alexander, Joseph, So- 
phia, Benjamin, Sarah Jane, Patterson, John, 
Susan and Elizabeth. 

Mr. Scott took an active interest in politics, 
and was a life-long Democrat. He and his wife 
were, socially and financially, leading members 
of the Presbyterian Church. In 1877, at the 
close of long and useful lives spent together, 
they both passed from earth, tbe father at the 
age of eighty-live years and the mother aged 
seventy-seven. 

John Scott, the seventh of his father's fam- 
ily, and tbe subject of this sketch, was born at 
the family homestead in Washington County, 
Penn., on April 10, 1837. His early boyhood 
was spent in assisting in the farm labor, and at- 
tending the school of his native district, which 
did not average more than three months in each 
year. At about the age of fifteen years he left 
the parental roof and went to Ohio, with his 
elder brother Alexander, who had married, and 
was seeking a location. The brother soon pur- 
chased and settled upon land in Perry Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio. Here John remained with 
his brother for three years, assisting in the 
arduous task of clearing up the land, and trans- 
forming it into a productive farm. At the expir- 
ation of this time he returned to the old home- 
stead in Pennsylvania, and during the following 
two years remained with his parents on the farm. 
Becoming somewhat restless, and having a de- 
sire to see more of the country, he then went to 
Illinois, where he followed the occupation of a 
farm laborer for three years. But not being 
fully satisfied with that manner of life, he re- 
turned to Jewett, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he 
and his brother, Benjamin, formed a partner- 
ship and engaged in mercantile business; and 



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after conducting the business for about one and 
a half years, the War of the Rebellion having 
broken out in the meantime, he transferred his 
interest in the now prosperous business to his 
brother, intent upon responding to the country's 
call for volunteers. Accordingly on August 10, 
L862, he enlisted under Capt. G. W. Voorhes 
in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 
Regiment, O. V. I. The regiment was assigned 
to the Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and 
its record forms a part of the history of the war. 

At the organization of the company, John 
Scott was appointed fifth sergeant, from which 
position he was promoted successfully to first 
sergeant, second lieutenant and first lieutenant. 
He participated in all the engagements, twenty- 
four in number, through which his regiment 
passed up to the time when he was disabled. At 
the battle of Cedar Creek, Va. , October 19, 
1864, he was struck by a minie-ball, both legs 
being injured. The left was mangled to such a 
degree that a thigh amputation was found nec- 
essary. He was then sent to the hospital at 
Baltimore where he remained until May 20, 
1805, when he was discharged from the service. 
From Baltimore he returned to Jewett, Ohio, 
where he had enlisted, but only remained there 
for a short time. He next decided to learn the 
saddle and harness-maker's trade, and went to 
the neighboring village of Jefferson, Harrison 
County, where he secured employment with a 
Mr. J. 11. Roberts, then extensively engaged in 
that line of business. A.t the expiration of two 
years he purchased the entire business interests 
of Mr. Roberts, and for several years thereafter 
conducted the business in his own behalf, meet- 
ing with a fair degree of success. 

On March 30, 1809, he was married to Amelia, 
daughter of Vincent and Mary Ferguson, of 
Harrison County, Ohio. This union remained 
until 1880, when the wife died, leaving no chil- 
dren. After the death of his wife he disposed 
of his entire stock and interests at Jefferson, and 
again, in 1881, went to the West, where his stay 
was not of long duration. He returned this 
time to New Philadelphia, Ohio, and purchased 



an interest in the salt works operated at that 
place. The investment not proving to be profit- 
able, he disposed of his interest and removed in 
1883 to Leesville, Carroll County, and purchased 
the hardware stock belonging to C. M. Rippeth 
& Brother, since which time he has conducted 
the business, and added to the stock a full line 
of furniture and house furnishing goods. On 
December 24, 1885, he was married to Sadie, 
daughter of Thomas (deceased) and Rebecca 
Whann, of Carroll County, Ohio, and a repre- 
sentative of an old and respected Maryland fam- 
ily. To this union there have been born two 
sons, Charles and Alphord. By carrying a com- 
plete stock of everything in his line of business, 
Mr. Scott is meeting with well-merited success. 
Although laboring under many disadvantages by 
reason of his injuries sustained while a "soldier- 
boy," his energy and good business ability have 
enabled him to become handsomely endowed 
with the comforts of life. Politically, Mr. Scott 
is a Democrat. He was appointed postmaster, 
at Leesville, under Grover Cleveland's adminis- 
tration, and discharged the duties incumbent to 
the entire satisfaction of the patrons of the office. 




L. BILLMAN, proprietor of the well- 
known grocery and provision business in 
Carrolltou, Carroll County, is a native of 
Ohio, having been born in Jefferson 
County November 5, 1820. His father, John 
Billman, who was of Pennsylvania birth, born in 
Cumberland County, of German parentage, came 
in 1815 to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he en- 
tered and settled on Government land, being 
among the early pioneers of that region. In 
1810 he was married to Elizabeth Lowry, a na- 
tive of that county, where they resided until their 
death. They were the parents of nine children, 
seven of whom grew to maturity, and the sub- 
ject of these lines is the eldest born. The 
father died September 24, 1800, aged seventy- 
two years, the mother April 25, 1875, at the age 
of seventy-five years. 

A. L. Billman was born and roared in the 



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old log cabin, and trained to the arduous labors 
of pioneer life. His educational advantages 
were necessarily very limited, and lie had 
to tramp through the wintry woods in the 
snow, two and a half miles, in order to attend 
the nearest school, which, in those days, were 
all "subscription schools,'' held in primitive 
log buildings, even more primitively furnished, 
and each presided over by, perhaps, some pre- 
historic-looking pedagogue. Mr. Billman re- 
mained with his parents until he was twenty- 
seven years of age, and then, having thorough- 
ly prepared himself for the profession, com- 
menced to teach in the public schools. On May 
13, 1847, he married Sarah Rinehart, a native 
of Jefferson County, and daughter of John and 
Barbara Rinehart, sturdy Germans and pioneers 
of that county. After their marriage, Mr. and 
Mrs. Billman remained a year longer in their 
native county, and then removed to Washington 
Township, Carroll County, where for many years 
he carried on farming in summer time, teaching 
school through the winters. In 1876 he was 
appointed by the county commissioners to serve 
out the term of John Shaw (deceased) as county 
auditor, which he did so satisfactorily to the 
constituents that he was twice thereafter elected 
to that position, serving until 1881. During 
the year following his retirement from office he 
was dealing in hardware in Carrollton, and in 
1883 he established himself in his present pros- 
perous grocery and provision business. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Billman have been born nine children, 
five of whom are yet living. They are both re- 
spected members of the Presbyterian Church, 
and Mr. Billman is a stanch Republican. 




\ILLIAM YOUNG, farmer, residing 
in Loudon Township, Carroll County, 
was born in Springfield Township, 
Jefferson Co., Ohio, December 17, 
1840, a grandson of William (first) Young, (a 
native of Ireland), and son of William (sec- 
ond) Young, who was born in County Derry, 
Ireland, December 12, 1784. The father of 



our subject grew to manhood in his native land, 
receiving his education at the parish schools. 
In 181 1 he came to the United States, locating 
in Maine, where he worked in the lumber 
woods. In 1819 he returned to Ireland, in 
order to bring his parents, three brothers and 
two sisters to the land of his adoption, and 
coming to Annapolis, Jefferson Co., Ohio, he 
here purchased a tract of land which had been 
entered by Hanse Wilson, of Steubenville, 
Ohio. The parents of William (second) both 
died on this farm. After his return from Ireland, 
in 1819, William Young, married Miss Nancy 
Whitley, who was born in Ireland, a daughter 
of William and Elizabeth (McGowan) Whitley, 
also natives of Ireland, all of whom came to 
the United States in 1819. To this union were 
born six children, viz. : Mary J. , residing in 
Kilgore, Loudon Township; Elizabeth, born 
April 12, 1830, now deceased; William, born 
August 31, 1831, died in infancy; Margaret 
living in Kilgore; Mrs. Eliza A. Seaton, living 
in Lee Township, Carroll County, and William, 
the subject proper of this sketeh. On April l t 
1852, the father of this family purchased the 
farm of eighty acres in Loudon Township, now 
owned by his son, William, who also holds six- 
ty-seven acres in another part of the same town- 
ship. The father died June 17, 1855, and the 
mother March 22, 1885, both members of the 
Presbyterian Church. 

William Young, whose name heads this 
sketch, was twelve years of age when he came 
to the farm on which he has since resided. In 
his youth he attended the district school, re- 
ceiving a good, practical business education. 
On December 31, 1868, he was married to Miss 
Anna Jane Clark, who bore him three children: 
Sarah Bell, Robert Clark and Maggie E. Mrs. 
Young is a daughter of Robert and Catherine 
(Nelson) Clark, former of whom was born in 
County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1801, and died in 
June, 1862; his wife was also a native of Ire- 
land, born in 1S03, and died December 27, 
1872. Robert Clark was a farmer by occupa- 
tion, and resided in Salem Township, Jefferson 



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Co., Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Young are members 
of the Presbyterian Church; in politics Mr. 
Young is a Republican. 



OBADIAH J. COOPER (deceased) was a 
member of a family long known for its 
interest in the development and progress 
of the county and section in which it 
lived. The grandfather of the gentleman whose 
name heads this sketch, was born in Washing- 
ton County, Penn., where he was married to 
Susan McCoy, who bore him the following 
named children: Alexander, John, Henry, Eliza- 
beth and Nancy A. Soon after his marriage he 
came to Jefferson County, Ohio, and entered a 
tract of land, on which he resided until his 
death, which occurred in 1845. He was, in 
religion, a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and in politics a Whig. 

John Cooper, the father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
and married Elizabeth Vantilburg, whose father, 
Samuel Vantilburg, was in his mother's arms 
when the Indians killed her, but the whites 
came to the rescue in time to save the child. 
She became the mother of Alexander, Obadiah 
J., Samuel, Henry, John, William, Wooster, 
Mary J. and Nancy A. The father of these had 
been a farmer all his life, was a Whig in politics 
and afterward a Republican, and with his family 
was a member of the Methodist Church, in 
which faith he died in June, 1887, aged ninety- 
two years. 

Obadiah J. Cooper was born February 9, 
1820, in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he car- 
ried on farming until 1850, when he came to 
Carroll County and purchased a farm in Rose 
Township. On March '21, 1844, he married 
Eva C. Easterday, whose father, Christian 
Easterday, was born in Frederick County, Md. , 
October 18, 1790; while yet a young man he 
married Anna M. Stemple, who bore him the 
following named children: Daniel, David, Bar- 
bara, Susan, Eva C. , Elizabeth, Martin, Maria, 
Elias and Charlotte. Christian Easterday came 



to Ohio with his father in 1790, lived in Jeffer- 
son County until 1850, then moved to Mont- 
gomery County, 111., where all his children had 
gone before except Mrs. Cooper; he died Sep- 
tember 29, 1875, a member of the Lutheran 
Church, in which for many years he was a 
deacon; in politics he was first a Democrat, but 
later became a Republican. 

Obadiah J. Cooper and his wife came, as has 
been stated, to Rose Township, Carroll County, 
in 1850, and purchased a farm which was then in 
a very primitive condition; but the work of im- 
provement was immediately begun, and additions 
made yearly, until, at his death in 1888, it was 
increased to 435 acres, this result being due to 
the assiduous care and toil of both himself and 
Mrs. Cooper. In politics Mr. Cooper was orig- 
inally a Whig, but on the formation of the Re- 
publican party he joined its ranks and afterward 
heartily supported it. He was a liberal con- 
tributor to the Lutheran Church, of which he 
was a devout member, and was a progressive 
and enlightened citizen, enjoying the respect of 
all who knew him. The children born to Oba- 
diah J. and Eva C. Cooper were Columbus, 
Maria E. (Mrs. William Downs), John W., 
Anna, Susan E. (Mrs. John Janson), Lawrence 
W. and Martin O. 



pii RASMUS J. McCAUSLAND, a represent- 
ative citizen of Centre Township, Carroll 



E 



, County, was born in Lee Township, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio, March 30, 1844, and is 
the fourth in a family of eight children born 
to Thomas and Susan (Bukias) McCausland. 
He was educated in the district school of his 
neighborhood, and later attended college at 
Harlem Springs. His early life was spent up- 
on the farm, and he remained with his parents 
until of age. On November 13, 1866, he was 
married to Miss Mary C. Harsh, a native of 
Carroll County, Ohio, and a daughter of Jona- 
than and Elizabeth (Cox) Harsh, early pioneers 
of that county. 

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in Lee Township, where they resided until the 
spring of 1882, when they purchased and moved 
to their present farm of 218 acres in Centre 
Township, situated one and a half miles east of 
Carrollton, on the Harlem road. Their union 
has been blessed with ten children, seven of 
whom are still living, viz. : Drusilla (now Mrs. 
W. D. Aller, of Union Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty), Lusetta O., Flora E., Samuel R., Willard 
J. , Mary Elizabeth and Clara M. Mr. and Mrs. 
McCausland were respected members of the 
Presbyterian Church at Harlem, in which he 
officiated many years as a ruling elder, and of 
the Sabbath-school of which he was superin- 
tendent six years; he is now a ruling elder in 
the Carrollton Presbyterian Church. In his 
political convictions he is a stanch Republican, 
and served six years as director of Carroll 
County Infirmary. 



OBERT G. HUNTER. Among the 
prominent farmers of Fox Township 
1^ the above named gentleman occupies 
a conspicuous place. His grandfather, 
John Hunter, was born in Ireland, as was also 
his grandmother. After coming to this country 
John Hunter, Sr., followed butchering as an oc- 
cupation. Both he and his good wife died in 
Maryland. John T. Hunter, father of our sub- 
ject, was born in Maryland, but at the age of 
four years was taken by his father to Washing- 
ton County, Penn. , where he grew to manhood. 
At an early age he came west and located in 
Fox Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, where he 
married. He then returned to Pennsylvania, 
his old home, where he remained about five 
years, after which he came back to Fox town- 
ship and settled on a farm. Mr. Hunter was an 
intelligent, thinking man; he taught school, 
and was looked upon as a man of more than or- 
dinary information and learning. Mr. Hunter 
was a strong Democrat, in the earlier part of 
his life being anti-slavery in sentiment, holding 
the opinion that the North had nothing to do 
with slavery, until President Van Buren pub- 



licly announced that he would veto any bill 
passed by Congress abolishing slavery in the 
District of Columbia; Mr. Hunter then came 
out a full-fledged Abolitionist, and so remained 
to the end of his life. He died in 1851, and his 
widow in 1880. 

Robert G. Hunter was born October 7, 1832, 
in Washington County, Penn. His father 
moved to the West when Robert G. was but a 
child, and here father and son cleared away the 
forest, made improvements, converted the wood- 
land into blossoming fields, and thus helped to 
advance civilization in the West. The younger 
Hunter was allowed the usual amount of edu- 
cation, which, as was the case with other boys, 
was obtained by attending the district school in 
the winter time. Summer was the time to work, 
to clear the fields, plant the crops, and to pre- 
pare for the coming winter. Robert G. Hunter 
was married September 14, 1883, to Miss Ma- 
linda Roudebush, who was reared in' Carroll 
County, and three children came to brighten 
their home, viz.: Abraham L., Elizabeth Ann 
and Chrissie G. Mr. Hunter is a member of 
the United Presbyterian Church, and is a Re- 
publican in sentiment, though no politician. 
He has a finely improved farm equipped vvith 
modern improvements, and his success is due 
to his energy, good management and honest 
living. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter have a wide circle 
of friends, who value honest, upright neighbors. 



di OHN DUNLAP, who ranks among the old- 
est living native-born farmer citizens of 
/ Lee Township, Carroll County, was born 
March 3, 1819. His grandfather, Samuel 
Dunlap, came from Maryland to Lee Township 
in 1810, and here entered land which he cleared 
with the assistance of his family. He was one 
of the organizers of the Presbyterian Church at 
Harlem Springs, holding various offices in the 
same for several years, such as trustee and elder. 
In politics he was an Old-time Whig, and after- 
ward, on the organization of the party, a stanch 
Republican. He passed from earth in 1835. 



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His sod, Matthew Dunlap, the father of the 
subject of this sketch, was a Pennsylvanian by 
birth, born in 1792, and at the age of twenty- 
two he came to what is now Lee Township, Car- 
roll County, where he passed the remainder of 
his days. In 1813 he married Nancy Greer, of 
Pennsylvania, and after that event they settled 
on a farm which they cleared themselves, their 
dwelling being the ordinary primitive log cabin 
of pioneer days. The children born to them 
were as follows: Mary, Mrs. George McDaniel; 
Samuel, in Lee Township; Margaret, deceased; 
John; Sarah; Belinda, Eliza and Rebecca, all 
three deceased. The father died August 8, 
1878, the mother in 1885, at the home of her 
son, having attained the advanced age of ninety- 
two years. They rest in the cemetery at Har- 
lem Springs. Matthew Dunlap was a self-made 
man, commencing life with but little, and suc- 
ceeded in acquiring a good property. He built 
a grist-mill which was operated by horse power, 
and was ' ' crowded with work, ' ' and this he car- 
ried on for several years, and then retired from 
active life. As one of the oldest members of 
the Presbyterian Church in his community, he 
took an active interest in everything pertaining 
to its welfare, and, in politics, as a Whig and 
Republican, he always voted the straight ticket. 
John Dunlap, the subject proper of these 
lines, was brought up to farm life, and educated 
at the common schools of his district. On Feb- 
ruary 16, 1854, he was married to Anna, daugh- 
ter of John Cheetham, whose father, George 
Cheetham, a native of England, married Mary 
Perine, and by her had children as follows: 
John, George, Esther, Mary Ann, Thomas, 
Martha, Jane and Joseph. John Cheetham 
married, in England, Jane, daughter of Peter 
Brown, and by her had the following named 
children: Mary, Elizabeth, Anna, Jane and 
William. He came with his family to America 
in 1828, locating in Troy, N. Y., where they re- 
mained six years, and then moved to Carroll 
County, Ohio, where he purchased a farm on 
which he passed the remainder of his days. He 
died March 25, 1863, his widow making her 



home with her daughter, Mrs. Dunlap, until 
death called her from earth in September, 1885. 
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and in politics Mr. Cheetham was first 
a Whig and then a Republican. After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. John Dunlap came to their pres- 
ent residence in Lee Township. He has been 
an agriculturist all his life, and has met with 
well-merited success. The children born to our 
subject and wife are as follows: Hance, Flor- 
ence (Mrs. Henry Kail), William S., Alice and 
Fred. The entire family are members of the 
Presbyterian Church at Harlem Springs, in 
which for many years Mr. Dunlap has been a 
trustee. He has steadily supported the Repub- 
lican party since its organization, having pre- 
viously been identified with the Whigs. 




JLLIAM GAULT, a well-to-do agri- 
culturist of East Township, Carroll 
County, was born in Washington 
County, Penn., in October, 1831, a 
son of Daniel and Isabel (McLoney) Gault. 
James Gault, grandfather of our subject, was a 
native of Ireland, and when a young man came 
to the United States in company with his broth- 
ers, John and Adam, settling in Washington 
County, Penn., where they took up a "toma- 
hawk claim." James married in that State, and 
reared the following named children: Adam, 
John, Alexander, Daniel, Mary, Margaret and 
Edith. By occupation he was a farmer, and re- 
sided in Washington County, Penn., all his life. 
Daniel Gault, the father of our subject, was 
born in Washington County, Penn., in 1795, 
and in 1818 he married Miss Isabel McLoney, 
a native of Washington County, Penn. To this 
union were born the following named children: 
Mary, wife of Jesse Van Fossen, of East Town- 
ship, Carroll County; Edith, wife of George C. 
Hull, of Columbiana County, Ohio; Sarah J., 
wife of George Smith, of Caunonsburg, Penn. ; 
Nancy, wife of Robert Van Fossen, of Harrison 
County, Ohio; Margaret and Elizabeth, both 
living with their brother William; Martha, wife 



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of Andrew McClelland, of Columbiana County; 
James and John (deceased), and William. Mr. 
Gault resided in Pennsylvania until the spring 
of 1S32, when he came to Ohio, and purchased 
the farm now owned by his son William, and 
here resided until his death in 1877. His wife 
had preceded him to the grave in 1861, at the 
age of sixty -three years. They were members 
of the United Presbyterian Church; politically, 
he was a Democrat, and served one term as jus- 
tice of the peace, having been also one of the 
first trustees of East Township. 

William Gault, the subject proper of this 
memoir, was reared to manhood on the farm 
where he now resides with his two sisters, 
Margaret and Elizabeth. Politically, he is a 
Democrat, and in religion he and his sisters are 
members of the United Presbyterian Church. 
His fine farm comprises 194 acres of well-im- 
proved land. 



FjREDRICK BRANDT (deceased), who for 
many years was a progressive and prosper- 
ous farmer of Loudon Township, Carroll 
County, was born in 1800 in Germany, 
where he followed the Arcadian life of a shep- 
herd. When twenty- one years of age he came 
to the United States, remaining in New York 
State till 1829, in which year he moved to Lou- 
don Township, and here purchased the farm 
now owned by bis heirs, where he passed the 
remainder of his life in clearing and improving 
the place. He died in December, 18(39, at 
which time he was owner in all of 1,000 acres 
of land. He had been twice married; first to 
Margaret Shawver, by whom he had four chil- 
dren, viz.: William and Elizabeth, deceased; 
Henry, in Perry Township, Carroll County, 
and Mrs. Susan James, in Kilgore, same 
county. His second wife was Elizabeth Able, 
who was born in Loudon Township, Carroll 
County, July 5, 1819, a daughter of Conrad 
Able, a native of Loudoun County, Va. , born 
about the year 1775. George Able, father of 
Conrad, was one of the Hessians in the pay of 



the British Government during the Revolution- 
ary War, and was sent to this country from 
Germany. After the close of the struggle he 
settled in Loudoun County, Va., where he died. 

Conrad Able married, in Virginia, Mary 
Shriver, and about the year 1812 they came to 
what is now Loudon Township, Carroll County, 
where he entered the land now owned by his son 
Samuel. Here Conrad died in 18-45, his widow 
in 1853; they were the parents of twelve chil- 
dren, of whom the following is a brief record: 
Mrs. Susanna Starns lives in Lee Township, 
Carroll County; George is deceased; Maglon is 
in Loudon Township, Carroll County; Samuel 
and Henry are deceased; Elizabeth is the widow 
of Fredrick Brandt; Mrs. Sarah Haun lives in 
Lee Township; Nathan, in Kilgore, Ohio; Will- 
iam, in Kansas; Mrs. Mary Glausey, in Kil- 
gore; Malinda is deceased; Mrs. Mahala Davis 
resides in Carroll County. The parents were 
members of the Reformed Church. 

To Fredrick and Elizabeth (Able) Brandt 
were born seven children, viz.: George W., in 
Kansas; Fred, in Kilgore; Mrs. Mary E. 
Campbell, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; John 
M. and Mrs. Lizzie B. Burrier, in Loudon 
Township; Andrew, deceased, and Harrison, at 
home. Mrs. Brandt, as was her husband, is a 
member of the Lutheran Church. 



f'OHN BETTIS (deceased), late of Kensing- 
^. I ton, Ohio, was born in Bedford County, Pa., 
%J) June 16, 1812. His father, John Bettis, 
was born in eastern Pennsylvania, and the 
latter' s father, Jacob, a native of Germany, in 
an early day emigrated to the' United States and 
became a soldier in the American Revolution. 
He was father of four children: Mary, married 
to Joseph Cox; John, James and William. 
About 1812 Jacob Bettis came to Ohio and en- 
tered a tract of land in what is now Augusta 
Township, Carroll County, it being now owned 
by John Lafferty. Here on this land he under- 
went all the hardships and privations that were 
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till a short time before his death, when he re- 
moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, and died at the home 
of his son, William. His son John was reared to 
manhood in Pennsylvania and married Miss 
Mary Baker, who was born in Lancaster Coun- 
ty, Penn., to which union were born the follow- 
ing named children: James, Jacob and John, all 
three now deceased, and Nancy, wife of Alton 
Battin, in Alliance, Ohio. John Bettis, the 
father, came in 1815 to Ohio and purchased 
land in Columbiana County, near New Lisbon, 
where he resided till the death of his father, 
when he removed to his father's farm in Augus- 
ta Township, Carroll County, and here he and 
wife resided till their death. 

John Bettis, the subject of this sketch, was 
reared to manhood on the farm, and received a 
common-school education. On December 25, 
1834, he married Miss Jane Shaw, who was 
born in Lancaster County, Penn., December 
25, 1816, a daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(Carrollton) Shaw. John Shaw was born in 
Ireland about 1785, where he grew to manhood 
and married Miss Elizabeth Carrollton. To 
them were born in Ireland Nancy and Mary 
(twins), both deceased, and Thomas, also de- 
ceased. In the United States were born Jane 
Bettis, our subject's widow; John, a resident of 
East Township, Carroll County; Mary Wood- 
ard, deceased; Susan Moorhouse, in Illinois, 
and Elizabeth Rawley, in Arkansas. About 
1814 Mr. Shaw immigrated to the United States, 
and remained in Lancaster County, Penn., till 
about 1818, when he came to Ohio and entered 
160 acres of land in East Township, Carroll 
County, where he remained till his death, which 
occurred about 1865. Our subject and wife 
were parents of nine children, viz. : Albert 
and John, in Columbiana County, Ohio; James 
and Milton, in Augusta, Ohio; Elizabeth A. 
Hawkins, in East Rochester, Ohio; Mary J. 
Brogan, Malinda, and Emaline Reeder, in Co- 
lumbiana County, Ohio, and Catharine Billman, 
who is living at home. 

Mr. Bettis, after his marriage, first settled 
on a farm in Augusta Township, Carroll Coun- 



ty, which farm is now owned by his sou, Mil- 
ton. In 1836 he purchased the farm where his 
wife and daughter now reside, which contains 
145 acres, and he afterward added 155 acres. 
This land had partially been cleared, or rather, 
a few acres had been partly gone over, but Mr. 
Bettis cleared it in its entirety, erecting line 
buildings, etc. He died October 23, 1876, a 
member of the Disciples Church; politically he 
was a Republican; he was well known and highly 
respected. His widow, since his death, has had 
the management of the farm. She is a member 
of the Disciples Church, and is highly esteemed 
by the entire community. 




DOLPH Le BEAU. About the year 1832, 
Charles Le Beau, who was of French de- 
scent, emigrated from Bavaria, Ger- 
many, to America, and took up his resi- 
dence in Brown Township, Carroll County. A 
year or so later, Mary Houk came from the same 
part of Bavaria, also to Brown Township, and 
one year thereafter they were married. They 
had known one another in childhood, had been 
schoolmates together, and their early friendship 
ripened into love, and this love developed into 
marriage. He was a cooper by trade, and for 
the early settlers in and about Brown Township 
he made tubs, buckets, etc. Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles Le Beau had ten children, named 
Charles; Caroline (died in September, 1862); 
Adolph; Catharine; John; Isaac (died in Novem- 
ber, 1887); Mary; Daniel; Lena and Lewis. 
The parents died, the father March ( J, 1885, and 
the mother in August, 1890. 

Adolph Le Beau, the subject of this sketch, 
was born in Brown Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
October 26, 1837, third in order of birth of the 
children of the above mentioned Charles and 
Mary (Houk) Le Beau. He attended the school 
of his district, and early in life commenced the 
duties of the farm. On May 22, 1859, he was 
married to Barbara Ott, who was born in Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio, September 29, 1836, a 
daughter of John Ott, a native of Bavaria, who 



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came to the Buckeye State and settled in Tus- 
carawas County, first living, however, with his 
parents in Massillon, same State. Three years 
later there arrived at Massillon, from the same 
place, Mary Boltz, and she and Mr. Ott were 
united in marriage in Massillon in 1835, living 
in a log cabin in Tuscarawas County, where they 
remained until death. They became the par- 
ents of six children — three sons and three 
daughters — Mrs. Le Beau being the eldest child. 
Mr. Ott died on May 18, 1882, at the age of 
seventy-one years, and Mrs. Ott in April, 1890, 
aged seventy- eight years. 

Our subject and wife lived on the Le Beau 
homestead in Carroll County for three years 
after marriage, and in 1802 bought 120 acres of 
the 300 which they now own, 100 being in "Wash- 
ington Township. To Mr. and Mrs. Le Beau 
have been born two sons and three daughters, 
of whom the following is a brief record: Caro- 
line was born September 20, 1800; Mary C. , 
now Mrs. "Ward, was born March 4, 1803; John 
William was born September 8, 1805; Charles H. 
was born January 24, 1809, and Emma B. was 
born June 29, 1875, all living in Brown Town- 
ship. The frfmily are members of the Reformed 
Church; in politics Mr. Le Beau is a Republican. 



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County, and a pre 
I and tanner of Perry Township, is a na- 
tive of the same, having been born Feb- 
ruary 21, 1820. His great-grandfather's name 
was Adam, whose wife's name was Eve, a re- 
markable and most rare combination of names. 
Our subject's paternal grandfather, Edward 
Hill Stewart, was a Marylander by birth, de- 
scended of stalwart Scotch-Irish ancestry, who 
came to Columbia's shores about the year 1785; 
he died in Jefferson County, Ohio, whither he 
had come, as a pioneer, after his marriage in 
Maryland with Miss Susannah Clay, who bore 
him four sons and four daughters, all now de- 
ceased. 

Mahlon Stewart, father of the subject of this 



J=5jDWARD STEWART, commissioner of 
^J Carroll County, and a prominent farmer 



memoir, was born in Maryland, where he be- 
came united in marriage with Elizabeth Park. 
He and his wife came in 1804 to Jefferson 
County, Ohio, and in 1820 moved to the wild 
piece of land he had entered in what is now 
Carroll County, which was formed in 1833 from 
Jefferson, Columbiana, Stark, Tuscarawas and 
Harrison Counties, and here followed agricult- 
ural pursuits. They were the parents of seven 
children, of whom the following is a brief 
record: Ephraim P. is a physician in Bakers- 
ville, Coshocton Co., Ohio; William P. is a 
farmer in Iowa; Ebzon, who was an extensive 
farmer, died in Van Wert County, Ohio; Ellen 
is the wife of Stephen Capper, in Van Wert 
County, Ohio; Susanna is the deceased wife of 
Samuel Barnhouse, of Carroll County; Edward 
is the subject of this sketch; Eliza A. is the de- 
ceased wife of William Thompson, of Iowa. 
The mother died in 1871, at the age of eighty- 
four years, and the father in 1879, having 
reached the patriarchal age of nearly ninety- 
two years. They are both buried at Perrysville. 
He had been a resident of the county ever since 
its formation in 1833, and owned the land on 
which the village of Perrysville now stands, which 
he laid out in 1835. Politically he was first an 
Old-line Whig, and, on the formation of the party, 
became a Republican; both he and his wife 
were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, although she had been reared a Quaker. 
Edward Stewart, of whom this biography 
chiefly treats, grew to maturity on the farm 
where he was born, sharing in all the arduous 
duties thereof, and attending school in the tem- 
porary school-house of the neighborhood, which 
was the old log church building, used also for 
school purposes till they were able to build a 
school-house. In 1847 he was married to Miss 
Martha Ann, daughter of William and Maria 
Davis, of near Rumley, Harrison County, and 
by this union were born eleven children, viz. : 
Mariani (wife of John M. Dodd), James Will- 
iam (a farmer) and Hulda (wife of S. M. Myers), 
all in Perry Township; Ruth Cornelia; Emma 
Zilpha, Ada Belle and Mary Alice (all three 







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deceased); Alfred Anson (a farmer in Perry 
Township), and Florence Nevada, Mablon Ross, 
Josephine (at home). 

About the year 1852 Mr. Stewart commenced 
the tanning business near Perrysville, which is 
still in operation under bis direction. His farm 
of 464 acres, one of the very finest in Perry 
Township, is devoted to general agriculture and 
stock-raising, and in 1880 be erected his capa- 
cious and elegant dwelling thereon, his fine, 
commodious barn having been put up in 1S83. 
Politically, Mr. Stewart is a straight Republican, 
and in 1888 he was elected to his present posi- 
tion of county commissioner, rilling the duties 
assigned to him in a manner satisfactory to his 
constituents. He and his wife are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Perrysville. 



JOHN THOMPSON, one of the self-made 
men of Orange Township, Carroll County, 
and a prominent, progressive agricult- 
urist, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, 
February 7, 1S3S. His father, George W. 
Thompson, a native of Ireland, came to America 
when a young man, and took up his residence 
in Harrison County, Ohio, where he carried on 
his trade, blacksmithing, which he had learned 
in his native country. Soon after his arrival in 
Harrison County he was married to Elizabeth 
Hoffman, of that county, who bore him the fol- 
lowing named children: John, Mary, Rebecca, 
Jane and Elizabeth. In 1840 be came to Car- 
roll County with his family, remaining but a 
short time, however, when they moved into Tus- 
carawas County, where the parents passed the 
remaining days of their lives. They were 
earnest Christian people, members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, and their memory is 
held in deep respect by all who knew them. 

John Thompson, of whom this sketch is 
written, was reared under the parental roof, re- 
ceiving his education at the common schools of 
the district, until he was eighteen years of age, 
when he commenced to learn the mason's trade, 
at which he worked exclusively until he was 



twenty-six years old, when he purchased a farm 
in Orange Township, Carroll County. Mr. 
Thompson has since that time been largely en- 
gaged in farming, as well as in buying and sell- 
ing stock and following bis trade. He has suc- 
ceeded in accumulating, by industry and perse- 
verance, a large tract of land, and is now 
recognized as one of the solid financial men of 
his section. It is but just to say that his efforts 
throughout have been very materially aided by 
his amiable and diligent wife. Mr. Thompson 
was married, March 4, 1862, to Elizabeth (born 
March 24, 1842, in Union County, Ohio), a 
daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Seran) 
Price (the latter born in Gloucester County, N. 
J., October 11, 1806), of Orange Township, and 
the children born to them were as follows: Eva 
B. (deceased) Benjamin F. (deceased), Cora E. 
(deceased), John M., Lorin C. , Etta P. and 
Thomas J. Mrs. Thompson is a devoted Chris- 
tian and a member of the Methodist Protestant 
Church, of which they are liberal supporters; 
in politics Mr. Thompson has always been a 
strong Republican. 



AMUEL J. CAMERON, proprietor and 

editor of the Republican, Carrollton, was 

born in Washington Township, Carroll 

Co., Ohio, July 2, 1847, and was educated 

at the common schools of his native township, 

and at select school in Carrollton. 

The Cameron family in Carroll County, of 
which our subject is a member, are of Scotch- 
Irish extraction. James Cameron, a native of 
the "Emerald Isle," was there married to Jane 
Sharp, and together they came to America prior 
to the Revolutionary War, settling in Virginia, 
in what is now Hancock County, W. Va., where 
they carried on farming. They died there on 
the farm he had entered, haviug reared a family 
of nine children, viz. : William, John, James,. 
Joseph, Alexander, Samuel, David, Thomas and 
Margaret. Of these, Thomas, who was the, direct 
ancestor of the Cameron family in Carroll Coun- 
ty, was reared to agricultural pursuits which he 



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followed during his long life. He was married 
to Jane, daughter of William Maxwell, a native 
of Ireland, and they made their home in Vir- 
ginia, where their family of ten children were 
born, as follows: James, living in Carrollton; 
Sarah (deceased), who was married to Levi West- 
fall; William, now a resident of Iowa; John, in 
Topeka, Kas. ; Joseph (deceased); Jane, de- 
ceased wife of Philip Bell; Thomas, living in 
Carrollton, Ohio; Elizabeth (deceased); Mary, 
deceased wife of William McGlean, and Sam- 
uel, deceased. In 1857 the mother died at the 
age of seventy years, and a few years later the 
father passed away, having attained the patri- 
archal age of ninety-one years. The first of 
this family to come to what is now Carroll Coun- 
ty was James, who was born May 30, 1799, and 
who, about 1823, came hither with his wife and 
purchased a farm in Washington Township, 
where he remained until 1840, when, having 
been elected, on the Democratic ticket, treasurer 
of Carroll County, he removed to Carrollton, 
where now at the extreme old age of ninety-two 
years he is yet living. He was for many years 
a merchant in the town. 

Thomas Cameron, brother of James, was 
born February 19, 1812, and two years after 
James came to Ohio, Thomas following him; 
but after spending one summer he returned to 
his Virginia home, whence for the second time 
he came, in 1837, to Carroll County, bringing 
his wife whom he had married the preceding 
March. She was Mary Jane Morehead, daughter 
of Alexander and Nancy (Gibson) Morehead of 
Virginia; the Morehead family had come to 
America from Ireland. James Gibson, father 
of Mrs. Nancy Morehead, was a captain in the 
English army prior to and during the American 
Revolution. His sympathies, however, were with 
the Colonists, and it is related of him that after 
the battle of Bunker Hill, the troops being 
ordered out for the purpose of participating in a 
public jubilee, Captain Gibson refused to call 
out his company, saying, "I will never rejoice 
over the shedding of human blood." For this 
act of insubordination he was tried, found guilty 



and ordered to be executed; but by some fortun- 
ate ©ircumstance he succeeded in effecting his 
escape and getting into the hold of a vessel, 
where he lay for ten days, secreted among the 
cargo, and then made his way to America, where 
he was joined by his wife and family. Thomas 
Cameron and his young wife lived on their farm 
in Washington Township, Carroll County, from 
July, 1837, to April, 1803, when they removed 
to Carrollton. On August 23, 1890, the faithful 
wife departed for the "other shore," at the age 
of seventy-four years, having shared life's joys 
and sorrows for a period of over fifty-three years. 
They were the parents of ten children, of whom 
the following is a brief record: Alexander M. 
was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, serv- 
ing in Company A, Thirty-second O.V. I., and 
was killed at Harper's Ferry, Va. , September 
15, 1862; Eliza L. is the wife of James R. Weir, 
in Carroll County; Samuel J. is more fully 
spoken of farther on; Nancy M. is the wife of 
Abe Moore, of New Lisbon, Ohio; James T. lives 
in Carrollton, Ohio; Cyrus B. is in Columbus, 
Ohio; Ezra B. is deceased; John W. lives in 
Carrollton; Robert M. is deceased; and one son 
deceased in earliest infancy. Since the mother's 
death the father has resided at the old home- 
stead. Politically he is a Republican, and for 
some twelve or fourteen years he served as clerk 
of Washington Township; in religion he is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. 

Samuel J. Cameron came to Carrollton in 
1863, and on April 4, 1864, he became a dis- 
ciple of Gutenberg by entering the office of the 
Free Press as " devil " under McCoy & Teter. Af- 
ter a time he proceeded to Columbus, where he 
worked on the morning paper for about a year, 
then returned to Carrollton and became foreman 
on the Free Press. On July 1, 1869, he bought 
out McCoy's interest in the paper, and the firm 
became Teter & Cameron, which partnership 
lasted three and a half years, at the end of which 
time our subject purchased Mr. Teter' s interest, 
and the very next day sold this interest to 
Judge John H. Tripp, the present proprietor of 
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mainedover eight years. In 1881 Mr. Cameron 
went East, and bought the outfit for The Car- 
roll Republican, and on April 21, same year, the 
first number of that journal was issued. His 
old force of hands was transferred from the 
Free Press to The Carroll Republican, which 
has since continued to flourish. The first issue 
he sent out was 2,400 specimen copies, and within 
six weeks he had a list of over 1,000 bona-fide 
subscribers, and the circulation has since stead- 
ily increased. 

On January 21, 1873, Mr. Cameron was 
married to Miss Sarah E. Crumrine, a native of 
Carrollton, Ohio, and daughter of Isaac Crum- 
rine, and by this union there have been born 
three children, viz. : Charles C. , born March 3, 
1875; Grace L , born March 17, 1870, and 
Isaac Thomas (namesake of his two grandfa- 
thers), born May 5, 1885. Mr. Cameron, it 
seems superfluous to here state, is a stanch Re- 
publican, and has served two terms as a member 
of the council. Socially he is a Royal Arch 
Mason and a member of the Blue Lodge, hold- 
ing next to the highest position in each. He 
was baptized in childhood in the Presbyterian 
Church, and ever since he was nineteen years 
of age he has paid his annual fees to the church. 




I( NDREWS GEORGE, a native of Fox 
l\ Township, Carroll County, was born 
|\ March 26, 1815, and is a member of one 
of the most highly respected families 
of the county. His father, Robert George was 
born in Cumberland County, Penn., and was a 
son of a native of Ireland, also named Robert. 
At a very early period in his life Robert George, 
Sr., came to America, where he espoused the 
cause of the patriot army and took part in the 
battle of Bunker Hill. Later, he located in 
"Washington County, Penn., but shortly after- 
ward moved to Cumberland County, same State, 
where, as already stated, his son Robert was 
born. The mother of the latter was of German 
descent, her parents having come to this country 
from the Fatherland at a very early day. 



In 1807 the two Roberts, father and son, 
and two others, crossed the mountains to seek a 
home in the new country in eastern Ohio, and, 
after camping and hunting in this section a few 
weeks, found a desirable location in what is now 
Fox Township, where they decided to take up 
their residence. Returning to Pennsylvania, 
Robert, the younger, closed up his business, and 
two years later came back to Fox Township, and 
settled on the land he had entered in 1807. He 
had married in Pennsylvania a native of that 
State, a lady of Irish extraction, and whom Mr. 
George brought with him to share his fortunes 
in his new home. The county was a wilderness 
filled with bears, panthers, wolves and wild- 
cats, while deer were more plentiful than rab- 
bits are at present. There was but one other 
white family in Fox Township in that early day, 
and many were the hardships that Mr. and Mrs. 
George were compelled to undergo. But they r 
overcame them all, and Robert became a wealthy 
and leading member of the community, which 
rapidly increased as the years rolled by. For 
fourteen years he was an associate judge, and 
for one term was representative. He was not 
only a popular citizen and office holder, but a 
successful business man, and for a number of 
years kept a general store. He lost his faithful 
wife in 1S4S. and after a long life of usefulness 
he himself passed away in the winter of 1858. 
To Robert George and his wife were born a 
family' of twelve children, as follows: James M. 
(who died at the age of two years). Robert R., 
Thomas, Andrews. James M. . David S., Chris- 
tiana, Mary, Elizabeth, Nancy Ann, Sarah Jane 
and James M. 

Amlrews George, whose name heads this 
sketch, was reared on his father's farm, and at 
the age of twenty-rive years married Miss Ann 
Robinson, whose father was a veteran of the 
"War of 1812, and by this union were four 
children, as follows: John W., born March 20, 
1841; Robeit M., bom June 16, 1S42, and died 
while patriotically serving his country during 
the Civil "War (he was a soldier in Company H, 
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Hospital No. 18, the number and locality of bis 
grave being 4239); Sarah R., born November 
17, 1845, and Matilda Jane, born August 25, 
1847. The mother of these children passed 
from earth in 1848, and in August, 1849, Mr. 
George took, for his second wife, Eliza Graham, 
who was born in Pennsylvania October 16, 1828. 
This marriage has been blessed by the birth of 
nine children, of whom Anna, Kitty and Mary 
are deceased, those living being Samuel J. , 
born August 19, 1850; David N., born February 
16, 1855; Ellen E., born February 2, 1860; Ida 
M. , born December 11, 1862; Mary W., born 
October 22, 1865, and Robert M. , born August 
2, 1S70. Mr. George is recognized as one of 
the most skillful farmers of Fox Township, and 
his tine farm of 140 acres gives every evidence 
of his thrift and good management. He is a 
representative citizen, and has filled several 
offices of public trust, in which he served with 
ability and integrity. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, and both he and his wife are members 
of the United Presbyterian Church. 




\ILLIAM NOBLE, one of the oldest 
farmers of Carroll County, Ohio, and 
M( one of the most progressive citizens of 
Lee Township, was born February 12, 
1808, in East Bethlehem, Washington Co., 
Penn. His father, William Noble, was a native 
of County Leitrim, Ireland, where he married 
Eliza Scarlott, who bore him the following 
named children: Catharine, James, David, 
Thomas, Mary, William, John, Richard, Robert 
and Eliza. In 1796 the parents came to 
America, settling in Washington County, Penn., 
where they carried on farming, the father dying 
in 1818, and the mother in 1854. They were 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in politics the father was a Democrat. 

William Noble, the sixth child of the above 
named parents, and whose name appears at the 
commencement of this sketch was reared in his 
native county to the age of eighteen years, at 
which time of life, in 1826, he came to Youngs- 



town, now in Mahoning (then in Trumbull) 
County, Ohio, and served three years as appren- 
tice to the trades of bricklayer and stone mason. 
In 1829 he came to Amsterdam, Jefferson Co., 
Ohio. He worked at his trade in various places 
in eastern Ohio until the year 1837, when he 
went to Iowa, and worked in the new and rising 
towns along the Mississippi from Quincy to 
Dnbucpie. He bought the first land he owned 
in 1829, and commencing life with nothing, but 
having good health with industry and thrift, he 
has become the owner of 353 acres of improved 
land in Lee Township. 

On August 10, 1843, he was married to Jane, 
daughter of Job and Rebecca (Kelley) Tripp, of 
Cannonsburg, Penn, and by this union were 
born four children, viz.: William T. , George, 
David and James. Mr. Noble was originally an 
adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
but is now a consistent member of the Presby- 
terian Church; politically he is a Jacksonian 
Democrat, always voting that ticket on occasions 
of presidential and other governmental elections; 
but in county and township matters he places 
his vote according to his own convictions re- 
gardless of party. 



AMUEL WARD. About the year 1811 
one Philip Ward came with his family 
from Steubenville, Jefferson Co. (his na- 
tive county), Ohio, to a farm in what is now 
Centre Township, Carroll County, near the town 
of Carrollton. This was then part of Stark 
County, and Carrollton at that time was a little 
hamlet known as Centreville. The Ward family 
were among the very early pioneers of that part 
of the county, and Philip Ward passed the re- 
mainder of his life on the farm where he had set- 
tled. He had been twice married, first time in Jef- 
ferson County to Catherine McGuire, a native of 
Columbiana County, Ohio, who bore him three 
children, and died in Carroll County; the sec- 
ond wife. Catherine (Cassell), bore him two 
children. 

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marriage of Philip Ward, was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, in 1801, and was but a lad when 
he came with his parents to what is now Car- 
roll County, where he grew to maturity sur- 
rounded by all the dangers and difficulties in- 
cident to pioneer life. In 1820 he was mar- 
ried to Mary Beatty, daughter of Samuel Beat- 
ty, and they began life for themselves on a farm 
in Harrison Township, whence, after a resi- 
dence of about four years, they removed to Cen- 
tre Township, Carroll County, and located on a 
farm until 1836, in which year the}' moved to 
Augusta Township, where they passed the re- 
mainder of their lives. They had born to them 
ten children — four sons and six daughters — (of 
whom seven are now living): Susan, married to 
Nathan Clark; John, married to Isabel Downs; 
Mary C, married to John S. Clark; Keziah, 
married to Alfred Rice; Samuel is the subject 
of this sketch; Philip; Eliza J.; Margaret A., 
married to Moses Davis; William, married to 
Jane McClintock, and Nancy, married to Joseph 
Price. 

Samuel Ward was born in a little log cabin 
in Harrison Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1827, and attended, in his boyhood, the 
subscription schools of his day. He was early 
in life inducted into the labors of the farm, and 
many days he worked in the harvest and hay 
field for forty or fifty cents per day, becoming 
an expert in the use of the "cradle." 

On August 25, 1853, Mr. Ward married Hes- 
ter Watkins, a native of Augusta Township, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio, daughter of James and Mary 
(Lozier) Watkins, early pioneers of Augusta 
Township, and who were the parents of eleven 
children, Mrs. Ward being the only member of 
the family now living. She had two brothers in 
the Civil War, viz. : James, who enlisted in an 
Indiana regiment, and was killed at Jackson, 
Miss., and John, who also enlisted in an 
Indiana regiment, serving three years, when he 
was honorably discharged, bat soon thereafter 
died of lung disease contracted in the service. 
Mr. and Mrs. Watkins were natives of Western 
Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio at an early day, 



i marrying in Columbiana County. Mr. Watkins 

! cleared the ground whereon the village of Salem 

now stands, and in 1831 they moved to Augusta 

Township, where they passed the remainder of 

their days. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ward located 
in Brown Township in a small log house at the 
head of Whole Bark Run, their sole capital be- 
ing industry, economy and stout hearts. They 
soon succeeded in making a nice home, sur- 
rounding themselves with a well-cultivated farm. 
Mrs. Ward has made many a yard of "home- 
spun," for which she had hackled and spun the 
tow. Their farm contains 110 acres of highly 
improved land, the products being mainly live 
stock and grain; they also own some land in 
Augusta Township. To our subject and wife 
have been born six children, viz. : Mary Jane, 
married to Madison Caskey, October 10, 1872, 
and living in Augusta Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty; John H. (deceased); Nancy L. , married to 
John Earnst, December 30, 1880, aud living 
in Washington Township; Elmer, married Sep- 
tember 29, 1887, to Mary Lebeau, of Brown 
Township, where they live; Ida M., married to 
Benjamin Snook, of Brown Township, Febru- 
ary 19, 1885, and died August 29, 18S6; and 
one that died in infancy. Politically Mr. Ward 
is a Republican, and has held various township 
offices; he and his wife are members of the 
Mt. Zion Methodist Episcopal Church. 



rif S. PATTERSON is a representative of 
//l\ one of the first white families who came 
fft\ from the East and settled in Carroll 
■// County, Ohio, when this country was a 

wilderness. John Patterson, father of the sub- 
ject of this sketch, was a native of Ireland, and 
was born in the spring of 1S03. John Patter- 
son, Sr. .grandfather of our subject, was a farmer 
in his native country, where he was married and 
lived until the year 1806. At that date he left 
the land of his birth to seek a home and fortune 
in the New World, and, after a long, tiresome, 
journey, he and his little family found the former, 



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as he thought, where the city of Allegheny, 
Perm. , now stands, but soon afterward moved to 
AVashington County, in the same State; there 
they remained until the spring of 1819, when, 
being still satisfied with Pennsylvania and its 
soil, they pushed yet farther westward, and 
finally located in the fertile fields of Augusta 
Township, Carroll Co. , Ohio. Here Mr. Patterson 
entered a farm of 160 acres, from which he and 
his stalwart sons commenced to clear away the 
forest. After some years of hardships and pri- 
vations, the sturdy pioneer and his devoted wife 
succumbed to that mighty warrior — Death. John 
Patterson, father of A. S. Patterson, received 
his education in Pennsylvania. At the age of 
sixteen he came to Carroll County with his 
father, and here married Miss Peterson, whose 
parents lived in Harrison County, Ohio, were 
early settlers and were of English descent. 
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Patterson located 
on a farm near Carrollton, but soon moved to a 
farm near Augusta, where they lived until the 
death of Mr. Patterson in 1863. Nine children 
— five boys and four girls — were the result of 
this uniou. Mr. Patterson was a Democrat in 
politics and, in his dealings with his fellow-men, 
an honest, upright citizen. He lived to witness 
the changes from the log hut to the elegant resi- 
dence of modern times, and saw the forests dis- 
appear before the woodman's ax and the fields 
bloom in their stead. But life is, ofttimes, too 
short to admit of the enjoyment of the fruits of 
one's labor, and thus it was with Mr. Patterson. 
A. S. Patterson was born in Augusta Town- 
ship, Carroll County, January 2, 1852. Like 
many boys in the neighborhood, he attended the 
district school, winters, and worked on his 
father's farm during the summer months, but he 
has ever been an apt pupil in nature's school- 
house — the world — and has "picked up" a 
practical education by experience and by coming 
in contact with his fellow-beings, greatly in ex- 
cess of that he acquired in the school-room. On 
November 11, 1875, at the age of twenty-three, 
Mr. Patterson married Miss Belle Kennedy, who 
was born August 4, 1855, in Augusta Township, 



Carroll County. Her parents were natives of 
Ireland, and were among the first settlers who 
ventured into eastern Ohio. After marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Patterson settled on the old Patterson 
homestead where they are still living. Three 
children have been born to their marriage, one 
of whom died in infancy. The two living are 
Frank R., bom February 27, 1878, and Nena 
M., born August 2, 1882. Mr. Patterson has a 
well-improved farm of 100 acres, and is a stock- 
raiser and general farmer, taking much pride in 
raising blooded stock. In religion he is a Meth- 
odist, in politics a Republican, and as a citizen 
he is honest, industrious and courteous. 



L 



EVI MARSHALL, probably the oldest 
living pioneer of Augusta Township, 
Carroll County, was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, January 28, 1812. The 
family are of English descent, and trace their 
origin in this country to the old Colonial period. 
Jacob Marshall, father of Levi, was a native of 
York County, Penn., where his parents had set- 
tled at an early date and reared a family. Here 
he grew to manhood, and in course of time was 
married to Miss Anna Westfall, a native of New 
Jersey, whose parents were of German descent 
and farmers by occupation. In 1S15, soon 
after their marriage, Jacob Marshall and his 
wife came to eastern Ohio, where he entered a 
farm of 160 acres of wild land, teeming at the 
time with savage animals and game of many 
sorts. The young couple were among the first 
white people to venture into that part of the 
country, and dare to face the many dangers and 
hardships incident to early pioneer life; but 
here they went to work with a will, and soon 
had a comfortable though primitive home, to 
bless which there came a family of eight chil- 
dren, viz. : John, Hannah, Thomas, Levi, 
James, Simeon, Hester and Catherine. The 
father died in 1865 and the mother in 1867. 

Levi Marshall, whose name opens this 
memoir, was reared to agricultural pursuits, and 
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boyhood days at tbe old log school-house of the 
period, but be proved an apt scholar and studi- 
ous youth, and by perseverance and close appli- 
cation to his lessons, both in school and at home, 
succeeded in securing better than an average 
education. At the age of twenty-three years 
(in 1835) he was united in marriage with Miss 
Levina Wier, a native of Washington County, 
Penn., and whose parents were probably of 
Irish descent. In 1836 Mr. and Mrs. Marshall 
moved to Augusta Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, where they carried on farming and pros- 
pered. To them were born seven children, 
viz. : Thomas, Mary, Horace, James, Samuel, 
Josiah and Jason, all of whom have left the 
parental roof. In 1889 the parents moved into 
the town of Augusta, where they have a fine 
brick residence, and Mr. Marshall also owns a 
very fine farm in the township, comprising 100 
acres of highly improved land, equipped with 
all modern improvements. In addition to car- 
rying on general farming he deals extensively 
in live stock — buying and selling — and he ships 
large quantities to Chicago, 111. In politics he 
is a Republican, and has held offices of trust in 
his township, such as trustee, treasurer, etc. 
He and his wife have been active members of 
the Methodist Church for nearly half a century. 



the hardships incident to clearing up a new farm, 
attending in the winter season, for a few weeks, 
the district school. His father died in 1837, 
and Robert R. remained with his widowed 
mother, assisting in conducting the farm. In 
1871 he was married to Libbie A. Holmes, 
a native of Carroll County, and daughter of 
Samuel and Emily (Pumpbrey) Holmes, old pio- 
neers of the vicinity of Leesville, that county. 
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Harvey located on 
tbe home farm, which he carried on in partner- 
ship with his brother, Simpson J. The farm 
was divided, and our subject now owns 125 acres 
of excellent land, on which be has built a com- 
modious house, and made all the improvements; 
he also owns a half interest in a planing mill. 
In the fall of 1871, he moved into Carrollton, 
and here, in the following spring, embarked in 
the lumber business, but in 1874 he returned to 
the farm. To Mr. and Mrs. Harvey were born 
six children, three of whom are now living, viz. : 
Addie A., Mary Laura and Florence. The 
parents are members of the Presbyterian Church; 
in politics Mr. Harvey is a Democrat, though 
not bound by any party ties. He has served as 
vice-president of Carroll County Agricultural 
Society several years, and as a member of the 
school board. 



»pv OBERT RAY HARVEY, one of the rep- 

LUr resentative, well-to-do citizens of Centre 
1^ Township, Carroll County, was born in 
■f/ Washington County, Penn., June 29, 

1833. His parents, Robert and Sarah (Simp- 
son) Harvey, came from Washington County, 
Penn., to Carroll County, in the spring of 1836, 
and settled on a farm where they passed the 
remainder of their lives. They had born to 
them a family of six children, three of whom are 
yet living, the subject of this sketch being fifth 
in the family in order of birth. 

Robert R. Harvey was, as will be seen, three 
years old when he came with his parents and 
others of the family to Carroll County, the jour- 
ney being made by wagon. He experienced all 



JiOHN FRITSCHLE (deceased), who was 
I numbered among the prominent farmers 
) of Rose Township, Carroll County, was 
born December 9, 1817, in Baden, Ger- 
many. His father, also named John, reared a 
family of six children, of whom four were boys. 
He came to what is now Brown Township. Car 
roll Co., Ohio, in 1829, and followed farming all 
bis days, dying in the faith of tbe Lutheran 
Church, of which he was one of the founders in 
Carroll County. 

John Fritschle, our subject, received his 
limited education in Germany, inasmuch as his 
youthful days after his arrival in America were 
occupied in hard labor on the farm in Carroll 
County, clearing and improving. On June 15, 



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1845, he married Christina Wetzel, daughter of 
George Wetzel, and born March 4, 1825. They 
at once located in Harrison Township, Carroll 
County, where they resided until 1867, when 
they came to the farm in Rose Township now 
owned by his widow. The children born to 
John and Christina Fritschle were named as 
follows: George, Catherine (Mrs. John Yoelm), 
Christina (Mrs. Daniel Baker). Jacob, Caroline 
(Mrs. Philip Lind), Elizabeth (Mrs. Charles 
Sattler), Lydia (Mrs. Daniel Seemann), Mary 
(Mrs. Allen Black), John and Sarah. Mr. 
Fritschle was originally a Whig in his politics, 
but afterward a Republican, in which party 
he became a leader. He was a prominent 
member of the Lutheran Church, in the faith 
of which he died January 4, 1S74, his remains 
being interred at Waynesburg. The life of 
Mr. Fritschle was an exemplary one. worthy the 
emulation of the young. He left a large and 
valuable property, the result of his industry 
and frugality, in which he was encouraged and 
assisted by his worthy wife. He was patriotic 
and enterprising, and was ever active in promot- 
ing all measures intended for the public good. 




LEXANDER A. FAWCETT, one of 
the leading progressive farmers of Lou- 
don Township, Carroll County, was born 
in Union Township, same county, May 
16, 1829. His grandfather, John Fawcett, 
married Miss Letta Armstrong, and to them 
were born the following named children: Eliza- 
beth Riley, Letta Grace, Jane Atwell, Ann Me- 
Court, Dorinda Brooks, Charles and Alexander. 
Iu 1816 John Fawcett, with his family, emi- 
grated from his native land, Ireland, landing 
in New York City, where they remained a short 
time and then started on foot for Ohio. Arriv- 
ing in what is now Union Township, Carroll 
County, Mr. Fawcett entered a one-half section 
of land. Here he erected a small hut, which 
was built by placing two forked posts in the 
ground, and then putting a pole in the forks for 
a ridge pole; he next split slabs from trees, and 



then placed one end of each on the ground and 
the other against the ridge pole, leaving a hole 
in the peak for the smoke to escape. In this 
hut the family resided till they could build a 
better cabin, and about the only provisions they 
had was cornmeal mush and milk. After a few 
years Mr. Fawcett erected a hewed-log house, 
in which he lived till 1837, when he put up the 
brick dwelling which is yet standing. On this 
land Mr. Fawcett resided from the time he 
entered it till his death. He died in 1838 at 
the age of about seventy-five years, his wife 
having passed from earth the year previous. 
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church for many years. 

Their son Charles, the father of the subject 
of these lines, was born in County Fermanagh, 
Ireland, in 179'J. He received a common- 
school education in his native land, and, coming 
with the rest of the family to Union Township, 
when seventeen years of age, he took an active 
part in clearing the land his father had entered. 
In 1820 he married Miss Margery Brooks, a 
native of Ireland, who was born about the year 
1800, and came to the United States when six- 
teen years of age. To this union were born the 
following named children: Nancy Grace 
(deceased); John, in Union Township, Carroll 
Comity; Dr. Henry (deceased); Letta Kneen, a 
resident of Iowa: Rebecca Butler, in Nevada 
Countv, Cal. ; Alexander A. ; Dr. Charles, a resi- 
dent of Salem, Columbiana Co., Ohio; Dorinda 
Teter. in West Virginia; Thomas, in Cedar 
County, Iowa; Margery Moore, residing at 
Harlem Springs, Carroll Co. , Ohio, and James 
(deceased), of whom Thomas and James were 
both soldiers in the Civil War. Charles Faw- 
cett remained on the old farm until 1S57, in 
which year he removed to Cedar County, Iowa, 
where he remained till his death in 1873; his wid- 
ow died in 1882. They were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically Mr. 
Fawcett was first a Whig, and afterward, on the 
formation of the party, a stanch Republican. 
He served several years as justice of the peace 
in Union Township. 




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Alexander A. Fawcett grew to manhood in 
Union Township, Carroll County, receiving his 
education in the common schools of the neigh- 
borhood, and remained on the home farm till 
February 1, 1855, the date of his marriage with 
Miss Ella Kneen, who was born in September, 
1829, on the farm our subject now owns in Lou- 
don Township, Carroll County, a daughter of 
William and Mary (Kenyon) Kneen, natives of 
the Isle of Man. The Kneens immigrated to 
the United States in 1826, and first located in 
New Rumley, Harrison Co., Ohio, where they 
remained a short time, and then purchased the 
farm of 160 acres now owned by our subject. 
Here they passed the remainder of their lives. 
Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett 
came to the farm where they now reside. To 
them have been born the following named chil- 
dren: Mary Reed (deceased); William C, a 
civil engineer in West Virginia; Ella, John H. 
and Flora, at home. The parents are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in poli- 
tics Mr. Fawcett is a Republican. 



JOSEPH H. MINNICK, a representative 
of one of the oldest families of Perry 
Township, Carroll County, and one of the 
rising young farmers of his township, was 
born April 23, 1864. His grandfather, John 
Minnick, was a native of Maryland, where the 
family had resided for several generations. The 
father of William reared a family of live chil- 
dren, viz. : Mary, Sarah Susan, Sophia Rebecca, 
Joseph and William. After farming for some 
time in Maryland, he, with his family, came to 
Ohio and entered a large tract of land in Orange 
Township, Carroll County. He soon after 
removed to Harrison County, and entered a 
quarter section in North Township, which his 
two sons largely cleared and improved. He was 
one of the early Whigs of his township, and 
was among the organizers of the Lutheran 
Church, with which he was connected during 
life. After a long life of usefulness he passed 
away, and was laid to rest by the side of his 



faithful and loving wife, who had preceded him 
to the grave a few years. 

The youth of William Minnick was spent 
largely on the home place, where he received 
instruction in farming. Although a severe 
school, and one in which only the sturdiest of 
natures received full benefit, still that school of 
hardship, toil and economy is the one to which 
many can trace their success. In his early man- 
hood Mr. Minnick was married to Margaret 
Emory, who bore him one child, Daniel, who on 
the commencement of the Civil War enlisted in 
the Eightieth O. V. I., and was killed at Jack- 
son, Miss. For his second wife Mr. Minnick 
married Mrs. Margaret Watson (wee Hoobler), 
who had one son, John T., who enlisted at the 
age of eighteen and died from the effects of a 
bursting shell near Altoona Mountains, Ga. 
By this second marriage Mr. Minnick had chil- 
dren as follows: Martin L., Mary O, Susanna 
R., Sarah E. and Joseph H. Mr. Minnick was 
one of the stanchest of Whigs and Republicans, 
and took an active part in the work of his party. 
In his youth and earlier manhood he had been 
a member of the Lutheran Church, but in later 
years he became a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which society he was class- 
leader, steward and trustee. He was an ener- 
getic and progressive man, always taking an 
active part in the advancement of the cause of 
education and religion. He was well known for 
the sterling qualities he possessed, and his un- 
questioned honesty and integrity. Largely a 
self-made man, he was successful in his own 
way, and never made money at the expense of 
another. He died November 24, 1887; his 
widow is at present a resident of Scio, Harrison 
County. 

Joseph H. Minnick, the subject of this 
sketch, spent most of his life on the farm, 
working summers, and attending the common 
school at Scio in winters. He removed to Scio 
in the fall of 1890, and then took a special 
I course, Which he considered would be beneficial 
j to him in his business. He believes that a 
thorough education is almost necessary to the 



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would-be-prosperous farmer, and his own suc- 
cess argues well for his conclusions. On Feb- 
ruary 15, 18S7, he was married to Anna, daugh- 
ter of Van Kirby, of Perry Township, Carroll 
County, and one child blessed their union, 
William, who died at the age of six months. 
Mr. Minnick is a supporter of the Republican 
party, and takes an active part in the State and 
National politics. He and his wife are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio. 
His farm consists of 117 acres of highly pro- 
ductive and well improved land. 



AMUEL DUNLAP, a life-long resident 
and highly esteemed farmer citizen of 
Lee Township, Carroll County, was born 
in that township, June 1, 1S15. His 
grandfather, Samuel Dunlap, came from Mary- 
land to Lee Township in 1810, and entered 
land which he cleared with the assistance of 
his family. He was one of the organizers of 
the Presbyterian Church at Carrollton, and held 
various offices in same for several years — such 
as trustee and elder. In politics he was an old- 
time Whig, and afterward, on the formation of 
the party, a stanch Republican. He passed 
from earth on July 24, 1833. 

Matthew Dunlap, father of the subject of 
this sketch, was a native of the Keystone State, 
born in 1791, and at an early age came with his 
parents to Lee Township, Carroll County, where 
he passed the remainder of his days. In 1812 
he married Nancy Greer, a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, and after that event they settled on a 
farm which they cleared themselves, their 
dwelling being the ordinary primitive log cabin 
of pioneer days. The children born to them 
were as follows: Mary, born July 27, 1813 
(Mrs. George McDaniel, in Jackson, Monroe 
County, Ohio); Samuel Dunlap, born June 1, 
1815; Margaret, born August 16, 1818 (Mrs. 
Morgan Thompson, deceased); John Dunlap, 
born March 23, 1820 (in Harlem Springs, 
Ohio); Sarah, born March 23, 1822 (Mrs. 
Eathen Daniel, in Cameron, Mo.); Rebecca, 



born August 23, 1825 (deceased); Eliza A., 
born August 24, 1828 (deceased), and Belinda, 
born November 8, 1830 (Mrs. Hance Glazner, 
deceased). The father died August 10, 1S78, 
and the mother at the home of her son Samuel, 
in 1SS6, at the age of ninety-two years; they 
rest in the cemetery at Harlem Springs. Mat- 
thew Dunlap was a self-made man, having com- 
menced with but little, and succeeded in accum- 
ulating a good property. He built a grist-mill, 
which was operated by horse-power and was 
crowded with work, which he carried on for 
several years, and then retired from active life. 
As one of the oldest members of the Presby- 
terian Church in his community, he took an 
active interest in everything pertaining to its 
welfare, and in politics as a Whig and Repub- 
lican he always voted the straight ticket. 

Samuel Dunlap, whose name heads this 
biographical sketch, attended the subscription 
schools of his native township for a short time, 
having from one and a half to two and a half 
miles to tramp through the woods and brush, 
which was no light journey in the rough winter 
months. Most of his learning was picked up 
in the practical work of the farm — chopping 
and clearing away brush, plowing, sowing 
and reaping. On March 8, 1842, he wedded 
Catherine, daughter of Samuel and Margaret 
(McDowell) McWhirter, of Jefferson County, 
Ohio, who were the parents of the following 
named children: William, deceased; Maria, 
Mrs. Samuel Rath; Catherine; Robert, Samuel 
and Alexander, all three deceased; and Sarah 
A., Mrs. Moses Handley. Mr. McWhirter 
came from Pennsylvania in 1818 to Jefferson 
County, where he carried on the tanning busi- 
ness. He was a member of the Seceder Church, 
in politics a Democrat. In 1857 he departed 
this life, his widow in 1873. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Samuel Dunlap have been born the following 
named children: Ann (deceased), John, Mar- 
garet J. (Mrs. David Fryer), Sarah A., Ida 
M. (Mrs. Robert W. Lyons) and Matthew A. 
Mr. Dunlap and wife are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church at Harlem Springs; in his 



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politics he was first a Whig.and since the forma- 
tion of the party has been a Republican. 



V 



Hi ENRY BRANDT. The name Brandt is 
German, and the Brandt family in Car- 
roll County are of German origin. Fred- 
rick Brandt, father of Henry, was born 
in the Fatherland, where he was a shepherd, and 
came when a young man to New York State, 
where he worked on a farm about five years, 
and then moved westward to Ohio, landing at 
Cadiz, Harrison County, about the year 1839, 
with a flock of sixty-five sheep, two shepherd's 
dogs and one horse. He bought a farm of 187 
acres in Loudon Township, Carroll County, and 
was here married to Miss Margaret Shawver, by 
which union were born four children, viz. : 
William, who was killed in the Civil War in 
1863; Elizabeth, who died when a mere child; 
Henry, our subject, and Susan, who married 
Morris James, a farmer of Loudon Township, 
but who at present is keeping a general store at 
Kilgore, Loudon Township. The mother of 
this family died in 1845, and Fredrick Brandt 
afterward, about 1852 married Elizabeth Able, 
who bore him the following named seven chil- 
dren: Washington, Frederick, Andrew, Marietta, 
John, Belle and Harrison, all yet living except 
Andrew. The father died on his farm in 1868, 
being at the time of his death very wealthy, be- 
ing owner of 1,365 acres of land, and about 1,500 
sheep. Our subject's mother's people went to 
Iowa, being about the first settlers in Cedar 
County, that State — in fact his relations on his 
mother's side all live in the West. 

Henry Brandt, of whom this sketch more 
especially treats, was born April 25, 1842, in 
Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio, where 
he grew to manhood, attending a few weeks in 
winter time the district schools. When the 
Civil War broke out he was one of the first to 
come to the front at the call of his country, en- 
listing when twenty-one years of age in Com- 
pany H, Ninety-eighth O. V. I., and was mus- 
tered in August 18, 1862. He took part in the 



engagements of Chickamauga, Jonesboro, Buz- 
zard's Roost, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree 
Creek and many others, as well as in Sherman's 
march to the sea, and was mustered out in 1865, 
thus having been in continuous service about 
three years. At the close of the war Mr. Brandt 
came home and settled on his present farm in 
Carroll County, which after renting it about 
three years he bought. On October 5, 1869, 
our subject was married to Miss Matilda Hoobler, 
who was born in 1847, in Harrison County, 
Ohio, daughter of John and Sarah Hoobler, na- 
tives of Ohio, born of German lineage, and who 
are yet living. To this union six children have 
been born, viz. : John (deceased), Harry D. (at 
home), Virginia G. (deceased), Jennie M. and 
Willie F. (both at home), and one that died in 
infancy. Mr. Brandt's farm contains 210 acres 
of prime land, and is situated in the southwest 
corner of Section 24, being distant about three 
miles from Perrysville and six miles from Scio, 
being one of four farms which occupy the entire 
section. Mrs. Brandt belongs to the German 
Reformed Church. In politics Mr. Brandt is a 
Republican, as was his father before him. He 
and his wife are representative citizens, have a 
host of friends, and rank among the influential 
people of Carroll County. He has always been 
a hard-working man, and his success in life is 
due to his industry and economy. 



JiASON MOORE is among the youngest of 
the prominent farmers in Fox Township, 
/ Carroll County, and justly deserves a 
place among the successful and energetic 
citizens. He was born October 13, 1859, in 
Jefferson County, Ohio, where his father, G. L. 
Moore, was also born. William Moore, his grand- 
father, was a native of Pennsylvania, and soon 
left his old home to enter and locate on the farm 
where our subject was born. G. L. Moore was 
reared in Jefferson County, and attended Hope- 
dale and Hiram Colleges, where he obtained an 
education to fit him for future usefulness. After 
reaching manhood he married Miss Lister, who 



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was a native of Pennsylvania, and seven chil- 
dren were born to them, named as follows: 
Emma, Jason, Frank S., Maggie A., John, Belle 
and Mary. G. L. Moore has been a farmer all 
his life, and has always been identified with the 
progress of the county. Mrs. G. L. Moore 
died February 14, 1881. 

Jason Moore spent his early days on his 
father's farm, where he grew to manhood. 
After attending the district school in the neigh- 
borhood, he attended Hopedale College. At 
the age of twenty-three, March 15, 1883, he 
married Miss Maggie Smith, who was reared in 
Jefferson County, her parents being of Scotch 
descent. Soon after marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Moore moved to their present farm in Fox 
Township, and two children were born to bless 
their home, viz. : Lister S.,born March 14, 1884, 
and Bessie M., born August 9, 1888. Mr. 
Moore has a well-improved farm of 1S6 acres, 
which is provided with a large barn, 56x36 
feet in length and breadth, and twenty feet high 
— the highest barn in Fox Township — and which 
was constructed in the summer of 1890. Mr. 
Moore is a stock-raiser, and takes much interest 
in the raising of Shorthorn cattle. In religion 
Mr. and Mrs. Moore are Presbyterians, and 
attend the Cornith Church at Mechanicstown; 
in politics he is a Democrat " to the backbone." 
Mr. and Mrs. Moore have many friends who 
wish them many years of happiness and success. 



El A. THOMPSON, a well-known farmer 
of Brown Township, Carroll County, was 
I born in Stark County, Ohio, September 5, 

1836. He traces his paternal ancestry 
to Thomas Thompson, a native of Scotland, who 
married Rachel Van Fossen, a native of Ire- 
land, and came to America soon after the close 
of the Revolutionary War, settling in Pennsyl- 
vania on a farm near Mt. Pleasant. One of his 
descendants, also named Thomas Thompson, 
was the father of our subject, and was born in 
Fayette County, Penn., March 20, 1796, and in 
1816 was united in marriage with Margery 



McKinley. In 1817 Thomas and his bride came 
to Ohio and entered a farm in Lawrence Town- 
ship, Stark County. The children born to this 
union are as follows: John and Hugh. In 1821 
Margery Thompson died, after which Thomas 
Thompson returned to Pennsylvania, and on 
December 24, 1822, he was united in marriage 
with Margaret Smitley, daughter of Caspar 
Smitley, of Westmoreland County, Penn. Dur- 
ing the same year they removed to the farm 
formerly occupied by Thomas Thompson, in 
Lawrence Township, Stark Co., Ohio, upon 
which they resided, and he continued to im- 
prove until 1830, when they moved to Sandy 
Township, whence, in 1840, they came to Brown 
Township, Carroll County, and purchased the 
farm now occupied by our subject. They were 
parents of the following named children: 
Amanda (Mrs. W. A. Nichol), Thomas, Israel, 
Mathew and Andrew (twins), Mary L. (Mrs. J. 
\V. Crawford), Caroline (Mrs. Frances Haugh- 
ton), E. A. and Emma (Mrs. John Crisman). 
The father of this family in early life learned 
the trade of shoemaking, which he followed in 
conjunction with farming. In politics he was a 
AVhig, and while a resident of Stark County 
aided in organizing that part}'. He was a great 
friend of all educational movements and was in- 
variably a liberal contributor, financially, to all 
beneficial objects. He died September 24, 1844, 
after which event his widow made her home 
with our subjects until her decease, which oc- 
curred February 5, 1881. 

E. A. Thompson, with whose life this sketch 
chiefly concerns, passed his youthful days in 
Brown Township where he continues to reside, 
and where he has followed his father's calling, 
meeting with abundant success. His school 
attendance, like that of other boys of that day, 
was limited to a brief period of each winter 
season until he was eighteen years of age, when 
the farm claimed all his attention and time. 
On December 25, 1862, he was united in the 
bonds of matrimony with Miss Susan, daughter 
of Frederick Roose. Mr. Roose was a native 
of Maryland, and in that State married Eliza- 



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betb Watkins, by wbicb marriage be became tbe 
father of tbe following children: Mary, Margaret, 
Barbara. Elizabeth, Susan and Jennie. After 
tbeir marriage Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Tbompson 
settled on tbe home farm, wbicb tbey purchased, 
still further improved and beautified, and wbicb 
is conveniently located near the town of Malvern. 
Tbe family born to this union are as follows: 
Nora (Mrs. Orlando Jennings), Bird (Mrs. 
Samuel Totten), Minnie, Lilian (Mrs. J. F. 
Buel), Wade and Verne. Mr. Tbompson bas 
been a life-long Republican, and bas served bis 
party in many official capacities, always per- 
forming his duties faithfully and satisfactorily. 
He has ever been recognized as an enterprising 
citizen, and has always stood shoulder to shoulder 
with the representative men of the township in 
advancing all its material interests. 



JOSEPH V. and JAMES F. LAWLER, 
proprietors of the Carroll County Chroni- 
cle, are both natives of Carrollton, Ohio, 
and are sons of Fenton and Hannah 
(Easley) Lawler, former of whom was born in 
County Queen's, Ireland, and when fifteen 
years of age came with his four brothers, four 
sisters and widowed mother to America, and 
took up a residence in Pittsburgh, Penn. Allan, 
the eldest brother, rued just before entering the 
ship, and bade his mother and her eight chil- 
dren a last farewell and returned to Mount- 
mellick, where he spent his days and was buried 
beside his father. The mother wa9 a Quaker 
woman, but became a convert to the Catholic 
Church after coming to America. In January, 
1833, Fenton Lawler was married, at the home 
of the bride's sister, in Pittsburgh, to Miss 
Hannah Easley, a native of Armstrong County, 
Penn., one of a family of seventeen children 
born to her parents who were Pennsylvania 
Germans for several generations back. The 
Easleys were a long-lived race, the father of 
Mrs. Lawler having lived to the age of four- 
score years, other members of the family to be 
nearly ninety, and one sister, Mrs. MeCue, lived 



to be one hundred. After a residence of ten 
years after their marriage in Pittsburgh and 
Steuben ville (Ohio), Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Law- 
ler came in May, 1843, to Carrollton, and pur- 
chased the homestead that still remains in the 
possession of the family. Here Mr. Lawler 
established himself in his trade, that of weaver, 
which he had partly learned in bis native land, 
and he supplied tlfe people of Carrollton and 
surrounding country with cloth up to the time 
of his death, which occurred April 8, 1852, be- 
ing yet a young man, but one who had by toil 
and perseverance made a good start in life. 
The widow was left with seven small children 
to care for; she nobly performed this sacred 
duty and passed from earth in 1887, after five 
weeks of frightful suffering, her death being 
the result of a fall which produced an impacted 
fracture of the hip-joint. She was buried at 
Canton. Her age was seventy years. A brief 
record of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Fenton Lawler is as follows: Thomas died in 
Pittsburgh, Penn., at the age of thirteen 
months; Andrew Easley died, and was buried 
at Effingham, 111. ; Mary Ann is the deceased 
wife of Mathias Waggoner, of Minnesota; 
Elizabeth is married to J. T. Champer, of 
Terre Haute, Ind. ; Helen is the wife of John 
Duffy, of Canton, Ohio; John W. died at the 
age of nine months; Helena remains unmarried; 
Joseph V. and James F. are the subjects of 
this sketch. Tbe parents were adherents of 
the Catholic Church — for a long time represent- 
ing the only Catholic family in Carrollton. 
Missionary priests celebrated mass in their 
house, and on one occasion Archbishop Purcell 
was a visitor. 

Joseph Vincent Lawler was born in Sep- 
tember, 1848, and after a few years' attendance 
at the common schools of his native town en- 
tered what is often called "the poor boy's 
school" — a printing office. This was tbe office 
of the Carroll Free Press, then owned by Col. 
J. Weyand, and here he remained six months. 
The next year he transferred himself to the 
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other printing establishments, being thoroughly 
inducted into the awful mysteries surrounding 
the life of a printer's " devil " until 1867, when 
he varied the monotony of ' ' sticking type ' ' and 
"throwing in slush" by teaching school in the 
county, during the winters of 1867-68, 1868-69, 
in the meantime working at his trade, in Oil 
City, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia (all in 
Pennsylvania), and in Steubenville, Salem, and 
Canton (in Ohio). The Democrats of Carroll 
County, having had since 1S63 up to this time 
(1871) no paper to represent their party in the 
county, resolved to have one established, and 
while Mr. Lawler was in Salem they invited him 
to return to Carrolltou and confer on the matter. 
The upshot was the establishment of the Carroll 
Chronicle with Mr. Lawler in charge as pub- 
lisher and Mr. Thomas Hays as editor, but at 
the end of two years Mr. Hays retired and Mr. 
Lawler assumed the editorship. At this time 
he enjoyed the distinction of being the youngest 
Democratic editor in Ohio. The paper was 
owned by a stock company, composed of twenty- 
five wealthy and influential Democrats. In 
1874 nearly all of this stock passed into the 
hands of Mr. Lawler. The Chronicle has grad- 
ually increased in popularity, until to-day no 
newspaper in the county enjoys so large a circu- 
lation. In 1872 Mr. Lawler was married to 
Miss Emma, daughter of Archibald McGregor, 
of Canton, Ohio, who is of Scotch extraction. 
He settled in Canton, in an early day, and is yet 
living there, now retired, and for over forty 
years was editor and publisher of the Stark 
County Democrat. To Mr. and Mrs. Lawler 
were born seven children (six of whom are yet liv- 
ing) viz. : Edward F. , Martha. Mary, Anna.Archie 
(deceased), and John Malcolm and Joseph V., 
the last two being twins and the pride of the fam- 
ily. Mr. Lawler was for six years a member of 
the board of education, and for four years and 
four months was postmaster at Carrollton. 

James Fenton Lawler was born in March, 
1850, and in early life he worked on a farm and 
at carpentering until 1876, when he united with 
his brother in the printing business, becoming, 



in 1886, a one-third owner. In 1882 he was 
united in marriage with Miss Mary, daughter of 
Isaac Atkinson, a pioneer and one of the organ- 
izers of Carroll County, to which union three 
children have been born: Robert, Frank and 
Fenton. Mr. Lawler, like his brother and his 
father before him, is a Democrat in politics, 
firm in the faith. 



J OHN HUNTER, farmer, Monroe Town- 
w I ship, Carroll County, was born in Penn- 
\^J) sylvania in 1815. His father, James 
Hunter, was a native of Ireland, where he 
married Miss Jane Caughran. and to them were 
born children as follows: Thomas, Sarah, Mary, 
Nancy, James, John, Jane, William, Eliza and 
George. Mr. Hunter, soon after his marriage, 
immigrated to the United States, and settled in 
Allegheny County, Penn., where he remained 
till 1834, when he came to Ohio and purchased 
a farm of 160 acres in Rose Township, Carroll 
County. He cleared this land, making many 
improvements, and resided upon it until his 
death, which occurred in 1877. 

John Hunter, our subject, grew to young 
manhood in Allegheny County, Penn. , and came 
to Ohio in 1834 with his parents. He has been 
twice married: first, in 1840, to Miss Mary 
Aber, of Rose Township, and to this union were 
born, March 17, 1841, John and Mary, twins. 
John, who is a mute, resides on the farm; he 
was married to Pauline Monnin (also a mute), of 
Stark County, Ohio, and to them were born three 
children: Josephene,Mary and John. Mary is the 
wife of James Kennedy, who resides inVioksburg, 
Miss., and is employed by the Government as 
Special Pension Examiner; to them four children 
were born, viz. : Lelia, Hunter, Mary and Gray, 
Mrs. Hunter died in 1841, and the second mar- 
riage of Mr. Hunter was with Miss Christina 
West, a daughter of James West, of Columbiana 
County, Ohio, to which union were born six 
children, viz.: Sarah J., who died in infancy; 
James, who resides in Kansas; Douglas, Mar- 
garet, Nettie and William, who reside at home. 



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Mr. Hunter remained in Rose Township till 
1801, when he purchased the farm on which he 
now resides, and which contains 230 acres in 
Section 12, Monroe Township, where he is suc- 
cessfully engaged in grain producing and stock- 
raising. In 1880 he erected his line residence. 
Politically Mr. Hunter is a Democrat, and in 
religion he is a member of the United Presby- 
terian Church, in which he has been an elder 
for thirty years. 




T. HAWKE, a representative and pros- 
perous agriculturist, and a member of 
one of the oldest and most highly 
esteemed families of Brown Township, 
Carroll County, is a native of the same, born 
March 28, 1855. His grandfather, Robert 
Hawke, was born July 18, 1753, near Castle- 
Jinn, County Donegal, Ireland, and was married 
to Hannah Russel, of the same place, who died in 
Ireland. Their children's names are William, 
Martha, John, Jane (who became Mrs. Robert 
McConal, of near Steubenville, Ohio), James, 
Eliza (who became Mrs. William Hamilton, of 
Brown Township, Carroll County), and Robert, 
father of our subject. Grandfather Hawke was 
one of the first five men to organize the First 
Presbyterian Church of Waynesburg, Ohio, in 
which church our subject now holds the offices 
of trustee, secretary and Sabath-school super- 
intendent. In 1814 the family came to America 
and settled in Ohio, in what afterward became 
Brown Township, Carroll County. It is said 
that they were compelled to leave their native 
land on account of threats of violence at the 
hands of a gang of robbers, who had " visited" 
them as well as others. The Hawke family had 
"informed" on these outlaws, and the latter 
notified them that unless they removed from 
the country within a few days they would be 
killed. Other families received similar warn- 
ings, but paid no heed to them, and the result 
was that they were burned out, and some mem- 
bers murdered. The farm on which the Hawkes 
settled is now known as the Baxter Blythe 



Farm, and was largely cleared and improved by 
them. After selling his farm Robert Hawke 
moved to Stark County, same State, where he 
died, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and 
in politics a strong Democrat. 

Robert Hawke, father of the subject of this 
sketch, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, 
August 25, 1805, and was consequently nine 
years old when he came with the rest of the 
family to America. His education was limited 
to but a few days at school, and to such study 
as he was enabled to apply himself to at home. 
On January 18, 1848, he was married to Jane, 
daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Cute) Black, 
former a native of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. 
Black came to America in 1814 from County 
Tyrone, Ireland, the voyage being made in the 
same ship that brought Grandfather Hawke and 
family, but they knew nothing of it until after the 
marriage of the father and mother in 184S. 
They settled in Philadelphia, Penn., and there 
remained until 1825, when they moved to Wash- 
ington County, Penn. , where they resided until 
1831, in which year they moved to Monroe Town- 
ship, Carroll County, Ohio, and here they died. 
Their children were as follows: James (born 
on the ocean), Elizabeth, Jane, Thomas, Rob- 
ert, Isaac, and Eliza (now Mrs. David McCul- 
lah, of TJhrichsville). They were Presbyterians 
in religious faith, and politically Mr. Black 
was a Whig. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hawke, 
after their marriage, settled on the property 
where their son R. T. now resides, and this by 
hard work they improved and made one of the 
most productive farms in the valley. The chil- 
dren born to them were as follows: Hannah R. 
(deceased); Elizabeth O, now Mrs. Oliver J. 
Strayer; John R., now of Pueblo, Colo.; R. 
T. ; Elnora J., now Mrs. T. R, McElhany, and 
Alica Mary (deceased). The father died Jan- 
uary 9, 1871, the mother January 24, 1881. 
They were leading members of the Presbyterian 
Church, and in his political preferments Mr. 
Hawke was an active Democrat. 

R. T. Hawke, whose name opens this sketch, 
from his youth up has passed his life on the 



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old home place where he was born and where he 
yet resides. In consequence of there being 
sickness in the family, instead of going to 
school he remained at home, but, by steady ap- 
plication to books, and a keen observation of 
men and things in general, he succeeded in 
securing a good practical education. On Octo- 
ber 7, 1879, he was united in marriage with 
Jennie N. Hamilton, who was born near 
Waynesburg, Stark Co., Ohio, August 20, 
1860, daughter of R. B. Hamilton, and the 
result of this happy union is three children: 
Robert B., Paul G. and Florence. Mr. and 
Mrs. Hawke are members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Waynesburg, and in his political pre- 
dilections Mr. Hawke, as were his forefathers, 
is a solid, uncompromising Democrat. 



JOHN T. COGSIL has resided on the 
same farm in Loudon Township, Carroll 
• County, for over half a century, having 
come here with his parents when nine 
years of age. He was born in Maryland, Sep- 
tember 18, 1829, a son of Harvey and Mary 
(Vincel) Cogsil, and a grandson of Truman 
Cogsil, who was born near Roxbury, Conn., of 
English parentage. He, Truman, was married 
to Civil Hawley, also a native of Connecticut, 
who bore him children as follows: Harvey, An- 
son B., Elizur, Hawley, Mary, Almira, Nancy, 
Harriet, Sarah and Ann. The parents lived 
all their lives near Roxbury, where they carried 
on farming. They were members of the Epis- 
copal Church, and in politics Mr. Cogsil was an 
Old-line Whig. 

Harvey Cogsil, father of John T., was born 
near Roxbury, Conn., April 17, 179S, receiving 
his education at the subscription schools of the 
neighborhood. In his youth he went to Vir- 
ginia, where he met Miss Mary Vincel, a native 
of Loudoun County, that State, born in 1801, 
and became united in marriage with her in 1820. 
They remained in Virginia, engaged most of the 
time in farming, until 1838, in which year they 
proceeded to Ohio, where he purchased the farm 



of 400 acres in Loudon Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty, on which his son, John T., resides, now 
known as "The Oaks.'' He afterward bought 
more land in the same locality and 2,000 acres 
in Missouri, residing on the farm first purchased 
until his death, which occurred March 12, 1885, 
his wife having preceded him to the grave June 
30, 1876; she was a member of the Lutheran 
Church for many years. To them were born 
seven children, a brief record of whom is as fol- 
lows : Oliver is a resident of Lee Township, Car- 
roll County; George is deceased; John T. is the 
subject of this memoir; Harvey lives in Mus- 
kingum County, Ohio; Anson B. is deceased; 
Antoinette and Mary F. are living with John T. 
Politically Harvey Cogsil was a Democrat; he 
was one of the founders of Carroll County 
Fair; and took an active part in building the 
Carrollton & Oneida Railroad, the first railroad 
to reach Carrollton, and was one of the pioneer 
stock-dealers of the count)'. 

John T. Cogsil was reared to manhood in 
Ohio, attending the common schools, where he 
received a good, practical business education. 
He has, since commencing for himself, always 
been engaged in farming and stock-dealing on 
the old home place. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. At one time he was captain of Company K, 
First Regiment, StateTUilitia. 



PERRY A. SMITH, a leading agricult- 
urist of Orange Township,Carroll County, 
is a native of Ohio, born in Tuscarawas 
County, November 8, 1828. The pater- 
nal grandfather was the first of this family to 
come from the Old World to the New, and he 
settled in Maryland, where Benjamin, the father 
of Perry A., was born. Benjamin Smith moved 
from his native State to what is now Harrison 
County, Ohio, at a time when the country was 
new and neighbors few. He built a home in 
the wilderness, and commenced to clear his 
farm by felling the " giants of the forest " and 
hewing away the brush. After coming to Har- 
rison County he married Miss Jane Gartrell, 








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who came to that county from Maryland aloDg 
with her parents. To this union were born five 
children — one son and four daughters — Perry 
A., Elizabeth L., Mary Ann, Catherine J. and 
Matilda. The father was called from earth 
August 20, 183S, and the mother December 9, 
1853. They were an industrious couple, hon- 
ored and esteemed far and wide. 

Perry A. Smith, whose name opens this bio- 
graphical memoir, was educated in the common 
schools of his district, and had a thorough 
practical training on the home farm. On April 
10, 1856, he was married to Miss Mary Parker, 
whose father, Robert Parker, was a native of 
Ireland, and came to this country in an early 
day, settling in eastern Ohio, and finally taking 
up his residence in Carroll County, where he 
cleared up a farm and reared a large family; he 
is still an aged, honored citizen of Monroe 
Township, Carroll County. Soon after their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Smith came to Carroll 
County, where they lived first on a farm near 
Carrollton, whence they moved to their present 
place in Orange Township. Five children were 
born to their union, as follows: Robert B., 
Sarah O, James W., Winfield S. and one that 
died in infancy, and of these Robert B., Sarah 
C. and Winfield S. are living at home, and 
James W. , who is married, is a farmer on a 
place of his own, also in Orange Township. 
Perry A. Smith owns 177 acres of choice farm- 
ing land, situated about two miles north of 
Leesville, comprising both bottom aDd high land, 
all well improved, with abundance of water and 
many kinds of fruit trees, etc. He has been 
and is now a very ardent Republican, and a 
strong supporter of the Government during the 
late Rebellion. Although not in the army him- 
self, he helped to clear the township several 
times from draft, and contributed liberally of 
his means to the boys who went to the front to 
face the enemy in order that the institutions he 
so much cherished might be perpetuated for his 
children" s childreu, and for the unborn genera- 
tions of this great republic. For over half a 
century Mr. Smith has been an esteemed resi- 



dent of Carroll County, and has always ranked 
among her most respected citizens. 



It SAAC W. COX, one of the most prominent 
of Carroll County's prosperous agricultur- 
[ ists, is a native of the same, born in East 

Township, January 22, 1839. His grand- 
father, Joseph Cox, who was born in Ireland in 
1709, came to this country when a young man 
(it is supposed) and settled in Beaver County, 
Penn. , where he married his rirst \vife(whose name 
is not now known), and hail children as follow-,: 
James, John, Isaac and Nancy, of whom James 
became the father of our subject; Isaac resided 
in Beaver County, Penn., alibis life, and John 
went to Illinois, where he died. The second 
wife of Joseph Cox was Mary Bettis, who bore 
him the following named children: William, 
who grew to manhood in East Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, and then moved to Williams County, 
Ohio, where he died ; Margaret, who was mar- 
ried to David Holmes, and lived in Carroll 
County, Ohio, all her days, and Joseph, who 
went to Williams County, Ohio, enlisted in the 
Civil War, and died at Camp Dennison. The 
father of these children had come to Ohio in 
1818, and entered 160 acres of land in what is 
now East Township, Carroll County, part of 
which land is now owned by Jacob Gamble. On 
this place he erected a log house in which he 
passed the remainder of his days, dying in 1854. 
In religion he was a member of the Disciples 
Church, and in politics he supported the princi- 
ples of the "Whig party. 

James Cox, father of our subject, was born in 
Beaver County, Penn., in 1800, where he received 
a common-school education. In 1818 he came 
to Ohio with his parents and helped to clear and 
improve the land entered by his father. In 
1821 he was married to Mary Smith, who was 
born in 1797 in eastern Pennsylvania near the 
Susquehanna River, a daughter of Robert Smith, 
a native of Ireland. To this union were born 
ten children: Jane, wife of the late William 
Davis, of East Township, Carroll Co., Ohio: 



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John, who resides in Bergholtz, Ohio; Mary A., 
wife of Andrew Bash, of Van Wert County, 
Ohio; Ellen, widow of the late Andrew Ken- 
nedy, of East Township, Carroll County; James, 
who resides in East Township; Elizabeth, de- 
ceased wife of Albert Bettis; Isabelle, wife of 
Alex Cunningham, in Augusta Township, Carroll 
County; Sarah, wife of John B. Shaw, of East 
Township, Carroll County; Isaac W.', our sub- 
ject, and William H. , who reside in East Town- 
ship. After his marriage James Cox settled on 
part of the land which was entered by his father, 
where he remained until his death, which oc- 
curred in 1856, at which time he owned 276 
acres of land in East Township. His widow 
passed her last days at the home of her son, 
Isaac W., and died in 1875. Both had been 
members of the Presbyterian Church for many 
years, and politically Mr. Cox was first a Whig 
and afterward a Republican. 

Isaac W. Cox was reared to manhood on the 
farm and educated at the district school. On 
May 30, 1859, he was married to Lydia A. Pot- 
torf, who was born in Augusta Township, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio, April 6, 1842, a daughter of 
Henry and Mary (Hewitt) Pottorf, and to this 
union were born eight children, all living in 
Carroll County, viz. : Alpheretta, wife of Rob- 
ert Graham, of Lee Township; Mary, wife of 
Homer Manfull, of Augusta Township; William 
H., in Washington Township; Seymour, at 
home; Benjamin L., in East Township; James, 
in Augusta Township, and Frank and Eva, at 
home. After his marriage Mr. Cox remained 
on his father's farm a short time, and then 
moved to Muddy Fork, whence, after a brief res- 
idence, he returned to the home farm, where he 
remained till 1871, when he purchased the farm 
he now owns which contains 212 acres on Sec- 
tions 13 and 18, East Township. In 1881 he 
erected one of the finest barns in Carroll County, 
in size 40x72 feet, with basement, etc. His 
elegant gothic residence, 40x54 feet, which is 
built of brick and finished with walnut, cherry, 
white ash, chestnut, oak and red elm, was 
greeted in 1886. It is surmounted on the south- 



west corner with a tower sixty feet in height, a 
flight of stairs leading to the top. The timber 
the house is finished with grew on the farm, the 
brick was made from clay taken from the farm, 
and was made on the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Cox 
are members of the Presbyterian Church of 
Augusta, and in politics he is a Bepublican. 



Fit M. McCOY. Washington County, Penn., 
// \\ has furnished Carroll County, Ohio, with 
fr"l\ many of her best citizens, among them 
■€/ being the McCoy family. A. M. McCoy 

was born there August 19, 1830, a son of James 
McCoy, who was born in York County, Penn., 
in 1799, of Irish ancestry. James McCoy mar- 
ried Miss Eliza Tripp, who was also of Irish 
descent, and in 1835 they moved to Loudon 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, and purchased 
a farm which Mr. McCoy worked, also carrying 
on his trade as a carpenter. After a long life 
of hardships he died in 1865, his good wife 
following in 1867. Seven children were born 
to them, of whom two died in infancy. 

A. M. McCoy came to Ohio with his father 
when he was but five years of age, and here he 
attended school in the winter season and worked 
on the farm during the summers. On May 20. 
1852, at the age of twenty-one, Mr. McCoy 
married Miss Mary Eleanor Madden, a native 
of Pennsylvania, but at that time a resident of 
Carroll County, Ohio. Mr. McCoy lived with 
his father on the old homestead in Loudou 
Township until the death of the latter in 1865. 
Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. A. M. 
McCoy, viz.: Mary E., Agnes J.. William, 
Martha and Howard, all now deceased except 
Howard. The mother departed this life iu 
1869, and Mr. McCoy married in 1872 for his 
second wife, Nancy Spere, a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, where she was educated. Three chil- 
dren were the result of this union, of whom two, 
Nancy and one not named, died in infancy; Ed- 
win S., still living. Nancy, second wife of A. 
M. McCoy, died February 22, 1874, and on April 
20, 1S76, he was again married, this time to 



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Miss Mattie M. Nile, by whom were born two 
children: Frank L. and Belle Vernon, both 
now living. Mr. McCoy moved, in 1870, to his 
present farm, which contains 195 acres of im- 
proved land, is well watered, and is provided 
with two young orchards. Mr. McCoy is a 
stock-raiser, and pays special attention to the 
keeping up of the standard of high grades. 
Politically he is a Prohibitionist, and he stands 
high in the estimation of his neighbors as an 
honest man and a gentleman. He and his wife 
are members of the Presbyterian Church, and 
have been actively connected with the same for 
a number of years. 




jJLLIAM CRAWFORD (deceased) was 
born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 
1790. His father, William Crawford, 
was also born in County Donegal, and 
was a son of Matthew Crawford. In 1803 
Matthew, his son William, and their families 
emigrated to the United States and settled in 
Washington County, Penn. In 1820 Matthew, 
in company with his three sons, Matthew, John 
and James, came to Augusta Township, Carroll 
County, Ohio, where the three sons entered 100 
acres each, part of the land being now owned 
by the heirs. Matthew spent his last days on 
this land. 

William Crawford, the son of Matthew, was 
reared to manhood in Ireland, and married 
Nancy Monon, a native of that country, the 
fruits of the union being twelve children, viz. : 
George, Matthew (1), William (1), (Matthew 
(1) and William (1) died in infancy in Ireland), 
William (2), Margaret and Matthew (2) (they 
were born in Ireland), and John, James, Oliver 
(an M. D.), Thomas, Lettie and Robert were born 
in the United States. Matthew (2) still re- 
sides in Washington County, Penn., the only 
one of the twelve children now living; Margaret 
married Thomas Forsythe, and both are now de- 
ceased; Lettie died in infancy; William (father 
of subject) remained all his life in Pennsylvania. 
on the land where thev first settled in 1803, and 



died in 1847, aged seventy-seven years. His 
wife, Nancy, died in 1848, aged seventy-seven. 
William Crawford, our subject, was seven 
years old when his parents settled in Pennsyl- 
vania, where he was reared to manhood and 
educated at the subscription schools. On May 
4, 1831, he married Miss Elizabeth Slator, who 
was born in Washington County, Penn., Decem- 
ber 30, 1803, and the fruits of this union were 
two childreu, viz. : One daughter that died in 
infancy, and one son, John T., who now re- 
sides in East Township, Carroll, Co., Ohio. 
Elizabeth (Slator) Crawford died January 18, 

1840, aged thirty-six years eighteen days. Our 
subject and his son, John T. , moved to Ohio in 
April, 1840, to his farm in East Township, 
Carroll Co , Ohio, which contains 100 acres, and 
which he had purchased in 1827. On May 7, 

1841, he married Miss Isabella Orr, who was 
born in Washington County, Penn., February 
19, 1810, a daughter of Joshua and Mary (Col- 
well) Orr, natives of County Tyrone, Ireland, 
and who, in 1811, came to the United States and 
settled in Washington County, Penn., where 
they remained till their death, Mr. Orr dying 
in 1872. aged eighty-two years; his wife, Mary, 
having died in 1870, aged seventy-nine years. 
They were parents of four children, viz. : Isa- 
bella, Elenor, James and Eliza. 

Our subject purchased fifty-five acres adjoin- 
ing his farm on the east, and the farm is at pres- 
ent owned by his son-in-law, James Patterson. 
Mr. William Crawford remained on his farm till 
his death, which occurred in 1873, when he was 
seventy-seven years old. He was well known 
and highly esteemed, and had been a ruling 
elder in the United Presbyterian Church for 
many years. Mrs. Isabella Crawford still re- 
sides on the farm. They were parents of eight 
children, viz.: William B., a resident of Au- 
gusta Township, Carroll Co., Ohio; Nancy L. , 
wife of J. Patterson, of East Township; Joshua 
H., in Pueblo, Colo.; Thomas P., an M. D. , in 
Augusta, Ohio; James F., hardware merchant 
at Malvern, Ohio; George R., Robert O. and 
Mary J. (deceased). 



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NOCH W. ABEL, a farmer and carpen- 
ter by occupation, and one of the well- 
to-do citizens of Perry Township, Car- 
roll County, is a native of Harrison Coun- 
ty, Ohio, born April 30, 1838. 

Christopher C. Abel, his great-grandfather, 
was a native of Germany, whence he came to 
America about the time of the Revolutionary 
War. After his arrival in this country he made 
his way to that part of the Northwest Territory 
that was then known as the " Steubenville Land 
District,'' where he took up land and made a 
home for himself and family. He was among 
the first settlers in what afterward became the 
State of Ohio, and his farm subsequently, on 
the organization of the county in 1814, was 
brought within the limits of Harrison County. 
The country was then in a very primitive con- 
dition, and where are now prosperous farms and 
beautiful fields and meadows the Indian roamed, 
and the dense woods teemed with wild animals, 
bears, deer, wildcats, turkeys, etc. Remaining 
here but a short time after bringing out his 
family, Christopher Abel returned to Germany, 
where he died about the year 1840. 

Christopher C. Abel, a son of the old pio- 
neer, and grandfather of Enoch, came from 
Virginia to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, 
shortly after the War of 1812, in which he 
served as captain. He died May 29, 1859. 
He was the father of seven children — three sons 
and four daughters — all born in Harrison Coun- 
ty, and all now deceased, and a brief record of 
the four daughters is as follows: Polly married 
David Blickendaffer, a shoemaker by trade; 
Elizabeth married George Levengood, a black- 
smith and stock-raiser; Anna married Samson 
Barnhouse, a farmer; Margaret married Henry 
Heisler, a farmer. The following is a brief record 
of the three sons: George moved to Iowa, where 
he settled on a farm ; Alexander P. was a school 
teacher; John (father of Enoch W.) was born in 
Harrison County, Ohio, July 26, 1816, and died 
September 23, 1849 (he was a stonemason and 
farmer, and was married October 30, 1837, to 
Miss Sarah Ann Abel, a first cousin, also a na- 



tive of Harrison County, Ohio, born July 9, 
1818, and whose parents came here from Vir- 
ginia. By this union were born three children, 
viz.: Enoch W., Christopher O, born October 
3, 1839, and is living in Perry Township, Car- 
roll County (he served about three years in the 
Civil War), and Henry K. , born March 3, 1841, 
and died November 19, 1S44. The mother, 
who is yet living, was married March 3, 1853, 
to Henry Kick). 

Enoch W. Abel, the subject proper of this 
memoir, spent his early life in Harrison County, 
attending the district schools. He was a lad of 
twelve summers when his father died, and so he 
had to " paddle his own canoe," which he did 
bravely. Being determined to acquire a good 
education, he went to work with a resolution, 
earning by labor in the summer months suffi- 
cient money to defray his expenses of education 
in winter time. Having laid in a good stock of 
book-lore, Mr. Abel then learned the trade of a 
carpenter in Jefferson County, Ohio, later re- 
moving to a western State, where he followed it 
until his return home in I860. In the spring 
of the following year, the Civil War having 
broken out, he enlisted in Company A., Third 
O. V. I. (three months' service), participating 
in the battle of Bull Run, after which he re- 
turned home to Harrison County, and August 
12, same year, he re-enlisted, this time in Com- 
pany A, Thirty second O. V. I. (three years' 
service), which was sent to West Virginia, and 
participated in many engagements in that cam- 
paign. On September 15, 1862, Mr. Abel was 
taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry, but being ex- 
changed, he rejoined his regiment and followed 
its fortunes till the close of the war. He took 
active part in the battles of Vicksburg, Atlanta, 
Champion Hills, Jackson (Miss. ), Port Republic, 
Winchester, Resaca and others, and was mus- 
tered out in the fall of 1865, having served his 
country four years and six months. As will be 
seen, our subject experienced a deal of hard 
fighting, having many narrow escapes, and to 
this day he bears the marks of three wounds. 
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returnecl to the pursuits of peace, and settled in 
Perry Township, Carroll County, where, since 
1870, he has both worked at his trade and fol- 
lowed farming. In 1870 he was married to 
Margaret Kirby, who was born January 8, 1844, 
in Carroll County, Ohio, a daughter of Isaac 
and Rachel Kirby, old settlers of Carroll County. 
Mr. and Mrs. Abel have no children, but raised 
an adopted daughter, by name Mollie Carter, 
who is teaching school. Politically Mr. Abel 
is a Democrat, has held various offices of trust 
in his township, and has been a justice of the 
peace for the past six years. 



AMTEL W. RIPPETH. the subject of 
this sketch, is a representative of one of 
the earliest settlers of what is now Orange 
Township, Carroll County, then a part 
of One Leg Township, Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio. He was born October 31, 1822, in One 
Leg Township, and has spent his whole life 
within its confines. His father, James Rippeth, 
was born in Washington County, near Middle- 
town, Penn., in 1791. The father of James was 
William, who was a native of Queen Anne's 
County, Md., where the family lived for many 
years. In his youth William Rippeth was mar- 
ried to Sarah Ross, who bore him the following 
named children: Elizabeth, William, James, 
Sarah, Mary and Katherine. In 1780 Mr. Rip- 
peth left his native State, and joined the fort- 
unes of the pioneers of Washington County, 
Penn., and here he remained until 1812, when he 
came to Carroll County, Ohio, where he had, 
some years previously, entered land. He was 
engaged in farming during his life, and was one 
of the hard-working and progressive pioneers. 
He early identified himself with the movement 
for independence, and was an earnest supporter 
of the Americans in the Revolutionary stuggle. 
After the formation of the political parties he 
united with the Federalists, and afterward 
became a W r hig. He was also a member and 
worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

James Rippeth, father of Samuel W\, spent 



his early life in Washington County, Penn., where 
he received the education usually accorded to 
the children of the early settlers. In 1S05 he 
came to Ohio, and built a cabin on the laud 
entered by his father. He came in the spring, 
and as the grain in the country was what is 
known as ' ' sick ' ' he was compelled to return to 
Pennsylvania, which he did on foot, his wife and 
two children traveling on horseback. He was 
married in Pennsylvania to Mary Amspoker, 
daughter of Alexander Amspoker, of that State, 
who came from Germany, his wife having came 
from Ireland; the names of their children are 
John, Sarah, Martha, Samuel, Alexander, 
James and Mary. Alexander Amspoker, the 
father of these children, took up a tract of land 
by tomahawk title in Brooke County, Va. (now 
West Va.), where the children were born and 
raised until the}- were all married, except Alex- 
ander and James, who died young. Mary 
Amspoker, his daughter, was the last of the 
family to marry. The children born to James 
and Mary Rippeth were named Elizabeth, Sarah, 
Rebecca, Martha, Mary, Samuel W. , Amanda, 
James A., Matilda and Delilah. Shortly after 
coming to Carroll County Mr. Rippeth opened 
a hotel, which, in conjunction with farming, he 
conducted for more than a quarter of a century, 
and which was a stopping place for parties going 
westward. The house was raised by the assist- 
ance of his neighbors and also a party of 
Indians who happened to be in the vicinity. 
Mr. Rippeth was one of the strongest of Whigs, 
and was among the first to vote the ticket in his 
section. He was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and was among its founders 
and workers. He passed away at a ripe old age, 
respected and esteemed by all. 

The life of Samuel W. has been spent in 
his native township, where he experienced the 
usual difficulties in acquiring an education, an 
old log cabin answering the purpose of a school- 
house. He, however, early acquired the princi- 
ples of hard work and economy, which have given 
his success in life. At the time of his marriage 
Mr. Rippeth had nothing, but now he is the 



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possessor of one of the best producing farms in 
his section, and which comprises 400 acres. 
He has always been a Whig and Republican, 
and has held various positions of honor and 
trust in his township. A leading member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, he has held 
all the offices in that society, and has been 
class leader for over forty years. On November 
18, 1841, he was united in marriage with Mi- 
randa, daughter of Benjamin Price, of Orange 
Township. Mrs. Rippeth died May 3, 1844, 
and on August 28, 1845, Mr. Rippeth was mar- 
ried to Emily Roby, a native of Orange Town- 
ship, Carroll County, daughter of R. T. Mankin 
and Ceny Roby, who came from Maryland and 
settled in Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Rippeth 
were born the following named children: Lemuel 
O. , John A. , Charles M. , Jeremiah S. , James 
A., Albert S., Frank L., Mary and Delilah E. 



f | AMES B. BR ANN. The Brann family are 
^ 1 1 among the best known of Orange Town- 
Xjl ship, Carroll County. Alexander Brann, 
father of William Brann, was born in Ire- 
land, as was also his wife, Ann Brann. They 
came to America and settled on eighty acres of 
land in Monroe Township, Harrison Co., Ohio, 
in the year 1828. They entered the land which 
was at that time a wilderness, built themselves 
a log house, where William was born, and also 
Jane (Mrs. Sylvester Wallace). Mr. Brann was 
a Democrat, one who always took a leading part 
in all public movements, and was a man of much 
energy and skill. He died in May, 1885, his 
wife in September, 1864. 

William Brann spent his life on the home 
place, was educated in the schools of New 
Hagerstown, Ohio, and followed farming. In 
1852, at the age of twenty-four years, he was 
married to Miss Margaret J. Lenhart, to which 
union the following named children were born: 
Mary A., Alma J., James B., Peter A. and 
Laura A. Mr. Brann, like his father, took a 
leading part in county and township matters, 



never neglecting to do his duty, but always 
ready to advance a good cause. 

James B. Brann was born January 10, 1857, 
in Carroll County, but, imbued with a natural 
desire to see the world and not contented to 
remain at home, left his native State and trav- 
eled through many of the western States, among 
them being Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and In- 
diana. He was educated at New Hagerstown, 
Ohio, where he learned the lessons necessary to 
fit him for future usefulness. He inherited 
that rush and restlessness which characterized 
both his father and grandfather. It was this 
character that prompted his ancestor to break 
away from the many ties which naturally held 
him to his own country and to seek his home 
and fortune among strangers in the New World; 
it is this character, when rightly used, that is 
the mainspring of future success and greatness. 
With this invaluable feature indelibly stamped 
upon his nature, James B. Brann will meet 
with success and fortune. 



"Honor and shame from no condition rise; 
Act well your part, there all the honor lies." 

APTAIN HARRY WALTER KTRBY, 

although still in the prime of life, has 
probably had a wider experience and 
passed through a more varied career than 
any other citizen of his township, and as a cap- 
tain in the army, a college professor, attorney 
at law and journalist, he has represented a name 
that has been familiar in the southern part of 
Carroll County since 1824 — nine years before 
the erection of Carroll as a political division of 
the State. The name Kirby is of Scotch origin — 
derived from Kirk (church) and by (near) Kirk- 
by signifying "near a church," was in the 
lapse of time anglicized for the sake of euphony 
into Kirby. It is not the purpose of this gene- 
alogy to give extended space to remote ances- 
try, farther than to sketch the lineal descent of 
the subject of this memoir. Some time in the 
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herd of this name threw down the bagpipe and 
crook and left his dear native Highlands of 
Scotland to try his fortune in the unexplored 
New World, and landed in the then new Quaker 
province of Pennsylvania. Cotemporaneous with 
this event, a Teuton surnauied Bear left the his- 
toric Rhine in " Faderland " destined for the 
new Eldorado of America and landed in South 
Carolina. As "Westward the star of empire 
wended its way," the American Revolution re- 
volved and brought forth a nation. Both fam- ' 
ilies took part in the struggle, after which John 
Bear, a descendant of the immigrant of that 
name, took up his abode near the capital of 
Pennsylvania, where he married Catherine 
Anderson, who bore him six children, viz. : Jacob, 
John, Barbara, Henry, Margaret and Eve. 
Through the vicissitudes of the great whirligig 
of Time, amid the closing scenes of the event- 
ful eighteenth century, the lineal descendants 
of this long converging consanguinity met in 
the fertile Cumberland Valley, Bedford Co., 
Penn. , and there Joseph Kirby and Jacob Bear 
were united in holy wedlock to Catherine Ander- 
son and Mary Walters, respectively, and became 
the honored grandparents of the subject of this 
biography, at whose record their shades have 
no reason to blush. 

Jacob Bear, the maternal grandfather of our 
subject, removed to Ohio in 1813, and settled in 
what twenty years later became Carroll County, 
Ohio, and in that almost unbroken wilderness 
infested with Indians, bears, wolves, etc., 
reared eight children, viz. : John, Jacob, Eliza- 
beth, Catherine, Anne, Joseph, Jane and Henri- 
etta; of whom Elizabeth, Catherine and Henrietta 
still survive. Joseph Kirby, the paternal 
grandfather of our subject, a shoemaker by 
trade, served in the War of 1812, and through 
exposure became a cripple, and died in Bedford 
County, Penn., in 1S22. Two years later his 
widow came to Carroll County with her eight 
children, named Anne, Isaac, David, Susan, 
Mary, Ephraim, John and Elizabeth, and of 
these John is the sole survivor, and one of the 
most respected citizens of his township. In 1832 



the Clyde became the confluent of the Rhine in 
the marriage of Ephraim Kirby and Elizabeth 
Bear, and together they lived for fifty-six years 
in the same township, and reared nine children, 
viz. : Samuel, Mary Ann, Van Buren, Harry 
Walter, Catherine, William. Martha Ellen, 
Jacob Jasper and Francis Marion. The father 
was a carpenter, and left the mark of his ax on 
almost every log building in Perry Township 
and environs — many of which buildings are 
still in existence. He was fond of sport, and 
employed much of his leisure time with his 
hounds and gun. By industry and good man- 
agement he made the " wilderness blossom as 
the rose," until he had acquired four hundred 
acres of good laud, all under cultivation. 
"Uncle Eph," as he was reverently addressed 
by every one, died September 4, 1888, at the age 
of eighty-one years, willing all his earthly pos- 
sessions to William and J. J. Kirby, the only 
children then living with him, which proves the 
proverb, absens haeres non erit. 

Harry Walter Kirby, the fourth offspring of 
this pioneer union, whose personal history we 
shall now chronicle, was born December 18, 
1845. Not being inclined to husbandry, but 
ambitious for something beyond the humdrum 
life of the farm, he began life on his own 
account at the age of fourteen, and became 
faber suae fortunae. In 1858, having improved 
the few advantages of the common school, he 
taught one term, and in 1859 attended Rich- 
mond College. In 1860 he entered Rural Sem- 
inary, and while there engaged in his studies 
the first shot of the Rebellion was fired at Fort 
Sumter. Notwithstanding the remonstrances 
of his parents, his patriotic enthusiasm could 
not be bridled, and October 21, 1861, he en- 
listed in the Eightieth O. V. I., Company A. 
While the company was at Fort Meigs, Ohio, 
he was sent home to assist in recruiting Company 
D, and at one meeting at Harlem, where he 
had attended school, made a war speech that 
secured the enlistment of seventeen young men, 
mostly old schoolmates, and soon returned to 
camp with the new company. His regiment 



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followed Gens. Pope, Eosecrans and Halleck 
through Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, 
and participated in all the marches, battles and 
sieges of the campaign to the fall of Corinth, 
Miss., in July, 18G2. He was then detailed by 
General Orders from Washington to return to 
Ohio and recruit the regiment, whose ranks had 
been greatly decimated. In a short time he re- 
ported a sufficient number of recruits, and for 
this service, Governor Tod commissioned him 
second lieutenant over all the non-commis- 
sioned officers in the regiment. He rejoined his 
regiment at Memphis, Tenn., just as General 
Grant was entering upon his famous Vicksburg 
campaign, and was assigned to the command of 
Company D, which position he held through 
the Yazoo Pass expedition, severe marches, and 
battles of Champion Hills, Jackson, etc., until 
the surrender of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. He 
was then promoted to first lieutenant and 
placed in command of "die Deitcher cumpanie" 
E, with which he followed Sherman four hun- 
dred miles through Tennessee and Alabama to 
Chattanooga, and also led his company through 
the three days' fight at Lookout Mountain and 
Missionary Ridge, November 23, 24 and 25, 
1863, where one-half his men were killed, 
wounded and taken prisoners, and his haversack 
was lost by a ball that cut his clothing under 
his left arm. He took part in every conflict 
from Chattanooga to the fall of Atlanta, where 
he was promoted to captain of Company A, 
and followed Sherman "from Atlanta to the 
sea," "sixty miles in latitude, 300 to the main." 
Toward the close of 1864 he was again de- 
tached by General Orders to conduct drafted 
men, substitutes and bounty jumpers to all 
parts of the army — a responsible as well as 
perilous task, and thus spent the last part of 
the war traveling on land and sea. Being the 
ranking captain of the regiment, he was now 
entitled to the majorship of the regiment, which 
rank he declined, and resigned his commission 
February 13, 1865, after a service of three 
years and four months, during which period he 
was never off duty, except four weeks in 1864, 



when he was stricken with smallpox. His 
brother Samuel, who enlisted in August, 1862, 
was, after a few months of camp life, discharged 
for disability, and Van Buren was drafted, but 
sent a substitute. 

After reviewing his long neglected studies, 
Capt. Kirby entered the University of Michigan 
in September, 1865, and graduated in 1869. He 
then accepted the professorship of languages 
in Harlem Springs College (being able to read 
and write five languages), and at the end of a 
year began reading law with Judge Tripp, of 
Carrollton. He was admitted to the bar in 
1873, but teaching being more congenial to him 
than the practice of law, he returned to the 
school-room, where he remained continuously 
until 1882, when a telegram summoned him to 
the bedside of his brother Frank, who was 
stricken with smallpox while practicing medi- 
cine at Willshire, Ohio. Through his famil- 
iarity with the disorder, the Captain not only 
saved the Doctor's life, but successfully nursed 
thirteen other cases. After leaving the pest- 
house the Captain visited his sister, Mrs. Kate 
Thompson, in Indiana, and there accepted the 
superintendency of the schools at Pleasant 
Mills, where he remained three years. Tired 
of confinement, he accepted an appointment as 
surveyor of Adams County, which furnished 
much out- door work for two years, when he 
resigned and purchased the Decatur Journal, a 
Republican paper published in Decatur, Ind. 
In 1887 he was elected superintendent of schools 
at Malvern, Ohio, without his knowledge, and 
conducted the schools and edited the Journal at 
the same time for one year, and in June, 1888, 
returned to Decatur, where he personally man- 
aged the Journal through the exciting campaign 
that placed Harrison in the White House. In- 
diana was the doubtful State, and so hot was it 
in that Democratic county that he was mobbed 
upon the street at night by a Cleveland club, 
and sued for libel by the Democratic candidate 
for treasurer, but came off victorious in both 
fights. He was admitted to the practice of law 
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after, having sold all his interests in the West, 
returned home to look after his claim in his 
father's estate. 

The Captain is five feet, nine inches in 
height, straight as an Indian, and always wears 
long, jet black, curly hair, which often gave 
him the cognomen, "Buffalo Bill." And while 
he has ever enjoyed the society and been a 
favorite of the fair sex, strange to say cupid's 
cable has not been strong enough to anchor his 
bark in the hymeneal harbor. He is still a 
bachelor, "heart whole and fancy free." He 
has long been a worthy and consistent member 
of the Masonic fraternity and Grand Army of 
the Republic, but never united with any branch 
of the Christian Church; has ever been a stanch 
Republican, although his father and brothers 
were dyed-in-the-wool Democrats. He never 
sought office, except in 1S70, when he consented 
to become a candidate. for representative to the 
Ohio Legislature. 

Capt. Kirby is a leader in all athletic 
sports, an eloquent speaker, a polished logician, 
brilliant writer and accomplished linguist. His 
pen, like his oratory, is chaste and classical. 
He has published many line things both in 
prose and verse, and contemplates publishing a 
volume of his best poems in the near future. 
His whole life and character present a bright 
example of self-reliance. "Intrepid minds 
climb soonest into crowns," and since he flour- 
ishes not upon ancestral honors, but perpetuates 
an illustrious and venerable name by his own 
individual efforts, we bid him Dieu voas garde, 
et serus in coelum redeas. 



dfOSEPH TRIPP, who for the past sixty- 
one years has lived on his present farm 
/ in Orange Township, Carroll County, 

ranks among the best known and most 
highly respected citizens of his section. He 
was born in Pennsylvania in 1824, a son of 
Caleb Tripp, also a native of that State, who 
lived some time in Washington County, where 
he carried on farming and was married to Miss 



Nancy Wallace, of the same place. To this 
union were born six children, viz. : Rebecca; 
Margaret (deceased); Joseph; John, a farmer 
in Illinois; Job, a carpenter in Missouri, and 
Thomas, a farmer in Missouri. The parents 
both died in Carroll County, the father April 
27, 1877, and the mother July 15, 1873. 

Joseph Tripp, our subject, was reared and 
educated in his native State, and in 1850 was 
married to Miss Meliuda McQueen, whose par- 
ents, Elisha and Lydia McQueen (former of 
whom was of Irish descent, latter of Dutch), 
came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, settling in 
Carroll County. Immediately after their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Tripp moved to Orange 
Township, Carroll County, where five children — 
four daughters and one son — were born to them 
as follows: Mary M., married to James Pil- 
lars, a lumber dealer in Bowerston, Ohio; Ann 
R., married Thomas R. Brooks, a farmer in Perry 
Township, Carroll County; Lydia A., married 
to B. F. Crumrine, a marble dealer in Akron, 
Ohio; Hettie S., married to M. E. Vorhes, a 
carpenter in Kansas, and Elmer E., married to 
Miss Rebecca I. Bracken. Mr. Tripp is the 
owner of three farms in Carroll County, aggre- 
gating 249 acres of improved land — two of the 
farms being in Orange Township and one in 
Perry Township, latter comprising 112 acres. 
All these farms are under cultivation, and he 
has accumulated them by hard work, thrift and 
good judgment. He and his wife are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in pol- 
itics he is a Democrat. 



E 



LI R. ROTTDEBUSH (deceased), who in 
his lifetime was one of the rising young 
j men of Washington Township, Carroll 
County, was a native of the same, born 
December 25, 1845, a son of Jesse H. and Jane 
A. Roudebush, former of whom was a native 
of Washington Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, of 
which part of the State the family were early 
settlers. The early life of our subject was spent 
at home, working on the farm and attending 



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the district schools, and afterward an educa- 
tional institution at Carrollton. At the age of 
nineteen he commenced teaching school, a pro- 
fession he followed for several years with emi- 
nent success, and his love for learning was so 
great that he never ceased from the study of 
one subject or another as opportunity offered. 
He was married October 22, 1867, to Catharine 
A.., daughter of Peter and Margaret Garnbert, 
of Harrison Township, Carroll County, and by 
her had four children: Laura I., Edgar F., 
Maggie E. and Eva F. , all living at home with 
their mother. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Roudebush settled on a farm in Washington 
Township, whence they removed in 1868 to 
Centre Township, and after a sojourn there of 
about a year and a half came to Harrison Town- 
ship, where he purchased the farm on which the 
family now reside. 

Mr. Roudebush died August 26, 1885, and 
was buried in the cemetery at Mt. Olivet Church 
in Washington Township, the respect in which 
he was held being attested to by the large con- 
course of sorrowing friends who followed his 
remains to the grave. By his death the town- 
ship lost one of its most enterprising citizens; 
education one of its strongest supporters, and 
religion, one of its most zealous advocates. He 
had always taken an active part in the affairs of 
the Republican party, and served a term as 
infirmary director so satisfactorily that he was 
re-elected. In his township he was an active 
worker in all public matters, taking a leading 
part in the promotion of whatever tended to the 
welfare of the community. From early youth 
Mr. Roudebush was interested in church mat- 
ters; when he lived in Washington Township 
he was a member of the Mt. Olivet Church, but 
after moving to Harrison Township he was 
taken into the Disciples Church at New Harris- 
burg by letter; he was a faithful member and 
was an elder for a number of years. His widow 
and two eldest children are members of the 
church at Mt. Olivet, Laura having joined Oc- 
tober 20, 1884, and Edgar on November 7, 
1886. Before Mr. Roudebush died the church 



at New Harrisburg had some difficulty among 
the members which they failed to settle satis- 
factorily, and so Mr. Roudebush and family 
returned to the church at Mt. Olivet. 



AMTJEL ALLEN, a thoroughly represent- 
ative and progressive citizen of Monroe 
Township, Carroll County, having his 
residence east of the town of Dell Roy, 
was born in the county, December 26, 1825. 
His father, Joseph Allen, was a native of New 
York State, where the latter' s father, Lemuel 
Allen, carried on farming and died. Joseph 
was reared to agricultural pursuits, attending 
in the winter months the schools of his district. 
Soon after reaching man's estate he was married 
to Mary, daughter of Joseph Manchester, a 
native of New England, and by this union were 
born the following named children: Cranston, 
Elizabeth, Henrietta, Albert, Samantha, John, 
Bersheba, Samuel, Sarah A., George, Hannah, 
Ruth, David and William. In 1823 Mr. Allen, 
accompanied by his family, came to Ohio, and 
entered a piece of land where is now Perry 
Township, Carroll County, which land was 
cleared by himself and sons. Here the father 
died in 185-4 and the mother in 1870; they were 
members of the Disciples Church. Mr. Allen 
in politics was a stanch Democrat. 

The early life of Samuel Allen was passed 
much in the manner of the average farmer boy 
of over half a century ago — toiling on the farm 
in the summer time, and attending school a few 
weeks in winter. In November, 1853, he was 
married to Mary, daughter of Jacob and Eliza- 
beth (Jenkens) Strayer, of Harrison Township, 
Carroll County, and the names of the children 
born to this union are Jacob, J. C. , Clara A., 
Frank, Joseph, Oliver, George and Harvey S. 
In 1851 Mr. Allen came to Dell Roy, where he 
lived twelve years, then moved to a farm half a 
mile east, where he has since resided, being en- 
gaged in various kinds of business, at one time 
extensively in droving, having on different occa- 
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mountains. When he came to Dell Roy he em- 
barked in merchandising, which he carried on 
twelve years, and for a long time he conducted a 
coal bank for the benefit of his neighbors. In 1880 
he opened a large vein, which he worked for 
some years, and he now operates three mines 
which yield about 500 tons per day, of as good 
a quality of coal as can be found in Ohio. For 
the past year Mr. Allen has confined his atten- 
tion exclusively to his coal and farming interests, 
and be now owns 700 acres of land under excel- 
lent cultivation. In all his enterprises and 
ventures Mr. Allen has been eminently success- 
ful, thanks to his energy, perseverance and 
sound judgment. He and his family are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church, and in poli- 
tics he is an out-and-out Republican, a promi- 
nent and efficient worker in the party. 



El ZRA BOGGS, one of the oldest and most 
highly respected residents of Harrison 
I Township. Carroll County, was born No- 
vember 15, 1824, in Washington Coun- 
ty, Perm. James Boggs, his grandfather, was 
a native of Ireland, where he was married, 
and he and his wife, coming to this country at 
an early date, located in New Jersey for a time, 
carrying on farming, finally moving to Pennsyl- 
vania, where they passed the remainder of their 
lives. One son of this pioneer couple, by name 
James, was born near Newark, State of Dela- 
ware, where he was brought up on his father's 
farm, with such close application to the many 
duties thereon, that he had but little time for 
availing himself of educational advantages. 
He was twice married, first to Rebecca Kerr, 
who bore him two children, James and Eliza, 
both now deceased, and this wife dying in 1810 
Mr. Boggs was married to Margaret Simpson, a 
native of Washington County, Perm., daughter 
of James Simpson, a resident of Pennsylvania, 
and a native of Ireland. Immediately after 
marriage they located on a farm in Pennsyl- 
vania on which they remained until 1833, in 
which year they came to Carroll County, where 



he purchased the farm in Harrison Township, 
on which their son Ezra, our subject, now re- 
sides, and which they cleared and improved 
with the assistance of their children. Those 
born to the second marriage of James Boggs, 
were John (deceased), Margaret, Mary J., 
Sarah A., Rebecca, Ezra and Emeline. The 
mother died in 1845, and the father in 1808 at 
the patriarchal age of ninety years; he had been 
an active Democrat, taking prominent part in 
the success of the party. The entire family 
were members of the Presbyterian Church at 
Carroll ton. 

Ezra Boggs, son of James and Margaret 
(Simpson) Boggs, and the subject proper of this 
memoir, at the age of nine years, accompanied 
his parents from Pennsylvania to Ohio. He 
received a fair education at the district schools, 
which he supplemented with a close course of 
private study in spare hours, and succeeded in 
securing a good knowledge of the English 
branches. On July 2, 1857, he became united 
in marriage with Clarantine, daughter of Will- 
iam and Margaret (Power) Scott, former of 
whom was born in Washington County, Penn., 
latter of Chester County, same State. Mr. 
Scott was raised on a farm until eighteen years 
of age, when he was apprenticed to a Mr. Ham- 
ilton, of Washington, to learn the trade of 
blacksmith. After attaining his majority he 
married Margaret Power, and by this union 
were born the following named children: Mar- 
garet, Edward, Robert P., Clarantine, Mary, 
Rebecca A., William and Emily (both deceased) 
and Eleazer. Mr. Scott came to New Harris- 
burg, Carroll Co., Ohio, in 1839, and lived in 
the village and vicinity until his death which 
occurred in 1879, when he was aged seventy- 
nine years; his wife survived him several years 
and died in 1882, at the age of eighty-one years. 
Mrs. Boggs and a niece are all of the Scott 
family, now living, in Carroll County. Her 
eldest brother, Edward, lives in the adjoining 
county of Stark, in the town of Waynesburg, 
while her other surviving brothers and sisters 
are residents of various western States. To Mr. 



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and Mrs. Boggs were born the following named 
children: James W., Margaret O. (deceased), 
Edward P., Anna M. (deceased), Simpson O., 
John E., Emma E., Carrie M., Fred W. and 
Daisy B. After their marriage our subject and 
wife settled on the old home farm of his par- 
ents, he having bought out the interest of the 
heirs, and have since resided here successfully 
engaged in general agricultural pursuits. Mr. 
Boggs in his political convictions has always 
been a Democrat, voting, however, in local 
affairs for the best man irrespective of political 
bias. He and his family are members of the 
Presbyterian Church at New Harrisburg, in 
which he has been an elder since 1859. The 
family are well known in Carroll County as one 
prominent in social and religious circles. 



JOHN C. GEORGE. This gentleman was 
born in Fox Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
May 22, 1842, and is a descendant of one 
of the oldest families of eastern Ohio. 
His early days were spent in the vicinity 
of Mechanicstown, where his father was an 
extensive and progressive farmer. When old 
enough to receive an education he was sent to 
the district school, where, by application and 
hard work, he obtained an education which 
fitted him for the trials of life and which, as a 
result, enabled him to successfully overcome the 
many obstacles which are common to every 
pathway. At the age of forty Mr. George 
married Miss McGinnis, a native of Carroll 
County, whose parents came from Pennsylvania 
and finally settled in Iowa, where she was liv- 
ing at the time of her marriage with Mr. 
George. Five children were born to Mr. and 
Mrs. George, named as follows : Myrtie, Ethel, 
Edgar and Edwin (twins), and Walter. After 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. George moved to their 
present beautiful home, which is located about 
one mile south of Mechanicstown, and here Mr. 
George has a farm of 193 acres. Since he 
located on his present place he has made many 
improvements. In 1879 he built a fine resi- 



dence which is of the latest style and modern 
elegance. The farm is well provided with all 
kinds of implements and buildings necessary 
for the carrying on of agriculture successfully. 
Mr. George is one of the representative men 
of Fox Township, and has reached his present 
position by hard work and good management; 
he is a stock-raiser, and makes a specialty of 
breeding fine sheep, being the first to introduce 
improved breeds into Eastern Ohio. Temperate 
in his habits, honest in his dealings, generous 
in all things, he has won a position which he 
may well be proud of. In religion Mr. and 
Mrs. George are United Presbyterians, and in 
politics he votes the Republican ticket. 



P^ETER SHERER, a well-known and 
highly respected farmer citizen of Rose 
Township, Carroll County, was born in 
Alsace, Germany, September 10, 1827. 
His father, also named Peter, was a husband- 
man in the Fatherland, as had been his ante- 
cedents for many generations back. He was 
married in 1S26 in Alsace, to Barbara Schmidt, 
who bore him children as follows: Peter, 
Sophia, Philip, Christian, Jacob, George and 
Frederick. In 1847 he sailed with his family 
for America, and after a tedious voyage of fifty- 
three days they landed at New York, whence 
they proceeded to Ohio by way of Albany, Buf- 
falo, Cleveland, etc., finally landing in Stark 
County, this State; there the father purchased 
a small farm on which he spent the remainder 
of his busy life; he died in 1855, his widow in 
1875. They were members of the German 
Reformed Church, and in politics Mr. Sherer 
was a Whig. 

Peter Sherer, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was educated in his native land in both 
German and French, being reared, in the mean- 
time, to agricultural pursuits, and at the age of 
twenty he came with the rest of the family to 
Stark County, Ohio, where, when twenty two 
years old, he left his home and worked by the 
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and when twenty-six years of age, in March, 
L854, he bought a farm. On April 25, 1854, 
he was united in marriage with Caroline Ken- 
right, daughter of Michael and Margaret (Cas- 
par) Kenright, and to this union were born the 
following named ten children: Sarah (died in 
1861), John, Michael, Emma (Mrs. John 
Foltz), Alice (Mrs. Albert Hay), Mary, Wil- 
liam F., Amos, George and Lydia. Mr. and 
Mrs. Sherer remained on the small farm he had 
first bought, in the meantime fully paying for 
the same and also adding another to it, to which 
they moved, after a five years' residence on the 
first farm. They kept on adding to their pos- 
sessions until they finally found themselves the 
owners of 240 acres of prime land, all accumu- 
lated by hard work, good management and 
economy. Mrs. Sherer died in 1875 on the 
same farm on which she was born. In 1880 
Mr. Sherer purchased the farm in Rose Town- 
ship where he at present resides. During the 
War of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company I, 
One Hundred and Sixty-second Regiment O. 
N. Gr. , one-hundred-days men. Politically he 
has been an active Republican for many years, 
and in religion he is a consistent member of the 
German Reformed Church, in which he has been 
an elder twenty-eight years. 



J/OSEPH FALOON (deceased) was born in 
Ireland in 17S9, a sou of William and 
/ Jane (Spence) Faloon, who were born in 
Ireland, where they lived and died at ad- 
vanced ages; their family consisted of six sons 
—John, James, William, Joseph, Thomas and 
Jeremiah — and four daughters — Agnes, Sarah, 
Jane and Mary — all now passed away to their 
reward. Our subject grew to manhood in his 
native land, learning the trade of a weaver. 
When about twenty years of age he came to the 
United States and settled at Carlisle, Penn., 
where he followed farming, and in 1832 married, 
at Carlisle, Agnes Philpot, who was born in 
County Down, Ireland, in 1816, a daughter of 
Samuel and Elizabeth (Morrow) Philpot, who 



came to America from Ireland in 1832, and made 
their home in Pittsburgh, Penn., for a period 
of about three years, and then came to Saline- 
ville, Ohio, both dying of old age. Their fam- 
ily consisted of six sons — William and Robert 
(both deceased); Hugh, living in Salineville, 
Columbiana Co., Ohio; Samuel and Isaac (both 
deceased), and Robert, who resides at Humboldt, 
Richardson Co., Neb., and four daughters — 
Mary Jane and Eliza (both deceased); Agnes, 
residing at Salineville, Columbiana Co., Ohio, 
and Isabella, who lives at Waterville, Marshall 
Co., Kas. To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Faloon 
were born children as follows: William, who 
resides in Salineville, Columbiana Co., Ohio; 
Eliza Lewis, also in Salineville, Columbiana 
Co., Ohio; Samuel, in Wellsville, Columbiana 
Co., Ohio; James, in East Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio; Isaac, in Salineville, Columbiana Co., 
Ohio, and Joseph and Watson, both in Colum- 
biana County, Ohio. Mr. Faloon came to Ohio 
in 1834, and purchased a farm, which was situ- 
ated partly in Fox Township, Carroll County, 
and partly in Columbiana County. He resided 
on this land till his death, which occurred in 
1865; in religion he was a Presbyterian, in 
politics a Democrat. After his death his widow 
resided on the farm a few years, then married 
Pat McCormick, of East Township, Carroll 
County, who died in 1S84; since his death she 
has resided in Salineville, Ohio, where she is 
greatly respected by all who knew her. 



dfAMES FALOON, a prominent and pros- 
perous citizen of East Township, Carroll 
County, was born in Columbiana County, 
Ohio, August 23, 1840, a son of Joseph 
and Agnes (Philpot) Faloon, and was reared to 
manhood in his native county, attending the 
district school, where he received a sound, 
practical education. He worked on his father's 
farm till he was twenty-four years old, and fol- 
lowed threshing for five falls in partnership 
with his father and brother Samuel; then re- 
turned to Salineville, where he teamed for four 



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years. On May 20, 1809, be married Rebecca 
J. Shaw, wbo was born in Columbiana County, 
Ohio, June 27, 1847, a daughter of Thomas and 
Emily (Robbins) Shaw. Thomas Shaw was 
born in County Down, Ireland, in 1807, and in 
1817 came to the United States and settled in 
what is now Augusta Township, Carroll County, 
where he grew to manhood and received a com- 
mon-school education. He married Miss Emily 
Robbins, who was born in 1807, a daughter of 
Abram and Hannah (Free) Robbins, and by 
their union there were born eight children, viz. : 
Abram, a farmer in Iowa; John R. , resident of 
East Township, Carroll County; Elizabeth 
Faloon, deceased; Hannah Crawford, in East 
Township, Carroll County; Mary Cavanaugh, 
deceased ; Davis H, residing in Columbiana 
County, Ohio; Rebecca J., Mrs. James Faloon, 
a resident of Carroll County, and Susan Faloon, 
a resident of Columbiana County. Mr. Shaw 
resided in Augusta Township and in Harrison 
Township, Columbiana County, till 1851, when 
he came to East Township, Carroll County, and 
purchased the farm now owned by Uriah 
Thomas, where he remained till 1874, in which 
year he sold his farm and returned to Colum- 
biana County, and there purchased a farm, only 
remaining thereon, however, a short time, when 
he removed to Salineville, Ohio. Here he died 
September 8, 1882; his wife died in 1805. 

Mr. and Mrs. James Faloon are parents of 
four children, viz. : Joseph O, born April 16, 
1870; Thomas W., bom July 29, 1873; James 
H., born December 25, 1880, and Samuel L., 
born December 13, 1882. Mr. Faloon, after his 
marriage, engaged in the milling business in 
Salineville in company with his brothers, Will- 
iam and Isaac, and in 1872 he removed to 
Wellsville, Ohio, where he remained but a short 
time, however, and then removed to East Liver- 
pool, Ohio, where he and his brothers took a 
contract to erect the Methodist Episcopal 
Church building, which took them over one 
year to complete, for which they received sis- 
een thousand dollars. He then returned to 
Salineville and went into the milling business 



again. In 1877 Mr. Faloon purchased the farm 
he now owns, which contains 160 acres, situated 
in Section 21, East Township, and on which he 
has made many improvements. In politics he 
is a Democrat, and in religion he and his wife 
are members of the Presbyterian Church. 



FjRANCIS WESTON, one of the most 
popular wide-awake business men of Min- 
erva, Brown Township, Carroll County, 
a prosperous dealer in produce of all 
kinds, including grain, lumber, wool, etc., is a 
native of Augusta Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
born on the old homestead of his parents June 
17, 1828. He attended the primitive subscrip- 
tion schools of his day, but when he was nine 
years of age he lost his father, and conse- 
quently, being the eldest son, he had to remain 
pretty closely at home in order to help his 
mother in the many chores to be clone about the 
place. At the age of seventeen he went to 
Wheeling, W. Va., where he worked in the 
Anchor Iron Works, thence moved to St. Louis, 
at which place he assisted in the erection of the 
St. Louis Rolling Mill, afterward becoming 
manager of the manufacturing department, in 
which capacity he served about two and one half 
years. He then returned to Wheeling and 
formed the firm of Weston & Co. , proprietors 
of the Clinton Blast Furnace in Monongahela 
County. This firm became very successful, 
turning out a high grade of iron, and doing a 
large business, but at the end of two and one- 
half years Mr. Weston decided to retire. He 
then entered college at Mt. Union, and about 
1855, his mother, having returned to Augusta 
Township, and located on the old homestead, he 
joined her, and they together carried on the 
farm several years. In 1870 Mr. Weston came 
to Minerva and carried on business about one 
year, then went to East Rochester, Columbiana 
County, where he remained seven years, at the 
end of which time, in 1878, he returned to 
Minerva, since when he has been successfully 
engaged in his present business. In 1862 Mr. 



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Weston was married to Caroline M. , daughter of 
James and Elizabeth (Jackson) Morledge, early 
pioneers of Augusta Township, Carroll County, 
and to this union were born four children, as 
follows: Elizabeth H. , wife of Leonard Dennis, 
a teacher of music; Jennie M. , Grace E. and Mary 
L. , at home. Elizabeth Morledge, mother of Car- 
oline M. Weston, came from England to America 
in the year 1819. Her father, Francis Jackson, 
entered land at the land office at two dollars 
per acre, which land was in Augusta Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio. Mrs. Morledge is still living 
on the farm bought by her father, and although 
eighty-four years of age she distinctly remem- 
bers the howling wolf and many adventures of 
the early settlers; deer were plentiful, and rat- 
tlesnakes and copperheads were abundant; hard 
work, danger and many privations were endured 
by all. William and Thomas Jackson, brothers 
of Mrs. Morledge, are still living in Minerva, 
and are witnesses of the growth and improve- 
ments of the country. James Morledge, eldest 
son of Koger and Mary Morledge, was born in 
England in 1811, came to America with his 
parents in 1821, was married to Elizabeth Jack- 
son in 1832, and died in 1878. One brother 
and two sisters still living are all that is left of 
a family that numbered thirteen. 

Francis Weston, father of our subject, about 
the year 1820 emigrated from his native county, 
Derbyshire, England, to America, and took up 
Government land in Augusta Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, arriving in the place when there were 
only three families in that section of the county, 
including his own, the other two being the Jack- 
sons and W 7 atheys. The country was then a 
wilderness, and wild animals roamed the forest 
at large. On one occasion Mr. Weston had 
gone to Wathey's to buy some fresh meat, and 
on his way back through the forest he was 
chased by wolves, but fortunately he reached 
home in safety. He lived with his family in a 
small shanty, having puncheon floor and chim- 
ney made of sticks and clay. Mr. Weston had 
married at Wheeling, in 1821, Grace Moore, 
also a native of Derbyshire, England, who came 



to America with her parents when she was a 
young girl, and by her he had seven children, 
six of whom grew to maturity, three being yet 
alive, and the subject of this sketch is the third 
child in order of birth. 

Mr. Weston, of whom this memoir is written, 
was, in politics, originally a Whig, and has been 
a stanch Republican since the formation of the 
party, but in voting he does not consider himself 
bound by party ties. The family are all mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which 
he is district steward. 



IMON EARNST, a prominent and pros- 
perous farmer and stock grower of Monroe 
Township, Carroll County, was born Sep- 
tember 19, 1823, in Cumberland County, 
Penn., a son of Daniel and Salome (Snyder) 
Earnst, both also natives of Cumberland Coun- 
ty, the father born in 1799, of German descent, 
and the mother in 1797, a daughter of Henry 
Snyder. Daniel Earnst was twice married, and 
by his first wife, Salome, he had thirteen chil- 
dren, as follows: John, a resident of Pike Couu- 
ty, 111.; Mary, deceased; Barbara, deceased; 
Simon; Henry, deceased; Jacob, in Illinois; 
Daniel, deceased; David, in Allen County, Ohio; 
Levi B., also in Illinois; Cassyan and Sarah, 
deceased; Andrew, in Allen County, Iud., and 
Oliver, deceased. After the death of the mother 
of this family, in 1862, Mr. Earnst was united 
in marriage, in 1863, with Elizabeth Graham, 
who bore him one son, George, now a resident 
of New York City. 

Daniel Earnst in 1830 came to Ohio and 
purchased 160 acres of land in what a few years 
later became Harrison Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty, and which land is now owned by David 
Leyda. Hereon Mr. Earnst, with the help of 
his neighbors, put up a log cabin, in which he 
lived till 1851, when he purchased a farm near 
Malvern, Ohio, where he passed the rest of his 
lifetime, dying January 28, 1881. He was a 
member of the Lutheran Church until 1863, 
when he became a member and elder of the 



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Presbyterian Church, and so continued the rest 
of his life. In politics he was a Democrat. 
When he came to Ohio all his earthly posses- 
sions consisted of a team of horses and a couple 
of wagons, and at the time of his death he was 
considered one of the wealthiest men in Carroll 
County. 

Simon Earnst, of whom this sketch more 
particularly treats, grew to manhood on his 
father's farm in Harrison Township, and re- 
ceived his education at the common schools of 
the district. On August 2, 1849, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Jane Miller, who was born in Dell 
Eoy, Carroll Co., Ohio, August 2, 1827, a 
daughter of Jacob and Jane (Thorley) Miller, 
natives of Cumberland County, Penn., and this 
union has been blessed with two children, Mary 
R. and Nancy, both living at home. Mr. Earnst 
soon after marriage purchased the farm now 
owned by William H. Buchanan, in Section 22, 
Monroe Township, where he resided till 1863, 
in which year he bought the farm he now owns, 
comprising 1S9 acres in Section 18, same town- 
ship, and on which he has erected fine commo- 
dious buildings. He and his wife and daughters 
are members of the Presbyterian Church, and in 
politics he affiliates with the Democratic party. 



IiONAH QUEEN. It is safe to say that in 
^. I Fox Township, or even in the whole of 
\J Carroll County, there lives no man who is 
better known or who stands higher in the 
estimation of the people than the above named 
gentleman. He comes of sturdy north of Ire- 
land stock, his grandfather, Jonah Queen, hav- 
ing been born in County Donegal, May 5, 1753; 
his grandmother, Mrs. Jonah Queen, was born 
April 15, 1767, of German descent. When a 
young man the grandfather immigrated to Amer- 
ica, locating in Virginia, where he reared a 
family of children, among whom was Samuel, 
the father of our subject. After a residence of 
several years in Loudoun County, Va. , where 
he followed agricultural pursuits, Grandfather 
Queen moved to Ohio, and settled in Columbiana 



County, where he and his wife died. He was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary War, one of the 
many colonists who fought for the establishment 
of this great Republic. 

Samuel Queen, the father of the gentleman 
whose name opens this biographical memoir, 
was born in Loudoun County, Va., June 3, 
1790, where he was reared and educated. He 
was married in Loudoun County, Va. , in March, 
1820, to Miss Mary Hesser, also a native of Vir- 
ginia, born September 5, 1792, of German 
descent, and shortly afterward he and his young 
wife moved to what is now known as Fox Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, where he bought a farm 
of 160 acres of land, which had been entered by 
Samuel Morgan, who, however, was unable to 
pay for it. Mr. Queen paid the cash, and re- 
ceived from the Government a deed dated March 
2, 1821. Here in the wilderness Mr. and Mrs. 
Queen set to work to make themselves a com- 
fortable home, their dwelling for the first winter 
being a primitive log cabin, and in the spring of 
1822 they built a new log cabin. The woods in 
those early days were teeming with wild animals 
and Indians, and the nearest neighbors of the 
Queens lived two miles away. Not long after- 
j ward Mr. Queen entered a farm of 240 acres, 
the deed for the same being signed by President 
Jackson. Eight children were born to this 
honored couple — two sons and six daughters. 
Mr. Queen, after a long life of usefulness, died, 
in May, 1840, on the old place he had settled, 
his widow passing away June 21, 1884. Samuel 
Queen was a volunteer in the War of 1812, and 
after serving out his term of enlistment — three 
months — he hired himself as a substitute for 
another man, and served three months more. 
After his death his widow applied for, and re- 
ceived from the Government, two land warrants 
for eighty acres each, which she sold; she also 
applied for and received a pension of eighty- 
eight dollars per month until her death. 

Jonah Queen, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born in Fox Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, September 12, 1823, and he has been one 
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bis section for the past half century. He at- 
tended the old-time log school-house a few weeks 
during the winter months, the rest of the year 
being occupied with the arduous duties of the 
farm, and he became thoroughly conversant 
with all the details of agriculture. At the age 
of twenty-three he was married to Miss Catherine 
Robb, who was born August 15, 1825, in Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, of German-Irish descent, 
and whose parents were honest farming people. 
To this union were born the following named 
children: Mary E., born September 5, 1849, 
died November 20, 1S68; Samuel George, born 
December 26, 1853, died August 8, 1885; Will- 
iam E., born July 2, 1856, died October 15, 
L862; Tipton J., born October 3, 185S, and 
Willietta, born August 18, 1862, died May 29, 
1890. Tipton J. is living at the parental home. 
Mr. Queen owns a fine stock farm of 320 
acres of land, all well improved and amply pro- 
vided with necessary buildings, the large brick 
dwelling having been built in 1863. Mr. Queen 
pays special attention to the raising of blooded 
stock, such as Spanish Merino sheep. Shorthorn 
cattle, Clydesdale horses, etc. He and his wife 
have been members of the Methodist Church 
for nearly half a century; in politics Mr. Queen 
is a Republican, and has held several offices of 
trust in his township. 



Jl P. DUTTON, one of the well-known suc- 
cessful farmers of Orange Township, Car- 
_^ roll County, is a native of Ohio, born in 
Delaware County, June 23, 1844. He 
was educated in the common schools, and reared 
to agricultural pursuits in both Tuscarawas and 
Carroll Counties. He early evinced a strong 
liking for literary pursuits, but circumstances 
demanded his early attention to the duties of 
the farm, and all his life he has been a tiller of 
the soil — a prosperous one, for he now finds 
himself in comfortable circumstances, well situ- 
ated on bottom land by the sunny banks of the 
Conotton. Mr. Dutton was married, May 21, 
1868, to Mary E. Benedum, who was born May 



21, 1849, daughter of J. W. and Mary E. 
(Gartrell) Benedum, of whom mention is made 
elsewhere in this volume. To this union were 
born the following named nine children (six of 
whom are yet living), viz. : Ella M. , born June 
6, 1869; Carrie E., born May 15, 1871; Frank 
P., born July 5, 1873, died January 2, 1878, 
aged four years five months twenty-seven days: 
John P., born December 14, 1877; Harry G., 
born October 7, 1879; Eda V., born June 9, 
1882; an infant unnamed, born July 30, 1886. 
died August 5, 1886; an infant unnamed, born 
August 11, 1887, died August 15, 1887, and 
Minnie, born August 23, 1889. The family are 
members of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Dut- 
ton for many years, and he has always taken a 
lively interest in everything tending to the wel- 
fare of his county and township, both social 
and educational. He has been a life-long Re- 
publican, a leader in the party, and has often 
been solicited by his friends to accept office, but. 
invariably refused. 



J | AMES BAXTER, ooe of the oldest living 
I members of the Baxter family who have 
' played so important a part in the educa- 
tional, religious and financial development 
of Carroll County, was born August 15, 1825, 
in Harrison Township, that county, in the 
neighborhood of the farm on which he now 
resides. His parents were Cornelius and Re- 
becca (Pillars) Baxter, former of whom was 
born near Baltimore, Md.,in 1784. Grandfather 
Pillars lived in Pennsylvania, where he was 
captured by Indians, and when he returned to 
his home he was so ravenously hungry, having 
been nearly starved, that he eat his shoe strings 
and the tops of his shoes, averring that he 
thought it the sweetest morsel he had ever 
tasted. He again went away and never re- 
turned, nor was he ever heard of again. 

Benjamin Baxter, grandfather of James, was 
a native of England, where he was married to 
Mary Durbin, who was born in the village of 
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immigrated to America, settling near Baltimore, 
Md. , where he passed from earth. Their chil- 
dren were as follows: Cornelius, James, Nicholas, 
Benjamin, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Rachel and 
Sarah. 

Cornelius Baxter, father of our subject, 
moved from his native State to Washington 
County, Penn., where he remained till 1814, in 
which year he and his family came to Ohio, and 
entered a tract of land on what is now known as 
Baxter's Ridge, in Carroll County. This, with 
the assistance of his family, he cleared, succeed- 
ing in making excellent improvements. While 
a resident of Pennsylvania he had married Re- 
becca Pillars, who bore him the following named 
children: Elizabeth, Bethel, Rachel, Hester, 
Lydia, Sarah, Ruth, Cornelius, James, John 
and Elias. The father passed from earth in 
1840, the mother in 1862, and they sleep their 
last sleep, side by side, in Baxter Church Ceme- 
tery. Mr. Baxter was one of the organizers of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, donating the 
land on which stands the church building, in 
the erection of which he did a large share of the 
work. He was an active member of the society, 
and held all the offices in the same at different 
times. He was a firm Republican, an enthusias- 
tic friend to the cause of education, and for 
many years served as justice of the peace. 
Coming into Carroll County with but little 
means, he here succeeded in accumulating a 
comfortable competence by industry, persever- 
ance and sound judgment. 

James Baxter, whose name opens this bio- 
graphical sketch, passed his youth on the home 
place, where he was early instructed in those 
principles of economy and work that have 
largely aided him in achieving success. Al- 
though in his boyhood days the schools were of 
a most primitive character, yet he acquired a 
fair knowledge of the English branches. On 
November 6, 1851, he was married to Iantha, 
daughter of John McCreery, of Rose Township, 
Carroll County, and they at once settled on the 
farm where they now reside, in Harrison Town- 
ship, and which they have succeeded in improv- 



ing to a marked degree. The following named 
children have been born to them: Findley, 
Amelia, Clarissa, Miner, Jefferson, Palmyra, 
Grant (deceased), Ruth, James M. and Eliza- 
beth C. Mr. Baxter has, since his early man- 
hood, held a deep interest in religious matters, 
and has always taken active part in the man- 
agement and support of the society of which 
his father was one of the founders, giving lib 
erally both of his time and means. Politically 
he was first a Whig, and, since the formation of 
the party, has been a zealous Republican. 



IMPSON McFADDEN. Perhaps no man 
in Fox Township, Carroll County, is bet- 
ter or more favorably known than the 
above named gentleman. He is the old- 
est pioneer now living in Mechanicstown, haviDg 
moved here in the year 1843. Thus for nearly 
half a century has he witnessed the changes 
wrought by " the busy hand of time.' - Mr. 
McFadden' s paternal grandparents were natives 
of Ireland, where they received their education, 
but, desirous of moving to a free country, they 
settled in America in the latter part of the 
eighteenth century, where Samuel McFadden. 
father of our subject, was born. Samuel was an 
extensive farmer in Bedford County,Penn., where 
he met and married Miss Sarah Connor, who is 
of German descent. Shortly after marriage Mr. 
McFadden moved with his family of five chil- 
dren to Kentucky, where the mother contracted 
a sickness and died. Mr. McFadden moved 
back to Pennsylvania, and was engaged in vari- 
ous occupations until his death, which occurred 
in 1803 in Illinois. 

Simpson McFadden, the subject of oursketch. 
was born in Bedford County,Penn., December 26, 
1813. His early life was passed in Washing- 
ton County, Penn., where he attended the old 
subscription school winters and tilled the soil fur 
his uncle in the spring and summer time. In 
his seventeenth year (in 1829) Simpson left the 
scenes of his boyhood days and proceeded to the 
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ever, until 1832, when he commenced to learn 
the cabinet trade at Lancaster, that State. 
After learning the trade he moved to Peoria, 
111., where he worked one year, after which he 
returned to Ohio and located in Washington 
Township, Carroll County, where he built a 
shop and continued to work at his trade. There 
he met and in 1837 married Miss Sarah McGee, 
who was reared in Jefferson County, of which 
county her parents were old settlers. In 1843 
Mr. McFadden moved to Mechanicstown, where 
he farmed and also worked at his trade. Seven 
children were the result of the marriage, live of 
whom are now living, viz. : Holmes, Thomas, 
Simpson D., Caroline and Anna. Mr. McFadden 
has a farm of fifty acres in the town, which is 
productive and finely located. At the present 
time Mr. McFadden is the undertaker for the 
locality, which he has made his business exclu- 
sively since 1880. In religion he is a Presby- 
terian by profession. In politics is a Repub- 
lican, having always voted that ticket. Of the 
many representative men of Carroll County none 
is more worthy of a place in its history than Mr. 
McFadden. He is unassuming, but he is one 
who has won his position among the few by pa- 
tient, honest, manly dealings with his fellow- 
men, and now, in the evening of his active life, he 
is enjoying the fruits which he has justly earned. 



f'RANK DOWNS, one of the representative 
farmer citizens of Carroll County, first 
saw the light December 18, 1831, in what 
a few years after his birth became Brown 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. John Downs, 
his father, was a native of Maryland, of which 
State the family were long residents, and he 
and his brother, Alfred, came together to Ohio, 
where they entered adjoining tracts of land in 
what is now Brown Township, Carroll County. 
This they improved and resided on until their 
death. Soon after his arrival in Ohio, John 
Downs was united in marriage with Nancy, 
daughter of John Rice, of Lee Township, Car- 
roll County, and the children born to them were 



Harrison. Rebecca (Mrs. Solomon Miller), John, 
Cassandra, Eleanor, George and Frank, all now 
dead except Rebecca, John and Frank. The 
father died in December, 1864, the mother in 
March, 1875, both members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which he had been class 
leader many years; in politics he was first a 
Whig and then a Republican, was always active 
in public affairs, and materially assisted in pro- 
moting the advancement of his township in mat- 
ters of religion, education and finance. 

Frank Downs, whose name heads this bio- 
graphical memoir, was reared to farm life, 
receiving his educational training in the common 
schools of the district. On May 13, 1855, he 
was united in marriage with Hannah, daughter 
of Edward Tillett of Brown Township, Carroll 
County, and this union has been blessed with 
eight children, of whom the following is a 
record: Leavitt M., born January 22, 1859, 
married December 16, 1882, Lulu D. Highlands, 
by whom there is one son, Floyd M. ; Elmer E., 
born March 23, 1861, married January 23, 1883, 
Annie Smith, who has borne him one child, 
Edna; Charles F., born May 1, 1864, married 
December 14, 1889, Lillie M. Beckley by whom 
there is one son, Carl C. ; Nannie E., born June 
25, 1866, married Frank Hines October 27. 
1888, by whom there is one daughter, Lois; 
Ross G. , born December 16, 1S6S; Mandy G., 
born September 3, 1872, died September 30, 
1873, from the effects of a grain of corn lodging 
in the windpipe; Raymond D., born September 
3, 1874, and Ira M., born February 18, 1877. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Downs located 
in Columbiana County, Ohio, where they re- 
mained two and a half years, when they came 
to Brown Township, Carroll County, where they 
resided eleven years, and in ISO',! they purchased 
their present property In Harrison Township, 
comprising 192 acres of highly improved land, 
where Mr. Down9 carries on general farming 
and stock-raising. They are consistent mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 
politics he is a stanch and active Republican. 
During the Civil War Mr. Downs served in the 



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One Hundred and Fifty-seventh O. N. G., as 
the following copy of his discharge attests: 
"That said Franklin Downs, private of Captain 
William B. Reed, Company (K), 157th Regiment 
of Ohio, State National Guards Volunteers, who 
was enrolled on the fifteenth day of May, one 
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, to serve 
for 100 days, is hereby discharged from service 
of the United States this 2d day of September, 
1864, at Camp Chase, by reason of expiration 
of time of service." He is a progressive farmer, 
and has always identified himself with every- 
thing tending to the advancement of the com- 
munity at large. 



G CHARLES E.BENEDUM, retired, with res- 
idence in Leesville, Carroll County, Ohio, 
') was born April 12, 1819,in Loudoun Coun- 
ty, Va. , a son of John Benedum, of whom 
mention is made elsewhere in this work. Our 
subject, when nineteen years of age, came to 
Ohio, and was employed in clearing and farming 
the home place for about six years. He then 
concluded to learn the tinsmithing trade, and in 
1845 went to Washington, D. C, making the 
journey, which occupied seven days, on horse- 
back. Soon after his arrival in the city he en- 
tered the employ of a tinsmith, and remained 
with him until he had fully mastered the details 
of the business, after which he worked as a 
journeyman until 1S55, in which year he came to 
Ohio and opened a tinware and stove store in 
Leesville. This business he carried on until 
1889, when he retired from active labor, leaving 
the business to his sons. 

On February 20, 1849, Mr. Benedum was 
united in marriage with Miss Martina K. Boss, 
who was born August 17, 1826, in Loudoun 
County, Va., daughter of S. M. Boss, who in his 
lifetime was one of the leading merchants of 
Leesville. In early life Mr. Boss was married 
to Elizabeth Fox, who bore him the following 
named children: Mary, Margaret, Martina K., 
Jane, Julia, Virginia, Sarah and James. Mr. 
Boss in religion was a member of the Methodist 



Episcopal Church, and in politics was a Whig. On 
November 11, 1865, Mrs. Benedum passed from 
earth leaving five children, of whom the follow- 
ing is a record : Charles S. , born December 3, 
1849, died May 9, 1S75; Franklin, born Novem- 
ber 13, 1852; Thomas A., born August 20, 1855, 
died February 19, 1879; James H. , born Feb- 
ruary 15, 1858, and William G., born May 17, 
1860. On February 8, 1868, Mr. Benedum 
was united in marriage with Keziah Hall, who 
was born in Maryland July 25, 1824, and died 
September 28, 1873, leaving one child, Lillian, 
born September 3, 1869. Our subject was 
united in marriage May 26, 1874, with Sarah 
C. Aughey, who died January 15, 188S, leaving 
one child, Edgar A. , who was born December 
10, 1875, now in New York. On August 21, 
1888, Mr. C. E. Benedum was married inFhrichs- 
ville, Ohio, to Rebecca O. Thistle, who was born 
in Cumberland, Md. In religion our subject is 
a Presbyterian, in politics a Democrat. 



Z BAKER. Carroll County, Ohio, is fully 
represented by many well-to-do, large, 
^ influential families, whose ancestors, 

being reared in the East and possessing 
great energy and perseverance, pushed them- 
selves far to the West amid hardships, knowing 
not what failure meant, nor caring for little 
trials to which all mankind are more or less 
subjected. Among this class we find the Baker 
family, and among its individual members Z. 
Baker occupies a prominent position. He is 
one of three brothers who are among the fore- 
most farmers of Orange Township. S. B. 
Baker (oldest brother) was born in Harrison 
County, others in Carroll County, and all three 
are of the representative substantial class. 

Zachariah Baker spent his early days in Car- 
roll County, and has been a citizen here ever 
since. He was born August 2, 1S40, and after 
attending the schools in the neighborhood and 
working for his father on the farm until he 
reached manhood he married Miss EInor J. 
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vania, but came from Pennsylvania to Carroll 
County, Ohio. Mrs. Baker was born in Orange 
Township, Carroll County, January 14,1844, and 
her youthful days were spent among the rural 
scenery of her father's country home until she 
met and married Mr. Baker, January 5, 1865. 
She is a daughter of William and Elizabeth 
(Logan) Wilson, former of whom was born in 
Butler County, Penn., of Irish descent, and 
latter born in Washington County, Penn. ; the 
Logans were among the early settlers of Carroll 
County, and Mr. Wilson also came early to the 
county. Mr. and Mrs. Baker's family consists 
of three children, viz.: Al. L. , born January 3, 
1866; Anna May, born March 23, 1872, and 
Lizzie, born in 1878. Mr. Baker has a farm of 
ninety- one acres, situated about one mile north 
of New Hagerstown, and a mile and a half east 
of Leesville; this farm is provided with a tine 
residence and an elegant, substantial barn built 
in the year 1889. Mr. Baker, like his brothers, 
is a hard-working, industrious man, full of that 
perseverance and energy which means only suc- 
cess. Socially Mr. and Mrs. Baker are cer- 
tainly prominent, and are surrounded by a host 
of friends. 



D' 



, AVID MOODY, one of the well known, 
progressive farmers of Lee Township, 
Carroll County, was born September 28, 
1825, in what is now Lee Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio. His grandfather, James 
Moody, was a native of Ireland, whence he 
came to America while young. In Philadelphia 
he married Elizabeth Keed, also a native of 
Ireland, and the children born to this union 
were David, John, Joseph, Mary and Elizabeth; 
for his second wife he wedded Mary Herron, 
who bore him the following named children: 
James, Margaret, Alexander and Samuel. Mr. 
Moody followed farming in Pennsylvania, and 
in 1812 he came to Jefferson County, Ohio, 
where he entered land near Bergholz, near the 
Carroll County line, clearing it with his own 
hands. He was among the earliest members of 



the Seceder Church, and in politics he took a 
prominent part in the ranks of the Whig party. 
He died in 1847; his wife having gone to Iowa, 
she followed him to the grave in 1850. 

David Moody, a son by the first marriage of 
James Moody, and who became the father of 
the subject of this sketch, was a native of 
Washington County, Penn., born October 19, 
1781. He spent his early life in his native 
State, attending the common schools, and learn- 
ing the trade of a tanner, which he followed 
through life. In 1809 he was married in the 
Keystone State to Mary, daughter of John Boyd, 
a native of Ireland and a Revolutionary soldier. 
In 1816 Mr. Moody came to Ohio and settled in 
Lee Township, Carroll County, where he died 
April 5, 1850, his wife having preceded him to 
the grave January 17, 1836; they lie buried at 
Carrollton. She was a member of the Presby- 
terian Church at that place; in politics he was 
a Whig, serving his township as trustee. Mr. 
and Mrs. Moody were the parents of the follow- 
ing named children: John B., Eliza, Martha 
(Mrs. James Brown), deceased; Nancy, Mrs. 
John McLaughlin; James, deceased; Sarah, de- 
ceased wife of George Wiggins; and David, 
whose name heads this sketch. 

David Moody was reared on a farm, and re- 
ceived a good common-school education. Early 
in life he entered his father's tannery, where 
he learned the trade, which he continued for 
some years after the death of his father. On 
October 23, 1856, he was married to Eliza A. 
McLaughlin, of Lee Township, daughter of 
Robert and Nancy (Lindsay) McLaughlin, of 
Washington County, Penn., and the children 
born to this union were named as follows: Mary 
E., now Mrs. Thomas McFadden, of Fox Town- 
ship; Nancy M.. now Mrs. John A. France, of 
Harlem, Ohio: Lillian G, now Mrs. Charles G. 
Fawcett, of Uniontown, Ohio; Martha J. and 
John Ross, latter of whom died February 16, 
1876. The entire family are members of the 
Presbyterian Church at Harlem Springs, of 
which Mr. Moody has been an elder for several 
years past. In politics he has always been a 



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supporter of the Republican party, since its 
organization, having previously been a Whig- 
He is in disposition kind, generous and enter- 
prising, by his amiability and courtesy has won 
for himself a place in the affections of the people. 



EORGE GANS. Among the successful 
business men of eastern Ohio, the above 
named gentleman justly holds a promi- 
nent place. The town of Augusta, Car- 
roll County, in which Mr. Cans has an extensive 
mercantile business, twenty years ago was a 
small hamlet, but through the energy and push 
of a few progressive men like our subject it has 
become an active, live town. The paternal an- 
cestors of George Gans (as the name Gans 
indicates) were Germans, while on the maternal 
side the ancestry were Irish. John Gans, father 
of our subject, was born in Fayette County, 
Penn., November 7, 1794, the son of a farmer. 
At the age of twenty-one, in 1815, he came 
west and settled in what is now Harrison Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, where he entered a 
farm of 160 acres, and in the wilderness built a 
log house. Soon thereafter he married Miss 
Downs, by whom he had two children, Harriet 
and Elizabeth, but the angel of death ere long 
entered the little circle and took from the midst 
tbe faithful wife and good mother. The father 
found a new companion in the person of Miss 
Elizabeth Cook, a native of Columbiana County, 
Ohio, where she grew to womanhood on her 
father' s farm ; Mr. Cook was of German descent, 
and was one of the early pioneers of Columbiana 
County. A large family was the result of this 
union, of which our subject is the sixth in order 
of birth. After a long life of activity the father 
died in the fall of 1866, being about seventy- 
two years old. 

George Gans, the subject proper of this bio- 
graphical sketch, was born in Harrison Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, March 18, 1837. 
There he grew to manhood on his father's farm, 
attending the district school, and was inoculated 
with those principles which to a great extent 



led to the degree of success which he achieved. 
On March 19, 1861, he married Miss Jane 
Cameron, who was born in "Washington Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, December 15, 1837. 
Mrs. Gans is of Scotch-Irish descent, and her 
parents were among the earliest pioneers who 
came to this part of the county. After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Gans settled on a farm in Wash- 
ington Township, whence, after a residence there 
of five years, they moved to another farm; but 
desiring a change Mr. Gans, in 1869, came to 
Augusta, where he has ever since been actively 
connected with the mercantile business. In 
1S69 Mr. Gans formed a partnership for the 
transaction of a general business, and the firm 
was styled Crawford, Heston & Gans. In 1873 
Mr. Crawford and Mr. Gans bought Mr. Hes- 
ton' s interest in the firm, the style of the firm 
becoming Crawford & Gans. In 1889 this firm 
was in possession of three stores, one room con- 
taining dry goods, groceries, notions, etc. ; another 
room containing ready-made clothing, piece 
goods, gents' furnishing goods, etc., and yet 
another room containing a general stock of hard- 
ware. This partnership had a quiet, peaceable 
reign of twenty years, at the end of which time 
it was mutually agreed that they would divide 
— Mr. Crawford taking the dry -goods stock and 
building, and Mr. Gans the other two stores 
and buildings. In connection with this busi- 
ness Mr. Gans is also an extensive wool-buyer, 
and his success in life is due mainly to his close 
attendance to business. Starting as he did with 
a small capital, he certainly can claim to be 
called a " self-made man. " Mr. and Mrs. Gans 
are members of the Presbyterian Church, being 
among the most active workers of that society, 
and in politics ha is a Republican. 



f ESSE W. SHAW. At an early day 
^ I Nathan Shaw, grandfather of this gentle- 
SU) man, came from Jefferson County, Ohio, 
to Carroll County, and took up his resi- 
dence in what is now Washington Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio. He was a native of Fay- 



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ette County, Penn. , born June 17, 1777, near 
Brownsville, where he married, May 15, 1802, 
Ruth Crawford, who was horn July 25, 1 782, 
a daughter of Josiah Crawford, of the same 
place. Nathan Shaw was engaged for a time 
in boat building ou the Monongahela River, 
whence he emigrated to Ohio and located in 
Jefferson County, near Hollow Rock, and a few 
years thereafter they moved to Carroll County. 
They were among the first pioneers of Wash- 
ington Township, which was at that time all 
wild woodland where roamed in comparative 
security many wild animals — bears, wolves, pan- 
thers, deer, etc. Here the honored couple 
passed the remainder of their lives. To their 
union were born six daughters and one son: 
Mary Shaw was born February 15, 1803, and 
was married in March, 1821, to George Long, 
who was accidentally shot and killed by his 
brother, Jacob Long, while hunting deer in 
Augusta Township (his was the first grave in 
the Herrington Cemetery, said Township), 
after which Mary Long married John Morgan 
and moved to Scioto County, Ohio, and died 

there November 26, 1870 Cassandra 

Shaw was born November 28, 1806, was mar- 
ried to Simeon Westfall, May 15, 1823, and 
died July 20, 1871. She preceded him to the 
grave a few years, and both are interred in 

Minerva Cemetery Elizabeth Shaw was 

born July 5, 1808, married to Robert Deu- 
niston, January 23, 1840, died November 13, 
1877, and was buried in Corinth Cemetery at 

Mechanicstown, Ohio Christena Shaw was 

born March 27, 1810, was married to Joseph 
Caskey, September 30, 1830, died in September, 
L886, and was interred in Mt. Zion Cemetery, 

Augusta Township Margaret Shaw was 

born April 12, 1812, was married to Silas Cas- 
key, May 28, 1833, died September 3, 1836, and 
was interred in the Herrington Cemetery, in 

Augusta Township Josiah C. Shaw was 

born October 30, 1816 .... Sarah Shaw was born 
March 21, 1819, was married to Peter Abrahams 
in 1842, and he dying she married Henry Ted- 
ler; she died in April, 1884, and was buried in 



Bethesda Cemetery, Franklin Township, Col 
umbiana Co., Ohio. Ruth Shaw died Octo- 
ber 13, 1836; Nathan Shaw died October 28, 
1853, and both lie in the Herrington Cemetery, 
Augusta Township. Nathan Shaw was one of 
the best farmers of his section and time, he 
taking great pride in fruit growing, having one 
of the finest orchards in the county at that time. 
The public road passing through his premises 
was lined with black morella cherry trees; his 
apple orchard consisted of numerous varieties 
of the choicest kinds. 

Josiah C. Shaw, the next youngest child, 
and the only son born to this honored pioneer 
couple, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
October 30, 1816. He attended the early sub- 
scription schools of the neighborhood a few 
weeks during the winter months, the balance of 
the year being occupied in the arduous duties of 
pioneer farming; wheat with them in those days 
was cut with the sickle and threshed with the 
flail, then hauled to the nearest market place, 
either Massillon or Bolivar, about thirty miles 
distant. Often in his boyhood Josiah would 
take a load of wheat, and after trading a part of 
it for groceries and other necessaries of life 
would return home the following day. On No- 
vember 5 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Maria Walton, a native of Augusta Township, 
Carroll Co.. Ohio, born August 6, 1823, a daugh- 
ter of Gabriel and Mary (Townsend) Walton, 
early settlers of said township. 

Gabriel Walton was born of English descent, 
November 17, 1777, in Bucks County, Penn., 
and was married to Mary Townsend, March 12, 
1801, at New Garden, in the then Territory of 
Ohio; she was of Welsh descent, born Septem- 
ber 8, 1781, in Chester County, Penn. To this 
union were born eleven children — three daugh- 
ters and eight sons: Edith Walton was born 
December 10, 1802, at New Garden, Ohio, 
and was married to John Wathey, of Augusta 
Township; Edith died August 18, 1890, at Pe- 
trolia, Penn.; John died June 4. 1S77. and both 
are buried in the Augusta Cemetery .... Bath- 
sheba Walton was born May 16, 1804, at New 



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Garden, Ohio, was married to Henry Criss, of 
Augusta Township; she died in November, 1852, 
and was interred in the Herrington Cemetery; 
Henry died February 18, 1877, at Minerva, and 
is buried there .... Levi Walton was born April 
10, 1807, at New Garden, Ohio, and died No- 
vember 7, 1811,inPhiladelphia,Penn. . . .Joseph 
T. Walton was born February 25, 1809, at New 
Garden, Ohio, was married to Ann Wiseman, of 
Augusta Township, and he died July 7, 1847, 
and is buried at Augusta; Ann died and was 
buried in Morrow County, Ohio .... Jesse Wal- 
ton was born March 28, 1812, at New Garden, 
Ohio, and was married to Esther Wildman, of 
Marlborough, Stark Co., Ohio, in October, 1811; 
he died November 9, 1842, in Augusta Town- 
ship, and was buried at Augusta; Esther died, 
and was buried at Marlborough in July, 1865. 
....Morris Walton was born March 12, 1814, 
in Philadelphia, Penn., and was married to 
Mary Randolph in 1835; she died in 1836 and 
was buried in the Herrington Cemetery, Au- 
gusta Township; he was afterward married to 
Maria Chandler, of Columbiana County, Ohio, 
and she died and was buried near Polk, Ash- 
land Co., Ohio; he was again married, this time 
to Miss Abigail Whinnery, of New Garden, Ohio, 
and she now resides in Wabaunsee County, 
Kas., where he died September 27, 1872.... 
Eli Walton was born April 19, 1816, in Augusta 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio; he had a great 
partiality for grist- and saw-mills — was propri- 
etor of the New Franklin (Stark County) Mills for 
many years, was also a large oil operator at Oil 
Creek, Penn., and was considered one of the 
best horsemen of Carroll County; he was mar- 
ried to Perthena Wildman, of Marlborough, 
Ohio, born July 24, 1836; they now reside in 
Alliance, Ohio .... Moses Walton was born 
March 12, 1818. and married Eliza Chandler; 
she died November 6, 1848, and was buried in 
the Marlborough Cemetery; he later married 
Jane E. Paxton, who died in Cleveland, Ohio, 
and was buried at Marlborough, Ohio; he died 
November 27, 1888, in Morgan County, Ohio, 
and was buried there .... Amos Walton was born 



January 21, 1820, and was married to Matilda 
Paxton in 1845; she died in April, 1865, and 
was buried at Marlborough, Ohio; he afterward 
married Esther Ann Lukens, of New Garden, 
Ohio .... William Walton was born March 12, 
1822, was married to Sarah Ann Williamson, of 
Eobertsville, Stark Co., Ohio, in October, 1842; 
he died in Adams County, Ind. , where she and 
family still reside; he served as a Union soldier 
a short time in the Civil War in some Indiana 
regiment. .. .and Maria Walton, who was married 
to Josiah C. Shaw. Gabriel and Mary Walton 
moved from New Garden, Ohio, to Philadelphia, 
Penn., residing there three years on Spring Gar- 
den Street, he working a part of that time for 
Stephen Gerard as a house carpenter; thence 
moved back to New Garden, Ohio, from which 
place they moved in about 1815 to Augusta 
Township, entering 640 acres of land, it being 
the west half of Section 27 and east half of Sec- 
tion 28 of said township. The buildings where 
he resided are now owned by the heirs of John 
Kennedy; Gabriel Walton died April 18, 1845; 
Mary Walton died in Brown Township, Novem- 
ber 15, 1862, and both are buried in the Au- 
gusta Cemetery. 

Mr. and Mrs. Josiah C. Shaw began life in 
Washington Township, where they lived on a 
rented farm which by industry and economy 
they were soon enabled to purchase. He erect- 
ed a saw-mill, and for years operated it in con- 
nection with his farm, and became eminently 
successful in most of his undertakings; the lit- 
tle village of Eckley now stands on this farm. 
In 1852 Mr. Shaw removed with his family to 
Brown Township, where he purchased a farm, 
to which he from time to time added until he 
owned in all nearly 700 acres, on which he erected 
a handsome residence on the boundary line be- 
tween Augusta and Brown Townships. There, 
on January 10, 1883, Josiah C. Shaw passed 
from earth, and was buried in the Minerva 
Cemetery, after a useful life devoted to his 
family, his township and county. Politically 
he was first an old line Whig, and afterward, 
on the formation of the party, a stanch Bepub- 



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lican. In 1870 he was elected a member of the 
State Board of Equalization for Carroll and 
Stark Counties, and he tilled many positions of 
trust in his township; he taught one term of 
school in Washington Township. He joined 
Oak Eidge Grange, No. 661, as a charter mem- 
ber in March, 1871. Josiah C. Shaw devoted 
the most of his time to sheep husbandry, after 
having a flock from 40( I to 500 head. Personally 
he was a genial, kind-hearted man, generous to a 
fault, liberal to the poor and needy, justly held 
in the highest esteem and respect by all. His 
widow, now well and active at the age of sixty- 
seven years, yet lives on the old homestead; 
four children were born to them, viz. : Jesse W. ; 
Mahlon; Eli D. ; and Ida T. 

Jesse W. Shaw, whose name opens this 
biographical memoir, was born on his father's 
farm in Washington Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, August 26, 1842. He received the advan- 
tages of a thorough education in the public 
school of the neighborhood, which was supple- 
mented with a course of tuition in the semi- 
naries at, Malvern and Minerva. In August, 
1862, he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred 
and Twenty-sixth Regiment, O. V. I., and 
served with his regiment in the battles of Mar- 
tinsburg, the evacuation of Harper's Ferry, 
Wapping Heights, Culpeper C. H., Bristow 
Station, Manassas, Bealton, Kelley's Ford, 
Bappahannock Bridge, Ewe's Hill, Brandy 
Station, Raccoon Ford, Locust Grove, Mine 
Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania and others. At 
the battle of the Wilderness he received a gun- 
shot wound in the right leg, the limb being 
fractured, on account of which he was sent to 
Judiciary Square Hospital, Washington City; 
from this wound he has never recovered, as he 
still suffers much pain, is confined to bed a 
great deal and has to use crutches a part of the 
time. He was honorably discharged April 26, 
1865, and returned home, after which he taught 
school thirteen terms, working for his father as 
a hired hand for seven summers and teaching 
school in the winter season. On August 13, 
1867, Mr. Shaw was married to Rebecca E. 



Leyde, daughter of Henry and Amy (Fishel) 
Leyde, early settlers of Augusta Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, and to this union have been 
born six children — one son and five daughters: 
Emma V., who was married September 20, 1888, 
to Allen Cook, a promising young attorney of 
Canton, Ohio, and to this union was born, Sep- 
tember 19, 1889, one son, Carroll C. ; Edgar S., 
Austa L., Mary L. and Bessie M. and Gertie 
A. (twins). Mr. and Mrs. Shaw began life for 
themselves on their present farm in 1872, 
whereon, in 1883, he erected a handsome and 
commodious barn. 

Mr. Shaw, in addition to general farming, 
makes a specialty of stock-raising, to which he 
pays particular attention. He has a fine herd 
of registered Ayrshire cattle; devotes a greater 
part of his time to the growing of sheep and 
wool; has several head of registered sheep of 
the famous Black Top Merino breed. Mr. Shaw 
has been a breeder of recorded Chester- White 
hogs from such sires as "Commodore" and "Gar- 
field," and such dams as "Lady King" and 
"Jumbo." He also breeds thoroughbred re- 
corded Poland-China swine from such noted 
sires as "Glad Tidings," "Corporal Tanner," 
and others; dams such as "Lady Hilton." 
' ' Dell B.,' ' " Carroll Beauty," etc. He has been 
quite a breeder the last five years of high-bred 
driving horses, strong in the blood of "Hamble- 
tonian Wilkes" and "Tncaho." Mr. Shaw pays 
special attention to fruit growing. He claims 
he has the best selection of fruit in the county, 
consisting of apple, peach, pear, plum, cherry 
and quince; his apples are of the finest cookers, 
keepers and shippers, such as "Baldwins," 
"Kings," "Ben Davis," "Greenings," "Gates," 
"Ramboes," "Stewarts," and "Grime's Golden 
Pippins," "Spitzenberg," "Babbotts," "Black 
Twig," etc. He has planted a very fine young 
orchard of the above varieties, and he has the 
largest peach orchard in this section of all the 
best varieties, but relies principally on the well- 
established "Smock Peach" for main crop and 
for profit. Mr. Shaw inherits a part of his 
fondness for fruit and trees from his grand- 



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father. He has made the growing and study of 
the potato a specialty for twenty years; has 
tested over a hundred kinds, as many as seventy- 
five varieties, the same season. Mr. Shaw, while 
teaching school, took great delight in the studies 
of geography and penmanship. He has been 
quite a contributor to the agricultural press on 
various subjects. He joined Oak Ridge Grange, 
No. 661, as a charter member in March, 1871, 
same time his father did. Jesse W. Shaw was 
elected Grange delegate to the State Grange in 
1880. He served as county deputy for six 
years. He is a member of the G. A. R., Minerva 
Post No. 106, department of Ohio. Mr. Shaw 
is now serving his second term as justice of the 
peace. He has held other positions of trust, in 
his township. In politics he is a strong Repub- 
lican. His farm is situated in Brown Township, 
contains 252 acres of highly improved land, on 
which is an excellent bed of coal covering eighty 
acres, the vein being four feet or over in thick- 
ness. Mrs. Shaw was born July 22, 1846, in 
Augusta Township. She is a member of the 
Lutheran Church. 

Mahlon Shaw was born August 23, 1844, on 
his father's farm in Washington Township, Car- 
roll Co. , Ohio. He attended the district schools 
a few months in the year, thereby receiving as 
thorough education as was possible to get at 
such school. He afterward took a course of 
study at Malvern and Minerva Seminaries. In 
May, 1S64, he enlisted in Company K, One 
Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Regiment, 
served his time, was honorably discharged and 
returned home. In 1867 he began a college 
course at Mount Union, Ohio, graduating in the 
class of 1871. Mahlon is a scientific mathema- 
tician; problems that others in the family can 
not work are no trouble for him; while the rest 
were attending the district school they scarcely 
ever saw him studying, especially in arithmetic, 
but when he came to recite he always knew 
his lesson well. After graduating, he worked 
for a while for George Long in the white lead 
factory at Alliance, Ohio; then came home and 
worked for his father on the farm for a few 



years; then went to the oil fields of Pennsyl- 
vania, operated as a driller for a few years, then 
purchased and sold oil territory; has had terri- 
tory in all the oil sections; was a member of the 
Oil Exchange at Parker, Petrolia and Bradford, 
Penn., and he is still operating in oil. 

Eli D. Shaw, one of the popular represent- 
ative citizens of Brown Township, Carroll 
County, and ex-county surveyor, is a native 
of the township, born on a farm, October 
12, 1852, a son ofJosiah C. and Maria (Wal- 
ton) Shaw. Our subject was reared to farm 
life, and attended the district school, prov- 
ing an apt and diligent scholar. He early 
disclosed a fondness for the science of mathe- 
matics, and ere long chose civil engineering as 
a profession. He entered Mt. Union College, 
where he took a course in civil engineering and 
surveying, passing a most creditable examina- 
tion. In 1876 he was elected county surveyor 
of Carroll County, which office, by well-merited 
continuous reelection, he held nine years; and 
great praise is due him for his untiring efforts 
in collecting many valuable notes relative to 
boundary lines through the county. Mr. Shaw 
now resides on the homestead containing 400 
acres of prime land, where he devotes his atten- 
tion to farming in connection with his profes- 
sion. He is extensively engaged in the dairying 
industry, making a specialty of the manufacture 
of Swiss cheese, turning out from 8,000 to 
10,000 pounds per annum, and using exclusive- 
ly the milk produced upon this farm. 

On March 9, 1875, Mr. Shaw was united in 
marriage with Martha E., daughter of Levi and 
Mary A. Eckley, and to this union have been 
born two children: Lorin M. and Corwin J. 
Mrs. Shaw is a Presbyterian. Mr. Shaw was 
raised with his Grandmother Walton, who was 
a Quakeress, always using the plain language, 
and, young impressions being lasting, he ad- 
heres to the Quaker faith. In politics he is 
a stanch Republican. He is a member of the 
Oak Ridge Grange, and was sent as delegate to 
the State Grange at Tiffin, in December, 1890. 

Ida T. Shaw was born March 19, 1860, on 



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her father's farm in Brown Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio. At the age of four years she was 
thrown from a horse, which was supposed to lu- 
the cause of a spinal affection resulting in 
death. She died April 8, 1870, and lies buried 
in Minerva Cemetery next to her father. 

Henry Leyde, the father of Mrs. Jesse W. 
Shaw, was a native of Washington County, 
Penn. , born August 9, 1806. After becoming 
of age he came to what is now Augusta Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, and was married to 
Amy Fishel, who was born October, 1813, in 
Washington Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. They 
purchased a farm in Augusta Township, and re- 
sided on same until her death, which occurred 
June 2, 1880; he died May 2, 1883, at Minerva, 
Ohio, and both are interred in the Pleasant 
Grove Cemetery, Brown Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio. They were devoted members of the 
Lutheran Church for many years and paid 
largely to the church and all benevolent pur- 
poses. Mr. Leyde owned 350 acres of land 
well improved, and was considered one of the 
best of farmers making his money in grain 
growing, wool growing and fruit growing; he 
used to sell his entire large peach crop for two 
dollars per bushel ; he got the highest market 
price for his apples on account of their superior 
quality. Politically he was in early days a 
Whig, but afterward a very strong Republican. 
Mr. and Mrs. Leyde had ten children, all living 
but two: S. F. Leyde was born on his father's 
farm in Augusta Township, Carroll Co., Ohio; 
he is fifty years old; was married to Mary Hen- 
sil, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, and now resides 
in East Liverpool, Ohio; by occupation he is a 
dentist; to their union was born two children — 
one son and one daughter. .. .Barbara J. was 
born on her father's farm in Augusta Township; 
she is fifty-three years old; was married to J. R. 
Byers, and they reside on their farm near Mt. 
Fnion, Ohio; to this union were born four chil- 
dren — two sons and two daughters; Mr. Byers 
owns 100 acres of most valuable land and well 
tilled .... Margaret C. was born in Augusta 
Township; she was about fifty-one years old 



when she died February 27, 1891 : Bhe was mar- 
ried to Samuel Lininger, and they resided in 
Andrew County, Mo. ; Mr. Lininger was a first 
lieutenant in the One Hundred and Ninety- first 
Regiment, O. V. I. ; he and his wife were blessed 
with six children — five sons and one daughter 
....Elizabeth M. was born on her father's 
farm; she is forty-nine years old; was married 
to A. J. Schory, and they live on their farm in 
Brown Township, Carroll Co. , Ohio, Hibbetts 
P. O. ; they are both devoted members of the 
Methodist Church; he is considerable of a small 
fruit-grower .... Emily A. was born on her 
father's farm; is now forty-eight years old; was 
married to Owen Moninger, of Amwell Town- 
ship, Washington Co., Penn.; they live on their 
farm of 160 acres seven miles from Little Wash- 
ington, Penn. ; he is a first-class farmer; they 
are both members of the Disciples Church; to 
their union have been born five children — three 
daughters and two sons .... Edith F. was born 
on her father's farm; was married to E. E. 
Davis, who died March 4, 1875; is interred in 
Pleasant Grove Cemetery; her occupation is 
school teaching and dress making .... Mrs. 
Shaw's sketch has been given elsewhere.... 
Louisa C. was born on her father's farm; she is 
forty-two years old; was married to Rev. Amos 
Casselman, and they reside in Lyons, Rice Co., 
Kas. ; have four children living — three sons and 
one daughter; Mr. Casselman has been a very 
successful minister in the German Reformed 
Church .... John F. was born on his father's 
farm January 21, 1850; was married in 1881 
to Sannie McGiuty, and one son, Freddie, was 
born to them; she died in October, 1883, and is 
interred in Malvern Cemetery ; he was afterward 
married, March 8, 1886, to Miss Carrie Harvey, 
of Carrollton, Ohio, and they have one daughter, 
Mary ; they live on a farm of 241 acres of good 
tillable land in Augusta Township. . . .Lucretia 
A. was born on her father's farm August 11, 
1854; was married to Joseph A. Finney in June, 
INS 1, and to them have been born three children 
— two sons and one daughter; they now reside 
in Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., Ohio .... These 



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children were at one time all members of the 
Lutheran Church. These brothers and brothers- 
in-law are all stanch Republicans. 



extensively through the West, visiting Missouri, 
Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana and other 
points, returning home highly pleased with 
their trip. 




BRAHAM V. WESTFALL, a prosperous 
representative farmer of Brown Township, 

TL\ Carroll County, is a native of the same, 
born September 22, 1846, a son of John 
and Amy (Beatty) Westfall, early settlers of the 
township. Abraham Westfall, grandfather of 
our subject, came in an early day, with his 
family, to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, 
and settled in Washington Township. He went 
out as a private in the War of 1812, and was 
killed in action. 

Of a family of thirteen children — seven sons 
and six daughters — born to John and Amy 
Westfall, Abraham V. is the youngest. He lost 
his father by death when he was an infant six 
months old, but he had a true mother, who care- 
fully reared him to manhood, and when old 
enough he faithfully carried on the farm for her. 
He received his education at the public schools, 
and at the early age of fifteen years commenced 
life in earnest. On April 30, 1873, he was united 
in marriage with Calista Thompson, of Brown 
Township, Carroll County, daughter of Thomas 
and Susan (Finefrock) Thompson, early settlers 
of that township. Following their marriage, 
the young couple located on the Westfall home- 
stead, his mother making her home with them 
until she was called from earth, August 19, 1877, 
at the age of seventy-two years and five months. 
Our subject and wife have no children of their 
own, but, they have an adopted daughter named 
Nova E. Westfall. Mrs. Westfall was origi- 
nally a Presbyterian, but recently united with 
the Methodist Church, and she and Mr. West- 
fall are both members of Pleasant Grove Method- 
ist Church; politically he is a Republican, 
active and zealous. He is owner of the old 
homestead, comprising eighty acres of prime 
land, on which, during the summer of 1890, he 
erected a commodious barn and other out-build- 
ings. In 1887 Mr. and Mrs. Westfall traveled 



If TrIRAM G. TOPE, M. D., ranks among 
1*^1 the influential citizens of Carroll County. 

1 and is one of the most popular and suc- 
■f/ cessful medical practitioners. A resi- 

dent of Perrysville, Perry Township, Carroll 
County, for over a quarter of a century, he has 
succeeded in surrounding himself with a large 
circle of friends and patrons. 

The first of his family on the paternal side 
came from Germany to America at a very early 
period, and settled in Maryland, where was 
born George Tope, great-grandfather of the 
subject of this memoir. Some time in the last 
century George Tope left his native State for 
that portion of the then "Far West" afterward 
formed into the great State of Ohio, and settled 
on a piece of wild land in what is now Carroll 
County, where he built the first grist-mill 
(called Tope's Mill) in that part now known as 
Union Township. 

George Tope, Dr. Tope's grandfather, was 
born in (17S2) and reared and died in (1832) in 
what is now Carroll County, Ohio, having been 
one of the first pioneers of Eastern Ohio; he 
was the father of four sons and two daughters, 
of whom John lives in Jackson County, Ohio, 
where he follows carpentering; George W. is a 
farmer in Gallia County, same State, and Mrs. 
Elizabeth Wilson also lives in Ohio, where her 
husband is a farmer. 

Henry Tope, father of our subject, and by 
trade a gunsmith, was born in Carroll County. 
Ohio, in 1813, and died at Peru, 111., in 1849. 
He was married in June, 1S36, to Catharine 
Croghan, a native of Carroll County, born in 
1818 and died in 1849, and they had four 
children, viz.: William A., who was born in 
1837, and died at Nashville, Tenn., April 24, 
1862, aged twenty-five years, while serving as a 
member of Company C, Sixty-ninth O. V. I. ; 



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Hiram G. ; John H. , born in 1841, now in the 
lumber business in Michigan, and Catherine 
M., born in 1S44, and married to Craton Mc- 
Coy, a stock-dealer in Van Wert County, Ohio. 
The parents both died of cholera in Peru, 111., 
in July, 1849, just two days apart. The ma- 
ternal grandmother died at the patriarchal age 
of one hundred years, and in her long life had 
seen many changes in the world; she had met 
Gen. Washington frequently, had shaken hands 
with him and was present at his funeral; she 
was of English descent, as was ber husband. 

Hiram G. Tope, whose name appears at the 
opening of this sketch, was born July 1, 1839, 
in Carroll County, Ohio, and when four years of 
age went with his father to Peru, 111., where he 
lived six years. On the death of his parents, as 
above stated, young Hiram was left to the care 
of his grandparents, who moved to New Hagers- 
town, Carroll Co., Ohio, where he grew to 
manhood, attending the public schools and 
academy of the place. At the age of nineteen, 
having decided on the medical profession as his 
life work, he proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, 
where he studied four years at college, teaching 
school at intervals in order to help out the ex- 
pense of his education. After his graduation 
and receipt of his diploma, Dr. Tope went to 
the western part of Ohio, where he practiced 
one year; but not being satisfied with the local- 
ity, he moved to Perrysville. Carroll County, 
which has since been his home. Toward the 
breaking out of the Civil War, the Doctor, in 
response to his country's call, volunteered into 
the army, joining, in 1862, the Eightieth O. V. 
I., of which he was hospital steward about two 
years, and then assistant surgeon to the close of 
the war, receiving his discharge August 13, 
1865, at Little Rock, Ark. His regiment par- 
ticipated in many of the most important engage- 
ments of the war, including Iuka, Corinth, 
siege of Vicksburg, Atlanta, Jackson, Champion 
Hills, Missionary Ridge, Raymond and many 
others, being also with Sherman on his memor- 
able march to the sea. Returning to Perrys- 
ville, the Doctor renewed the practice of his 



profession, having in connection a flourishing 
drug store. 

In 1862 Dr. Tope was married to Mary_A. 
Shultz, daughter of Solomon and Rachel (Knouf ) 
Shultz, who were of Dutch descent and were 
reared in Jefferson County, Ohio, but in 1832 
moved to Harrison County, same State, where 
Mary A. was born. Her father died at the age 
of eighty-one and her mother when eighty-four 
years old; they were both members of the 
Lutheran Church. To the union of Dr. and 
Mrs. Tope have been born two children : Cadmus 
A. (a teacher in the public schools of Carrollton, 
Ohio, also a member of the common council of 
that place) and Ulysses I., now aged twenty 
years (at present at home, reading medicine 
under the instruction of his father.) Dr. Tope, 
politically, has always been a Republican, and 
socially is a Royal Arch Mason. 



of 



MRS. DRUSILLA HIBBS, widow 
the late William Hibbs, was born in 
that part of Jefferson County now 
{/ known as Loudon Township, Carroll 

County, March 6, 1822, a daughter of Conrad 
Slates, of whom mention is made in the sketch 
of Mrs. Catharine Colar. Our subject in her 
girlhood days attended the district school about 
six months, the greater part of her time being 
spent in the many domestic duties of the house 
and farm. On December 15, 1839, she married 
William Hibbs, who was born in Salem, Ohio, 
September 10, 1816, a son of Isaac Hibbs, a 
native of Maryland, born (it is believed) in 
1758. Isaac's father, also named Isaac, who 
was of English parentage, reared a family of 
seven children, Isaac being the third in order of 
birth. About the year 1806 (as near as can be 
ascertained) Isaac (first) came to Ohio and en- 
tered a tract of land on Section 16, in Loudon 
Township, Jefferson County, where he put up a 
rude cabin, in which he lived the remainder of 
his days. Game of all kinds was plentiful, and 
he spent much of his time in hunting. His son 
Isaac (second) grew up to manhood in Loudon 



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Township, and here married Miss Mary Lucas, 
who bore him seven children, of whom the fol- 
lowing is a record: Nancy, Elizabeth and Will- 
iam are deceased; Mrs. Susan Slates resides in 
Germano, Harrison Co., Ohio, and Mahlan, 
Mary and Isaac, in Carroll County. The father 
of these continued to make his home in Loudon 
Township till 1850, in which year he removed 
to Tuscarawas County, same State, where he 
died. About 1823 he entered the land in Loudon 
Township, now owned by Mrs. Drusilla Hibbs. 

William Hibbs spent his early life in much 
the same way as other boys in his day — working 
hard on the farm in summers, and facing the 
stern pedagogue in the district school during a 
few weeks in winter time. In 1846 he pur- 
chased of his father the farm place now in the 
possession of his widow, and here resided until 
his death, which occurred December 25, 1889. 
At the time of his marriage he did not own one 
dollar's worth of property, and at his decease he 
was worth fifteen thousand dollars. He was an 
active member of the Lutheran Church; in poli- 
tics a firm Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Hibbs were 
never blessed with any children of their own, but 
they reared to manhood and womanhood the 
following, giving to each a good education and 
means wherewith to commence life: Oliver 
Harding, a carpenter, who resides in Florida; 
Sarah Davis, deceased; William Slates, a farmer 
in Loudon Township; Drusilla Shawver, wife of 
Grant Maynard, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; 
Mary J. Salmon and John B. Salmon, now 
married and living with Mrs. Hibbs. Our sub- 
ject has been a member of the Lutheran Church 
since she was fifteen years of age. Mr. Hibbs 
left a will, making disposal of his property 
after his death; he left fourteen hundred dollars 
to Mary J. Salmon, fourteen hundred dollars to 
W. H. Slates, one thousand dollars to Drusilla 
Shawver, fourteen hundred dollars to Oliver 
Harding, and the balance of his estate was 
willed to thirty-eight different persons, some of 
whom were not related to him, but were poor. 

John B. Salmon, one of the adopted sons of 
Mr. and Mrs. Hibbs, was born in Tuscarawas 



County, Ohio, March 13, 1853. His parents 
having died when he was a small boy, he was 
left with his grandfather to be turned out of a 
home by him when he was but fifteen years of 
age. He then came, a stranger, to Mr. and 
Mrs. Hibbs, who took him and reared him. 
Mrs. Salmon was born December 23, 1857. 
They have had the following named children: 
Mary M. , Maggie B., Annie O. , William Hibbs 
and Jesse T. 



TfOHN SLATES, than whom there is no 
^ I more progressive or prosperous farmer in 
\J) Loudon Township, Carroll County, is a 
native of that township, born March 11, 
1821. His father, John Slates, Sr., was born 
in Loudoun County, Va. , August 2, 178-1, and 
was reared to agricultural pursuits, attending in 
the winter season the common schools. He was 
married to Miss Elizabeth Buse, who was born 
in 1780, also in Loudoun County, Va. , and to 
them were born children as follows: Mrs. Cath- 
arine Albaugh, Mrs. Elizabeth Shawver, Mrs. 
Margaret Wood, Mrs. Mary Bichie, Adam (de- 
ceased), Frederick and John in Loudon Town- 
ship, Carroll County. In 1811 John Slates, 
Sr. , came to Ohio and entered land which is 
now the farm owned by Adam Albaugh, in Lou- 
don Township, Carroll County; here he erected 
a cabin, in which he and his family lived some 
years. By trade he was a shoemaker, at which 
he worked for a living until he succeeded in 
getting a small patch of laud cleared, on which 
to grow corn. In a few years he was enabled 
to build himself a hewed log house, in which he 
and his wife lived until within a few years of 
their death. He died in 1859, his wife having 
preceded him to the grave in 1855. They were 
active members of the Lutheran Church for 
many years, and in his political convictions he 
was a Democrat. 

John Slates, whose name heads this sketch, 
was reared to a practical farm life, and in his 
boyhood attended the common schools. He has 
been thrice married: First, June 27, 1814, to 



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Mi>-s Nancy Stinger, who was born in February, 
1821, a daughter of George Stinger, and by 
this union were born rive children, viz.: Oliver, 
in Martin County, Ind. ; Harvey, in Carroll 
County, Ohio; Mrs. Emily Arbaugh, in Kilgore, 
Ohio; Sarah E., and Hebert, deceased. This 
wife dying in 1853, Mr. Slates took, for his 
second wife, April 20, 1854, Miss Abby Harner, 
who bore him three children, viz. : Mrs. Nancy 
Myers, in Jewett, Ohio; Samuel, in Loudon 
Township, Carroll County, and John, deceased. 
The mother of these children died in 1860, and 
September 12, 1865, our subject married Mrs. 
Eliza J. "Walters (nee Duel), born in 1833. a 
daughter of Samuel Duel, and the result of 
this union has been five children, a record of 
whom is as follows: James D. is at the pater- 
nal home; Mrs. Hattie B. Miller lives in Lou- 
don Township; Howard AY., Mary and Charles 
W. are still under the parental roof. Mr. 
Slates has resided on his present farm since his 
first marriage, and has erected in all three large 
barns, the first of which was struck by light- 
ning, August 19, 1875; the second was blown 
down July 16, 1881, and the third was destroyed 
by wind April 12, 1889. He and his wife are 
members of the Lutheran Church, and politic- 
ally he is a Democrat. 



(?*?/ EORGE BELL, a resident of the vicinity 
,. of Kilgore, in Loudon Township, Carroll 
County, was born in the town of Leeds, 
^ Yorkshire, England, October 1, 1823, a 
son of Henry and Eleanor (Forster) Bell, who 
were the parents of three sons and two daugh- 
ters, viz. : Henry, William, George, Mary Ann 
and Esther. Of these, Henry came to the 
United States in 1831, and took up his residence 
in Kinderhook, N. Y. , where he carried on un- 
dertaking (about 1840 he returned to England 
and corresponded a few times, but his brother 
George heard nothing of him until the hitter 
part of December, 1890, or beginning of Janu- 
ary, 1891; he is living a retired life in Ripon, 
Yorkshire, England); William came to this 



country in 1834, along with his brother George, 
going to New York, and has not since been 
heard from; Mary Ann married and remained 
in England; Esther married and went to Aus- 
tralia, where she died. 

When George was two years old his parents 
died, and he was taken under the sheltering 
wing of an aunt. As already narrated he came 
to the United States with his brother William, 
in 1834, landing in New York; from there he 
went to Buffalo, thence to Cleveland, then to 
Detroit, where he remained one week, washing 
dishes in a hotel for his board, being at this 
time in the company of his uncle, Jonathan 
Richardson. From Detroit they returned to 
Cleveland, where they sojourned but a short 
time, and then took canal boat for Dresden, same 
State, where he left his uncle Richardson. In 
company with another uncle, Edward Forster, 
Mr. Bell proceeded to Rochester, Ohio, walking 
most of the way, and from there, by same mode 
of locomotion, to Canton, Waynesburg, Harris- 
burg, Carrollton and Kilgore, remaining at the 
last named place a short time, and then walked 
to Scio, where they stopped for a brief space 
with Joseph Harrison. Edward Forster had a 
brother-in-law named John Barker living near 
Joseph Harrison's place, and with him they so- 
journed for about two weeks, when Forster con- 
cluded to return to England, which he did. 
Mr. Bell then went to live with Andrew Hen- 
derson, remaining there seven years in Perry 
Township,Carroll County, after which he resided 
some ten years with Gabriel Sells, in same 
township. 

On December 2, 1851, our subject married 
Mrs. Mahala Slates (nee Walters), and to this 
union were born four children, viz. : Mrs. 
Esther Salsburey, of Bowerston, Ohio; Will- 
iam H. and Minerva, both deceased, and Le- 
nora, at home. After marriage Mr. Bell 
purchased the farm in Loudon Township, 
Carroll County, now owned by William Al- 
baugh, and on this he remained till 1S57, when, 
in company with his brother-in-law, he bought 
another farm in Lee Township, same county. 



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On this he lived till 1859, when he returned to 
Perry Township for a short time, and Septem- 
ber 1, same year, came to the farm he now owns 
in Loudon Township, comprising 105 acres of 
well-improved land. On June 5, 1882, his 
wife died, an active member of the Lutheran 
Church, and on July 8, 18S6, he married Mrs. 
Rebecca E. Grayhill (nee Canaga), of New 
Rumley, Harrison Co., Ohio, who was born 
October 4, 1840. She is a member of the 
United Brethren Church, Mr. Bell of the Luth- 
eran; in his political affiliations he votes the 
Democratic ticket. 




,\ILLIAM McLAUGHLIN, a highly re- 
spected and prosperous farmer, was 
born in Fox Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, May 22, 1816, where he has ever 
since resided. The McLaughlin family can trace 
their ancestry to James McLaughlin, grandfather 
of our subject, who left the hills of Scotland, 
and after living in Ireland a short time came to 
America, settling in Pennsylvania, where James, 
Jr., was born in 1775. James McLaughlin, Jr., 
learned the carpenter's trade, which he worked 
at in Washington County, Penn. , when he was a 
young man. After reaching manhood he was 
united in marriage with Miss Nancy Wilson, 
who was of Irish descent, and whose parents 
were old settlers of Ohio, having entered 160 
acres at a very early period, about 1806. James 
McLaughlin was one of a party of hunters who 
left Pennsylvania to find a suitable place to 
build their new home, and they found such a 
place in Carroll County Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. 
McLaughlin were the parents of eight children 
— six sons and two daughters, viz. : Martha (mar- 
ried to Robert George, of Moorestown, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio), James, John, William, Robert, Rob- 
ert D., Margaret A. (married to R. G. Ramsey, 
a farmer of Fox Township) and Mitchell. After 
a long life of joys and sorrows, adversity and 
prosperity, Mr. and Mrs. James McLaughlin 
were called away to meet their reward, he dying 
in 1846, his good wife following him to the grave 



in 1854. He was a leading man of his time, 
always ready to advance a success which tended 
to the bettering of mankind. In politics he was 
a Republican, and taught his children to believe 
in the doctrines of that party. 

William McLaughlin attended in his boy- 
hood the old log school-house about three 
months in the winter time, being obliged to 
work on the farm the other nine months, and in 
this way he managed to obtain a good practical 
education, one admirably adapted to tit him for 
future usefulness. Mr. McLaughlin has never 
married, and has lived all his life on his present 
farm, which consists of 200 acres of fine land, 
being as good a farm as can be found in Carroll 
County. It is of the best soil, productive, high- 
ly improved and finely situated for the raising 
of all kinds of crops. Mr. McLaughlin is sur 
rounded by many warm friends, who hold him 
in the greatest respect. 



T/OHN F. FARBER, one of the best known 
^ I citizens of Rose Township, Carroll County, 
}^Jj was born November 22, 1834, in Stark 
County, Ohio. His father, James Farber, 
was born March 1, 1S08, in Tuscarawas Coun- 
ty, Ohio, and was the first white child born 
in that section. The educational advantages 
of James were necessarily limited, as, being 
the eldest son, he was kept at home to assist 
on the farm, while the younger members of 
the family, less able to labor, were afforded bet- 
ter school facilities. After he had attained his 
majority he began teaming, making trips to 
Pittsburgh. This business he carried on for sev- 
eral years. On September 30, 1833, he mar- 
ried Caroline Weaver, who bore him the 
following named children: John F., Isabelle 
(Mrs. John Keifer), Emily, Oliver, Philip, Abi- 
gail (Mrs. Franklin Newhouse), and Elizabeth. 
After his marriage, when about twenty-six years 
of age, he moved to Stark County, Ohio, settling 
on a farm on which he lived up to the time of his 
death; he died June 1, 1890, having been pre- 




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ceded to the grave by his wife February 21, same 
year. In politics he was first a Democrat, then 
became a Whig, then a Know nothing, then a 
Eepublican, and finally, in 1869, returned to the 
Democratic ranks, and was, all in all, an able 
politician. He also took a lively interest in 
church work; he had belonged to the Lutheran 
Church fifteen years, but for thirty years was not 
identified with any church, though he gave 
financially to all denominations around him. 

Jjhn F. Farber, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was reared on the home farm iu Stark 
County, and April 15, 1800, he married Har- 
riet, daughter of George Flora, who was born 
in Bradford County, Penn., in 1S06. Jacob 
Flora, the father of George Flora, was a native 
of Maryland, in which State he married Mary 
Bachtel, who bore him the following named 
children: David, Daniel, George, Mary, Bar- 
bara and Catherine. Jacob Flora came to Ohio 
in 1812 and settled in Stark County, where he 
passed the remainder of his life. In politics he 
was a Whig; in religion a Lutheran. George 
Flora married Hannah Bowman, and to this 
union were born Franklin, Jacob, Harriet, Har- 
rison and Emma (Mrs. George Boyer). In poli- 
tics George Flora was a Whig, and for many 
years was a member of the Lutheran Church. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Farber re- 
sided on the home farm in Stark County for 
three years, and then came to Rose Township, 
Carroll County. They have had born to them 
three children, named as follows: Emma (Mrs. 
Franklin Seemann), Franklin and Philip. Mr. and 
Mrs. Farber have a foster daughter named Hattie, 
a daughter of his brother, adopted when she was 
four weeks old. Mr. Farber is an enthusiastic 
Eepublican, and, being a highly educated gen- 
tleman, has done much to mold public opinion in 
his township. For twenty-four years he has 
taken a leading part in church matters, has filled 
all. the offices in the United Brethren society, and 
at present holds a license as an exhorter. Mr. 
Farber has in his possession one of the oldest 
records probably existing iu his township, run- 
ning back, as it does, to 1750. 




S. HOLE was born April 1 2, 1841, in An- 

gusta Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, of 
which township his father, Lemuel Hole, 
was also a native. John Hole, grand- 
father of our subject, was a native of Virginia, 
where he was engaged in farming pursuits; his 
father (our subject's great-grandfather) was of 
German descent and came to America at a very 
early period. John Hole came to what is now 
Carroll County, Ohio, when this country was a 
wilderness teeming with wild beasts of every 
description, and here he entered a farm in 
Augusta Township, and began to clear away the 
forest and prepare the soil for coming genera- 
tions. After rearing a large family he passed 
away in the winter of 1867. Mr. Hole was a 
prominent man of his times, was elected com- 
missioner for a number of terms, and in poli- 
tics was in his latter days a Republican. 

Lemuel Hole was reared on his father's 
farm, attended subscription school, finally be- 
coming a teacher in same, which, at that time, 
was the only one in the township. At the age 
of twenty-two he married Miss Unity C. Stan- 
ley, born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1820, 
the daughter of a Quaker, who was one of the 
first pioneers of eastern Ohio. Ten children 
were born to this union, of whom our subject is 
the eldest. After an eventful life, Lemuel 
Hole died January 20, 1865. Like his father, 
he was a Republican, and was honored by his 
party with several offices of trust; in his life- 
time he contributed freely to advance all causes 
of public interest, educational, political and 
religious. On August 28. 18S6, his widow 
peacefully ended her earthly pilgrimage. 

B. S. Hole, whose name heads this article, 
lived with his father, and experienced all the 
trials and disadvantages incident to early farm 
life, until he was twenty- seven years old, at 
which age, March 10, 1868, he married Miss 
Mary C. Marshall, only daughter of Levi and 
Lavina Marshall, who resided in Augusta Town- 
ship, Carroll County; a family of four children 
were born to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Hole, viz.: Rozella O, Lavina U., Linneas M. 



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and Lemuel G. Soon after marriage they set- 
tled on the old homestead, in Augusta Township, 
where they have ever since resided. Mr. Hole 
has a large farm of 140 acres, finely situated 
for the yielding of all kinds of farm products, 
and in connection he owns a saw-mill, which he 
extensively operates in winter time. In religion 
Mr. and Mrs. Hole are members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. Politically he has 
always been identified with the Republican 
party, and is ever ready to help advance move- 
ments tending to the bettering of his fellow- 
men. By good management and honest, up- 
right living, he has justly won for himself a 
position among the representative citizens of 
Carroll County. 



dOHN PAUL GEIGER, one of the most 
respectable, as well as one of the most ex- 
' perienced farmers of Brown Township, 
Carroll County, was born near Baden, 
Germany, September 11, 1818, and is a son of 
John J. Geiger, whose father, Paul Geiger, 
reared three sons and three daughters, and lived 
and died in Germany. John J. Geiger was 
reared on a farm in the old country, in the ex- 
cellent schools of which he received his educa- 
tion. He married a cousin, Catherine Geiger, 
who bore him six children: Henry, Margaret, 
John P., Catherine, Jacob and Elizabeth. In 
1825 he, with his family, embarked for America 
in a sailing vessel and landed at Philadelphia, 
where he remained but a short time and then 
set out for Ohio, his destination being Stark 
County. The journey was made with a six- 
horse team, drawing a heavy wagon, laden with 
all his household effects as well as his family. 
In Stark County he entered a small piece of 
land, erected a small log cabin for temporary 
shelter and began the preparation necessary to 
the production of such crops as were required 
for the immediate wants of the family. Farm 
work in the wilderness in those days was of the 
most primitive character. Grain was threshed 
by flail, was winnowed in the open air,, and had 



to be taken to town to be ground — in this case 
to Massillon. Wagons were almost unknown in 
the region, the settlers chiefly using as vehicles 
what were called "punks," which were low-set 
sleds, the runners being small logs cut in half. 
Under these and other difficulties, Mr. Geiger 
pursued his way to fortune, and by perseverance 
and industry ultimately reached the desired 
goal. He early took an active part in politics, 
and allied himself with the Whig party. In re- 
ligion he held the positions of deacon, elder, 
etc. On January 1, 1833, Carroll County was 
erected from Columbiana, Stark, Tuscarawas, 
Harrison and Jefferson Counties, and the farm 
of John J. Geiger was then in Carroll County. 
Here the father died, September 5, 1845, and the 
mother November 6, 1848, and they were 
mourned far and near. 

John Paul Geiger spent his younger days on 
the farm above alluded to, and passed through 
all the hardships undergone in redeeming the 
home place from the wilderness. On October 
26, 1843, he married Magdalena, daughter of 
Henry Snyder. Mr. Snyder was born in Ger- 
many, where he married Margaret Gross, who 
bore him four children, viz. : Henry, Elizabeth, 
Jacob and Magdalena. After marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Geiger lived on the home place until 1S76, 
when they purchased their present residence. 
Their dwelling, which is of that substantial and 
commodious kind denoting the prosperous and 
successful citizen, was erected by Mr. Geiger, 
and all the surroundings indicate intelligent 
management. In politics Mr. Geiger was orig- 
inally a Whig, casting his first presidential vote 
for William Henry Harrison, and has been a 
Republican since the organization of that party, 
of whose principles he has been a firm supporter. 
He and his family are members of the German 
Reformed Church, and for the past fifty years 
he has served in one capacity or another, until 
he has filled all the offices of the society. He 
has ever been a warm and liberal supporter of 
all enterprises calculated to secure the prosper- 
ity of the community, and is regarded as one of 
the most valuable acquisitions to his section. 



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His live children are named John J. ; Mary M., 
wife of Henry Shorrey; Charlotte E., married 
to George Mower; Emma L., now Mrs. Charles 
Lair, and Malinda E., wife of Eugene Worley. 



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I ft ARVEY J. BROWER, one of the lead- 
•» ing young farmers of Orange Township, 
1 Carroll Couuty, was born in that town- 
ship October 31, 1847, a son of Joseph 
and Polly (Jackson) Brower, former a native of 
Westmoreland County, Penn., born February 
11, 1811, and latter of New Hagerstown, Carroll 
Co., Ohio. David Brower, grandfather of 
Harvey J., was born in Germany, whence he 
emigrated to America in his youth, taking up 
his residence in Pennsylvania, where he com- 
menced work on a farm. He was there married 
to Catherine Giger, who bore him children, as 
follows: Elizabeth, Joseph, John, Ellen, David, 
Caroline, Isaac and Peter. In 1814 Mr. Brower 
came to Ohio and purchased a farm in what is 
now Orange Township, Carroll County, in the 
clearing up of which he spent the rest of his 
life, it being nearly all redeemed by the time of 
bis death. Like nearly all of the early settlers 
of this part of Ohio, Mr. Brower was a Whig, 
and took a leading part in the workings of the 
party. Our subject's grandparents, John and 
Hulda (Prnden) Jackson, were of Scotch descent; 
they had born to them in Pennsylvania two 
children: Polly C. and Oliver P. H. John 
Jackson and his brother William were in the 
Mexican War. 

Joseph Brower was three years old when his 
parents brought him to this part of Ohio, and 
he ha9 ever since been a resident of the place 
where he now lives. In 1837 he was married to 
Polly, daughter of John Jackson, of New 
Hagerstown, Ohio, and the children born to 
them were as follows: John J., in Coshocton 
County, Ohio; Caroline, Mrs. David Gamble; 
Harvey J. and Theodore (latter deceased.) The 
father died December 15, 1877, the mother, De- 
cember 2, 1879; she was a member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. Brower 



was first a Whig, and afterward, on the organiza 
tion of the party, a stanch Republican. 

Harvey J. Brower, of whom this sketch more 
particularly treats, for some years attended the 
common schools of his native township, and 
then entered the public schools at Leesville, 
where he mastered some of the higher branches. 
On December 19, 1869, he was married to 
Elizabeth Gamble, who was born in Orange 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, a daughter of John 
and Lucinda (Plowman) Gamble, of whom 
mention is made elsewhere. Mrs. Lucinda 
(Plowman) Gamble was a daughter of John and 
Catherine Plowman. The children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. H. J. Brower were Ora (Mrs. Frank 
True), Mary, Charles and Harry, living, and Idella 
and Mina, deceased. The parents are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are held 
in the highest esteem in the community in 
which they live. In politics Mr. Brower is a 
leading Republican, and has held many public 
positions of trust, such as trustee and assessor 
of his township. 




D. SHEARER, one of the citizens of 
Leesville, Orange Township, Carroll 
Co., was born in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, June 2, 1833, a son of Hugh B. 
and Catharine (McConnell) Shearer. The fam- 
ily are of Scotch-Irish and English descent, and 
the first member in this country of whom they 
have any record was Robert (grandfather of W. 
D.), who was born in the State of New York 
about the year 1776. He was married in his 
native State to Abrilah Brown, who bore him 
children as follows: Hugh B., Robert, Arthur, 
Elizabeth, Mary and Ruth. At the breaking 
out of the War of 1812 he volunteered and 
entered the army, but remained only a short 
time, being discharged for disability, after 
which he emigrated to Jefferson County, Ohio, 
where he was employed by the State to assist 
in driving out the Indians who were making 
frequent raids into the settlements along the 
Ohio River. Having learned no trade he occu- 



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pied himself chiefly in farming. In politics he 
was a Democrat in early life, but when the 
anti- slavery party came into existence he es- 
poused their cause, heart and soul, and was one 
of their strongest workers. 

Hugh B. Shearer, father of our subject, was 
born in New York State, and came with his 
parents to Ohio, where, soon after, his mother 
died. He was then apprenticed to Thomas Day, 
to learn the tanning trade. After finishing his 
trade, his father took him to Mansfield, Richland 
Co., Ohio, and there purchased a piece of land 
and started his son in business. Bark being 
scarce he remained only three years, and selling 
out his possessions returned to Bloomfield, Jef- 
ferson Co., Ohio, and entered into partnership 
with a man by the name of Latta. Becoming, 
at the end of one year, dissatisfied with the 
location, he dissolved his partnership with Mr. 
Latta, and again embarked in business for him- 
self in Amsterdam, in same county. While there 
he was married to Catharine, daughter of Will- 
iam McConnell, and she bore him the following 
named children: Abrilah, William D., Joseph 
S. (in Missouri), and Samuel M. (in California). 
In the course of five or six years he again sold 
out and moved with his family to Leesville, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, where he remained, following 
his business of tanning, and at the age of 
seventy-seven he died, his wife passing away 
about a year later, at the age of sixty-nine years; 
both are buried at Leesville. 

W. D. Shearer, whose name opens this 
sketch, came to Carroll County at the age of 
three years, and has since made his home in 
Leesville, with the exception of about four years 
he spent in Harrison and Tuscarawas Counties. 
He early in life learned the trade of tanning in 
his father's tannery, mastering the various de- 
tails of the business, which, on the death of his 
father, he succeeded to and has since conducted. 
On September 10, 1857, Mr. Shearer was united 
in marriage with Martha, daughter of Levi 
Hays, of Harrison County, Ohio, and of this 
union six children were born to them, viz. : 
Albert R., John M., Sarah A. (deceased), Mary 



(deceased), Everell L. and Guy E. Mr. Shear- 
er's education was obtained partly at the com- 
mon schools of his place and at the New Hagers- 
town Academy, about a mile distant from his 
home. After his marriage Mr. Shearer learned 
the saddle and harness trade with his father-in- 
law, and with one of his sons (in connection 
with the tanning business) is still engaged in it. 
Though Mr. Shearer's education has been some- 
what limited, yet he is a fine scholar, and has made 
the most of his advantages. In educational mat- 
ters he is a champion for any and all improve- 
ments, earnestly working in the cause. He and a 
part of his family are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which he is honored and 
held in esteem by his brethren. Politically he 
is a Republican, and has held with satisfaction 
to his constituents the office of justice of the 
peace for fifteen consecutive years. 




LEXANDER S. LONG, farmer, of Mon- 
roe Township, Carroll County, was born 
^ in Allegheny County, Penn., near Pitts- 
burgh, July 29,1830,a son of Alexander 
and Nancy (Scott) Long, who came from County 
Donegal, Ireland, and had a family of twelve 
children, eight of whom are still living. The 
parents, who are yet living, now in their eighty- 
seventh year, moved to Ohio in 1832; they were 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in politics Mr. Long was a Democrat. They 
settled in Union Township, Carroll County, 
where our subject grew to manhood and received 
a common-school education. On March 18, 1856, 
Alexander S. Long married Miss Nancy Brooks, 
who was born in Union Township, Carroll County, 
July 17, 1828, a daughter of Henry and Dorinda 
(Fawcett) Brooks, natives of County Fermanagh, 
Ireland, who emigrated to America in 1S18; they 
had nine children, five of whom are yet living. 
Henry Brooks died October 28, 18S4, and 
Dorinda Brooks April 26, 1881; they were mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 
politics he was a Democrat. To Mr. and Mrs. 
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follows: Dorinda J. Rainsberger, of Union 
Township; Simpson H., deceased; Mary E., 
deceased: Wesley S. and Henry A., at home. 
Mr. Long, after bis marriage, resided in Union 
Township till 1860, when he purchased the 
farm he now owns, which contains eighty-one 
acres. He has erected a line dwelling and barn, 
ami brought the land into a most excellent state 
of cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Long are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and polit- 
ically he is Democratic. Industrious, upright 
and persevering, he has won the esteem of all 
his neighbors. 



| ACOB GRUNDER, a prominent and pros- 
^ I perous farmer of Brown Township, Car- 
lUj roll County, is a native of the same, born 
November 15, 1832, in the old homestead 
of his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Kail) 
Grander. When his parents moved to Wash- 
ington Township our subject went to live with 
an uncle, Jacob Shearer, in Brown Township, 
with whom he remained until the latter' s death; 
he then carried on a farm in Augusta Town- 
ship, Carroll County, for his own account. On 
October 8, 1859, he married Katherine, daugh- 
ter of John and Sarah Dumbleton, and he then 
purchased his farm in Brown Township, which 
by. industry, economy and perseverance, together 
with the assistance of his faithful wife, he soon 
succeeded in paying for. Seven children — four 
sons and three daughters — were born to this 
happy union, viz.: Annie O, Mrs. James 
Mosier, in Augusta Township, Carroll Count}'; 
John E., also in Augusta Township, married 
January 3, 1891, to Mina Green, of Fox Town- 
ship, Carroll County; Christopher E., on the 
home farm, married to Carrie Boggs, daughter 
of Ezra Boggs, of Harrison Township; Frank 
D., principal of the Oneida school; Byron, 
Lillie M. and Verna D., at home. Mr. 
Grander is now the owner of 215 acres of 
prime laud in an excellent state of cultivation, 
live-stock and grain being the main products. 
The farm is well equipped in all respects, and 



in 1S89 he erected a comfortable and commo- 
dious dwelling thereon. In politics Mr. Gran- 
der is a Republican, and he is a member of the 
school board. Mrs. Grander was formerly a 
member of the Bible Christians but now of the 
Disciples Church. 



PETER J. JINNINGS, of Monroe Township, 
Carroll County, was born in New Jersey, 
July 23, 1821, a son of Isaac Jinnings, 
was born in Hunterdon County, that 
State, in May, 1787. Isaac's father was named 
Peter, and as nearly as can be ascertained was 
also born in Hunterdon County, N. J., where he 
married and reared the following named chil- 
dren: Jemima, Sarah, Mary, Desire, William, 
Peter and Isaac. About 1820 he came to Ohio 
and purchased 100 acres of land, now owned by 
Peter Eick, in Monroe Township, where he re- 
sided till his death. Isaac Jinnings, the father 
of our subject, grew to manhood in his native 
Stato and married Miss Mary Johnson, who was 
born in New Jersey in 178S, a daughter of Peter 
Johnson, also a native of New Jersey. To this 
union were born Elizabeth Rainsberger, de- 
ceased; Peter J., and Hannah Rainsberger, de- 
ceased. In 1836 Isaac Jinnings came to Carroll 
County, Ohio, and purchased the farm now 
owned by our subject, which farm contains 
eighty acres on Section 10, Monroe Township, 
and of which there was about one acre cleared. 
In 1836 Mr. Jinnings erected the house now 
occupied by his son Peter; in fact he spent the 
remainder of his life here in clearing the land 
and making improvements; he died in Novem- 
ber, 1863, having been preceded to the grave 
by his wife, July 14, 1859. Mr. Jinnings 
served in the War of 1812. and politically was 
a Republican. 

Peter J. Jinnings received his education 
partly in New Jersey and partly in Ohio, being 
fifteen years of age when he came to Ohio. He 
married Miss Elizabeth Johnson, who was born 
February 4, 1828, a daughter of Henry and 
Catherine (Eick) Johnson, and to this union 



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have been born children as follows: Mary, de- 
ceased; Jemima, deceased; Saniantha, at home; 
Sarah E., at home; Amos, in Orange Township, 
Carroll County; Isaac, in Magnolia, Ohio, and 
Ira, at home. Mr. Jinnings has resided on his 
present farm since he came to Ohio, and helped 
to clear the land and make the improvements. 
Politically he is a Republican, and he and his 
wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. 
Mr. Jinnings was one of the first men to enlist 
in the Civil War from Monroe Township. 



'j'p'v, J. BOYCE, a prosperous farmer of East 
IW/ Township, Carroll County, was born in 
1^ Columbiana County, Ohio. His father, 
■f/ Richardson Boyce, was a native of Ire- 

land, and in 1801, at the age of twenty-one 
years, came with his father, Robert Boyce, to 
this country, and together they took up their 
residence in Washington County, Penn., where 
they resided a few years only, when, not being 
satisfied with the country, they pushed west- 
ward and entered into the fertile territory of 
Columbiana County, Ohio. There Robert Boyce 
entered 160 acres of farm land, and passed the 
remaining days of his life, his faithful life-com- 
panion also ending her span on earth at the 
same place. The country at that time was a 
wilderness, the forests teeming with game, and 
the streams with fish, while neighbors were few 
and very far apart. In this wild, however, Mr. 
Boyce built up from the forest a fortune, and 
left his heirs in comfortable circumstances. 

Richardson Boyce, the father of our subject, 
married Miss Anne Spence, who was born in 
Ireland, but, at the age of eight years, came to 
America; soon after his marriage, Richardson 
Boyce bought a farm in Columbiana County, 
Ohio, near East Liverpool. The parents are 
both now deceased, he having died in Liverpool 
Township, Columbiana County, in 1860, re- 
garded as an active, progressive man. He had 
been made a Free Mason in Ireland, and was 
conspicuous among the members of that frater- 
nity. After reaching America he took an active 



part in the War of 1812, and in politics was a 
Democrat; for forty-one years he held the office 
of justice of the peace, and was always a popu- 
lar man in the community in which he lived. 
R. J. Boyce, whose name heads this sketch, 
I spent the early part of his life on his father's 
farm near East Liverpool. At the age of twen- 
ty-nine he married Miss Mary Simmons, who 
was probably of English descent. Soon after 
marriage Mr. Boyce sold his farm in Columbi- 
ana County, and in the spring of 1866 bought 
his present farm in East Township, Carroll 
County. He and his wife are parents of five 
children, named as follows: Nettie, Allie, Emma, 
Lizzie and Charley. Mr. Boyce's farm contains 
117 acres, and is provided with a fine residence 
and commodious out-buildings, and there is, per- 
haps, not a better farm in Carroll County adapt- 
ed to sheep-raising or growing of grain. He 
takes great interest in the raising of blooded 
stock, making Short-horn cattle a specialty, 
and by hard work and good management has 
achieved success. In politics Mr. Boyce is a 
Prohibitionist, and is a sincere advocate of the 
suppression of the liquor traffic. He and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and were instrumental in securing the 
erection of the present church edifice in his 
neighborhood. Mr. Boyce in his every act of 
life has proved himself a progressive citizen, 
one who believes in promoting the upbuilding of 
his county. 




DAM FOLTZ, a native of Brown Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, and a repre- 
sentative of one of its oldest families, was 
born November 2, 1836, and is a son of 
Valentine Foltz, who was born in the Country 
of Bieren, Germany, in 1800. Valentine Foltz 
came to America while still quite young, and 
was married in Philadelphia, Penn., to Eva 
Abbott, a native of Elsass, Germany, the re- 
sult of their union being the following named 
children: Eva, now Mrs. Jacob Kleitz: Adam; 
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Elizabeth, married to Jacob Grosman; Lovina, 
now Mrs. Henry Zwablen, and Jacob. Soon 
after bis marriage Valentine Foltz, with 
his wife, came to Carroll County, Ohio, 
and purchased the farm in Brown Township on 
which his son Adam still resides. He was a self- 
made man, and at his death was the owner of 333 
acres of excellent farming land. In politics be 
was originally a Whig, afterward a Republican, 
and was much interested in the work of the lat- 
ter party. In religion at first he was a Lu- 
theran, but afterward became a member of the 
Reformed Church, in which he wa9 an office 
holder. His death took place in 1875, his 
widow following him to the grave in 1883. 

Adam Foltz was reared on the farm on which 
he was born, and was educated at the common 
schools. On October 8, 1857, he married Miss 
Margaret Zwablen, daughter of Christian 
Zwablen, latter of whom was a native of Canton 
Berne, Switzerland, born in 1796, and was mar- 
ried to Susan Early, who bore him the follow- 
ing named children: Susan, Margaret, Chris- 
tian, John, Elizabeth, Henry, and Catharine. 
Mr. and Mrs. Zwablen came to Ohio in 1843, 
and settled in Stark County, where they died; 
they were members of the German Reformed 
Church, and in politics he was a Democrat. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Adam Foltz 
settled on the old homestead, where they con- 
tinue to reside. Their union has been blessed 
with the following children, named in order of 
their birth: John H, Lovina (wife of Michael 
Shearer), W. Henry, Edward F., Louis C. and 
Adam V. (the last named deceased). In poli- 
tics Mr. Foltz is a Republican, and although 
no office seeker, has always contributed his 
share toward the party's success. He is a mem- 
ber of the German Reformed Church, which he 
joined while quite young, and in which he has 
been an elder for several years. He is a self- 
made man and now owns 375 acres, which he de- 
votes to mixed farming and stock-raising. He 
has always taken an active part in the develop- 
ment of his township, and is recognized as a 
representative citizen. 



John H. Foltz was married in 1881 to Emma, 
daughter of Peter Shearer, of Rose Township, 
Carroll County, and has two children: Marion E. 
and Bertha M. He is a Republican, and a mem- 
ber of the Reformed Church W. H. Foltz 

married, in 1885, Cora E. , daughter of Michael 
Werle, of Stark County, Ohio, and has two chil- 
dren : Arthur P. and Edna V. He is a member 
of the Republican party and of the Reformed 

Church Edward F. Foltz was married on 

Christmas day, 1890, to Linda C, daughter of 
Frederick Heim, of Stark County, Ohio .... 
Louis C. Foltz was educated at the Ada Normal 
School, and has been teaching about ten months. 



QEORGE LAUBACHER. In the year 
1832 there came from France to America, 
in company with his family, Louis Lau- 
,i bacher, in search of a new home in the 
then comparatively young State of Ohio. They 
first took up their residence in Harrison Town- 
ship, Carroll County, where they remained until 
1850, in which year they removed to Brown 
Township, where Mr. Laubacher died in August, 
1867, at the age of sixty-six years; his wife, 
Margaret (Wallett) Laubacher, who was born in 
1798, survived him until 1872. Louis Lau- 
bacher (as was his father before him) was a car- 
penter by trade, until, in bis later years, he turned 
his attention entirely to farming. He bad a 
family of seven children, of whom the subject of 
this sketch is the second in order of birth. 

George Laubacher, whose name appears at 
the head of this biographical memoir, was born 
in France, January 17, 1832, and was therefore 
but an infant when his parents brought him to 
this country. His boyhood was passed amid 
pioneer experiences in the then new county of 
Carroll, bis education being limited to a few 
weeks' attendance in winter time at the schools 
of the neighborhood. He was reared to agri- 
cultural pursuits, and filially be faithfully aided 
his parents in the manifold duties of the farm, 
often, also, working for neighbors in the field, 
mowing hay with a scythe, from sunrise to sun- 



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set, at fifty cents a day. This mode of life con- 
tinued until be was twenty-one years of age, 
when he turned his attention to the carpenter's 
trade, and he then experienced the lack of edu- 
cation, but, resolving to become better informed 
in books, he, together with a few other young 
men, secured the services of a teacher, and 
established a night school, where, after a hard 
day's work, they would congregate and study for 
hours. Thus did Mr. Laubacher industriously 
lay the foundation of his after successful busi- 
ness career. He followed the carpenter's trade 
for about twenty-five years, and then, on account 
of failing health, turned his attention to farming 
exclusively. 

On January 30, 1868, our subject was 
married to Anna Gang, who was born March 18, 
1848, near Malvern, Carroll Co., Ohio, daughter 
of Xavier and Mary (Shaffer) Gang, former of 
whom died in 1855, when aged fifty-three years, 
his widow surviving him until 18S4, when she, 
too, passed from earth, at the age of seventy- 
eight years. The names of the children born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Laubacher are as follows: John 
S., Frank A., Joseph H., Edward G., William 
L. (deceased), Maggie S. , Benjamin D. and 
Bernadena T. In February, 1809, Mr. and 
Mrs. Laubacher settled on their present fine 
farm, which was at that time wholly unim- 
proved. By religious profession the family are 
Catholics; in politics Mr. Laubacher is a Demo- 
crat, and is at present treasurer of the Brown 
Township Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 



y\ G. STOODY, a representative and pro- 
gressive young citizen of Dell Roy, Ohio, 
was born in Monroe Township, Carroll 
County, January 4, 1860, a son of D. L. 
and Sarah A. (Harper) Stoody, both natives of 
Monroe Township, Carroll County, where they 
always resided. They were married in March, 
1859, and had born to them one son and three 
daughters, viz.: Virgil G., Jennie R. (Mrs. M. 
G. Douglass), Laura B. and Ora V. The mother 
died in July, 1889, at the age of fifty -four years; 



she had been a member of the Presbyterian 
Church since childhood, the father, also, for a 
period of thirty years, and the children were 
reared in that belief, all being members of the 
same congregation. 

V. G. Stoody spent his youth on the farm, 
and there remained until he was about twenty 
years of age, when he entered the telegraph 
office at Dell Roy, then under the control of W, 
M. Harsh, now superintendent of the Lakeside 
& Marblehead Railroad. For sixteen months 
Mr. Stoody applied himself diligently to the 
learning of his profession, and so thoroughly 
did he master its details that he was at the end 
of that time appointed agent and operator at 
Barr's Mills, Ohio, where he remained six 
months. He was then promoted to the control 
of the office at Robertsville, Ohio, remaining two 
years, when he was appointed to his present 
position of station agent at Dell Roy, in which 
he has all along given complete satisfaction. 
His life, as a whole, is a good example of what 
may be accomplished by a careful attention to 
business. Mr. Stoody' s politics are of the 
Democratic type, and for some years he has 
taken quite an active part in the work of that 
party. For the past five years he has been 
clerk of the township, and, for four years, clerk 
of the village, although both town and township 
are strongly Republican. In 1888 he was 
nominated by his party as clerk of the court, 
and so well did he run that the usual majority 
of 600 for the opposition was cut down to 300. 
Mr. Stoody is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and takes quite an active part in the 
management and support of that society. On 
September 26, 1SS6, Mr. Stoody was married to 
Amelia Adolff, daughter of Peter Adolff, and by 
this union one daughter, named Irma S., was 
born November 7, 1889. 

Peter Adolff was born in Germany, where 
his youth was spent; he came to America in 
1848 and resided in the town of Paris, Ohio, 
for a year, then removed to Robertsville, where 
he opened a general mercantile store, which he 
carried on for over forty years. In 1S52 he 



married Catherine Bobart {nee Meeey) who bore 
hiru the following named family: Josephine, 
Mrs. Telltis Sheatsly; Louisa, Mrs. Washington 
Kleitz; Franklin; Alice; Amelia, Mrs. V. G. 
Stoody; Mary C. and John. Mr. Adolff died 
January 10, 1891, aged sixty-four years, after 
an illness of two years, from a complication of 
diseases. In politics he was a Democrat, and 
was, as are his family r , a member of the Lu- 
theran Church. 



y\ILLIAM N. GEORGE. This gentle- 
' man stands prominent among the 
citizens of Fox Township as a repre- 
sentative man. He was born in Lee 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, March 18, 1825, 
and has been a progressive and energetic citi- 
zen of this county ever since he reached his 
majority. The paternal grandfather of our 
subject was a native of Ireland, where he spent 
his boyhood days. Soon after marriage he 
came to America, settling in what is now known 
as Washington County, Peun., where Robert 
George, father of William N., was born. After 
reaching manhood Robert George married Miss 
Nevin, a native of Pennsylvania, whose parents 
were of Scotch descent. Desirous of obtaining 
a new home and wishing to better their condi- 
tion, Mr. and Mrs. George moved west and 
settled in the fertile country of eastern Ohio, 
where, in Lee Township, Carroll County, they 
"drove their stake," and commenced to clear 
away the dense forest. They constructed a log 
cabin, which, although humble, still to them 
was their castle of refuge and protection — it 
was their home. In that almost unbroken 
wilderness seven children were born to bless 
them, among them being William, the subject 
of this biographical sketch. After a few years' 
life in the wilds of Lee Township, where the 
father and mother traveled life's pathway to- 
gether, death, in 1829, entered the household 
and took away the mother, and a short time after 
Mr. George married for his second wife, Mrs. 
Strain, by which union six children were born. 



Mr. George was an energetic, progressive farm- 
er — one who did his share toward the advance- 
ment of all enterprises of public interest. 

William N. George spent his youthful days 
on his father's farm, helped to clear away the 
forest, and when not employed in this manner, 
attended the district school. At the age of 
twenty-seven he married Miss Sarah Golden, 
who was reared in Lee Township, Carroll 
County, and whose father was one of the old 
settlers of eastern Ohio. Four children were 
born to them, named as follows: Margaret R. 
(married to a farmer), R. A. (a minister of the 
United Presbyterian Church), W. J. (a pro- 
fessor) and C. M. (a physician). Two nephews 
reared by Mr. George — W. J. Golden and H. 
G. Golden — are both ministers of the gospel. 
Mrs. George died September 10, 1881. Miss 
Priscilla C. Clark, the second wife of Mr. 
George, was reared in Fox Township, her par- 
ents being among the first settlers of eastern 
Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. George moved to their 
present place in Mechanicstown in 1S84, and 
here they are living a retired life, being among 
the representative people of Fox Township. 
Politically Mr. George was a Republican, but is 
now a Prohibitionist, and socially he is much 
esteemed by his fellow-men. Mr. and Mrs. 
George are both United Presbyterians, of 
which church Mr. George has been a ruling 
elder in the congregation of Mechanicstown for 
a number of years. 



ifpY OBERT G. LEGGETT, a representative 
IW( farmer of Orange Township, Carroll 
^h County, was born April 3, 183-4, in 
■f) Union Township, Tuscarawas Co., 

Ohio. His grandfather, Thomas Leggett. a 
native of Maryland, born near Baltimore (his 
father was a native of the north of England, 
probably of Scotch-English parentage), was a 
farmer by profession, and moved to Washington 
County, Peun., about the year 1803. He was 
one of the early settlers in that county, coming 
east of the mountains on horseback and carry- 



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ing all his possessions with him, which consisted 
of a few articles of clothing in his saddle-bags 
and a rifle on his shoulder. He was married in 
1805 in Pennsylvania to Amelia Dempster, and 
by her had the following named children: 
Joshua, James, Robert, Pamelia, William, Har- 
riet, Thomas, Sarah, Mary A., David and An- 
derson. Grandfather Leggett was a close stu- 
dent and a lover of his profession. Amelia, 
his wife, was of Scotch descent, born in Mary- 
land, and came to Washington County, Penn., 
about 1804. They lived a long and prosperous 
life together to ripe old age, dying, he at the age 
of eighty-four years, and she at the age of 
ninety-seven years. In religion they were 
Methodists, and in politics he was a stanch 
Democrat. 

Joshua Leggett, father of Robert G., was 
born in Washington County, Penn., November 
20, 1807, and was there married March 4, 1830, 
to Jane Guthrie, daughter of Robert and Mary 
Guthrie. The young couple moved to Ohio, 
locating in Union Township, Tuscarawas 
County, and settled on a quarter section of land 
previously entered from the Government in that 
county. Their children were : Margaret A. (Mrs. 
Authur Latimer), Thomas, Robert G. , William, 
Martha J. (Mrs. J. L. Kennedy), James, 
Joshua, Pamelia H. (Mrs. Ira Kennedy), and 
Sarah E. (Mrs. Horace Riker). The parents 
were members of the Presbyterian Church, in 
which Mr. Leggett was a ruling elder for over 
thirty years; in politics he is Republican; he is 
living to-day in the eighty-fourth year of his 
age. Jane (Guthrie) Leggett, mother of Rob- 
ert G., was born near the classic town of Can- 
nonsburg, Washington Co., Penn., where her 
parents, Robert and Mary Guthrie, settled in an 
early day, about the latter part of the last cent- 
ury; they were Scotch -Irish, Presbyterian in 
religion, and Whig in politics; they adhered to 
the Scotch rule of ' 'true to Church and State. ' ' 
Their children were: James, Jane, Robert, 
Isabel, Thomas, Sarah, Mary, Ibby, William and 
Archibald. The father of this family died when 
aged about eighty years and the mother at 



seventy-nine; cause of death not known in either 
case. Jane, wife of Joshua and mother of 
Robert G. , was fitted for a pioneer' s wife and 
for the hardship and toil they are called to en- 
dure. She manufactured all their wear from 
the raw material that was necessary for the use 
of the family — such as carding, spinning, weav- 
ing and making — and did this all with her own 
hands with the little help from the rest of her 
own family; and besides her work in the house 
she would work out on the farm, and could 
make a good hand at almost any labor that was 
to be done on the farm; she died June 4, 1887. 
Joshua A. Leggett would attribute his well- 
merited success to a united effort on the part of 
himself and wife in hard labor and close finan- 
ciering, and above all to the overruling and gov- 
erning hand of Providence. 

Robert G. Leggett spent his youth on the 
home farm, his education being obtained in the 
common schools of the district and at New 
Hagerstown Academy. He taught school in 
his youth, but has since by profession been a 
farmer and stock-raiser. He was married Sep- 
tember 13, 1853, to Mary A., daughter of James 
and Margaret Forbes, of Harrison County, 
Ohio, and in 1854 he bought the farm upon 
which he now resides, in Orange Township, 
Carroll. Co., Ohio, the improvements on which 
have been made by himself; he also owns a 
large farm in DeWitt County, 111., which is 
managed by his son, James F. The family of 
Robert G. and Mary A. Leggett consists of Mar- 
garet J., James F., Adda E., Clyde O. , Lena 
E., Robert L., the last four children living at 
home with their parents. Of these children, 
Margaret J. was married to John N. Johnston 
November 5, 1879, and they have the following 
children: Mary F., Carrie N. and Frank. 
John N. Johnston is of Scotch-Irish parentage 
and is a farmer and stock-dealer, living on a 
farm of his own near New Hagerstown, Ohio. 
James F. Leggett married March 4, 1885, Julia 
A. Hixon, and their family are Robert O., Mary 
A., and Clyde; James F. moved to DeWitt 
County, 111., in 1888, and is a farmer and stock- 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1023 



raiser, having a farm of bis own; be received 
bis education in the common scbools and at 
New Hagerstown Academy and is a live, ener- 
getic young man. 

Robert G. Leggett is a self-made man, and 
he and bis wife, Mary A., by diligence and 
sound judgment, coupled with enterprise and 
perseverance, have secured well-merited success, 
all the result of stock-raising, wool -growing and 
dairying; and in all this description and history 
of about five generations, there has been no taint 
of strong drink or of tobacco. The family are 
of vigorous constitutions, with no taint of con- 
stitutional ailment. They are honorable, in- 
dustrious, prosperous citizens, and are blessed 
with a fair portion of this world's goods. 

Mrs. Mary A. (Forbes) Leggett was born in 
New Hagerstown, Carroll Co., Ohio, October 2, 
1834. Her great-grandfather was born in Ire- 
land, and John Forbes, his son, and grandfather 
of Mary A., was also born in Ireland, of Scotch- 
Irish parentage; he was a farmer by profession; 
bis wife, Mary Anthony, died in Ireland. The 
grandfather came to America in 1820, bringing 
his family with him, and settled near Chambers- 
burg, Penn. His family by his first marriage 
consisted of James, Robert, Mary, Elenor, 
Joseph, Jane and Martha. He was married in 
Pennsylvania (the second time), and by this 
union had the following named family: Ann, 
Rebecca, John, Susana, Margaret and Sarah. 
He came to Ohio in 1828, and died at Waynes- 
burg, Stark County, (age not known; cause 
of death, fever). After his death the family 
emigrated to Iowa, where his second wife died 
in Van Buren County; the survivors of that fam- 
ily live in Iowa and Kansas at the present time. 

James Forbes, father of Mary A., was born 
August 17, 1802, in Ireland, and came with his 
father to America, settling near Chambersburg, 
Penn. He was married, in 1825, by Dr. 
Denney, of Chambersburg, Penn., to Margaret, 
daughter of Benjamin and Anna Jeffrey. 
Here he learned the trade of weaver, and here 
earned his first five hundred dollars. He came 
with his wife to Ohio in a one-horse wagon, 



containing their goods, and in 1827 be em- 
barked in mercantile business in New Hagers- 
town, Carroll Co., Ohio, at which early date he 
had to wagon his goods from the East. This 
business be followed for about thirty years, it 
at first being managed by himself and later by a 
partner; his was the first stock of goods brought 
to New Hagerstown, and the first visit be and 
his wife made to the East, a distance of over 
300 miles, was on horseback. Their children 
were Mary A., and Rebecca J. (Mrs. William 
B. Law), who lives in Heyworth, 111. James 
Forbes moved to his farm in Harrison County, 
Ohio, about the year 1840, where he resided 
until bis death, which occurred April 14, 1870; 
Margaret, his wife, died March 18, 1864, of 
lung disease, in the sixty-seventh year of her 
age. This honored couple did not have strong 
constitutions, but were industrious and persever- 
ing, having accumulated a large amount of 
wealth; they Were Presbyterian in religion, 
and were strict in their profession and zealous 
workers in the cause; in politics Mr. Forbes 
was a Democrat, and was noted for his benevo- 
lent qualities, especially to the poor. 

Margaret (Jeffrey) Forbes, mother of Mary 
A., was born near Chambersburg, Franklin Co., 
Penn., where her parents, Benjamin (a farmer) 
and Anna Jeffrey had settled. Benjamin was 
born in 1744, in Ireland (bis father, John Jef- 
frey, was married to Rachel Chambers, in 
County Antrim, Ireland), and when a young 
man, came to America about 1700, Pennsylvania 
being then under the control of the mother coun- 
try. He was married to Anna Swan, a native 
of Pennsylvania, and their children were as 
follows: John, Katharine, Rachel, Rebecca and 
Margaret. Benjamin Jeffrey enlisted and 
fought through the Revolutionary War for the 
independence of the colonies, and was wounded 
in the right shoulder at the battle of Brandy- 
wine, by a light-horse infantryman; bis son, 
John, enlisted in the War of 1812, and died in 
the army. Benjamin Jeffrey was a Presbyte- 
rian in religion, and in politics was a Democrat; 
he died in 1S34, at the age of ninety years, bis 



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wife at the age of fifty six. Cause of death in 
the first instance, old age; in the second, cause 
not known. 



rrVOBERT G. THOMPSON, dealer in 
y*C J household improvements and other 
\^ specialties, Salineville, Columbiana 
■fj Co., Ohio, was born in Pittsburgh, 

Penn., October 31, 1827. His father, William 
Thompson, was a native of Ireland, born August 
6, 1771, and emigrated to this country at an 
early age, locating in Pittsburgh, Penn. On 
September 11, 1821, he was united in mar- 
riage to Miss Margaret George, of Wash- 
ington County, Penn., belonging to one of 
the families of the old Scotch Covenanters, by 
which union four children were born. On No- 
vember 22, 1832, the father and husband peace- 
fully passed away, at the age of sixty-one years, 
and in 1836 his widow united in marriage with 
Mr. John Slater, of Fayette Township, Alle- 
gheny Co., Penn., to whose country home the 
family moved in due time. Here Robert G. 
Thompson, the subject of this sketch, was 
reared, attending the district school near his 
step-father's farm. At the age of sixteen he 
was indentured to learn the wagon-making 
trade near Pittsburgh, Penn. , but, becoming dis- 
satisfied with the treatment he received in his 
new home, he concluded to learn the boot and 
shoe making under more congenial surround- 
ings. After an apprenticeship of nearly three 
years, in the spring of 1817, this young man, 
with a full kit of tools and a well-packed trunk, 
took passage in a steamboat from the city of his 
birth to fight the battle of life at Moore's Salt 
Works, Jefferson Co., Ohio. In 1848 he was 
united in marriage with Miss Jane Hutson, of 
Jefferson County, Ohio, and in April, 1851, he 
moved with his family to Wattsville, Carroll 
County, same State, in which village he worked 
at his trade until the breaking out of the war in 
1861, when, like many other brave "boys," he 
responded to his country's call for troops to sup- 
press the Rebellion. On August 15, 1861, he 



was mustered into the service of the United 
States and assigned to Company A, Thirty- 
second O. V. I., for three years, or dur- 
ing the war. After participating in many 
battles and skirmishes — such as Greenbrier, 
Monterey and Bull Pasture Mountain (or 
McDowell), Ya, he was transferred to the 
Invalid Corps, and assigned to duty in the 
general hospital at Cumberland, Md. , as hos- 
pital steward, whence he was transferred to 
Washington City Hospital for treatment; was 
finally discharged October 16, 1863, and, return- 
ing to his family, settled on a farm in Fox 
Township, Carroll County, where he followed 
farming and stock-raising for over twenty years. 
In October, 1889, he was placed upon the pen- 
sion roll of the United States. In the fall of 
1889 he moved to Salineville, Columbiana Co., 
Ohio, and has been a resident of that town 
since. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents 
of ten children — six born before the war: 
Martha G. , John S., Margaret J., William A.. 
George P. (deceased in 1881), and Robert E. 
(died in April, 1862), and four born after the 
war: Flora B., Anna E., Ida M. and Jessie 
M. — in all six girls and four boys, and at this 
writing there are eighteen grandchildren. The 
family are members in good standing in the 
United Presbyterian Church, and in politics all 
are stanch Republicans. 

John S. Thompson was born at Wattsville. 
Ohio, August 21, 1851, where he grew to man- 
hood. He attended the schools there in winter 
time and worked on his father's farm summers, 
until he was married to Miss Jessie B. Haver- 
field, January 31, 1880. She was reared in 
Harrison County, Ohio, where her parents 
were substantial farmers and old settlers. After 
living about six years in Harrison County, he 
removed to his present home near Wattsville, on 
his father's farm, where he is engaged in agri- 
culture. Three children were born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Thompson, named as follows: Paul (de- 
ceased), Fannie (deceased) and Robert E. 

The Thompson family is well and favorably 
known. Mr. R. G. Thompson, who was a resi- 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1025 



dent for many years of Fox Township, is looked 
upon as one of her representative citizens and 
substantial farmers, and although he is at pres- 
ent located in Salineville, Columbiana County, 
still his many friends in Carroll County re- 
gard him as a fellow-citizen and know him 
to be a substantial, upright man. For a number 
of years he tilled the offices of township clerk and 
assessor and constable in a satisfactory manner. 



JiASON KENNEDY. Among the promi- 
nent farmers of Augusta Township, Car- 
roll County, the Kennedy family have 
long since occupied a conspicuous place. 
William Kennedy, the father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born in County Down, Ireland, 
and James Kennedy, the grandfather of our 
subject, was also a native of Ireland, where he 
was married and where he reared a family, but, 
desiring a new home, he left his native country 
with his family and settled in America in 1832; 
at this date William Kennedy was a lad of thir- 
teen summers. On reaching manhood William 
married Miss Rachel Martin, a native of Carroll 
County, Ohio, born of Scotch descent, her fa- 
ther having come from Scotland, when a young 
man. to seek a home in the wilds of the New 
World. Soon after marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Kennedy bought a farm of eighty acres in Au- 
gusta Township, where they built a log house 
in the dense forest, and commenced to clear the 
fields and till the soil. Mr. Kennedy was a 
stone mason, and often worked at the trade 
after he came to Ohio; but farming was his 
chief occupation, and he always aimed to make 
his farm one of the best in his section. Ten 
children were born to help the father and mother 
in the declining years of their life, and of these 
sis are now liviug, three of them — James Mar- 
tin, Isaac N. and Levi — being farmers and saw- 
niillersin Michigan; Mattie,a sister, is married to 
George W. Reamer, a farmer, born of Dutch an- 
cestry, and they live in Columbiana County, Ohio; 
George W. and Jason, are the other two surviv- 
ing children. William Kennedy died in 1883, 



his wife, who had always been a help-mate and 
partner in his joys and sorrows, having preceded 
him to the grave in 1862. 

Jason Kennedy, whose name heads this 
sketch, was born in Augusta Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, November 30, 1858. Like other 
boys in the neighborhood he attended in winter 
the district school, working on the farm in the 
summer time. On July 23, 1890, he married 
Miss Lizzie Lewis, a native of Crawford Coun- 
ty, Penn., born of Irish descent. Mr. Kennedy 
and his brother, George W., are the present 
owners of the old homestead, which contains 
230 acres. This fine farm is well provided with 
adequate buildings and every improvement that 
progressive, successful men should possess in 
order to carry on successfully an extensive ag- 
ricultural business. They are stock- raisers and 
grain producers, and hold a high place in the 
estimation of the people; in politics they are 
Democrats, and socially they are prominent, 
representative farmers and citizens. Mr. and 
Mrs. Jason Kennedy are Methodists, while 
George W. and Mrs. Mattie Reamer, are mem- 
bers of the Disciples Church. Mr. Kennedy 
has two uncles on his father's side living, viz. : 
Samuel Kennedy (a farmer and saw-miller in 
Michigan), and Joseph Kennedy (a preacher 
and dentist in the State of Washington). 



X 



IfTHAMAR MILLS, a prominent farmer of 
Augusta Township, Carroll County, is a de- 
\ scendant of one of the oldest families in 
the county. John Mills, his grandfather, 
was a native of Ireland, but early in life left his 
native shore for America with her almost bound- 
less territory and equally boundless freedom. 
He settled in Mercer County, Penn., where he 
was married and became the father of a large 
family of children. Not being contented with 
his location, and desirous of amassing more of 
this world's goods, he moved to Jefferson Coun- 
ty, Ohio, where he entered a farm and also en- 
gaged extensively in the salt business, becoming 
one of the largest shippers of this product to 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



Cadiz, Ohio, where he was recognized as one of 
the leaders in this industry. After some years 
in Jefferson County, Mr. Mills sold out his in- 
terests there and moved to Augusta Township, 
Carroll County, where he resided until his 
death; Mrs. Mills, wife of John Mills, was of 
English descent, and died in the same township 
as her husband. 

Alexander Mills, the father of Ithamar, was 
born in Mercer County, Penn., in 1801, and 
when he was three years of age his father 
moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, where Alex- 
ander was educated and finally taught school 
himself. While in Jefferson County he met 
Miss Mary Billman, whose parents moved to 
Augusta Township, Carroll County, and entered 
a farm of 160 acres; later, Mr. Mills came to 
Augusta Township, and here married Miss Bill- 
man. They at first resided in Jefferson County 
for a period of three years, after which they 
moved to Augusta Township, Carroll County, 
and the farm on which they here settled is that 
on which Ithamar Mills at present lives. Mrs. 
Mills, mother of our subject, was born in Lehigh 
County, Penn. , her parents having been of Ger- 
man descent. As a result of this union of Alex- 
ander and Mary Mills nine children were born, 
named as follows: Susan, John, Andrew, Nancy 
E., Sarah J., Alexander, Ithamar, James H. S. 
and Melancthon. Mr. Mills was a successful 
farmer and business man, and was the first 
butcher to take meat to Carrollton, Ohio, which 
he did by ox-team. In politics he was a Repub- 
lican, and was elected justice of the peace for 
five terms; in religion he was a member and elder 
of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Mary Mills, 
when a girl, was one day in the sugar camp, 
making maple sugar, when she saw a deer com- 
ing toward her, chased by dogs, and the animal 
being somewhat fatigued Miss Billman ran up 
to it, caught it and jerked its front legs over its 
horns, then ran to the house and told her 
father, who came and killed and dressed the 
deer. This was one of the feats of daring of 
early times, one that most men would hesitate 
to do at the present day. 



Ithamar Mills was born in Augusta Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, September 5, 1843, 
and spent his early life upon his father's farm. 
Not having the many privileges that most boys 
of the present time enjoy, his schooling was 
somewhat neglected; but since reaching matu- 
rity he has secured by experience with the world 
and its people what is more valuable — a practi- 
cal education. On May 25, 1870, Mr. Mills 
married Miss Margaret B. Leyda, who was born 
in Washington County, Penn., of German ex- 
traction. Soon after marriage they settled on 
their present farm, and have been residents of 
Augusta Township ever since. Three children 
have been born to bless their home, viz. : James 
W., born October 13, 1872; Harvey F., born 
April 15, 1876, and Clara E., born September 
2, 1881. Mr. Mills' farm consists of 152 acres, 
and is well improved ; he is a stock-dealer, and 
frequently visits the eastern markets in the in- 
terest of his business. At the breaking out of 
the Civil War Mr. Mills was one of the first to 
shoulder his rifle in defense of his country. Out 
of five boys who left their father's home Mr. 
Mills was the only one to return. In politics 
he is a Republican, in religion a Presbyterian, 
and he is justly classified among Carroll Coun- 
ty's representative citizens. 




JLLIAM H. SMYTH, a resident of Lee 
Township, Carroll County, was born 
in Ross Township, Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
August 25, 1834. William Smyth, his 
grandfather, was born in Ireland, where he grew 
to manhood, and married Catharine Armstrong, 
by whom he had twelve children. They set 
sail for America in 1802, landing in Phila- 
delphia, and same year migrated to Washing- 
ton County, Penn., and lived there until 1817, 
when he moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and 
purchased the farm on which he lived the 
balauce of his life. He was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics was 
a Democrat. 

Andrew A. Smyth, father of William H, 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1021 



was born in Washington County, Penn., in the 
year 180(5, and came with his father's family, in 
1817, to Jefferson County, Ohio, where his youth 
was passed in assisting on the farm and securing 
a fair common-school education; also in learning 
the trade of carpenter and cabinetmaker, in 
which he was a skilled mechanic in his day. 
In 1833 he was married to Lydia McLoud, 
daughter of William McLoud, and they had 
three children, viz.: William H. , Annie and 
Electa M., the latter of whom died in 1854. 

William McLoud (whose father was a native 
of Scotland) was born in a block-house, in what 
is now West Virginia, in 1777; he was a soldier 
in the War of 1812; his wife, whose name was 
Prudence Daniel, was born in 1784. They 
moved to Ohio among the first settlers of the 
State, and afterward entered, in 1820, the farm 
in Lee Township, Carroll County, where the 
subject of this sketch now lives. William Mc- 
Loud died in 1854, and his wife in 1836. 
Andrew A. Smyth lived in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
until 1847, when he purchased the farm in Lee 
Township, Carroll County, from his father-in- 
law, William McLoud, where he lived until his 
death, which occurred in 1873. He was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in politics a Democrat. 

William H. Smyth passed his youth on the 
farm, his education being at the same time 
secured at the common schools of his district, 
and subsequently at Richmond College. In 
1860 he was married to Amanda Blackburn, 
daughter of James Blackburn, of Steubenville, 
Ohio. They have one son, Roscoe O, who waB 
born in 1861, and married Mary Carson, by 
whom he has three children: Addie E., Boscoe 
C. and Stanley V. Mrs. James Blackburn was 
Amy England, daughter of Israel England, one 
of the first settlers of Jefferson County, Ohio; 
her uncle, John England, kept the first store in 
Steubenville, Ohio, and donated to the town the 
land on which the City Opera House and public 
buildings now stand. William H. Smyth en- 
listed, August 15, 1N62, in Compauy H, Ninety- 
eighth Regiment. O. V. I., and was discharged 



with the regiment June 1, 1865. He was wound- 
ed at the battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 
1863, by a musket ball striking him in the knee, 
which confined him in a hospital for el^YHii 
months. He lived in Steubenville five years 
(from 1868 to 1873), and when his father died 
in 1873 he moved on the farm where he has re 
sided until the present time. Mr. Smyth has 
viewed with apprehension and alarm, for years, 
the rapid accumulation of the wealth of the 
country in the hands of the few, and the cor- 
rupting power of money in high places, result- 
ing in class legislation; and has been an earnest 
advocate of economic and financial reform for 
over fifteen years. He rejoices in the present 
awakening of the farmers and other common 
people to the dangers that beset us, and hopes 
that he may live to see the day when our Gov- 
ernment will return to the wisdom, justice, fra- 
ternity and political purity of our forefathers. 



DANIEL B. LEE. Among the earliest 
pioneer settlers of that part of the State 
_^ ' of Ohio known since 1833 as Carroll 
County, none have attained greater prom- 
inence than the Lee family, of whom Thomas 
Lee is now the eldest living representative. He 
was born April 27, 1811, a son of Alexander 
Lee, a native of County Donegal, Ireland, who 
came to America at an early date, and settled in 
Somerset County, Penn., where he remained for 
some time and married Martha Hammell, about 
two or three years after which event they moved 
to Jefferson County, Ohio, where they took up 
their residence until 1806, when they came to 
what is now Carroll County and entered a farm, 
where they passed the remainder of their lives. 
They reared the following named children: 
Mary, David, Sarah, John, Martha, James, 
Thomas, Ezekiel and William. The entire 
family were Presbyterians. Thomas Lee, dur- 
ing his minority, remained on the home place, 
attending the schools of the period and assist- 
ing on the farm. At the age of twenty-one he 
commenced dealing in horses, a business he sue- 



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CABROLL COUNTY. 



cessfully carried on until his retirement from 
active life. He is a member of the Presbyte- 
rian Church at Harlem Springs, of which he 
was one of the founders, and in his political 
convictions he casts his suffrage with the Demo- 
crats. May 5, 1S31, he married Ann Buckins, 
who bore him the following named children: 
Martha J. (deceased), Mary A. (Mrs. John 
Foot), Daniel B. , James A. , Ezekiel, Martha J. 
(Mrs. Wesley Lewis), Thomas K., Ann (de- 
ceased), Erasmus and John. On December 31, 
1876, the mother closed her eyes to earth. 

Daniel B. Lee, the eldest son born to Thomas 
and Ann (Buckins) Lee, is a native of Lee 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, having opened 
his wondering infant eyes to the light of day 
August 4, 1S37, on the farm where he still lives. 
He attended the common schools of his neigh- 
borhood, and in 1861 entered Washington and 
Jefferson College of Pennsylvania, where he was 
graduated in 1S65. In that year he embarked 
in the wool trade, which he has continued since, 
buying large quantities of -the staple in Harri- 
son, Jefferson and Carroll Counties, Ohio, West 
Virginia and western Pennsylvania. December 
23, 1869, he married Bessie, daughter of Eben- 
ezer Howey, of Harlem Springs, Carroll County, 
and the names of the children born to this 
union are as follows: Thomas S. and Ann P. 
(deceased), Mary L., Ann P. and Thomas R. 
The family are all members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Harlem Springs, and in politics Mr. 
Lee is an influential Democrat. 



JAMES GAULT, one of the most respected 
and best known farmers and stock-raisers 
in Lee Township, Carroll County, was 
born in Washington County, Penn., March 
29, 1811. His father, John Gault, a native of 
the same county, and also a farmer by occupa- 
tion, was twice married; first to Mary Morrison, 
who bore him the following named children: 
Elizabeth, John and Mary. After the death of 
this wife Mr. Gault married Elizabeth Hemphill, 



the result of which union was seven children, 
named as follows: James, Isaac, Samuel, Sarah, 
Enoch, Rebecca and William. John Gault 
came in 1839 to Loudon Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, where he died in 1846, and his wife 
two years later; in his political convictions he 
was a pronounced Democrat. 

James Gault, whose name opens this sketch, 
received his education at the common schools of 
his native county, and bravely did his share of 
the arduous work on his father's farm, learning 
those principles of economy and industry which 
so largely contributed to his success in later 
life. In 1839 he came to Ohio with his parents, 
purchasing a small farm in Loudon Township, 
Carroll County, which he largely improved with 
his own hands, and here he remained till 1867, 
in which year he bought his present property in 
Lee Township, on which he has since resided. 
On June 10, 1845, Mr. Gault was married to 
Elizabeth Davis, who bore him the following 
named five children: William T. , Samuel H., 
Sarah E., John H. and James R. Death hav- 
ing called away the mother of these children, 
Mr. Gault for his second wife wedded, April 
18, 1865, Harriet Patton, daughter of Henry 
Patton, and the result of this union has been 
three children: David E., Mary E. and Mar- 
garet A. 

Henry Patton was a native of the Keystone 
State, born November 30, 1808. His father, 
John Patton, was one of the early settlers of 
western Pennsylvania, where he was united in 
marriage with Nancy Woodrow, by whom he 
had children named as follows: Martha, Joseph, 
Stephen, David, Henry, Thomas, Hiram and 
Ellen. Of these, Henry came to Ohio in 1842, 
and bought a farm in Rumley Township, Har- 
rison County. He had been previously married 
in his native State to Hannah Wright, who bore 
him the following named children: Harriet, 
Noah, Ellen, Josephine, Bela, Elvira, Emma, 
David, Nancy and Hiram. On November 5, 
1877, Mrs. Patton died, and April 12, 1882, 
Mr. Patton followed her to the grave. They 
were consistent members and liberal supporters 



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of the Presbyterian Church; in politics he was 
a Democrat. 

James Gault is a representative self-made 
man, and is now in his advanced years enjoying 
the fruits of his toil. He is a stanch Democrat, 
taking a lively interest in general politics; he 
and his family are members of the Presbyterian 
Church at Harlem Springs, and are held in 
high esteem in the community. 



T/HE LEEPER FAMILY were French 
Huguenots who, because of religious and 
political persecution, made their escape 
from France to Ireland during the reign 
of Louis XIV. of France. 

James Leeper and Jennie Amspoker were 
married in Ireland, and, emigrating to the United 
States, settled on Muddy Creek Fork, York Co. , 
Penn. , whence, in 1780, the family removed to 
Brooke County, now in West Virginia. The 
children of James and Jennie (Amspoker) 
Leeper were James (who married a widow by 
the name of Wilson, and lived in Jefferson 
County, Ohio), Anna (who married Henry Dil- 
lon, and resided in Vinton County, Ohio), Mattie, 
John and Jane (neither of whom three ever mar- 
ried), and William. 

AVilliam Leeper married Eleanor Lawther at 
the old Lawther homestead in Washington 
County, Penn., in 1814. He was a soldier in 
the War of 1812, serving under Capt. Elison 
and Gen. William Henry Harrison, and was in 
the service fifteen months. He was at the 
siege and battle of Fort Meigs, and assisted in 
the burial of the dead at River Raisin. Will- 
iam Leeper was the first justice of the peace in 
Orange Township, Carroll Co. , Ohio, and served 
in that office thirty years. He was a black- 
smith by trade, and built the first smith shop in 
Leesburg, where he worked at his trade for a 
number of years, and then retired to a farm one 
mile west of that town. He was an ardent 
supporter of the principles of the Whig party, 
and was one of the founders of the Presbyterian 
Church at New Hagerstown, in which he was 



an active worker, and of which he was a 
liberal supporter. Eleanor Lawther Leeper 
died September 6, 1844, and in 1853 William 
Leeper and Marl ha Holmes Wilson were mar- 
ried; William Leeper died September 8, 1858, 
and his widow in 1883. Eleanor Lawther Leeper 
and William Leeper are buried in the Leesburg 
Cemetery, and Martha Holmes Wilson Leeper is 
buried at Kenton, Ohio. 

The Lawther family were Scotch Covenant 
ers, and lived in the Highlands. At the time 
of the persecution of the Protestants by the 
Roman Catholics, a number of the Lawther 
family were burned at the stake, and the re- 
mainder were banished to the north of Ireland 
— County Down. The family lived on the es- 
tate of Sir Alexander Hamilton, and at Mill- 
town, near Belfast. Alexander Lawther (whose 
wife was a Howie) left the town of Milltown 
on a venture to the Isle of Man, and was 
never afterward heard from, as he and all his 
crew were lost. One son was born and called 
Alexander Lawther. Alexander Lawther, who 
was lost at sea, was told by his father that 
his (Alexander's) grandfather was a boy at the 
time of the battle of the Boyne, fought July 1, 
1690, and that his father was an old man who 
had lost a leg in the "Forty-one Wars." At 
the time of the battle of the Boyne a church- 
yard was set apart for old people — a sort of 
neutral ground — where the old and infirm would 
be free from attack by the contending armies. 
The old man Lawther was on his way home 
after the battle, and had nearly reached his 
fireside, when he was surrounded by three re- 
treating Catholics, who were soon joined by 
four more. The old man begged for his life 
because he was not able to fight any more. 
The Catholics replied that while he himself 
could not fight he had six bloodthirsty sons in 
the army of Prince William of Orange, and 
they took his life. The family were in the city 
of Derry at the time of the celebrated siege of 
Derry. Alexander Lawther, who was lost at sea, 
was a brother of Gawin Lawther, the father of 
Gawin Lawther, who married Elizabeth Lawther. 



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Alexander Lawther married Christian Murch- 
land, who was a daughter of Robert and Eliza- 
beth Murchland (nee Crawford). The coun- 
ties of Down, Derry and Antrim were Protest- 
ant, and the Lawther family were noted for 
their loyalty to Calvinism. Alexander and 
Christian Lawther and Mrs. Murchland came to 
Baltimore, Md., in 1790, the voyage to Amer- 
ica being made in the brig "Brothers," and 
taking seven weeks and three days. They re- 
mained near the Atlantic coast for three months, 
when Robert Murchland, who was a brother- 
in-law of Alexander Lawther, came from his 
home in Washington County, Penn., with a train 
of pack-horses, and brought the entire family 
and their goods across the Alleghany Mountains 
to his Western home. The children of Alex- 
ander and Christian (Murchland) Lawther were, 
John, who was a member of the Enneskillen 
Dragoons, famous in English history. (Each 
member was over six feet in, height, and mounted 
upon a black horse; he was honorably discharged 
with a pension and lived in Mancehster, Eng- 
land; in 1804 he was ordered to Gibraltar, and 
died of the plague in 1814, leaving one son, who 
was in the Thirty-ninth Regiment, and two 
daughters, who married and lived in Manchester, 
England); James, born March 15, 1769, and 
married Jennette Shaw in Kalela, a noted city 
in that part of the country for fairs, horse-racing 
and games of skill, County Antrim, Ireland, in 
1790 (on tbe day of their marriage they left 
for America); Nancy (who never married); 
Robert (who never married); Elizabeth (who 
married Gawin Lawther, a second cousin (they 
lived in Washington County, Penn., until 1808, 
when they moved to Cross Creek Township, 
Jefferson County, Ohio; they are buried at Two 
Ridge (Presbyterian) Church); Alexander (who 
never married); Christian (married to William 
Patterson). 

The children of James and Jennette (Shaw) 
Lawther were Eleanor, who was born in a fort, 
or block-house, during an Indian siege (it was 
on the Wells farm in Virginia and near Elders- 
ville, Penn.) and who married William Leeper; 



Christian, who married Charles Long; Nancy, 
who married Samuel Wright; John, who mar- 
ried Mary Stein; Jane, who never married; 
Gawin Lawther, who was one of the early 
teachers in the frontier schools, learned the 
trade of blacksmithing with William Leeper, 
and read medicine, in which profession he en- 
joyed an honorable practice (he married Anna 
Price); Alexander, who married Nancy Smith; 
Catherine, who never married; and Jane, who 
never married. 

The children of William and Eleanor (Law- 
ther) Leeper were James L., Mary A., John, 
William A., and Martha J., of whom Mary A., 
Jane and John died in early youth. James L. 
Leeper, the eldest of the family, was reared a 
farmer, learned the trade of blacksmithing in 
the shop of Gawin Lawther, and soon after- 
ward read medicine with Dr. Thomas Abbot, of 
Massillon, Ohio. On July 10, 1837, Dr. James 
L. Leeper and Miss Sophia M. Dickey were 
married at Steubenville, Ohio. Dr. Leeper 
began the practice of his profession in Navarre, 
Stark Co., Ohio, in May, 1810, and achieved a 
high place among his fellow physicians. He 
conducted a drug store for fifteen years and 
was appointed postmaster by William Henry 
Harrison. In 1866 he retired to his farm three 
and one-half miles northeast of Navarre. He 
was an active member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church and Patrons of Husbandry. He 
died at his home of paralysis December 27, 1887. 
Dr. J. L. and Sophia M. Leeper have one child, 
George C. , who resides on the home farm with 
his mother. 

Martha J., the youngest of the family, was 
married September 3, 1856, to William Adair, 
an attorney at law, and who was a member of 
the Ohio Legislature two terms, and a member 
of the Constitutional Convention of 1873-74. 
He is the author of the "Adair Law," the 
original Civil Damage Liquor Law. Mr. Adair 
is at present practicing his profession in Lees- 
burg, Carroll Co., Ohio. They have one son, 
Emmet M., who was born February 8, 1864, and 
taught school for several years; he read law 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1033 



with bis father, and was admitted to the practice 
of law by the Supreme Court of Ohio, October 
St, 1890. He lives with his parents at Lees- 
burg, Carroll Co., Ohio. 

William A. Leepee spent his youth on his 
father's farm, and at an early age learned the 
trade of harness-maker. On April 21, IS")!*, he 
married Margaret, daughter of Joseph Masters, 
of Connottou, North Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, and after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Leeper 
immediately began housekeeping on the old 
home farm, which they have ever since occupied 
and improved. Like his father Mr. Leeper 
was originally a Whig, now a Republican, and 
has always taken an active interest in politics, 
he having often held positions of trust and re- 
sponsibility. Three children have been born to 
the above union, viz. : Ernest, who learned the 
trade of wagon and carriage building with 
Grant Clark, in Leesburg, Carroll Co., Ohio 
(he worked in the Pennsylvania Company Car 
Shops at Pittsburgh and Steubenville, but now 
lives at San Bernardino, Cal., and holds an im- 
portant position of trust in the maintenance of 
way department of the California Southern 
Railroad); James L. is a farmer and successful 
apiarist, and lives at the home farm with his 
parents (he was educated in the public schools 
and at New Hagerstown Academy); Mary E. 
lives with her parents on the home farm (she 
was educated in the public schools, the New 
Hagerstown Academy and Scio College, is now 
a successful teacher in the public schools, and 
an artist of acknowledged ability). 



Ex INGLEY RUSSELL. Probably no fam- 
h ily in Carroll and adjoining counties is 
]) better known or more highly respected 

than the one of whom the subject of this 
sketch is an honored member. He is of Scotch 
descent on his father's side, of English on his 
mother's, and is himself a native of Ohio, born 
in Monroeville, Jefferson County, April 13,1843. 
James Russell, his great-grandfather, who 
was born in Glasgow, Scotland, came when about 



eighteen years of age to America, and a few 
years afterward was married to an English lady. 
He then located in Pennsylvania, where he reared 
a large family, and in 1815 he moved to Harri- 
son County, Ohio, where he entered a piece of 
land, where he carried on farming, and died at 
the patriarchal age of ninety-six years. He had 
ten children, of whom James, the grandfather 
of Bingley, and the eldest in the family, was 
married in Pennsylvania to Miss Jane Densmore, 
a native of Ireland. Some time after their mar- 
riage they came to Ohio and took up their resi- 
dence on a farm near New Hagerstown, Carroll 
County, whence they moved after a time to Co- 
lumbiana County, same State, where they died, 
Mr. Russell in 1849, and his widow in 1860. 
They were the parents of twelve children, of 
whom Squire James Russell, father of our sub- 
ject, was the fourth in order of birth, born Sep- 
tember 3, 1808, in Westmoreland County, Penn. 
When he was ten years old his parents brought 
him to Ohio, where he attended the subscription 
schools in what is now Carroll County, and 
learned the trade of cabinet-maker. On May 
10, 1832, he was married to Mary Croxton, a na- 
tive of Virginia, born March 22, 1807, of Eng- 
lish descent, and after marriage they located at 
Monroeville, where they lived about twelve 
years. While there he was elected a justice of 
the peace, and in 1849 was chosen to represent 
his district in Congress. In 1855 he moved to 
Carroll County, where he continued to reside 
until the death of his wife, September 22, 1886. 
He is at present living at Salineville, Ohio, at 
the advanced age of eighty-two years, calmly 
awaiting the summons that shall call him hence. 
He is the oldest Free Mason in Ohio, having been 
an active member of the fraternity for forty years, 
and in politics he has always been a Democrat. 
Bingley Russell, whose name opens this 
sketch, obtained his education at the common 
schools of the district in which his boyhood and 
early youth were spent, and was reared to farm- 
ing, his first experiences in that line being for 
the most part chopping wood, driving ahead, 
plowing, sowing, reaping, mowing, etc. He was 



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twelve years old when bis parents came to Car- 
roll County, and about sis years afterward the 
War of the Rebellion broke over the land. So 
anxious was young Biugley to respond to the 
call to arms that he and some neighbor boys 
agreed to meet secretly at midnight in a certain 
field, there to make arrangements for volunteer- 
ing into the army. Only two of these boys met, 
however — our subject and James Maple — and 
they proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, where, July 
28, 1862, they enlisted in Company E, One 
Hundred and Third O. V. I. , at the age of nine- 
teen years. They participated in many impor- 
tant battles, among which may be mentioned 
Knoxville (Tenn. ), Missionary Ridge, Lookout 
Mountain, Resaca, Atlanta, Franklin, and they 
were in Sherman's memorable march to the sea. 
On June 12, 1865, Mr. Russell was mustered 
out at Cleveland, Ohio, and returned to the pa- 
rental home, after having made many narrow 
escapes. His comrade, Maple, was killed by his 
side in the service, and among many other inci- 
dents one or two worthy of note may be here 
recounted: When entering the wild charge at 
the battle of Resaca, where so many of the boys 
of his company were killed, a cannon ball passed 
immediately over Mr. Russell's head, prostrat- 
ing his comrade; and at the battle of Atlanta, 
while kneeling in the act of firing, a bullet from 
the gun of the enemy's sharpshooters (on a tree) 
passed down, almost touching his face and along 
his body, penetrating deep in the ground. Dur- 
ing the three years' service, foot-sore and weary, 
he endured many long, arduous, dusty marches, 
by day and by night; suffering from thirst under 
the galling rays of a hot Southern sun in sum- 
mer; wading through freezing cold mud and 
water in winter; sleeping on the ground the en- 
tire time; engaging in many unnumbered hard- 
fought skirmishes. He forded many a river, 
some under trying circumstances, for instance: 
forded the Holston River at Strawberry Plains, 
Tenn., in December, 1863 (about Hallow-days), 
and late in the evening; the river was wide, 
swift and arm-pit deep, freezing to the clothing 
of the men; our subject lay on the ground all 



night, a short distance from the bank of the 
frozen river after fording it, and in front of the 
enemy, without food or fire; forded, July 8, 
1864, the Chattahooche River in Georgia, which 
was very wide, deep, swift and muddy, the bot- 
tom being covered with slippery bowlders; enemy 
on opposite bank firing; formed in line of battle 
after crossing, with all comrades being almost 
nude; charged up the bank with fixed bayonet, 
and gained and held a lodgment in order to 
assist troops to cross over, and engage in battle 
around Atlanta, orders having been given pre- 
viously in a deep ravine close to the river, under 
cover from the enemy in dense pine woods, to 
undress and push rapidly across and surprise 
the enemy, which was done. 

On September 6, 1866, our subject was 
united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth McKen- 
zie, "The girl he left behind him," who was 
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, April 20, 1843, 
of Scotch descent, and soon afterward the young 
couple bought a farm of eighty acres on Brush 
Creek, Carroll Co., Ohio, where they lived until 
1873, in which year they moved to another farm 
in Fox Township, same county, their present 
home. Twelve children have come to bless the 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell, as follows: 
James M. , John N. , Mary, Andrew B. (de- 
ceased), Edwin S., Elizabeth, William C. , Isa- 
bel, Alice M., Abram W., Martha H, and one 
daughter that died in infancy. Mr. Russell, by 
industry, prudence, frugality, coupled with 
vigorous well-directed labor, and the practice of 
economy, has become owner of 360 acres of 
highly improved land, 200 in the farm on the 
ridge, he now occupies, and 160 in the old 
homestead on Brush Creek, well provided with 
comfortable and commodious dwellings and out- 
buildings, and all kinds of modern improved 
agricultural implements. He makes a specialty 
of raising blooded stock, such as Spanish Merino 
sheep, Short horn cattle, Norman horses, Ches- 
ter-White hogs, etc. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat, and has been honored with election to 
several positions of trust, by the people, al- 
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Free Mason, and he and bis wife are members 
of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Russell evi- 
dently believing with the poet, has put the 
suggestions in practice: 

In the world's broad field of battle, 

In the bivouac of life, 
Be not like dumb, driven cattle! 

Be a hero in the strife! 

Let us. then, be up and doing, 

With a heart for any fate; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 

Learn to labor and to wait. 



JOHN GAMBLE. The Emerald Isle has 
furnished all portions of the United States 
with some of its most desirable citizens, 
and in this respect no locality has been 
more favored than Carroll County, Ohio. 
Among those who left their native shores and 
came into the wilderness of the frontier, to 
escape, not more the tyranny of fortune than 
that of government, may be named George 
Gamble, the father of our subject, who was a 
descendant of a family who had long resided in 
Ireland; the father of George was Wilson 
Gamble, by occupation an agriculturist. George 
Gamble was early married to Margaret Wilson, 
of the same locality, and with her came to 
America and founded a home in the then wilds 
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He entered the 
land now known as the Parker farm, in 1822, 
and subsequently entered other tracts, in all 
amounting to 480 acres. Much of his time was 
expended on the original entry, the other tracts 
being improved by his family of sons, to each 
of whom he gave eighty acres. He was a mem- 
ber of the Church of England, and remained 
true to that faith during his life. While in 
Ireland he learned the weaver's trade, which he 
followed for many years after coming to Ohio. 
His family were Isabelle, Robert, Alexander, 
George, John, William and Matilda, who died 
at sea. 

John Gamble was born in County Cavan, 
Ireland, June 20, 1816, and came with his 
parents to Ohio, where the remainder of his life 



has lieen spent. He was early instructed in the 
mysteries of clearing land and farming it, and 
has continued with good success in that occupa- 
tion till the present time. On April 0, 1837, 
he married Lucinda, daughter of John and 
Catharine Plowman, who came to Ohio from 
Maryland and settled in Harrison County, near 
Bowerston, where they reared a large family of 
children, whose names are Rebecca, Elizabeth, 
Rachel, Henry, Lucinda, John O, Jesse, Amon 
T., Julyanne and David. The family of Mr. 
Gamble are Matilda A., David W., Elizabeth J., 
Margaret C, John W. and Mary M. After 
their marriage they settled on the farm on which 
they still reside, and which has been improved 
entirely by them. Mr. Gamble has always been 
a Whig or a Republican, and while taking an 
active part in the canvass of his party, still has, 
for the past few years, been satisfied in voting 
the ticket, and allowing the younger class to do 
that work. He and his wife are among those 
who have, by their own work and frugality, 
made a success in their efforts to acquire a com- 
petence. Their farm consists of 240 acres of 
land, well adapted for the purposes of farming 
and stock-raising. Mr. Gamble is well and 
favorably known as an enterprising citizen, and 
is looked upon as one of the first men in his 
township. 




jn ENJAMIN F. HAYES, one of the repre- 
sentative farmer citizens of Harrison 



Township, Carroll County, was born in 
Huntingdon County, Peun., November 
25, 1825. His grandfather. Hayes, was a native 
of Ireland, where the ancestry had long lived, 
and here he married a village maiden. About 
the middle of the eighteenth century he came 
to American soil, settling in Maryland, where 
he pursued the same vocation (presumably that 
of farming) as had his ancestry in Ireland. 
His son, John E., father of Benjamin F., was 
born in Maryland, January 22, 1770, and after 
attaining his majority, separated from the other 
members of the family and came west, marry- 



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ing, however, before leaving his native State, 
Miss Mary Farvef, a young lady of German 
descent. Soon after their marriage they lo- 
cated in Pennsylvania, where they remained till 
1830, in which year they moved yet farther 
west, remaining a short time in Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio, whence they proceeded to Rich- 
land County, thence to Wayne, where the father 
died in 1841. The mother then returned to 
Tuscarawas County, where she passed from 
earth in the year 1846. They were the parents 
of the following named children: Nancy, John, 
Elizabeth, Sarah, Eachel, Ruth, Margaret, 
Mary, Hannah, Joseph and Benjamin F. John 
E. Hayes was a well-educated man, and during 
his residence in Pennsylvania, and also for some 
years while in Ohio, he taught school success- 
fully; he also mastered the science of surveying, 
a profession he was engaged in many years. 
Politically he was a Democrat, and took a lively 
interest in the workings of his party. 

Benjamin F. Hayes was reared to agricult- 
ural pursuits on his father's farm, attending 
during the winter months the common schools 
of his district in his native county, and when 
he came of age he commenced life for his own 
account. On April 5, 1850, he was married to 
Christiana E., daughter of Jacob Pontius, a 
native of Pennsylvania, born February 27, 1801, 
where he was married to Elizabeth Shaffer, a 
resident of New Jersey, who bore him five chil- 
dren, viz. : Sarah, Christiana E. , Henry, John 
and Ezra. Coming to Van Wert County, Mr. 
and Mrs. Pontius settled on a farm, and in 
1854 returned to Montgomery, Ohio, and there 
died, he in 1876 and she in 1863, both members 
of the Presbyterian Church; in politics he was 
a Democrat of the most pronounced type. 
Abraham Pontius, father of Jacob, and also a 
native of Pennsylvania, was married in that 
State to Eve Stetler, and their children were 
Jacob, Lidda, Abraham, Elizabeth, Sarah and 
John and Daniel (twins). The family were 
residents of Washington County, Penn. ; in re- 
ligion they were Presbyterians and in politics 
Democrats. 



After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. 
Hayes took up their residence in Willshire, Van 
Wert Co., Ohio, until 1874, when they pur- 
chased their present property in Harrison Town- 
ship, Carroll County, their highly improved 
and well-stocked farm comprising 197 acres. 
The children born to them are named as follows: 
Elizabeth, Mrs. Ira Baxter; Jacob and Arminda 
J., deceased; and John B. , at home. In poli- 
tics Mr. Hayes was a stanch Republican until a 
few years ago, since when he has given bis aid 
and influence to the Prohibition party. He is 
recognized as a man of excellent judgment, pos- 
sessed of thorough business qualifications, and 
has made his own success in life. 



DAVID McBURNEY (deceased) was born 
in Washington County, Penn., Septem- 
_^ ' ber 25, 1813, and was a son of John 
McBurney, a native of Ireland, who im- 
migrated to America wheo a young man and 
located in Pennsylvania, where he afterward 
married Sarah Hunter, and they resided in 
Washington County the remainder of their 
lives. Five sons and four daughters were born 
to them, of whom but one, Samuel McBurney, 
of Scroggsfield, is now living. 

The seventh child in the order of birth of 
this family was David, who grew to maturity in 
his native county, surrounded by all the priva- 
tions and dangers of the pioneer period, and 
there laid the foundation for the sturdy charac- 
ter and sterling integrity of his after life. He 
inherited a love for justice, and being a man of 
tender sympathies, he could not bear to see any 
one suffer unjustly. An apt illustration of this 
virtue is furnished by an anecdote of his boy- 
hood: He, with other pioneer children, attended 
school in the little log schoolhouse, with its 
puncheon floor, split-log benches, and a large 
bundle of birch switches. One day the teacher, 
who was none other than the afterward cele- 
brated Dr. John Dixon, of Pittsburgh, punished 
one of the younger pupils, as David thought, 
unnecessarily. Instantly the boy's blood was 



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aroused, and be remonstrated with the teacher, 
who immediately transferred his attention from 
the younger pupil to David. A tussel ensued, 
in which, suffice to say, our young hero did not 
come out second best. While a boy and youth 
he wore the red wampus and linsey pants, 
which his mother spun, wove and made, and 
many a day did he pull and scutch flax for her. 
On January 5, 1832, David McBurney was mar- 
ried to Eliza Lyle, a native of the Keystone 
State, born in Washington County, May 16, 
1812, and a daughter of James and Mary 
(Campbell) Lyle. The Lyle family, who are of 
Scotch-Irish extraction, lived in Pennsylvania 
prior to the Revolutionary War, and Aaron Lyle, 
grandfather of Eliza, was for years a member 
of Congress from that district. In March fol- 
lowing their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. McBurney 
migrated to Ohio, the trip being made overland, 
Mrs. McBurney riding the entire distance on 
horseback, while he drove the team with covered 
wagon containing a few household effects, all 
the wordly possessions of the young couple. 
They located on a tract of land in Centre Town- 
ship, Carroll County, one of the earliest settled 
places in this region, and which was partly im- 
proved when they came to it, same having been 
entered by a man named Pugh. Their first 
dwelling in the new country was a small log 
cabin with puncheon floor and roof, and a huge 
fireplace at one end. Mrs. McBurney had one 
of the first stoves in that section, and the neigh- 
bors came for miles to see the " new fangled 
wonder." Many a day has Mrs. McBurney run 
her spinning wheel, spinning flax and wool for 
use in making blankets and clothing for her 
family. The dwelling, erected in 1844, was the 
third brick house built in Carroll County. 

Mr. McBurney died October 27, 1878. He 
had for years been a ruling elder in the Scroggs- 
fiekl United Presbyterian Church. He gave 
liberally, but unostentatiously, of his means to 
all charitable, benevolent and public movements. 
Of unimpeachable character, firm in his convic- 
tions, he won for himself the respect and esteem 
of his fellow-men. He was one of the early 



Abolitionists, and voted that ticket when there 
were but six Abolitionist ballots cast in Carroll 
County. He afterward became a Whig, and 
later became identified with the Republican 
party. He never sought office, choosing retire- 
ment rather than public position. Mr. and Mrs. 
McBurney' s union was blessed with nine chil- 
dren: Mary Ann, wife of George Barrick, of 
Mechanicstown, Carroll Co., Ohio; John, who 
married Martha Burson, of Columbiana Coun- 
ty, Ohio; Sarah Jane; Elizabeth; Margaret, 
deceased wife of Andrew Russell, of Washing- 
ton County, Penn. ; Esther; Martha; Kate; Ella, 
deceased. She and the family reside on the 
home farm in Centre Township, where they 
have a pleasant home, surrounded by the com- 
forts of life. They are members of the Scroggs- 
field United Presbyterian Church, and are re- 
spected and esteemed by all. 



T OSEPH HAESSLY, of Summitville, Ohio, 
w I was born in Berks County, Penn. , October 
Xj) 17, 1822, a son of Philip Haessly, who 
was born in Baden, Germany, October 20, 
1794. Conrad Haessly, grandfather of Joseph, 
also a native of Germany, where he spent his 
life, had two sons: Philip and Lewis. Philip 
grew to young manhood and received his educa- 
tion in his native country. In 1817 ho immi- 
grated to the United States, and locating in 
Berks County, Penn., there spent four or five 
years working on a farm. In 1821 he married 
Annie Mary Spohn, who was born in Berks 
County, Penn., October 24, 1800. a daughter of 
Conrad Spohn, also a native of Pennsylvania. 
To this union were born twelve children, viz. : 
Joseph; Jacob, a farmer and surveyor in Fond 
du Lac County, Wis. ; Jonathan and Philip, 
farmers in Fond du Lac County, Wis. ; Cather- 
ine, wife of Andrew Romans, also in Fond du 
Lac County; Nathan, deceased; Charles, a car- 
penter in Cleveland, Ohio; Sarah, widow of the 
late S. Moister, of East Township. Carroll 
County; Lucy, deceased; Abraham and William. 



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farmers in Columbiana County, Ohio, and Annie, 
deceased. 

Philip Haessly, after his marriage, purchased 
a small farm in Berks County, Penn. , on which 
he resided a few years, when he sold and pur- 
chased a farm of eighty acres in Northumber- 
land County, same State, where he resided till 
1839, when he sold and removed to Ohio, buy- 
ing a farm of 100 acres in Columbiana County; 
he afterward made an additional purchase of 
144 acres. On this land he remained till his 
death, which occurred February 22, 1890, his 
wife having preceded him to the grave Decem- 
ber 14, 1889. They were members of the Cath- 
olic Church, and in politics he was a Democrat. 

Joseph Haessly was reared in his native 
county, and educated at a German school there. 
When eighteen years old he came to Ohio with 
his parents. On January 8, 1849, he was mar- 
ried to Catherine McMullen, who was born in 
East Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, a daughter 
of James and Mary (McMullen) McMullen, na- 
tives of Ireland, and to this union have been born 
children as follows: John and Philip, residents 
of Cleveland, Ohio; Joseph C. , in East Town- 
ship, Carroll County; Jennie, at home, and 
James, deceased. After his marriage Mr. 
Haessly remained in Columbiana County, Ohio, 
till 1851, when he purchased the farm he now 
owns, containing 160 acres, on Section 21, East 
Township; he has since by purchase added to 
this seventy-four acres in another part of the 
township. Mr. and Mrs. Haessly are members 
of the Catholic Church, and in politics he is a 
Democrat. 



THOMAS THOMPSON (deceased), who in 
his lifetime was one of the best known 
and most enterprising of the leading 
agriculturists of Brown Township, Car- 
roll County, was born October 25, 1825, in 
Wayne County, Ohio. When he was five years 
old his parents moved into Stark County, Ohio, 
where his early life was spent and where he was 
taught those principles of honesty and economy 



that became such prominent factors in the mak- 
ing of his success in after life. Mr. Thompson 
was a son of Thomas and Margaret Thompson. 
Mrs. Thompson, whose maiden name was Sniit- 
ley, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., 
she being from a sturdy race of people, noted 
for longevity. When our subject was yet a boy 
his father died, leaving him nothing but a good 
constitution and a sound judgment, which 
proved to be the essential things to his success. 
After his father's death he remained with his 
mother until 1847 when he went to Pittsburgh, 
staying there until 1848, on May 16 of which 
year he was married to Miss Susannah Fine- 
frock, daughter of John Finefrock. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thomp- 
son settled in Brown Township, at Thompson's 
mills, which he operated, being a miller by 
trade. Subsequently they moved to various 
places until 1855, when they purchased a farm 
in Brown Township, known as the Hudlemyer 
place, consisting of ninety-eight acres, to which 
they moved and on which they made all im- 
provements at the expense of much labor, time 
and means. During the Civil War he purchased 
of David Eakin sixty-two acres; afterward, in 
1876, he bought of John Finefrock land con- 
sisting of 114 acres, generally known as the 
Still Fork Farm; again, on January 1, 1880, he 
purchased his last piece of land, consisting of 
seventeen acres adjoining the farm on which he 
lived; at his death he was the possessor of nearly 
300 acres of land. Mr. Thompson passed from 
earth January 28, 1889. He was (as is Mrs. 
Thompson) a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, many years one of its most liberal sup- 
porters, and was highly respected in the com- 
munity. Politically he was a leading Eepub- 
lican in his section, but, although often solicited, 
he could never be prevailed upon to accept 
office. His life had been a busy one, and he 
made a success of it, always employing his own 
characteristic methods in his undertakings. 
The nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
Thompson were as follows: Calista, Mrs. A. V. 
Westfall, and residing in Brown Township; 



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Harnmon, residing in Newton, Kas. ; Susan, Mrs. 
John Gearhart, in Minerva, Carroll County, 
Ohio; Newton, at home; John, residing on Still 
Fork Farm in Brown Township; Olive C. and 
Lester Thomas, both deceased; Nettie, Mrs. 
Charles Wain, living in Malvern, Carroll County, 
and Ulysses G. , at home. 



DAVID BELKNAP. Among the prom- 
inent and influential families of Orange 
___ ' Township, Carroll County, the Belknaps 
have long been recognized as leaders in 
all movements — social, political and progressive. 
The earliest authentic history of the Belknap 
family is traced to David, the great-grand- 
father of the subject of this sketch, who was a 
native of England, but of whose family little is 
known save that they were sturdy tillers of the 
soil. One of his sons, also named David, the 
grandfather of our subject, at an early age came 
to America where he was married to Jane Seran, 
by whom he had three sons and five daughters. 
In 1800 he came to Ohio, and for four years 
took up his residence in Jefferson County, after 
which he moved to what is now Carroll County, 
and here purchased a farm on which he lived 
the rest of his days. He and his family were 
members of the Lutheran Church; in politics he 
was first a Whig, afterward becoming a Repub- 
lican, and was one of the organizers of that 
party in his township. 

Samuel Belknap, father of the gentleman 
whose name heads this sketch, was born October 
17, 1822, in that part of Ohio which a few years 
thereafter became Orange Township, Carroll 
County. His educational facilities were com- 
paratively meager, being confined to the sub- 
scription and common schools of his day, 
fortunately supplemented, however, with a 
large amount of home study — in fact he was 
one of the best read men in his section. He 
had studied law and was admitted to the bar in 
1853, but failing health compelled him to 
abandon his intention of following a profession, 
and he retired to his farm, where he ended 



his days, dying January 11, 1875. He was 
a progressive, useful man, a leader in the com- 
munity, and when he was called away he was 
mourned by a wide circle of friends. In relig 
ion he was a consistent member of the Luther- 
an Church; in politics he was first a Whig and 
afterward a Democrat. On May 2, 1854. Mr. 
Belknap was married to Catherine M., daughter 
of Peter Hoopengarner, and they then resided 
in Tuscarawas County thirteen years, when they 
sold their property there and came to Carroll 
County. The following named ten children 
were born to them: Delia (deceased), Alcon, 
Flora (Mrs. William Baird), Jane (Mrs. Lewis 
Hall), Orange, Judd, Martha (Mrs. Charles Her- 
ron), David, Niles and Dilla. 

David Belknap, whose name heads this 
sketch, was born September 10, 1867, in Orange 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, and received his 
primary education at the common schools of his 
district, afterward attending the college at Scio, 
Harrison County, several terms. He is now 
managing the home place, and is very success 
ful in all the departments of the farm. He is 
a member of the Presbyterian Church at Lees- 
ville, and in politics is a progressive member of 
the Democratic party. Mr. Belknap is an active, 
energetic and much respected young man. 



TfOSHUA B. AMOS, another of the wide- 
w. I awake and prosperous native-born agri- 
\J) culturists of Carroll County, was born in 
Perry Township, January 25, 18-44, a son 
of Benjamin B. and Charity (Webb) Amos. His 
paternal grandfather was a native of Wales, 
whence he came to America at an early period in 
the history of the country, settling in Maryland, 
where he reared a large family, among them 
being Benjamin B., the father of our subject. 

Benjamin B. Amos endured in his boyhood 
and youth many hardships, but succeeded in 
securing a good practical education, which he 
found of much service in after life. In his na- 
tive State he was married to Miss Charity Webb, 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



a native of Virginia, whose parents were of old 
English lineage. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin B. 
Amos came about the year 1836 to Carroll Coun- 
ty, Ohio, where he bought a farm situated about 
three miles east of Perrysville. In connection 
with agricultural pursuits be also carried on the 
milling business, having erected a grist-mill in 
Perry Township, to run which he constructed a 
water race one mile in length. This old mill, 
built over half a century ago, is still standing, 
and traces of the race are yet visible. He also 
had a general country store, and altogether he 
was one of the most prominent men in this sec- 
tion of the county. Politically he was a Repub- 
lican, and held many positions of trust, taking 
an active interest in all public matters. He 
died in the winter of 1876, his wife having pre- 
ceded him to the grave in 1871. They were the 
parents of ten children — five sons and five 
daughters. 

Joshua B. Amos, whose name opens this 
sketch, was reared to farm life, attending, as 
opportunity offered in the winter seasons, the 
common schools of the district. In 1865 he was 
married to Miss Mary Cogsil, a native of Lou- 
don Township, Carroll County, born in August, 
1848, daughter of Oliver Cogsil, an old settler 
of Carroll County, coming from Virginia, where 
he was born of German descent. To our sub- 
ject and wife have been born twelve children, 
two of whom died in infancy. After their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Amos resided in various 
parts of Carroll County, until finally, in 1880, 
settling in Perry Township, where they own a 
fine farm of ninety-eight acres, devoted to the 
raising of all kinds of agricultural products. 
Politically our subject is a stanch Republican. 
He was a soldier in the Civil War, having en- 
listed, August 11, 1862, in Company H, Ninety- 
eighth O. V. I., was mustered in in August, 
1862, and discharged in June, 1863, on account 
of disability; re-enlisting in May, 1864, in the 
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Regiment, he 
was discharged, after going to the front, at the 
expiration of his term of service, and returned 
home to the more peaceful pursuits of the farm. 



AMUEL G. PERRY. Among the sub- 
stantial farmers and self-made men of 
Harrison Township, Carroll County, 
stands prominent this gentleman. He 
was born, November 23, 1820, near the village 
of Annapolis, Jefferson Co., Ohio, a son of 
William and Nancy Ann (Golden) Perry, former 
a native of Brooke County, Va. , where his 
family had long been residents, and the latter a 
native of Maryland. The early life of the 
father was passed on the farm, and soon after 
attaining his majority he was married to Nancy 
Ann Golden. In 1810 they came to Ohio, 
where he purchased a small place in Jefferson 
County, on which they remained, however, but 
a short time, when they moved to what is now 
Harrison Township, Carroll County, dying in 
after years in New Harrisburg, in that town- 
ship. He was a carpenter by trade, which he 
followed most of the time; in religion he was a 
member of the Presbyterian Church; in politics 
he was first a Whig, and afterward, on the 
organization of the party, a stanch Republican. 
His children, five in number, were as follows: 
David E. , Samuel G. , Oliver H. , George W. and 
Sarah J. (Mrs. Robert Black). 

Samuel G. Perry, the subject proper of this 
sketch, early in life was obliged to put his hand 
to work, having to assist by manual labor in the 
support of the family. At the age of eight 
years he was working on a farm, at which he 
continued some time, and then commenced to 
learn the tanning trade, which he followed 
many years, chiefly in the village of New Har- 
risburg, in his native township. In this enter- 
prise he became highly successful, his business 
necessitating the employment of many hands 
most of the time. Retiring from the tanning 
industry in 1868, Mr. Perry commenced farm- 
ing on his present place in the same township, 
his farm being under excellent cultivation, and 
provided with comfortable and commodious 
buildings, all built in modern style. 

In 1843 Mr. Perry was married to Mary A., 
born in Harrison Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
in 1824, a daughter of John and Sarah (Everitt) 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1041 



McCauley, of Harrison Township, the former 
a native of Washington County, Penn., the lat- 
ter of Maryland. The following named chil- 
dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Perry: 
Sarah A., Mary E., Samuel G., Oliver I., John 
W., Maria, Alvina and Jefferson B., all now 
deceased except Maria and Alvina. Mr. Perry 
early identified himself with the Whigs, and 
afterward with the Republicans on the organiza- 
tion of that party, and has been one of the 
political leaders in his township. He is a mem- 
ber of the Disciples Church, of which he is one 
of the prominent supporters. 



DAVID E. ROATCH. This family in 
] Carroll County are of Scotch-Irish de- 
' scent, the progenitor having emigrated 
from Ireland to America in 1776, and 
served in the Revolutionary War. He came to 
Ohio after the War of 1812, and settled in Jef- 
ferson County, where he died. Eben Roatch 
was born in Virginia in 1794. At the age of 
seventeen he went as a substitute for his brother, 
who had been drafted, and served two years, at 
the end of which time, liking the service well, 
he re-enlisted into the regular army for five 
years, serving in all seven years, during which 
time the War of 1812 was being carried on. 
He was married to Mary Roberts, of Pennsyl- 
vania, and in 1819 they located in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, whence, in 1830, with their four 
children they came to what is now Brown Town- 
ship, Carroll County, and from there moved 
into Stark County in 1840. The father died at 
New Harrisburg, Carroll County, in 18R8, at 
the age of seventy-four years, and the mother in 
1879 at Alliance, Ohio, when eighty-six years 
old. They were the parents of twelve children, 
of whom the subject of this sketch, the eleventh 
in order of birth, was born on the farm in Brown 
Township, Carroll County, April 15, 1838. He 
was educated at the schools of his day, and at 
the age of sixteen was apprenticed to learn the 
trade of cabinet-maker, serving three years at 
same, and then worked as journeyman until the 



breaking out of the War of the Rebellion. In 
April, 1801, he enlisted in Company I, Nine- 
teenth O. V. I., which was mustered into the 
service at Camp Taylor, and sent to West Vir- 
ginia under Gens. Rosecrans and McClellan. 
Mr. Roatch participated in the battle of Rich 
Mountain, and at the close of his term of enlist- 
ment he received his discharge, but immediately 
re-enlisted, this time in Company I, First O. V. 
I., of which he was commissioned second lieu- 
tenant September 1, 1861. He was in the bat- 
tles of Munfordville, Green River, the Shiloh 
campaign, and siege of Corinth, after which he 
resigned, May 28, 1862, and at once enlisted in 
Company I, Ninety-eighth O. V. I., with which 
he participated in the battles of Perryville, 
Chickamauga, the Atlanta campaign and the 
battle of Bentonville. While in this regiment 
he was promoted through the various grades to 
lieutenant-colonel, as follows: January 21, 1863, 
to second lieutenant; in 1863 to first lieutenant; 
March 31, 1863, to captain; November 10. 1864. 
to major, and May 18, 1865, to lieutenant-col- 
onel. At the battle of Chickamauga the reg- 
iment was fiercely engaged, and their loss in 
officers, killed and wounded, was so heavy in 
the early part of the engagement that Capt. 
Roatch had to lead the regiment through the 
remainder of the fight. He was then placed on 
the staffs of Gen. Beatty and Gen. Mitchell, 
and at the time of his mustering out at Wash- 
ington, D. C, in June, 1865, was in command 
of his regiment. Returning to the pursuits of 
peace, Col. Roatch located in Waynesburg, Ohio, 
and opened out a livery business, but this he 
abandoned in 1867 and moved to Malvern, 
where he became a partner in the firm of Deck- 
man & Co., but one year later sold his interest 
to Mr. Deckman, a furniture manufacturer, and 
during the following eleven years worked for 
him as clerk. In 1878 Col. Roatch was elected 
sheriff of Carroll County on the Republican 
ticket, and was re-elected in 1880. In 1884 he 
bought sixty acres of clay land in Carroll Coun- 
ty, and for two years supplied a company with 
clay, coal and timber for buildings. 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



In 1860 our subject was united in marriage 
with Alice Sala, a native of Stark County. Ohio, 
daughter of Benjamin and Thisbe (McDaniel) 
Sala, early settlers of Stark County, whither 
they had come from Pennsylvania. Five chil- 
dren were born to this union, two of whom died 
in infancy, those now living being Vinta (Mrs. 
John Kratz), Araminta and Brita Marte. Mrs. 
Roatch is an active member of the Disciples 
Church. 




,\ILLIAM NIVIN, probably the oldest 
living pioneer of Union Township, 
lf| Carroll County, was born in Washing- 
ton County, Penn., June 18, 1813, 
and is descended from sturdy Scotch ancestry, 
who, in 16SS, came from their native " land of 
the mountain and the flood" to the shores of 
America, settling in the northern part of the 
State of Delaware, near Wilmington. Some of 
the name are still living there, and in the old 
burying ground at Christiana rest the remains 
of the pioneers to Delaware of the Nivin family. 
William Nivin, grandfather of our subject, 
went to Pennsylvania at the close of the Revo- 
lutionary War, and there married Jane Hosick, 
who was of Scotch-Irish descent; they both 
died in the Keystone State, and their remains 
rest in Pigeon Creek Cemetery. They were 
the parents of four children, viz. : Martha, 
John, Isabelle and Jane, of whom John became 
the father of our subject. He was born in 
1790, and was reared to farm life in his native 
State, a portion of the winter months of his 
boyhood days being passed in the traditional 
log school-house of the olden time. He was 
married in Pennsylvania in 1811 to Miss Mar- 
garet McBride, a native &i Ireland, whence, 
when a young woman she had come to this 
country and to Pennsylvania with an uncle. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. John Nivin 
remained a few years in Pennsylvania, and in 
1816 came to Ohio, where they located on a 
farm in Jefferson County. In March, 1827, 
they moved to what is now Union Township, 



Carroll County, where he had entered a farm 
in 1825, and here they passed the remainder of 
their days, the mother dying in 1812, and the 
father in 1S53 at the age of sixty-three years; 
they were members of the Presbyterian Church, 
and in polities Mr. Nivin was first an Old-line 
Whig, and afterward, on the organization of 
the party, a Republican. They were the par- 
ents of five children, viz. : William, James and 
David (both deceased), Jane (Mrs. Huston, now 
residing in Carroll County) and Ann (Mrs. Mc- 
Elderry, residing in Carrollton). 

William Nivin, whose name opens this mem- 
oir was fourteen years old when he came with 
his parents to Union Township, Carroll County, 
and was just of a right age to assist them in clear- 
ing away the brush and develop a home from 
the wilderness, teeming with wild animals — deer, 
bears, panthers, etc. — which he did with a will- 
ing hand. The old log school-house of the 
period provided him, in its primitive way, with 
a fair education, and being an apt scholar he 
easily imbibed all that could be taught him by 
the somewhat pedantic " dominie " of over half 
a century ago. In 1837, when he was twenty- 
four years old, he was married to Eleanor Steele, 
a daughter of John and Jane Steele, of Carroll 
County, whither they had come from eastern 
Pennsylvania. For some twelve years our sub- 
ject and wife remained on his father's farm in 
Union Township, and in 1849 they removed to 
another farm in the same township, on which he 
built a commodious barn, and after a residence 
there of four years they came, in 1853, to the 
farm where Mr. Nivin yet lives, and which at 
that time was very little improved, but is now 
one of the most fertile and pleasant in the town- 
ship, the result of honest toil and good manage- 
ment. On May 21, 1888, Mrs. Nivin died, aged 
seventy-eight years, the mother of seven chil- 
dren, viz. : Jane (deceased wife of James Mc- 
Cune, of Carroll County), Margaret (deceased 
wife of T. J. Conry), John (deceased), David (at 
home), Sarah A. and Lizzie (both deceased), and 
Mary Ann (wife of Cornelius Tope, of Union 
Township, Carroll County). Mr. Nivin, as was 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1043 



his wife, is a member of the Presbyterian Church 
at Harlem Springs; in his political preferments 
he was originally a Whig, and since the for- 
mation of the party has been a Republican — 
his first vote having been cast for William H. 
Harrison, and his last for Benjamin Harrison. 
He has served in various minor public capaci- 
ties, such as infirmary director, several times, 
but has never sought office. Since the death 
of his wife he and his only surviving son, David, 
have lived together on the old homestead, con- 
trolling between them 650 acres of excellent 
land nicely improved with commodious barns 
and a large farm residence, all within the limits 
of Carroll County. 

David Nivin, son of William and Eleanor 
(Steele) Nivin, was born in May, 1843, and he 
was thoroughly reared to practical farm life, his 
education being obtained in the district schools 
of his neighborhood. In September, 1865, he 
was married to Mary Waggoner, daughter of 
John A. and Mary (Young) Waggoner, of Loudon 
Township, Carroll County, and by this union 
four children have been born, viz. : Leona (Mrs. 
McDonald, of Carrollton, Ohio), one that died 
in infancy, and Bertha and William at home. 
The mother of these children died April 21, 1888, 
and is buried in Carrollton Cemetery. Polit- 
ically David Nivin is a Republican, and has 
served in local offices of trust; he is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church at Harlem Springs. 
He carries on general farming, and is largely 
known in the stock interests of the county as an 
extensive dealer. The Nivin homestead is some 
five miles distant from the town of Carrollton, 
being situated in the southeastern part of Union 
Township. 



PvETER ICKES, farmer, Monroe Town- 
ship, Carroll County, was born in Tuscara- 
was County, Ohio, about the year 1830. 
His father, John Ickes, was born in Bed- 
ford County, Penn., where he married Miss 
Elizabeth Stine, and in an early day he came to 
Tuscarawas County, where he entered a tract 



of laud, on which he resided till his death, 
which occurred August 6, 1851. when he was 
sixty-four years old; his widow died in 1859. 
They were the parents of eight children, vifc. : 
Jonas (deceased), Benjamin (residing in New 
Philadelphia, Ohio), Peter (our subject), John 
(residing in Tuscarawas County), William (in 
Blackford County, Ind.), Elizabeth (deceased), 
Esther (residing in Wood County, Ohio), and 
Ann Wright (in Tuscarawas County). 

Peter Ickes grew to manhood in Tuscara- 
was County, Ohio, and there married Nancy 
Garrett, to which union were born the following 
named children: James (who resides in Mon- 
roe Township), John (at home), Levi (in Dell 
Roy), Robert H. (in Dell Roy), and Joseph M., 
Peter E., Clara D. and Margaret A. (all four at 
home). Mr. Ickes, after his marriage, resided 
in Tuscarawas County about two years, and then 
came to Monroe Township and purchased the 
farm he now owns, containing eighty- nine acres, 
on which he has erected a fine residence and 
barn. His wife died October 6, 1885, a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Polit- 
ically Mr. Ickes is Democratic. 



EORGE ALGEO, was born January 28, 
, 1846, in Loudon Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, and at present resides on 159 acres 
of well-improved land in Section 14, 
Range 5, same township. William Algeo, 
his great-grandfather, was a native of Ire- 
land, whence he emigrated to the United 
States in 1787, settling in Pennsylvania, where 
part of the city of Pittsburgh now stands, and 
here he ended his days. His children were 
Mary, Rebecca, William, John, Gregory and 
Samuel. Of these, John was born in Ireland, 
January 1, 1785, and was consequently two 
years old when his parents brought him to these 
shores. At Pittsburgh he grew to manhood 
and learned the trade of tanner. He was mar- 
ried to Miss Eliza McGill, a native of Williams- 
port, Penn., born in 1797, and this union was 
blessed with nine children, viz. : William 



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(deceased); John, now in Kansas; James, a resi- 
dent of Washington County, Kas. ; Kebecca 
(deceased); Jane, now Mrs. Cogsil, in Lee 
Township, Carroll County; Harriet, in Brill- 
iant, Ohio; Mary Knox, in Jefferson County, 
Ohio; Samuel, in Washington County, Kas.; 
and George W. (deceased). About the year 
1818, the father of this family came to Ohio and 
entered ICO acres of land near Springfield, 
Jefferson County. He spent the greater por- 
tion of his time working at his trade, and in a 
few years purchased a tract of land near Car- 
rollton; he also owned 500 acres in Washington 
County, same State. The last days of his life 
were spent at the home of Oliver Cogsil, in Lee 
Township, where he died in 1877, his wife hav- 
ing preceded him to the grave in 1874. They 
were members of the Presbyterian Church for 
many years, and in politics Mr. Algeo was a 
stanch Republican. 

Their son, William, the father of the sub- 
ject proper of this sketch, was two years old 
when brought by his parents to Ohio, having 
been born in Pittsburgh, Penn., September 8, 
1816. His education was secured at the com- 
mon schools during the winter months, while his 
summers were occupied on his father's farm. 
On May 4, 1845, he was married to Miss Eliza- 
beth Riegle, who was born in what is now Lou- 
don Township, Carroll County, April 5, 1819, a 
daughter of George and Catherine (Stenger) 
Riegle, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to 
Ohio in 1810. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Algeo settled on the farm now occupied 
by their son George, in Loudon Township, 
which property was given to Mrs. Algeo by her 
father. Here William Algeo died January 16, 
1889, and his widow yet resides. Their children 
were the following named: Eliza and Rebecca 
(both deceased) and George. Mr. and Mrs. 
Algeo were active members of the Reformed 
Episcopal Church, and in politics he was an 
active Democrat. 

George Algeo, whose name heads this sketch, 
received his education at the common schools 
and the college at Harlem Springs. On De- 



cember 7, 1875, he was married to Miss Salina 
Miller, a native of Carroll County, born May 
24, 1851, in Union Township, a daughter of 
Aeiel and Catherine (Busier) Miller, and the 
result of this union has been six children, viz. : 
William M., bom February 16, 1877; Allison 
A., born July 5, 1878; Charles E., born Jan- 
uary 18, 1880, died October 16, 1883; George 
R., born March 28, 1883; Homer E., born 
December 28, 1887; and Darell, November 21, 
1890. Mr. Algeo is a member of the Reformed 
Church, and his political preferments are pro- 
nouncedly Democratic. Mrs. Algeo is a member 
of the Lutheran Church. 



PJMM T. REA. About the year 1840 there 
came, with his wife and four children, 
from Chester County, Penn., to Ohio, 
Samuel Rea, the father of the subject of 
this sketch. They settled on a farm in Brown 
Township, Carroll County, near the village of 
Minerva, where, by industry and prudent econ- 
omy, they prospered. 

Samuel Rea was a native of Chester County, 
Penn., born in 1803, and was reared to agri- 
cultural pursuits. He was twice married — first, 
in his native couDty, to Miss Sarah Harris, who 
came with him to Ohio, but soon after their 
locating in Brown Township she passed away, 
leaving four children, two of whom are yet liv- 
ing, viz. : William, a resident of St. Joseph 
County, Ind., and Robert H. , in Minerva, Ohio. 
Samuel Rea's second wife was Catharine Freed, 
of Butler County, Penn., born in November, 
1808, and died in Brown Township, Carroll 
County, March 26, 1876, at the age of sixty- 
eight years. Mr. Rea survived her until August 
27, 1885, when his spirit took flight to the 
"Jasper Sea" of eternity. Four children were 
born to this second union, viz. : Joseph, born 
November 19, 1841 ; Gilmore, born September 
5, 1843; Jacob F., born February 3, 1845, and 
Pimm T., born September 7, 1847. 

Pimm T. Rea was born in Brown Township, 
Carroll Co. , Ohio, and in his boyhood and early 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



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vouth attended the district schools. After the 
death of his parents he assumed control of the 
home farm, buying out the other heirs. In this 
tract he has seventy-eight acres highly improved 
land, besides ninety-seven and a half acres in 
another part of Brown Township. On May 
4, 1S76, Mr. Rea was united in wedlock with 
Lucretia A. Worley, also a native of Carroll 
County, born December '2(3, 1850, daughter of 
John V. and Abigail Worley, old pioneers of the 
county, and five children have come to bless 
this union, as follows: Elmer E., born Septem- 
ber 16, 1877; Abigail G., born June 8, 1882; 
Violet A., born March 15, 1884; John Freed, 
born August 24, 1885, and Kittie M., born April 
14,1889. Mrs. Rea is a member of the Lutheran 
Church at Malvern; Mr. Rea, in his political 
predilections, is a sound Republican. 

Three full brothers and one half-brother of 
our subject served in the Civil War, the record 
being as follows: Joseph enlisted in Company I, 
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Regiment,0. V. 
I. ; Gilmore enlisted in Company B, Third Ohio 
Battery, and died in Jefferson Barracks, Mis- 
souri, May 26, 1864; Jacob F. enlisted in Com- 
pany B, Third Ohio Battery, and died at Hunts- 
ville, Ala., June 9, 1864 (he participated in the 
battle of Jackson, Miss.). Robert H. Rea served 
in the Seventy-ninth Regiment, O. V. I., called 
"The Glorious Nineteenth, the Flower of the 
Buckeye Army." 



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li JlfKS. MARTHA J. WAGGONER, re- 
\f/\ siding on her farm of eighty acres in 
1 Section 10, Loudon Township, Carroll 
County, was born in that township, 
April 16, 1842, a daughter of Samuel and 
Jane (Palmer) Thompson, of whom mention is 
made in the sketch of John A. Thompson. 
She grew to womanhood in her native town- 
ship, receiving her education at the academy 
at New Hagerstown, in Orange Township, same 
county, and spent several years in teaching 
school. On November 26, 1867, she became 
united in marriage with John Alexander Wag- 



goner, also a native of Loudon Township, 
Carroll County, born September 2, 1839, a son 
of John A. Waggoner, a Mary lander, and by 
this union there is one son, John Kinsey, born 
September 29, 1868. 

John Alexander Waggoner received a liberal 
education in the common schools of Loudon 
Township, attending also several terms at New 
Hagerstown Academy, and taught school one 
term before entering the service of his country, 
which he did August 6, 1862, by enlisting in 
Company H, Ninety eighth Regiment, O. V. I., 
in which he served until June 1, 1865, when he 
was mustered out. His marriage with Miss Mar- 
tha J. Thompson is related above, after which 
event the young couple settled on the farm now 
owned by George Thompson, in Loudon Town- 
ship, where Mr. Waggoner died July 15, 1870. 
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and in his political preferments a stanch Re- 
publican. After the death of her husband, 
Mrs. Waggoner removed to Richmond, Jeffer- 
son Co., Ohio, where she remained until 1885, 
when she returned to Loudon Township, and 
purchased the farm she at present resides on. 
She is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 



JOHN KEAN, a progressive, well-to-do ag- 
riculturist of Washington Township, Car- 
roll County, was born on the farm on 
which he now resides, in that township, 
January 26, 1842. He is a son of John and 
Jane (McMaster) Kean (an account of whom 
is given in the sketch of Hon. Robert G. 
Kean), and was reared to farm life, attending 
the common schools of his district. On No- 
vember 4, 1886, he was married to Martha J. 
Mclntire, a native of Carroll County, born in 
Lee Township December 24, 1846, a daughter 
of Samuel and Barbara S. (Maple) Mclntire. 
Mr. and Mrs. Kean are members of the United 
Presbyterian Church; in politics he is a Re- 
publican. His farm, which was bought by his 
father in 1832, contains 160 acres of land in a 
high state of cultivation. 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



James McMaster, the maternal grandfather 
of our subject, was born in County Antrim, 
Ireland, in 1783, and when nine years of age 
he came to the United States, and to Washing- 
ton County, Penn. , where he grew to manhood 
and married Elizabeth George, who bore him 
the following named six children: Mrs. Jane 
Kean (mother of our subject); Christianna and 
Maria (deceased); Mrs. Hannah Hunter, of 
Bloomington, Ind. ; James C. , in Jefferson 
County, Ohio; Eliza (deceased). In 1810 Mr. 
McMaster came to Ohio, where he purchased 
160 acres of land in what is now Washington 
Township, Carroll County, which he cleared 
and resided on several years, and then removed 
to Jefferson County, where he died in 1865. 



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UTHEE L. EOBY. Among the resi- 
dents of Carroll County, Ohio, the Roby 
family occupy a prominent place, both as 
to the time of their settlement in the 
county, and as to the influence they have ex- 
erted on its growth, prosperity and develop- 
ment. James Roby, the founder of the family, 
was a native of Maryland, where he was mar- 
ried, and reared a family of children as follows: 
Horatio, Benoni, Findlay, John, Hannibal C. 
and Precious. With his family he came to 
Leesville, Ohio, where he entered a piece of 
land, on the improvement of which he spent 
many years of toil. He was one of the early 
settlers, and fully experienced the trials and 
hardships of pioneer life. Politically he was an 
active Whig, and he and his family were mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At 
the advanced age of eighty-five he passed away, 
having been preceded to the grave by his wife a 
few years previously. 

Benoni Roby was born in Maryland, Octo- 
ber 28, 1800, where his early life was spent, and 
his youth was passed much in the early manner 
of all settlers' children. He early evinced a 
strong inclination for study, though his school 
advantages were limited; nothing daunted, how- 
ever, he continued his self improvement until he 



was fitted to teach — a profession he followed for 
many years. In his early manho«d he was 
married to Susan, daughter of George Peterson, 
of Carroll County, and the names of their chil- 
dren are Elizabeth, David, George, James, 
Luther L., John, Eliza E., Mary J. (Mrs. G. 
H. Moore) and Isabell. After their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Roby settled on a small farm in 
Orange Township, Carroll County, where they 
remained a few years, and then purchased a 
farm in Monroe Township, on which they spent 
the remainder of their lives. He was a strong 
advocate of Abolition, and was among its first 
champions in his section. On the organization 
of the Republican party he united with it, be- 
coming one of its leaders, and for many years 
he held the office of justice of the peace, whose 
duties he discharged satisfactorily and well; in 
religion he was a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and died in the faith. In 1869 
Mrs. Roby died, being followed to the grave by 
her husband in 1873, and they now rest side by 
side in the Queen sborough burying-ground. 

Luther L. Roby spent his life in Monroe 
Township until the past few years, which he 
passed in Sherrodsville. He received the in- 
struction of the common schools, and was one of 
the best students in his neighborhood. His 
youth was spent on the farm, where he received 
the knowledge which has made him one of the 
successful men of his section. He has always 
been engaged in farming and stock-raising, and 
has been unusually successful. In 1885, having 
built one of the finest residences in Sherrods- 
ville, he moved to the town, and has since man- 
aged his farm, though not residing thereon. He 
has always been a Republican, and while not 
accepting office still has taken an active interest 
in the success of his party. He and his family 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
in which he has been class leader, steward and 
trustee. On September 26, 1867, he was mar- 
ried to Lucinda, daughter of Barney Allmon, of 
Stark County, Ohio. Mr. Allmon was born in 
Washington County, Penn., May 26, 1806, and 
moved with his parents to Stark County in 1810, 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



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and in December, 1831, was married to Eve 
Stump, who bore him eight children. In poli- 
tics Mr. Allmon was a Democrat until 1850, 
when he became a Republican. He was class 
leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church for 
several years, and in 1874 passed away, his wife 
dying August 31, 1886. 



F'RANOIS M. HARDESTY, of the firm of 
F. M. & W. K. Hardesty, proprietors of 
grist-mill, Carrollton, Carroll County, was 
born in Brown Township, that county, 
August 31, 1838. His grandfather, William 
Hardesty, came from Maryland to Ohio, locat- 
ing for a time in Columbiana County, and then 
moved to Malvern, in Carroll County, where he 
was a farmer and miller, and where he died; his 
wife died in Brown Township, same county. Of 
their twelve children — ten sons and two daugh- 
ters — seven are still living. William Hardesty, 
one of the deceased sons, and father of Francis 
M., was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, where 
he was brought up to farming and milling, 
chietiy the former occupation. In Brown Town- 
ship, Carroll County, he married Miss Priscilla, 
daughter of William Kirkpatrick, and in 1853 
they removed to Wayne County, same State, 
where he farmed till 1856, in which year they 
came to Carroll County, settling in Carrollton, 
where they lived the remainder of their lives. 
They had a family of nine children, as follows: 
Nancy Jane, wife of George Dickey, in Sher- 
rodsville, Carroll Co., Ohio; Jeniah, wife of 
Jeremiah Dotts, in Carrollton; Francis M. ; 
Elizabeth, Mrs. M. Tolls, in Canton, Ohio; 
Emeline, Mrs. John Hollor, in Carrollton; Will- 
iam Kirk; Charles E., in Masterville, Harrison 
Co., Ohio; Mary, Mrs. Charles Jackson, in Car- 
rollton, and Frank, also in Carrollton. In 1876, 
at the age of sixty-seven years, the mother died, 
and in 187'J the father followed her to the grave, 
also aged sixty-seven years. In politics he was a 
stanch Republican. 

Francis M. Hardesty, whose name heads this 
commemorative sketch, was reared on the home 



farm, and attended the common schools. He 
went with his parents to Wayne County, and 
here he worked on a farm and on a canal for a 
time, since when he has been in the milling 
business. The first mill he operated, known as 
"the old Hardesty mill" (a buhr mill), is still 
running. In Carrollton Mr. Hardesty formed a 
partnership with his brother, William Kirk, 
under the firm name of F. M. & W. K. Har- 
desty, as proprietors of a grist-mill, which part- 
nership has since continued. In 1864 Francis 
M. married Miss Mary Malinda, daughter of 
Absalom Carnes, of Carroll County, whose ante- 
cedents were pioneers of the county, and rive 
children were born to this union, viz. : William 
(on the C. & C. Valley Railroad), Francis M. , 
Carl and Claire (twins), and Mary, all at home. 

William Kirk Hardesty, brother of and 
partner in business with Francis M., was born 
November 20, 1845, and his early life was much 
the same as his brother's. On September 25, 
LS73. he was married to Miss Sisson Strayer, of 
Carroll County, both of whose parents are de- 
ceased, and by this union three children have 
been born, viz.: George M. , Mary Leezie, and 
Olive Belle, all at home. The parents are mem- 
bers of the Lutheran Church. 

In 1880 the brothers built the first stone 
grist-mill in the county, and six years ago they 
put in the patent roller process. They do a 
large, prosperous and increasing business, and 
are recognized as among the leading, progres- 
sive men of Carroll County. In politics the 
brothers are Republicans. 



UC. De FORD. This young, well-known 
I and highly popular member of the Oar- 
' roll County bar was born in Washington 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, November 
15, 1803. His boyhood was spent on the farm, 
from the duties of which, for a few months dur- 
ing the winter, he was free to attend the common 
schools of the neighborhood. He later, how- 
ever, had the advantages of various higher grade 
institutions of learning, and finally entered 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



Mount Union College, from which he graduated 
in the class of 1880. Soon thereafter he came 
to Carrollton, where he began reading law under 
the then existing firm of Raley & Fimple, and 
finished his preparatory studies. He was ad- 
mitted to practice March 8, 1888, and, the fol- 
lowing month, was elected a justice of the peace 
and mayor of the city, a position he is still fill- 
ing to the satisfaction of all, having been re- 
elected by a good majority to a second term. 
On April 26, 1S89, he formed a partnership with 
J. H. Fimple and Judge James Holder, under 
the firm name of Fimple, Holder & De Ford, 
which still continues. 

On December 3, 1888, Mr. De Ford was 
united in marriage with Miss Eva Rue, daughter 
of Joseph Rue (deceased), at one time mayor of 
Carrollton, and a prominent attorney of the 
place. The mother of Mrs. De Ford was Caro- 
line Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, a 
memoir of whom follows this. Mr. De Ford in 
his political preferments is a stanch Republican. 



with Masonic honors by the lodge of which he 
was a member of high standing. 






d<OHN THOMPSON (deceased) was born at 
Burgettstown, Penn., July 3, 1813, and 
was baptized into the Presbyterian faith, 
but later in life he united with the Lu- 
theran Church. In 1835 he came to Carrollton, 
where, for over fifty years, he carried on the 
business of cabinetmaker, and, in connection, 
that of undertaker and funeral director, having 
officiated during his lifetime at over 1,000 funer- 
als. He was of a most kind, sympathetic and 
obliging disposition, liberal and charitable, and 
mindful of the circumstances of the poor and 
needy in the hour of their bereavement. On 
November 29, 1837, he was married to Margaret 
E. Geiger, and for fifty-one years they lived in 
the house where he passed from earth. To this 
union were born four children, as follows: Mrs. 
Samantha A. Rukenbrod, Oscar E. (who died 
April 6, 1843), Edwin S. (living in Canton,Ohio), 
and Caroline L. Rue (who died November 25, 
1880). Mr. Thompson died from a general dis- 
solution of the whole system, and he was buried 



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EVI MILLER, one of the oldest living 
native-born residents of Carroll County, 
first saw the light in what is now Mon- 
roe Township, November 11, 1808, and 
is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Reader) Miller. 

Henry Miller was a native of Germany, 
whence, when he was eighteen years old he emi- 
grated to this country, locating at first in Penn- 
sylvania, where he married Elizabeth Reader, a 
native of Washington County, that State. 
They then removed to Ohio, and here, probably 
about the year 1807, settled in that part of the 
State which afterward became Carroll County, 
being among the early pioneers of these parts. 
At that time the dense woods were teeming with 
wild animals, and our subject well remembers 
his mother piling up wood against the frail door 
of their small log cabin, in order to keep out 
the savage wolves that prowled around the 
dwelling, "making night hideous" with their 
howls. Henry Miller served in the War of 
1812, leaving his family alone while he went to 
the front, and until his return home. He was 
the father of sis children, of whom the subject 
of this sketch is the eldest. 

Levi Miller was born and reared in the old 
log cabin above referred to, and in his boyhood 
and early manhood experienced all the hard- 
ships and trials of pioneer farming life. He 
attended the subscription schools, such as they 
were in those early times, and often encountered 
some of the denizens of the forest, such as 
wolves, deer, etc. He remained under the pa- 
ternal roof until his marriage April 18, 1830, 
with Julia A. Riley, a native of Cadiz, Ohio, 
and then commenced farming on a place of his 
own in Washington Township, Carroll County. 
To this union were born five children, only one > 
of whom survives, Henry W.. now residing on 
his father's old farm in Washington Township- 
Mrs. Miller died May 23, 1853, and in October, 
1875, Mr. Miller married, for his second wife, 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1051 



Mrs. Mary Buck, a native of Germany, born 
August 1, 1818, and who came to America with 
her parents, Andrew and Peggy Houck, early 
settlers of Carroll County. Since their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Miller have resided in Car- 
rollton, where he carried on a grocery business. 
She was confirmed in the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church at Carrollton, May 16, 1840, and has 
been a consistent member thereof ever since. 
Mr. Miller has been a member of the same 
church for the past fifty -five years. 



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LIAS STONEBROOK, one of the repre- 
sentative, native-born successful agri- 
j culturists of Carroll County, is well 
worthy of a prominent place in the Bio- 
graphical Record. 

At an early day, before Ohio had become a 
State, Jacob Stonebrook came hither from Mary- 
land, and for a time located on land in what is 
now Harrison County, thence moving to what 
afterward became Carroll County. Among his 
children was one son, also named Jacob, born in 
1798, who came with his parents to Ohio, and 
here married Agnes, daughter of Matthias 
Markley, one of the pioneers of this region. 
Mr. and Mrs. Stonebrook purchased a farm in 
what afterward became Perry Township, Carroll 
County, and at once began to build up a home 
for themselves and family, taking an active 
interest in the advancement of the country. 
After a time they gave up farming and removed 
to Perrysville, same county, and finally to Car- 
rollton, where Mr. Stonebrook died in 1873, his 
widow in 1S7(>, both aged seventy-live years. 
They were consistent members of the Reformed 
Church. They had been blessed with a family 
of eleven children, five of whom died in child- 
hood, and but four are now living, viz. : Elizabeth 
Smith, in Carroll County; Susanna Thompson, 
in Jefferson County, and Rachel Thompson, in 
Licking County, the subject of this sketch being 
fourth in older of birth. 

Elias Stonebrook, whose name appears at 
the head of this sketch, was born on his father's 



farm March 4, 1831, his boyhood and early 
mauhood being passed in assisting on the home- 
stead, and, for a few weeks in winter time, at- 
tending the subscription schools of the district. 
On September 6, 1850, he became united in 
marriage with Sarah Ann Lauthridge, a native 
of Harrison County, Ohio, and daughter of 
James and Sarah Ann (Henderson) Lauthridge. 
After marriage our subject and wife made their 
home on a farm he had bought in Perry Town- 
ship, until the spring of 1871, when they sold 
this property and purchased their present place 
in Centre Township, to which they removed. 
Two of the five children born to them are yet 
living, viz. : Agnes Annie, now Mrs. Elmer H. 
Harvey, residing in Washington, D. O, and 
Edward L., at home. The parents are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church; politically 
Mr. Stonebrook is a Republican, and has served 
his township as assessor, trustee, and in other 
positions of trust. His farm, comprising 100 
acres of well-imjiroved land, is situated about 
three-fourths of a mile east of Carrollton. 




EV. M. A. MILLER. In the year 1812 
there came to Columbiana County, Ohio, 
from Greensburg, Penn. , Peter and 
Christina (Aultman) Miller, who settled 
in New Lisbon where the former carried on 
blacksmithing, later following farming in that 
county. To this old pioneer couple were born 
ten children, of whom but three are now living, 
the subject of this sketch being the seventh in 
order of birth. His boyhood and early man- 
hood days were passed under the parental roof, 
the father employing a tutor or teacher, and 
converting one room in the house into a family 
schi ii '1 room, the German language being taught. 
When about eighteen years of age, our subject 
went to live with a brother in order to learn the 
trade of edge-tool making, remaining with him 
two years. Having formed a determination, 
however, to enter the ministry, he began, while 
working at his trade, to study for that service, 
and ere long was sent out as a home missionary 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



by the Evangelical Association, his labors being 
in the western part of Ohio. At that time the 
country was all a wilderness, and he had to 
travel on horseback along the paths through the 
dense woods, often riding fifty miles, and then 
without eating anything, go at once into the 
pulpit and preach a long sermon. For this hard 
and self-denying labor the highest salary he ever 
received was forty-seven dollars and fifty cents 
per year. About the year 1834 he was ordained 
to the ministry, and began officiating in Colum- 
biana and Stark Counties, Ohio, being one of 
the pioneer preachers. His parents were mem- 
bers of the Reformed Church of the old type, 
believing in baptism and confirmation and a 
good standing in the church as the only neces- 
sary means of grace; but the father, awakening 
to the truth through the preaching of two min- 
isters from the East, began holding family wor- 
ship. This was something so strange and un- 
known in the little town of New Lisbon, that the 
people would gather in crowds to see and hear 
him pray. As a result, Peter Miller and his 
family were turned out of the church. 

About 1850 Rev. M. A. Miller went to Alliance, 
Ohio, where he and his brothers built a dam 
across Mahoning Creek, where for years they 
operated two saw-mills and a grist-mill, our 
subject still continuing at the same time in tho 
ministry. Alliance was then but a small village, 
and he held forth in a carpenter's shop. After 
this he preached the gospel two years in Jeffer- 
son County, and in 1870 he was called to the 
charge of the Evangelical Church at Carrollton, 
whither he at once came. This church at that 
time was in a very weak state, having but about 
thirty members, and some twenty-five Sunday- 
school attendants, and during his pastorage of 
twelve years the membership was increased to 
217, and the Sunday-school attendance to over 
200. In 1883 Mr. Miller was compelled through 
failing health to retire from the ministry, and 
he has since lived a retired life in Carrollton. 

Our subject has been twice married, first 
time to Lydia Hankey, a native of Pennsylvania, 
who died in 1850, leaving sis children, four of 



whom are now living, viz. : Samuel, George, An- 
nie and Sarah. On May 10, 1852, he was mar- 
ried to Annie Whistler, who was born in Stark 
County, Ohio, November 3, 1831, by which 
union four children were born, two of whom are 
yet living, William Albert, a minister in the Re- 
formed Church, and Perry E. 



1/ SAAC COURTRIGHT, one of the honored 
old settlers of Carroll County, and one of 
[ the most esteemed citizens of Centre Town- 
ship, was born at Beaver Falls, Beaver Co., 
Penn. , July 8, 1814. His parents, John and 
Mary (Clarke) Courtright, natives of New Jer- 
sey, moved to Pennsylvania in 1800, and became 
early settlers of Beaver County, where they 
took up Government land, and made their resi- 
dence until 1818, when they came to Ohio, lo- 
cating in Columbiana County, and later in 
Jefferson County. They had born to them 
twelve children, of whom Isaac is the eighth in 
the order of birth. 

Isaac Courtright, of whom this sketch more 
especially treats, was, as will be seen, four years 
of age when his parents brought him to Ohio, 
and the next ten years were spent in Columbiana 
County, where he experienced all the hardships 
incident to the life of a pioneer boy, having to 
work hard on the farm and assist in the making 
of many improvements thereon. His educa- 
tional training was limited to about six weeks 
at school, but he succeeded in teaching himself 
to read and write, becoming, by dint of perse- 
verance and close study, very proficient in course 
of time. His parents having a large family to 
support, young Isaac had to start in life for 
himself in his boyhood. At fourteen years of 
age he went out to work among the settlers, 
many days laboring for them at from ten to 
twenty cents per day. In 1822 he came to 
what is now Carroll County, where he remained 
three years, and then moved away, being absent 
some five years, at the end of which time he re- 
turned. 

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to Sarah Norris, a native of New Jersey, who 
bad come to Ohio with her parents, and five 
children were born to this union, viz. : three 
that died in infancy, one deceased in childhood, 
and James, who was married March 8, 1887, to 
Rachel Ann, daughter of Samuel and Martha 
Hueston, early pioneers of Carroll County from 
Pennsylvania. After marriage our subject and 
wife located on a farm in Union Township, 
Carroll County, until 1838, in which year they 
removed to the farm on which he now lives in 
Centre Township, near Carrollton, and where 
she died April 22, 1885, after four years' patient 
suffering from a stroke of paralysis, which afflic- 
tion she bore with Christian fortitude. From 
her fifteenth year she had been a devoted mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 
politics Mr. Courtright is a Republican, and has 
served as township supervisor, school director, 
and in other offices of trust. 



OHN W. DENNIS. Among the most 
prominent farmers of Fox Township, 
Carroll County, the above named gentle- 
man is certainly one, for very few have 
lived here longer or are more widely or favor- 
ably known. He was born in Cumberland 
County, Penn., July 31, 1827. His great- 
grandfather, John Dennis, and his grandfather, 
James Dennis, were both born in Ireland and 
came to this country when the latter was fifteen 
years of age. When but sixteen years old 
James Dennis entered the Revolutionary War 
with his father, and at its close returned to his 
home in Franklin County, Penn., where he was 
married and reared a large family. John 
Dennis, Sr., father of John W., was born in 
Franklin County, Penn., in 1788, was reared 
there and finally met and married Miss Cather- 
ine Mishey, who was born in Adams County, 
Penn., in 1791, of German descent. In 1834 he 
came to Carroll County, Ohio, where he settled 
on a farm, and passed the remainder of his days, 
dying August 20, 1852, his wife following him 
to the grave February 23, 1862. Mr. Dennis 



was an educated, talented and benevolent man, 
always ready to assist, in time of need, his 
fellow-man. 

John W. Dennis spent the first seven years of 
his life in Pennsylvania, at the end of which 
time he was moved with his father's family to 
Ohio, where his father settled in the wilds of 
Carroll County. Here John W. received his 
primary education in the old-fashioned log 
school-house, which at that time was most 
primitive, and in 1838 he attended the first 
public school in Fox Township. On January 
27, 1848, at the age of twenty, he married Miss 
Rebecca Jane Hart, who was born in Pennsyl- 
vania, April 28, 1830, of old English ancestry. 
Mr. Dennis located in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
soon after marriage, and worked in the salt 
works for one year, but soon moved to a farm, 
which he carried on until the breaking out of 
the Civil War, when, like many other brave 
"boys," he went to the front, and took part in 
many important battles, among which were Port 
Gibson, May 1 ; Raymond, May 12, and Missis- 
sippi, May 14, 1863; he then marched to the city 
of Jackson, then followed the battle of Champion 
Hill, May 16, same year, and on May 18, fol- 
lowing, came up to the siege of Vicksburg. 
Mr. Dennis was discharged at Natchez, Miss., 
June 16, 1805, and returned home, where he 
had left his wife and nine children, but, alas! 
of these nine only three little ones were left 
with their mother to tell the sad tale of the 
doings of that mighty warrior — Death. Such 
are some of the hardships which our brave 
"boys" were subjected to. To the first mar- 
riage of Mr. Dennis were born in all fifteen 
children, viz.: Catharine E., Christian H, 
Martha J., Samuel F., Lydia A., Mary E., 
Sarah M., Delila B. , John N., a son deceased 
in infancy, Rebecca J., James M., Haddessa L., 
Thomas S., and a son deceased in infancy, all 
of whom have passed from earth except Samuel 
F., Lydia A., Delila B. , Rebecca J., James M., 
Haddessa L. and Thomas S. Mrs. Dennis died 
December 11, 1871, and Mr. Dennis married, for 
his second wife, Miss Lizzie Whitla, December 



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9, 1873, of which union five children were born, 
one of whom died in infancy, the survivors being 
William W., Charles W. , David L. and Eliza- 
beth E. In 1874 Mr. Dennis moved to his 
present home. He has a well-improved farm of 
eighty-three acres, on which are two orchards, 
and is provided with all modern improvements. 
Mr. Dennis has seen a great deal of life's trials, 
but has struggled through them all in a manly 
manner, showing that difficulties and adversities, 
if bravely surmounted, make us more truly 
noble and still more worthy of the esteem of 
our fellowmen. 



LEVI SIMMONS, a resident of Kilgore, 
v, Loudon Township, Carroll County, where 
Jl he is engaged in the furniture and un- 
dertaking business, was born in that 
township May 2, 1821, a grandson of Jacob 
Simmons, and son of William Simmons who 
was a native of Maryland, born near Hagers- 
town, December 3, 1795. When about ten 
years of age William, in company with his 
brothers, John, Adam and Jacob, came to Ohio, 
and here resided with his brother Adam till he 
was twenty-one years of age, working for his 
brothers as a day laborer till March, 1820. At 
that date he became united in marriage with 
Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John Peter and 
Lea (Cook) Albaugh, and born August 11, 
1S00. After this event he located on a piece of 
wild land which he had purchased some time 
previously, containing 155 acres, and now occu- 
pied by his son John, of Loudon Township. 
Here he erected a log cabin, and spent his life 
in clearing the place and making improvements. 
He and his wife were parents of eight children, 
as follows: Mary, in Loudon Township; John, 
on the old farm; Sarah, deceased; Matilda, in 
Loudon Township; Eliza, living with John; 
Charles W., in Lee Township, Carroll County; 
Jacob, deceased, and Levi, whose name heads 
this sketch. The father died December 22, 
1876, the mother February 1, 1883; they were 
consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal 



Church, and in politics Mr. Simmons was a 
zealous Republican. 

Levi Simmons was reared to manhood on the 
old farm, attending the district schools. On 
June 2, 1842, he was married to Miss Cynthia 
Cottrell, who was born in Harford County, Md., 
in 1815, daughter of Ephraim and Cynthia 
(Johnson) Cottrell, natives of Maryland. After 
marriage Mr. Simmons apprenticed himself to 
learn cabinet-making with Eli Simmons, with 
whom he worked three years; also spent some 
time at carpentering. In 1848 he removed to 
Amsterdam, same State, where he remained till 
1856, when he returned to Kilgore, and since 
1857 has been actively engaged in his present 
business. To Mr. and Mrs. Levi Simmons 
eight children have been born, viz. : Sheridan 
B. and David W. (both of whom died of diph- 
theria July 6, 1861, and were buried in the 
same grave), Morris, Martha A. (deceased), 
William F. (in Loudon Township), Mrs. 
Elizabeth J. Wrikeman and Mrs. Mary C. 
Tinlin (in Kilgore), and Thomas L. (at home). 
The parents are members of the Presbyterian 
Church. Mr. Simmons is a Republican. 



JOHN MOODY. Among the prominent 
early families of Carroll County, the 
Moodys are deserving of especial notice. 
At an early day James Moody, an Irish- 
man, by birth, located in what is now Fox 
Township, Carroll County (at that time a por- 
tion of Columbiana County, Ohio), near Scroggs- 
field, and he and his family resided there when 
the country was in its pioneer period, presenting 
an almost unbroken wilderness. Among the 
children of this early settler was a son, John, 
who was born on the original settlement in Fox 
Township, where he grew to maturity and mar- 
ried Phoebe Pugh, and they here passed the 
rest of their lives. Three sons and four daugh- 
ters were born to them, of whom the youngest 
but one is the subject of these lines; David 
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the daughters, Katie married John Gregory, 
Jane married James Gregory, Polly married 
John Maple, Betsy married David Need; Polly 
and Betsy are yet living. 

John Moody was born in Carroll County. 
Ohio, January 14, 1818, and his younger days 
were spent at home with his parents upon the 
farm, attending also the early subscription 
schools, and experiencing the privations incident 
to the pioneer times. At the age of fourteen 
he went to New Harrisbnrg, same county, 
where he served an apprenticeship with his 
brother-in-law, David Need, the village wagon- 
maker. Aftpr remaining with him three years 
he followed his trade as a journeyman, and 
moved to Carrollton, where he engaged with 
Elisha McGuire, the pioneer wagon and plow 
maker of the place. On March 28, 1839, Mr. 
Moody was married to Lena Pugh, who was born 
February IS, 1817, a daughter of John and 
Mary (Reed) Pugh, both of Virginia, and same 
year established himself in business in Carroll- 
ton. After following his trade for many years 
he purchased his present farm near the town 
and moved tliereon, which farm contains 160 
acres. He has operated a coal bank and dealt 
in sheep. Mr. Moody has always been active 
in public enterprises and improvements. He is 
a hearty supporter of the Republican party, 
has twice served as treasurer of Carroll Count}' 
and has held various township positions of 
trust. Mr. and Mrs. Moody have had nine 
children, four of whom are yet living, viz. : 
Mary Ann, wife of John Gantz, of Carrollton, 
Ohio; John, married November 26, 1868, to 
Areal Amos, daughter of William Amos, of 
Carroll County; Frank, married October 16, 
1 ^73, to Sarah Smeltz, daughter of Peter 
Smeltz, of Carroll County, and William, born 
in 1855, married in 1879 to Susie A., daughter 
of W. F. Bricker, of Carrollton, and now living 
on the homo farm. Those deceased are Will- 
iam Harrison, died in 1841; Phoebe Ellen, died 
in 1843; Maurice, died in 1857; Hannah N. , 
died in 1875, and Samantha Jane, died in 1888. 
Mr. and Mrs. Moody are worthy members of the 



Presbyterian Church, and are highly respected 
and esteemed by all. 



df AMES H. PETERSON, one of the leading 
young farmers of Carroll County, son of 
/ John and Emily J. (Daniels) Peterson, was 
born July 26, 1862, in Springfield Town- 
ship, Jefferson Co., Ohio, and moved to Loudon 
Township, Carroll County in 1865, where he 
was reared and educated, and where, on his fa- 
ther's farm, he assisted from the time he was 
able to work, in the labor incident to the life of 
the husbandman. On October 21, 1SS6, he was 
married to Olive V. Jenkins, of Jefferson County, 
Ohio, born July 28, 1868, a daughter of Cyme 
Jenkins, who was born in Orange Township, 
Carroll County, in 184(1, where he remained 
until about fifteen years of age. Cyrus Jen- 
kins then moved with his parents to Jefferson 
County, and here the balance of his brief but use- 
ful life was spent. He was among the first of the 
sons of Ohio to respond to the call for volunteers 
to suppress the Rebellion, enlisting in the Fifty- 
second O. V. I., whose fortunes he followed 
about three years. Soon after his return from 
the seat, of war Mr. Jenkins commenced in the 
drug business at East Springfield, Jefferson 
County, where he died in 1872. In 1S67 he 
was married to Martha Hamilton, daughter of 
Dr. George D. Hamilton, of Columbiana Coun- 
ty, Ohio, and two children were born to them, 
viz.: Olive V. (Mrs. James H. Peterson) and 
Samson. The parents were members of the 
Presbyterian Church, as are the children, anil in 
his political preferments Mr. Jenkins was first 
a Whig and afterward a Republican. Mrs. 
Jenkins died in 1879, and was laid to rest by 
the side of her husband. Samson Jenkins, the 
father of Cyrus, was born March 9, 1810, in Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio, where his ancestors had re 
sideil for many years. He was married to Eliza- 
beth Holmes, of Carroll County, Ohio, who bore 
him three children: Cyrus, Luther and Amanda. 
He died on September 12, 1889; his widow yet 
survives him. His politics were the same as 



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those of his son Cyrus. The Jenkins family 
are among the best known in Jefferson County, 
and are much esteemed by all. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Peterson 
settled on the home place in Loudon Township, 
where they remained till 1889, in which year 
they came to their present property in Lee 
Township, comprising 160 acres of highly im- 
proved land, where he carries on general farm- 
ing inclusive of stock-raising. They are both 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Harlem Springs, and in politics Mr. Peterson is 
an active Democrat. 

Mrs. Emily J. Peterson, mother of the gen- 
tleman whose name opens this sketch, was born 
in Lee Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, February 
10, 1852, a daughter of Henry Daniels, a son 
of Samuel, who was a son of Charles, a native 
of Ireland. In an early day Charles Daniels 
located in Hancock County, Va. , where he re- 
mained a short time and then removed to Lee 
Township, Carroll County, and entered a large 
tract of land, where he spent his last days. 
His son Samuel was born in Hancock County, 
Va. , and was reared to manhood in Carroll 
County, Ohio. He married Sarah Peterson, 
who bore him the following children: Henry, 
Jennie, Hiram, Seth, Cynthia, Mary, Ethan 
Allen, Charles, Jonathan, Hannah, Louisa and 
Sarah. Samuel Daniels entered land in Lee 
Township, and soon after his marriage went 
back to Hancock County, Va., where he re- 
mained a few years and then returned to Lee 
Township, where he remained until his death. 
He was born in 1780 and died in 1862. Polit- 
ically he was a Republican. His son Henry 
was born in Hancock County, Va., October 3, 
1801, and when a small boy came to Lee Town- 
ship, where he was educated and taught school 
for some years. On October 23, 1S23, he mar- 
ried Harriet Gettis, who was born May 31, 
1806, a daughter of William and Sarah 
(Crouch) Gettis, natives of Ireland, and early 
settlers of Carroll County. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry Daniels were born fifteen children, as 
follows: Asa, born March 23, 1825, residing 



in California; John, September 21, 1826, de- 
ceased; Sarah, January 15, 1828, in Missouri; 
Cyrus O, October 3, 1829, deceased; William, 
June 2, 1831, deceased; Larkin L., June 15, 
1833, deceased; Emily J., February 10, 1835; 
Lydia A., December 12, 1836, in Carroll County; 
Eliza, March, 26, 1839, deceased; Elizabeth, 
February 11, 1841, in Jefferson County, Ohio; 
Caroline, March 24, 1843, in Kansas City; 
Ezra T., December 24, 1844; Samuel, May 11, 
1847, deceased; Mary I., November 11, 1849, 
in Missouri; Winrield Scott, August 10, 1852, 
in Denver, Colo. Mr. Daniels resided in Lee 
Township until 1870, when he removed to Clin- 
ton County, Mo., where he died August 26, 
1881 ; his wife died March 7, 1880. They were 
members of the Presbyterian Church of Har- 
lem Springs. Mr. Daniels served one term as 
county commissioner. 

Emily J. Daniels, on January 22, 1856, 
married John Peterson, who was born June 17, 
1826, in Lee Township, Carroll County, a son 
of James, who was a son of John, who, about 
1800, settled on Yellow Creek, Jefferson County. 
James Peterson was born on Yellow Creek in 
1803, and married Matilda McCaunaugh, to 
which union were born eleven children, viz. : 
Mary, deceased; John, deceased; James, in 
Springfield Township, Jefferson Co., Ohio; 
Elizabeth, deceased; Joseph, in Bergholz, 
Ohio; Prudence; Charles, in Lee Township; 
Finney, deceased; Matilda, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio; 
Lucinda, Sherrodsville, Ohio, and William, in 
Jefferson County, Ohio. James Peterson died in 
Jefferson County.Ohio, in 1871 ; his widow is still 
living, at the age of eighty-six years. John 
Peterson grew to manhood in Jefferson County, 
whither his parents had removed soon after 
his birth. To him and his wife were born Asa, 
November 16, 1857, deceased; Elizan, July 6, 
1859, living in Jefferson County; Harriet M. , 
November 3,1860; James H., July 26, 1862, 
in Lee Township; Ezra, June 21, 1864, in Jef- 
ferson County, and Joseph, June 1, 1866, at 
home. In 1863 John Peterson purchased the 
farm where his family now reside, which con- 



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tained 200 acres. He died September 23, 1886. 
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and politically was Democratic; Mrs. 
Peterson is also a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 



TfAMES D. THOMPSON, one of the well- 
^ 1 1 known, prosperous and prominent farmers 
\J) of Brown Township, Carroll County, is a na- 
tive of the same, having been born August 
3, 1827. His grandfather, William Thompson, 
who was a native of Ireland, and by occupation 
a farmer, was married at an early age to Mar- 
gery McCamey, to which union were born 
seven children, viz. : Robert, Brown, John, 
Margery, Elizabeth, Mary and Jane. Owing 
to the tyrannical form of government, and the 
oppression received at the hands of the lords, 
he found it difficult to maintain his large fami- 
ly on the meager allowance granted him by the 
Government; so on account of these oppressions 
he decided to leave Ireland for America, where 
he and his family could have land of their own. 
It was on a bright May morning when they 
bade farewell to "Old Ireland," threw off the 
yoke of oppression, and set sail for this great 
home of the free. After being tossed about 
on the angry Atlantic nine long, weary weeks, 
they arrived at Philadelphia in August, 1789. 
At first they located at McKeesport, Westmore- 
land County, Penn., where the grandfather of 
our subject purchased a farm. He remained on 
the same place until 180S, in which year he sold 
his farm and moved to Ohio, where he bought 
a farm in that section of the country which after- 
ward became Brown Township, Carroll County. 
This farm is now known as "the Thompson 
Homestead." Here he remained until his death, 
which occurred in the year 1821, soon to be 
followed by that of his loving companion who 
died in 1829; their remains are quietly resting 
iu a family graveyard on the McElhaney Farm, 
near Pekin, Ohio. The girls of this family, 
who all married, lived and died in Carroll County, 
excepting Margery, who died in Stark County. 



The two boys, Brown and John, died in the 
War of 1812. 

Robert Thompson, the father of the subject 
of this sketch, was born in County Tyrone, 
Ireland, in 1787, and was but an infant when 
brought to America. He received his education 
in Westmoreland County, Penn., and came with 
his father's family to Ohio, in 1808. In 1818 
he was married to Sarah Downing, daughter of 
James and Sarah Downing, who were of Scotch 
descent. Mr. and Mrs. Downing had a family 
of seven children, viz. : James, Hugh, Adam, 
Drusilla, Susan, Margaret and Sarah. Mr. 
and Mrs. Downing came from Virginia to Ohio 
in 1800, and settled on a farm in Sandy Town- 
ship, Stark County. This family was noted for 
bravery and fortitude. The following is an ac- 
count of one of Downing' s scouting expeditions: 
James Downing, the grandfather of James D. 
Thompson, was appointed by the Government 
captain of a body of Indian scouts, whose duty it 
was to protect the frontier and inform the sol- 
diers as to the movements of the Indians. On 
one of these scouting expeditions he and four 
others, named Miller, Cuppy, Foltz and Dillo, 
were attacked while in camp by a body of armed 
Indians, their camp being situated south of the 
present site of Minerva. While two of the party 
were preparing breakfast, two were standing 
guard, and Downing was graining a deer-skin. 
The two who were left on guard, discovering two 
Indians stealing up the bank, gave the cry of 
alarm "Indians!" at the same time tired their 
trusty rifles, and the two Indians bit the dust. 
The cry of alarm and the report of rilles caused 
the others to drop their work, seize their rifles 
and rush down the bank. When they reached the 
brow of the hill they discovered a body of about 
twenty-five Indians, and Foltz and Dillo, who 
had been previously captured, and feared torture 
if again made prisoners, at once broke and ran. 
Their running off left no alternative for Cuppy 
and Downing but to follow their example, so all 
four ran toward where Minerva now stands. 

Foltz, in an effort to unloose a handker- 
chief from around his neck, drew the knot 



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tighter, which produced strangulation, causing 
the blood to flow from his nostrils. He called 
out " Oh, Downing!" and Downing, turning and 
discovering the trouble, tore the handkerchief 
from Foltz' s neck; he then rejoined Cuppy, and 
the two fled on for their lives. In the meantime 
Foltz and Dillo had hid in a hazel thicket, which 
was afterward searched over and over again by 
the Indians. As they lay there they could catch 
glimpses of the cruel, horribly painted savages, 
as they cunningly stole through the brush as a 
tiger hunts his prey. After Foltz and Dillo had 
lain there quite a while, the Indians gave up the 
search, turned back and plundered the camp. 

While some of the Indians were searching 
for Foltz and Dillo, Downing and Cuppy were 
pursued by a, large Indian, who, every time Down- 
ing would turn to look back, would stop and pat 
his breast as an invitation for Downing to shoot; 
but before he could take aim the Indian would 
drop in the grass, and as soon as Downing 
would start again, would rise up and follow 
him. Downing, growing tired of such busi- 
ness, and thinking he could reload his gun be- 
fore the Indian could overtake him, suddenly 
turned, took a quick aim, tired, and the brave but 
cruel Indian fell to rise no more. In the mean- 
time Miller was having a race for life across the 
prairie. Just as he came up the bank of the 
stream (now called the Stillfork) another of the 
Indians, feeling sure of a scalp, threw down his 
gun and, taking his tomahawk, gave the scalp 
whoop. Then the race began, and, as Dillo and 
Foltz afterward said, it was the finest they had 
ever seen. But Miller, being the swifter runner, 
soon left the Indian far behind, and that night 
he slept in a hollow chestnut tree, near where the 
village of New Harrisburg now stands. It was 
two days after this when they all reached the 
settlement in West Virginia, having had nothing 
to eat but berries and nuts gathered in the 
woods, as all their supply of food had been left 
in the camp. 

At the death of his father, Robert Thompson 
came into possession of the old homestead, and 
he and his wife resided there the remainder of 



their lives. To their union were born eight 
children, viz. : Margery McCamey, deceased; 
a son who died in infancy ; Lavinia ; James Down- 
ing; John; Nancy Ann; W T illiam Irvin and 
Arminta Vienna. The family were all married, 
and settled near the old homestead, excepting 
Arminta who resides in McPherson, Kas. The 
father of this family was one of the prominent 
farmers of his time, and was very successful dur- 
ing his life, having accumulated 1,000 acres of 
fine, fertile land in the Big Sandy Valley of Car- 
roll County. He held several township offices, 
and on account of his soundness of judgment his 
advice was always solicited in business pertain- 
ing to township affairs. The War of 1812 
between our nation and England, and conse- 
quent hostilities of the Indians, greatly retarded 
the settlement of not only Brown Township, 
but of all this section of the country. When the 
first call for troops was made, James Reed, 
Robert Thompson, Samuel Knapp and John 
Creighton volunteered and marched toward De- 
troit, which was the general rendezvous; but 
Hull having surrendered they were discharged, 
and returned home after having gone as far as 
Sandusky. 

In religion Mr. Thompson was not a member 
of church, but attended the Baptist Church, of 
which his wife was a member, and he always 
gave liberally toward the support of the good 
cause. He and his family contributed toward 
the erection of the following churches: Chris- 
tian, Methodist and Presbyterian, all in Malvern, 
Ohio. Politically he was a Whig, and was an 
ardent believer in the principles advocated by 
that party. One day, while at work in the field, 
he was suddenly taken ill, and in spite of the 
best medical aid called in he died after an illness 
of only a few days, his death occurring June 14, 
18 4 4. He left a widow and seven children, the 
eldest son, James, being only sixteen years of 
age. The great responsibilities of the widowed 
mother can only be realized by those having 
large farms to superintend, and the care of large 
families. She was a woman of great native abili- 
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the widow and a father to the fatherless. With 
this assurance she was able to carry her work on 
successfully. The estate remained as it was at 
the death of her husband until their youngest 
child became of age, when the family divided 
the estate amicably among themselves, the 
mother taking the old homestead, the bal- 
ance of the estate being evenly divided among 
her children. Here, amid her children, did 
this loving and devoted mother pass the re- 
mainder of her days, until April 28, 1882, sur- 
rounded by her six children, she calmly passed to 
rest at the age of eighty-two years. Her remains, 
with those of her husband, are peacefully rest- 
ing in Bethlehem Cemetery. After her death 
the heirs sold the old homestead to the youngest 
son, William Irvin, who now resides on the same. 
James Downing Thompson, whose name 
appears at the beginning of this sketch, had but 
limited educational advantages, his years for 
schooling having been shortened because of his 
father's death. Being the eldest son he was 
compelled to leave school and assist his mother 
in superintending the farm; but the education 
he received was of the kind gained by experi- 
ence, which is lasting and far more valuable 
than years of schooling which can scarcely ever 
be applied to a practical business life. With 
the aid of his mother and brothers he conducted 
the business connected with the farm until the 
youngest child became of age, at which time he 
received the farm on which he now resides as his 
stfare of the estate. He was married, in 1865, 
to Margaret Matilda Haines, daughter of Joseph 
and Hannah Haines, whose genealogy appears 
in a sketch of the Haines family elsewhere in 
this volume. To this union were born the fol- 
lowing named children : Margery Joette, Rob- 
ert, Hannah Maude, Albert Haines, James Har- 
vey, Tottie (deceased), Sarah Downing, Ethel 
Lucile, and an infant daughter (latter deceased). 
He gave his children a liberal education, the two 
eldest having attended school at Hiram College, 
where Maude is at present taking the classical 
course, the other children being tooyouug to enter 
college. Mr. Thompson is a prosperous farmer, 



and through their mutual economy he and his 
wife have increased their farm from 130 to 560 
acres. Mr. Thompson has made farming a speci- 
alty and he believes that greater progress would 
be achieved if every farmer would adopt a 
plete system instead of going on in a hap-haz- 
ard way. He is a man of his own mind, be- 
ing a good thinker, and in his business trans- 
actions he is honest and honorable; he has never 
had in his business any serious trouble, and has 
never had occasion to seek justice by litigation. 
Mr. Thompson has traveled extensively through- 
out the United States. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican, has held several offices in the name of his 
party, and he believes that the greatest care 
should be taken in executing the trust of the 
people. Mr. Thompson and his family are active 
members of the Christian Church at Malvern, he 
being an elder in the same. 



JAMES TRIPP, one of the well-known 
and prominent farmers of Orange Town- 
ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, was born Septem- 
ber 3, 1819, in Washington County, Penn. 
His father, Joseph, was born in New York State, 
but, in early boyhood, was taken to Washing- 
ton County, Penn. , where he grew to manhood, 
and also acquired his knowledge of books and 
men. He was, while quite young, married to 
Anna Reed, daughter of James Reed, one of 
the early settlers of Pennsylvania. She died 
soon after their marriage, leaving two children: 
James and Rebecca. Mr. Tripp was again mar- 
ried, his wife being Susanna Norris, who bore 
him the following named children: Jane, Ke- 
ziah, Elizabeth, Susanna and Joseph. Joseph 
Tripp came to Ohio in 1838, with his family, 
and purchased a piece of land, which was alto- 
gether wild, except that it was improved witli a 
small log cabin. Into this he moved, and began 
the cultivation of his place, which he accom- 
plished by the aid of his children. He was a 
Democrat, and took quite an active part in the 
management of his party. In religion he was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 



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and among its strictest and most influential 
members. He was a kind, liberal-minded man, 
one who was ever on the alert to assist in all 
matters of humanity. He quietly passed away 
at an advanced age, and was laid to rest in Pal- 
ermo Cemetery. 

James Tripp came with his parents to Ohio, 
and remained at home during his youth, assist- 
ing his father in the improvement and clearing 
of his farm. His time was fully occupied in 
such duties, as he was the only son, and, as a 
consequence, he had but little time for attend- 
ance at the schools. But, as ofttimes happens, 
he acquired an education in the school of hard 
work and economy, which has made him one of 
the successful farmers of his section. On No- 
vember 16, 1843, he married Eleanor Brewer, 
who bore him children as follows: Isaac B. , 
Joseph R., Margaret Jane, Caroline E., Lorin 
W., David J., John W. and Thomas. David 
Brower and wife came from Maryland and settled 
in Orange Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, among 
the first settlers, and Mrs. Tripp was born in Ohio 
when there were very few settlers here. 

Mr. Tripp has always been identified with 
the Democratic part)', and has been among 
its leaders, a position which his self-education 
has admirably fitted him to fill. Mr. Tripp has 
always been a Presbyterian, and has taken an 
active part in the management of the church. 
He commenced his married life with working 
out, his first job being clearing land at six dol- 
lars per acre, and, by working long and hard, 
he made about sixty cents per day. Not dis- 
couraged, however, he kept on, saving little by 
little, and investing it, until at present his farm 
consists of 300 acres, well adapted to general 
farming and stock-raising. 



MARY CATHARINE SIMMONS, widow 
of Adam Simmons, who in his lifetime 
_ was one of the well-known and highly 
f/ respected agriculturists of Loudon 

Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, was born in Fred- 
erick County, Md. , June 20, 1822. She is a 



daughter of Adam Lucas, a native of Maryland, 
born in 1798, a son of Thomas Lucas, also a 
Marylander, who migrated to Ohio in 1808, and 
settled in Jefferson County, where he passed 
the remainder of his days. Adam Lucas was 
ten years old when he came to Ohio, in which 
State he grew to manhood. Revisiting Mary- 
land, he there married Miss Rhoda Larkins, a 
native of Frederick County, that State, and to 
this union were born the following named chil- 
dren: Mary C. ; Elizabeth A., residing with Mrs. 
Simmons; Sarah, Thomas, John and Jesse, all de- 
ceased in infancy; Susan, who died at the age of 
seventeen years; Martha, who died when thirty- 
two years old; Josiah and Jeremiah, both resi- 
dents of Loudon Township, Carroll County. 
Adam Lucas, about one year after his marriage, 
returned to Ohio and purchased a farm of 181 
acres in Loudon Township, Carroll County, 
where he spent his latter days in clearing the 
land. He died in 1877, his wife having preced- 
ed him to the grave in 1872; they were members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many 
years, and in politics he was a Republican. 

Of their children, Mary O, whose name 
heads this sketch, was reared to womanhood in 
Loudon Township, and received a good com- 
mon-school education. On March 4. 1847, she 
married Adam Simmons, a native of Maryland, 
born in 1808, and who came to Ohio when a 
small boy, being reared to manhood on the farm 
now owned by his son, Jesse T. After his mar- 
riage he remained on the old farm for about eight 
years, when he purchased the property now 
owned by our subject. Here he remained till 
his death, which occurred July 25, 1877, at 
which time he was owner of a one-half section 
of land. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons were the par- 
ents of eight children, viz. : Harvey, who died 
when fifteen years of age; John, when four years 
old, and Sarah, when two years old; Martha, 
who died in infancy; Catharine and Joseph, when 
aged six years and four years, respectively; 
Jesse T., residing on the old farm, and Theresa 
A. Stinger, living with her widowed mother. 
Politically Mr. Simmons was a Republican, and 



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be beld many offices of trust in the township. 
He was for a long time an active member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church (as is his widow), 
having served as steward for many years. Mrs. 
Simmons, since her husband's death, has con- 
tinued to reside on the farm, of which she has 
the management. 



fJTILIP "WEAVER. Among the most well- 
known and highly-esteemed citizens of 
Brown Township, Carroll County, this 
gentleman holds prominent place. He 
is a native of Germany, born June 4, 1831, and 
was brought by his parents to this country when 
six years old. His father, Jacob Weaver, also 
a native of Germany, was there married to 
Philopena Feldt, and by her had the following 
named children: Jacob, Elizabeth, Philip, David 
and Henry. In 1837 the family set sail for the 
United States, and after a tempestuous passage 
arrived in New York City. The remainder of 
their journey to Massillon, Stark Co., Ohio, they 
made by lake and canal; then by "wagon" to 
the farm upon which they settled, near Oneida, 
Brown Township, Carroll Co. , Ohio. Here they 
lived and carried on farming for about fourteen 
years, after which they purchased and removed 
to a farm near Sandyville, Tuscarawas County, 
upon which they lived and raised their family. 
The father, Jacob Weaver, died in the year 
1863, leaving his wife on the homestead, where 
she is still living at an advanced age. He and 
his family were members of the Lutheran 
Church; in politics he was first a Democrat, but 
afterward changed to a Whig, and on the forma- 
tion of the party, became a Republican. 

Philip Weaver, whose name opens this sketch, 
was educated at the district schools of the 
neighborhood, and was reared to agricultural 
pursuits, afterward learning the blacksmith's 
trade. On November 24, 1853, he was united 
in marriage with Margaret McNamara, daughter 
of James and Elizabeth McNamara, natives of 
Pennsylvania. Hugh McNamara, father of 
James McNamara, was born in Ireland, where 



he was married to Sarah Forman, who bore him 
the following named children: Robert, James, 
Margaret, Jane, Hugh and William. They 
came to America at an early date, and located 
in Pennsylvania, where they remained until 
1820, in which year they came to what is now 
Carroll County, Ohio, entering a farm in Brown 
Township. Hugh McNamara was in religion 
a Presbyterian, and in politics a Democrat. 
James McNamara was a youth when he came 
with his parents from the Keystone State to 
Brown Township, and he ever after identified 
himself with the progressive interests of Carroll 
County. He was married while yet a young 
man to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mar- 
garet Haines, who emigrated in 1816, from 
Frederick County, Md. , and settled nearPekin, 
Carroll Co., Ohio. After marriage they settled 
on the farm now owned by Philip Weaver. To 
Mr. and Mrs. James McNamara were born three 
children, named Margaret, Sarah A. and Car- 
oline. The father died December 9, 1862, and 
the mother October 1, 1871, both members of 
the Presbyterian Church. Politically Mr. Mc- 
Namara voted with the Democratic party. 

For some time after their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Philip Weaver resided in Rose Township, 
Carroll County, thence moved to Oneida, Brown 
Township, where he was engaged in blacksmith- 
ing and the manufacturing of carriages for 
fourteen years, and in 1871, they came to their 
present residence. Since then they have pur- 
chased the farm comprising 168 acres of prime 
land, and have materially improved it, erecting 
commodious out-buildings, in addition to a large, 
handsome dwelling. The children who have 
come to bless their union were as follows: 
Elma E. (now Mrs. Levi Cook), Arintha C. (de- 
ceased wife of Emanuel Koontz), Alvin J., 
Arthur P., Lorin A., Herbert A., Abby (now 
Mrs. William Bortz), and Maggie and Orion H. 
(last two named being deceased). The surviving 
children are all living in the neighborhood of 
their parents except Mrs. Cook, who emigrated 
to Sumner County, Kas., where she resides 
with her familv. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver and 



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family are members of the Lutheran Church at 
Malvern, in which, for many years, he has been 
an officer, and toward which he has always been 
liberal in his support; he was one of the builders 
of the present Lutheran Church building at 
Malvern. In his political preferments Mr. 
Weaver has always been an active Republican. 



AMUEL J. BORLAND, who ranks among 
tbe prominent and progressive agricult- 
urists of Harrison Township, Carroll 
County, is a native of the county, having 
been born in Monroe Township February 11, 
1849, the eldest son of "Washington and Magda- 
lene (Easterday) Borland, a sketch of whom 
appears elsewhere. Our subject's early life was 
passed on the home farm, attending as oppor- 
tunity offered in the winter months the district 
schools of the neighborhood. Mr. Borland has 
always evinced a love for books, and being a 
great reader has succeeded in laying in a profit- 
able store of literary pabulum. At the age of 
twenty-seven years he left home and commenced 
business for himself, renting a farm of his 
father which he carried on for several years. 
In 1883 he purchased a farm, paying for same 
with the proceeds of his own labor; it com- 
prises 120 acres of prime land, well stocked 
and admirably adapted to all branches of agri- 
culture, and, in 1891, he purchased a farm of 
sixty-five acres. 

On October 30, 1879, Mr. Borland was mar- 
ried to Anna E., daughter of John M. Mowls, 
of Brown Township, Carroll County, and a 
member of one of the early families of the 
county. The parents of Mr. Mowls settled in 
Rose Township, where he passed his youth, and 
soon after attaining his majority he was married 
to Mary Gamble, who bore him the following 
named children: Anna E., James, Jasper, Lee, 
John, Virgil, Mary, Lillie and an infant un- 
named. Mr. Mowls was a farmer by occupation, 
and one of the successful men of his township; 
in religion he was a member of the Methodist 
Protestant Church, of which he was an elder 



for several years, and in politics he was a Dem- 
ocrat. Mr. and Mrs. Borland after marriage 
settled on the farm where the family now reside 
in Harrison Township, and the children who 
have come to brighten their home are John and 
Elmer, who are at present receiving the benefits 
of the home schools. In politics Mr. Borland 
is a zealous Democrat, and he takes an active 
part in all the progressive movements of his 
township, being a leader in the community. 



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H' ENRY BALL, one of the most promi- 
nent farmers of Orange Township, Car- 
roll County, was born January 9, 1812, on 
the farm where he now lives. The Ball 
family, of whom he is a member, can be traced 
to Scotch ancestry who, for the most part, were 
farmers and sheep-breeders in the "land of the 
mountain and the flood," as Sir Walter Scott 
poetically describes Scotland. The first of 
them to come to American soil settled many 
years ago in Virginia, where they followed agri- 
cultural pursuits on a more extended scale than 
they did in their native land. Here they died, 
aDd were laid peacefully to rest on the hillside 
where often they had cultivated the fields, or, 
mayhap, hunted the wild deer. 

Henry Ball, Sr. , father of the subject of this 
notice, was born in Loudoun County, Va., 
February 15, 1777, died November 25, 1850; 
he was a member of the old Quaker Society, 
and was buried in the old Quaker burying 
ground near Leesville, Ohio. He married 
Mary M. Carter, who was born October 12, 
1815, in Charles County, Md., and in 1816 was 
brought to Ohio by her parents, Jesse and 
Christena Carter. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ball, 
Sr. , were the parents of five children — two sons 
and three daughters — viz.: Lemuel O, an 
attorney at law in Uhrichsville, Ohio; Henry, 
Jr. ; Mary, wife of John R. Gartrell, a farmer 
of Orange Township, Carroll County; Sarah 
Jane, married to Richard Newell, a farmer near 
Leavittsville, Carroll County, and Christina 
(Mrs. Isaac N. Keepers), a widow living at 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



Kit;:! 



Scio, Ohio, her husband having died in 1890. 
The mother of these children died August 29, 
1888. 

Henry Ball, whose name opens this sketch, 
was reared on his father's farm, and obtained a 
good practical educational training at the old 
log school-house of the neighborhood. After 
his school days he worked on the farm all the 
year round, proving himself most useful to his 
parents, until February, 1804, when he enlisted 
in Company F, Eleventh Ohio Cavalry, which 
served in Colorado and Wyoming Territories. 
After serving two and a half years, he returned 
to the home farm, and in March, 1870, he was 
married to Blanche Forrester, who was born 
August 29, 1850, at Leesville, Ohio, a daughter 
of J. M. and Anna Forrester, natives of Ohio. 
To this union were born four children, viz. : 
Imogene, Estella, Henry L. and Alfred F. 
Mr. Ball's farm, comprising 100 acres of well- 
improved land, is situated one mile north of 
Leesville, and gives every evidence of his suc- 
cess as an experienced agriculturist. Mr. and 
Mrs. Ball and family staud high in the estima- 
tion of the people, and are ranked among Car- 
roll County's representative citizens. In poli- 
tics he is Republican. 



rif BR AHAM VAN HORN. The Van Horns 
[] \\ in Carroll County claim their descent 
l/~l\ from an old Dutch family of that name 
'/ who came with a colony of settlers in 

this country from Holland, and took up their 
abode near what is now New York, but in those 
long-ago days was known as New Amsterdam. 
In 1790, at Potterstown, N. J., was born Abra- 
ham Van Horn, a son of Abraham and Eva 
(Pickle) Van Horn, and some years afterward 
the family removed to Pennsylvania and settled 
in Union County, where Abraham Van Horn 
(grandfather of our subject) died at the age of 
ninety years nine months twenty days. His son 
Abraham was a powerful athlete, and became 
the champion wrestler of Union County. He 
was married in Pennsylvania to Mrs. Sarah 



Renner (nee Reed), a native of the Keystone 
State and daughter of Robert and Annie Reed, 
by birth New Englanders, who had come to 
Pennsylvania in an early day, but subsequently 
moved to Ohio, where they died. 

About the year 1817 Abraham Van Horn 
came with his family to Ohio and settled in the 
wilds of Columbiana County, where he entered 
a quarter section of land which is now part of 
Carroll County. On one occasion Mr. Van Horn 
paid a visit to his old home in New Jersey, 
walking the entire way, there and back. He 
and his wife, about the year 1843, removed to 
McHenry County, 111. , where he died in 1802, 
at the age of seventy-four years; his widow re- 
turned to Ohio and spent her last days among 
her children, dying at the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. Joel Pennock, at the age of seventy-eight 
years. 

Abraham Van Horn, the subject proper of 
this sketch, is the fourth child in the order of 
birth in the family of four sons and four 
daughters born to Abraham and Sarah (Renner) 
Van Horn, seven of whom grew to maturity. 
He was born November 11, 1821, in a log cabin 
near New Lisbon, Ohio, and his boyhood and 
early youth were passed in alternating between 
the subscription schools of the neighborhood 
and the duties of the farm. When he was 
about twenty years of age his parents moved, 
as already related, to Illinois, and he then com- 
menced to learn the trade of cabinet-maker, 
serving his apprenticeship in Hanover and Car- 
rollton, Carroll County, at times working as 
journeyman. In 1844 he was married to Miss 
Julia Ann Fishel, a native of what is now Car- 
roll County, Ohio, and daughter of John and 
Amy Fishel, early pioneers of this part of the 
State. Soon after marriage the young couple 
located in Augusta. Carroll County, where he 
established himself at his trade. Here they re- 
sided some two years and a half, when Mrs. 
Van Horn was called from earth, the mother of 
two children — Sarah Samantha, who died in in- 
fancy, and John Fishel, who grew to manhood, 
but was killed in Illinois by a boiler explosion. 



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After his wife's death Mr. Van Horn spent some 
time in traveling in the West, through Indiana 
and Illinois, among other places visiting, in 
1847, Chicago, then a comparatively small town. 
Returning to Carroll County in the fall of that 
year he located in Malvern, where he again 
established himself in business, also carrying 
on farming near that town. Here, in 1848, he 
was married to Harriet P. Rodocker. In 1862 
they moved to Minerva, same county, and soon 
afterward settled on his present place in Brown 
Township, one mile south of Minerva, where 
Mrs. Van Horn died in 1884 at the age of fifty- 
six years. The results of this union were nine 
children, seven of whom are living. On Sep- 
tember 21, 1886, Mr. Van Horn became united 
in marriage with Mrs. Matilda Leith, widow of 
William Leith, and a daughter of Patrick and 
Elizabeth (Brown) McCauley. 

Patrick McCauley, when a child, was brought 
by his parents to America, and was reared to 
maturity in Columbiana County, Ohio. He 
there married Elizabeth Brown, a native of Lou- 
doun County, Va., who came in an early day to 
Columbiana County with her parents, Samuel 
and Susan Brown, who bought and cleared up 
three farms in that county, and there died. 
Patrick McCauley and his wife moved from 
Columbiana County to Jackson County, same 
State, and from there emigrated with their 
teams and wagons to Iowa, where they died, 
aged, respectively, seventy-eight and seventy- 
two years. Mrs. Van Horn, who is the fifth in 
order of birth in the family of eleven children 
born to this pioneer couple, grew to womanhood 
in Columbiana County, Ohio, and there was 
united in marriage with William Leith. In 
1850 they removed to Iowa, locating in Jeffer- 
son County. Mr. Leith enlisted, during the 
Civil War, in Company E, One Hundred and 
Third la. V. I., and participated with his regi- 
ment in all of its campaigns and marches. 
After about one year's service he was obliged, 
owing to impaired health, to return home, but 
he continued to suffer until death relieved him; 
he died in 1863, in Fairfield, Iowa, Mr. and 



Mrs. Leith were the parents of five children, 
three of whom are yet living. After Mr. Leith' s 
death his widow returned to Ohio, where she 
was married, as above stated, to Mr. Van Horn. 
Mr. and Mrs. Van Horn now reside in their 
pleasant home near Minerva. They are mem- 
bers of the Disciples Church; in politics he is a 
Republican, and has held various offices of trust 
in his township. One of Mr. Van Horn's sons, 
James M., is a minister in the Disciples Church, 
and is now located in Warren, Ohio. He lived 
in England nine years, engaged in the service 
of his church. 



MRS. MARY A. ROBY, daughter of Jacob 
and Catherine (Bontrager) Newell, is a 
resident of Monroe Township, Carroll 
■fj County, where she was born January 

19, 1845. Her grandfather, Peter Newell, was 
a native of England, and her father of Hunter- 
don County, N. J., born May 8, 1819. The 
latter was two years old when brought to Ohio, 
and he was reared in that portion of the State, 
which afterward became Orange Township, Car- 
roll County. On August 25, 1842, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Catherine Bontrager, who was born 
in Orange Township, Carroll County, May 23, 
1822, a daughter of John Bontrager, a son of 
Christopher Bontrager, and a native of Baden, 
Germany, born about the year 1800. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Newell were born ten children, of 
whom the following is a brief record: John B., 
born June 9, 1843, died in Monroe Township, 
Carroll County; Mary A. is the subject of this 
sketch; Louisa O, born November 19, 1846, 
David M., born. February 12, 1849, and Elias 
D., born September 11, 1851, are deceased; 
Sarah Buchanan, born March 3, 1854, lives in 
Monroe Township; Isaac N. , born February 11, 
1856, and Eda S., born August 29, 1858, are de- 
ceased; Elmer J. Abraham Lincoln, born March 
27, 1861, is at home; Ettie L. Haugh, born 
September 1, 1864, is a resident of Mouroe 
Township. In 1846 Mr. Newell purchased the 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



10(37 



farm now owned by bis widow, where be resided 
till bis death, November 16, 1S84. 

Mary A. Newell was married January 19, 
1862, to George Roby, also a native of Monroe 
Township, Carroll County, born October 30, 
1838, a son of Benoni and Susan (Peterson) 
Roby, and to this union were born the following 
uamed nine children: Elsie T., in Orange Town- 
ship, Carroll County; an infant, deceased; Homer 
B. ; John B. ; Ora E. , deceased; Viola M. ; an 
infant, deceased; Erma L. , deceased, and Edgar 
I. Mr. and Mrs. Roby, after their marriage 
resided in Orange Township until 1861, in which 
year he purchased the farm in Monroe Town- 
ship, now in possession of our subject, and here 
he passed from earth April 3, 1890, owning at 
the time of his death a fine property of 400 acres 
of land. He was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, as is also bis widow, and in 
politics he was a Republican. 



E. MORLEDGE was born in Augusta 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, July 17, 
1854. John Morledge, Sr. , grandfather 
of our subject, left his native country, 
England, when a young man, and sought a 
home and fortune in the wilds of eastern Ohio, 
where, in 1813, he entered a farm of 160 acres, 
which is now known as the Patterson Farm. 
He built a little log cabin in the midst of the 
forest, and cleared away some of the dense 
thicket for a garden spot. Here, in this com- 
plete wilderness, where the bear, wolf, deer and 
many smaller animals roamed freely in their 
natural state, he was content to live and to make 
the first improvements for the benefit of coming 
generations. After living under these condi- 
tions for some time, Mr. Morledge sent for his 
brother, Roger, who came and took the farm 
which John had entered, and after letting his 
brother have this first quarter section, John 
Morledge entered another quarter section, which 
is the farm our subject now lives on. The two 
brothers then sent to England for their brother 
Joseph, who came to America, did not stop in 



Carroll County, but purchased a large tract of 
land where Cincinnati now stands. John Dior- 
ledge, Sr. , married a Miss Hannah Westfall. 
and, after rearing a large family and undergo- 
ing many hardships, they died, and were buried 
in Augusta Township. John Morledge, Jr., 
received his education in Augusta Township in 
the subscription school, which was the only in- 
stitution of the kind in the neighborhood at 
that time. After reaching manhood he married 
Mary Jane Cassidy, who was born in Harrison 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, March 24, 1826, 
and whose parents were natives of Ireland and 
old settlers of eastern Ohio. A family of thir- 
teen children was the result of this union. Mr. 
Morledge was an energetic, successful farmer. 
In politics he was a Republican,' and held such 
township offices as trustee, land appraiser, etc. 
He and his wife were members of the Presbyte- 
rian Church, and were among the most promi- 
nent citizens of Augusta Township. Mr. Mor- 
ledge died October 14, 1X88; Mrs. Morledge is 
still living at the age of sixty-three, and is 
highly respected. 

S. E. Morledge, the gentleman whose name 
opens this article, and who is a son of John 
Morledge, Jr. , was reared on the old farm which 
his grandfather entered. In 1877, at the age of 
twenty- three, he married Miss Ann Laughlin, 
who was reared in Columbiana County, Ohio. 
Her father was of Irish descent, her mother of 
German, and they were born in Columbiana 
County, Ohio; her grandfather, Laughlin, came 
from Pennsylvania and settled among the 
Indians, as well as the bear and other wild ani- 
mals. Soon after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mor- 
ledge moved to their present farm, and have 
been residents of Augusta Township ever since. 
Five children were the result of this union, two 
of whom are living to bless their home: Harvey 
B. and Jennie L. The Morledge farm consists 
of 212 acres, and is well improved and highly 
favored by nature for the production of grain 
and the raising of stock. Mr. Morledge is a 
Republican, also a member of the Granger or- 
ganization, and both he and his wife are zealous 



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members of the Presbyterian Church. They are 
active in all matters of public improvement, and, 
like their ancestors, are upright, honest, and 
respectable citizens. 



f AMES R. WEIR, a prominent agricultur- 
^. I ist and owner of a productive farm in 

\JJ Washington Township, Carroll County, 
was born on Pigeon Creek, Washington 
Co., Penn., February 15, 1S33, of Irish descent, 
his grandfather, James Weir, having been a na- 
tive of the north of Ireland. 

Thomas Weir, father of our subject, was also 
a native of Washington County, Penn., born in 
1811, and was there reared a farmer, and edu- 
cated at the district schools. He was united in 
marriage with Miss Mary Denniston, who was 
born in 1809 in Washington County, Penn., 
daughter of Andrew Denniston, a native of 
County Donegal, Ireland, born in 1769. He 
learned the cooper's trade, and in 1790 came to 
the United States, taking up his residence in 
Washington County, Penn., where he purchased 
a farm on which he made his home till coming, 
in 1835, to Ohio. Here he bought the farm 
now owned by his son, Robert Denniston, in 
Washington Township, Carroll County. In 
Washington County, Penn., Mr. Denniston had 
married Miss Elizabeth Lawrence, who was born 
in 1784, in Washington County, that State, and 
by her had the following named children : Sarah, 
Annie, Mary, Nancy, Robert, Joseph and Jane. 
The parents died in Washington Township, 
Carroll County, the father in 1852, the mother 
in 1856. 

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Weir were born 
nine children, of whom the following is a brief 
record: James R. is the subject of this sketch; 
Andrew resides in Mechanicstown, Ohio; Mrs. 
Sarah A. Stenger is in Fox Township, Carroll 
County; Mrs. Elizabeth Croxton lives in Ne- 
braska; Nancy J. died in infancy; Samuel and 
William T. are in Washington Township; Mrs. 
Rebecca Boyd is deceased; Robert B. lives in 
Fox Township. In 1835 Thomas Weir came to 



Ohio, and purchased one-half of Section 17, in 
Washington Township, Carroll County, part of 
which had been cleared. He first put up on his 
property a small frame house, in which he re- 
sided till 1818, when he erected the brick 
dwelling now occupied by his son Samuel. He 
died in 1863, his widow in 1889. They were 
members of the Corinth Presbyterian Church. 
In politics he was a Republican, and served two 
years as county commissioner. 

James R. Weir was reared and educated in 
the township where he now lives. He has been 
twice married, first time, November 1, 1854, to 
Miss Rebecca Cameron, who was born in Wash- 
ington Township, Carroll Co. , Ohio, January 31, 
1835, a daughter of William and Ann Cameron, 
and the result of this union was three children, 
viz. : Addison A., a farmer in Washington Town- 
ship, Carroll County; Samuel D., a merchant in 
Mechanicstown, Ohio, and Charles J., at home. 
Mrs. Weir died in May, 1879, a member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and March 31, 1881, Mr. 
Weir married Mrs. Eliza L. Huston, widow of 
the late James E. Huston, and a daughter of 
Thomas Cameron, of Carrollton. Since his first 
marriage Mr. Weir has resided on his present 
farm, which contains 160 acres of excellent land 
situated in the northeast quarter of Section 23, 
and in 1884 he erected one of the finest barns in 
the county. He and his wife are members of 
the Presbyterian Church; he is a Republican, 
and has held the office of township trustee. 



NICHOLAS RANDOLPH, a prosperous 
agriculturist of Fox Township, Carroll 
County, comes of English descent. His 
f) great-grandfather, William Randolph, 

emigrated from England to theoe shores, and 
participated in the Revolutionary War; grand- 
father John Randolph took an active part in the 
War of 1812. 

The latter located in Loudoun County, Va.. 
where he carried on farming, but, becoming dis- 
satisfied with his Virginian home, he removed to 
eastern Ohio, where he lived for some time near 



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New Lisbon, Columbiana County. From there 
he moved to Carroll Connty, where he entered a 
farm of forty acres, and here built a home in 
the then wilderness. Wild animals of all de- 
scriptions were plentiful, and frequently deer 
were seen in the door yards of the little hut. 
John Randolph spent the greater part of his life 
clearing away the forests, and undergoing hard- 
ships of which the present generation know but 
little. He finally died at Salineville, Ohio, at 
the age of eight-seven years. John F. Randolph, 
father of the subject of this biographical sketch, 
was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, and 
spent his youthful days near New Lisbon, where 
he obtained his education at the old subscription 
school. At the age of twenty-one he moved to 
the farm which his father had entered in Carroll 
County, and here he married Miss Susanna 
Wierbough, who was born near New Lisbon. 
Nicholas Wierbough, her father, who was of 
German descent, was, at the time of his daugh- 
ter's marriage, a farmer of Carroll County. 
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Randolph settled 
on the farm in Fox Township, Carroll County, 
where they reared a family of nine children, 
and where Mr. Randolph followed farming until 
his death, which occurred when he was aged 
sixty-two years; his widow is still living at the 
ripe age of three score and ten years. 

Nicholas Randolph, the subject proper of 
this article, was born in Fox Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, October 23, 1838. He was reared 
amid the scenes of a country home; a log hut, 
although humble in the extreme, being his castle 
of refuge and protection. He attended the dis- 
trict school, which was of the rudest descrip- 
tion, and here laid the foundation for his 
future usefulness. At that time two or three 
months' schooling out of every twelve was the 
extent of learning and preparing in an educa- 
tional way for the battle of life, but Mr. Ran- 
dolph, by studying nights, and persevering, suc- 
ceeded in obtaining a good education. At the 
age of twenty-two he worked at Salineville, Ohio, 
at coal-miniug for a few years, and, in 1880, he 
bought his present beautiful place, which is 



situated near Salineville. On October 14, 1883, 
Mr. Randolph married Julia Randolph, who was 
born in Jefferson County, Ohio. March 5, 1838, 
of English descent. Our subject has a fine 
farm of eighty acres, well provided with all 
modern improvements. He and his family be- 
long to the Disciples Church at Salineville, 
Ohio, and politically he is a Republican; he 
is progressive, and helps to advance all mat- 
ters tending to the promotion of public good. 
Like his ancestors, he possesses the same 
spirit of love of liberty as that which caused 
them to fight for independence. Mr. Randolph 
volunteered in the Civil War by enlisting. May 
1, 1864, in the One Hundred and Forty-Third 
Regiment O. V. I., and since its close has re- 
sided on his old place, where he has ever been 
conspicuous as an honest, enterprising citizen. 



^ AMUEL A. HIGHLANDS. Of the mer- 
chants of Carroll County, probably there 
is no one that has been longer in active 
business within its borders than Samuel 
A. Highlands, the well-known and popular 
general storekeeper at New Harrisburg. He 
was born in Cumberland County, Penn., Sep- 
tember 1, 1811, a son of Thomas N. and Mary 
(Alexander) Highlands, natives of Pennsylvania 
(former of whom was a farmer in that State), 
where both died after rearing an interesting 
family, whose names are William, John, Robert, 
Samuel A. , Thomas and Elizabeth. The father 
was, in religion, a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and in politics a Democrat. 

At the age of eighteen years, having re- 
ceived a fair common-school education, Samuel 
A. Highlands commenced business for his own 
account, and coming to Ohio he for some years 
was successfully engaged in teaching, most of 
the time in what is now Carroll County. In 
1829 he opened a general store at New Harris- 
burg, where he has since continued, having 
been in business for fifty-seven consecutive 
years. From his first commencement in that 
line his motto has been " fair dealing and hon- 



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esty," and having always acted up to it he not 
only gained but has permanently held the con- 
fidence of the public, commanding their respect 
and esteem. Mr. Highlands has been thrice 
married, first time in 1831 to Mary, daughter of 
Peter Sibert, a resident of Harrison Township 
and a native of Pennsylvania. To this union 
the following named children were born: Sara 
J. and Louisa (deceased), Thomas and Elizabeth, 
deceased, and Samuel. Our subject's second 
wife, whom he married in 1S44, was Hannah 
Denney, who died leaving no issue, and he then 
married, in 1873, Flora L. Lotz, who has borne 
him three children, viz. : one that died in in- 
fancy, Jasper B. and Eugenia. Mr. Highlands 
is a leading member of the Disciples Church at 
New Harrisburg, and in politics he has been a 
stanch Republican since the organization of 
that party, having previously been a Whig. He 
has always taken an active part in the promo- 
tion of enterprises pro bono publico, chiefly 
those promising benefit to his town, township 
and county. [Since the above sketch was pre- 
pared Mr. S. A. Highlands died December 17, 
1890, at the advanced age of seventy-nine 
years, three months, six days. ] 



EORGE H. MOORE, proprietor of the 
popular drug store in Leesville, Orange 
Township, Carroll County, was born in 
that township February 28, 1829. His 
grandfather, Elijah Moore, was a native of Eng- 
land, and when young came to this country 
with his parents, who settled in Maryland, 
where they followed agricultural pursuits. His 
boyhood and youth were spent on the farm, and 
soon after attaining his majority he was married 
to Eda Harris, by whom he had the following 
named children: James, Horatio, Mary, Eliza- 
beth and Adeline. In 1815 Elijah Moore came 
to Ohio, and entered land on which a portion of 
the village of Leesville is now located. Here 
he died November 25, 1835, in the eighty-second 
year of his age, his wife, Eda, on August 25, 
1818, aged ninety years, six months and six 



days, and both are interred in the cemetery at 
Leesville. They were members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church, of which he was one of 
the organizers in his section; in politics he was 
a Whig. 

James Moore, father of our subject, first saw 
the light in Maryland in 1797, and was eighteen 
years of age when he came to Ohio with his 
parents. He was married, when a young man, 
to Precious Ann, daughter of Leslie Roby, a 
native of Maryland, and to this union were born 
seven children, viz. : Ellen J., Attoway, Caleb 
P., William H, Thomas J., Mary J. and George 
H. During his residence in Ohio Mr. Moore 
was engaged exclusively in farming and stock- 
raising, and in 1837 he passed from earth, being 
followed to the grave by his faithful wife in 
1878. They were members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and in politics he was an 
uncompromising Whig, as were all of his sons. 

George H. Moore, whose name opens this 
sketch, was reared in his native township, at- 
tending the common schools of the district, and 
early in life learned the milling trade, which he 
followed for some time. In 1882 he opened a 
drug store in Leesville, which he still carries on 
with success. In 1850 Mr. Moore was married 
to Mary A., daughter of Abraham and Mary 
(Spencer) Johnson, of Leesville, and one son, 
Roland O., has been born to them. On October 
1, 1861, in response to the call of his country, 
Mr. Moore enlisted in the Eightieth O. V. I., 
which was attached to the Army of the West, 
and he participated in all the movements and 
engagements of the regiment until 1863, when 
he was discharged on account of disease incurred 
through exposure while in the service. Re- 
turning home, Mr. Moore, after a few months, 
recovered thoroughly, and was once more 
enabled to attend to business. Mrs. Mary A. 
Moore died December 24, 1886, aged fifty-seven 
years, and Mr. Moore was afterward married to 
Mary Jane Newell, daughter of Benoni Roby. 
He has always been a zealous Republican, and 
a hard worker in the party, though declining to 
accept office. 



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di W. BENEDUM. The Benedum family 
trace their history back to the early set- 
' dement of Pennsylvania, whither Peter, 
the grandfather of the present genera- 
tion, came when a young man. Of the early 
history of him but little is known save that 
he came from Germany, and in this country 
was engaged in farming and stock-dealing. He 
married, and reared a family, of whom are the fol- 
lowing: John ; Henry, who married Sarah Yantes, 
and lived in Loudoun County, Va. , on a farm 
adjoining his father's (Peter Benedum), and in 
1841 moved to Harrison County, W. Va. , set- 
tling on a farm near Clarksburg, where he and 
his wife both died (his family are as follows: 
Emanuel, Sarah, Mary Catherine, William, 
Daniel, Rebecca, John and Charley, all mar- 
ried and living in the community near the old 
homestead); Emanuel; Maria married John 
Quick, and they had born to them one son, 
Amstard (they moved to Ohio, near Lancaster, 
and there she died); Nancy married John 
Benedum (she also moved to Ohio, near Lan- 
caster, and reared a son named John, and died. 
In 1808 Peter Benedum and hiB family re- 
moved to Loudoun County, Va. , where he was 
engaged in farming, and spent the remainder 
of his life, dying at the advanced age of 
ninety-four years, a zealous member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and an ardent 
Democrat. 

His son, John, the father of our subject, 
was born July 22, 1703, in Lancaster County, 
Penn., and at the age of fourteen years went 
to Virginia, where he made his home until com- 
ing to Ohio. In his early manhood he was 
married to Mary Carr, who was born Decem- 
ber 7, 1707, a daughter of James Carr, of one 
of the old families of Virginia. The children 
by this union were James H, born May 10, 
1817: Charles E., born April 12, 1810; John 
W., born September 28, 1821; Martha E., 
born January 16, 1824; Mary A., born April 
27, 1826; Joseph F., born November 27, 1828; 
Amos K. , born August 17, 1832; Isaac F., born 
January 29, 1S34, and Susanna E., born Sep- 



tember 11. 1S37. In 1838 the family came to 
Carroll County, Ohio, making the journey in a 
wagon drawn by a four-horse team, consuming 
about ten days in getting to their destination. 
They settled near Leesville, where they have 
since remained, engaged in agriculture, and 
have always been successful in their endeavors. 
In politics Mr. Benedum was a Democrat un- 
til L856, when he joined the Republican party, 
and was ever after one of its ardent supporters. 
He was a prominent member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Leesville, in which he 
was class leader for several years, and died in 
the faith July 16, 1876; Mrs. Benedum de- 
parted this life May 15, 1880, and both lie 
buried at Leesville. 

The early life of J. W. Benedum was spent 
in Loudoun County, Va., and coming to Orange 
Township with his father, he has here remained 
ever since, having been closely identified with 
the leading citizens and all public matters tend- 
ing to the benefit of his section. He is a warm 
friend of education, and takes a deep interest in 
the advancement of the cause in his section; in 
church matters he has always taken an active 
part, joining his society at the age of eighteen, 
and has held nearly all the offices of the church. 
A liberal supporter of the church, and a kind 
neighbor, he is well known and esteemed by all. 
While his education was confined to the com- 
mon schools, still he has done much toward 
educating himself, and is to-day one of the best 
informed men in his section. He has always 
supported the Republican party, and is one of 
its most faithful adherents. He is a self-made 
man, having made his own success entirely, at 
present owning 500 acres of as good land as 
there is in the county. On September 18,1848, 
Mr. Benedum was married to Mary E., daugh- 
ter of Lawson Gartrell, one of the early settlers 
of Carroll County, and the children born to this 
union are as follows: Mary Elizabeth, born May 
21, 1849, now Mrs. J. P. Dutton, and living on 
a farm in Orange Township, near Leesville, 
Carroll Co., Ohio; Thursey Adaline, born 
March 14, 1851, married to James Price, and 



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living on a farm in Monroe Township, near Dell 
Roy, Carroll Co., Ohio; Franklin, born May 7, 
1854, married Elizabeth Havigh, and is now 
located in Sherrodsville, Ohio, successfully 
engaged in the livery business; and John Wes- 
ley, born May 27, 1859, married Ida Randalls, 
and residing on the old homestead farm in 
Orange Township. On April 11, 1S78, Mrs. 
Benedum died, and in 1880 Mr. Benedum mar- 
ried Clara, daughter of Adonijah and Jerusha 
(Miller) Crane; no children have been born to 
the marriage. 




,\ILLIAM FOLTZ was bom March 3, 
1841, in Brown Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, his present place of resi- 
dence, and was educated at the com- 
mon schools of his district. On May 25, 1865, 
he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Chris- 
tian Schorey, who was born in Canton Berne, 
Switzerland, in 1803, a son of Benedict, whose 
children were named Benedict, Jacob, Christian, 
John, Albert, Peter, Anna and Elizabeth. 
Christian Schorey came to America in 1832, 
landing in Philadelphia, whence he came to 
Ohio and purchased a farm near Minerva, Car- 
roll County. Here he married Anna, daughter 
of Henry Zwhalen, of Carroll County, and this 
union has been blessed with the following 
named children: Sophia, now Mrs. Charles Le- 
Beau; Henry; Elizabeth A., Mrs. William Foltz; 
Mary, Mrs. John J. Geiger; Christian W. ; 
Amelia M. ; Caroline J.; Peter S., and Malinda 
M. , Mrs. John Miller. Mr. Schorey now re- 
sides in Stark County, Ohio, at the age of 
eighty-eight years, his wife being seventy years 
old. In politics he is a Democrat, while his 
religious belief is that of the Reformed Church, 
in which he was at one time an elder. 

After his marriage Mr. Foltz settled on his 
present farm of 111 acres, the improvements on 
which have been made by himself. His dwell- 
ing, which was erected in 1876, is 24x32 feet in 
dimensions, and his barn is 36x64 feet. The 
place is in excellent condition, and gives evi- 



dence of the skill, thrift and attention bestowed 
upon it by its owner. The children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Foltz were nine in number, viz . : two 
deceased, Mary E., Cora A., Almon T., Emeline 
G., Leona M. , Walter Arthur, Elmer Dwight- 
Mr. Foltz has always been a Republican, and 
has ever taken an active interest in the welfare 
of the party. He has been a school director 
for fifteen years, and a member of the Reformed 
Church since early manhood. [Further details 
of the Foltz family will be found in the sketch 
of Adam Foltz.] 



JOHN MILLER, the oldest living male resi- 
dent of Lee Township, Carroll County, 
_^, was born March 10, 1807, in West Bethle- 
hem, Washington Co., Penn. His father, 
Isaac Miller, also a native of Pennsylvania, was 
married there to Susanna McGuire, and they 
had the following named children: Elizabeth, 
Mrs. Edward Jackman ; Mary, Mrs. Adam Jack- 
man; Sarah, Mrs. George Downs; Susanna and 
John. In the spring of 1809 the family came 
to Lee Township, Carroll County, where Isaac 
Miller purchased the farm now occupied by A. 
C. Jackman. The land was wild, and had to be 
cleared of trees and stumps, Mr. Miller and his 
family doing all the work with their own hands. 
He participated in the War of 1812, and died 
from the effects of exposures. 

The early life of the subject of these lines 
was spent in Lee and adjoining townships, se- 
curing the best education he could at the district 
schools. In 1835 he was married to Sarah, 
daughter of James Gibson, of Loudon Town- 
ship, Carroll County, and after that event they 
settled on a farm in Lee Township, where they 
remained about fifteen years, and then moved to 
their present residence in the same township. 
Here they carved out for themselves, by indus- 
try, perseverance and -economy, a comfortable 
home. In 1875 Mrs. Miller was stricken with 
paralysis, and was faithfully cared for by her 
husband; she died June 25, 1879, and was 
buried in the cemetery at Simmonds Church. 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1073 



Mr. Miller and family are members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, as was also Mrs. Mil- 
ler, who was the means of bringing about many 
conversions. In politics Mr. Miller is a sound 
Democrat, though he east his first vote for Gen. 
Harrison. He is enterprising and progressive, 
and now at the age of eighty- four years he calm- 
lv awaits the summons that will call him hence. 



Ul PTON B. GARTRELL, one of the oldest 
| and most highly respected citizens of 
' Orange Township, Carroll County, was 
born in Montgomery County, Md., No- 
vember 11, 1813. His grandfather was Frank- 
lin Gartrell, a native of England, who came to 
America with three brothers, Stephen, William 
and Aaron, taking up land in Maryland. Their 
father was a trader, owning and sailing his own 
vessel. These brothers all died in Maryland, 
and were laid to rest side by side. Stephen was 
elected governor of Maryland. Franklin was 
married in that State, and had children as fol- 
lows: Rollins, Josiah, John, Richard, Kate, 
Ellen, Sarah and Deborah, and of these Rollins 
and Josiah both participated in the War of the 
Revolution. They were all members of the 
Church of England. 

John Gartrell, the father of our subject, 
was born in 1760 in Maryland, where he was 
reared and educated, and at the age of twenty- 
eight was married to Lucretia, daughter of 
Lawson and Elizabeth Bell, natives of Scotland. 
To this union were born the following named 
children: Lawson, Perry, Upton B. , Remus R. 
(in Tuscarawas County), Jane, Catherine, Eliza- 
beth, Matilda, Mary, Eleanor and Lucretia, all 
now deceased except Upton B., Remus R. and 
Eleanor. In 1818 Mr. Gartrell came to Ohio, 
for one year taking up his residence near Mt. 
Pleasaut, thence moving to Tuscarawas County, 
where he purchased a farm which was entirely 
wild laud. This he improved, and erected there- 
on a cabin, 1Sx22, constructed of round logs, 
and having but one small window made of greased 
paper. The neat dwelling, a rather more pre- 



tentious affair, was built of hewed logs, some of 
which were "scored" by the sou, Upton B. The 
family were industrious and succeeded well, the 
father owning, at the time of his death, 240 acres 
of comparatively well improved land. He died 
in 1837, aged seventy-seven years, his widow in 
1868, at the advanced age of eighty-seven, and 
both are buried at Leesville, Carroll County. 

At the age of five years Upton B. Gartrell 
was brought to Ohio by his parents, and he was 
here educated, the school, which was held in 
some abandoned cabin, being taught by a man 
who knew but little more than the scholars. 
On January 24, 1839, he was married to Mar- 
garet, daughter of Andrew McCullough, a native 
of Pennsylvania, who was married to Margaret 
Norris, also of that State. The children born 
to Mr. and Mrs. McCullough were as follows: 
Susanna, Jane, Elizabeth, Charles, John, Mar- 
garet, Richard W. and Andrew, all now deceased. 
Mr. McCullough was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and in politics he was an old 
line Jacksoniau Democrat, but, on the breaking 
out of the War of the Rebellion his family be- 
came Republicans. After marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Gartrell resided on the home place five 
years, at which time he sold his interest in the 
property and purchased a farm about two miles 
north of Leesville, where they remained twenty 
years; thence they removed to Uhrichsville. 
same State, and from there, after seven years' 
residence, came to the village of Leesville, 
where he is now quietly living a retired life. 
His wife died February 4, 1890, and is buried 
in Leesville Cemetery. The names of the chil- 
dren born to this honored couple are as follows: 
Lucretia (deceased), John R. , Remus W. , Mary 
J. (Mrs. Enoch Parker), Catherine (Mrs. Green- 
berry Bosley), and Andrew N. Mr. Gartrell 
has made his own success, and accumulated a 
tine property, comprising 370 acres of well iin 
proved land. He has always been a Republican, 
his first vote being cast for Gen. Harrison iu 
1830, and he has filled many offices of trust in 
his township. In religion he is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Leesville, 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



and be has always taken an active interest in the 
affairs of the society. 

[Since the above was in type, Mr. Upton B. 
Gartrell departed this life, March IS, 1891 and 
was buried in Leesville Cemetery. J 



L M< ATTHEW DIXON was a native of Ire- 
^f/\ land, where he spent his youthful days; 
1^ he emigrated to Pennsylvania, where 
// he engaged in farming. While a resi- 

dent of that State he married Mary Hutchin- 
son, and after marriage they came west to Ohio, 
arriving in what is now Union Township, Car- 
roll County, where he rented land, on which 
they settled. Here for many years they strug- 
gled on together, and finally succeeded in own- 
ing and improving a productive farm. 

On the death of his wife, Mr. Dixon sold 
his farm in Union Township and purchased an- 
other in Harrison Township, where he resided 
until his death, which occured in 1871, several 
years after his wife's decease. Their children 
were four in number, viz.; Eliza, Mary, Sarah 
and John, all now passed from earth, except 
Eliza. Mr. Dixon was, in politics, first a 
Whig, and afterward, on the formation of the 
party, a Republican. For many years, up to 
the moment of his death, he had been a sincere 
member of the United Presbyterian Church, 
and of all public enterprises he was a liberal 
supporter, active in everything that tended to 
the advancement of the religious, educational 
and financial growth of his section of the county. 



I OHN E. GARTRELL, eldest son of Up- 
^. I ton B. and Margaret (McCullough) Gar- 
}^j) trell, was born June 24, 1845, near Sher- 
rodsville, in Orange Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, and was reared on the home farm, 
attending during the winter months the schools 
of his district. On December 2, 1869, he was 
united in marriage with Mary M. Ball, of 
Orange Township, a daughter of Henry and 
Mary M. (Carter) Ball, and to this union have 



been born five children, viz.: Bertha F., Upton 
D., Charles W., Viola J. and Alice M., of 
whom Bertha F. was married January 8, 1890, 
to Joseph H. Preston, a farmer of Orange 
Township, Carroll County. Mr. Gartrell in his 
political preferments is a Republican, and has 
held several public positions of trust in his 
township, all of which he has filled with credit 
to himself and satisfaction of his constituents. 
He is one of the most progressive and pros- 
perous farmers in the township, and his suc- 
cess has been entirely due to his own indus- 
try, perseverance and good judgment. He is 
now the owner of two farms, all in one tract in 
Orange Township, aggregating 322 acres of as 
fine land as may be found in the county, and he 
and his estimable lady are regarded as repre- 
sentative citizens, held in the highest respect. 




JLLIAM S. HEIDY, one of the pro- 
gressive young native-born farmers of 
Lee Township, Carroll County, was 
born July 2, 1860. His grandfather, 
Jacob Heidy, a native of Pennsylvania, born of 
German descent, was married to Parmelia 
Kuntz, also of German descent, and they had 
the following named children: Matilda, Mary, 
Moriah, Adaline, Maggie, Nancy, John, Henry 
and Samuel. They were early settlers of Perry 
Township, Carroll County, where they remained 
till 1859, in which year Mr. Heidy purchased 
the farm on which his grandson, our subject, 
now resides. His first land was bought with 
the earnings of hard farm work, and he was 
among the foremost in the development of the 
township. He died March 13, 1886, and is 
buried at Harlem Springs; he was a member 
of the United Brethren Church, and politically 
was an active Democrat. 

William S. Heidy, whose name opens this 
biographical memoir, has had the management 
of the home place for several years past, carry- 
ing on general farming and stock-raising. The 
property comprises 160 acres of well-improved 
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Springs. In 1879 he was married to Maggie, 
daughter of Thomas Minor, whose father, also 
named Thomas, was born in Loudoun County, 
Va., May 14, 1795, and came to Ohio when 
twenty years of age, settling in Jefferson 
County, where he was married to Fannie Coil, 
who bore him children as follows: Thomas, 
Charles, Harvey, John, Julia, Rebecca and Mar- 
tha. The father of this family died November 
22, 1882, having been a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church since the age of twenty- 
two. In his political preferments he was first 
a Whig, and afterward, on the formation of the 
party, a Republican. 

After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. William 
S. Heidy, they settled down to the stern reali- 
ties of life on the property whereon they at 
present reside. They are the parents of one in- 
teresting little child, named Mvrtle. 




-J EMUS W. GARTRELL, second son of 
^ Upton B. and Margaret (McCullough) 
1^ Gartrell, was born April 9, 1850, in 
Orange Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
where he was reared and educated. On Decem- 
ber 2G, 1872, he was united in marriage with 
Miss Mary Margaret Boyd, daughter of John 
and Matilda (McQueen) Boyd, natives of Vir- 
ginia, born of English extraction, and who 
came to Monroe Township, Carroll County, at 
an early period. Mrs. Gartrell was born in 
Monroe Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, and was a 
resident of the same up to the time of her mar- 
riage. Mr. and Mrs. Gartrell are the parents 
of four children — two sons and two daughters 
— viz.: Olive, born October 2, 1873; Alonzo, 
born January 27, 1875; Margaret, born June 
20, 1880, and Chester, born May 27, 1888. 
Mr. Gartrell has been a successful agriculturist, 
and his prosperity is ,due to the industry and 
thrift of both himself and his estimable wife. 
They have been prominent members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church for several years; 
in politics he is a Republican, and has been 
elected and served four years as assessor for 



Orange Township, Carroll County, during 1887- 

88-81 » and IS'. III. 



JOHN S. IDEN (deceased) was born in E ast 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, January 5, 
1827. The ancestors of the Lien family in 
Carroll County came from England in the 
same vessel or in company with William Penn, in 
1682. George Iden, father of John S. , was born 
February 28, 17N.">, in Loudoun County, Va., 
where he grew to manhood and married, Septem- 
ber 12, IS 12, Miss Matilda A. Brown, who was 
born January 3, 1 793, in the same place. To them 
were born twelve children, their names and dates 
of birth being as follows: Lucinda, June 12, 1813 
(wife of Thomas Willie, of Licking County, 
Ohio): George W. , May 30, 1815 (residing in 
Indiana); Catherine, December 17, 1817 (mar- 
ried Thomas Duncan, both deceased); Samuel, 
April 7, 1820 (residing in Indiana); Jehu B.. 
June 2, 1822 (also in Indiana); Mary, August 
15, 1824 (widow of the late Greenburry Ray, 
Knox County, 111.); John S. (our subject); Ma- 
tilda, May 2, 1829 (died in infancy); William 
H, March 27, 1830 (resides in East Township) ; 
Abigail A., October 23, 1832 (died in infancy); 
Harvey A., October 25, 1833 (resides in Augus- 
ta Township), and Frances M. , August 29, 
1S3S (widow of Josiah Westfall, late of Roches- 
ter, Ohio). 

George Iden came to Ohio in 1814, crossing 
the Ohio River the day on which the battle of 
New Orleans was fought. He built a cabin on 
or near the ground where Hanoverton, Colum- 
biana County, now stands, and there remained 
two years, during which time he erected a fcwo- 
story hewed log house on the farm now owned 
by J. S. Lien's heirs, and January 2, 1819, the 
deed for this land was given by the Government. 
In this log house George Iden lived, and died 
October 26, 1849, and it was occupied by Mrs. 
Iden and family until 1858; the present farm 
house stands on the same ground as did the old 
log one. For one summer after coming here 
they had a quilt hung up for a door, as nails 



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and lumber were scarce — nails having to be 
made by hand as well as hinges and latches. 
W. H. Iden has still in his possession some of 
the nails and the latch-relics of bye-gone pioneer 
days. For several years after coming on the 
farm the family were troubled with bears, wolves 
and other wild animals, whose visits were more 
frequent than welcome. This farm contains 160 
acres and is situated in the northwest corner of 
Section 19, East Township. When Mr. Iden 
had made all but the last payment on his prop- 
erty, he entrusted the amount with one Craig, 
a minister, also the receipts for his former pay- 
ments. Craig was to take the money and re- 
ceipts to Steubenville to make the payment and 
get the deed, but instead he ran away with both. 
This nearly broke Mr. Iden up, both financially 
and physically. Craig went to the western part 
of Ohio, and a brother residing near Mr. Iden's 
started out in search of him to secure the re- 
ceipts and if possible the money; he was success- 
ful in securing the receipts but not the money. 
Mr. Iden owned one cow, and that season he 
had raised some corn, and being anxious to 
save his home sold the cow and part of the corn 
to Simon Sheckler, who had come to Ohio from 
Pennsylvania that fall, and had brought some 
money with him. Politically Mr. Iden was a 
Whig, and he and his wife were members of the 
Disciples Church. Mr. Iden died October 26, 
1849, his widow February 5, 1885. 

John S. Iden the subject of this sketch, 
grew to manhood on the old farm, and was edu- 
cated at the district school, in which, when fif- 
teen years old, he commenced to teach, a pro- 
fession he followed nearly all the time till he 
was forty- five years old. On October 13, 1859, 
he married Miss Eliza A. Potts, who was born 
March 25, 1841, in Fox Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, a daughter of Silas and Miriam (Pinnick) 
Potts, former of whom was born in Fox Town- 
ship, and latter in Pennsylvania. To Mr. and 
Mrs. John S. Iden were born five children, viz. : 
Edward W., deceased; Kate H. , deceased; Ada, 
wife of Robert Arthur, of East Township (she 
was born February 21, 1863); James R. (born 



June 11, 1866), at home, and Frank H. (born 
January 25, 1873), also at home. Mr. Idea 
died on the old homestead May 31, 1879. In 
religion he was an active member of the Dis- 
ciples Church, and in politics he was a Repub- 
lican; held several offices in the township, and 
was well known and very highly esteemed. 
Since Mr. Iden's death Mrs. Iden and her two 
sons (who are now two of East Township's 
finest and most intelligent young men) have 
resided on the old farm. Mrs. Iden is an act- 
ive member of the Disciples Church, and is 
universally respected. The Iden family, as a 
rule, take pleasure in preserving relics, and W. 
H. Iden has at present in his possession a tea 
canister which his forefathers brought from 
England. 



JOHN MAY was born in Washington, 
County, Penn. , August 11, 1830, a son of 
Arthur and Elizabeth (Scisler) May. His 
maternal grandparents were of German 
descent, and were old settlers of Harrison 
County, Ohio. Arthur May, father of our sub- 
ject, was born in Pennsylvania, where he met 
and married Miss Scisler. He was a shoemaker 
in Pennsylvania, and was always connected 
with the progressive movements of his time. 
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur May were the parents of 
seven children, named as follows: Margaret 
and Catherine, who died in infancy; David, 
who died at the age of nineteen; Alexander, 
Nancy Jane, A. Maria and John. Of these 
Alexander May is following the shoemaker's 
trade at Scio, Ohio; Nancy (Mrs. Perrin) is 
living in Bowerston, Ohio, where her husband 
is a wagonmaker; Maria is married to Samuel 
Allbaugh, a teacher in Harrison County. The 
father died in Pennsylvania in 1834, and our 
subject, at that time but a small boy, moved to 
Ohio with his widowed mother, who is now 
eighty- three years old. 

John May settled with his mother in Carroll 
County, and here made his own living from the 
time he was nine years of age. On October 7, 



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1852, he married Miss Elizabeth Moreland, 
whose parents lived in Monroe Township, Car- 
roll County, of which county Mr. Moreland was 
a pioneer. Two children were the result of 
this union, one son and one daughter, former 
of whom died in infancy, and latter, by name 
Margaret, lived to womanhood and then yielded 
to the strong arm of death. At the breaking 
out of the Civil War John Ma)' responded to 
his country's call, and, like many other brave 
"boys" was ready to sacrifice life for the cause 
which was uppermost in every noble heart. He 
was mustered in August 11, 1802, and dis- 
charged March 19, 1803. After the close of 
the war he returned to Ohio, where he followed 
farming, as well as the carpenter's trade which 
he had learned. Mr. May is not only a pros- 
perous farmer, but also a successful contractor, 
having been connected with the latter business 
about twenty years. His well -improved farm 
of 170 acres, situated in Section 20, is provided 
with all modern implements necessary for the 
proper carying on of agricultural pursuits. 
The farm consists of both upland and lowland, 
with a fine stream of water, being altogether 
well adapted for the requirements of stock. 
Mr. May is now over sixty years old, but by 
good habits and proper living has wonderfully 
preserved his manhood, and he is a hard-work- 
ing, industrious, successful man. Politically a 
Republican, he is always ready to stand by 
those principles which he believes to be right. 
Mr. May has a host of friends, and is prominent 
among Carroll County's representative citizens. 




y OBERT MARSHALL a prominent and 
progressive farmer of Monroe Town- 
ship, Carroll County, was born in Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, in 1821, a son of 
Robert and Jane (Lemmon) Marshall, natives of 
County Derry, Ireland, latter born December 
25, 1 784, of Protestant parents, members of the 
Presbyterian Church. Robert Marshall and 
Jane Lemmon were married in County Derry, 
Ireland, September 5, 1810, and soon thereafter 



embarked for America, landing in New York 
November 3, same year. Here they remained 
four or five days, and then proceeded to Phila- 
delphia, whence, after a sojourn of about two 
weeks, they traveled on to Pittsburgh, Penn., 
finally locating at Nine Mile Run, distant from 
Pittsburgh as indicated by the name of the 
stream. From there they moved, in April, 1812, 
to Ohio, and in 1822 settled in Auburn Town- 
ship, Tuscarawas County (now Monroe Township, 
Carroll County), where Mr. Marshall entered 
eighty acres of land, on which he put up a cabin 
where the family resided some years; then built a 
hewed log house (yet standing) where he and his 
wife passed the remainder of their days. About 
the first thing Mr. Marshall did after settling 
here was to clear a field for grain, laboring all 
day and often all night, having to go six miles 
in order to procure a two-bushel sack of corn, 
which he would carry to the nearest mill (five 
miles distant) to have ground, there wait for 
his grist, and then return home, by which time 
it would be nearly morning. The road through 
the woods was hardly worthy of the name, and 
when he struck a by-road he would have to take 
the woods for it, his journey, before he got 
through, often proving a sixteen-mile one; for a 
single bushel of salt he had to go to Steuben- 
ville, about forty-live miles distant; but in course 
of time salt works were started at Yellow 
Creek, some twenty miles away, and things in 
general began to become comparatively modern- 
ized, and in many respects easier for the hard- 
worked pioneers. Mr. Marshall traded corn 
for whisky, a barrel of which he would bring 
to his home on a sled (the journey taking three 
days), and then would trade the whisky with 
his few neighbors for grain, when he could not 
get cash payment. * 

Robert and Jane (Lemmon) Marshall were 
the parents of eleven children — eight sons and 
three daughters — of eight of whom the following 
is a brief record: William and James are de- 
ceased; Joseph lives in Monroe Township; 
George is deceased; Robert is spoken of more 
fully further on; Margaret is the wife of Henry 



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Stoody, and they live in Hocking County, Ohio; 
Mary J. is deceased; Alexander is a resident of 
Harrison Township, Carroll County. The fa- 
ther died December 25, 1872, being the owner, 
at the time of his death, of 333 acres of land 
in Monroe Township. He was a man of iron will, 
indomitable perseverance, not easily baulked or 
discouraged, and he was, withal, what some poet 
has described as the " noblest work of God" — 
an honest man. In his political preferments he 
was a Republican. The mother passed from 
earth March 14, 1SG8. Her health had been 
rapidly failing for about three years prior to her 
decease, and her faculties, especially her mem- 
ory, became much impaired in a corresponding 
degree for some time before her dissolution. As 
a wife she was devoted and affectionate; as a 
mother she was kind and indulgent; affliction 
shared her sympathy, the poor her hospitality. 
She was modest and unassuming, yet cheerful 
and pleasant; she had little desire for the society 
of the gay and frivolous, and still less for fash- 
ions and follies; in a word, she "lived like an 
angel and died like a child." In her religious 
profession she was a firm believer in the Pres- 
byterian faith, though not a member of any 
church. 

Robert Marshall, the subject proper of this 
memoir, received a good practical education in 
the common schools of his township, and re- 
mained with his parents up to the time of their 
decease. On May 7, 1874, he married Eliza- 
beth Jane Barton, who was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, January 5, 1840, daughter of 
William and Esther (Lions) Barton, also na- 
tives of Jefferson county, Ohio, the former of 
Irish descent, the latter of Dutch; they were 
married in Jefferson County, May 1, 1826, 
whence, in 1843, they moved to Stark County, 
where the father died in 1847; the mother then 
(in 1848) moved to Carroll County, and there 
died in 1849. They were the parents of nine 
children — seven sons and two daughters — of 
whom are living Elizabeth Jane (Mrs. Robert 
Marshall); William, in Iowa; Levi, in Illinois, 
and Commodore, in Malvern, Carroll Co., Ohio. 



In religion Mrs. Marshall is a member of the 
Protestant Methodist Church: on her father's 
side they were all Methodists, and on her mother's 
side, all Lutherans, but both Mrs. Marshall's 
parents lived and died Lutherans. Mr. Mar- 
shall is not a member of any church; in politics 
he is a Republican. 




,ILLIAM B. ANDERSON, one of the 
rising young farmers of Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, much re- 
spected in the community, comes of 
good old Maryland stock, of which State the 
family had been residents for over half a cent- 
ury prior to coming to Ohio. His great grand- 
father Anderson was a native of Maryland, 
whence, at a very early day he came to Penn- 
sylvania, at a time when the Indians were still 
troublesome, and the whites were wont to meet 
at Mr. Anderson's place to throw the tomahawk, 
shoot at marks, and wrestle. He was a soldier 
of 1776, and was captain of a company. John 
Anderson, grandfather of William B. , was a 
native of Pennsylvania, where he followed 
trading and agricultural pursuits, owning a 
large farm in that State ; he was very successful, 
financially, and purchased land in Harrison 
County, a farm in Carroll County, and another 
in Richland County, all in Ohio. He died at 
the age of ninety years, having been an ex- 
tremely strong man, and very active; he has 
been known to pick up and shoulder a barrel of 
pork weighing 300 pounds. In religion he was 
a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in 
politics he was a stanch Whig. The children 
born to him were five in number, viz. : James, 
Steven, William, Mary and Jane. 

James Anderson, father of our subject, was 
was born in Pennsylvania in 1817, whence, when 
about twenty-seven years of age, he came to 
Carroll County, Ohio, and settled on the farm 
now occupied by his son, William B., which, 
with the assistance of his children, he almost 
entirely cleared. Soon after coming to this 
State he was married to Ann B. Johnston, 



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daughter of Abiraui Johnston, one of the early 
settlers of Harrison County, Ohio, and the chil- 
dren born to this union are John, William B. , 
Abiraui, Lydia (Mrs. Bowman) and James Ells- 
worth. Mr. Anderson enlisted, in 1862, in 
Company A, Eightieth O. V. I., serving until 
the battle of Jackson, Miss., where he was 
severely wounded and made prisoner. After 
lying in Libby Prison until he was nearly 
starved to death, he was exchanged and sent to 
Annapolis, Md. , where he died. He was a con- 
sistent member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and in politics was first a Whig and 
afterward a Republican. 

William B. Anderson, the subject proper of 
these lines, was born March 24, 1851, on the 
farm where he now lives, and where his boyhood 
was passed, working on the farm in the sum- 
mers, and attending school a few mouths in 
winter time. At the age of twelve years he 
commenced for himself by working on a farm 
in Harrison County, where he remained two 
years: then returned to Carroll County, and for 
three years worked at sawmilling in the counties 
of Carroll and Jefferson, after which he moved 
to Michigan, where he assisted in clearing up a 
farm near Salt River, in Isabella County. From 
there he proceeded to the lumber camp of A. 
Rust & Co., of Saginaw, where he worked, also 
on the river, driving logs. At the age of nine- 
teen he returned to Ohio, and for one year 
worked at carpentering, and then in the fall of 
the year went west, visiting Indiana, Illinois, 
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. In Ne- 
braska he entered land, and owned land in How- 
ard County, worked on a farm, hunted, trapped 
and fished, and helped to survey a large part of 
northwestern Nebraska, from Black Hills east 
along Nebraska River. At the age of twenty- 
four, he returned to his native State, and when 
twenty-five years old, married Sarah E. Elder, 
daughter of William Elder, of Harrison Town- 
ship, Carroll County; her mother was a daughter 
of John Dunlap, one of the first settlers of Car- 
roll County. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. An- 
derson at once settled on the old home farm, 



where they yet reside. The names of the chil- 
dren born to them are Laura, Maggie, James 
E., Daisy and Bessie. Mr. Anderson has always 
been a strong Republican, and served as trustee 
for Harrison Township three years, and as as- 
sessor one year, up to the present writing. 



dfOHN B. HERRON, one of the well-known 
residents of Sherrodsville, Orange Town- 
I ship, Carroll County, was born in Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio, November 9, 1851. 
His father, Rezin Herron, was a native of West 
Virginia, of which State his parents had been 
for many years residents, coming in 1820 to 
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where they followed 
farming. Here Rezin was reared to agricult- 
ural pursuits, attending the common schools of 
his district, and at the age of nineteen years he 
commenced life for his own account, becoming 
one of the most successful farmers of his section. 
He was thrice married, first time, in 1835, to 
Elizabeth Belch, who bore him six children, 
and died in 1852; he then married, in 1854, 
Elizabeth Alford, by whom there were four chil- 
dren, and she dying in 1863, Mr. Herron took, 
for his third wife, in 18(15, Martha Jane Sparks, 
by which union there were born nine children. 
Mr. Herron is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, of which his parents were among 
the founders, and in politics he is a radical 
Republican. 

John B. Herron passed his boyhood ami 
early youth in his native county, his primary 
education being obtained in the common schools 
of the neighborhood. He also attended the 
academy at New Hagerstown, Carroll County, 
and afterward the college at Scio, in Harrison 
County, several terms. Soon after completing 
his education he married Lovina Pearch, who 
was born in Sherrodsville, Carroll Co. , Ohio, a 
daughter of John and Ann Mary (Barrick) 
Pearch. To Mr. and Mrs. Herron have been 
born the following named children: Myrtie L., 
Ollie C. , Herman W.. Verdus E., James R., 
Thomas O., Ila J. and Ebert W. They have 



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all been baptized in the Lutheran faith, and the 
eldest two belong to the Lutheran Church. In 
politics Mr. Herron is a leader in the Repub- 
lican party in his section, and has held various 
public offices of trust. He has been a success- 
ful farmer, owing mainly to careful husbandry, 
industry and economy; and while so assiduously 
engaged, he has yet found time for literary work, 
of which he is passionately fond, being well 
read on most of the popular subjects of the day. 



CC HARLES F. BROOKS, a leading farmer 
. of Union Township, Carroll County, is 
D well known as one of the class of younger 
men whose public spirit, energy and en- 
terprise have been instrumental in placing Car- 
roll in the front rank among the counties of Ohio. 
He was born on a farm in Union Township, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio, January 9, 1857, fourth in the 
family of six children born to Thomas F. and 
Elizabeth (Crozier) Brooks. 

In 1818 Henry Brooks, a native of County 
Fermanagh, Ireland, left his native land with 
his family and started for America, but Mr. 
Brooks died on ship-board ere they had reached 
this country, and was buried in the deep At- 
lantic. The family, however, landed and pro- 
ceeded westward, finally locating in Carroll 
County, Ohio, where they took up and settled on 
a tract of Government land. They were among 
the earliest pioneers of that region, which, in 
the vocabulary of the early times, was known as 
" Little Ireland, " owing to the'nativity of the 
settlers, who were mostly Irishmen who had 
emigrated from the Emerald Isle, and taken up 
land in this new country, which at that time was 
a portion of Harrison County. Thomas F. 
Brooks, a grandson of Henry Brooks, before 
mentioned, was born on the Brooks homestead 
in Union Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, April 
9, 1820. He grew to maturity with his parents 
in the new country, wearing the home-made 
clothing, and attending the subscription schools 
of the early times. In 1847 he married Eliza- 
beth Crozier, a native of Cadiz, Ohio, but who, 



when she was sixteen years of age. came with 
her parents, John and Ann (Grinn) Crozier, to 
Carroll County, where the parents died. The 
young couple located in the wilderness of Union 
Township, in a small log cabin, and resided in 
that township until the spring of 1883, when 
they moved to Carrollton, where Mrs. Brooks 
died August 29, 1881, leaving two sons and one 
daughter. The following year Mr. Brooks 
married Margaret Stubbins, of Cadiz, Ohio, and 
they now reside in their comfortable home in 
Carrollton, he having now retired from active 
life. By hard labor as a farmer, by unswerving 
perseverance and judicious economy he suc- 
ceeded in amassing considerable wealth, and 
found himself the owner of some 500 acres of 
land. 

The boyhood days of our subject were passed 
upon the farm with his parents, and his educa- 
tion was acquired at the public schools of his 
neighborhood. In 1881 he married Sarah I. 
Scott, a native of Monroe Township, Carroll 
County, and a daughter of Wilson and Elizabeth 
A. Scott, an early family in the county. The 
union of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks has been blessed 
with two children, May and Anson. Mrs. 
Brooks died in May, 18S7. Politically Mr. 
Brooks is a Republican, and takes an active in- 
terest in and gives his hearty support to all the 
party's affairs. He resides at his pleasant home 
near Carrollton, the tine farm of 191 acres being 
well tilled with a careful husbandry that has 
placed Mr. Brooks in the front rank of prominent 
agriculturists in his county. 




I 



ILLIAM DAVIS (deceased). The 
family, of whom the subject of this 
sketch was a member, trace their origin 
to Pennsylvania, of which State they 
were for many years resident prior to coming to 
Ohio. For the most part they were agricultur- 
ists, though some followed other vocations. 

William Davis, father of the gentleman of 
whom this sketch is written, was a native of the 
Keystone State, where he received his education, 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1081 



anil was married to Mary Maguire. Soon after- 
ward they came to Ohio, and here purchased a 
farm, where they carried on general agriculture 
and stock-raising. Six children came to bless 
their home, viz.: James, Sarah (Mrs. Samuel 
Black), Ruth, Luke, Thomas and "William, all 
now dead except Luke and Thomas. The father 
lived to a ripe old age, and died much regretted 
by all who knew him; he was in politics hrst a 
Whig, and then, on the formation of the party, 
a Republican. 

William Davis, whose name opens this sketch, 
was born in 1817, in Pennsylvania, where he 
spent his early life, and when his parents came 
to Ohio he accompanied them. He received a 
good common school education in his native 
State, and soon after coming to Ohio he com- 
menced farming for his own account. In 1846 
he was married to Calista, daughter of Mankin 
R. and Ceny Roby, former of whom was an early 
settler of Harrison Township, Carroll County, 
and died January 4, 1877, aged eighty-seven 
years and four days (he was a soldier in the 
Revolution); his wife died October 21, 1872, 
aged eighty-eight years, nine months and twenty 
days. Our subject and wife, immediately after 
marriage, settled on their present place, which, 
by faithful hard work, they improved, the farm 
being now one of the best in the neighborhood. 
The record of the children born to them is as 
follows: Margaret, died November 23, 1856; 
George, died June 29, 1865; Mary (Mrs. J. B. 
Foutz), died April 13, 1873; Cenie (Mrs. Will- 
iam Clemens), died February 20, 1890; those 
living are Mankin R. ; Sallie (Mrs. J. A. Oriu); 
Kate (Mrs. S. H. Herron), and Ida B. (Mrs. D. 
E. Bracken). 

In politics, first a Whig and afterward a 
Republican, Mr. Davis always took an active and 
leading part in the success of his party, and was 
recognized as a leader among their counselors. 
Often solicited to accept office, he yet invariably 
refused, though well fitted by education and 
training to fill any public position of trust. 
Mr. Davis was essentially a self-made man ami 
a representative citizen. He was ever actively 



interested in the advancement of his township, 
especially in matters of religion, education and 
politics. He was an honest man, respected by 
all for his integrity, and honored for his up- 
rightness. He died August 18, 1881, aged sixty- 
four years, eight months and eight days. 



I 



:PHRAIM L. SPARKS, owner of 106 
acres of as highly improved land as can 

y be seen in Orange Township, or even in 
all Carroll County, is a native of Ohio, 
born in Tuscarawas County, July 5, 1841. His 
grandfather Sparks was a native of Pennsylva- 
nia, as was also Ephraim Sparks, Sr., father of 
our subject, who was born in 1815, and there 
reared. The latter came to Ohio and settled in 
Tuscarawas County, then a comparative wilder- 
ness, and here set to work to clear a farm, brave- 
ly surmounting the many hardships incident to 
pioneer life. He was married to Comfort Hillary, 
whose pafents also came from Pennsylvania to 
Ohio, and to this union were born five children, 
viz.: Samuel (deceased); Joseph, living in Rose 
Township, Carroll County; Clarissa, married to 
Thomas Williams, a farmer in Stark County, 
Ohio; Martha Jane married to Reason Herron, 
and living in Carroll County, and Ephraim L. 
The father of this family died in 1870, and the 
mother in 1866. 

Ephraim L. Sparks received a good education 
in the district schools of his neighborhood during 
the winter months, and in the summers assisted 
on the farm in all its departments. On April 13, 
1862, he became united in marriage with Miss 
Mary Jane Ricketts, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
a native of Indiana, born June 27, 1841, daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Jane Ricketts. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Sparks have been born ten children, their 
names and dates of birth being as follows: 
Luther R., January 22. 1863, died October 4, 
1865; Albert D., July 30, 1S65; Samuel E., Au- 
gust 30, 1S67; Clara W., December 22, 1869; 
Jennie R,, February 29, 1872; Kittie A., Octo- 
ber 1, 1874; Joseph H., September 27, 1877; 
BelvaO, February 22. 1880; Thomas W., April 



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22, 1883, and Myrta Bell, March 8, 1886, all 
those living being yet at borne except Samuel 
E. , who is married and resides in New Philadel- 
phia, Ohio. Mr. Sparks moved to his present 
place in 1876, and has a comfortable, well ap- 
pointed home. He and his wife are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in poli- 
tics he is a Prohibitionist. 




BRAHAM ROUDEBUSH, for seventy 
years a resident of that part of Ohio 
L\ which, January 1, 1833, became Carroll 
County, is one of the representative suc- 
cessful farmers of Washington Township. He 
is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Washington 
County, July 26, 1819. His grandfather, Jacob 
Roudebush, came from Germany, the land of 
his birth, to the United States in an early day, 
settling in Washington County, Penn., where he 
reared the following named children: Tobias, 
Abraham, Jacob, Jesse, Lydia and Susan. In 
1821 he came to Ohio, where he entered the 
farm now owned by Thomas Bnxon, in Wash- 
ington Township, Carroll County. On this farm 
Mr. Roudebush put up a rude log cabin, the 
first building of any kind on the property. 
Here he resided all his life, dying in 1837, at 
the age of eighty-five years. He was a member 
of the Disciples Church; in politics a Whig. 

Jesse Roudebush, son of Jacob, was also 
born in Washington County, Penn., where he 
was trained to agricultural pursuits, attending 
in winter season the common schools of the 
neighborhood. About the year 1816 he was 
married to Miss Hulda Ray, a native of the 
same county as her husband, which union was 
blessed with nine children, as follows: Annie, 
wife of Jacob Stearn, a resident of Indiana; 
Abraham, whose name opens this sketch; James, 
deceased; Samuel, a resident of Washington 
Township, Carroll County; John, deceased; 
Jesse, in Indiana; Tobias, in Washington Town- 
ship; John, deceased, and Sarah (Mrs. Eli 
Marshall), a resident of Washington Township. 
In 1820 the parents moved to Ohio, where Mr. 



Roudebush purchased sixty acres of land of his 
brother, Tobias, in what afterward became 
Washington Township, Carroll County, and 
soon thereafter entered eighty acres, now owned 
by W. S. Crawford, also in Washington Town- 
ship, and adjoining the ' sixty-acre purchase. 
Here he lived several years, and then removed 
to Hanover, Columbiana County, where he pur- 
chased a farm of eighty acres, on which he re- 
sided about two years, at the end of which time 
he went to live in Carrollton, where he died in 
1868,,his wife having preceded him to the grave 
in 1860. They were members of the Disciples 
Church, and in politics he was a prominent Re- 
publican. 

Abraham Roudebush, the subject proper of 
these lines, as will be seen was about two years 
old when brought by his parents to Ohio. He 
was reared to farm life, and educated at the dis- 
trict schools. On September 17, 1840, he was 
married to Miss Margaret Easterday, who was 
born in Carroll County, Ohio, July 31, 1822, a 
daughter of Christian and Barbara (Strayer) 
Easterday, which union has been blessed with 
nine children, viz. : Sarah J. (wife of Jonathan 
Myers), born April 25, 1842; Louisa M. (wife 
of William V. Figley, of Canton, Ohio), born 
March 13, 1845; Christian E., born July 24, 
1848, living in Indiana; William R., born Sep- 
tember 17, 1850; John J., born July 10, 1853; 
Jehu, born June 29, 1856; Jesse, born Decem- 
ber 4, 1858, resides in Indiana; Solomon E., 
born July IS, 1861, and Leander, born Novem- 
ber 10, 1863, living on the homestead, all being 
residents of Washington Township, except 
where otherwise stated. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Roude- 
bush went to live on a farm of eighty acres (to 
which he has since added, till he has now 265 
acres), which he purchased in Washington 
Township, their dwelling being a rude cabin 
until I860, when he erected his present elegant 
and comfortable brick house. In 1868 he put 
up a commodious barn, 36x60 feet in- size. On 
November 23, 1864, Mrs. Roudebush was called 
from earth, and February 22, 1866, Mr. Roude- 




Mij^fYJW/ 



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CARROLL COUNTY. 



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bush was married to Miss Sophia Miller, who 
was born in Union Township, Carroll Co. , Ohio, 
February 17, 1S25, a daughter of Jonas and 
Frances Miller, natives of Lancaster County, 
Perm. Mr. and Mrs. Roudebush are members of 
the Disciples Church, as was also his first wife; 
in politics he is a stanch Republican. 



.1 WASHINGTON BORLAND, a farmer of 
y^JJ Monroe Township, Carroll County, was 
Vj born in North Township, Harrison 
Co., Ohio, July 11, 1822. His grand- 
father, Samuel Borland, Sr. , was a native of 
Ireland, whence he came to the United States, 
and settled in Westmoreland County, Penn., 
where for several years he served as a justice of 
the peace, and where he died, an elder in the 
Presbyterian Church; he was the father of ten 
children, as follows: John, Samuel, Rachel, 
James, Matthew, William, Margaret, Mary, An- 
drew and David. Of these, Samuel, the father 
of our subject, was born in Westmoreland Coun- 
ty, Penn., May 11, 1785, and grew to manhood 
in Pennsylvania. In 1821 he came to Ohio, 
where he entered land in North Township, Har- 
rison County, erecting a small cabin. He mar- 
ried Miss Mary Lytle, who bore him three chil- 
dren: William, Washington and Lydia, and 
passed from earth when Washington was but 
three years old; she lies buried in Peter Trus- 
hell's Cemetery. Mr. Borland next married 
Elizabeth Heaviling, who bore bim two children, 
Mary and David. Mrs. Borland died October 
28, 1882, and is buried in Connot ton Cemetery. 
Mr. Borland resided on the land he first entered 
until his death, but in the meantime, in 1833, 
had entered the land now owned by his son Wash- 
ington, in Monroe Township, Carroll County. 
Samuel Borland died September 11, 1862, aged 
seventy-seven years, four months, and was buried 
in Connotton Cemetery. 

Washington Borland was reared in Harrison 
County, Ohio, and was educated at New Hagers- 
town Academy. On April 27, 1848, he married 
Miss Magdaline Easterday, who was bom Jan- 



uary 25, 1825, a daughter of John and Eva 
(Swiuehart) Easterday, and this happy union 
has been blessed by the birth of ten children, 
viz.: Samuel J., now in Harrison Township, 
Carroll County; Eva A. Allmon, in Lee Town 
ship; Mary E. Aldridge, in Harrison Township; 
Lydia Flory, in Indiana; John, in Harrison 
Township: Margaret Mowls, in Rose Township; 
Martin W. and Matthew, both in Harrison Town- 
ship, and Franklin and Lucinda, both at home. 
Soon after his marriage Mr. Borland settled on 
the farm of 2U5 acres which he now owns in 
Monroe Township, Carroll County, and here he 
has since made his home. He is a member of 
the Protestant Methodist Church, leads a life 
consistent with its teachings, and is highly re- 
spected in his community. Politically he is a 
Democrat, and has held several township offices. 




ETER FARBER. The Farber family in 
Ohio, are of German lineage, the hist of 
the name having come to America at a 
very early period, their settlement being 
made in New Jersey, whence the more imme- 
diate ancestry of our subject came to Ohio in 
1806, Philip Farber, the grandfather, having 
been the first to come West. He was born Oc- 
tober 28, 1755, in New Jersey, where he was 
reared and educated. In early life he was mar- 
ried to Margaret Wallace, who was born April 
19, 1753, and the children born to this union 
were named: Mary, Daniel, John, Elizabeth, 
Catherine, Sarah, Martha, Peter, William and 
Philip. Grandfather Philip Farber settled with 
his family in Stark County, Ohio, the country 
at the time being all primeval woodland, teem- 
ing with wild animals and frequented by the un- 
tutored Indian. Here they set to work to clear 
a farm out of the wilderness, their first habita- 
tion being a very primitive log structure. 

John Farber, son of this pioneer couple, was 
also a native of New Jersey, and was there 
married to Elizabeth Douglass, who bore him 
children as follows: Elizabeth, James, Margaret. 
Peter, Catherine, Abigail, Sarah, John, Phcebe, 



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Isabel and Mary. The parents were active 
members of the Presbyterian Church, and in 
politics he was a stanch Democrat. 

Peter Farber, the subject proper of this 
memoir, was born in Stark County, Ohio, Octo- 
ber 13, 1812, and was early inducted into the 
arduous duties of farm life, his education being 
secured at the district schools of his day, very 
primitive in their character in all respects. On 
March 10, 1835, he was married to Elizabeth, 
daughter of David and Margaret (Wagner) 
Evans, former of whom, a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, came to Stark County, Ohio, in 1S19, and 
purchased land where he passed the rest of his 
life. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Peter 
Farber remained in Stark County until 183(3, 
when he purchased his farm in Rose Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, where they have ever since 
resided, successfully carrying on agricultural 
pursuits, having now one of the best and larg- 
est farms in the township. The names of their 
children are Milton S., David E., Margaret J., 
Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry Bowman), Emma (Mrs. 
William Wallen), J. W., James and Michael. 
The family are adherents of the United Breth- 
ren Church at Magnolia (Stark County), of 
which Mr. Farber has for many years been 
deacon, elder, etc. , and they give liberally to 
all church and charitable objects. In politics 
our subject was a Democrat until the organiza- 
tion of the Republican party, when he associated 
with it, and has since been one of its stanchest 
supporters. 



THOMAS M. McLAUGHLIN, of Monroe 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, was born 
in Washington County, Penn., December 
27, 1830. His father, Thomas Mc- 
Laughlin, was also a native of Washington 
County, Penn., his grandfather was a native 
of Ireland, and his great-grandfather of Scot- 
land. Thomas McLaughlin was born Septem- 
ber 1, 1785, and in 1815 married Miss Elizabeth 
Moorhead, who was born in Washington Coun- 
ty, Penn., November 3, 1795, a daughter of 



Samuel Moorhead, a native of Ireland, but 
whose father was a native of Scotland. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Thomas McLaughlin were born James 
P., Eliza, Margaret, Harriet, William W. and 
Jane, all deceased; Thomas M., John, deceased, 
and Nannie A., who resides with our subject. 
April 1, 1848, Thomas McLaughlin came to 
Ohio and purchased the farm of 105 acres, now 
owned by Thomas M. , and resided on this un- 
til his death, September 26, 1868. His widow 
survived until October 7, 1880, and both died 
in the faith of the United Presbyterian Church. 
Politically Mr. McLaughlin was a Republican. 
Thomas M. McLaughlin grew to manhood 
in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio with his par- 
ents. On December 12, 1865, he married Miss 
Martha J. McCarty, who was born in Septem- 
ber, 1816, in Monroe Township, a daughter 
of James L. and Mary McCarty, natives of 
Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. To this 
union have been born three children, viz. : 
Annie, James R. and Mary L., all of whom 
live at home. Since Mr. McLaughlin came 
to Ohio in 1818, he has resided on the farm he 
now owns. He and his wife are members of 
the United Presbyterian Church, and politically 
he is a Republican. 



IiOHN B. FRANCE, physician, Harlem 
w. 1 1 Springs, Carroll County, was born in But- 
\J) ler County, Penn., October 13, 1820, the 
eldest son of Rev. John and Anna (Mc- 
Clymonds) France, both natives of Scotland, 
former of whom was born in the village of 
Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, in 1773, latter born in 
or about the year 1800 at Wigton, a village 
near Glasgow. 

Rev. John France, grandfather of our sub- 
ject, was a minister of the Associate Secession 
Church at Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, Scotland. 
He had two sons and two daughters: John 
(father of Dr. France) and James, latter of 
whom succeeded his father as pastor of the 
Buchlyvie congregation, and died at an early 
period of his ministry, leaving a widow and 



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three children, of whom two still survive, viz.: 
James France, now of Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
William, a minister in Paisley (near Glasgow), 
Scotland. 

Rev. John France, father of the subject of 
those lines, was educated in Glasgow Classical 
College, and received his theological training in 
Whitburn Theological College, in connection 
with the Associate Secession Church of Scotland. 
After his licensure he was called as pastor to the 
congregation of Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, proba 
bly about the year 1812, and after serving said 
congregation till about 1817 or 1818 he was ap- 
pointed a missionary to America. Arriving in 
New York in 1819, he settled in Butler County, 
Penn., in 1820, and was called to the pastorate 
of Glade linn, in said county, and continued 
pastor of said congregation till 1848 or 1849, 
when, on account of the infirmities of age, he 
resigned; he died in 1861, in the eighty eighth 
year of his age and the sixty-eighth year of his 
ministry, having been preceded to the grave by 
his wife, who died in 1832, leaving to mourn 
her death her husband and three sons: John B., 
James D. (who now resides in Louisiana) and 
Andrew O. (who died in Allegheny City, Penn., 
in INTO, leaving three children: Anna Mary, 
Etta and Willie Edgar, latter now deceased). 

John B. France, the subject proper of this 
memoir, passed bis early life in Butler County, 
Penn., whore he received his primary and more 
advanced education, being well grounded in all 
departments of literature. At the age of twenty - 
eight he commenced the study of medicine with 
Dr. John H. Donnan, of Hickory, Washington 
Co. , Penn. , and after passing through the 
medical college in Cleveland, Ohio, and being 
admitted to the practice of medicine, he came 
to Ohio and settled at Harlem Springs, Carroll 
County, where he has since successfully fol- 
lowed his profession, having now had over 
forty years' continuous practice. The Doctor 
was married November 18, 1852, to Margaret 
H. Donnan, who was born at Hickory, Wash- 
ington, Co., Penn., in 1822. a sister to Dr. 
John H. Donnan, Dr. France's preceptor, and 



daughter of Rev. Alexander and Helen (Han- 
nay) Donnan, natives of Scotland, latter born 
in Dumfriesshire. Rev. Donnan was pastor of 
the Associate Secession Church at Hickory. 
Washington Co., Penn., and died in 1859. The 
children born to Dr. and Mrs. John B. France 
are Helen Anna (now the wife of W. N. Shep- 
herd), John Alexander (now married), William 
Albeit and Mary Isabella, all at Harlem 
Springs, Ohio. The Doctor is independent in 
both religion and politics, though in regard to 
the former he is naturally inclined to the Pres- 
byterian faith of his forefathers. He is a rep- 
resentative, progressive citizen, and, together 
with his family, enjoys the respect and esteem 
of the entire community. 



D^AVID B. SHERROD, M. D. (deceased). 
I The history of the Sherrod family in 
/ Carroll County is more immediately 

traceable to William Sherrod who was 
born in Maryland, near the city of Baltimore. 
He was the second son in a large family whose 
ancestors, many generations back, had come to 
American soil from the motherland, England. 
The family were agriculturists, and ranked 
among the leading citizens of their section. 
The early life of this. William Sherrod was not 
unlike that of his ancestry, excepting in that he 
had bettor educational advantages, and was well 
read for his time. While yet a young man he 
was married to Mary Nichols, one of the play- 
mates of his youth, and they reared a family of 
children as follows: liuhama, born March 23, 
1789; Amos, born March 1, 1792; William, born 
August 2, 17D4; Richard, born January 1, 1797; 
Nancy, born June 17, 1799; John G. , born Jan- 
nary 17,1801; Elizabeth, born, February 15, 
1803; Charles M., born July 11, 1805; Joseph 
R., born June 7, 1808; James, born June 26, 
1810; David B., born January 22, 1813; and 
Mary, born October 18, 1815. In 1810 Mr. 
Sherrod, with his family, came to Ohio and set- 
tled near the present town of- Mt. Pleasant, 
where he remained only a few years, however, 



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coming in 1815, to what is now Carroll County, 
where he entered land near the present site of 
Sherrodsville, which land was improved entirely 
by his own and his family's efforts. He was an 
enthusiastic Democrat, always a leader and 
prominent worker in his party, having been one 
of its organizers. He and his faithful wife 
were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, in which they both took an active part. 
Mrs. Sherrod was known far and wide for her 
Christian character, and her untiring energy 
and zeal in church matters. On March 7, 1843, 
Mr. Sherrod died, and was followed some years 
later by his widow. 

Dr. David B. Sherrod, the subject of this 
sketch, was born as above related, January 22, 
1813, and when two years old was brought by 
his parents to what is now Carroll County, Ohio. 
He received his primary instruction at the com- 
mon schools of the neighborhood, and at the Ha- 
gerstown Academy; and his natural bent being 
for the study of medicine, he entered the office 
of Dr. Cummings, of Leesville, where he read 
for some years, supplementing his study by at 
tending a thorough course of lectures at Cincin 
nati Medical College, wherehereceivedhis degree 
in 1844. He immediately commenced practice in 
his native township, and by his skill and success- 
ful treatment built up a large aDd lucrative 
practice. He was regarded as one of the lead- 
ing physicians in his section, and was frequent- 
ly called to a distance for consultation. He was 
a public-spirited man, and liberally aided, both 
by time and money, any enterprise tending to 
the upbuilding of his county. In religion he was 
a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, 
and in politics he was an earnest Democrat of 
the old school, one of the leaders in his party 
in the county. On June 12, 1845, he was united 
in marriage with Sarah A. Hedges, daughter of 
Hiram Hedges, a merchant of Virginia. Mr. 
Hedges married Hannah Foreman, who bore him 
children as follows: Reuben, Charles T., Mary, 
Sarah A., Elizabeth and Caroline J. To Dr. and 
Mrs. Sherrod were born four children, viz. : Two 
died in infancy: Hannah M. died at the age of 



eight years; Carrie, deceased wife of R. D. Baird, 
of Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Sherrod departed this 
life at his old home in Orange Township, Car- 
roll County, December 17, 1889, at the age of 
seventy-six years, ten months, twenty-rive days. 
Joseph R. Sherrod was born in what is now 
Harrison County, Ohio, June 7, 1808, and was 
married August 14, 1834. to Mary Jane Depuy, 
daughter of John and Catherine Depuy. They 
had born to them eleven children as follows: 
Catharine, born June 10, 1835; Sarah Alvina, 
January 17, 1837; Lucinda, February 14, 1839, 
Mary Margaret, May 11, 1841; William Ben- 
ton, May 22, 1843; Sylvester Deaves, December 
10, 1845; Jane Adaline, June 2, 1848; Leroy 
Leonidas Hamlin, August 12, 1850; Alvin Les- 
ter, October 27, 1852; John Orlando, August 
25, 1854, and Emma, September 19, 1856. At 
this date (February, 1891) five of the children 
and the mother are still living. All the fam- 
ily were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Joseph R. Sherrod was a faithful 
worker in the church, holding the responsible 
position of class leader during the last fifteen 
years of his life. He was a farmer by occupa- 
tion, and in April, 1855, removed with his fam- 
ily to Monroe County, Iowa, settling on a farm 
near Eddyville, where he died of typhoid fever 
October 27, 1858, in the triumph of the Chris- 
tian faith. 



THOMAS E. HAINES, a widely known 
and influential citizen of Altooua, Polk 
Co., Iowa, and " brother of A. R. Haines, 
whose biographical sketch will be found 
in this volume, with a full history of their 
antecedents," was born on the home farm of 
his parents, near Pekin, Carroll Co., Ohio, on 
January 21, 1831. He remained on the farm 
with his mother until June, 18G3, when he emi- 
grated to Iowa, taking with him a flock of sheep. 
He remained in the sheep business in Mahaska 
and Keokuk Counties until the fall of 1807, 
when he went out of the sheep business and 
engaged in mercantile pursuits in Oskaloosa, 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



1089 



Mahaska County. After disposing of bis busi- 
ness there, be removed, in March, 1869, to Al- 
toona, Polk Co., Iowa, in which place he built 
a --train elevator and engaged in the grain busi- 
ness, in which he has been very successful. In 
August, 1869, he was married to Loretto J. Ber- 
ridge, of Martinsburg, Iowa, whose father was 
a native of England, and mother a native of 
Ohio. They have had no children born to them, 
but are caring for three as their own — two girls 
and a boy. In 1884- he erected a factory and en- 
gaged in the brick and tile business, which he 
runs in connection with the grain business. In 
1S8S he donated ten acres of land within the cor- 
porate limits of his village for a park, including 
land surrounding the park for streets, etc. He 
has served as township trustee, member of town 
council, mayor of his town, and master of his 
Masonic lodge. In 1881 he was elected by the 
Republicans a member to represent Polk Coun- 
ty (the capital county) in the Legislature that 
held its session in the winter of 1882. He, 
with his wife, in 1890, spent the greater part 
of the summer on a western tour among the 
mountains and mines of Montana. He visited 
the Yellowstone National Park, the cities on 
Puget Sound, also Portland ; thence by ocean 
steamer went to San Francisco, and thence 
homeward via Salt Lake City, Ouray, Pueblo, 
Denver and Omaha. He is now an elder in and 
the treasurer of the Christian Church in Altoona; 
is town treasurer, and treasurer of his Masonic 
lodge ; is also a trustee of Drake University, at 
Des Moines City, to which he has given some 
assistance. 



JVOHN V. WORLEY, one of the leading and 
| most prosperous native-born agriculturists 
I of Carroll County, Ohio, comes of an hon- 
ored family for many years well-known in 
this part of the State, the first of whom came to 
Ohio from Pennsylvania, where at the time of 
the Revolution they were employed in farming. 
During that historic struggle they fought with 
distinction and bravery. The earliest direct an- 



cestor of John V. Worley, of whom there is any 
authentic knowledge, was his grandfather, John 
Worley, who was born on the frontier settlement 
of Pennsylvania, where he was reared amid the 
hardships and privations incident to pioneer life. 
During his early manhood he was united in mar- 
riage with Mary Springer, who bore him the 
following named children: Daniel, Michael, 
Joseph, Jacob, Akey, Catherine, Nancy, Mary 
Ann and Rebecca Jane. Soon after the War of 
1812 Mr. Worley brought his family to Ohio 
and entered a tract of land near Morges, in Rose 
Township, Carroll County, in the improvement 
of which he spent the rest of bis life. He was 
the founder of the Lutheran Church in his sec- 
tion, and took an active interest in all educa- 
tional matters. 

Akey Worley, father of John V., was born in 
Washington County. Penn., and came with his 
parents to Ohio, where he assisted his parents 
in the improvement of the farm. Soon after his 
arrival in the Buckeye State he was married to 
Jane Swearingen, a daughter of Thomas Swear- 
ingen, one of the early settlers of Rose Town- 
ship, and the young couple at once settled down 
to the stern realities of life. They erected a 
log cabin on their land in Rose Township, 
and here by hard toil, good management and 
economy, they built themselves up a comfort- 
able home, being the owners of a fine farm 
of 267 acres, with pleasant surroundings. Here 
they died, the former September 27, 1861, when 
aged sixty-three years and eleven months, the 
latter May 25, 1877, when aged seventy-four 
years, six months and eight days. They were 
the parents of the following named children: 
Henry, John Y., George W., Akey, Bazil L., 
Joseph P., James R., Catherine, Elizabeth J., 
Melinda, Rebecca J. and Matilda A., the entire 
number being members of the Methodist Epis 
copal Church. In politics Mr. Worley was a 
leading Democrat. 

John Y. Worley was born in Rose Township, 
March 31, 1824, and received his education, 
during a few weeks in the winter season, at the 
school-house of his neighborhood, which was in 



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reality an old log shanty that had been aban- 
doned as a dwelling. The boy proved an apt 
scholar, and by hard shady and assiduous perse- 
verance laid the foundation of the material that 
made the man. On the home farm he labored 
industriously, becoming thoroughly conversant 
with the various branches of agricultural pur- 
suits. On October 5, 1848, he married Abbie, 
a resident of Rose Township, and a daughter of 
John and Elizabeth Snider, former of whom 
died August 3, 1868, latter March 22, 1860, 
when aged sixty-eight years, six months and ten 
days. They were the owners of 210 acres of 
land at the time of their death. After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Worley remained in Rose Town- 
ship ten years, then moved to Brown Township, 
same county, where Mr. Worley purchased his 
present property. He is one of the largest 
land holders in the township, being owner of 
943 acres of fine farm land, representing a life- 
time of patient industry and careful husbandry 
on the part of both himself and his faithful 
wife. It may be related as a curious incident 
that Mr. Worley retains in his possession a fifty- 
cent piece, the first money he ever earned, which 
was given to him by John Mansfield as pay for 
two days' labor in the harvest field. The coin, 
dated 1813, has a hole in it, and on this piece 
nine of Mr. Worley' s children cut their teeth. 
It is the intention of Mr. Worley to give this relic 
to his youngest child, with the request that it be 
handed down to his youngest born. The chil- 
dren born to this honored couple are named as 
follows: James M. , born September 16, 1849, 
died January 16, 1876; Elizabeth Jane, born 
January 25, 1853, died November 24, 1854; 
Cordelia, married to A. D. Miser; John J., 
married to Margia Kirkpatrick; Owen C. ; Elmer 
Kennedy; Achsa Ann, married to R. G. Pottorf ; 
Lucretia Ann, married to P. J. Ray; Abbie J., 
married to O. S. Cooper. The parents are mem- 
bers of the Lutheran Church. In politics Mr. 
Worley was a Democrat until 1861, when he 
united with the Republican party, of which he 
has since been an ardent supporter. He has 
always evinced considerable interest in educa- 



tional matters in his township, and has served 
as a member of the board of education twenty- 
one consecutive years. 



*T^\ OBERT CRAVEN, one of the well-known 
Y^C! enterprising representative agriculturists 
1^ of Lee township, Carroll County, is an 
•f/ Englishman by birth, having been born 

January 28, 1816, at Liverpool, County of Lan- 
caster. His father, Robert Craven, also a native 
of England, received his education at the schools 
of his native village, Shipley, Yorkshire, and soon 
after attaining his majority was united in mar- 
riage with Annie Appleyard, who bore him two 
children : Robert and Martha. In 1832 the family 
came to America, and to Ohio, where the father 
purchased a farm, on which he resided the re- 
mainder of his days. He was a member of the 
Episcopal Church, and a faithful adherent of 
the Democratic party; a useful and enterprising 
citizen, he was of value in the early settlement 
and in the organization of Lee Township. 

Robert Craven, whose name opens this sketch, 
emigrated from his native land to Ohio in 1832, 
along with the rest of the family, remaining a 
little over a year, when he returned to England, 
where he completed his education at Bramley. 
He was married in England to Mary Greenwood, 
and then for thirteen years he lived at Shipley, 
above mentioned, where their three children, 
William, Annie and Robert, were born. Mrs. 
Craven died, April 11, 1879; William died, 
April 6, 1866; Annie died August 10, 1889, and 
Robert died November 24, 1880. On March 9, 
1881, our subject took for his second wife Ame- 
lia, daughter of Israel Wiand. Mr. Wiand was 
born April 29, 1809, at Salem, Jefferson Co., 
Ohio, and was united in marriage at New Cum- 
berland, Tuscarawas County, September 18, 
1832, with Easter Suter, born March 29, 1810, 
who bore him the following named children: 
John, Julia A., Israel, Eliza J., Love, Jemima, 
Amelia (Mrs. Craven), Craven and Columbus S. 
Mr. Wiand died March 3, 1873, and Mrs. Wiand 
November 26, 1887. He was a Whig up to the 



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time of the dissolution of that party, when he 
joined the Democrats. 

Mr. and Mrs. Craven, after marriage, at once 
settled at Harlem Springs, Lee Township, where 
they still reside. They have been blessed with 
the following named children: May E., born 
March 7, 1882, and Mary A., born November 10, 
1888. They were adherents of the United 
Brethren Church, Mr. Craven adhering to the 
Episcopal faith; politically he is a Republican. 



JOHN WALLACE. Among the worthy 
and influential farmers of Fox Township, 
Carroll County, the subject of this sketch 
justly holds a conspicuous position. He 
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, February 
4, 1842. Isaac Wallace, father of John, was 
also born in Jefferson County, and was of Scotch 
descent. The grandfather of our subject was 
born in the highlands of Scotland, from whence 
he emigrated to and settled in Pennsylvania at 
an early date. After living in Pennsylvania for 
some time he eventually found a new home in 
eastern Ohio, where he reared a family. Isaac 
Wallace was brought up on his father's farm, 
and, like the boys of his time, attended the sub- 
scription school when not employed in farming 
pursuits. After reaching manhood he married 
Miss Matilda Kean, whose parents came from 
Ireland, and were old settlers of eastern Ohio. 
A family of eight children were born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Isaac Wallace. About 1850 Isaac 
moved to Carroll County, where, in 1863, he 
bought a farm of 160 acres, but soon moved 
back to Jefferson County, where he died in 1 882, 
his wife following him to the grave in 1887. 

John Wallace, the subject of this biograph- 
ical sketch, spent the first fifteen years of his 
life in Jefferson County. At that age he 
moved to Carroll County, where he was en- 
gaged in farming. In 1861, at the breaking out 
of the Rebellion. Mr. Wallace, responding to 
his country's call for troops, enlisted and 
marched to the front. He was in the thickest 
of many battles, was shot through the leg 



in the battle of Chickamauga, and as a result 
was in the hospital twelve months. After one 
month's furlough he returned to the front and 
participated in the battles of Atlanta and Re- 
saca; at the latter place he was wounded again, 
and was discharged in 1864. Two brothers of 
Mr. Wallace lost their lives in the struggle to pre- 
serve their country. Francis died at Vicksburg, 
and William died at home from tho effects of a 
disease which he had contracted while in active 
service. Ou June 16, 1866, John Wallace 
married Miss Mary Almon, and after their mar- 
riage they settled on a farm in Jefferson County, 
where they lived until 1875, when they bought 
their present farm. Six children were the re- 
sult of this union: Frank, Wilford, John, Emma, 
Anna and Mary. Mr. Wallace has a farm of 
280 acres in Carroll County, and also a one- 
half interest in 280 acres in Jefferson County. 
He is one of the most successful farmers in Fox 
Township and takes much interest in the rais- 
ing of sheep. Mr. Wallace has always been 
conspicuous as a straightforward square-deal- 
ing man, one who takes pride in helping to 
advance all matters of public interest, and one 
who has many friends to wish him much suc- 
cess in the future. 



'r^/ D. WEIR is the name of a young busi- 
ness man of Mechanicstown, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, who at present is a member of a 
firm which does as large a business and 
keeps as large a stock of goods a9 any one firm 
in the village. Although a young man he has 
gained the confidence of the people, who are 
ready at all times to aid young men who show 
marked principles of integrity. Mr. Weir was 
born in Carroll County, Ohio, April 9, 1863. 
Thomas Weir, grandfather of our subject, was 
a native of Ireland. He left his country at an 
early period and settled in Washington County, 
Penn., where James Weir, father of our sub- 
ject, was born. James Weir was reared in 
Pennsylvania, but left the old home to find a 
new one in the then Far West. The father and 



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grandfather entered a farm in Carroll County, 
where Thomas Weir died. James Weir worked 
on his father's farm, helped to clear away the 
forest and to prepare a home for himself for 
the future. After reaching manhood he mar- 
ried Miss Rebecca Cameron, whose parents 
were old settlers and of English descent. Three 
children were born to them, to help make their 
country home a happy one. Mrs. James Weir 
died in the fall of 1880. James Weir is at 
present living upon the old homestead and is 
one of the substantial farmers of Washington 
Township. 

S. D. Weir spent his boyhood days on his 
father's farm in Carroll County. It was here 
that he obtained his first lessons in schooling 
that would fit him for future iisefulness, but he 
was not able to attend the school nine months 
out of the year, as the average student of to- 
day is; he was compelled to work on the farm 
in the summer time, and was thus deprived of a 
thorough education, but by studying nights he 
was able to obtain a business education. On 
January 19, 1888, he married Miss Mollie 
Stevens, who was born January 11, 1867, and 
whose parents were pioneers of Carroll County. 
After living two years on the farm Mr. Weir 
came to Mechanicstown, where he became in- 
terested as a partner in a large general store, 
which contains dry goods, groceries, boots and 
shoes, and notions. One child was born, March 
12, 1889, to Mr. and Mrs. Weir to make their 
home happy. Among the citizens of Mechan- 
icstown none have more friends or are more 
highly respected than are Mr. and Mrs. Weir. 




^ILLIAM ALLISON, a prominent and 
influential farmer of Fox Township, 
Iff Carroll Co., Ohio, was born in Penn- 
sylvania, November 13, 1S22. James 
Allison, father of our subject, was a native of 
New York. The grandparents of William were 
of English descent. James Allison was reared 
in Beaver County, Penn. , where he attended 
school and grew to manhood. He married a 



Miss Witherspoon, of the same place, whose 
father and mother were natives of Ireland, but 
came to America when young. After marriage 
they located on a farm in Pennsylvania, but 
soon left that State to seek a home in the West. 
In 1833 the Allison family moved to Ohio, where 
they located in Fox Township, Carroll County, 
near Scroggsfield. Five children were born to 
bless the home of Mr. an'd Mrs. James Allison — 
three girls and two boys. After living for a 
short time on the farm which Mr. Allison had 
purchased, he bought the mill property near 
Wattsville, and carried on that business in con- 
nection with his farm until his death, which 
occurred in )873. Thus, after living nearly 
half a century in Fox Township, where he was 
always conspicuous as an active, honest man, 
Mr. Allison passed away to meet his reward. 
Mrs. Allison died in 1885. 

William Allison, the subject of this sketch, 
spent his early days in Pennsylvania. At the 
age of eleven he came with his parents to Fox 
Township, Carroll County, of which he has ever 
since been a resident. He attended the subscrip- 
tion school in the winter time and in summers 
helped to clear away the forest. William and 
his brother were compelled to carry on the farm- 
ing, as their father was occupied in the mill at 
Wattsville. December 9, 1846. Mr. Allison mar- 
ried Miss Johnson, who was born in Pennsyl- 
vania, and whose parents were of German de- 
scent and old pioneers of Fox Township, and 
representative farmers of Carroll County. Soou 
after marriage Mr. Allison bought and settled 
on a forty-acre farm; he then bought eighty 
acres, and after living thereon for seven years he 
moved to his present farm in 1859. Seven 
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Allison, two 
of whom are dead, those living are Sarah M., 
Elizabeth A., Ross, Howard and Johnson. Mr, 
Allison has a farm of 170 acres situated near 
Mechanicstown, and is at present (1890) build- 
ing a fine residence, which is of modern style. 
His life has been one of push and thrift. Po- 
litically he is a Republican, and has been hon- 
ored by his party with many offices of trust. 



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Mr. and Mrs. Allison have been consistent mem- 
bers of the United Presbyterian Church for a 
number of years. Among the representative 
citizens of Fox Township Mr. and Mrs. Allison 
justly deserve a place, being highly respected 
bv all who know them. 




OBERT DICKSON. Among the highly 
honored citizens of Fox Township, for 
honesty and integrity none are more 
conspicuous than the above named gen- 
tleman. Mr. Dickson's grandfather was born 
in Ireland, emigrated to America and settled in 
Maryland, where John Dickson, father of 
Robert, was born. John Dickson was reared 
on his father's farm, and after reaching man- 
hood he married a native of Wales. They 
reared a family of fourteen children, all of 
whom are dead but Alexander, a farmer near 
Salineville, Ohio, and Robert. John Dickson 
died in Maryland in 1830, his wife having de- 
parted for the latter land in 1823. 

Robert Dickson was born in Maryland Oc- 
tober 3, 1S19, and spent his early days on his 
father's farm. He learned the blacksmith's 
trade, and by diligent study at night, and by 
attending the subscription school in winters he 
obtained a very fair education for that period. 
At the age of twenty -one, he came west and 
located at Scroggsfield, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
where he started a blacksmith shop and worked 
at his trade about four years. In 1850 Mr. 
Dickson bought his present place, and moved on 
it in the fall of the same year. He brought 
with him from the East his sister, who lived with 
him nearly forty years, until she died in 1889. 
Mr. Dickson has a line farm of eighty acres, 
which is well improved with a good residence 
and other buildings of the latest style. He has 
made these many improvements by his own 
hard work and good management. He is a 
stanch Republican, and cast his first vote for 
William Henry Harrison. Mr. Dickson is a 
man alive to all matters of public interest, and 
is always ready to advance any cause, social, 



religious or educational, which will help to bet- 
ter mankind. He stands out among his many 
friends as the sturdy oak, the pride of the for- 
est, and is looked upon as a man of great moral 
strength, integrity and true worth. 



T/HOMAS McCOY, one of the well-to-do 
and progressive native-born agriculturists 
of Loudon Township. Carroll County, was 
bom August 17, 1842. His grandfather, 
John McCoy, was a native of Ireland, and in an 
early day came to this country, locating, at first, 
for some years, in Maryland, whence he moved 
to Washington County, Penn., where he entered 
a tract of wild land, on which he spent the rest 
of his life in clearing same. His children were 
Esther, Mary, Martha, William and James. Of 
these, James was a native of Maryland, born in 
1799, and was educated at the subscription 
schools of the period. In 1825 he was married 
to Miss Eliza Tripp, who was born in 1802, and 
by this union there were six children, whose 
record is as follows: John resides in Loudon 
Township, Carroll County; Andrew, in Fox 
Township, same county; William, Mary and 
Martin are deceased; Thomas is the subject of 
this sketch. In 1836 James McCoy came to 
Ohio, and purchased the farm in Loudon Town- 
ship, Carroll County, now owned by George 
Elliott. Here he died in 18fi5, his wife in 1868. 
They were members of the Seceder Church till 
1858, when they joined the United Presbyterian 
Church. Politically Mr. McCoy was a Repub- 
lican, and held the office of trustee of Loudon 
Township for several years. The old cabin in 
which this honored couple resided for so long a 
time is yet standing. 

Thomas McCoy, whose name heads this 
sketch, was reared to farm life, and attended in 
his boyhood the district schools. In February. 
1865, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred 
and Eighty-sixth Regiment O. V. I., and served 
eight months. After his return home he was 
married, February 27, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth 
J. Perry, who was born in July, 1817, a daugh- 



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ter of John and Eebeeca (Tripp) Perry, and to 
them have been born two children: Laura J., 
born November 10, 1873, and Mary B., born 
October 31, 1880, both at home. Mr. McCoy, 
after his marriage, bought his present farm of 
sixty- three acres in Loudon Township, where he 
has since resided. He and his wife are members 
of the Presbyterian Church. Politically he is a 
Republican, and has held the offices of township 
trustee two terms, and assessor one term. 



JOHN BARCLAY, a prominent farmer of 
Fox Township, Carroll County, was born in 
' that county in July, 1829. Joseph Bar- 
clay, his father, was a native of Scotland, 
but left his native land at an early period, 
emigrated to America, and eventually located 
on and entered the farm on which John is 
at present living. Joseph Barclay married 
a Miss Nobles, who was also a native of 
Scotland. Soon after coming to the then wil- 
derness of Fox Township, Carroll County, they 
built themselves a little home, and began to 
clear away the forest. John Barclay has often 
listened to his father tell of the wilderness at 
that early period, when pens were made to pro- 
tect the sheep from the wolves and bears. 
There were no roads, but footpaths which led 
through the woods were frequented ofteuer by 
wild animals than by the white man. Eleven 
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
Barclay — five boys and six girls. Mr. Barclay 
was a farmer who took pride in clearing away 
the forest and advancing civilization, but death 
finally claimed him and his worthy wife, and 
they passed peacefully from the scenes of their 
early trials and hardships. 

John Barclay has spent his whole life on a 
farm, in boyhood, attending in winter the old 
subscription schools, and working on the farm in 
summer. At the age of thirty-five he married 
Miss McKinsey, who was reared in Jefferson 
County, and whose parents were old settlers of 
this part of the country. Five children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Barclay, named as follows : 



John J.. Elizabeth, Mary N., Sadie and Anna 
B. Mr. Barclay has an elegant residence and a 
fine farm of 195 acres, stocked with all kinds of 
modern improvements: his success is attributed 
to hard work and good management. Among 
the prominent farmers in Fox Township, Mr. 
Barclay is justly worthy of his position, having 
attained it by honest, upright, manly dealing 
with all. 



JOSHUA LATIMER, a representative farmer 
of Orange Township, Carroll County, was 
born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 2, 
1853, a son of Arthur and Margaret (Leg- 
gett) Latimer, natives of eastern Ohio. Arthur 
Latimer was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
and was one of the prominent farmers of that 
place. After marrying, he migrated to Harrison 
County, Ohio, but, not contented, he finally 
moved to Tuscarawas County, where he has fol- 
lowed agricultural pursuits ever since. Mrs. 
Latimer is the daughter of Joshua Leggett, who 
was one of the most extensive and prosperous 
farmers of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. She was 
born of Scotch-Irish descent, her paternal ances- 
tors having come from Scotland and her maternal 
ancestors from Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer 
have a family of six children, viz. : William, 
Joshua, Nancy Jane, Mary, Alice and Emma. 

Joshua, who is the subject of this biograph- 
ical sketch, lived with his father on the farm in 
Tuscarawas County, attended the school in the 
district, and obtained what education was possi- 
ble during the winters, when he could not work 
the farm; but, like all boys who were compelled 
to work in the spring and fall, he was not able 
to obtain the education which he craved. At 
the age of twenty-five, April 2, 1878, Joshua 
married Miss Maleny J. Mangun, whose parents 
were pioneer farmers of Carroll County. Mrs. 
Latimer is of Scotch-English descent, and was 
born in 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer have had 
three children to bless their home, who are 
named as follows: Eva Jane, born April 20, 
1880; James, born April 28, 1882, and Minnie, 



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April 14, 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer have 
lived in Carroll County ever since marriage, 
with the exception of four years which they 
spent on the old homestead. Mr. Latimer is 
the possessor of ninety-six acres of good pro- 
ductive land, which has been made so by contin- 
ual hard work. In politics he is a consistent 
Republican, having always voted and supported 
that ticket. Mr. and Mrs. Latimer are among the 
best known people in Carroll County, as their 
parents were old settlers and representative cit- 
izens. They have many friends, both in Carroll 
and Tuscarawas Counties, who look upon them 
as citizens of honor and trust. 



JlOHN SIMMONS, a worthy and influential 
farmer citizen of Loudon Township, was 
/ born on the farm he now owns, in Loudon 
Township, Carroll County, December 10, 
IN'25, a son of William and Elizabeth (Albaugh) 
Simmons, of whom mention is made in the 
sketch of Levi Simmons, which appears elsewhere 
in this volume. 

Our subject grew to manhood on the farm, 
on which he has resided all his life, and received 
a good common-school education. In his relig- 
ious convictions he is a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church, and in his political pre- 
ferments he is a Republican. His farm com- 
prises 155 acres of well improved land. 




NDREW GARRETT was born in Sep- 
tember, 182S, in what is now Orange 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio. The Gar- 
rett family is one of the oldest settled fam- 
ilies in Carroll County, and are of German de- 
scent, and probably settled in America long before 
the war for independence. Henry Garrett, father 
of Andrew, was born in Somerset County, Penn. , 
where he worked his father's farm until he 
became of age, when he married Miss Mary 
Oiler, a German lady whose parents brought 
her to America when young. Mr. and Mrs. 
Garrett, not contented with their home in Penn- 



sylvania, longed to make themselves a new 
home in what was then the wilds of Ohio. 
With this desire burning within them, and pos- 
sessing a worthy spirit of determination, they 
set out on horseback to find their ideal place of 
rest. Riding in day time and camping out at 
nights, they finally reached their place of desti- 
nation, which was Carroll County, Ohio, in the 
summer of 1816. At that time our beautiful 
country was a dense forest which was wait- 
ing to be cleared by the horny hand of toil. 
With two cows as the amount of their cap- 
ital, which they drove over the mountains, 
Henry and his wife began the resolute fight for 
existence. 

Slowly but surely he cleared away the 
forest; slowly but surely were his labors re- 
warded by the productions of mother earth. 
Finally the family was re-enforced by new comers 
until eleven children came to bless the home, 
viz. : George, John, Henry, William, Benjamin, 
Andrew, Nancy, Thomas, Jonathan, Eli and 
Susan. George died in Missouri; John is a 
farmer in Perry Township, Carroll Co., Ohio; 
Henry is a farmer in Allen County, Ohio; Will- 
iam is a farmer in Richland County, Ohio; Ben- 
jamin is a farmer in Monroe Township, Car- 
roll Co., Ohio; Thomas is dead; Jonathan is a 
farmer in Missouri; Eli is in Canton, Ohio; 
Nancy married Dr. Cutler, and Susan died 
about 1885. 

Andrew, the subject of this sketch, lived 
with his father, attended the district school, and, 
at the age of thirty, married Miss Sharp, whose 
parents lived in Leesburg, Carroll Co., Ohio, 
and were of German descent. Mr. Garrett is 
the father of two girls: Mary A. and Martha. 
Mary is married to I. S. Albaugh, a farmer of 
Monroe Township, Carroll County; Martha is 
married to S. H. Moffet, a farmer. Mr. Gar- 
rett has a finely improved farm of eighty acres. 
with fine buildings and all modern improve- 
ments. He possesses the same kind of perse- 
verance that prompted his father and mother to 
leave relatives and friends to seek a home in 
the then Far West. Many are Mr. and Mrs. 



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Garrett's friends, and many there will be who 
will rnias them when they are called away to 
settle in the "city of the dead." 



l[OSIAH LUCAS, one of the native-born 
w. I prosperous agriculturists of Loudon Town - 
\J) ship, Carroll County, first saw light on the 
farm he now owns, in the above-named 
township, June 20, 1837, a son of Adam and 
Rhoda (Larkins) Lucas, both natives of Mary- 
land, former born in 1798, a son of Thomas 
Lucas, also a Marylander, who in 1808 came to 
Ohio and settled in Jefferson County, where he 
died. Adam Lucas was ten years old when lie 
moved to Ohio, in which State he grew to man- 
hood. Revisiting his native State he there mar- 
ried Miss Rhoda Larkins, by whom were born 
the following named children: Mary O, now 
the widow of Adam Simmons, and residing in 
Loudon Township, Carroll County; Elizabeth 
A., living with Mrs. Simmons; Sarah, Thomas, 
John and Jesse, all deceased in infancy; Susaa, 
who died at the age of seventeen years; Martha, 
who died when thirty-two years old; Josiah and 
Jeremiah, residents of Loudon Township. Adam 
Lucas, about a year after his marriage, returned 
to Ohio and purchased a farm of 181 acres in 
Loudon Township, Carroll County, where he 
passed the rest of his life clearing the land. 
He died in 1877, his wife having preceded him 
to the grave in 1872; they were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, 
and in politics he was a stanch Republican. 

Josiah Lucas, whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch, grew to manhood on the 
farm where he was born, and received a liberal 
common-school education. On June 26, 1862, 
he married Miss Mary James, also a native of 
Loudon Township, born March 20, 1S44, a 
daughter of Thomas James, and to this union 
were born five children, viz.: Mary E., wife of 
J. B. Mclntire, of Loudon Township; and Har- 
vey T., Edgar L., Howard W. and Mary L., all 
at home. 

The mother of this familv was called from 



earth in 1876, and in April, following year, the 
father took, for his second wife, a sister to his 
first, named Maggie A. James, who was born in 
1840. Mr. Lucas has resided all his life on the 
farm he now owns, and for the past twenty-five 
years he and his brother, Jeremiah, have been 
engaged in threshing. Politically, our subject 
is a Republican, and has served as township 
trustee. He and his wife are consistent mem- 
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was 
also Mr. Lucas' first consort. 



T-HOMAS SMILEY. The Smiley family 
can trace their record back to when the 
grandfather of Thomas left Ireland and 
settled in America when a boy. He was 
married, and reared a family in the eastern part 
of the United States. "William Smiley, father 
of Thomas Smiley, left his home and settled in 
Washington County, Penn., where he wooed 
and won a Miss Brownlee, whose parents were 
natives of Scotland. They reared a large fam- 
ily, among whom was Thomas, the subject of 
this biographical sketch. William Smiley was an 
active, progressive citizen, bringing up his fam- 
ily to live lives of honesty and integrity, to 
which principles he himself adhered. 

Thomas Smiley was born March 15, 1815, 
and spent his early days on his father's farm. 
At the age of eighteen he began to learn the 
trade of harness-making, at which he worked 
about fifteen years. At the age of twenty-six 
he married a Miss Coventry, whose parents were 
natives of Ireland. Not contented with the 
East, Mr. Smiley, in 1848, moved to Ohio and 
settled on a farm in Fox Township, Carroll 
County. His farm was indeed a wilderness, but 
he went to work with a will, and succeeded after 
a few years of hard labor in converting that 
wilderness into a productive farm. Mrs. Smiley 
died March 25, 1888, at the ripe age of seventy- 
one years, having shared with Mr. Smiley life's 
joys and sorrows for about forty-seven years. 
Mr. Smiley has a stock farm of 386 acres, and 
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blooded sheep, but is at present living a quiet 
and retired life at Scroggsfield, Carroll County, 
Ohio. He is numbered among the worthy and 
prominent men of Fox Township, is a member 
of the United Presbyterian Church, and he feels 
that it is his duty to help advance any cause of 
public interest. 




;ILLIAM S. McQUEEN was born in 
Washington County, Penn., De- 
cember 31, 1815, and among the 
early settlers of Carroll County, Ohio, 
none are more conspicuous for integrity and 
straightforwardness than he, who is probably 
better known by his many friends as " Senator." 
William McQueen, Sr. , father of our subject, 
was also born in Washington County, Penn., 
but was of Maryland descent. The Mc- 
Queen family, as far back as can be traced, were 
farmers. The grandparents of William, Jr., 
left Pennsylvania about 1827, and settled in 
Union Township, Carroll County, Ohio, where 
they lived until death claimed them. 

William McQueen, Sr., married Miss Ellen 
Robinson, who was of Scotch descent, and had a 
family of seven children, named as follows: 
Elijah, Ammon, Westley. William S., Harriet, 
Elizabeth and Ellen. After living in Pennsyl- 
vania a number of years on the farm Mr. and 
Mrs. McQueen moved their family of seven 
children to the wilds of Ohio, in the spring of 
1819, where they located in what is now Orange 
Township, Carroll County. Many were the 
trials that the father and mother were subjected 
to in clearing away the forest, and providing 
sustenance for seven children as well as for 
themselves. A log house in the midst of a dense 
wood, where the wolves howled at night, the near- 
est neighbor living about four miles away, 
were some of the experiences connected with 
pioneer life in eastern Ohio. The father cleared 
the land and cultivated the crops; the mother 
watched the children and cooked what food they 
could manage to get. Mr. McQueen died in 
Tuscarawas County. Ohio, and the good mother 



died on the farm in Orange Township, Carroll 
County. 

William S. McQueen, the subject of this 
sketch, was but a boy of four summers when 
his father settled in Ohio in 1819. He obtained 
what schooling he could in the old log school- 
house, with the paper windows and ample fire- 
place. He married, January 14, 183(1, Miss 
Sarah Huffman, whose parents came from Penn- 
sylvania, where Sarah was born, and were of 
German descent. Mr. and Mrs. McQueen were 
blessed with a family of seven children, as fol- 
lows: Hiram, Silas, Cyrus, Mary Ann, Martha. 
Sarah A. and Maria. Of these children Hiram, 
at the breaking out of the war went to the front, 
but never returned; Silas and Cyrus are both 
dead; Mary Ann Laird's husband is a mechanic; 
Martha is at home; Sarah married a farmer, 
and Maria married a miner. Mr. McQueen has 
a farm of 160 acres, which has become one of 
the best in Orange Township. He has lived 
seventy-one years on this one farm, and it is not 
necessary to say he has seen many changes dur- 
ing those decades. Seventy years ago there 
was but one house in Perry Township, at Perrys- 
ville, one in Orange Township, at Leesville, and 
one where Bowerston is now located. Thus 
he has witnessed the march of civilization ; he has 
seen the dense forest melt away before the 
woodman's ax; he has beheld where one house 
was, a hundred — yes, a thousand — appear, and 
school-houses and churches dot the beautiful 
land where once it was the home of the wolf and 
the bear. Mr. and Mrs. McQueen have many 
warm friends who wish them still many years 
of life and pleasure. 



FjRANK J. CUMMINGS. Among the 
young and industrious farmers of Fox 
Township, Carroll County, none perhaps 
have made greater success than the above 
named gentleman. He was born in Steuben 
ville, Ohio, in the year 1S58, but both his father 
and mother died when he was live years of age 
Thrown out into the world at that tender age, 



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and being placed among strangers, he soon for- 
got all about his parents, and consequently re- 
members but little of his ancestry. After the 
death of his parents he was cared for by a man 
by the name of Ault. After living with Mr. 
Ault for some time, he went next to live with 
a family named Roudebush, in Washington 
Township. By close and diligent study, and 
attending school in the winter months, he 
managed to obtain a fair education, his time 
during the summer being devoted entirely to 
work on the farm. At the age of twenty-five he 
married Miss Malinda J. Ray, who was born in 
Carroll County, Ohio, February 9, 1862. Her 
parents were old settlers in this county. Four 
children were born to Mr. Cummings and wife, 
viz.: George V., March 16. lSSS^Charles E., 
September 3, 1885; Ollie, January 27, 1888, and 
Anna A., March 13, 1890. After marriage they 
lived in Washington Township about four years, 
then Mr. Cummings bought his present farm of 
David Hunter, and has been living there ever 
since. Mr. Cummings' farm consists of 115 
acres of improved land, which is well watered 
and covered with fruit trees. Mr. Cummings is 
a self-made man, having started with nothing 
but a good constitution and a strong determina- 
tion. He has in a short time, by perseverance 
and honest toil, won himself an honorable posi- 
tion among the successful farmers and repre- 
sentative citizens of his township and county. 



AMUEL SIMMONS, for over three- 
fourths of a century a resident of Loudon 
Township, Carroll County, is a native of 
the same, born on the farm where he 
now resides, March 10, 1S14. His father, Adam 
Simmons, was born about the year 1775 in 
Maryland, where he was reared to manhood. 
In 1806 or 1807, in company with his brothers 
John, Peter, Jacob (a twin brother of Adam), 
Daniel and William, he came to Ohio, settling 
in what is now Loudon Township, Carroll 
County. Adam married Miss Sarah Springer, 
and had three children, namely, Jacob and 



Samuel, both residents of Loudon Township, 
and Mary (deceased). Soon after his marriage 
Adam Simmons entered the farm now owned 
by his son Samuel, and hereon he built a log- 
cabin in which the family resided some years, 
when he erected a hewed-log house, and in 
1833 he put up the brick dwelling at present 
occupied by our subject. He served in the 
War of 1812 under William H. Harrison. In 
1810 death called him from earth, his widow 
surviving him till 1856, when she, too, fell before 
the Reaper's scythe. They were both consist- 
ent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Samuel Simmons, whose name heads this 
biographical sketch, was reared to manhood on 
the old farm, and received a good education at 
the common schools. On April 28, 1836, he 
married Miss Susan Thomas, who was born 
April 25, 1811, in Adams County, Penn. , to 
which union have been born five children, as 
follows: Margaret, wife of William Fickes, in 
Missouri; Sarah L., wife of Hiram Zimmer- 
man, of Jefferson County, Ohio; Mary O, wife 
of John F. Warner, of Taylorsville, Christian 
Co., 111.; Jane, wife of Fletcher Simmons, of 
Loudon Township, Carroll County; and Jesse, in 
Kansas. Mr. Simmons has resided on his farm 
all his life, and by industry and economy has 
amassed a comfortable competency. He and 
his wife have been active members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church for several years. 
Politically he is a Republican, and has held 
various offices of trust in his township. 



d'fOSEPH N. TRIPP, one of the most suc- 
cessful and progressive native-born agri- 
I culturists of Orange Township, Carroll 
County, was born in the year 1837. His 
paternal grandfather was a native of England, 
whence he emigrated to America, settling in 
Pennsylvania in the latter part of the eighteenth 
century, and was there married. 

Joseph Tripp, father of Joseph X., was born 
in the Keystone State in 1801, and was there 
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were early settlers of that State. To this union 
nine children were born — two sons and seven 
daughters. The parents came to Ohio, and set- 
tled in what is now known as Orange Township, 
Carroll County, where they carried on farming 
and passed the remainder of their lives. 

Joseph N. Tripp, the subject of this sketch, 
had the usual experiences, in his boyhood and 
youth, of the average farmer boy — working on 
the farm in summer time and attending the dis- 
trict school a few weeks in winters. In 1858 he 
was married to Miss Hannah Booth, whose 
father came from Pennsylvania to Ohio, settling 
in Orange Township, Carroll County, and this 
union has been blessed with three children, viz.: 
James, married and living at Leavittsville, Car- 
roll County; Thomas, also married, residing on 
the old homestead in Orauge Township, and 
Laura, wife of Thomas King, a farmer of Perry 
Township, Carroll County. Mr. Tripp is the 
owner of two farms, both obtained by hard work 
and industry, and the one on which he at pres- 
ent resides ( which adjoins the old home place on 
the south) comprises 152 acres of highly im- 
proved land, well adapted in every respect to 
the raising of grain of all kinds as well as live 
stock. In politics he is a Democrat, voting in 
local elections, however, for the best man, ac- 
cording to his judgment. 



Philip, our subject, is the fourth son. He was 
reared to manhood on the farm, and learned the 
trade of a carpenter, which he followed for forty 
years. On April 9, 1890, he was married to 
Miss Amanda Tomlinsou, who was born March 
9, 1867. In his political proclivities Mr. Bur- 
ner is a Democrat. 



PHILIP BURRIER, a carpenter by trade, 
residing in Loudon Township, Carroll 
County, was born in Loudon Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio., November 8, 1817. 
His father, also named Philip, a native of near 
Baltimore, Md., married Mary Nutzbaum, also 
a Marylander by birth. About the year 1800 
he came to what is now the State of Ohio, and 
entered one-half of Section No. 28, which is now 
in Loudon Township, Carroll County. Mr. and 
Mrs. Burner here spent the rest of their days 
improving the land, which was at the time of 
their coming a complete wilderness. They were 
members of the Lutheran Church. The chil- 
dren born to them numbered seven, of whom 



GHARLES RAY. There are very few men 
who have lived over sixty years in one 
' place, but such is the experience of Mr - . 
Ray. He was born July 31, 1829, on his fa- 
ther's farm in Carroll County, Ohio, and has lived 
on the same place ever since, except for a short 
time when he was serving his country in the 
Civil War. Mr. Ray's grandfather, on his 
father's side, was born in Ireland, but, desirous 
of finding a new home, he immigrated to Amer- 
ica and settled in the eastern States, where he 
reared a large family and finally died. Thomas 
Ray, father of our subject, was born in the year 
1800. His early days were spent in the East, 
where he learned the mason's trade, at which he 
worked some years, and then came West and 
bought a farm in Fox Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio. Like many early settlers he built a log 
cabin in the wilderness, where he and his voting 
wife began pioneer life with all its stern reali- 
ties, he working as a mason in conjunction with 
farming. His wife's maiden name was Lydia 
Roudebush. She was born east of the mount- 
ains, and her parents were of German descent. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ray were the parents of eight 
children, named as follows: Abraham, Mary 
Ann, Charles, Malinda, William, Sarah, Hannah 
and Lydia. Mr. Ray died in Fox Township in 
the fall of 1873, his wife having died in the 
year 1860. 

Charles Ray helped to clear away the forest, 
and to make for himself and family a productive, 
substantial farm. At the age of twenty-four he 
married Miss Lydia Marshall, who was reared 
in Washington Town>hip. Carroll Co., Ohio. 
Her parents were of German descent, and ten 
children were born to them, two of whom are 



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dead, the survivors being Mary A., Elmer 
E., M. H., Ervin L., Sarah M., Joshua M., 
Eva L. and Malinda J. Mr. Ray enlisted in 
1864, and served faithfully until mustered 
out September 13, same year. At the close 
of the war he returned to his farm, which 
he has since successfully operated, being now 
the owner of 112 acres of good land in Washing- 
ton Township, and forty-eight acres in Fox. 



I HARLES A. SCOTT. In the vicinity of 
Piney Fork Creek, Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
on September 27, 1820, there was born 
an infant who has lived and grown to old 
age, these long years, in the counties of Jeffer- 
son and Carroll, and is known as Charles Alex- 
ander Scott. His grandfather, Charles Scott, 
and father, John Scott, were natives of Ireland, 
whence they emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1 790, 
when the latter was twelve years old. Grand- 
father Charles Scott was a minister of the gospel, 
and in an early day brought salt from Baltimore, 
Md., over the Alleghany Mountains to western 
Pennsylvania, on horse pack-saddles. John Scott 
emigrated from his father's home in Pennsylva- 
nia to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1802, and was 
soon after married to Elizabeth Davidson, whose 
parents were of German descent, her father hav- 
ing been a minister of the gospel. To them 
were born nine children, viz. : Nancy, Polly, 
Samuel, William, Eliza, Charles A., John, 
David and Jane, all of whom were reared by 
pious and religious influence. John was a 
farmer and miller, making gunpowder and flour. 
He and his wife were strict members of the 
Methodist Protestant Church, forty years. They 
passed from earth, and were interred at Palermo, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, John dying April 10, 1864, 
at the age of eighty- four years, his wife eight 
years later when aged eighty-two. 

Charles A. Scott, the subject of this biogra- 
phy, spent his early boyhood days in laboring 
for the support of the family in summer, and at- 
tending school in winter. He was employed in 
teaming, hauling flour to Steubenville, with six 



horses, also in farming, milling and occasionally 
teaching singing. At the age of twenty-nine 
he was married to Phebe A. Frazier, of Jeffer- 
son County, Ohio, daughter of John and Zellah 
Frazier (who were of Irish and English descent ), 
who emigrated from Pennsylvania when Phebe 
was three years old. Soon after marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Scott moved to Orange Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, and purchased the farm on 
which he still resides. He had little capital with 
which to start on life's journey, but has made a 
grand success, and the evidence that he is a 
self-made man is sufficient, when it is considered 
that he owns 440 acres of prime land, all ac- 
cumulated by hard labor, perseverance and 
sound judgment. Mr. Scott has lived forty-one 
years on the same farm, and has seen and par- 
ticipated in the many changes taken place in 
that period. He is among the leading figures 
of the community in politics, having tilled a 
majority of the township offices with credit, and 
was twice elected commissioner of the county 
by the Republican party; was chairman of the 
board during the time of the contracting for and 
construction of the new court house. He is firm 
in decision, prompt in action, energetic, honest, 
and kind to his family and neighbors, being 
willing and ready to contribute to good and 
charitable purposes. Although he has sustained 
losses equal to half his gain, yet he is in good 
circumstances, financially. 

He and his wife have lived consistent mem- 
bers of the Methodist Protestant Church, at 
Palermo, since I860. In person Mr. Scott is 
tall and commanding, being six feet in stature, 
possessing a good countenance, high forehead 
and dark-blue eyes, which, though not particu- 
larly expressive, have an electrical appearance 
when kindled; he has light colored, grey hair 
and full beard. His family consisted of eight 
children — three sons and five daughters — all of 
whom are living, except the third child, which 
died in infancy: Lancaster F., an M. D. in 
Chicago, 111., is married to Anna R. Cope, of 
Cadiz, Ohio; Laura D., is the wife of Alpha B. 
Baker, a farmer of Orange Township, Carroll 




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County; Zella J. is the wife of J. H. Brackin, 
of Perry Township, Carroll County; Dassa A., 
Nina, J. Frazier and Walter H., the younger 
four children, are living with their aged parents 
who reside on the banks of the beautiful vale of 
Connotton, facing the old village of Leesville just 
beyond. 



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Mi RS. MARY VAN HORN. The earliest 
settler in what is now Lee Township, 
Carroll County, was Alexander Lee, a 
native of County Donegal, Ireland, 
who came to America at a very early date. He 
was married to Miss Martha Hammill, a lady of 
Scotch descent, and they resided in Somerset 
County, Penn. , until 1804, in which year they 
moved to the then new State of Ohio, their 
journey being made in a two- horse wagon, the 
second vehicle of the kind to pass over that 
road. They took up their residence near Steu- 
benville, for two years, and then came to what 
is now Lee Township, Carroll County. The 
country was at that time wild and unsettled, 
panthers, wild cats, deer, wild turkeys and 
many other denizens of the dense forest being 
as plentiful as blackberries, while neighbors 
were "few and far between." Mr. Lee here 
entered a half section of land, on which he 
passed the remainder of his days. The chil- 
dren born to him and his wife were the follow- 
ing named: Mary, married to Daniel Van Horn; 
David; Sarah, Mrs. George Greer; John; Mar- 
tha; James; Thomas; Ezekiel and William. 
Mr. Lee and his family were all members of 
the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a 
liberal supporter, and in his political prefer- 
ments he was a Whig, being one of the organ- 
izers of that party in his section. He was a 
leading man there, and the township wherein 
he ended his days was named for him. 

Mary Lee, the eldest child born to this 
worthy old pioneer, was married, November 20, 
1848, to Daniel Van Horn, a native of Holland, 
who came to the United States with his parents, 
at an early day, residing in Pennsylvania for a 



time, and then becoming one of the earliest 
settlers of what is now known as Lee Township, 
Carroll Co.. Ohio. After marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Van Horn took up their residence on a 
farm in Lee Township, where they remained 
up to the time of his death, which occurred in 
1871. His widow, Mrs. Mary Van Horn, then 
removed to the village of Harlem Spriugs, 
where she is now living, at the venerable age of 
ninety years. Mr. Van Horn was a member 
and liberal supporter of the Presbyterian 
Church, as has been Mrs. Van Horn; and in his 
political proclivities he was first an Old-line 
Whig, and then a Republican, taking an active 
interest in the affairs of his party. Commenc- 
ing life as he did with little or nothing, Mr. 
Van Horn made a success, having at the time of 
his death 190 acres of tine farm land. 



TEEN McINTIRE, a well-to-do farmer 
of Loudon Township, Carroll County, was 
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, February 
21, 1822, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth 
(Steen) Mclntire, former a native of Lancaster 
County, Penn., born about 1779, latter born about 
1789. Peter Mclntire, grandfather of our sub- 
ject, was also a native of Lancaster County. 
Samuel learned the trade of weaver, and when 
a young man moved to Washington County, 
Penn., where he married Miss Elizabeth Steen, 
who bore him seven children, a. record of whom 
is as follows: Mrs. Sarah Telfer resides in 
Minerva, Ohio; Samuel is deceased; Mrs.Martha 
Gotshall lives in Lee Township, Carroll County; 
Peter, in Jefferson County, Ohio; Mrs. Elizabeth 
Donaldson, in Wellsville, Ohio; Steen is the 
subject proper of these lines; James resides in 
Jasper County, Mo. In 1818 Samuel Mclntire 
came to Ohio, locating on a piece of land he had 
leased in Salem Township, Jefferson County, till 
1825, when he moved to Rock Township, same 
county (now Lee Township, Carroll County). 
Here he entered eighty acres of land, erected a 
log cabin, and lived the remainder of his days; 
he died about the year 1835. his wife in L854. 






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They were members for many years of the 
Seceder Church, and in polities Mr. Mclntire was 
a Democrat. 

Steen Mclntire was three years old when his 
parents brought him to what is now Carroll 
County, and he here attended for a time the 
common schools of the district. When a youth 
he commenced to learn blacksmithing with Will- 
iam Baxter, of Carrollton, a trade he followed 
in various parts of Carroll County up to 1S80. 
In 1850 he became united in marriage with Miss 
Lydia Newcomer, a native of Fayette County, 
Penn., born in 1S33, daughter of Jacob and 
Elizabeth (Hersey) Newcomer, of Allegheny 
County, Penn. To our subject and wife have 
been born three children, viz. : Elizabeth, de- 
ceased; Mrs. Emma Wilson, in Lee Township, 
Carroll County, and John B., residing near the 
paternal home. In 1865 Mr.McIntire purchased 
the farm in Loudon Township, where he now 
resides, which contains 100 acres of well culti- 
vated land, and to this he moved in 1872. In 
religion he is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and in his political connections he is a 
stanch Democrat. 

John B. McIntire, son of Steen, was born in 
Carroll County, and obtained his education at 
the common schools of the neighborhood. In 
1883 he was married to Miss M. E. Lucas, a 
native of Loudon Township, Carroll County, 
daughter of Josiah Lucas, lo which union three 
children were born: Bessie, Edna and Otto. 



¥ i ¥ i ENRY BARKICK, one of the oldest resi- 
1^1 dents and most progressive agriculturists 
1 of Orange Township, Carroll County, was 
■f/ born in what is now that township and 

county, August 31, 1821. His paternal grand- 
father was married to a Miss Catherine Weaver, 
by whom he had four children, one being a 
daughter, all now deceased. He came to Ohio 
in 1802 and settled in Licking County, where 
he purchased a farm and spent the remainder 
of his life. He was a Democrat of the old school, 



and one of the hardy pioneers who did so much 
to build up and settle the wilderness. 

Abraham Barrick, father of Henry, was born 
in 1800 in Maryland, where for many generations 
the family had resided, and he was consequently 
about two years old when his parents brought 
him to Ohio. He was married in Carroll Coun- 
ty to Hannah Beainer, who bore him the follow- 
ing named children: Henry, David, William, 
Catherine, George, Elizabeth, Ann, Phoebe, 
Isaac and John. The land on which Mr. Bar- 
rick settled was entirely wild, but by hard work 
and steady labor he and his family succeeded in 
converting it into a productive farm. He was a 
leading member of the Lutheran Church, having 
been one of its organizers, and in politics he 
was an enthusiastic supporter of Jacksonian 
principles. Mr. Barrick departed this life in 
1873, his widow in 1882. 

Henry Barrick, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was reared on his father's farm, and re- 
ceived his education in the somewhat primitive 
schools of his day. He has always followed 
agricultural pursuits. In 1846 he bought a 
flouring and saw mill in Tuscarawas County, 
which he operated for nineteen years, and then 
bought his present farm, where he has met with 
well-merited success. This farm, comprising 
360 acres, lies partly in Carroll Count}', partly 
in Tuscarawas County, the buildings thereon, 
consisting of a comfortable dwelling-house, a 
grain and stock barn, etc., are commodious and 
substantial. On August 10, 1851, Mr. Barrick 
was united in marriage with Mary, daughter of 
Peter Eick, and their children are as follows: 
Eliza, wife of Lemuel Bontrager; Jemima, wife 
of James Herron; Elsie, wife of James Belknap, 
and George, a merchant in Sherrodsville, who 
married Flora, daughter of John Alman. Mr. 
Barrick, together with John Alman and George 
Tomlinson, organized a bank at Sherrodsville. of 
which Mr. Alman is the president. Mr. Barrick 
has always given liberally toward the support 
and the building of the Methodist Church at 
Sherrodsville. While a Democrat in general 
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his own judgment when balloting — invariably 
selecting the candidate he considers best adapted 
to the position in question. Widely and favor- 
ably known, he has at all times commanded the 
respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens, and 
now, at the age of seventy years, he can look 
back with pleasure on a life well spent — a life 
brightened by his own deeds of kindness and 
words of good-will. He lost his amiable wife in 
December, 1887. 




H. WALKER, M. D., was born in Fox 
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, De- 
cember 24, 1855. Hamilton Walker, 
Sr., grandfather of our subject, was a 
native of Ireland, but at an early age emigrated 
to America, and located in Pennsylvania, where 
he married an American-born lady. He fol- 
lowed chair-making as a source of livelihood. 
After following his trade for some time in Penn- 
sylvania, he sought for himself and wife a new 
home in the then "Far West." Such a place 
was eastern Ohio, where he and his young wife 
settled in the wilderness of Jefferson County. 
Amid difficulties on every hand they built for 
themselves a rural home, where Hamilton 
Walker, Jr., was born in the year 1823. Two 
years later Mr. Walker and his small family 
moved to Moorestown, Jefferson County, where 
he bought a farm. It was there that Mr. and 
Mrs. Hamilton Walker at last found rest. After 
an eventful life, interspersed with sunshine and 
shadow, happiness and sorrow, they departed 
this life to join friends in that better and happier 
home. Hamilton Walker, Jr., was reared on 
his father's farm, attending the school which at 
that time was rude enough, and finally met and 
married Miss Mary Coventry in the year 1845. 
Mrs. Walker's parents were of Irish descent, 
her grandparents at a very early period in the 
history of this century having come here to 
make their home. In 1S47 Mr. and Mrs. 
Walker bought the farm, where Mr. Walker 
died August 6, 1850. Three children were 
born to them: Mrs. J. W. George, Jennie R. 



and W. H. Hamilton Walker was a Republican 
in politics as well as in actions. He always 
took a leading part in all matters of public in- 
terest, never failed to do his duty, and believed 
in rendering good when it was within his power. 
W. H. Walker, like many farmers' sons, was 
compelled to work in the summer, and allowed 
to obtain what learning he could by attending 
the winter schools. Having a desire for a 
better and higher education than the common 
schools afforded, he attended school at Mechan- 
icstown, and secured an education in vocal and 
instrumental music, of which he has for some 
time past been an instructor. On February 21, 
1882, he married Miss Frances De Ford, who is 
of French descent. She was born June 22, 
1802, in East Township, Carroll County, Ohio, 
where her parents were farmers and were among 
the early pioneers of Carroll County. Two 
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Walker, viz.: Oliver P., born March 20, 18S4, 
and Orville O, born August 29, 1888. Mr. 
Walker eventually left the farm to study medi- 
cine at Cleveland, Ohio, graduating, after three 
years of assiduous application, in March, 1891. 
Mr. Walker has a fine farm of 202 acres, which 
is well located for the production of all kinds of 
farm products. In politics he is a Republican, 
and both he and his wife are members of the 
United Presbyterian Church. Among the 
prominent families of Carroll Couuty, none are 
more worthy of mention than the Walkers. 




JLLIAM STOCKMAN, an old-time 
farmer and resident of East Township, 
M( Carroll County, was born in Mary- 
land, December 13, 1820. His father, 
William Stockman, also a native of Maryland, 
married Miss Elizabeth Montgomery, and to 
them were born George, now deceased; Will- 
iam, our subject; Mary A. Norris, John and 
Elizabeth, all three deceased; Lawson and Em- 
ma, who both reside in Utah. Mr. Stockman, 
in 1824, came to Ohio and purchased the farm 
now owned by our subject, which contains eighty 



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acres, and remained on this land till his death. 
His wife died in Kansas, and both were mem- 
bers of the Disciples Church. Politically Mr. 
Stockman was a Republican, 

William Stockman, our subject, grew to man- 
hood in East Township, Carroll County, on the 
farm where he now resides, and received a com- 
mon-school education. In 1850 he married 
Miss Lydia A. McGhee, who was born in 1828, 
a daughter of John McGhee. To this union 
have been born Lemuel W. , who resides in Au- 
gusta, Ohio; Albert, at home: Homer, in Mi- 
nerva, Ohio; Emma Toalston, in East Township, 
and Elva, at home. 

Our subject has resided on the farm where 
he now lives, since 1824. He and wife are mem- 
bers of the Disciples Church, and politically he 
is a Republican. The land was in its wild state 
when William Stockman, Sr. , purchased it, but 
now it is as line an eighty-acre farm as there is 
in the county. 




\ILL J. ROBINSON. Among the young 
\aj business men of Carroll Couuty the 
m[ Mj above named gentleman occupies a eon- 
spiciious place. He was born in Fox 
Township, Carroll County, Ohio, March 4, 1859, 
a son of David Robinson, who was born June 
25, 1829, on the same farm as our subject. 
The Robinsons can trace their history back to 
one James Robinson who left his native laud 
(Ireland) and settled in the fertile territory of 
Ohio. James, the grandfather of our subject, 
after leaving the Emerald Isle, entered a farm 
in the wilderness of Carroll County, Ohio. 
David Robinson was reared in this township, 
attended the district school and worked on his 
father's farm. On April 25, 1858, he married 
Mary Ann Seaton, who was reared in Jefferson 
County, Ohio. Her father was a native of Ire- 
land; her mother came from England. Mr. and 
Mrs. David Robinson were the parents of eight 
children, as follows: W. J., Frances E., John 
E., Henry B., Mary H., Stewart D. and two 
infants who are deceased; of these Frances E. 



married T. C. Weir, a merchant of Amsterdam, 
Jefferson County, Ohio; John E. is married to 
Miss May Lewton, and lives on a farm in Fox 
Township; Henry B., Mary H. and Stewart D. 
are at home. David Robinson, father of the 
above named family, died February 9, 1890, 
of cancer of the face; his widow is still living. 
Will J. Robinson spent his early days with 
his father on the farm, and attended the dis- 
trict school, also the academy at Mechanicstown. 
At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Mary 
C. Kean, whose parents were born in Ohio, but 
whose grandparents came from Ireland. Mr. 
and Mrs. Robinson have had three children, viz. : 
two deceased and Floyd Harrison Robinson, born 
June 25, 1888. Mr. Robinson was actively en- 
gaged in farming until within the past three 
years, and in 1888 he embarked in the general 
store business, his stock consisting of dry goods, 
groceries, boots and shoes, hardware and jewel- 
ry. Mr. Robinson, by perseverance and honest 
dealing, has built up an extensive trade, and 
has gained the respect and confidence of a host 
of friends, who realize the benefits to be derived 
from dealing with an honest man. Mr. Robin- 
son takes quite an interest in polities; has twice 
been elected assessor, also twice as constable of 
his township. He is an active member of the 
K. of P., as well as of three other prominent 
societies. 




[( BRAHAM MOREHEAD. Lee Township, 
l\ Carroll County, has a just right to feel 
^ proud of her native-born stalwart sons of 
the soil, who in their lifetime have done 
so much toward making the fair land ' ' blossom as 
the rose," and among the names most deserving 
of perpetuation in this work is that of Abraham 
Morehead. 

Mr. Morehead was born January 5, 1817, a 
son of Thomas and Mary (Hill) Morehead. [See 
sketch of James Morehead. ] His boyhood days 
were passed on the farm and in the school- room, 
alternately, according to the season of the year, 
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occupied in receiving practical lessons in hus- 
bandry. At his death he was the owner of 300 
acres of well-improved land in Lee Township, 
all the result of his industry, economy, persever- 
ance and progressiveness. In 1841 he was mar- 
ried to Martha Rawlson, who bore him the fol- 
lowing named children: Mary, Nancy, Ellen, 
Andrew, Joseph, Willard and Annie. This wife 
dyiQg, Mr. Morehead took, for his second wife, 
Mary, daughter of Thomas Beatty, and to this 
union have been born two children, viz. : Dillie 
and Abraham. Mr. Morehead departed this life 
in 1890, a consistent member of the Presbyterian 
Church at Harlem Springs, which church his 
family also attend; in politics he was a sup- 
porter of the Democratic party. 

Thomas Beatty, father of Mrs. Morehead, 
was a native of Virginia, born in Loudoun 
County in 1810. His early life was spent on the 
home farm of his parents, and while yet a young 
man he married Rachel Cummings, who bore 
him ten children, named, respectively, Lucinda, 
Nancy, William, Albert, Mary, Elizabeth, Jo- 
siah. Martina, Martha J. and Sarah. Mr. 
Beatty in religion was a consistent member of 
the Presbyterian Church, and in his political 
convictions was a stanch Democrat. 




C. RAINSBERGER, the youngest busi- 
nessman in Sherrodsville, Orange Town- 
ship, Carroll County, was born Decem- 
ber 12, 1802, a son of John Rainsberger. 
He was reared on a farm near Sherrodsville, 
and received his education at the schools of the 
neighborhood. At the age of eighteen he en- 
tered the employ of A. A. Davis, of Mineral 
Point, Ohio, with whom he remained one year, 
when, desiring to further improve his educa- 
tion, he took a two years' course of instruction 
at the Academy at New Hagerstown. In 1882 
he opened a drug store in Sherrodsville, com- 
mencing with but a small stock, but gradually 
increasing same until he has now one of the 
finest establishments of the kind in the town, 
all the result of his own industry, perseverance 



and close attention to business. The store is 
well equipped in all departments, and with Mr. 
Rainsberger himself as pharmacist, the public 
are given excellent satisfaction. 

On May 17, 1883, Mr. Rainsberger was 
united in marriasre with Emma T., daughter of 
Austin Belknap, of Orange Township, Carroll 
County, and one child, Mary, was born to them 
June 3, 1887. For many years our subject has 
been a stanch member and liberal supporter of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church; in politics 
he is a Republican, but does not take any very 
active part in the workings of the party, as his 
business occupies all his time and attention. 
He is a young man of good prospects, and his 
gentlemanly demeanor has brought him the 
respect of many friends. 



ANIEL GEORGE SHAWVER, a 
representative, native-born farmer of 
Loudon Township, Carroll County, was 
born June 27, 1843, on the farm he now 
occupies. His grandfather, Daniel Shawver, 
supposed to have been a native of Germany, re- 
sided for a lime in Loudoun County, Va., and in 
about ISO! he came to the then new State of 
Ohio, where he entered a large tract of land in 
what is now Loudon Township, Carroll County. 
Here he remained several years, and then moved 
to Logan County, same State, where he died. 
George Shawver was born on his father's farm in 
Ohio, and received his education at the primi- 
tive schools of the period. He was married to 
Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Adam and Savilla 
(Winner) Slates, and by this union there were 
eight children, viz.: Catharine, William, de- 
ceased; Mary, Sarah, John, Daniel George, 
Elizabeth, and Nancy Jane. After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. George Shawver purchased the farm 
now owned by their son, Daniel G. , which con- 
tains 160 acres of well-improved land, situate 
in Section 13, Loudon Township. He afterward 
bought 317 acres, which he gave to his children. 
He and his wife died in Loudon Township in 
1S83 and 1^ S T. respectively, both members of 



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the Lutheran Church. Politically Mr. Shawver 
was a Democrat. 

Daniel G. ■ Shawver, the subject proper of 
this sketch, was brought up a practical farmer, 
and received his education at the common 
schools. He has been thrice married: first to 
Miss Sarah Davis, who bore him one child, 
Drusilla, now a resident of Bowerston, Harrison 
Co., Ohio; his second wife was Mary Goff, who 
died September 17, 1883, the mother of two 
children: Lillie B. , at home with her father, and 
Deba J., deceased; and his third wife was Ma- 
hala Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Shawver are mem- 
bers of the Lutheran Church; in his political 
preferments he is a sound Democrat, and is a 
trustee of his township at the present time. ' 



RaFATHANIEL FINEFROCK, a represent- 
I \| ative citizen of Rose Township, Carroll 
l[ Co., Ohio, of which township he is also 
•(/ a native, was born April 13, 1833, and 

is a son of John and Elizabeth Finefrock. Un- 
til seventeen years of age he passed his life on 
the home farm, doing his best to help improve 
it, and also attended the district school at inter- 
vals. He then served an apprenticeship of 
three years at harness-making, after which he 
went into business for himself, which he con- 
tinued for fourteen years in the village of 
Waynesburg. He then moved to a farm in 
Brown Township, which farm he afterward sold, 
and then came to his present farm, where he 
has ever since been successfully engaged in 
agriculture. This farm is a model one and im- 
proved with an excellent dwelling and commo- 
dious and convenient outbuildings. Like his 
ancestors, Mr. Finefrock has always identified 
himself with the Republican party, and has 
been an earnest and sincere advocate of its 
principles. With his wife and family he is a 
member of the Lutheran Church at Waynes- 
burg, in which he has filled the office of deacon 
for three terms. His marriage took place De- 
cember 16, 1860, with Miss Sarah Rinehart, of 
Rose Township, and a daughter of David and 



Elizabeth Rinehart, and this union was blessed 
with the following children: Laura, Lewis, 
David, Olive Nettie, Charles, Ellen, Mary and 
Clara. Mr. Finefrock is well known among his 
neighbors for the sterling integrity and honesty 
which have ever characterized his actions 
through life, and which have placed him on the 
highest plane of public esteem. 



JiEREMIAH GANTZ, one of the prominent 
and well-to-do farmers of Harrison Town- 
' ship, Carroll County, was born in what is 
now Union Township, same county, March 
2, 1825. William Gantz, his grandfather, was 
a native of Pennsylvania, in which State he 
lived, and reared a family of children, of whom 
the fourth in order of birth was George, the 
father of Jeremiah. George Gantz was born 
in 1802 in the Keystone State, where he lived 
until attaining his majority, when he came 
to Ohio and secured work on a farm in 
what is now Carroll County. A few years after 
coming here he was united in marriage with 
Miss Mary, daughter of Jacob Campher, one 
of the oldest residents of Carroll County, and 
the young,, couple then settled on a farm in 
Union Township, where were born their nine 
children, named as follows: Eliza (wife of John 
Wyant), Harriet (married to Nicholas Berger), 
Jacob, George, William, David, John, Jeremiah, 
and Charlotte (wife of John H. Tripp). The 
father died in 1838, a Democrat in politics, and 
one of the leading citizens of his section ; the 
mother is also deceased. 

Jeremiah Gantz, of whom this sketch more 
especially treats, passed his early life in Union 
and Lee Townships, alternately in working on 
the farm and absorbing an education at the sub- 
scription and common schools of tbe neighbor- 
hood. On April 19, 1855, he was married to 
Melinda, daughter of John Burrier, of Lee Town- 
ship, Carroll County, and they then remained in 
Union Township eight years, at the end of which 
time they removed to Lee Township, whence, 
after a residence of two years, they came to Har- 



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rison Township and settled on their present 
farm, comprising 120 acres of well improved 
land, provided with substantial and commodious 
buildings. To Mr. and Mrs. Gantz have been 
born six children, named as follows: Eliza J. 
and Robert (deceased), William H. and Emma 
(at home) and Frank and Charles (deceased). 

In politics Mr. Gantz has always been an 
uncompromising Democrat, and, while never 
accepting office himself, has assisted materially 
by his influence, and otherwise, in the election 
of others. His financial growth has been steady 
and continuous, he and his faithful wife having 
commenced with little else than their willing 
hands, habits of economy and industry, coupled 
with good judgment and excellent management. 
He carries on general farming and stock-raising, 
and is assisted by his son William H, one of 
the well-known rising young farmers of Harrison 
Township. The latter, like his father, is a 
zealous Democrat, and, although not a politi- 
cian, takes an active and effective part in the 
advancement of the interests of the party. 



JAMES McGHEE, a highly respected and 
influential farmer of East Township, Car- 
roll County, was born in Columbiana 
County, Ohio, near New Lisbon, Decem- 
ber 15, 1825. His father, John McGhee, was 
born near Johnstown, Penn. , in 1S07, and his 
grandfather, James McGhee, was born in Coun- 
ty Tyrone, Ireland, where he grew to manhood 
and learned the trade of a miller. James, the 
grandfather, married, in Ireland, Margaret 
Hazlett, a native of County Tyrone, and to them 
were born James, Alexander, Eliza, Mary A., 
Margaret, Elsie, John and Jackson. In ;m 
early day James McGhee migrated to the United 
States and settled at Johnstown, Penn., where 
he erected a mill and resided for a few years; 
he then removed to Columbiana County, Ohio, 
near New Lisbon, where he erected a grist mill 
and remained till 1885, when he removed to 
Gallia County, Ohio, and erected another grist- 
mill on Big Raccoon Creek, and also laid out 



the town of Vinton, Gallia County, where he 
remained till his deat'h. 

His son, John, grew to manhood in New Lis- 
bon, Ohio, and received a common-school educa- 
tion. He married Susan Walters, who was born 
in Gettysburg, Penn., and to this union were 
born James, our subject; Margaret, deceased; 
Lydia A., wife of William Stockman, of East 
Township; Joanna, deceased; David, who re- 
sides in Kensington. Ohio; Franklin, in Oneida, 
Ohio; Albert, in Kensington, Ohio; Mary Skel- 
ton, in Augusta Township, Carroll County. 
Mr. McGhee remained in New Lisbon till 1835, 
being engaged in conducting a hotel and farm. 
In 1835 he came to East Township, Carroll 
County, where he and his wife ended their days. 
Politically he was a Democrat. He was a mem- 
ber of the United Presbyterian Church, his wife 
being a member of the Lutheran Church. 

James McGhee, our subject, was ten years 
old when his parents came to East Township, 
where he attended the district school and re- 
ceived a practical education. In 1852 he mar- 
ried Mary Orin, who was born in 1835, a daugh- 
ter of Thomas Orin. To this union have been 
born John, deceased; Margaret Streetman, of 
East Township; Aletha, at home; Elizabeth, 
deceased; Annie Yeagley, of Mahoning County. 
Ohio; Sarah, deceased; Eliza, who resides in 
Missouri; Charles, a resident of Minerva, Ohio; 
Mervin, deceased; Ada Grimes, of Alliance, 
Ohio; James W. and Minnie J., at home. In 
1801 Mr. McGhee purchased the farm he now 
owns, which contains 160 acres, and on which 
he has made many improvements. Politically 
he is Democratic, and has served as trustee of 
his township. He and his wife are members of 
the United Presbyterian Church. 



QEORGE RUTLEDGE is a representative 
of one of the earliest families that settled 
in eastern Ohio. He can trace his origin 
,1 as far back as James Kntledge, his grand 
father, who was a native of Ireland, where he 
was engaged in farming. Not being contented 



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with bis native land, James came to America 
and settled in Washington County, Penn. ; after 
remaining there some time and rearing a family, 
he moved to the then " Far West," and built a 
home in the wilds of Jefferson County, Ohio. 
After enduring a long life of privations and 
hardships, he and his wife died upon the farm 
that they had entered. Edward Rutledge, 
father of the subject of this sketch, first saw 
light of day in Washington County, Penn., in 
1797. He came to Ohio when a young man 
and here attended the old subscription school 
about three months out of every twelve, the re- 
mainder of the time being utilized on his father's 
farm. In the year 1827 he married Miss Jane 
Stephenson, who was a native of Ireland, having 
been born in County Donegal. She left her 
native home when a young lady, and was three 
months coming across the Atlantic Ocean. 
Soon after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge 
bought a farm of 160 acres in Washington Town- 
ship, Carroll County, Ohio, where they lived 
until 1834. They then moved to Augusta 
Township, same county, where Mr. Rutledge 
engaged in farming until his death in 1871, 
Mrs. Rutledge following in 1880. They were 
the parents of four children, of whom our sub- 
ject was the youngest. In politics Mr. Rut- 
ledge was a Republican and a man who gained 
the respect of all. 

George Rutledge was born in Augusta Town- 
ship, July 26, 1836, and here he grew to man- 
hood on his father's farm. By attending the 
district school about three months of the year, 
he laid the foundation for his success in after 
life. March 30, 1873, he married Miss Boory, 
who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, and is 
of German descent; but scarcely had they 
settled in their little home before the angel of 
death came and took away Mrs. Rutledge, 
March 30, 1871. Mr. Rutledge has a farm of 
210 acres, which is well improved in every par- 
ticular. He is a stock-raiser and grain pro- 
ducer, and takes much pride in keeping up a 
good establishment. He is a Republican; is 
an active member of the Methodist Episcopal 



Church, and has always been one of the first to 
advance any cause to help lift up mankind. 



JfOHN ALLMON (deceased), who in his 
lifetime was one of the most successful 
and popular physicians in Carroll County, 
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 
1820. His father, James Allmon, was a native 
of Washington County, Penn;, where his early 
life was spent, and where he learned the mill- 
ing business. While yet a young man he was 
married to Anna Preston, who bore him the 
following named children: William, Preston, 
John and Mary. Coming to Ohio when this 
part of the country was yet a wilderness Mr. 
Allmon had his share of pioneer experiences, 
and encountered many hardships and trials 
while prospecting for a suitable site whereon 
to locate, often having the bare earth for a 
couch and the blue canopy of heaven for a 
covering. One night he arrived at the spot 
where he afterward erected a saw- and grist- 
mill, in Jefferson County, and discovering a 
hollow log he crept into it, there spending the 
night. In the morning he found that for bed- 
fellows he had been honored with the company 
of a dozen or so rattlesnakes. Mr. Allmon 
carried on milling and farming in that locality 
until his death. 

, John Allmon, while a boy and a young man, 
assisted his father in the mill, his primary edu- 
cation being secured in the common schools, 
which was supplemented by a course at Frank- 
lin College, New Athens, Ohio. At the age of 
twenty-three he commenced the study of medi- 
cine, and so assiduously did he apply himself 
that he was soon admitted to the practice of his 
profession, which he began in the neighborhood 
of his home, and continued with eminent success 
till death called him from earth. He died, a 
prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, in which he was an active and ener- 
getic worker. In politics he was an influential 
Democrat, holding several positions of honor 
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faithfully. He was a warm champion of educa- 
tion, and ranked among the foremost in all pro- 
gressive movements. On March 22, 1844, Dr. 
Allmon was married to Ellen, daughter of John 
Babbitt, a native of Maryland, and after mar- 
riage the young couple remained in Jefferson 
County until 1S65, when they moved to Carroll 
County, where they purchased the farm now 
occupied by the widowed mother and some of 
her children. To Dr. and Mrs. Allmon were 
born the following named sons and daughters: 
Anna, now Mrs. Thomas Duffy; James; Ed- 
ward, deceased; Mary, now Mrs. Thomas Faw- 
cett; William; Ada, now Mrs. Hamilton Suits- 
man, and John P. 



JW. KEED, who stands in the front rank 
of the progressive and industrious young 
i farmers of Loudon Township, Carroll 
County, was born in Richmond, Jefferson 
Co., Ohio, July 30, 1854. His father, William 
Reed, a native of the same place, born about 
the year 1807, attended the subscription schools 
of those early days, and learned the trade of a 
cabinet-maker, which he followed all his life. 
He died in Richmond, the town of his birth, in 
1862. He had married Miss Sarah James, who 
was born in Richmond, May 6, 1822, a daughter 
of William James, a native of Ireland, and to 
this union were born eight children, as follows: 
John, a resident of Kansas; Lavina, deceased; 
Mary Snow, in Loudon Township, Carroll 
County; J. W. ; Rebecca, at home; Samuel B. , 
a dentist in Richmond, Ohio; Emma, deceased, 
and Lavina, also in Richmond. The parents 
were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and in politics Mr. Reed was a Repub- 
lican. 

J. W. Reed was reared to manhood on the 
old home farm, the winter months of his boy- 
hood being spent in fathoming the mysteries of 
the "Three R's"' at the schools of his district, 
and for a trade he learned that of stone-mason, 
which he carried on three years. On April 
5, 1879, he married Miss Mary M. Fawcett, 



born in 1800, a daughter of A. A. Fawcett, and 
by this union there is one child, Bessie, who re- 
sides with Mr. Fawcett. Mrs. Reed died in 
February, 1883, a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and December 10, 1884, Mr. 
Reed married Miss Salena Miller, who was born 
July 2(5, 1864, a daughter of Adam Miller of 
German Township, Harrison Co., Ohio. The 
result of this marriage is one son, Franklin G. 
On December 3, 1884, our subject bought the 
farm of eighty-three acres in Loudon Township, 
where he now resides. In his political prefer- 
ments he is a stanch Republican; in his religious 
convictions he is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, Mrs. Reed being a member 
of the Lutheran Church. 



LEVI SIMMONS, one of the well-known, 
. prosperous agriculturists of Union Town- 
I ship, Carroll County, was born in Washing- 
ton County, Penn., August 1, 1S1 5. His 
grandfather, Lawrence Simmons, anative of Prus- 
sia, immigrated to America about the middle of 
the eighteenth century, and settled in Northum- 
berland County, Penn. He was married prior to 
the Revolutionary War (in which he participat- 
ed), the lady of his choice being a resident of 
the Keystone State, and by this union there 
were children as follows: Simon, Lawrence, Da- 
vid and Peter. Having sold his property, and 
got his pay for the same and for his service in 
the army in Continental money, he moved to 
Washington County, Penn. Then he found his 
money worthless. He rented a farm a number 
of years before he purchased land in Washing- 
ton County. Lawrence Simmons carried on 
farming until the opening up of Ohio for settle- 
ment, at which time he came to what is now 
Carroll County, where he spent the remainder 
of his life, dying at the good old age of one hun- 
dred and sis years. He was a hearty support- 
er of the German Reformed Church, and was 
one of the organizers of the same in each of 
the settlements he assisted in founding. His 
wife was a Lutheran. Peter Simmons, father 



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of Levi, was born in Northumberland County, 
Penn., in 1781, and moved with his parents to 
"Washington County, same State, about the year 
17S7, and there, in 1814, was married to Mrs. 
Jacob Beckley, by whom he had the following 
named children: Levi, Eliza, Catherine, David 
and Nancy. In 1820 he came with his family 
to what, is now Carroll County, Ohio, and set- 
tled near Centreville (now Carrollton); in 1821 
he moved to Brown Township, near where 
Oneida now is, and purchased a farm on which 
he died at the age of about seventy-five years. 
In religion he was a member of the German 
Baptist Church; politically he was a Democrat. 

Levi Simmons, whose name opens this 
sketch, received his education in the common 
schools of Brown Township, Carroll County, 
and was thoroughly trained to farm life. On 
November 18, 1841, he was united in marriage 
with Elizabeth, daughter of Christian Kintner, 
and moved, in April, 1842, to Union Township, 
near Carrollton, where he has resided ever 
since. To his marriage five children were born, 
viz.: Celia A., Salathial, Sarah M., Catherine E. 
and Angeline C. The mother of these children 
died in 1859, and was laid to rest in the ceme- 
tery at Carrollton. On May 26, 1864, Mr. 
Simmons was married to Martha Heim, of Co- 
lumbiana County, Ohio, a daughter of Daniel 
and Mary Heim, former of whom was a native 
of Pennsylvania, born December 10, 1805. Mr. 
and Mrs. Heim were married in Pennsylvania, 
and the children born to them were Martha, 
Catherine, Daniel, Mary, Jacob, Susanna, Lydia 
A., Melinda and Emeline. The family came to 
Stark County, Ohio, in 1839, where they re- 
mained some twenty years, at the end of which 
time they moved to Columbiana County, same 
State, where Mr. Heim died, December 15, 
1878, his wife having preceded him to the grave 
February 2, 1872. They were members of the 
Lutheran Church, and in politics he was a 
Democrat. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Simmons came 
to the farm where they now reside, which their 
untiring labor has greatly improved and beauti- 



fied. The children born to them were Levi 
(deceased) and George W. Mr. and Mrs. Sim- 
mons are honored members of the German Bap- 
tist Church at Carrollton, and in his political 
preferments he has always been allied to the 
Democrats. Our subject commenced life with 
but meager financial advantages, and to-day he 
is the owner of a large tract of land situated 
near the town of Carrollton. 




|\ILLIAM T. WEIR, a highly prosperous 
farmer of Washington Township, Car- 
roll County, is a native of the same, 
having been born July 1, 1848, a son 
of Thomas and Mary (Denniston) Weir, a 
record of whom appears in the sketch of his 
brother, James R. Weir. Our subject was 
reared on the old homestead of his parents, and 
educated at the district schools. On February 
2, 1871, he was married to Miss Sarah E. Mar- 
shall, also a native of Washington Township, 
born in October, 1848, a daughter of Joshua 
and Mary (Roudebush) Marshall, and to this 
union have been born four children, viz. : Calvin 
R., Albert M., Willard O. and Elsie M. 

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Weir resided 
on the old farm until 1878, in which year they 
removed to their present home which is situated 
in Section 17, Washington Township, and com- 
prises 158 acres of prime land. They are con- 
sistent members of the Presbyterian Church at 
Mechanicstown; in his political preferments Mr. 
Weir is a Republican. 



I7t( LLEN PEARCH, a worthy representa- 
U \\ tive of the widely known Pearch family 
lr~]h of Carroll County, and a son of John 
f/ and Ann M. (Barrick) Pearch, was born 

June 20, 1850, in Orange Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, where he has ever since resided. 
His boyhood and youth were spent much in the 
manner of farmer boys, summer time being de- 
voted to the practical lessons of agriculture, 
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CARROLL COUNTY. 



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of "reading, 'riting aud "rithmetic." At the 

age of nineteen be left school, and applied his 
entire time to farming, which he has since fol- 
lowed with success. On March 31, 1870, he 
was married to Ann, daughter of Thomas Wal- 
lace, and by her had five children, as follows: 
Ada, John, Thomas, Garfield A. and Boy. In 
bis political preferments Mr. Pearch has always 
been a zealous Republican, voting, however, in 
local affairs for the man, not the party. He is 
a leading citizen in his township, which be has 
done much toward building up. 



IjOHN STOOD Y, SR., farmer, Monroe 
^ I Township, Carroll County, was born April 
)US 4, 1799, in Washington County, Penn., on 
the same farm where his father, George 
Stoody, was born June 21, 1774. John Stoody, 
father of George, was born in Germany, where 
he married Margaret Shuster, and soon after 
they came to the United States and settled in 
Washington County, Penn., where he ended his 
days. His son, George Stoody, grew to man- 
hood in Washington County, Penn., where April 
25, 1797, he married Miss Ann Barbara Shuster, 
who was born in Washington County, Penn., Sep- 
tember 28, 1777, and by this union were the fol- 
lowing named children: Margaret, born January 
31, 1798, now residing in Missouri; John, our 
subject: Catherine, born August 23, 1800; Eliza- 
beth, bora May 3, 1802; Mary M., bora July 
23, 1804; Daniel, bora August 24, 1806; Georgo, 
born June 4, 1808; Ann Barbara, born March 
24, 1812; Eve, born May 23, 1814; Samuel, 
bom May 12, 1810; Lavina, born July 13, 
1821, and Sarah Ann, born August 6, 1825, 
all now deceased except Margaret and John. 
George Stoody came to Ohio in 1810, and en- 
tered one-quarter section of land in what is now 
Monroe Township, Carroll County, erected a 
cabin, and built one of the first mills ever erected 
in the county. He died in May, 1842, his wife 
having passed away in 1837; both were mem- 
bers of the Lutheran Church for many years. 
John Stoody, Sr., came to Monroe Township 



when eleven years old, and here he was reared 
to manhood and educated at the common schools. 
On March 27, 1823, he married Miss Susanna 
Yant, who was bora in Washington County, 
Penn., May 19, 1799, a daughter of John and 
Mary E. (Shuster) Yant. Tbis union was blessed 
with the following named children : Sarah Moore, 
born March 24, 1824, living at home; Henry, 
born April 12, 1825, residing in Hocking Coun- 
ty, Ohio; George W., bora March 14, 1S27, 
now deceased; Elizabeth, bora May 8, 1829, 
also deceased; Catherine Marshall, born August 
15, 1830, residing in Carroll County, Ohio; 
Mary E. Gonzales, born December 26, 1831, re- 
siding in Monroe Township; Daniel L.,bora April 
10, 1833, residing in Monroe Township; John, 
born in 1835, living in Indiana; Barbara A. Mil- 
ler, born December 3, 1836, residing in Indi- 
ana; David, born October 8, 1838, deceased, 
and Jane, born March 3, 1840. Our subject 
after his marriage resided for some years on a 
farm near where he now resides, when he came 
to the farm of eighty acres which he now owns, 
where he has since lived. The first house on 
this farm was a rude cabin, and the elegant 
dwelling in which he now lives is the second 
house erected on the farm. Politically Mr. 
Stoody is Democratic, and has held several of- 
fices in the township. He and his wife are mem- 
bers of the United Presbyterian Church, but 
formerly were members for some years of the 
Lutheran. Mr. and Mrs. Stoody are the oldest 
couple residing in Carroll County. 




JLLIAM C. ELLIOTT. About a cent- 
ury and a quarter ago there came from 
Germany to America the great-grand- 
father of the gentleman whose name 
here appears. He settled in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, aud to him was born a son, Thomas, who 

married Keziah , to which union was born 

in Jefferson County, January 25, 1800, Ricbard, 
the father of William O. Elliott. • 

Richard Elliott was reared in his native town- 
ship, and experienced all the vicissitudes and 



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dangers of pioneer life. When a boy of about 
eleven years he met with a serious accident; he 
was driving a span of horses one day when he 
accidentally fell off the sled and got caught 
somehow in the traces, whereby he was deprived 
of any means of stopping the horses, who 
dragged him about forty rods in the woods, 
tearing the flesh off one of his legs in a frightful 
manner. He was a thorough "Nimrod," a dead 
shot, and was wont to kill bears, wolves, etc. 
He was also a great climber and wrestler, and 
although a small man he never found any one 
who could throw him; however, he was not 
quarrelsome or given to fighting. He was one 
of the most expert coon hunters of his day, and 
when he succeeded in treeing one of those wily 
animals, he would readily climb the loftiest 
tree in the forest and bring his " coonship " 
down. However, like many other hunters, he at 
times made a mistake or miscalculation; on one 
occasion he climbed a tree after what he sup- 
posed to be a coon, and when he got near enough 
to the animal to see it distinctly, he was more 
than surprised to find himself face to face with 
a wildcat, who with angry, glitteriug eyes, was 
making for him. What Mr. Elliott did under 
these circumstances can be better imagined than 
described; however, we are told that "discre- 
tion is the better part of valor." He was one of 
the first singers in this section, and for twenty- 
five years led a church choir. He was twice 
married, the first time in 1821, to Elisabeth 
Mick, a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, and 
five children were the result of this union, two 
of whom are now living: Mary A., now Mrs. 
James Kerr, residing in Kentucky, and Sarah 
Jane, now Mrs. William Kurtz, in Minerva, 
Stark Co., Ohio. Mr. Elliott's second marriage 
occurred in 1836, with Mrs. Catherine Clinton, 
a widow, also born in Jefferson County, daugh- 
ter of William and Catherine Wright. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Wright (nee Cassleman), 
grandmother of our subject, was bo'rn in Vir- 
ginia, and at the age of seven years was stolen, 
along with her sister Mary, by some Wyandotte 
Indians. The girls had crossed the Ohio River 



near where Steubenville now stands, to be com- 
pany to a man who was engaged in making sugar, 
there being extensive sugar camps on the Ohio 
side of the river. At about dusk in the evening 
five Indians sprang upon them and secured th e two 
girls, but the man who was with them fled and 
made for the canoe which had been left by the 
river bank, but was tied. Being hotly pursued, 
and thinking to save himself, he jumped into 
the river, where one of the Indians shot him, 
and our subject's grandmother often related to 
him how well she remembered seeing the blood 
boil up while the unfortunate man sank to rise 
no more. This occurred on a Tuesday evening, 
and from that time they traveled all night, ly- 
ing hid during the day, without a morsel of 
food till early the following Friday morning, 
when the Indians killed a bear which they 
roasted and ate. The children were carried to 
where Upper Sandusky now stands, where a 
man named Mcintosh paid twenty-five dollars 
for Elizabeth, whom he sent to school and 
treated very kindly all the time she was living 
with him. After a time a trader on the old 
Tuscarawas path received tidings of the girl, 
and carried the news to her parents in Virginia, 
opposite Steubenville; so the father set out on 
horseback for the place, and brought his daugh- 
ter homo in safety after an absence of seven 
years. Her sister Mary, who was the elder of 
the two, while in captivity among the Indians, 
was forced to marry a young chief who took her 
to Western Ohio, whence, after an absence of 
fourteen years, she made her escape, leaving 
her child, a son, behind. She made her way 
homeward through the wilderness traveling by 
night and hiding by day, her only sustenance 
being what she could gather, in the way of nuts 
and berries, in the woods. After much suffer- 
ing she at last reached her old home, where she 
lived ten years, finally dying in Portage Coun- 
ty, Ohio, at the age of ninety-eight years. 
Gen. Eckley, some time after her escape from 
the Indians, saw her son, and declared he was 
a fine specimen of the red man. 

In the spriag of 1837 Mr. and Mrs. Richard 



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Elliott came to Carroll County, and took np 
their residence on a tract of land in Washing- 
ton Township; then, in 1850, they removed to 
Brown Township, locating on a farm, where 
their deaths occurred, the father's December 4, 
1876, and the mother's February 23, 1890, when 
she was aged eighty-nine years, three months 
sixteen days, having been born November 7, 
1800. They were consistent members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Four children 
were born to this honored pioneer couple named 
as follows: Martha Etta, William C, Richard 
M. and one that died in infancy. 

William C. Elliott was born in Washington 
Township. Carroll Co. , Ohio, September 28, 1839, 
and during a few weeks in the winter months of 
his boyhood he attended the district schools. 
One day he had an adventure with his teacher, 
named Mills, who wished to whip him for some 
reason, but the boy ran out of school, teacher 
after him; the boy as he ran came to a spring 
which he jumped, but the " domiuie " fell in and 
got a ducking that effectually cooled off his 
wrath. Young William was a studious youth, 
and when but eleven years of age he would take 
his book into the field where he might be work- 
ing, and as opportunity offered sit down and 
con his lesson. In 1859 he entered the semi- 
nary at Malvern, and in evenings, while there, he 
taught a geography school. He had commenced 
a classical course, and as he acted as tutor he 
had favorable opportunities of educating him- 
self. In 1863 he returned home and took 
charge of the home farm, his father having 
taken sick, and the following year he bought 
the place. 

On November 8, 1864, Mr. Elliott was mar- 
ried in Fulton County, 111., to Nancy J. Long, 
a native of Brown Township, Carroll County, 
daughter of Joseph and Betsy Long, early set- 
tlers of that township, but who removed to Illi- 
nois in 1863, where they are still living, now 
well advanced in years. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott 
located on the home farm, his parents living 
with them until their death. Five children 
have come to bless the marriage of our subject 



and wife, as follows: Annie M., now Mrs. Elmer 
L. Pennock, of Augusta Township, Carroll 
County: Alban II. ; Kittie E. ; John W., who 
died at the age of two years and five months, 
and Bessie M. The parents are members of the 
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
which Mr. Elliott is class leader, Mrs. Elliott 
being active in woman's work in same. In pol- 
itics Mr. Elliott is a Democrat; is secretary of 
Oak Ridge Grange, No. 661, and is a member 
of Brown Township Agricultural Society. He 
has acted as a teacher in the public schools for 
eight years, is a member of the school board, 
and takes a lively interest in all educational 
matters. Mr. Elliott's farm contains 125 acres 
of highly improved land, devoted to general 
agriculture, chiefly grain and stock-raising. 



diOHN RAINSBERGER, farmer, Monroe 
\ Township, Carroll County, was born on the 
I farm where he now resides. His father, 
John Rainsberger, was born in Pennsyl- 
vania in 1773, and his grandfather, also named 
John Rainsberger, was born in Germany, where 
he was married, and whence in an early day he 
emigrated to the United States, settling in Penn- 
sylvania; he served in the Revolutionary War 
as a private. About the year 1812, John Rains- 
berger, the grandfather, came to Ohio, and en- 
tered land in what is now Orange Township, 
near Sherrodsville, Carrol] County, where he 
resided till his death, which occurred in 1N42, 
when he was aged ninety- seven years; he was a 
member of the Lutheran Church. When he 
first came to Ohio he made several trips to Syra- 
cuse, N. Y., for salt, bringing it on pack horses. 
His son, John, grew to manhood in Pennsyl- 
vania, and married Miss Susanna Albaugh, of 
Jefferson County, Ohio, who was born June 25, 
1790. In July, 1819, Mr. Rainsberger entered 
the farm of 146 acres now owned by our sub- 
ject, and on this land he built a log oabin, in 
which he resided for several years, when he 
erected a hewed-log house. He died in 1835. of 
fever. To Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberger were born 



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eight children (of whom three are living), viz. : 
Josiah, born April 1, 1819 (he was married to 
Nancy Fowler, and to this union were born eight 
children, of whom sis are now living: he died 
April 11. 1889, of apoplexy); John, our subject; 
David, born April 19, 1823 (he married Ann 
Tope, and to them was born one son, living; 
David died October 12, 1889, of paralysis); 
Isabelle, born January 12, 1825 (was married 
to Henry Dunster, and to them were born three 
children, of whom one is living; she died Feb- 
ruary 24, 1854; she belonged to the Methodist 
Church at Leavittsville); Hiram, born April 23, 
1827 (was married to Elizabeth Griffin, and to 
them were born five children, one living; Hiram 
died July 17, 1869, of typhoid fever; in religion 
he was a Methodist) ; Catharine, born February 
9, 1829, died February 7, 1848, of lung fever; 
Thomas, born April 30, 1831 (married Cath- 
erine Griffin, a sister to Hiram's wife, and to 
them were born six children, three yet living); 
William, born June 11, 1833 (married Martha 
Jane Hall, and to their union were born four 
children, three now living; when at the age of 
twenty-five he had one of his legs amputated at 
the knee; he resides in Wood county, Ohio, 
close to the oil regions). John and Susanna 
Rainsberger, our subject's parents, were active 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at 
Leavittsville, Ohio, of which they were charter 
members. Susanna was the last one of the 
original members to go to rest. The first class 
of this church was founded in Mr. Rainsberger' s 
house, and there continued until the erection of 
the Monroe Church building, which is now called, 
the Leavittsville Church. Susanna died June 
8, 1S75, of paralysis. 

John Rainsberger, whose name opens this 
sketch, is the second son of the generation just 
spoken of, and was born August 20, 1821, grew 
to manhood on the farm he now owns, and re- 
ceived his education in the district school. He 
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at Leav- 
ittsville, Ohio, in the twenty-first year of his 
age. He was married twice, first time April 18, 
1844, to Patience Davis, daughter of Evin and 



Nancy (McGuire) Davis, by Rev. Archibold (at 
the time when Dr. Dehass and he traveled on 
the Leavittsville charge). To this union were 
born three children, all now married: Isabelle 
was married to James Teter, merchant at Leav- 
ittsville (to them were born four children, three 
living, one married to J. H. McQueen); George 
D., married to Maggie A. McCarty (to them 
were born three children all living; he, also, 
keeps store in Leavittsville); Thomas, a farmer 
married to Maggie A. Peareh (to them were 
born four children, all living). The mother of 
these children died of lung trouble September 
1, 1853; she was a Methodist and died very 
happy. On December 27, 1S53, John Rains- 
berger married, for his second wife, Mary M. 
Sweasy, who was born March 12, 1833, daughter 
of Daniel and Sarah (Smith) Sweasy, natives of 
New Jersey. She joined the Methodist Church 
in 1849, under the preaching of Rev. Jacobs. 
To this union were born four children, viz. : a 
son that died in infancy; Clarissa Alice, married 
to William Lichtenwaller a farmer of Crawford 
County, Ohio (to them were born two children, 
living); Allen Chester, married to Lizzie Belknap 
(to them was born one daughter; he is a drug- 
gist in Sherrodsville; on the night of July 18, 
1890, his property was all destroyed by fire, but 
he has rebuilt on the same place and started a 
new business), and Annie Florence who is now 
(1891) fifteen years of age, and lives at home. 

Mr. Rainsberger states that during the Civil 
War he was treasurer of what was known as "a 
military fund" (in which leading business men 
of Monroe Township, Carroll County, were in- 
terested), the purpose being to raise, by sub- 
scription, money wherewith to hire substitutes 
to the number of twenty-three, in order to fill 
the quota of Monroe Township, under the Pres- 
ident's call for men for military service at that 
time. Mr. Rainsberger further says that he 
donated toward the prosecution of the war in 
all one thousand four hundred and thirty-one 
dollars, besides traveling expenses to and from 
Alliance several times, whither he went to de- 
posit money in the hands of the agents of the 



CARROLL COFXTY. 



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township. He avers that he was authorized to 
borrow and furnish whatever more money would 
be necessary to secure the twenty-three substi- 
tutes ("which amount the township would repay 
him"), and that he did borrow one thousand 
dollars from the county auditor, which he had 
to pay back himself. Mr. Rainsberger says he 
demanded a settlement, but was refused; that 
law suits followed to the number of six, the first 
five of which were decided in his favor, but the 
last and conclusive one went against him. He 
further says that the upshot of this unpleasant 
business was his having to sell, in 1890, over 
four thousand dollars worth of his farm prop- 
erty, in order to clear himself of the heavy in- 
debtedness he had incurred. Mr. Rainsberger 
further states that only one man in the town- 
ship, by name Alexander Long, compromised 
with him (Mr. Rainsberger) by paying his share. 
The township of Monroe has had the use of one 
thousand dollars since the year lSfil. His law- 
yers, the witnesses, county officers and a few 
other citizens of the county favored Mr. Rains- 
berger in his law suits, or he might have been 
broken up years ago. 




\EST T. ALLMON, farmer, Lee Town- 
ship, Carroll County, was born in Co- 
lumbiana County, Ohio, April 8, 185-t, 
a son of Henry and Mary Ann (Blazer) 
Allmon. His grandfather. John Allmon, was a 
native of Washington County, Penn., where the 
family had resided many years. Early in the 
history of the State, he came to Ohio, locating 
in Tuscarawas County, whence he finally re- 
moved to Carroll County, where he settled on a 
piece of land, which is now the highly improved 
farm occupied by the subject of this sketch. 
While in Pennsylvania he had married a Miss 
West, who bore him the following named chil- 
dren: William, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth, Han- 
nah, Jane, Henry and Belinda. The mother of 
this family dying, Mr. Allmon took, for his 
second wife, Susannah Knouse, by whom he had 
one child that died in infancy. In connection 



with farming John Allmon followed thetradeof 
a blacksmith for many years. He was quite a 
hunter in his day, and as Lee Township when 
he came to it was abounding with' game of all 
kinds, it was a perfect elysium of sport for such 
a Nimrod as Mr. Allmon, to hunt in half of the 
night and all day for fox and deer. Politically 
he was a Democrat, taking a fairly active inter- 
est in the workings of his party. 

Henry Allmon, father of West T., was born 
January 18, 1828, in Lee Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, where his entire life was passed. His 
business was mainly plain farming, but he was en- 
gaged to no little extent in buying and selling 
live stock. On one occasion he drove a herd of 
cattle over the mountains to Harrisburgh, Penn. , 
being six weeks en route. He was married in 
1846, to Mary Ann, daughter of Bazil Blazer, 
and they then settled in Columbiana County, 
Ohio, where he died November 4, 18S5, his re- 
mains being buried at Monroeville. They were 
the parents of nine children, four of whom are 
still living, viz. : West T. ; Alissa, married to 
William Buck, and now residing in Columbiana 
County; Monroe, married to Samantha Peter- 
son, and living in Columbiana County (he is a 
Democrat in politics, and is engaged in farming 
and stock-raising on the home place), and Em- 
met, living with his widowed mother on the farm 
the father last bought. Mr. Allmon had ac- 
cumulated over 300 acres of land, which gave 
to each of the family a nice little home. He 
was a Democrat in politics, evincing consider- 
able interest in his party. He was energetic 
and progressive, and made a success of life. 

West T. Allmon, our subject proper, spent 
his early life in his native county, his education 
being secured at the common schools, and also 
at the high school in Salineville, near which his 
home was. On May 22, 1879, he was united 
in marriage with Eva Ann, daughter of Wash 
ington Borland, of Monroe Township, Carroll 
County, and June 11, 1879, the young couple 
settled down to the stern realities of life, on the 
farm iu Lee Township where our subject still 
resides. He has made some valuable improve- 



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meets thereon, inclusive of a commodious barn, 
36x54 feet in size, with a basement and slated 
roof, and here he carries on farming and general 
stock-raising, his place comprising 160 acres of 
improved land. To Mr. and Mrs. Allmon have 
been born two children: Laura E., born Febru- 
ary 6, 1881, and Oma V., born October 14, 
1882. In politics Mr. Allmon is a Democrat. 
Mrs. Allmon belonged to the Lutheran Church ; 
Mr. Allmon is connected with none, but be- 
lieves in Christianity. 

Ours is the seed time; God alone 

Beholds the end of what is sown; 

Beyond our vision, weak and dim, 

The harvest-time is hid with Him.— Whittier. 



d/OHN R. STEEVES, principal of Harlem 
Springs College, was born in Lee Town- 
I ship, Carroll Co., Ohio, January 18, 1852. 
The family of Steeves seems to be of 
French descent, and associated with it, on the 
maternal side, are the names of Lutz and Kay. 
Morton Steeves was born in St. Johns, New 
Brunswick, in 1819, one of nine children born 
to his parents. The family came to Ohio 
in 1829, and located in Scio, Harrison Coun- 
ty. Morton Steeves was by occupation a car- 
penter, and in the later years of his life a 
stock-dealer and farmer, with residence in Lee 
Township, Carroll County. In November, 1863, 
he was fatally injured by a vicious horse, dying 
two weeks thereafter. In religion he was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
politics first a Whig and afterward a Repub- 
lican. In 1850 he married Martha Lee, daugh- 
ter of David and Julia (Dobbins) Lee. The 
Lees are of English extraction, and, coming 
from Virginia, they were among the first set- 
tlers of Carroll County in Lee Township, to 
which they gave the name. The Dobbins fam- 
ily are of Scotch-Irish descent, and early settled 
in Pennsylvania. The brothers of Martha Lee 
(all deceased) were William, Jonathan, David, 
Gideon, and Alfred D. Lee, the founder of Rural 
Seminary (now Harlem Springs College), in Har- 



lem Springs, and also of Scio College. The 
sisters (all living) are Mrs. Elizabeth Crellin, 
Mrs. Caroline Wilson and Mrs. Julia A. Har- 
mount. The family of Morton and Martha (Lee) 
Steeves consisted of John R., Mary (Mrs. R. H. 
Lee), Sarah (Mrs. George Wiggins), Julia (Mrs. 
William Allensworth), Henry and Olive. 

John R. Steeves spent his youth on a farm, 
receiving his education at Rural Seminary and 
Scio College, where he graduated in the scien- 
tific course in 1S71, receiving his classical de- 
gree in 1873. His teaching record is as follows: 
Professor at Scio College, one year; president 
of New Castle College, New Castle, Penn, six 
years; president of Harlem Springs College (his 
present position), ten years. He spent one year 
in Richmond, Ind. , where he finished his law 
course and was admitted to the bar. He spent 
one summer in California and one winter in the 
Sputh. In politics he is a Republican, and in 
religion a Methodist. He is a thorough, earnest 
teacher, of unquestioned ability, and has served 
sis years as county examiner. He is a notary 
public, and mayor of the village of Harlem 
Springs. In November, 1881, Mr. Steeves mar- 
ried Miss Mary J. Clark. They have greatly 
improved the college property, and conducted 
the institution through some of the most pros- 
perous years of its history. The points of ex- 
cellence always claimed for the school are its 
beautiful surroundings, healthfulness, the high 
moral, religious and temperance sentiments of 
the community, and the excellent character of 
the work done in the school-room. Harlem 
Springs has long had an enviable reputation as 
a health resort, on account of the pure quality 
of the atmosphere and the mineral properties of 
the water. From 1840 to 1860 it was liberally 
patronized, and many patrons have acknowl- 
edged marked benefit from the use of the wa- 
ters. To utilize the features of the place, the 
college buildings are opened in the summer 
months for the reception of all who wish a quiet 
retreat for rest, recreation and recuperation at 
reasonable rates. 

Mrs. Mary J. (Clark) Steeves is a native of 




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Leesburg, Carroll County, the only daughter of 
John and M. Anne (Smith) Clark. Her pater- 
nal grandparents were Jesse and Jane (Grant) 
Clark, who in 1810 came from near Winchester, 
Va., and settled near Leesburg. Their sons, 
John, William, Robert and Grant, all lived and 
died in or near Leesburg; three of the daugh- 
ters — Sarah, Elizabeth and Maria — have died, 
Frances Rouse being the only one now (1891) 
living. The maternal grandparents of Mary 
Clark Steeves were Russell Smith and Priscilla 
(Basil) Smith, of St. Charles County, Md. In 
1818 Heniy Smith and his wife, Anne (Russell), 
came from Maryland to Ohio, where two of their 
sons, James and Wilmer, had entered laud near 
Leesburg. With them they brought their eld- 
est grandchild, Anne (whose father had died in 
Maryland), leaving the other child, Mary, with 
the widowed mother; Thomas S. and S. Galon, 
their other sons, soon followed. In 1829 John 
Clark and Anne Smith were married, and of 
their four children — Luther, Lemuel, William 
Russell and Mary Jane — the two eldest died in 
youth; William Russell succeeded his father in 
the ownership of a carriage factory, becoming a 
successful business man in Leesburg, where he 
died in April, 1875; his wife (formerly Miss 
Maggie Swaney), survived him till October, 1N76; 
his eldest son, Charles M..died in Chattanooga, 
Tenn., in October, 1882; three children remain, 
viz. : Miss Clara H. , J. Howard and W. O. Mrs. 
John Clark died in January, 1881, Mr. Clark in 
January, 1882. 

Early in life Mary J. (Clark) Steeves devel- 
oped a love for teaching, and has since 1863 
made it her chosen profession. Her first teach- 
ing was in Clark's district, where she taught 
five terms. As a student teacher she entered 
Rural Seminary in 1864, graduated in 1866, 
remaining till 1867. Since then two years were 
spent in Leesville graded schools, two in Scio 
College, six in New Castle College, New Castle, 
Penn., and the last ten years in Harlem Springs 
College. Her long life in school work has only 
increased her love for the profession. She has 
kept pace with the advancement, and is actively 



and earnestly keeping up interest in educational 
matters. Descended from a long line of Meth 
odist families, she is methodistic in religious 
belief. Having graduated in Chautauqua Sun- 
day-school normal course in 1879, she is a Sun- 
day-school worker, making the most of oppor- 
tunities, and thus helping the cause. 



D 



ANIEL SEEMANN. The family which 
this gentleman represents originated in 
Germany, where they were engaged in 
agriculture. John Seemann, the grand- 
father of our subject, reared a family of five 
daughters and two sons, of whom Henry, the 
father of our subject, was born in Germany, 
July 12, 1808, and in 1833 came with his par- 
ents and their family to Ohio, where they settled 
on a small farm in Tuscarawas County. Soon 
after arriving Henry married a resident of the 
county, named Amaker, who died early, leaving 
three children, viz. : Frederick, John H. and 
George A. For his second wife Henry wedded 
Mary Kugler, daughter of Peter Kugler, a na- 
tive of Alsace, Germany, who married Mary 
Worner, and had two children, Jacob P. and 
Mary. He came to Ohio in 1831, and purchased 
a farm in Tuscarawas County, on which he re- 
mained until 1849, when he moved to Carroll 
County, where he passed the remainder of his 
life. He was a member of the Reformed Luth- 
eran Church, and in politics a Democrat. 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Seemann remained in 
Tuscarawas County until 1855, when they came 
to Carroll County, and purchased a farm in 
Rose Township. Their children were named as 
follows: Jacob, Peter, Mary M. (Mrs. John 
E. Rice), Daniel, Franklin, Louisa (deceased), 
Charles (an attorney at law in Canton, Ohio), 
Loue, Solomon W. (a minister of the Reformed 
Church at Tiffin, Ohio), Calvin (a student at the 
Cincinnati Law School), Emanuel and Alice. 
Henry Seemann was a Democrat, and took an 
active part in the management of local politics. 
For many years he was an elder and deacon in 
the Reformed (JBhurch, was a self-made man. 



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and at Lis death, September 21, 1887, was owner 
of 550 acres of good farming land. 

Daniel Seernann, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
September 26, 1852. His education, which is 
far above the ordinary, was begun in the com- 
mon schools and finished at Tiffin, Ohio. On 
March 10, 1881, he married Lydia Fritschle, 
daughter of John Fritschle, a sketch of whom 
appears elsewhere, and to this union have been 
born three children, viz. : Preston, Ivah M. and 
Lelia M. (the last named being now deceased). 
After his marriage Daniel Seernann settled on a 
farm in Pike Township, Stark County, on which 
he resided five years, after which he moved on 
the home farm in Pose Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty, on which he still resides, and which he man- 
ages. He has been a life-long Democrat, and 
has taken a deep interest in the success of the 
party. In church matters he is also prominent 
and active as a member of the Reformed society. 
He has ever been a warm supporter of worthy 
enterprises, and is progressive and enterprising 
in all matters of local improvement. 



THOMAS TAYLOR, a member of one of 
the oldest families of Carroll County, 
was born in England, November 11, 
180S. Robert Taylor, his father, was a 
native of Derbyshire, England, where he learned 
the weaving trade, which he followed till after 
he was married; he then got a hand-loom, and 
went to the manufacturing town of Staleybridge, 
where he was engaged in a cotton-mill, preparing 
warps for power-looms. This business he fol- 
lowed for about eight years, at the end of which 
time he and his family set sail for America, 
September 8, 1827, and arrived at New York 
some time between the 5th and 11th of Novem- 
ber of the same year. He then proceeded to 
Troy, N. Y., where he lived six years, and then 
moved to the State of Ohio, settling on a farm 
in Harrison Township, Carroll County, arriving 
in the fall of 1833. Robert Taylor was a man 
of good habits, and being industrious he settled 



down to the business of farming, enduring 
cheerfully the hardships and privations incident 
to those pioneer times. Very little of the farm 
on which he located had been cleared, but by 
industry, perseverance and economy, with the 
aid of his industrious and willing children and 
faithful wife, he succeeded in clearing it up and 
making a pleasant home for himself and family. 
In England Robert Taylor had married Hannah 
j Rhodes, a native of Derbyshire, and the names 
of the children born to them are as follows: 
James, Ann, Thomas, Sarah, John, Mary, Rob- 
ert and Jane, all of which children were born in 
England. Robert Taylor enjoyed his cpiiet 
home until the death of his wife, which occurred 
September 26, 1856; he passed from earth 
November 22, 1869, aged eighty-six years and 
eleven days. Robert Taylor and his wife were 
members of the Disciples Church; in politics he 
was at first a'Democral; but, changing his views, 
i he united with the Whigs and finally with the 
j Republicans, always assisting at elections. 

Thomas Taylor, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was eighteen years of age when he ac- 
companied his parents to America and to Troy, 
N. Y., where he was employed in the cotton 
mills six years. He then came with the rest of 
the family to Ohio settling in Harrison Town- 
ship, Carroll County, where he has since resided. 
He assisted his parents in the improvement of 
the farm, and aided them in the erection of the 
log cabin, which stood till about the year 1885. 
At the age of twenty-nine Mr. Taylor was mar- 
ried to Mary A., daughter of Adam Crosser, of 
Carrollton, Ohio, and the children born to them 
were as follows: Robert, Hannah D., George, 
Zack, Sarah Ann, Adam, Caroline, John and 
Mary Ann, of whom Robert, Adam, George, 
John and Mary Ann are all deceased. George, 
who enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty- 
fourth O. Y. I., Company F, was sent South 
and died at Bridgeport, Ala., of fever. Han- 
nah D. was married to Isaac Ley da; Zack 
was married to Millie Lewton; Sarah Ann was 
married to Emanuel C. McCarty; Caroline was 
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is a well informed man, and has held several 
offices of trust. He has traveled extensively, and 
has always done with his best energy whatever 
he has undertaken. 



JOHN TAYLOR, a prosperous and highly 
respected farmer citizen of Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, is a native of 
England, born June 18, 1821. Robert 
Taylor, his father, was a native of Derbyshire, 
England, where he was apprenticed to a weaver, 
with whom he remained until he had fully 
mastered his trade. He carried on the bus- 
iness of weaving for many years in his native 
country, but judging that there were better 
chances of bettering himself and his family in 
America, he set sail for the New World with 
his wife and children, landing in New York, 
whence they proceeded at once to Troy, N. Y. , 
arriving early in November, 1827. Here for 
six years he lived, and then came to Carroll 
County, where he purchased a farm in Harri- 
son Township, on which he lived until the 
death of his wife, September 26, 1856, when he 
made his home with his son, John. The farm 
on which he settled was very little improved 
when he went on it, the dwelling being but a 
small rough cabin. Here Mr. Taylor strug- 
gled on, and finally succeeded, by industry, 
perseverance and economy, in clearing his land. 
Of the hardships he and his family endured in 
those pioneer times the present generation know 
but little; of how the days were occupied in the 
fields, and of how it took one day to carry their 
grist to the nearest mill on horseback — hard- 
ships that are read of, but not experienced in 
these advanced days of railroads, telegraphs and 
telephones. 

In England, Robert Taylor had married 
Hannah Rhodes, also a native of tbat country, 
and the names of the children born to them 
are as follows: James, Ann, Thomas, Sarah, 
John, Mary, Robert and Jane, all born in Eng- 
land. For the first few years of his residence 
in America Mr. Taylor was. in his political con- 



victions, a Democrat, but, his ideas changing, 
he united with the Whig party, and anally with 
the Republican, always assisting at elections. 
He and his wife were members of the Disciples 
Church many years, in the management of which 
he took an active part. Mr. Taylor died Novem- 
ber 22, 1869. 

John Taylor, the subject proper of this 
sketch, has been a resident of Carroll County, 
ever since he was twelve years old. His school 
training was all secured in Troy, N. Y., where 
in that respect he had exceptional advantages, 
and his knowledge of agriculture was obtained 
from practical lessons received on his father's 
farm. On June 1, 1843, he was united in mar- 
riage with Nancy, daughter of Isaac and Tamar 
(Robbins) Lewton, an early settler of Harrison 
Township, Carroll County, and they then lo- 
cated for a few years in that township. In 1847 
they moved to Illinois, remaining four years, 
and returning to Harrison Township Mr. Tay- 
lor purchased his present property in 1855. 
His farm consists of 160 acres, pleasantly situ- 
ated about three miles from Carrollton. The 
children born to our subject and wife are named 
as follows: Eliza Ann (deceased), Sarah Jane, 
Caroline, Robert, Harriet E., Isaac, James (de- 
ceased), John O, Leonard, Lewis, Mary Etta, 
and Alvira; those alive are all in Ohio, except 
John O. , who is in Denver, Colo., and Leonard, 
who is in Kansas. Politically Mr. Taylor is a 
Republican, and has served his county as direct- 
or of the infirmary, as well as in other positions 
of trust. In his township he has been hon- 
ored with election to nearly all the offices, the 
various duties of which he has always discharged 
with ability and fidelity. Mrs. Taylor is a 
member of the Disciples Church. 



CHARLES J. DECKMAX. Among the 
representative young business men whose 
public spirit, enterprise and energy have 
done so much toward placing Carroll in 
the front rank of the grand array of Ohio's 
counties, the gentleman whose name opens this 



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sketch stands prominent. He is a native of the 
Buckeye State, born in Stark County, February 
21, 1861, a son of George and Mary B. (Young) 
Deckman (of whom mention is made elsewhere 
in this volume), and soon after his birth his 
parents moved to Carroll County, locating in 
Malvern. Here, at the Union schools, our sub- 
ject received his education, and on finishing his 
school days, at the age of eighteen, was placed 
in charge, as manager, of the Malvern Furnit- 
ure Factory, owned by his father. In this 
position he continued until July 1, 1888, when, 
associated with other enterprising citizens, they 
organized the Malvern Clay Company, for the 
manufacture of brick for street paving purposes, 
of which concern he was elected superintendent 
and general manager, a position he yet holds. 
In the spring of 1885 Mr. Deckman became a 
member of the Sons of Veterans, and January 
8, 1886, he organized Joseph B. Foraker Camp, 
No. 82. The National Reveille, a periodical pub- 
lished in the interests of the S. O. V., in a recent 
number has the following in regard to Mr. Deck- 
man's connection with the order and with Camp 
82: "He served the boys as their first captain, 
has been an ardent working member of the 
camp since its organization, and was instru- 
mental in arming the camp with thirty-seven 
stand of cadet rifles fully equipped. The boys 
of 82 are pleased to number ' Deck ' as one of 
their number. Brother Deckman has served 
the Ohio Division as one of her officers for sev- 
eral years past, having been elected a member 
of the Division Council at the Division Encamp- 
ment held in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1886. He 
was elected major at Cleveland, Ohio, 1887, 
lieutenant-colonel at Dayton, 1888, and was a 
candidate for colonel at the encampment held 
in Cincinnati, 1889, receiving eighty-five votes. 
He was elected delegate to the National En- 
campment at Paterson, N. J., and in each of 
the above positions he has proven himself worthy 
the confidence reposed in him. His election 
to the colonelcy at the Eighth Annual Encamp 
ment held at Mansfield, Ohio, on the first ballot, 
receiving 153 votes, speaks well for the position 



in which he is held by the Division of Ohio, 
and from the mauner in which the business at 
headquarters is transacted under his own per- 
sonal observation and direction, we feel assured 
in saying that Ohio has made no mistake in her 
choice, and under his administration the cap- 
stone will be placed with Ohio on 'deck.' " In 
addition to the order of Sons of Veterans, Mr. 
Deckman is a member of Nimecilla Lodge, No. 
39, I. O. O. F., of Canton, Ohio, and of Mal- 
vern Lodge, No. 294, Knights of Pythias, Clay 
City Council, No. 60, Junior Order United 
American Mechanics, and Canton Tent, No. 
11, Knights of the Macabees. Mr. Deckman 
has been chosen to represent his K. of P. lodge 
at Grand Lodge for the past four years, and is 
an active worker in the order. 

On February 21, 1883, Mr. Deckman was 
married to Rachel D., daughter of Simon and 
Samantha (Ryan) Miller, worthy people of Car- 
roll County, and to this union, on January 1, 
1885, was born one child, Frank M. , who, April 
26, 1889, then a bright and promising little boy, 
was killed by the accideutal discharge of a gun, 
in the hands of a meddlesome child. After the 
death of little Frank, the home was left without 
children, until December 11, 1890, a bright 
baby boy — christened Charles G. — came to bless 
their home. Mr. and Mrs. Deckman attend the 
services of the Presbyterian Church. A stanch 
Republican, he has represented his party at 
State, senatorial and congressional conventions. 
In the spring of 1885 he was elected a member 
of the town council, and in April, 18S9, was 
elected mayor of his town, in which capacity he 
is now serving his first term. It can be truth- 
fully said of Mr. Deckman that in his business 
and official life he has proved himself excep- 
tionally successful, and his advice is sought and 
freely given on many of the important questions 
incident to a rapidly growing and prosperous 
town and community, his personal worth being 
recognized by his election to the school board 
of the Malvern special school district, at the 
election of April 6, 1891; as a member of the 
board, and as its clerk, the erection of anew 



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twenty-thousand-dollar school building engages 
his attention. 



I T. GERMAN has met with as good success 
k I as any other agriculturist in Rose Town- 
\J ship, Carroll County, in the same length 
of time. His paternal grandparents were 
natives of Maryland, and his maternal grand- 
parents of Virginia, both families being of Ger- 
man descent. 

His father, George German, was born in 
1803, probably in Loudoun County, Va., where 
he was reared to manhood in the family of 
Richard Van Pelt. On October 5, 1824, he 
married Miss Eleanor Van Pelt, and after their 
marriage they continued to live in Virginia until 
their first child, J. R.,was born, July 25, 1825. 
They then moved to Ohio and located near 
Augusta, Carroll County, and while living there 
three more children were born to them, viz. : 
Jonathan L., December 25, 1827; Josiah T., 
May 13, 1830, and Sarah A., April 13, 1832. 
In the latter or following year Mr. German 
bought eighty acres of land in Sugar Creek 
Township, Tuscarawas County, to which he 
moved. The main portion of the county was at 
that time a dense forest, inhabited by wild 
beasts, and farmers had to keep their sheep 
penned up at night on account of the wolves. 
Here to Mr. and Mrs. German was born, on 
March 24, 1834, one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. 
After struggling for a time with the difficulties 
incident to a new country, Mr. German, in 1837, 
sold his farm and moved to Loudoun County, 
Va. , where he remained one year, and then by 
himself returned on foot and by stage to Tus- 
carawas County, the trip taking about three 
weeks. Here he bought back his old farm 
(which he had recently sold), and having made 
everything ready for his family he moved them 
in a covered wagon drawn by three large black 
horses. Being a blacksmith by trade, he fol- 
lowed the same in connection with farming until 
he sold out in 1844. From 1N3S to that year 
Mr. and Mrs. German had many hardships to 



encounter. They had two more children born to 
them: Phebe Eleanor, July 19, 1836, and 
George, September '.). 183'J. and two wore taken 
from them by death: George, February 18, 
1S41, and John Richard, July 18, 1843. After 
selling out. as above related, Mr. German put 
four of his children out among strangers. .Insiah 
T. going to B. W. Maugun. He and his son 
Jonathan remaineil in the old neighborhood for 
about one year, and then went to Arkansas, but 
the latter soon after died; the father lived until 
about the year 1SS7, when he, too, passed from 
earth. While a resident of Augusta Township 
Mr. German was a very sturdy, muscular man, 
his usual weight being about 180 pounds; he 
was swift of foot, and in a foot-race never found 
his match. On a certain occasion he wounded 
a deer which sought escape by flight, but Mr. 
German, throwing down his gun, went in swift 
pursuit, caught the deer and killed it! To Mr. 
and Mrs. George German were born seven chil- 
dren — four sons and three daughters — of whom 
Sarah A. and Josiah T. are yet living. 

J. T. German, the subject proper of this 
sketch, was born May 13, 1830, in what soon 
afterward became Augusta Township, Carroll 
Co., Ohio, whence, a few years thereafter, his 
parents moved to Tuscarawas County, as above 
related. In 1837 his parents took him to Vir- 
ginia, and on their return to Ohio a year later 
he saw the first railroad he remembers having 
ever seen, and this one was somewhere east of 
the mountains; the ties were laid lengthwise, 
with flat bar-iron nailed on the top of them. 
The family came, as already stated, by wagon, 
and our subject's father had to pay toll on all 
pike roads. In that day transportation of goods 
was generally done by wagon, and it was no 
uncommon thing to see from four to eight horses 
to one wagon, their harness being very large 
and heavy, with bells surmounting the collars, 
and the driver, carrying a large black-snake 
whip, rode the saddle-horse. At night the wag- 
oners would carry their blankets into the tavern 
bar-room, and. spreading them down on the 
floor in front cf a large lire, thev would all lie 



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down with their feet toward the fire, and so rest 
for the night. In those early days the farmers 
had to turn their cattle into the dense forest to 
browze, bells being fastened around their necks 
so that they could the more readily be found; 
and Mr. German says that among his various 
occupations as a farm lad he had to fill the posi- 
tion of "cow boy,'' when the summer evenings 
came. The farmers cut their grain with the 
sickle and cradled it, and our subject had to 
carry the sheaves, but as he became older he 
was promoted to higher duties. When he first 
went to school it was held in a log house daubed 
with mud, the seats being made of split saplings 
with legs let into them, and the desks for writ- 
ing on were common boards fastened onto wood- ' 
en pins placed in holes which were bored in the 
wall; the windows were glass, and a ten-plate 
wood stove heated the room. The scholars 
wrote with pens made of goose quills. 

When Mr. German was in his thirteenth 
year he had a severe attack of fever, and when 
he was fourteen his father and mother separated, 
at which time he went to live with Benedict W. 
Mangun, of Eose Township (as already related), 
and then, after about a year, his father bound 
him to Mr. Mangun for three years more for his 
clothes and a horse worth fifty dollars. Here 
he remained until the fall of 1S49, and during 
the following winter he went to school from 
James Mangun' s, in Monroe Township. Then 
in the spring of 1S50 he went to work for Mar- 
garet Hayden, in Rose Township, and in the 
fall of the same year he went to live with John 
Arbuckle, going to school from there during the 
succeeding winter. In speaking of his conver- 
sion Mr. German says that he attended, at that 
time, a protracted meeting at Harmony Church, 
in Rose Township, and, being converted, joined 
the Methodist Protestant Church. In 1851 he 
bought from Adam McKerman a house and one 
acre of land in Tuscarawas County, situated 
about a mile and a half from New Cumberland. 
The price of this property was one hundred and 
thirteen dollars, and at that time he had but one 
hundred dollars in notes. From his father's 



estate he got two dollars, being part of the sum 
realized on a saddle his father had sold. When 
his mother died our subject was left the family 
Bible, a round mahogany table and a large pew- 
ter dish. When he purchased the house and 
lot. his mother and sister were living with 
strangers some fifteen miles away, on what is 
known as Crooked Run, and his mother hired a 
young man by the name of John Swinehart to 
move her and her daughter to Mr. German's 
place in the month of March, to pay for which 
moving our subject had to borrow the money 
from John Cross. This sister had been subject 
to fits from her tenth to her twentieth year, at 
which lime she died. Mr. German bought his 
first cow and pig of Levi Allbaugh, paying for 
same twelve dollars and sixty-two cents, and he 
then commenced housekeeping. For three 
months he worked for Levi Allbaugh, who lived 
close by, returning home every night to his 
mother and sister. In 1852 he rented eighty 
acres of land of James Mangun, and rented his 
lot to Michael France for one year for fifteen 
dollars. 

On March 10, 1853, Mr. German was mar- 
ried to Mrs. Aby Davy, who was born August 
2, 1828, in Pennsylvania, daughter of Nathaniel 
and Margaret Hayden, of Rose Township. In 
the fall of 1853 he purchased from John Ar- 
buckle eighty acres of land, onto which they 
moved in the following spring. In 1864 they 
came to their present farm of eighty-five acres; 
then he bought forty acres, then eighty-five acres, 
and afterward purchased sixty acres more, out of 
which he has sold 120 acres to two of his sons. 
Thus it will be seen that Mr. Germap has, from 
his first purchase, added from time to time, until 
now he is one of the largest land owners in Rose 
Township. His farm is one of the best culti- 
vated in the county, and is improved with an 
elegant residence, a spacious barn and other 
requisite outbuildings, and all the surroundings 
indicate thrift aud good management. Mr. 
German has bought and sold a great deal of 
stock, especially cattle, and eight droves he pur- 
chased in the western part of Ohio; also fol- 



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lowed butchering and retailing meat for many 
years. He had to provide for and take care of 
his mother and sister most of the time up to 
their death. His sister (Phebe Eleanor) died in 
1857, his mother in 1862, and buried at Union 
Valley Church, which stands about twenty-five 
rods from Mr. German's present dwelling; the 
school-house stands on the farm. 

To Mr. and Mrs. German were born thirteen 
children, as follows: Mary M. , John R., Sarah 
J., Joseph H. (died in his eighteenth year), 
Ahy L. (died in her twenty-ninth year), Eme- 
line (died in her seventeenth year), Josiah A., 
Dauiel S., Razina A., William W., George S., 
Silas F. and James M. (died in his fifth year); 
of these, three daughters and one son are mar- 
ried, and the first death in this numerous family 
did not occur till after the birth of the youngest. 
Politically, Mr. German is a Republican. 

In conclusion, it will readily be seen by the 
perusal of this ungarnished biographical narra- 
tive that Mr. German is in every particular a 
self-made man, one who commenced life with 
next to nothing, but who by consummate tact, 
indomitable perseverance, untiring industry and 
good management has reached the highest rung 
in the ladder of success. 



df H. CARNAHAN, one of the leading busi- 
ness men of Dell Roy, Carroll County, be- 
' longs to one of the earliest settled families 
in the county, and was born in Monroe 
Township June 28, 1860. His youth was spent on 
the home farm, where he assisted in its duties, at 
the same time attending the common schools, 
when he could be spared from farm work. In 
1883 Mr. Carnahan commenced business in 
Dell Roy by opening a gents' furnishing and 
clothing house, and by honest dealing and care- 
ful attention to business he has built up a large 
and growing trade. In 1888 he added to his 
line, and he now carries a general assortment 
of goods selected with excellent care and judg- 
ment. By his business as well as social life 
Mr. Carnahan has made himself one of the 



esteemed and respected citizens of his section. 
Financially Mr. Carnahan has made his own 
success In politics he is a Democrat, but, 
while supporting the principles of that party 
in State and national questions, he always 
votes in local matters, according to the dictates 
of his judgment, for the man whom he thinks 
would prove to be the most efficient public serv- 
ant. In the progressive movements of his 
county and township, Mr. Carnahan has always 
taken an active part, and has ever identified 
himself with the best class of people. Young, 
energetic and honest, he is destined to make a 
still greater success in his business. 



It SAAC YANT, druggist, and one of the oldest 
residents of Dell Roy, Carroll County, was 
[ born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, January 
27, 1822. His father, John Yant, was born 
in Washington County, Penn. ; his grandfather, 
also named John, was born in Maryland near 
the city of Baltimore; the latter' s parents were 
natives of Holland, and came to America in the 
latter part of the eighteenth century. Soon 
after their arrival they died, leaving three chil- 
dren: John, Philip and Abraham, all of whom 
moved to Pennsylvania, and settled in Washing- 
ton County, where they engaged in farming. 
While in Pennsylvania, John, the grandfather 
of our subject, was married to Eva Schuster, 
who bore him the following named family: 
Samuel, Elizabeth, Henry, Philip, Margaret, 
Mary, Catherine. John and Susan. In 1806 
Mr. Yant, together with his family, came to 
Ohio, where he entered 1,260 acres of land in 
Tuscarawas County, all of which was cleared by 
himself and family. In polities Mr. Yant was a 
Democrat, and was among the organizers of his 
party in Tuscarawas County. He and his fam- 
ily were members of the Lutheran Church, of 
which he was a leading member and strong sup- 
porter. Surrounded by his family, Mr. Yant 
passed away at an advanced age, in the county 
that had been the scene of his early pioueer life. 
John Yant, father of our subject, spent his 



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life in Washington County, Penn., until he was 
nineteen years of age, when he accompanied his 
parents to Ohio. His early work was that of 
the farmer, a calling which he followed during 
his life. He married Ann Ingram Hillary, of 
Maryland, and to them were born six children, 
viz. : Isaac, Eliza, Samuel, John A. , Sarah A. and 
Abraham. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. 
Yant settled in Tuscarawas County, where they 
remained some time and then came to Carroll 
County, where they carried on farming until 
their death. Politically Mr. Yant was a Demo- 
crat, and like his father took an active interest 
in the success of his party. He and his family 
were members of the Lutheran Church, in which 
he was an elder, an office he held for many years 
until his death. In 1877 he passed away, and 
two years later was followed to the grave by his 
wife. 

The early youth of Isaac Yant was spent in 
Tuscarawas County, and he was yet quite young 
when he came to Carroll County. His educa- 
tion was that of the common schools and the 
fireside, where so many of our well-informed 
and best citizens cultivated their intellect. At 
the age of eighteen he entered the office of 
James Hyralman, where he remained eight 
years. He then removed to Putnam County, 
Ohio, where he resided nearly eighteen years, 
and then came to Carroll County, where he 
has since remained. In 1856 Mr. Yant mar- 
ried Catherine Wise, daughter of Henry Wise, 
of Tuscarawas County, and his family consists 
of the following named children: Virgil M. , 
Laura J., Sarah A. and Mary M. In politics 
Mr. Yant remains faithful to the teachings and 
belief of his ancestry, supporting the Democratic 
party. He held various offices in Tuscarawas 
County, and has served as mayor of Dell Hoy 
two terms. He is justice of the peace, having 
been elected in 1888. While a resident of 
Putnam County he was appointed major of 
militia, and afterward colonel. He has ever 
taken an active part in all progressive move- 
ments, andjis among the representee men of his 
section. A self made man, he has gained all 



his property honestly and fairly, and while do- 
ing so has made and kept friends. He has been 
actively engaged in business for the past eight- 
een years, and at present carries on the drug 
business. Mr. Yant is well and favorably 
known to a large number of people, whose re- 
spect he merits and possesses. 



JfOSEPH BOOTH, a representative and 
| worthy farmer of Monroe Township, Car- 
' roll County, was born in Harrisville, Har- 
rison Co., Ohio, February IS, 1829. His 
father, Isaac Booth, was born near Philadelphia, 
Penn., December 25, 1779, and his grandfather, 
Thomas, was also a native of Pennsylvania, and 
served as a private in the Bevolutionary War. 
Isaac Booth grew to manhood in his native State, 
and married Miss Leah Arbuckle, who was borr 
in Washington County, Penn., January 24,1798, 
to which union were born the following named 
children: Hannah Tripp, of Orange Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio; James, of Perry Township, 
Carroll County, and Joseph. In an early day 
Isaac Booth removed to Short Creek Township, 
Harrison County, entered 160 acres of land, and 
erected a log cabin which he occupied till 1S35, 
when he sold his place and came to Monroe 
Township, Carroll County, and purchased the 
farm now owned by Thomas M. McLaughlin, 
which farm then contained 236 acres. He re- 
sided on this land until 1853, when he sold out 
and removed to Union Township, to a farm he 
had purchased some years before, on which farm 
he remained a few years; then removed to Tus- 
carawas County, Ohio, and purchased a farm, 
where he remained till his death, which occurred 
November 23, 1853. His wife survived him un- 
til 1876. 

Joseph Booth, the subject proper of this 
sketch, grew to manhood in Carroll County, and 
received a common school education. On No- 
vember 23, 1854, he married Miss Agnes Work- 
man, who was born March 8, 1836, and to this 
union were born eight children, as follows: 
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Carroll County; James H., of Centre Township; 
Martha J. Garrett, of Perry Township; David 
W., of Stark County. Ohio; Leah B. , Hannah 
E., Sarah A. and Annie M. , at home. Mrs. 
Booth died August 3, 1879, a member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and December 7, 1882, 
Mr. Booth married Miss Mary McDonald, who 
was born September 29, 1858. To this union 
have been born four children, viz.: Joseph Ma, 
Isaac N., Ellsworth and Luella. Mr. Booth, 
after his first marriage, purchased his father's 
farm in Tuscarawas County, in company with 
his brother James, remained on the place about 
two years, and then bought a farm in Fairfield 
Township, Tuscarawas County, where he re- 
mained till 1861, when he bought the farm he 
now owns, which contains 120 acres, and here 
he has erected a fine dwelling. Politically Mr. 
Booth is a Republican, and has held several 
offices of trust in the township; he and wife are 
members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Booth is well known to the people of Carroll 
County, and is highly respected by all. 



■^ AMUEL GONZALES, farmer, of Monroe 
Township, Carroll County, was born in 
Beaver County, Penn., August 31, 1830. 
His father, Richard, was also born in 
Beaver County, Penn., grew to manhood in his 
native State, and married Miss Jane Gonzales. 
To them were born the following named chil- 
dren: Nancy A., deceased; Samuel, our subject; 
Silas, who resides in Nebraska; Benjamin, in 
Carroll County; Richard, in Iowa, and John, 
who died in infancy. Richard Gonzales con- 
tinued to reside in Pennsylvania for some time 
after his marriage; he then moved to Columbi- 
ana County, Ohio, where he lived for some time, 
and then proceeded to Missouri, where he died in 
1836. After his death his widow returned with 
her family to Columbiana County, Ohio, where 
she remained till 1839, when she came to Car- 
roll County; her last days, however, were spent 
in Iowa, in which State she died in 1875. 

Samuel Gonzales has been a resident of 



Carroll County since he was nine years old. At 
the age of seventeen years he commenced to 
learn blacksmithing, and worked at that trade 
until 1882. On October 11, L862, ho enlisted 
in the United States service in Company H, 
Tenth Ohio Cavalry, and was mustered out July 
24, 1S05. On September 22, 1852, Mr. Gon- 
zales married Miss Mary E. Stoody, who was 
born in Monroe Township, Carroll County, De- 
cember 26, 1831, a daughter of John Stoody, 
Sr. In 1878 he purchased the farm he now 
owns, which contains forty-one acres, and on 
which he has erected commodious buildings. 
Politically he is a Republican, and has served 
three years as justice of the peace, trustee of 
the township one term, and township treasurer 
two terms. He is a member of B. F. Potts 
Post, No. 438, G. A. R., at Dell Roy. Mr. and 
Mrs. Gonzales are active members of the United 
Presbyterian Church. 



|( |/ENRY STEES, a prosperous farmer of 
l;J Monroe Township, Carroll County, was 
1 born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, June 
■f) 14, 1836. His father, George Stees, 

was born in Washington County, Penn., Au- 
gust 23, 1802, a son of Jacob Stees, who was 
born in Germany about 1780. Jacob grew to 
young manhood in his native country, and mar- 
ried a Miss Truckelmiller, soon after which they 
came to the United States and settled in Wash- 
ington County, Penn. To Mr. and Mrs. Jacob 
Stees were born the following named children: 
Christiana, Mary, Lydia, Sarah, Catherine, Bar- 
bara and George. In 1807 Jacob Stees came 
to Ohio and entered 160 acres of land in Mon- 
roe Township (then in Tuscarawas County). 
The greater part of the way froui Steubenvillc 
Ohio, to Monroe Township he had to cut In- 
road through the forest. Here he erected the 
first water grist-mill ever built in Carroll Coun- 
ty. Mr. Stees was a member of the Lutheran 
Church, and died in its faith about 1840. George 
Stees, the father of our subject, grew to man- 
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being mostly spent in bis father's grist-mill, and 
be received bis education at tbe common schools. 
In 1S23 be married Miss Margaret Maughiman, 
who was born in 180(3 in "Washington County, 
Penn., and to this union were born children as 
follows: John F., deceased; Jacob, deceased; 
Henry; George, who resides in Tuscarawas 
County, Ohio; William, in Tuscarawas County; 
Daniel, deceased; Catherine Beamer, in Mon- 
roe Township, Carroll County; Esther, in 
Monroe Township; Margaret Kimmell, Matilda 
Hoffman and Christina Beamer, all three in 
Tuscarawas County. 

After his marriage George Stees lived on a 
farm in Monroe Township, Carroll County, some 
years; then moved just across the line into 
Tuscarawas County, where be purchased a farm 
and remained until his death, which occurred 
September 1, 1887, his wife baving died Sep- 
tember 5, 1881. They were members of the 
Lutheran Church for many years, and politically 
he was Democratic. 

Henry Stees grew to manhood in Tuscara- 
was County, and attended the district school. 
On October 2, 1859, he married Miss Mary A. 
Maughiman, who was born April 8, 1831, a 
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Beamer) 
Maughiman. To this union have been born the 
following named children: Elizabeth "West, a 
resident of Monroe Township; Sarah, at home; 
Louisa Minks, in Belmont County, Ohio; Mar- 
garet A., deceased; Alice, at home; John F., 
deceased, and Henry M. , at home. Our subject 
resided in Tuscarawas County until 1863, when 
he purchased the farm be now owns, whicb con- 
tains 130 acres, being located on tbe Indian fork 
of the Connotton Creek. Politically Mr. Stees 
is Democratic. 



AZELEEL BLAZER, a substantial and 
v worthy farmer of Monroe Township, 
Carroll County, was born in Lee Town- 
ship, in the same county, November 8, 
184H. His grandfather, also named Bazeleel, 
the progenitor of the Blazer family in America, 



came from Germany and located in eastern 
Pennsylvania. About the same time there came 
also to the region another pioneer family, named 
Burgett, whose place of settlement is to this 
day commemorated as Burgettstown, and to 
Jane, a daughter in this family, Bazeleel Blazer 
was married, to which union were born ten 
children, viz: George, Bazeleel, John, "William, 
Joseph, Hamilton, Mary A., Elizabeth, Sarah 
and Philip Burgett. Just before tbe War of 
1812, Bazeleel and his wife came to Ohio, and 
located in that part of Jefferson County now 
known as Lee Township, in Carroll Count}', and 
here they ended their days. 

Philip Burgett Blazer, one of the children 
enumerated above, was born in Jefferson County, 
Ohio, June 20, 1817. His early life was passed 
on tbe pioneer farm of his father, on which he 
endured all the hardships and suffered tbe 
privations common to the period; but the lessons 
be learned in facing dangers and surmounting 
difficulties laid tbe foundation for his success in 
after life, and developed the habits of economy 
and industry, and, above all, the sterling integ- 
rity which were characteristic of him through- 
out his later career. In 1840 Philip B. married 
Miss Mary Allmon, a native of Jefferson County, 
Ohio, and daughter of James and Anna (Pres- 
ton) Allmon, pioneers of the county. The 
young couple at once located in Lee Township, 
Carroll County, where they began life for them- 
selves on a limited capital, consisting chiefly of 
energy and determination. They remained in 
Lee Township until 1850, when they removed 
to Centre Township, where, February 6, 1853, 
Mrs. Blazer passed away, leaving five children, 
viz. : William, now of Jefferson County; James 
(deceased); Bazeleel, whose name heads this 
sketch ; Silas P. , of Carroll County, and Anna, 
deceased wife of Matthias Roudebush. On 
June 29, 1S54, Mr. Blazer took for his second 
wife Miss Mary Botbwell, a native of Pitts- 
burgh, Penn. , and a daughter of George and Jane 
(Armstrong) Botbwell, natives of Ireland, who 
came to America in 1820 and 1822, respectively, 
and were married in Philadelphia. George 



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Bothwell was a weaver, and for a number of 

years followed his trade in Philadelphia and 
Pittsburgh. In 1882 he came with his family 
to Lee Township, Carroll County, Ohio, then 
removed to Harrison County, where Mrs. Both- 
well died, December 2, 186S, in the sixty-seventh 
year of her age, and Mr. Bothwell in January, 
1S7T, at the ripe age of ninety. 

Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. 
Philip B. Blazer located on the magnificent 
Blazer farm in Centre Township, Carroll Coun 
ty, where Mr. Blazer died May 9, 18S9, the 
father, by his second marriage, of eight chil- 
dren, viz.: Hamilton R. , Thomas A., David, 
Joseph, Philip H., Morris B., John C. and 
George W. In the death of Philip Burgett 
Blazer the county lost one of its best citizens. 
A man of modest, unassuming disposition, he 
sought retirement, rather than public position. 
He gave liberally of his means, yet so unosten- 
tatious was he in his charity that many of his 
noble deeds were never heard of until after his 
death. In all public enterprises tending toward 
the improvement and advancement of the coun- 
ty he was always prominent, and devoted to 
such measures liberally of his time and means. 
A Republican, politically, he sought no office, 
but was always willing to perform his duty as a 
citizen and tilled only those positions which 
called for labor that was without recompense. 
Twice he was elected a director of the Carroll 
County Infirmary, and faithfully discharged the 
duties of the position. He was in all respects a 
self-made man, having worked out his own suc- 
cess. He was a consistent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and won for him- 
self the respect of all who knew him; his widow. 
who resides upon the estate near Carrollton, is 
also a member of the same congregation. 

Bazeleel Blazer, son of the above, grew to 
manhood in Centre Township and was educated 
at the district school. On October 27, 1870, he 
married Miss Susan M. J. McCausland, who 
was born March 25, 1849. a daughter of Thomas 
McCausland, of Lee Township. By this happy 
union there are two sons: Thomas W., born 



.June 2. 1878, and Robert \\\. born September 
<>, 1881. For some years after his marriage Mr. 
Blazer made his residence in Lee Township, and 
then removed to Washington Township, same 
county, where he remained until March 21, 
1882, when he purchased and moved upon his 
farm of 162 acres in Monroe Township. This 
land was entered by Samuel Hayes, December 
12, 181 5, the original patent for which Mr. 
Blazer has now in his possession. Politically, 
our subject is a Republican, and he and his wife 
are members of the Presbyterian Church at Dell 
Roy, both honored and esteemed for their up- 
rightness of walk through life. 



JfOSEPH CLOSE, one of the honored old 
! landmarks of Carroll County, was born in 
i Island Creek, Jefferson Co., Ohio, August 
18, 1815, a son of Peter and Rebecca (Mo- 
Mnrland) Close, the father a native of Germany, 
born in 1775, a son of John Close, and the 
mother a native of Ireland, born in 1785, being 
brought to the United States by some friends 
when she was yet a child. When Peter Close 
was ten years old he came to this country in 
company with some neighbors, landing in New 
York, whence he made his way on foot to Vir- 
ginia, where he found friends and remained 
sometime. Here he was married to Miss Re 
becca McMurland, who bore him nine children, 
as follows: Sarah, John, Michael, William. I 
and Hebecca, all deceased, and Mrs. Phoebe 
Thorley (residing in Rose Township. Carrol] 
County), Mrs. Jane Bobbins diving at Delta, 
Ohio) and Joseph. Soon after marriage Mr. 
and Mrs. Peter Close removed to Island Creek, 
in Jefferson Co., Ohio, where he remained till 
April 9, 1820, when he came to what is now 
Monroe Township, Carroll County, and leased 
the farm now owned by Dr. Samuel Black. 

This he resided on till 1828, when I ntered 

eighty acres of land in Section 5, same town 
ship, on which he passed the. remainder of his 
useful life, dying in 1864, his wife having passed 
away the previous year. They were for many 



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years members of the Lutheran Church, and in 
politics Mr. Close was a Democrat. He served 
as a private in the War of 1812. 

Joseph Close, the subject proper of these 
lines, was educated at the district schools of his 
neighborhood, and early in life learned carpen- 
tering, a trade he followed till 1885. On No- 
vember 29, 1838, he was married to Miss Mar- 
garet Tborley, a native of Somerset County, 
Penn., and to this union were born eleven chil- 
dren, of whom the following is a brief record: 
John and Elizabeth are deceased; Mrs. Jane 
Briceland resides in Greencastle, Ind. ; Peter is 
at home; Thomas resides in Oneida, Ohio; Mrs. 
Phoebe Huff is in Monroe Township; Mrs. Sarah 
Bower lives in Rose Township; William is still 
on the homestead; Mrs. Margaret C. Marshall 
lives in Monroe township; John R. is in Rose 
Township, and Mrs. Rebecca Griffin in Stark 
County, Ohio. 

Mr. Close, after his marriage, purchased 
forty-five acres of land near his father's farm, 
on which he lived iintil 186S, when he moved to 
where he now resides, the farm having been en- 
tered by the Russell Brothers, and purchased 
by our subject in 1864. It contains 114 acres, 
and lies partly in Monroe Township and partly 
in Rose. In politics Mr. Close is a Democrat, 
and has served as justice of the peace twelve 
years; in religion he is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, as was also his amiable wife, 
who departed this life November 12, 1880. 



»jTV AVID HAUGH, one of the sturdy rep- 
II resentative farmers of Monroe Town- 
iLJf) ship, Carroll County, was born in Pitts- 
burgh, Penn., October 12, 1824, a son of 
John and Jean (Graham) Haugh, both natives 
of Scotland, the former a son of James Haugh 
and born May 26, 1778, latter a daughter of 
William and Elizabeth Graham and born Octo- 
ber 27, 1785. John and Jean Haugh were 
married May 31, 1803, and had the following 
named children: James (I), born July 14, 1804, 
died in infancy; William, born May 19, 1SO0; 



John, March 26, 1808; James (II), April 21, 
1810; Andrew, August 16, 1812; Elizabeth, 
May 16, 1815; Robert (I), August 14, 1817, 
all born in Scotland; and Samuel, born May 31, 
1819; Robert (II), February 25, 1822; David, 
October 12, 1824; Mary, May 25, 1827, all born 
in Pittsburgh, Penn. 

In 1818 John Haugh immigrated to the 
United States with his family, and they took 
up their residence in Pittsburgh, Penn., where 
he was in the employ of John Gibb, manufact- 
urer of alum, vitriol, soap, candles, etc., until 
1836, iu which year he moved to Carroll County, 
Ohio. Here he purchased the farm now owned 
by his son David, at that time containing ninety 
acres, to which our subject has since added 
twenty acres, aggregating a fine farm of 110 
acres of well-improved land. The father died 
December 21, 1854, the mother October 30, 
1869, both members of the United Presbyte- 
rian Church. In politics Mr. Haugh was first 
a Whig, and afterward a Republican. 

David Haugh, the subject proper of this 
memoir, received his education partly at the 
public schools of Pittsburgh, and partly at the 
common schools of Monroe Township, in the 
meantime securing a thoroughly practical train- 
ing in the science of farming, which has been 
his life vocation. On November 23, 1848, he 
was married to Mary R. Moffatt, who was born 
October 13, 1827, in Monroe Township, Carroll 
County, daughter of Nathan and Sarah (King) 
Moffatt, which union has been blessed with 
nine children, of whom the following is a brief 
record: John, born March 27, 1850, resides in 
Dell Roy, Ohio; William G., born March 29, 
1852, lives in Canton, Ohio; Robert B. , born 
February 7, 1854, Sarah J., born July 17, 
1856, Mary E., born March 7, 1859, and Annie 
M., born March 25, 1861, are all four de- 
ceased; Andrew E. , born June 8, 1863, is still 
at home; Grant H. , born February 7, 1866, 
is deceased; Ross L. , born July 19, 1867, is 
yet under the parental roof. The mother of 
this family died April 12, 1871, a member of 
the United Presbyterian Church, and Novem- 



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ber 7, 1S72, Mr. Haugh was united in marriage 
with Mrs. Elizabeth Boiling, who was born 
October 30, 1S41, a daughter of Adam and 
Catherine (Stoody) Beamer. Mr. and Mrs. 
Haugh are members of the United Presbyte- 
rian Church ; in his political preferments he has 
always been a solid Republican, and has held 
several township offices. Our subject has lived 
on the same farm ever since coming to it with 
his parents in 1836, and he has made many 
substantial improvements thereon, erecting com- 
fortable and commodious buildings. 



Tjpy EUBEN RUNYON, one of the old and 
y^C. influential farmers of Monroe Township, 

V Carroll County, was born on tbe farm 
■f) where he now resides, May 11, 1819. 

His father, also named Reuben, was born in 
New Jersey, by trade was a shoemaker, and 
when fifteen years of age moved to Washington 
County, Penn. , where he married Miss Mary 
M. Shuster; in 1817 he came to Ohio and 
entered the farm our subject now owns. Here 
he put up a rude cabin, in which he resided for 
a number of years, and finally erected a hewed- 
log house, in which he resided till his death. 

Reuben Runyon, our subject proper, is the 
youngest of a family of seventeen children born 
to his parents, and has never lived elsewhere 
than on the farm on which he was bom. In 
1876 he married Mrs. Sarah Conover, whose 
maiden name was Justus; she was born in Hun- 
tingdon County, N. J. Politically, Mr. Runyon 
is Democratic. His farm contains eighty acres, 
which are well tilled and very productive. He 
is a progressive agriculturist, thrifty ami indus- 
trious, and is much respected by his neighbors. 



ETER EICK. a prominent farmer of Mon- 
roe Township, Carroll County, was born 
in Huntingdon County, N. J., July 6, 
18'20. His father, also named Peter, 
was born in the same county. September 8, 
1791, and was a son of Peter Eick, who was 




born in Germany and in an early day immi- 
grated to the United States, settling in New 
Jersey, where he married Margaret Hopler. To 
this union were born Anthony, Elizabeth, John, 
Jacob, Peter. William, Catherine A., Julia A., 
Lany and Mary. Peter Eick. the father of our 
subject, grew to manhood on the farm in New 
Jersey, and July 30, 1817, married Miss Eliza- 
beth Jennings, who was born in New Jersey in 
1799, a daughter of Peter Jennings. This 
union was blessed with seven children, named 
as follows: John, who resides in Harrison 
Township, Carroll County; Philip, in Tuscara- 
was County, Ohio; Peter, our subject; Elizabeth 
Dilly, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Mary, de- 
ceased; Sarah Beamer, in Harrison Township, 
Carroll Co. , Ohio, and Lany, who resides in 
Carrollton, Ohio. In 1821 Mr. Eick came to 
Ohio and purchased the farm now owned by our 
subject, of which there had been a few acres 
cleared, and a small cabin erected thereon. Mr. 
Eick resided on this land till the marriage of 
our subject, when he purchased a farm near 
Sherrodsville, where he resided till the death of 
his wife, which occurred August 25, 1880; he 
then resided with our subject till his own death 
December 17, 1882. Mr. Eick came from New- 
Jersey with a team and wagon, all the property 
he had, and would have returned to New Jersey . 
but his money was gone, and he was obliged to 
remain; yet, at his death, he owned 221 1 acres 
of choice land. Mr. and Mrs. Eick were mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church for over forty 
years. Politically, he was a Whig till 1855, but 
from that date to his death was a Republican; 
served several terms as trustee of his township. 
Peter Eick, our subject, grew to manhood 
on the farm where he now resides, and was edu 
cated at the common schools. On October 31, 
1849, he married Miss Bather E. Barriok, who 
was born in Monroe Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, August 7. 1881, a daughter of George 
and MarytMaiighimanl Barrick. By this union 
there were ten children, viz.: John, born Sep 
tember 13, L850, deceased; Benry,bornOi 
10, 1853, reside- in Monroe Township; Milo, 



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born March 8, 1855, deceased; Philip M., born 
September 3, 1858, deceased; Alice A., born 
February 27, 1862, deceased; Eli B., born 
September 22, 1864, resides in Monroe Town- 
ship; Jacob, born February 11, 1867, died in 
infancy; Martin, born February 20, 186S, de- 
ceased; William G., born April 11. 1870, at 
home, and Mary M. born February 21, 1872, 
also at home. Mr. Eick has lived where he 
now resides since he came to Ohio, and has been 
identified as one of the leading men of his town- 
ship. Politically, he is a Republican, and he 
and wife are members of the Lutheran Church. 



II SAAC RUSSELL, a thrifty farmer of Mon- 
roe Township, Carroll County, was born July 
10, 1828, on the farm he now owns. His fa- 
ther, Arthur Russell, was born in Ireland, in 
1779. Arthur's father was Robert Russell, who, 
about 1789, migrated to the United States, and 
settled in Washington County, Penn., entering a 
large tract of land, on which he remained till 
his death. His children were Samuel, Arthur, 
Robert Bell, Elizabeth and Sarah. Arthur grew 
to manhood in Pennsylvania, and was educated 
at the common schools; in 1805, he, in company 
with his brother, Robert, came to Ohio, and en- 
tered Section 36, of what is now Monroe Town- 
ship, Carroll County, where they both put up 
cabins, and spent their time in clearing the land, 
Arthur erecting one of the first saw- mills in 
Carroll County. In Pennsylvania, Arthur mar- 
ried Miss Belle Holmes, who was born in Ireland, 
and was brought to the United States when but 
two years old. To them were born children as 
follows: Jesse, Isaac, Maria and Belle, all de- 
ceased except Isaac. Mr. Russell, a few years 
after he built his cabin, also erected a hewed- 
log house, near where Isaac now resides, in 
which he lived till his death, in 1844, his wife 
having preceded him to the grave in 1834; 
both were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Isaac Russell, whose name opens this sketch, 
was reared to manhood on the farm, and edu- 



cated at the district school. On September 6, 
1849, he married Miss Eleanor Nixon, who was 
born in 1828, a daughter of James Nixon, of 
Union Township, Carroll County. This union 
has been blessed with the following named chil- 
dren: James M. , who resides in Dell Roy, Ohio: 
Cordelia B., deceased; Samuel R., deceased; 
Isaac N. , in Canton, Ohio, and Howard, at 
home. Mr. Russell has resided on the old farm 
all his life; he now owns 110 acres, on which he 
has erected a fine residence, and made many 
other improvements. In 1890 he was elected 
land appraiser of Monroe Township, he being, 
politically, a Republican. He and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and are highly esteemed by their neighbors. 



AMUEL TIPTON, a leading agricult- 
urist of Monroe Township, Carroll Coun- 
ty, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
January 12, 1837. His father, John 
Tipton, was a native of Maryland, born in 1774, 
and there married Elizabeth Tipton. To them 
were born children as follows: John, Samuel, 
Eliza J., Mary A., Catherine, Elizabeth and 
Nancy. Mr. Tipton, who was a carpenter by 
trade, resided in Green Township, Harrison Co., 
Ohio, for some years, but died in Wisconsin in 
1842. After his death his widow returned to 
Ohio, and died in Franklin Township, Harrison 
County, in February, 1887, aged ninety-three 
years. 

Samuel Tipton, the subject proper of these 
lines, was educated at the district schools, 
and in 1865 married Esther Beamer, who was 
born in 1849, in Monroe Township, Carroll Co., 
Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Esther (Maughi- 
man) Beamer. To this union were born seven 
children, viz. : Florence, Clyde, Samuel, Etta, 
Bertha, Udella and Bartlett, all of whom reside 
at home. Mr. Tipton came to Carroll County 
in 1862, and in 1865 he purchased the farm 
where he now resides, which contains 135 acres. 
Politically, he is Democratic. He and his wife 
are members of the Lutheran Church, and the 



family are among the most respected in the 
township where they reside. 



*jrV OBERT G. KEAN, member of the State 
L*C Legislature for Carroll County, and a 
Y^ prosperous and influential farmer of 
f/ Washington Township, is a native of 

the same, born April 25, 1844. John Kean, 
his grandfather, was born in Ireland, where he 
was married, and soon after that event he was 
pressed into the British Army, in which he 
served some two or three years. Succeeding in 
deserting, however, he came to America, and 
for some time taught school in Washington 
County, Penn. In 1814 his wife came to the 
United States and, rejoining her husband, they 
proceeded from Pennsylvania to Salem, in Jef- 
ferson County, Ohio, where they resided a short 
time. They then came to what is now Wash- 
ington Township, Carroll County, where he 
leased a tract of land and commenced farming; 
he also taught school here, being the first teacher 
in the county. After several years' residence in 
Washington township he removed to near Berg- 
holz, in Jefferson County, where he passed the 
remainder of his life; politically he was a 
Democrat. The children born to this pioneer 
couple were as follows : Mrs. Jane Kelly, Mrs. 
Rosanna Sweany, John, Mrs. Mary A. Miller, 
Francis, Mrs. Isabella Fulton, Mrs. Matilda 
Wallace, Daniel and William. Of the children 
above enumerated, John was born in County 
Antrim, Ireland, and came with his parents to 
Ohio, where he was brought up on the farm and 
educated at the subscription schools. In 1827 
he was married to Jane McMaster, a native of 
Washington County, Penn., born December 5, 
1809, and daughter of James and Elizabeth 
(George) McMaster. To this union were born 
ten children, as follows: James, Mrs. Mary 
Donaldson and Mrs. Elizabeth J. McClellan, all 
three now deceased; Mrs. Christiana Stephen- 
son, residing in Columbiana County, Ohio; Mrs. 
Matilda George, in Lee Township, Carroll 
County; Mrs. Hannah Crofts, a resident of 



Columbiana County, Ohio; Mrs. Isabella Carey, 
in East Liverpool, Ohio; John, in Washington 
Township; Robert G., our subject, and Will 
iam, a Presbyterian minister in Lafayette, Ind. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. John Kean 
resided on a leased farm in Washington Town- 
ship until 1832, when he purchased the property 
now owned by his son John, containing 160 
acres, afterward buying the farm owned and 
occupied by our subject, also comprising 160 
acres (these 320 acres being located in Section 
2, Washington Township), where he died. In 
politics he was a Republican, and in religion a 
member of the United Presbyterian Church; 
his widow is now living with her son John. 

Robert G. Kean, the subject proper of this 
memoir, grew to manhood on his father's farm, 
attending in the winter months the common 
schools of the district. In August, 1862, he 
enlisted in Company H, Ninety-eighth Regi- 
ment, O. V. I. , and was promoted to sergeant. 
On March 30, 1869, he was married to Miss 
Sarah McBurney, who was born March 10, 
1847, in Monroe Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, a 
daughter of Samuel and Sarah Jane (George) 
McBurney, and after their marriage they came 
to the farm already referred to, whereon they 
have since resided. They are consistent mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church; in politics 
Mr. Kean is a Republican, and in the fall of 
1889 he was elected to represent the people "f 
Carroll County, in the State Legislature; he 
has served as justice of the peace twenty years. 



I 



NOCH C. ROSS, M. D., a worthy and 
^ respected member of the most beneficent 
of all professions, is a resident i>f Mal- 
vern, Brown Township, Carroll County, 
of which he is a native, having been born in 
that village October 3, 1846. 

His grandfather, Enoch Ross, came in L812 
with his wife and family from Pennsylvania to 
Ohio, and took up his residence near Waynes- 
burg, where he and his wife passed the re- 
mainder of their lives. Among the children 



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born to them was Samuel I., who first saw the 
light of day in Greene County, Penn., and was 
two years old when his parents brought him to 
Ohio, where he grew to manhood and obtained 
his education. He was married to a Miss Stans- 
burg, who bore him five children, only one of 
whom is now living — Jasper S. Ross, a minister 
in the Disciples Church. Samuel I. Ross mar- 
ried, for his second wife, Miss Angeline Cross, 
a native of Carroll County, Ohio, whither, in an 
early day, her parents, John and Margaret 
Cross, had emigrated from Ireland. Six chil- 
dren were born to this union, the subject of 
these lines being sixth in order of birth. About 
the year 1842 Samuel I. Ross removed with bis 
family to Malvern, where he opened out one of 
the first hotels in the place, a hostelry known in 
its day, far and near, as the cosy rendezvous 
for the old settlers who would gather around 
the blazing log fire in the bleak winter evenings, 
and "spin" full many a thrilling "yarn" about 
pioneer and other experiences. For nearly half 
a century, forty years of which he served as a 
justice of the peace, Mr. Ross lived in Malvern, 
dying there January 17, 1890, esteemed and 
honored by all who knew him. 

Enoch C. Ross attended in his early boy- 
hood the public schools of his native village, 
and in 1861 he entered Hiram College, where 
he remained till May, 1863, when, no longer 
able to restrain his desire to serve his country 
in her hour of need, he laid aside his Virgil 
and Homer, his Cresar and Xenophon, and en- 
listed in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty- 
seventh Regiment O. N. G., 100 days' men; at 
the expiration of his term he re-enlisted, this 
time in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety- 
seventh O. V. I., which regiment formed rjart 
of the Fourteenth Army Corps, and was at- 
tached to the Army of the Cumberland. Our 
subject participated in all the battles and cam- 
paigns of his regiment, and was mustered out 
of the service at the close of the war. Re- 
turning to Hiram College, he resumed his 
books, remaining until 1866, when he com- 
menced the study of medicine under the pre- 



ceptorship of Dr. J. H. Tressel, of Alliance, 
Ohio, and afterward attended lectures at the 
Hudson Medical College (now known as the 
Cleveland Medical College), from which he 
graduated in 1S70. Dr. Ross then commenced 
the practice of his profession in Malvern, and 
some time later opened out, in connection there- 
with, a drug business, his son being associated 
with him, the style of the firm being' Ross & 
Son. 

On December 24, 1869, the Doctor was 
united in marriage with Cordelia Paessler, of 
Carroll County, daughter of Christian and 
Christina Paessler, natives of Saxony, Germany, 
and to this union were born two children — 
both boys — Iverson H. and Harwood C. Dr. 
Ross is a stockholder in the Malvern Clay 
Company, of which he was one of the origi- 
nators and the first president, a position he held 
two years. In politics he has always been a 
stanch Republican, and in 1880 he was elected 
to represent his district in the State Legislature, 
serving four years; in 1885 he received the 
nomination for State Senator, but withdrew 
from the contest. Dr. Ross, in all things tend- 
ing to the advancement of his town, township 
and county, has ever evinced an active and 
commendable interest. 



J G. MURDOCK. Among the early fami- 
t I lies who located in Cannonsburg, Penn., 
\J) were the Murdocks, who had migrated 
thither from Maryland. The head of the 
family was James Murdock, a millwright 
by trade, who lived quietly with his family, 
peacefully enjoying the fruits of his labor. The 
eldest of his children, William G., was born in 
Cannonsburg, Penn., in 1804, and his boyhood 
days were spent in Washington County. At 
the age of eighteen he went to Steubenville, 
Ohio, and there served an apprenticeship at the 
harness and saddlery trade, 60on after com- 
pleting which he embarked in business, in com- 
pany with his brother, in Wellsville, Ohio. In 
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married Nancy McClintock, a native of "Wash- 
ington County, that State, and early in the 
spring of the same year he set out with his 
young bride for their Ohio home at Wellsville. 
In the course of their journey they reached the 
Ohio River at Steubenville just as the flood of 
that year was at its height, and it would seem 
like tempting Providence to cross. in any craft. 
The stream was in angry commotion, awful to 
behold, and was hurrying along with it a heter- 
ogeneous mass of ice, saw logs, broken up 
rafts, houses, fences, and all sorts of floating 
debris. But this awe-inspiring sight did not 
daunt the young travelers, for with courage and 
sturdy determination, and placing their trust in 
Providence, they crossed the stream without 
accident, and arrived at Wellsville in safety. 
Here they made their home, becoming numbered 
among the most respected citizens of the place 
and neighborhood; and here, August 9, L890, 
at the advanced age of eighty-four years, after 
a happy married life of nearly sixty years, died 
the faithful wife. Mr. Murdock is still a resi- 
dent of Wellsville, and is familiarly known 
among the citizens as "Squire Murdock," from 
the fact of his having officiated as a justice of 
the peace for about a quarter of a century — 
indeed, in the earlier days of Wellsville, court 
used to be held in his little workshop, convert- 
ing it pro tern, into a temple of justice. This 
honored pioneer couple were blessed with six 
children, of whom the gentleman whose name 
heads this sketch is the eldest. 

J. G. Murdock was born November 4, 1836, 
in Wellsville, Ohio, at the public schools of 
which place he received his education. In 
1863 he was united in marriage with Martha 
E., daughter of John and Isabella (Arbuckle) 
Hewitt, and to this union were born three chil- 
dren, of whom but one is now living, John 
Hewitt, now a bright little boy of eight years. 
In his political predilections Mr. Murdock is a 
Republican, and has served as township clerk, 
also notary public for several years; he and his 
worthy wife are consistent members of the 
Presbyterian Church. 



HD. DUNLAP, M. 1)., one of the lead 
ing physicians of Sherrodsville, Orange 
Township, Carroll County, is a native <if 
■f/ the county, born March 3, 1856, in Cen- 

tre Township. John Dunlap, his grandfather, 
was born in Pennsylvania, where he was brought 
up to farm life, attending, as circumstances 
allowed in those early days, the schools of the 
neighborhood. He was married in his native 
State to Mary Van Horn, whose parents were 
among the early settlers of the section of which 
the family had long been residents. For a few 
years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Dun- 
lap remained in Pennsylvania, but finally 
joined the train of settlers who at the time 
were going to Ohio, and. settling in what is 
now Harrison Township, Carroll County, Mr. 
Dunlap purchased a tract of land, which he 
and his wife commenced to improve. Here 
they led industrious, uneventful lives, bravely 
combating the hardships of the early settler, 
and died when well advanced in years. 

D. V. Dunlap, father of our subject, was 
born in Carroll County, Ohio, where he passed 
his entire life, being one of the progressive and 
successful farmers of the county. He was 
married, while yet a young man, to Sarah A. 
Best, also of Carroll County, who bore him the 
following named children: Barbara, Preston, 
Milton, Albert, Robert, H. D.. Emeline (Mrs. 
William Baker), and Maggie (Mrs. Dr. Roach). 
The entire family are members of the Presby 
terian Church, as were the parents, and tin- 
father was, in his political preferments, an 
enthusiastic Republican. 

H. D. Dunlap received his primary educa- 
tion in the common schools of his native town- 
ship, afterward attending the medical school in 
connection with Cleveland College, from which 
he graduated in 1881, after pursuing a thor- 
ough, practical course. The Doctor commenced 
the practice of his chosen profession in Slier 
rodsville, and has met with well-merited suc- 
cess. On April 18, 1878, he was married to 
Rebecca D., daughter of John Meiser, of Har- 
rison County, Ohio, and one child has come to 



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bless their union, Delia, born June 23, 1879. 
Dr. and Mrs. Dunlap are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Sherrodsville. 
In politics he has always been identified with 
the Republican party, and is recognized as a 
leader in his section; in 1887 he was elected 
county coroner, and in 1889 was appointed 
postmaster at Sherrodsville. Socially Dr. Dun- 
lap is a great favorite, and professionally he is 
recognized as a skillful and well-read physician, 
noted for his humanity and open-heartedness. 



1/ f'ENRY SMITH (deceased), than whom 
fpH no one exerted greater influence in the 
I growth and upbuilding of Carroll Coun- 
•f/ ty, was born in Greene County, Penn., 

May 11, 1809, and died in Orange Township, 
Carroll Co., Ohio, June 21, 1890. His father, 
Alexander Smith, was a native of Germany, 
whence he was brought to America by his par- 
ents, when quite young, the family settling in 
Pennsylvania, where they carried on agriculture. 
Alexander was married to Catherine McGunney, 
a native of Scotland, the eldest of fourteen chil- 
dren, five of whom were boys. She set sail 
from her native land for America in company 
with her parents, who both died on the voyage 
and were buried at sea. Soon after their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Smith came to 
Ohio, and in 1814 settled near Bowerston (Har- 
rison County), where they erected their log 



cabin, and encountered all the hardships and 
dangers incident to pioneer life. They were 
among the early organizers of the Presbyterian 
Church in their section, and in politics Mr. 
Smith was a Democrat of the old Jeffersonian 
type. 

Henry Smith, of whom this sketch more 
particularly relates, came with his parents to 
Ohio, and passed the rest of his life in the 
State. He was educated at the primitive sub- 
scription schools of his day, and early in life 
thoroughly learned the trade of miller. He 
built a mill on the site now known as "Smith's 
Mills," and carried on an extensive business in 
that line during the rest of his life. He was 
twice married, and had, by the first marriage, two 
children, John and Samuel, and, by the second 
marriage, eight children, named as follows: Ben- 
jamin, Joseph, Diana, Gotleib, Henry, Theoph- 
ilus, Mary and Amelia (Mrs. Poinsett). Mr. 
Smith was a member of the United Brethren 
Church, as are his widow (Mrs. Annie Smith) and 
family; in politics he was first a Whig, and on 
the formation of the party, he became an active 
Republican. He was in all respects a self-made 
man, having begun at the bottom rung of the 
ladder and worked himself up by his own in- 
dividual efforts. His success was well merited, 
having been industriously and honestly earned; 
and when he was called from earth he left be- 
hind a wide circle of mourning friends and 
acquaintances, who ,one and all, held him in the 
highest respect, and now reverence his memory. 



c ~^2* 




INDEX. 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



PAG] . 

Adams, Clark 896 

Adams, David 465 

Adams, John 352 

Adams, JohnG 455; 

Adams. .Mrs. Mary E 455 

Adams. Percival 254 

Adams, Samuel 896 

Adams, Samuel W 175 

Adams, Mrs. Sarah J 353 

Addleman, John »i:: s 

Aiken, James, Jr 404 

Alexander, James 565 

AUbaugh, Samuel Courtney 882 

Allen, Isaac 434 

Allison, David.: 240 

Anderson, J 345 

Anderson, Robert 76 

Anderson, William B 75 

Arbaugh, A. Q 513 

Arbaugh, Levi 163 

Arnold, T. II 445 

Arnold, William 15 

Arnold, W. H 15 

Aukcnnan, Anthony 687 

Baker, Elijah W 725 

Baker, John L 608 

Baker, R.Z 491 

Baker, Thomas 'iT4 

Barclay, James 131 

Ha re lay, Joseph 619 

Barclay, Mrs. Sarah 131 

Barger, J eptha 657 

Barrett, Arthur B 544 

Barrett, William H -47 

Barricklow Family 167 

Barricklow, Farrington 787 

Barricklow, George W 497 

Barricklow, Henry (Cadiz Tp. I... 37 
Barricklow, Henry (Athens Tp.).. 265 

Barricklow, Henry S 168 

Barricklow, John D 88 

Barricklow, Mrs. Rebecca J.... 265 

Barricklow, B. W 144 

Baxter, Samuel 588 

Brail, John B 511 

Hear, John 589 

Beatty, Arter 

Bernhard, Family : ; '-' :; 

Beruhard, Joseph 311 

Bernhard, Lewi- 324 



PAGE, 

Bernhard, Mr-. Maggie 311 

Bernhard, William 

Bethel Family (Ji 

Bethel, Seorge W 620 

Bethel, Isaac II 428 

Bethel, James i > 581 

Bethel, Simpson 428 

Bethel, William B 

Betts, Brice E 680 

He \;in. Joseph 318 

Bevan, Mrs. Maria 218 

Bingham, John A o 

Binns, Jonathan 114 

Binns, Joseph P 485 

Binns, Thomas II 686 

Birney, Asbury 74'.i 

Birney, II. W 750 

Birney, James N 267 

Birney, J. S 419 

Birney, Samui I II ".17 

Black, Henry C, M. D 632 

Black, II. S 206 

Black, James Stean 349 

Black, John Hervey 514 

Black, Mrs. Mary K 514 

Blackwood, Mrs. Margaret 751 

Blackwood. Samuel M 751 

Blair, Albert X 443 

Blair, John W 442 

BoggS Family 

BoggS, K. W 

Boggs, Samuel M 675 

BolithO, Thomas 571 

BolithO, William 571 

Boor, William Henry 158 

norland. David 78 

Bosley, Jacob S62 

Boyd, Mrs. Martha A 163 

Boyd, Thomas 463 

Boyles, Henry 67 

Bradcn, David B 681 

Bradford, James M i«7 

Branson, Abraham Wilson 514 

Branson, LlndleyM 466 

Brindley, Albert 884 

Brindley, John 701 

Hrindhy, Mrs. Malinda 

Brindley, Thomas 702 

Brokaw, John H 545 

Brown, Melford J 



nan Family 78 

Buchanan, William 464 

Burgess, Dr. William 645 

Burrell, William I' 

Busby, Abraham II 706 

Busby, Mr-. Elizabeth 706 

Buxton, (ami. hell 284 

■ lane- 89 

t. Benjamin •„':;! 

Caldwell, William Harvey 34S 

Campbell, John :u 

Campbell, Rev. Dr. R. G s; 

Cannon, James 

on, Sarah Ann 

I arnian, L. N 715 

Carrick, Ezra L 371 

Carrothers, Beatty 4:14 

flier-, C. I> 494 

11, E. K 

(arter, James 1,44 

196 

Carver, Elijah 94 

Carver, Benrj B 

i, Tl - I' 400 

Cassell, John Wesley 1(14 

Cecil, Hiram 470 

(Veil, Mary J 470 

Cecil. Richard 

i baney, Samuel 202 

Chancy, Thomas 201 



Clark. Daniel 7'JU 

(lark Family 

(lark. Ingram 4li> 

(lark. Joshua 648 

Clark. Oliver 

Clark. Mrs. Sarah 410 

( larke, Matthew 

Clemens, S. C 150 

( dements, Daniel 507 

Clements, John M 

Clements, Thomas W 507 

Cleiidcnnin, Nathaniel Edward 

Clifford, John 44.; 

. Charles, M. I> ''''■»" 

Co, j, ran. Robert Ji '41 

( 'in liran. Samuel 

id, James William 

' > ,; 17 

577 



1112 



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PAGE. 

Collins Family 51 

Collins, George H 109 

Collins, Mrs. Rachel 330 

Collins, Zachariah 329 

Comly, John W., M. D 461 

Conaway, Aaron 403 

Conaway, Charles 445 

Conaway, Moses H 701 

Condo, Jacob 432 

Condo, John 391 

Conwell, John 27 

Cooke, George 522 

Cooper, Freeman M 257 

Cope, Benjamin T 510 

Cope Family 515 

Cope, Hiram 518 

Cope, John 517 

Cope, Joseph 516 

Cope, Oliver G 517 

Copeland, Enoch C 739 

Copeland, James (deceased) 720 

Copeland, James (German Tp.).. 618 

Copeland, Mrs. Mary A 720 

Copeland, William 742 

Copeland, William D 732 

Couch, Thomas Wilson 92 

Coulter, Robert McCoy .. 583 

Coultrap, Kiehard M 688 

Courtright, Joseph W 195 

Courtright, Z. Z 194 

Covert, Benjamin 413 

Covert, J.H 379 

Cox, George 339 

Crabtree, John D '. 483 

Craig, John Alvin 306 

Craig, Walter 336 

Cramhlet, George W 749 

Cramhlet, Jacob 717 

Cramhlet, Mrs. Sarah 7ls 

Crawford, John 40 

Crawford, R. F 241 

Crawford, Samuel Edward 703 

Crawford, Thomas 4:-;o 

Crawford, Rev. T. R., D. D 208 

Creal, Abraham B 315 

Creal, Joseph M 316 

Cree, Thomas M 176 

Crew, Mrs. Elizabeth H 402 

Crew, ( reorge A 17 

Crew, Jesse B 401 

Croak y, William 439 

Crumley, Ira 476 

Culbertsou Family 110 

Culbertson, John ill 

Cummings, Philip 096 

Cunningham, David 24 

Curtis, Isaac 1 09 

Custer, William Webster, M. 1). . . 182 

Davidson, Lewis H 440 

Davidson, Samuel F 042 

Davis, Alexander C 397 



PAGE. 

Davis* Elias W 754 

Day. Rev. James 258 

Decker Family 304 

Decker, John H 304 

Decker, Joseph 670 

DeLone;, Espy 256 

Dennis, Jacob, Sr 423 

Derry, Jacob M 719 

Dewey, Chauncey 42 

Dewey, Mrs. Nancy 48 

Dickerson, Barriek 41 

Dickerson, Joseph 233 

Dickerson, Joseph B 253 

Dickerson, Joshua (Cadiz Tp.) . . . 41 
Dickerson, Josb.ua(MooreneldTp.) 443 

Dickerson, Theodore 42 

Dickerson, Thomas D 410 

Dickerson, William N 309 

Dickerson, William, Sr 252 

Dickerson, William W 677 

Donaldson, William 070 

Downs, John F 371 

Dunlap, Adam 89 

Dunlap, Adam, Jr. (Athens Tp.).. 91) 
Dunlap, Adam, Jr. (Moorefield Tp.) 580 

Dunlap, A. B 606 

Dunlap, A. M 93 

Dunlap, Hugh B 415 

Dunlap, James 108 

Dunlap, John 91 

Dunlap, John A 180 

Dunlap, Joseph (Athens Tp.) 91 

Dunlap, Joseph (Archer Tp.) 107 

Dunlap, Joshua 91 

Dunlap, Mrs. Mary 339 

Dunlap, Robert 90 

Dunlap, Samuel (Moorefield Tp.). 196 

Dunlap, Samuel (deceased) 107 

Dunlap, Watson 91 

Dunlap, William 685 

Dunlap, William F 107 

Eaglesou, Henry 79 

Easter, Mrs. Elizabeth 268 

Edgar, James 130 

Edgar, Samuel D 130 

Edwards, John 595 

Elliott, Samuel 133 

Elliott, Mrs. Sarah 133 

Endsley, Mrs. Elizabeth 710 

Endsley, James 738 

English Family 197 

English, George 198 

English, Scott 198 

Ervin, Henry 031 

Estep, John H 568 

Estep, Josiah Morgan 80 

Estep, W. G S3 

Evans, Gei irge W 482 

Evans, James C 724 

Ferguson, John H 139 

Ferrell, J. W 84 



S 



TACK. 

Fierbaugh Family 331 

Fierbaugh, Michael B 331 

Finical, John 316 

Firebaugh, David 883 

Fitch, William K 169 

Ford, John E 615 

Forsythe, Jesse 90 

Forsythe, Thomas C 4*1 

Forsythe, William 350 

Foster, M.J 354 

Fowler, Garret 286 

Fowler, James W 689 

Fowler, Jeremiah 625 

Fowler, Joseph C 288 

Fowler, Thomas E 287 

Fox, Charles James 528 

Fox, Josiah 528 

Fox, William Spicer 399 

Francis, William M 143 

Franklin College 703 

Fribley, Milton W 714 

Fulton, Alexander 138 

Fulton, James 730 

Fulton, Mary J 139 

Fulton, Samuel 138 

Furney, John H 010 

Gallaher, J. W 333 

Gaudy, Franklin 700 

Garner, Edward 754 

Garner, Hezekiah 754 

George, A. M 019 

George Family 199 

Giffln, Morrison Niehol 330 

Giffin, William G 675 

Gilbert, Samuel 682 

Gillespie, John W 274 

Gilmore, Francis 39 

Gladmau, David 539 

Gladmau, Mrs. Elizabeth 540 

Glover, Jefferson C 755 

Green, Aaron 495 

Green, Israel J 434 

Green, James 355 

Green, Thomas 667 

Greenlees, John M 242 

Greenlees, Joseph E 242 

Griffin, Oscar 588 

Gundy, Michael V 386 

Gutschall, James 643 

Guyton, Benjamin 316 

Hagan, Edward 460 

Hagan, Robert K 475 

Hagedorn, Henry 724 

Hall, Parker 459 

Hall, Tipton 433 

Hamill, Samuel S 59 

Hamilton, Craig 414 

Hamilton, Joseph MeFadden 415 

Hamilton, Samuel 207 

Hamilton, Samuel Rankin 415 

Hamilton, William Sherman 415 



1'AliK. 

Hammond, Alexander 56 

Hammond, Alexander J 51 

i [ammond, Anderson N 57 

Hammond, John II 55 

Hanna, Miss Ann 455 

Hanna, James 455 

Hanna, John Newton 326 

Hanna. John X 741 

Hanna, Samuel 484 

Harrah, George M 708 

ltarrah, John L 707 

Harrison, John 336 

Harrison, William ( North Tp.) .. . 237 
Harrison, Win. (Short Creek Tp*j L06 

Eauck, A 704 

Haverfield, Mrs. Elizabeth 17", 

Haverfield, Emmett N 719 

Haverfield, Henry 1 152 

Haverfield, James 177 

Haverfield, James N 170 

Haverfield, John :;:i 

Haverfield, John N 152 

Haverfield, J. C 666 

Haverfield, Nathan 134 

Haverfield, Nathan B 131 

Haverfield, Rev. William H 151 

Haverfield, W. K 235 

Haverfield, W. s 38 

Hawthorne, Arthur Allison 501 

Hayes, Thomas C 627 

Hearn, Wesley Browning 392 

Heastan, John Wesley 636 

Heberling, George II '-'1 7 

Heckler, George 103 

Hedges Family 51 

Hedges, W. P 52 

Heller, Edwin Stanton 047 

Henderson Family 726 

Henderson, James ."..Ml 

Henderson, James O 727 

Henderson, John C 322 

Henderson, Mrs. Susannah 550 

Henderson, William 727 

Herron, William 115 

Hess, D. F 637 

Hillyer, Henry, Jr 507 

Hillyer, Jewell E 

Hillyer, \V. II 168 

Hilton, John H. T 699 

Hines, A. B .v; 

Hines Family 156 

Ilines, George 437 

Hines, .lames McMahan 157 

Ilines, o. C 

Hines, Peter 722 

Hines, William Fletcher 157 

Hitchcock, John 390 

Hitchcock, Johnson 621 

Hol.son. F. Y 658 

Hogue, Mrs. Elizabeth mi 

Hogue, Mark 641 



Holland. John ; In 

Hollett, William W 

Holliday, Eldred G 417 

Hollingsworth, 1 »ai id A . ;i> 

Holling-sworth, Elihu 98 

Hollingsworth, Valentine '.is 

Holmes, Asa. . . 

Holmes, Mrs. Chloe A 

Holme,-. Clifford A 147 

Holmes Family 650 

Holmes, Isaac 406 

Holme-, Joseph 392 

Holmes. Mr-. Marj 140 

Holmes, Mrs. Mary M 392 

Holme,. Thomas V ,.. 657 

Holmes, Wesley A 599 

Holmes, William F 650 

Hopedale Normal College 585 

Hopkins, Thomas 109 

Host, John 131 

Hotz, Michael 705 

Hollser. .lame- 74 

Houser, William L 750 

Howell, J. G., M. D is;; 

Hughes, Edward 684 

Hughes, Mr-. Sarah A e,si 

Humphrey, Mrs. Jane 493 

Hurford, John II ill 

Hurford, Dr. Joseph 70 

Huston, Jacob 784 

Irons, Mrs. lYrmilla 581 

Iron.-. Thomas II 580 

Jamieson, Rev, J. M.. I). 1) oil 

Jamison. Andrew 145 

Jamison Family 

Jamison. James B 39" 

Jamison. John 

Jamison, John A 140 

Jamison, Wiley 

Jamison. William 

Jamison, William Walter 

Jarvis, Jacob 60 

Jenkins, .lame- B 325 

Jenkins, Mrs. James IS 

Johnson. Albert 

Johnson, Alexander 597 

Johnson, Final. 186 

Johnson, Mrs. Rachel 

Johnson, William II 

Johnston, Joseph F 661 

Kail, Au-tin 168 

Kail, Hance Wilson 

Kail, John R 867 

Keepers, Mrs. Christina •"•so 

rs, I- ■ N ;;s " 

Keesey, James 175 

Kee-ey, John I 

Keesey, Margaret L75 

Kelly, Samuel C 

Kennedy, Jackson 759 

> 



PAOl . 

Kennedy, Salathiel 

Kent, Absalom 

Ken 754 

Kent, John II 

Kent, Mrs. Ruth J 740 

Kerr, Aaron 

Kerr, B 419 

Kerr Family 

Kerr. James \V 

Kerr, John C 

Kerr, Rev. Samuel C 

Kerr. Thomas Hamilton 

Kim 1, Jonathan 179 

Kimmel, William 

Kinsey, K w 

Kirkpatrick, George Washington. 615 

Kirkpatrick, Harrison 308 

Kirkpatrick, Jane- 

Kirkpatrick, Joseph (' 

Kirkpatrick, \V. I; 

Knox, E.M 668 

Kyle, Mr-. Matilda 746 

Kyser, John F 

116 

Lacey, II. B 

Lafferty Family 478 

Lafferty, Hiram I7i 

Lafferty, Mrs. Jane 171 

Lafferty, John W 175 

Lafferty, Joseph 

I.afferty, Mr-. Mary 

I.afferty, Samuel I) 474 

Lamb, I.. B 

Lantz, Jasper N 540 

Laughridge, E. W 

Laughrige, Edward L68 

Laughrige, Mrs. Susannah L68 

l.anthers, Robert 687 

Law, Harvej B 

Law, John 17:1 

Law, John Quincy 

Law, K.B 

Law, William B 

Lawrence, Isaac 

Lawrence, Robert K 752 

Lemasters, Isaac K 

Hon 

Lisle, John 471 

Lisle, William 

Livingston, William A 

\i. rander 

Long, David *88 

Long, David M.. M. 1) 186 

Love, Alexander 164 

Love Family 

Love, George I Athens Tp. i 544 

Love, i Nottingham Tp. I 557 

Sobi ii \i .'. 158 

I.owmiller. Balaam 

Lukens Family 

Lukens, Thomas J 



1144 



HARRISON COUNTY 



PAGE. 

Lukens, William H 235 

Lyle Family 399 

Lyle, George W., M. D 270 

Lyle, Mrs. Jaue 423 

Lyle, William. ,Tr 423 

Lynn, Reuben P 266 

Lyons, John C 57 

Lyons, Richard 34 

Lyons, Robert 24 

McAfee, George 74:: 

McAfee, James, Jr 361. 

McBean, John 8., M. D 272 

McBeth, DaTid J 275 

McCaulcy, Join 695 

McClaiue, Nathan S 497 

McCleary, Ephraim 123 

MeClintick, Thomas C 753 

McConnell, Adam 307 

McConnell, Edward M. S 139 

McConnell, John C 524 

McConnell, LaFayette 575 

McConnell, M.J 575 

McConnell, Mrs. Rachel 525 

McCormick, Reuben Allen 69 

McCoy, Charles S 29 

McCoy, M. J IS 

McCready, Rev. Jonathan S 30 

Mc< ready, Mrs. Margaret 20 

McCullough, William 545 

McDivitt, John 576 

McDivitt, Lyle 444 

McDowell, 8.M 72s 

McDowell, William 728 

McFadden, Alexander 5S7 

MeFadden, Edward Stanton 231 

MeFadden Family 288 

MeFadden, Mrs. F. I 22 

MeFadden, George 30 

McFadden, H. S 31 

MeFadden, James 290 

MeFadden, John 290 

McFadden, John J 200 

MeFadden, John S 568 

McFadden, Joseph 431 

MeFadden, Mrs. Martha A 291 

MeFadden, Nathaniel 241 

MeFadden, Osear R 270 

MeFadden, Samuel 289 

MeFadden, Samuel R 512 

MeFadden, Thompson 144 

MeGavran, Samuel B., M. D 374 

McGavran, William H 215 

McGrew, William 173 

MeKee, James 166 

McKee, Mrs. Sarah 166 

MeKeown, William 495 

McKibben, John 631 

McLain, R. S 527 

McLandaborough, John 693 

McLaughlin, S. K 54 

MeMauus, Jacob J 362 



PAGE. 

McMath, J. F 433 

McMillen, Thomas 526 

McXary, Matthew R 436 

McNeely, Cyrus 105 

MePeck, Elmer Ellsworth, M. D. . 314" 

McPeek, George 298 

MePeck, John E 298 

Maddox, Thomas 405 

Mahau, William 591 

Mallarnee, John Calvin 539 

Mallernee, Benjamin J 671 

Manly, Mrs. Amy II 573 

Manly, John 572 

Mansfield, Elijah P 278 

Mansfield, Henry O 280 

Mansfield, William L 277 

Markley, Mathias 384 

Markley, Mrs. Sarah Jane 383 

Martin, George 229 

Martin, Jesse 440 

Martin, John 550 

Martin, John H 600 

Martin, Orlando K 230 

Martin, Sumner T 441 

Martin, William H 330 

Masters, A. J 723 

Matteru, A. S 503 

Maxwell, Allen 421 

Maxwell, James 200 

Mears, S. T 547 

Megaw Family 326 

Megaw, Jacob 32S 

Megaw, James 327 

Megaw, -lames R 328 

Megaw, John 328 

Megaw, John, Sr 320 

Megaw, Samuel 327 

Megaw, Sarah 327 

Mehollin Family 112 

Mehollin, John F 113 

Mehollin, Samuel 113 

Melany, John Riley 726 

Melany, Mrs. Martha 720 

Merryman, John 717 

Mikesell, Jesse 313 

Mikesell, Joseph 625 

Mikesell, Mrs. Mary E 311 

Milford, Rev. T. J., Ph. D 141 

Miller, David D 385 

Miller, Henry 602 

Miller, H. A 434 

Miller, Jason 046 

Miller, John (German Tp.) 592 

Miller, John ( Stock Tp. ) 659 

Miller, John N 555 

Millhoru, Thomas 723 

Milliken, Michael 727 

Mills, Mrs. Ella B 410 

Mills, Mrs. Eliza J 373 

Mills, John 372 

Mills, William 222 



PAGE. 

Minney. Jacob 61s 

Miu tier, David 127 

Mintier, James 120 

Miutier, Joseph 137 

'Mitchell, John 5S1 

Mitchell, John D 113 

.Mitchell, Robert 221' 

Moore, Albert 13(T 

Moore, David B 30 

Moore, I. Craig 16 

Moore, James 14 

Moore, John F 124 

Moore, Samuel A 346 

Mi ii ire, Uriah 558 

Moore, William 262 

Moore, William C 69±_ 

Morris, John 261 

Morris, Joseph 370 

Morrison, James E 349 

Newell, Thomas A 373 

Nibloek, W. A 572 

i >glevee, Barrick Francis 65 

Oglevee, David 39 

Oglevee, Hugh 165 

( iliphant, Abraham 395 

Osburn, John W 365 

Osburu, Samuel 188 

Osburn, Mrs. Sarah 193 

Ourant, James K 68 

Ourant, John M 363 

Palmer, Adam J 492 

Parkinson, Thomas 570 

Patterson, John 133 

Patterson, J. C 535 

Patterson, Samuel, D. D 705 

Patton, Fre 425 

Patton, George M 340 

Patton, John Walker 367 

Patton, M. M 502 

Petm, F. H 599 

Penn, William Boyee 31s 

Perry, W. T 472 

Peterman, Jacob 69S 

Petty, AsburyF 537 

Petty, Henry 377 

Petty, Mrs. Sarah J 377 

Phillips, Alfred 121 

Phillips, Amasa 343 

Phillips, Richard 333 

Fillers, James 342 

Pittenger, Mrs. Antoinette 385 

Pittenger, Jacob 1S1 

Pittenger, Samuel 384 

Pittis, Albert 617 

Pittis, Mrs. Jane K 017 

Pittis, John A 601 

Poeoek, Alonzo C 74 

Poore Family 23 

Porter, Augustus 61 

Porter Family 34 

Porter, Irwin, Sr 35 



INDEX. 



1145 



PAGE. 

Porter, Irwin, Jr 873 

Porter, James ill 

Porter, John D 681 

Porter, Samuel B 629 

Porter, Samuel T 34 

Poulson, John 121 

Price, Benjamin F 454 

Price Family 126 

Priee, ,Jt>el 454 

Price, John L 45-4 

Price, Leonard D 42l> 

Price, Oscar 427 

Price, Steward 126 

Pritchard, John 48 

Pumphrey, Dr. R. J 689 

Ralston, L. B 480 

Ramsey, A. W., M. D 649 

Ramsey, John (Nottingham Tp.). 725 

Ramsey, John ( Green Tp) 518 

Ramsey, Rev. Samuel 521 

Ramsey, William 743 

Ramsouer, Mrs. Susanna 889 

Ramsouer, Thomas W 389 

Rankin, Israel 235 

Rankin, Mrs. Mary 160 

Rankin, William 160 

Rea, Andrew J 35 

Rea, JohnC 328 

Reaves, James 669 

Reed, Charles H 86 

Reed, R. W 125 

Reynard, William 884 

Reynolds, Leauder J 184 

Richey, John M 49 

Riehey, Samuel "> ss 

Richey, Thomas J 50 

Ripley, Isaiah 590 

Ri they, John P 708 

Ritchej", William 71 > s 

Roherts, James Ross 326 

Rohisou, George 716 

Robison, James 543 

Roby Family 311 

Rogers, Calvin 366 

Rogers, James B Ill 

Rogers, Mrs. Mary E 266 

Rogers, William 66 

Romans, Lewis T 198 

Ross, Aaron 645 

Rowland, James 128 

Rowland, Leinard 385 

Rowland, Philip 733 

Sampson, Archibald J 388 

Sampson, C. W o s ~ 

Sampson, William E 584 

Sargent, John Edward 4'J1 

Sawvel, Jonathan 407 

Scott, Alexander 244 

Scott, Charles S 606 

Scott, David 578 

Scott Family, John W 605 



P LOB, 

Scott, James 350 

Scott, John Harvey 681 

Scott, Mrs. Mary (Patterson) .... 138 

Scott, Robert G 408 

Scott, Robert P 606 

Scott, Robert W 805 

Scott. Samuel 721 

Scott, William 381 

Scott, William II 244 

Sewcll, T. M., Ph. D 183 

Shaffer. John 162 

laugh, Mrs. Amanda 627 

Shambaugh, Michael 219 

Shambaugh, Phillip, Jr 210 

Shambaugh, Samuel 687 

Sharp, William T.. M. I) 19 

Shearrow, B. F 4S!S 

Shepler, Mrs. Amanda 513 

Shepler, Henry V 512 

SbiverB, I 882 

Shivers, S. K 206 

Shotwell, Stuart Beebe 757 

Shotwell, Walter G 758 

Shultz, John 104 ' 

Simmons, George W 417 

Simpson Family 83 

Simpson, F. H 366 

Simpson, J. W. A 84 

Simps, ,n, Matthew W 344 

Simpson, William 84 

Singer, Laird 628 

Skelley, William 85 

Skinner, Carleton Adolphus 226 

Skinner, Samuel 22o 

Smith, Captain Andrew 630 

Smith, Daniel 485 

Smith Family 251 

Smith, Joseph 232 

Smith, Richard P 252 

Smith, Samuel 368 

Smith, Simeon 505 

Smith, Theodore W 400 

Smith, William F 504 

Smylie, John 388 

Sneddecker, Samuel 381 

Snider, David l"' s 

Snider, Jacob 665 

Snyder, Daniel J., M. D 498 

Snyder, John 498 

Snyder, Martin 82 

Sparrow, John r,:;: ' 

Spiker, G. D 186 

Spiker, John W 

Spray, John 

Sproull, John 

Stahl, Huston 288 

Stahl, James, Jr 

Slant, ,n, Edwin McMasters 609 

Btarkey, Antilles v ' 4 

i David 

Btephen, Silas 696 



P v,;r. 

-,,n. Joseph i: 196 

Btevenson, John Miller ids 

Stewart. Mrs. Maria 648 

Stewart. Robert 185 

Stewart, Samuel 648 

Stiers, Henry 685 

Stone, Jamr- II., M. 1> T.Mt 

Stonei David 162 

161 

String, , on 364 

Stringer, John M 73s 

Stringer, Mrs. Susanna 789 

Taggart, Jam,* 

Taggart, Milt,, n J 508 

Tannehill, Mrs. Caroline 398 

Tannehill, Isaiah 898 

Taylor. David i 151 

Taylor, James E 556 

T, iin, nt, Da\ id 557 

Thorn, Robert 751 

Thompson, James 31 

on, John 553 

Thompson, Samuel 253 

Timmons, Robert 1 420 

Tipton, A,,nila 732 

Tipton, C. R 31 

Toole, John 715 

Townsend, David C 316 

Truslicl, John 560 

Trushel, Peter 560 

Trushel, Valentine 96 

Turney, Jacob 

Ctterback, Barnett 578 

Van,,'. Washington J 

Voorhes, John Alexander 

Vorh.es, Daniel 785 

Waddle, Dr. Benjamin 

Waddle, William Glenn, I). I).... 438 

Walker, Joseph 306 

Walla,,', 1). B »8 ( 

Wallace, Elijah R 

Wallace, Nathaniel A 718 

Wallace, Rev. William 

Wallace. W. A 4'.i:l 

Walli-. Jesse 641 

Warner, Jacob 285 

Warner. Jeremiah 

Watson, John W 

Watson, Joshua P 

Watson, Mrs. Rebecca 

Watson, Smith R 260 

Watson, Mrs. s. J 

Watson. Thomas Wesley 897 

Watt. John 480 

Watters, William 504 

Webb, Jacob w 

Webb. John. Sr.. 

Webb. John. Jr 

Webster, David 382 

\Y,i. \ 

Weld,. Daniel 



1140 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



PAGE. 

Welch, David Barclay 155 

Welch Family 62 

Welch, James W 123 

Welch, Rezin 62 

Welch, William L22 

Welch, William A 343 

Welling, George W 559 

Welsh, James M 676 

Welsh, John 30 

Welsh, John M., M.D 500 

Welsh, Mrs. Margaret 29 

West, Amos 745 

West, JohnD., M.D 148 



PAGE. 

West, Nancy 7411 

West, Rezin 740 

Wcyandt, Abraham 595 

Weyandt, Daniel 609 

Wharton, Ezra 559^ 

Wheeler, William 360 

Wheeler, W. S 301 

White, James 435 

White, Joshua P 335 

Wiley, William 162 

Wilkin, Archibald B., M. D 462 

Wilkin, Samuel 596 

Willett, Louis M 731 



PAGE. 

William-, L. B 525 

Willisou, J.M 679 

Wilson, .Mrs. Eliza 95 

Wilson, James 96 

Wilson, W. L 571 

Wood, Robert 606 

Wood, William Thomas 27 

Woodborne, Edwin S 233 

Wi ii idward, John L 88 

W< irstell, Henry P 178 

Wortman, J. I)., M. D 18 

Yarnall, John 94 

Yost, Elias 155 



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Bingham, John A 

Black, H. C, M. D 

Boggs, S. M 

Branson, Liudley M 

Clark, Ingram 

Clendennin, N. E 

Clendennin, Mrs.'Libbie M 

Cobbs, Dr. Charles 

Coulter, R. M 

Craig, Walter 

Crawford, T. R .' 

Crumley, Ira 

Davidson, L. H 

Davidson, Mrs. Lucinda 

Dewey, Chauncey 

I (ewey, Mrs. Nancy 

Estep, Josiah M 

Fox, Charles J 

Fox, Mrs. Esther C 

Havcrfteld, James N 

1 in vertield, John N 

llavcrhelil, Nathan 

Hearn, W. B 

Henderson, James 

Hollingsworth, D. A 

Holmes, W. F 

Holmes, Mrs. Amanda S 

Holmes, Mrs. Hannah J 

Jamieson, J. M 

Welch, Rezin. 



633 
673 
467 
411 
357 
356 
691 
583 
337 
209 
477 
449 
448 
44 
45 
81 
531 
530 
171 
153 
135 
393 
551 
99 
651 
054 
655 
613 



Kent, John H 

Lacey, John S 

Lafferty, Joseph 

Lantz, J. N 

Long, David 

Long, David M., M. D.. 

Lyons, Robert 

McDowell, William 

McGavran, S. B., M.D.. 

McPeck, JohnE 

McPeck, Mrs. Mary 

Manly, John 

Miller, Henry 

Miller, John 

Moore, William 

Osburn, Samuel 

Osburn, Mrs. Elizabeth . . 

Penn, William B 

Ramsey, John 

Ritchey, J. P 

Ritchey, William 

Seott, W. H 

Skinner, C. A 

Snyder, D. J., M. D 

Taggart, James 

Trushel, Peter 

Trushel, Mrs. Susannah. 

Waddle, W. G 

Weight, George A 



PAGE. 

... 747 
... 117 
... 023 
... 541 
... 488 
... 489 
... 25 
... 729 
... 375 
... 301 
... 300 
... 573 
... 603 
... 593 
... 263 
... 191 
... 190 
... 319 
... 519 



710 
711 
245 
227 
499 
509 
563 
562 
429 
281 



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1147 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



PAGI . 

Abel, Christopher C 978 

Abel, Enoch W 978 

Adair, Bazzle W 825 

Adair Family 828 

Adair, John 823 

Adams, Abraham 888 

Adams, Judge C. C 867 

Adams, John 867 

Adams, Mrs. Mary A 888 

Adolff, Peter 1020 

Algeo, George lot:'. 

Algeo, William 1044 

Allen, Samuel 984 

Allison, William 1092 

Allmon, Mrs. Ellen 1111 

Allmon, John 1110 

Allmon, West T 1117 

Amos, Benjamin B 1039 

Amos, Joshua B 1089 

Anderson, William B 1078 

Baker, A. B srs 

Baker, San uel B 907 

Baker, Zachariah 990 

Baldwin, John A 920 

Ball, Henry 1062 

Barclay, John 1094 

Barriek, George 852 

Barrick, Henry 1104 

Battin, Abraham 872 

Baxter, Cornelius 994 

Baxter, James 998 

Beamer, Philip 888 

Beamer, Mrs. Sarah s*s 

Bebout, John 878 

Belknap, David 1039 

Belknap, James A 852 

Belknap, Samuel 1039 

Bell, George ' 1007 

BemenderJEer, Isaac 861 

Bemenderfer, Peter S64 

Benedum, Charles E 998 

Benedum, James H 861 

Benedum, J. W 1071 

Berlieu, Hiram S 793 

Bettis, Mrs. Jane 951 

Bettis, John 950 

Billman, A. L 945 

Black, Andrew 862 

Black, Samuel, M. D 862 

Blazer, Bazeleel 1 132 

Blazer, Philip B 1182 

Boggs, Ezra 985 

Booth, Joseph 1180 

Borland, Samuel J 1062 

Borland, Washington 1085 



PAGE. 

Boyce, Richardson lots 

Boyce, R.J 1018 

Boyd, Andrew 816 

Boyd, William sit; 

lira nib in. Alexander 912 

Brandt, Mrs. Elizabeth 950 

Brandt, Fredrick 950 

Brandt, Henry 967 

Brann, James B 980 

Brooks, Charles F 1080 

Brooks, John 11 870 

Brower, Harvey J 1015 

Brower, Joseph 1015 

Brown, Basil SU 

Brown, William 814 

Buchanan, John 906 

Buchanan, William II 826 

Buck, John (i 822 

Buel, Frederick 860 

Burgett, (iwen '.mi 

Burrier, Philip 1099 

Butler, George J 829 

Butler, Earry S 880 

Butler, Washington 829 

Butler, William F 772 

Byder, John ti 780 

Cabill, David 901 

Caldwell, James '.107 

Caldwell, William J 866 

( lameron, Samuel J 955 

Cameron, Thomas 956 

Campbell, John 780 

Camahan, J. H 1 L29 

Clark, R. F 882 

Close, Joseph 1133 

Cogsil, Harvey 972 

Cogsil, JoluiT 972 

Colar, Mrs. Catharine 870 

Colar, William 871 

( looper, Obadiah J 947 

Cooper, Mrs. Obadiah J '.<4T 

Couch, Eli 800 

Courtright, Isaac 1052 

Cox, Isaac W 975 

Cox, .lames 975 

Craven, Robert 1090 

( nm lord. Mrs. Anne 867 

Crawford, Mrs. Isabella 977 

Craw lord, James V| 'i 

Crawford, Thomas P.. M. D 905 

Crawford, William 977 

Craw ford, William B 858 

( ruiurinc, George I) 865 

Cum in in us. Frank J 1097 

( lummingS, James P 



PAOK. 

Davis, Mr-. Cftlteta 1081 

Davis, William 1080 

Deckman, Charles J 

I lei I 1 1 1 o 1 1 . i . . rge ss:j 

lie Ford, John 841 

> l ord, U. C 1049 

He Ford, William Ml 

Dennis, John W LOSS 

Dickey, Rev. Samuel 1 790 

Dickson, Joseph '."is 

Dickson, Robert 1098 

Dixon. Matthew 1074 

Donaldson, .lames 868 

Donaldson, Rev, John 828 

Donaldson, Thomas <; B28 

Downs, Frank 995 

Down-, Josiah E mo 

Drake. William 

Dud-con. Guy S '.'00 

Dunbar, lie,, rue T 891 

Dunlap, Hi'. M. D 1189 

Dunlap, John '.it's 

Dunlap, Matthew 966 

Dunlap, Samuel 966 

Dutton, J. P 993 

Earnst. Simon 9S9 

Easterday, John 918 

Eckley, Ephraim 782 

Eckley, Gen. E. R 782 

Eckley, Earvej J 786 

Pick. Peter 

Elliott, W. C Hi"' 

Faloon, James '.is; 

Faloon, Joseph 987 

Farber, John F 1008 

Farber, Peter 1085 

law cett, Alexander A 962 

Faweeii. Charles 962 

Fawcett, John S06 

Fawcett, Robert Crosier 

Ferrall, Edwin 808 

Ferrall. Junius C 808 

Fimple, John II 771 

Fimlroek, John 794 

Finefrock, Nathaniel 1 108 

Fishel, Joseph 

I'oHz. Adam 1018 

Foltz. William 1072 

Forbe-. .lame- 

Forbes, John C 

France. John II.. M. D 1086 

Fritschle, Mrs. Christina.. . i 961 

861 

Gambert, Peter 

. Uexander 



1148 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



PAGE. 

Gamble, John 1035 

( rang, Frank J 859 

Gans, George 998 

Gantz, Jeremiah 1108 

Garrett, Andrew 1005 

Gartrell, Andrew N 781 

Gartrell, John M 899 

Gartrell, John R 1074 

Gartrell, Remus W 1075 

Gartrell, Upton B 1073 

Ganlt, Daniel 949 

Gault, James 1028 

Ganlt, William 949 

Geiger.John Paul 1014 

George, Andrews 957 

George, John C 986 

George, John S 942 

George, John W 865 

George, Robert L 835 

George, Thomas 835 

George, Thomas J 869 

George, William N 1021 

German, J. T 1127 

Gonzales, Samuel 1131 

Graham, James 863 

Graham, Robert G 815 

Grander, J a col. 1017 

Grander, John 931 

Haessly, Joseph 1037 

Haessly, Philip 1(67 

Haines, Albert R 931 

Haines, Joseph 937 

Haines, Joshua 934 

Haines, Thomas E 1088 

Handley, Wallace L 776 

Haulin, Mrs. Hannah 805 

Hanliu, William 805 

Hardesty, Frauds M 1049 

Hardest}', William Kirk 1049 

Hardgrove, Sarah A 869 

Hardgrove, Washington S69 

Harsh, Ephraim 795 

Harsh, Jackson 799 

Harsh, Leonard 93S 

Harsh, Philip 799 

Harvey, Robert R 961 

Harvey, Simpson J 792 

Hangh, David 1134 

Hawk, Rev. James H 791 

Bawke, Robert 971 

Hawke, R. T 971 

Have-, Benjamin F 1035 

Hays, Thomas 774 

Heidy, William S 1074 

Helfrich, Jacob 836 

Helfrieh, John W S39 

Hemming, Richard S54 

Herbert, Albert 855 

Herron, John B 1079 

Hewit, George 916 

Hewit, Joseph 915 



PAGE. 

Hibbs, Mrs. Drusilla 1005 

Hit. I.-, William 1005 

Highlands, Samuel A 1069 

Hines, Gei irge 793 

Holder, James svt 

Hole, B. S 1013 

Hole. Lemuel 1013 

Holmes, Isaac 920 

Holmes, Isaac R 859 

I Inlmcs, Samuel 920 

Holmes, William 807 

Hosterman, David 878 

Hostermau, Enos 878 

Hunter, John 970 

Hunter, Robert G 948 

Huston, James 818 

Huston, V. E 818 

Ickes, Peter 1043 

Iden, Mrs. Eliza A 1076 

Iden, John S 1075 

Jaekman, Adam C 932 

Jaekman, Samuel S80 

Jeffrey, Benjamin 1023 

Jinnings, Peter J 1017 

Kean, John 1045 

Kean, Robert G 1137 

Kelly. James 862 

Kennedy, Jason 1025 

Kintner. Jacob 7S0 

Kirby, Capt. Harry Walter 980 

Kirby, Jacob J 879 

Klotz, John A 904 

Knox, William S 791 

Lane, Jacob D 809 

Lane. Joseph 810 

Latimer, Joshua 707 

Lauhacher. George 1019 

Lawler, James F 969 

Lawler, Joseph V 969 

Lawrence, James A 933 

Lawrence, Richard 871 

Lawrence, Richard E 845 

Lawther Family 1031 

Le Beau, Adolph 951 

Lee, Dauiel B 1027 

Lee, William L 873 

Leeper Family 1031 

Leeper, William A 1033 

Leggett, Joshua 894, 1022 

Leggett, Robert G 1021 

Leggett, Thomas 894 

Lewi-, John 832 

Lewis, William S 832 

Leyda, Henry 004 

Leyda, Mrs. Jennet 904 

Leyde, Henry 1003 

Lung, Alexander S 1016 

Long, David H 787 

Long, John 821 

Long, Joseph C 821 

Lut/, Joseph 948 



PAGE, 

Lotz, Peter H 943 

Lucas, Josiah 1096 

MeBurney, David 1030 

McBurney, Mr-. David 1036 

McCarty, Rev. William C 908 

McCausland, Erasmus J 947 

M . Causland, Thomas 863 

McClain, David 910 

McCorinick, Mrs. Agnes 987 

McCoy, A. M 976 

McCoy, Jeremiah 912 

McCoy, J.J 912 

McC< iy, Thomas 1093 

MeCray, Levi 805 

McCray, Thomas 805 

McCully, Josiah B 888 

McC'ully, Thomas 888 

McFadden, Simpson 994 

McGhee, James ...'. 1109 

McGuire, Elisha 827 

Mclntire, John B 1104 

Mclntire, Steen 1103 

McLane, John R 919 

McLaughlin, James 1008 

McLaughlin, Robert 881 

McLaughlin, Thomas M 1080 

McLaughlin, William 1008 

McLaughlin, William L 842 

McLoud, William 1027 

Me Master, James 1046 

McQueen, William S 1097 

Maple, William S13 

Marshall, Jesse 789 

Marshall, Levi 960 

Marshall, Robert 1077 

May, John 1076 

Miller, Abraham E 855 

Miller, John 1072 

Miller, John J 873 

Miller, Levi 1050 

Miller, Mrs. Mary M 873 

Miller, Rev. M. A..! 1051 

Mills, Alexander 1026 

Mills, Ithamar 1025 

Minniek, Joseph H 965 

Miunick, William 965 

Moody, David 997 

Moody, John 1054 

Moody, John B., M. D 856 

Moore, Caleb P 940 

Moore, George H 1070 

Moore, Jacob 880 

Moore, Jason 067 

Moore, John H. (Leesville) 940 

Moore, John H. (Centre Tp) 811 

Morehead, Abraham 1106 

Morehead, James 800 

Morledge, S. E 1067 

Murdoek, J. G 1138 

Neely, James R 813 

Nihart, Jonathan 809 



INDEX. 



11W 



PAGE. 

Nivin, David L043 

Xivin. William 1042 

Noble, William 958 

Parker, Robert 842 

Patterson, A. S 959 

Patterson, John 980 

Patterson, Robert A 804 

Patton, Henry 1028 

Pearch, Allen 1112 

Pearch, Miss Catharine 942 

Pearch, Conrad 941 

Pearch, John 941 

Perry, Samuel G 1040 

Peterson, James H 1055 

Pottorf, Jaeob S 856 

Priee Family 922 

Price, Clun 925 

Price, Meredith C 927 

Priee, James 922 

Price, Thomas K 91* 

Queen, Jonah 990 

Queen, Samuel 990 

Rainsberger, A. C 1107 

Rainsberger, John 1115 

Raley, Judge Robert 769 

Ramsey, R, G 933 

Randolph, Nicholas 1068 

Ray, Charles 1099 

Ray, John 887 

Rea, Pimm T 1044 

Rea, Samuel 1044 

Reed, J. W 1111 

Reed, William B 921 

Rippeth, James 979 

Rippeth, John A 900 

Rippeth, Lemuel 885 

Rippeth, Samuel W 979 

Roateh, David E 1041 

Roatch, El. en 1041 

Robbins, J. S 892 

Robertson, Edmund s";:; 

Robinson, Will J 1106 

Roby, Beuoni 1046 

Roby, George 1067 

Roby, Luther L Iii4(i 

Roby, Mrs. Mary A 1064 

Ross, E. (.'., M. D 1137 

Roudebush, Abraham 1082 

Koudebush, Abram 884 

Roudebush, Mrs. Catharine A 984 

Roudebush, Eli R 983 

Roudebush, Jesse 1082 

Roudebush, Tobias 815 

Runyon, Reuben 1135 

Russell, Bingley L033 

Russell, Isaac IL86 

RusseU, James 1038 

Rutan, David 7ss 

Rutledge, George 1109 

Rutledge, Thomas 861 

Salmon. John B L006 



PAGE, 

Scott, Benjamin 944 

Scott, Charles A niio 

Scott, John 944 

Scott, Robert C 899 

Sc.tt, William 894 

Seemann, Daniel 

Shaw , Eli D 1002 

Shaw, Jesse W 998 

8haw, Josiah C 999 

Shaw, Mahlou 1002 

Shaw, Nathan 998 

Shawver, Daniel G 1107 

Shawver, tin. rue 830 

Shawver, John 830 

Shearer, Hugh B 1016 

Shearer, W. D 1015 

Shepherd. Elijah s;;4 

Shepherd, George 845 

Shepherd, Isaiah B 845 

Shepherd, James 833 

Shepherd, Mrs. Jane 834 

Shepherd, Wesley 833 

Sherer, Peter 986 

Sherrod, David B., M. D 1087 

Bherrod, Joseph K 1088 

Shermd, Mrs. Sarah A 1088 

Sherrod, William 1087 

Simmons, Adam 1060 

Simmons, John 1095 

Simmons, Levi (Kilgore) 1054 

Sim ns, Levi i Union Tp) 1111 

Simmons, Mary C 1060 

Simmons, Samuel 1098 

Slates, Conrad STO 

Slate-. John lour, 

Slate-, John R 911 

Slates, William 832 

Sloan, George 709 

Smiley, Thomas 1096 

Smith, Mrs. Annie 1 140 

Smith, Henry ((Iran--- Tp.) L140 

Smith, Henry (Harrison Tp.).... 817 

Smith, Michael sir, 

Smith, Perry A 972 

Smith. Samuel ' 893 

Smyth, Andrew A 1026 

Smyth, William II 1026 

Sparks, Ephraim 1- h |S l 

Stearns, William B98 

Stees, Henry 1131 

Steeves, John R 1118 

Steeves, Mrs. Mary (Clark) 1118 

Steeves, Morton ins 

Stemple, John M 851 

Stemple, Levi 774 

Stenger, Samuel 901 

Stephenson, John H., M. D BIO 

Stephenson, Joseph s i" 

Stewart, Alfred A 

Stewart, Edward 952 

Stewart, Mahlon 952 



sto, I, man. William 1105 

Stockon, L. D., \l. I) 77* 

Stockon, Samuel M., M. I) 7?'.i 

on, Vire.il 777 

Stonebrook, Eliae 

8 ly, John, Sr 

Stoody, V. (I 1020 

Sweasey, Daniel 881 

Sweasey, Henrj A 881 

Talbott Family 

Tatters, Mrs. Elizabeth 868 

Tatters, William 868 

Taylor. John 1125 

Taylor, Thomas 

Taylor. Thomas, R 

Teller. John W 844 

Telfer, Samuel Thompson -44 

Thompson, Ezra 891 

Thorn]. -on, E. A 968 

Thompson Family 890 

Thompson, Cm in W 932 

Thompson, Jam.- i> in:,; 

Thompson, James M 891 

Thompson, John (Carrollton) 1050 

Thompson, John 955 

Thompson, John s 1024 

Thompson, John A 816 

Thompson, Matthew B 8(10 

Thompson, Robi rl i Loudon Tp.) - 10 
Thompson, Robei I i dei eased ).... 1057 

Thompson, Robert G 1084 

Thompson, Samuel 816 

Thompson, Mrs. Susannah 1038 

Thompson, Thomas 

Thompson, William ll 

Tipton, Samuel 1136 

Tipton, William R 831 

Toban, Asbery 

Tope. Henrj 1004 

Tope, Hiram G., M. D 1004 

Tope, William S 839 

Trip]., James 1059 

Tripp, John II -74 

Trip].. Joseph 988 

Tripp, Joseph N 1098 

Trip]., William, M. D Mo 

Tripp, W. H 

Trushell, Jacob 888 

Van Fossen,John B 787 

Van Horn, Abraham 

Van Horn, Daniel 

Van Horn. Mr-. Marj 1108 

Waggoner, John Alexander 1045 

Waggoner, Mrs. Martha J 

Walker. W. II.. M. I) Ib'.T 

Wallace, John U>91 

Wallace, Sylvester s 916 

Waltoi 999 

Ward. Samuel 958 

Ward. William 958 

Wathey, Zachary 



1150 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



PAGE. 

Wearer, Philip 1061 

Weir, James R 1068 

Weir, Robert B 909 

Weir, 8. 1) 1091 

Weir, Thomas L068 

Weir, William T 1112 

Westfan, Abraham V 1004 

Westfall, Jacob M 798 

Weston, Francis 988 



PAGE. 

Wetzel. Christian 903 

White-raft, Henry H 795 

Wiggins, George W 902 

Wiggins, J. R.. 892 

Williams, J. R., M. D 775 

Wilson, Edward 812 

Wilson, Hugh S9S 

Wilson, James H 813 

Wilson, John A 813 



PAGE. 

Wood, Mr,-. Catharine 879 

Wood, Joseph sso 

Wood, Rebecca 880 

Woods, Robert 905 

Wi irley, Akey 1089 

Worlcy. John V 1089 

Tant, Isaac 1129 

Yant, John. 1129 

Young, Wrfliam 946 



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JPor traits. 



PAGE. 

Cogsil, John T 973 

Couch, Eli 801 

Eckley, (icn. E. R 783 

Fawcett, A. A 963 

Gault, James 1029 

Haines, A. R 935 

Helfrieh, J S -T 

Holder, James 885 

Huston, James 819 

Leggett, Thomas 895 

McCoy, J..T 913 

McLaughlin, John 1010 

McLaughlin, William 1011 

Tripp, William, M. D 



Moody, John B., M. D.... 

Price, James 

Price, M. C 

Queen, Jonah 

Raley, Robert 

Roby, George 

Roby, L. L 

Roudebush, Abraham 

Scott, Charles A 

Steeves, John R 

Steeves, Mrs. Mary Clark 

Stewart, Edward 

Tripp, John H 



PAGE. 

. . . S5T 
, 923 
. . . 929 
... '.I'll 
... 768 
. . . 1065 
. . . 1047 
. . . 1083 
...1101 
...1121 
... 1 120 
... 053 
. . . 875 



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